Microsoft on Wednesday announced a one million dollars investment to equip one million Nigerians with Artificial Intelligence (AI) skills. The Managing Director, Microsoft Nigeria and Ghana, Ms Ola Williams, said at a Microsoft AI Tour media briefing in Lagos that the AI skill training would reach one million Nigerians by 2026. Williams said that the…
An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday adjourned until April 15 the alleged defamation suit against Instagram celebrity Martins Otse, also known as Verydarkblackman (VDM). A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN) and his son, Folarin, popularly known as Falz, had filed the defamatory suit against VDM. Falana filed the suit following an audio recording…
MTN Nigeria says it has donated 4,600 tablets to be shared in some public secondary schools across the six geopolitical zones in the country. The Chairman of the Board of Directors, MTN, Nigeria, Dr Ernest Ndukwe, made the disclosure during the maiden empowerment programme for Government Secondary Schools in Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja. The…
Vice-President Kashim Shettima said on Wednesday that posterity would judge leaders of the country harshly if they allowed public schools to collapse. Shettima said this at the public presentation of tablets donated by the MTN Nigeria Communications Plc to students of Government Science Secondary School, Pyakasa, Maitama, Abuja. He said President Bola Tinubu was passionate…
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have commended Minister of the FCT, Nyesome Wike for opening the newly constructed Karmo District Market for business. Some of the residents, especially those living around the Karmo district, including traders, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the official commissioning of the…
Protesting students of Federal University Lokoja (FUL) on Wednesday threatened to block the Abuja-Lagos Highway if the Federal Government failed to stop the incessant killing of their colleagues by trucks. Benjamin Timothy, FUL President, Student Union Government (SUG), who made the threat during the procession at the Falele Campus, Lokoja, said the students were tired…
The Senate, on Wednesday at plenary, paid glowing tributes to the late Leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, who died on Feb. 17 at the age of 97. In a motion sponsored by Sen. Joel- Onowakpo Thomas (APC-Delta) and co-sponsored by 16 other senators, the upper chamber resolved to urge…
Alhaji Anofi Elegushi, the Commissioner of Operations, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), says the commission remains committed to improving its operations by ensuring the 2025 Hajj operations is better than previous years. Elegushi said this on Wednesday while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of a training organised for tour operators companies in Abuja….
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, adjourned the trial of Olugbenga Obadina, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Almond Projects Limited, in the alleged N2.17 billion fraud, until May 12. Obadina was alleged to have received the money from retired Col. Sambo Dasuki, former National Security Adviser (NSA) during the President Goodluck Jonathan…
The Senate has summoned the National Security Adviser, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, to provide a briefing on the alleged funding of Boko Haram by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Also invited are the heads of National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Department of State Security Services (DSS). According to…
