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…

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…

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has urged his daughter, Nike Adeleke, to find a partner and get married. Adeleke gave the urge during a Q&A session on Nike’s Instagram page on Saturday. Nike, who is approaching her 29th birthday, asked her father how he felt about her not being married yet. “I am now 28…

Assistant Inspector- General of Police, AIG Yetunde Longe was born in Lagos State where she is from. She attended Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere, Lagos (1980) and City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1986) with a Bachelors Degree in Forensic Toxicology. Her journey to the Force was inspired by the…

Governor Ademola Adeleke has surpassed the entire records of 12 years of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in pension payment with Twelve Billion and Seven billion naira plus within one and half years as against Eleven Billion and One Hundred million naira plus of the entire Twelve years of APC government. Governor Adeleke made the…

The Police Command in Kaduna State has confirmed a failed kidnap attempt by gunmen on Wednesday night on Alhaji Umar Musa, the Paramount Ruler of Ninzo Chiefdom in Sanga Local Government Area. ASP Mansir Hassan, spokesperson of the command, however, said that the whereabouts of the chief’s wife was still unknown. Mansir said that security…