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The Nigerian Export Promotion Council has facilitated the disbursement of $710,000 (about N979.8m) in grants to 128 women-owned export-oriented Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, strengthening efforts to boost non-oil exports and expand the participation of Nigerian women in international digital trade. The grants were awarded under the Women Exporters in the Digital Economy Fund, a global initiative designed to help women entrepreneurs adopt digital technologies, improve their export competitiveness and access international markets. The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the NEPC, Nonye Ayeni, disclosed this during a town hall meeting with exporters, according to a statement issued on…

Eleven passengers were killed after a commercial bus travelling along the Abuja–Kaduna Expressway slammed into a stationary truck and burst into flames early Wednesday, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said. The crash, at about 5:39 a.m. at Maraban Isa, near Jere in Kaduna State, involved a white Fiat Ducato commercial bus and a MAN diesel truck that had developed a mechanical fault and was parked on the shoulder of the highway. The Kaduna Sector Commander of the FRSC, Andrew Longkam, through the command’s Public Relations Officer, said preliminary findings showed that excessive speed caused the collision. FRSC rescue…

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) is rolling out V-Pass, a biometric identity verification system designed to make domestic air travel faster, safer and more seamless. Developed in partnership with M/S Verxid Technologies Limited, the system will let passengers confirm their identities through facial recognition, reducing the need to rely on physical ID documents at airports. The rollout was reviewed during a strategic meeting between FAAN and Verxid Technologies Limited, where both sides discussed deployment plans, security measures and ways to improve the passenger experience. FAAN said the initiative shows its commitment to using technology to improve passenger facilitation…

Nigeria and The Gambia have agreed to strengthen bilateral relations and revive the Nigeria-Gambia Joint Commission to expand cooperation in key sectors. The agreement was reached during a bilateral meeting between Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, and Gambian Foreign Minister, Sering Modou Njie, on the sidelines of the ECOWAS Mid-Year Summit in Freetown, Sierra Leone. According to a statement issued on Thursday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Kimiebi Ebienfa, Enikanolaiye praised the longstanding relations between the two countries and reaffirmed Nigeria’s commitment to deepening the partnership. “The Nigeria-Gambia bilateral relations have been excellent…

I stood before a hulking glass and brick structure in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. Thousands gathered inside to see what had been billed as “the future of policing in the digital age.” As press, I was prohibited from entering, but from a number of nearby locations, I met with attendees who told me what was being sold within. And I learned that AI is threatening to seize the very heart of policing in America.The promise of AI at this year’s International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Technology Conference focused on automating routine parts of the job, which…

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents are posing a challenge to the incumbent global card payments infrastructure that is struggling to process high-frequency micropayments, according to a joint report released by payments giant Visa and investment thesis platform Artemis.The joint report published Wednesday found that traditional cards were built for human commerce with low-frequency transactions, which is insufficient for AI agents, which need infrastructure with near-zero fees and faster settlement to make agentic micropayments commercially viable.New infrastructure is increasingly necessary since AI agents crossed a key capability threshold in mid-2025, enabling them to discover unfamiliar APIs, evaluate prices and decide on autonomous…

Sam Neill‘s official cause of death has been revealed. “Since Sam Neill’s passing, several stories have appeared in the media which contain inaccuracies and outright falsehoods,” his spokesperson Philip Grenz told Us Weekly in a Wednesday, July 15, statement. “As Sam Neill’s longtime rep, I spoke with his family and wish to clarify some details for his fans. Sam passed away from pneumonia. Prior to becoming sick, Sam had valiantly fought and beaten lymphoma through a new treatment called CAR-T therapy.” Grenz went on, “As Sam was an intensely private man who loathed a fuss, his family will honor him…

Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has petitioned the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee (LPPC), urging it to deny the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Sulyman Ibrahim, the prestigious rank of Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) over allegations of abusing his office’s prosecutorial powers to pursue politically motivated criminal cases. In the petition, Mr Saraki, a former governor of Kwara State, asked the committee to investigate what he described as Mr Ibrahim’s repeated misuse of prosecutorial powers and to withhold his elevation to the SAN rank pending the outcome of the inquiry. Mr Saraki’s petition dated 25 May and supported…

Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals Industries has continued to cushion Nigeria’s fuel market from global price volatility by keeping domestic petrol prices stable despite rising international gasoline prices, higher freight rates, and tightening global supply, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. The market intelligence firm said the refinery’s pricing strategy has helped shield consumers from mounting import costs that are putting upward pressure on fuel prices across West Africa. According to its latest market intelligence, S&P noted that importers supplying the Nigerian market are becoming increasingly concerned over the sharp rise in international gasoline prices, with traders attributing the pressure…

The Corporate Affairs Commission has commenced moves to strike off 100,000 companies from its register. The firms are affected over their failure to file outstanding annual returns and other statutory documents. The Commission disclosed this in a public notice signed by its management on Wednesday. It said the exercise, tagged Batch 6, was being carried out pursuant to Section 692 (3) and (4) of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020. According to the notice, the affected companies can find their names on the Commission’s website. The notice read, “This is to notify the General Public and Esteemed Customers that…