Year: 2024

Hours after Apple announced “Apple Intelligence”—its new generative artificial intelligence initiatives—billionaire Elon Musk blasted the announcement in a series of tweets and warned that if Apple “integrates OpenAI at the OS level,” all Apple devices will be banned at his companies. Apple shares fell during premarket trading Tuesday morning. Musk—who cofounded six companies including Tesla, SpaceX…

•Reassures public about safety of their bank deposits The Central Bank of Nigeria yesterday said there are no plans to revoke the operating licenses of Fidelity Bank, Wema Bank, Polaris Bank and Unity Bank Acting Director of Corporate Communications of CBN, Mrs. Hakama Sidi Ali stated this in a statement averring that rumours of a…

Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. The military plane carrying Chilima, 51, and nine others disappeared on Monday, after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to bad…

The Federal Government has declared Wednesday, June 12 as a Public Holiday to commemorate this year’s Democracy Day celebration. Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo who made the declaration on behalf of the Federal Government, congratulated Nigerians on the occasion. The minister in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry and released…

Labour said should the FG and NASS fail to act on its ₦250,000 demand by Tuesday, NLC and TUC organs would meet to decide on the resumption of the nationwide strike relaxed last week. The Organised Labour says it will not accept any ₦62,000 or ₦100,000 “starvation wage” as the minimum wage for Nigerian workers….

Governor Dauda Lawal has requested more interventions from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to complete several unfinished buildings at Zamfara tertiary institutions. The governor made the request during an official visit to the TETFund headquarters last Thursday in Abuja. A statement by the governor’s spokesperson, Sulaiman Bala Idris, revealed that the governor requested specific…

In responding to the above article laced with insults and name calling, the focus will be to briefly dispassionately address the three key issues raised by the writer even though he digressed largely to attack imaginary enemies. First on budget performance, the government response remains valid as you cannot use performance of the first quarter…

A 13-year-old boy, Wisdom Hashimu, has committed suicide after he was severely brutalised by a soldier and members of the civilian Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Ungwan Maigero Community in the Chikun Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna State. Until his death, the teenager was living with his parents, Mr and Mrs Saul Hashim…

In North Korea, two teenage boys from the city of Sariwon recently went on trial in a public court have bagged 15 years and life imprisonment respectively. Their crime? Distribution of South Korean songs and photos. The sentence was harsh: 15 years of hard labour for one of them, life imprisonment for the other. According…