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Nigeria Wrestling: Oklahoma Camp Ends as Purity Targets World Championship Medal Breakthrough in Astana

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Nigeria’s preparations for the World Wrestling Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, have entered a crucial phase following the conclusion of the Nigeria Wrestling Federation’s (NWF) intensive open camp programme in Oklahoma, United States.

The camp, sanctioned by NWF President Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, MFR, was organised to provide foreign-based Nigerian wrestlers and athletes with valid visas the opportunity to train and compete in a high-level environment ahead of the global championship.

Rather than limiting preparations for routine training sessions, the Oklahoma programme exposed the Nigerian wrestlers to quality opposition through a series of dual meets against athletes from NCAA Division I universities in the United States.

The competitive exposure gave the athletes an opportunity to test their technical and physical readiness against wrestlers competing within one of the world’s strongest collegiate wrestling systems.

Nigeria’s Women’s Wrestling Head Coach, Akuh Purity, described the exercise as an important assessment of the team’s current level, while revealing that the lessons from the camp are already being applied in the team’s ongoing closed-camp programme.

“It was a very valuable experience and gave us an excellent opportunity to assess where we currently stand.”

According to Purity, the dual meets did more than provide competition — they exposed specific areas of the athletes’ performances that needed immediate correction before the World Championships.

“Following the open camp, we transitioned into a closed camp, where we are currently training. We are using this period to specifically address and correct some of the mistakes and weaknesses I identified during the open camp and duals.”

The coach said the wrestlers have responded positively to the demanding programme, with the squad continuing to work intensely as the countdown to Astana gathers momentum.

“The girls are working extremely hard, and we remain committed to making the necessary improvements as we continue our preparation.”

The Oklahoma camp is part of the NWF’s broader strategy to ensure that Nigeria’s wrestlers are adequately prepared for the demands of the World Championships.

The federation’s decision to utilise the United States as one of the team’s preparation bases also reflects the importance being attached to quality opposition, international exposure and competitive readiness.

Purity expressed appreciation to Adeniyi and the NWF leadership for supporting the programme and ensuring that preparations are being strengthened ahead of the global event.

“We appreciate the Nigeria Wrestling Federation, led by Bashir Adewale Adeniyi MFR, for the tremendous support and contribution towards ensuring that the necessary preparations are put in place for the World Championships.”

With the open camp now completed, attention has shifted to the closed phase, where the coaching crew is concentrating on correcting weaknesses and sharpening the athletes’ technical, tactical and physical qualities.

The objective is clear: Nigeria wants to arrive in Astana not merely to participate, but to challenge for honours.

The country’s wrestlers will also carry the added motivation of ending Nigeria’s wait for a World Championship medal. Nigeria’s most recent podium finish at the senior World Championships came in 2023, and the team will be determined to return to the medal table in Kazakhstan.

For Purity and her athletes, the Oklahoma experience has provided valuable information. The challenge now is to convert those lessons into improvements before the opening whistle in Astana.

The open camp has closed, but Nigeria’s real wrestling test is only getting closer — and this time, the target is the World Championship podium.

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Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity

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Anthropic devoted nearly a third of its hotly anticipated IPO prospectus to risk factors, according to the Financial Times, which says it has reviewed the filing in recent days. The filing details specific, worrisome behaviors that Anthropic says its models have already shown or could show, including attempts to “resist shutdown,” to “conceal or manipulate information,” and behavior “resembling blackmail,” according to Reuters.

The disclosures are decidedly grim for a company whose own backers believe it could list above $2 trillion, more than double its $965 billion valuation from May, in potentially the biggest IPO ever. It’s a strange position for any company to be in — warning that its product could end humanity, while making some of its earliest investors and employees extraordinarily wealthy in the process.

Reuters was first to report on the financial details within the prospectus on Monday, saying Anthropic recorded an operating loss of more than $8 billion in 2025 as spending on computing power surged, and that its revenue jumped twelvefold to nearly $4.6 billion, though rising infrastructure costs last year pushed total operating expenses to almost $13 billion.

Also per Reuters, Anthropic’s prospectus further reveals plans to spend a whopping $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure in the coming years. (Anthropic has already inked compute deals this year with Google, SpaceX, and Nscale, among others toward that end.)

The FT meanwhile reports that Anthropic’s numbers have moved even faster in 2026. Its second-quarter revenue alone reached $11.5 billion, and the company is on track for its second straight quarter of operating profit on an adjusted basis.

According to the FT, the prospectus also flagged customer concentration, with nearly a quarter of last year’s revenue coming from just two clients. (No word yet on who these are.)

The disclosures, which reportedly include “existential risks to humanity” — a first, judging by a quick scan of the SEC’s database — comes as hand-wringing quickly grows over AI safety.

CEO Dario Amodei has spent the month publicly calling to “pace the frontier” of AI development, telling the UN Security Council last week that AI could threaten humankind and calling it “the most important global security issue facing the world today.” Rivals Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed him up, too, in a rare moment of solidarity for competitors who’ve seemingly relished opportunities to disparage each other publicly.

Another rival, Mark Zuckerberg, has meanwhile swatted away concerns, telling NBC News last week that he doesn’t “think that we need some kind of industrywide coordination.”

The warnings follow a string of security incidents in which AI agents have breached outside systems. In fact, OpenAI disclosed last week that its tools have hacked “dozens” of external sites, including government one, including the SEC’s site itself. Earlier on Monday, it said it had scrapped plans to release its newest model owing to safety concerns.

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2027: I dragged Peter Obi, convinced Kwankwaso to join ADC – Babachir Lawal

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Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, says he dragged former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi into the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

Speaking during an interview on Arise Television’s Prime Time on Monday, Lawal stated that he also convinced former Kano State governor, Rabi’u Kwankwaso to join the ADC.

He noted that he was among the founding fathers of the ADC coalition on July 2, 2025, which produced former Senate President David Mark as national chairman.

The former SGF said, “I attended every meeting of the ADC, and at one time, Peter Obi was playing in and out. I was the one who finally dragged Peter into the ADC and committed him to joining the ADC.”

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“We also convinced Kwankwaso to join the ADC, but he was always afraid that with Atiku Abubakar there, nothing good would ever come out of the ADC,” he said.

Recall that the Adamawa-born politician, who was a strong ally of Atiku, dumped the ADC after the party’s primary election.

He alleged that the primary election that produced Atiku as the ADC’s presidential candidate was massively rigged.

DAILY POST reports that Lawal last week joined the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, to support Peter Obi and Rabi’u Kwankwaso, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively.

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