LAGOS, July 10 (Reuters) - Nigeria's presidential frontrunner Bola Tinubu on Sunday picked as his running mate a sitting Muslim senator and former governor of northeastern Borno state, the heartland of an Islamist insurgency that has killed and displaced thousands of people.

The move by Tinubu, who is also Muslim, breaks with past practice where presidential candidates from major political parties have chosen running mates from a different religion in a bid to foster unity in the country.

Tinubu, 70, was last month elected as the ruling All Progressives Congress party's candidate to succeed incumbent Muhammadu Buhari, who will step down next year after completing two terms.

A Yoruba Muslim from southwestern Nigeria, Tinubu told reporters after meeting Buhari in northern Katsina state that he had chosen Kashim Shettima, 55, to be his presidential running mate.

By picking Shettima, Tinubu may also be looking for a deputy broadly acceptable to powerbrokers in the north, which is a large voting block.

"He is competent, capable, reliable and able," Tinubu said.

Atiku Abubakar, the main opposition candidate and Tinubu's main rival, is a northern Muslim who has picked a Christian running mate from the south.

Since the end of military rule in 1999, Nigeria has followed an unwritten rule where power is shared between the largely Muslim north and mainly Christian south.

Growing insecurity will be a major election issue next year. A decade-long Islamist insurgency and attacks and kidnappings for ransom by armed gangs mostly in the northwest are some of the major security challenges.

During Shettima's 2011-2019 governorship, Borno state grabbed global headlines when Boko Haram militants abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok community in April 2014.

Shettima was among those who supported the release of low-risk detainees caught up in the government's fight against insurgents, as a good-will gesture

Alabama's largest city, Huntsville, has been named the best place to live in America.

Colorado Springs in Colorado took second place, followed by Green Bay, Wisconsin in third, according to 's ranking top places to live rankings. Boulder, Colorado, which was named best place for 2021 and 2020, was shuffled down to fourth place, followed by San Jose, California in fifth.

Every year U.S. News ranks 150 of the country's metropolitan areas, based on five indexes: job market, housing affordability, quality of life, desirability and net migration, which measures the trend of people moving to, or away from the area. 

Huntsville's high quality of life, affordability and cheap property propelled the town into first place in 2022 - especially as the national housing crisis has pushed many formerly affordable areas out of reach of normal Americans.

Covid-19, inflation, soaring housing and the ability to work from home have also changed Americans' house-buying habits.

'Multiple years of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic uncertainty have changed many people's priorities when they consider a major move,' U.S. News real estate editor Devon Thorsby said. 'Work-from-home options have become more permanent, and there's an even greater focus on an individual's ability to enjoy where they live, rather than where a job will necessarily take them.'

1. Huntsville scored high in housing and job market on the U.S. News & World Report list of best cities to live

America's best place to live, Huntsville, is a former agricultural town that blasted off in the 1960s when NASA opened its Marshall Space Flight center, which developed the Saturn V rocket that propelled the Apollo astronauts to the moon.

Jimmy Bartel has been hosting 3AW radio's Sunday Sport segment alongside Mark Allen for several years now. 

And the show is now proving to be a hit, with the time slot recently landing a massive ratings win.

The early Sunday afternoon time slot pulsa normally has ratings of around 6, but the sports show is rating 12.4.

Jimmy Bartel and Mark Allen's 3AW sports show proves to be a hit with a massive ratings win

Sunday Sport is a two-hour show where the hosts cover all sports news ahead of the AFL coverage.

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Jimmy also recently hosted 3AW's breakfast program over the summer holidays.

He joined Emily Power to present the juggernaut radio show in the absence of Ross Stevenson and Russel Howcroft from December 27 until January 7.

The early Sunday afternoon time slot normally has ratings of around 6, but the sp

There is an argument to be made that Napoli is the worst team Liverpool could have been paired with in Group A.

The Neapolitan side has undergone wholesale changes in the summer with five starters moved on in David Ospina, Dries Mertens, Kalidou Koulibaly, Fabian Ruiz and Lorenzo Insigne.

And yet Napoli have emerged from it as solid and reliable as ever.   

Credit must go to coach Luciano Spalletti - who has found himself in the wars after fracturing his shoulder this week - for the heart he has instilled into this team that can be a real player domestically and in Europe.

He has built a system and instilled a playing style that is so effective it can operate with any combination of players from his squad. The team supersedes the individual.

Napoli go into their opening Group A game against Liverpool brimming with self-confidence

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