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The Federal Government in the last quarter of last year issued 50 new power generation and metering permits. A report by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission stated that it approved the issuance of two new generation licences with a combined capacity of 56.50MW, and authorised the amendment of two on-grid embedded generation licences. The commission also approved thirteen mini-grid permits, fourteen registration certificates for mini-grids with individual… Read the full article here

Former Nigeria U-20 striker, Muhammed Tijani, is keen to surpass the impressive performances of his former compatriots at Slavia Prague after signing a long-term deal with the Czech Republic giants, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. The 22-year-old recently completed a move from another Czech team Banik Ostrava and will join a list of players who had their roots at his Lagos-based academy, 36 Lion FC to play for the Red and Whites. Tijani, who scored eleven goals for… Read the full article here

Ikeja Unique Lions Club has counselled that basic education in Nigeria should be fully Information Communication Technology compliant. Speaking during the  donation of  new computers and a multimedia ICT Centre to Ogudu Junior Grammar School, Ogudu, Ojota, Lagos, the 10th president of Ikeja Unique Lions Club,  Mr Francis Wilkey, advised corporate organisations to invest in digital education for basic schools, saying it would be rewarding in the growth of the… Read the full article here

The FactCheck Initiative unveiled on Tuesday, a GPT-4-powered AI for WhatsApp, ChatBawa, to boost the verification of information using an artificial intelligence chatbox, ChatGPT. Temitope Adeoye, the founder of FCI, said in a statement he personally signed on Tuesday that ChatBawa was launched in conjunction with IDC Platforms Limited. He added that FCI is leveraging GPT-4’s advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to verify or check information to enable… Read the full article here

Receive free Turkish economy updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Turkish economy news every morning. Turkey’s first interest rate rise since 2021 was a “baby step” towards restoring investors’ faith in the country’s financial management, fund managers said. But they said they remained sceptical that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will allow the unorthodox policies that have triggered a years-long economic crisis to be fully unwound. The… Read the full article here

Bitcoin (BTC) will hit new all-time highs in 2023, and October is the favorite month for it, a popular trader says.In a Twitter update on June 22, Credible Crypto argued that the next four months should deliver the bullish BTC price momentum needed to tackle $69,000.October “fairly logical” for new Bitcoin all-time highsBitcoin has put in solid performance this month, and Credible Crypto is increasingly optimistic for continuation. To do so, BTC/USD needs to present increasingly larger green… Read the full article here

Stronger than ever! Michael J. Fox and wife Tracy Pollan‘s lasting love has helped them navigate the biggest challenges, including his battle with Parkinson’s disease. The Back to the Future star received his diagnosis in 1991, three years after he married Pollan. While reflecting on his health journey in the trailer for his 2023 documentary, Still, Fox remembered breaking the news to his spouse. “I told Tracy … ‘In sickness and in health,’ I remember her… Read the full article here

The National Agency for the Control of AIDs (NACA) has called for improved reportage from the media if the country is to end stigmatisation and discrimination against Persons Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the country. Speaking during a media tour of HIV facilities in Lafia, Nasarawa State on Thursday, the Deputy Director, Public Affairs and Protocol Unit of the agency, Toyin Aderibigbe, said there is HIV fatigue in the media that needs to end for the country to achieve its goal of… Read the full article here

The immediate past governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike on Thursday held a meeting with the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio for over six hours ahead of the Senate resumption on July 4, 2023. It was gathered that the marathon meeting was Wike’s move to block the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, hierarchy from nominating the Senate Minority leaders at the upper and lower legislative chambers of the National Assembly. The meeting, which held in the office of the Senate President,… Read the full article here

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has not produced all the certified copies of the March 18, Kaduna State governorship election result sheets that declared Senator Uba Sani the winner. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Oluwale Iyamu, one of the lead counsels to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship candidate, Mohammed Ashiru, stated this at the Tribunal sitting in Kaduna on Thursday. The three-member tribunal headed by Justice Victor Oviawe, therefore, adjourned… Read the full article here