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Heirs Insurance Group has launched what it described as Nigeria’s first multi-language generative artificial intelligence assistant for the insurance industry, as the company intensifies its push for digital transformation and broader financial inclusion. The new AI platform, named Prince AI, is designed to provide customers with instant responses to insurance-related enquiries, while also enabling policy purchases, renewals, claims initiation, and claims tracking across multiple digital channels. The launch comes as the insurance group approaches its fifth anniversary, a period the company said has been defined by technology-driven expansion and efforts to simplify insurance access for Nigerians. According to the company,…

World record holder Tobi Amusan says she is still hungry for more success after winning her third continental title at the ongoing CAA Senior African Athletics Championships in Accra, Ghana, on Wednesday, The PUNCH reports. Amusan claimed Nigeria’s first gold medal at the 2026 championships in the women’s 100m hurdles, crossing the line ahead of Zimbabwe’s Ashley Miller, while another Nigerian, Adaobi Tabugbo, finished third to win her first individual medal for the country. Amusan’s latest title adds to her maiden triumph on home soil in 2018 and her victory in Mauritius in 2022. She did not compete in the…

Top scorer in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Owoeye Jesudunsin has attributed her feat to a combination of discipline, strategic preparation, consistency, positivity and God’s grace. Speaking exclusively with The PUNCH, 16-year-old Owoeye unveiled her strategies, including adopting a topic-by-topic study method, intensive past question practice, tutorials, use of online materials and accessing Computer-Based Test platforms. JAMB on Monday declared Owoeye as the highest scorer in the 2026 UTME with 372 marks out of a possible 400. Owoeye, who sat the examination in Ogun State and hails from Ekiti State, applied to study Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery…

Real-world assets (RWA) crossed $32 billion in market value for the first time on Tuesday, as Wall Street’s love affair with tokenization continues to accelerate.JPMorgan was the latest to double down on its interest through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a new tokenized money-market fund for stablecoin issuers on Ethereum.Not everyone is impressed by the big names and numbers.”[Most] of the projects out there, and even the traditional finance players coming into crypto, they’re only looking at the issuance layer,” Chris Kim, founder and CEO of liquidity provider Axis, told Cointelegraph. “Nobody is actually focusing on…

Jason Biggs and Jenny Mollen frequently discussed the keys to a long marriage before their split. The American Pie actor and the Live Fast Die Hot author met on the set of My Best Friend’s Girl in 2007. They got engaged in January 2008 and eloped in a private ceremony later that year. Biggs and Mollen welcomed sons Sid and Lazlo in 2014 and 2017, respectively. “14 years ago, two people who’d known each other for only 9 months drove to a Calabasas FedEx Kinkos in their pajamas and got married,” Mollen wrote via Instagram in April 2022. “Who knows…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed the House of Representatives primary election for the 2027 general elections by one day. The primary election, earlier scheduled for Friday, 15 May, will now be held on Saturday, 16 May. The adjustment was announced late Thursday in a statement signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka. According to the statement, all other previously announced primary election dates remain unchanged, including those for the Senate, State Houses of Assembly, governorship, and presidential primaries. The development comes barely hours before the initially scheduled commencement of the House of Representatives primaries. The ruling…

Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has carried out another minor reshuffle in the Adamawa State Executive Council, reassigning two commissioners to different ministries. Under the new arrangement, Joab Sahma has been moved from the Ministry of Lands and Survey to the Ministry of Commerce, Trade and Industry, while Dr John Ishaya Dabari will now oversee the Ministry of Lands and Survey after leaving the Commerce, Trade and Industry Ministry. A statement issued by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Humwashi Wonosikou, said the changes take immediate effect. Governor Fintiri said the redeployment was designed to inject fresh energy into government operations and…

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, has insisted that there is no alliance between the Allied People’s Movement, APM, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. The minister was responding to questions on the reported alliance between the PDP and the APM. The minister said there was no existing alliance between the two political parties, describing it as the imagination of certain politicians. There were reports of an alliance between the two parties prior to the announcement of the presidential ambition of the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde. “Luckily, the PDP has issued a press statement. There…

Troops of 29 Battalion, operating under the Joint Task Force South-South, Operation Delta Safe, OPDS, have uncovered an illegal refining site and recovered about 600 litres of suspected stolen crude oil in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The development was contained in a post shared Thursday by security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama via his X handle. Security sources said the discovery was made at about 10:00 a.m. on May 12, 2026, during ongoing anti-illegal bunkering operations in the Niger Delta region. The troops reportedly uncovered the illegal refining site around Asa community, where a large cooking pot…

The Zimbabwe Football Association, ZIFA, has canvassed for support for the Warriors ahead of the team’s participation in the Unity Cup, DAILY POST reports. Zimbabwe will be up against the Super Eagles in the semi-final at the Valley, London on Tuesday, 26 May. The winner will face either India or Jamaica in the final on the same ground on Saturday, 31 May. Head coach Kaitano Tembo unveiled his 24-man squad for the friendly invitational tournament on Tuesday. The ZIFA tasked the fans to show support to the team by wearing the national colours. “A night of pride, passion and African football excellence awaits…