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Nigerian actress and filmmaker, Toyin Abraham, has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic incident involving teachers and children abducted in Oyo State. In an Instagram post, Wednesday, Abraham said, “My heart is deeply heavy over the painful killings and abductions happening in Oyo State and across different parts of Nigeria. “As someone with strong ties to Oyo State through family, culture and love for the people, this tragedy feels very personal to me. It is heartbreaking to see innocent lives lost, families thrown into mourning, children living in fear and communities traumatised by violence. “1 mourn especially with the families of the…
Wrexham have celebrated their goalkeeper, Arthur Okonkwo, on his maiden invitation to the Super Eagles, DAILY POST reports. Okonkwo has been included in Nigeria’s squad for the Unity Cup tournament. The Federation of International Football Association, FIFA, ratified the goalkeeper’s switch of International allegiance last month. Though the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, is yet to release the official squad list for the friendly invitational tournament, Wrexham have confirmed the shot stopper’s invitation by congratulating him. “Congratulations to Arthur Okonkwo on receiving his first call up to the Nigeria squad ahead of the Unity Cup,” Wrexham wrote on X. Super Eagles…
Lagos State lawmaker, Desmond Elliot, has officially withdrawn from the All Progressives Congress primary election for the Surulere 1 constituency in the House of Assembly, citing alleged intimidation of his supporters. Elliot announced his withdrawal on Wednesday at the Paddington mini stadium in Western Avenue, where the party’s primary was being conducted. The actor-turned-politician said he made several appeals to the electoral officers to grant his supporters access to the polling venue, but his requests were ignored. “And of course, in all zones, they’ve been intimidating and stopping us. I want to officially announce my withdrawal from this particular race.…
No fewer than two persons lost their lives in a fatal road accident which occurred at Ijapo area of Akure, the Ondo State capital on Wednesday. The accident involved a Nissan car with registration number Ondo WWW 322 TA, a truck which has no registration number and a motorcycle. Two other victims of the accident sustained injury. The fatal incident occurred in front of the headquarters of the Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO), where the officials were reportedly conducting routine vehicle inspection and licence checks at the time of the accident. The victims, who were said to be brothers from the…
The Director-General of Media and Publicity at the Kano Government House, Sunusi Tofa, has made the explosive allegation that former Kano State Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso is indirectly working towards the re-election of President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 general elections. Tofa made the claim on Wednesday during an appearance on the Arise News morning programme, while reacting to ongoing political developments and alignments ahead of the next election cycle. According to him, recent political activities and strategic engagements across the country suggest subtle cooperation between some opposition figures and the ruling All Progressives Congress, with certain political calculations…
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday said the risk of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak was currently high at the national and regional levels but low worldwide. WHO experts said that while investigations into its origins were ongoing, given the scale of the situation in the eastern DRC, the outbreak probably began a couple of months ago. But the UN health agency’s emergency committee said it did not currently meet the pandemic emergency threshold. “WHO assesses the risk of the epidemic as high at the national and regional levels, and low at the global level,” said the…
Southampton said on Wednesday that they had appealed against their expulsion from the Championship play-off final as the punishment was “manifestly disproportionate to every previous sanction in the history of the English game”. An English Football League independent disciplinary commission on Tuesday kicked the Saints out after they admitted spying on a training session of semi-final opponents Middlesbrough. Boro have now been reinstated and are set to face Hull at Wembley on Saturday for a place in the Premier League, with Championship winners Coventry and second-placed Ipswich having secured automatic promotion at the end of the regular season. Southampton will…
We’re about to find out if the systems designed to make deepfakes and AI-generated content easy to spot are actually up to snuff. SynthID and C2PA Content Credentials, two distinct technologies for invisibly tagging image, video, and audio files with information about their origins, are getting their biggest expansion to date, and with it, the opportunity to turn the tide against unlabeled AI fakery that’s deceiving people online.Yesterday during its I/O conference, Google announced that the ability to verify whether images carry SynthID markers — the invisible watermarking system that’s applied to content generated by Google AI models — is…
Digital assets platform Fireblocks has deepened its push into AI agent infrastructure by launching Agentic Payments Suite, a framework purpose-built to support the x402 protocol, as it also joined the x402 Foundation.Fireblocks said Wednesday that its full-stack solution would cover “the full lifecycle” of AI agent payments, including wallet infrastructure for agents to send funds and an acceptance layer for merchants to receive them. Agentic Payments Suite also includes several compliance and settlement features for regulated financial institutions.A key area of focus for Fireblocks with Agentic Payments Suite is to scale stablecoin adoption through the use of AI agents.“Over a…
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