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The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday sentenced three terrorists linked to the May abduction of school children and teachers in Orire Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, to a life imprisonment. Justice Salim Ibrahim sentenced the three men after they pleaded guilty to some of the 10 terrorism charges preferred against them by the federal government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdulrazak Umar (a.k.a. Abu Khalifa/Abu Khalid), Yunusa Musa (a.k.a. Yunusa bin Musa) and Shamsu Adamu Sani (a.k.a. Abu Itisar), pleaded guilty to counts four and six. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that the three…
Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals has raised approximately $2.5 billion in fresh equity after successfully concluding a private placement that was 3.7 times oversubscribed, the company said in a statement on Thursday. The company described the placement as Africa’s largest publicly disclosed primary equity private placement by value, affirming that the transaction resulted in the issuance and allotment of about $2.5 billion in new equity and represents the refinery’s first capital raise involving external investors beyond its existing shareholder base. “Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE (“DPRP” or the “Enterprise”) today announces the successful completion of its landmark Private Placement,…
The photographs, selected for the book, out of hundreds of others, are memory-laden and significant. Enfolded pages and spreads of high-resolution pictures, spiced with inspiring quotes from Rudyard Kipling, Aristotle, Woodrow Wilson and James Buchanan, add to its beauty. The QR codes embedded in the book link the reader seamlessly to the audio-visual archives of most of the works done in many of the ministries, making this book a relatively comprehensive official history of the Sanwo-Olu administration. I say official history deliberately, because it is hard for a book of this nature not to be selective story telling. We live…
Nigerian music executive and talent manager, Ubi Franklin, has revealed that he battled depression and made several suicide attempts after the collapse of his marriage to Nollywood actress, Lilian Esoro. In an episode of his podcast, Talks with Ubi Franklin, released on his Instagram page on Wednesday, Franklin described the period as one of the darkest moments of his life. Recalling how their relationship began, Franklin said he met Esoro on January 4, 2015, proposed to her on March 19 of the same year and organised a dinner to celebrate the engagement. “After I engaged her, I set up a nice…
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future.By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at OpenAI targeted Apple’s trade secrets in job interviews and even downloaded files from Apple’s servers related to hardware manufacturing. The claims are shocking, although OpenAI denies them, and we have yet to see the company’s legal response.Hayden has been covering OpenAI for years now, and she…
A wave of high profile crypto hacks in April that many suspected had been orchestrated using sophisticated AI tools to identify smart contract exploits, led to fears that every DeFi protocol was suddenly at risk.In May, Manuel Aráoz, founder of the blockchain security platform OpenZeppelin, declared “all of DeFi unsafe” following $630 million in crypto losses from exploits in April.But even as the industry braced for the scenario of DeFi protocols falling like dominoes to agentic AI, the stream of attacks seemed to ebb. That led Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi to declare recently that fears of a DeFi “hackpocalypse”…
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The Oyo State House of Assembly approved Governor Seyi Makinde’s request to proceed on his annual leave starting 10 August. The request letter, read to the Assembly during Thursday’s plenary, also informed the lawmakers that Deputy Governor Bayo Lawal would oversee state affairs during Mr Makinde’s absence. The Deputy Speaker of the House, Muhammed Fadeyi, who presided over the plenary in the absence of the speaker, Adebo Ogundoyin, read the governor’s letter to the members. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the governor will proceed on leave from 10 August to 11 September. The governor is expected to…
Veteran actor Hanks Anuku has spoken openly about how the death of the mother of his two children affected his career and nearly pushed him to withdraw from the world. Anuku shared these details in a viral video recorded during what appeared to be a testimony session at the Mountain of God International Ministry (SMOGIM) in Abuja. Although the actor did not disclose the identity of the mother of his children or the date of her passing, he previously revealed in March 2025 a desire to remarry following the collapse of his marriage to his Asaba-based ex-wife. The 64-year-old, who…
