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Content creator and actor, Tolani Dada, popularly known as Motolani Odobodobo, has opened up about the misconceptions surrounding his skits and online persona. In an interview with Saturday Beats, he noted that some viewers often blur the line between his characters and his real life. “Some people assume the character reflects my real lifestyle. They think I’m actually a sugar boy in real life. But that’s just part of creating a strong, believable character,” he said. He added that he remains focused on the positive reception his work receives. “I don’t let it distract me; I focus on the positive…

The National Universities Commission has approved seven academic programmes for Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State. This was contained in a statement issued by the Head of Media and Publicity of the university, Olaniyi Adekanye, on Wednesday. According to the statement, the accredited courses are medical laboratory science, civil and environmental engineering, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, microbiology, criminology and security studies, and sociology. The statement read, “In a formal correspondence to the university dated April 7, 2026, and signed by the Commission’s Director of Accreditation, the NUC confirms that all the programmes presented by the university met its rigorous quality assurance…

Chinese startup DeepSeek released a new Artificial Intelligence model with “drastically reduced” costs on Friday, more than a year after it stunned the world with a low-cost reasoning model that matched the capabilities of US rivals. The AI race has intensified the rivalry between China and the United States, and the White House on Thursday accused Chinese entities of a massive effort to steal artificial intelligence technology. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January last year with a generative AI chatbot, powered by its R1 reasoning model, that upended assumptions of US dominance in the strategic sector. Here are…

The Oluoke of Okeigbo Kingdom, Ondo State, and President of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria, Oba Akintoye Adeoye, in this interview with JOHNSON IDOWU, calls for the urgent adoption of state policing as a critical step toward tackling insecurity at the grassroots, speaks on reforms in land administration, among others How should traditional institutions be integrated into governance, development planning and security management? I am still very new to the traditional institution setting. But let me acknowledge that, within this short period that I find myself in that space, the current government of President Bola Tinubu is actually…

“If you look forward to June, the majority of our supply constraints will be on several Mac models,” Cook said. “We think looking forward that the Mac Mini and the Mac Studio may take several months to reach supply-demand balance.” He added that both devices saw “higher-than-expected demand” as well, with many people buying up the device to use with AI agents like OpenClaw.The global memory shortage poses challenges for Apple as well, as Cook said that the company expects “significantly higher memory costs” going forward, which could have an “increasing impact” on Apple’s business.

San Francisco, U.S.A., March 17, 2026 — AI and blockchain infrastructure company Gency AI today announced it has raised $20 million in a new funding round. The round saw participation from several institutions, including Y&ZC Capital, MTmetaworld Holdings, Riverpark, ArkStream, MH Ventures, ViaBTC and Basics Capital.The fresh capital is earmarked for scaling Gency AI’s decentralized advertising execution and settlement network, hardening its privacy-preserving computing stack, and accelerating product deployment and ecosystem partnerships across North America, Asia, and Europe.Building verifiable infrastructure for the advertising economyThe global digital advertising market continues to grow rapidly, but many execution and settlement processes still rely…

Two wrongful death lawsuits have been filed related to the plane crash that killed former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six others in December 2025, according to court documents obtained by ESPN. Biffle, who was 55, died alongside his wife Cristina, 35, son Ryder, 5, and daughter Emma, 14, when their Cessna C550 jet crashed while attempting to land in Statesville, North Carolina on December 18. Pilot Dennis Dutton, 67, his son, Jack, 20, and Bifle family friend Craig Wadsworth, 62, were also killed. Filed on behalf of the Dutton Estates, each suit seeks $15 million in damages, alleging that…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has re-published the names of David Mark and Rauf Aregbesola as the chairman and national secretary of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), respectively, on its website. INEC had, on 1 April, suspended the recognition of Mr Mark and any other leadership of the ADC after the Court of Appeal asked parties to maintain the status quo of events before the suit challenging his (Mark) leadership of the party was filed on 2 September 2025. The suit had originated from the Federal High Court in Abuja, where a former national vice chairman of the ADC,…

The Nigeria Revenue Service (NRS) has officially announced the Go-Live of Rev360, its next-generation tax administration platform, to mark a significant transition to Tax Administration 3.0. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported NRS’s plan to launch Rev360, a platform that introduces a more advanced, integrated, and intelligent ecosystem to meet taxpayers’ demands, and go live on 30 April. The Rev360 launch came after the Nigerian 2025 tax reform took effect from 1 January, which aims to harmonise the tax system and reduce overlapping taxes by consolidating them into a unified code to ease business operations. In a statement on Thursday, the NRS…

Governor Babagana Zulum [PHOTO CREDIT: @ProfZulum] Borno State, North-East Nigeria has been the epic centre of Nigeria’s longest running war between the Islamist terror group, Jama’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihad, commonly known as Boko Haram and the Nigerian state. Founded by Mohammed Yusuf, a radical Salafi cleric in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state around 2002, Boko Haram, an anti-western civilisation and violent extremist group has as its main objective the supplanting of Nigeria’s plural secular constitutional democratic order with an Islamic theocracy through armed struggle [Jihad]. Starting first with a most virulent  form of preaching against western education, democracy…