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Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it’s now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia’s new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks.The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box looks a little like the top of an Xbox Series X console, with an aluminum chassis that also doubles as a heatsink. It has a 100-watt thermal envelope, slightly more than the 45-watt-to-80-watt thermal envelopes for Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptops.…

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has elevated digital assets to a strategic priority, calling for regulatory clarity around blockchain technology, tokenization and crypto market infrastructure through 2030.The shift was outlined in the agency’s draft Strategic Plan for fiscal years 2026–2030, published Tuesday. Alongside broader goals focused on capital formation, investor protection and agency modernization, the SEC dedicated an entire objective to digital assets and distributed ledger technology.The agency said it aims to “provide a firm regulatory foundation for digital assets and distributed ledger technologies through a rational, coherent, and principled approach,” adding:“Blockchain and crypto asset technologies have the…

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The Director-General of the Nasarawa State Waste Management and Sanitation Authority, NASWAMSA, Hon. Dr. Mohammed Bello Isa, has highlighted the dangers inherent in indiscriminate dumping of wastes across the country. Isa, represented by Director of Waste Management, NASWAMSA, stated this at the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP backed Nasarawa State Community Cleanup and Environmental Sensitization Exercise, organised by Digital Peers International on Tuesday. He noted that environmental cleanliness is directly linked to the health, safety, and economic wellbeing of communities, adding that poor waste disposal practices contribute significantly to environmental degradation, flooding, air and water pollution, vector-borne diseases, and other…

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has petitioned the National Judicial Council, NJC, seeking an investigation into the conduct of the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice John Tsoho, and Justice Peter Lifu over the handling of a suit involving the party and its former National Chairman, Nafiu Bala Gombe. In a petition dated June 1, 2026, and addressed to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, the petitioner, Nkemakolam Ukandu, alleged abuse of judicial power, disobedience to court orders and manifest bias in Suit No. FHC/ABJ/CS/1819/2025 between Nafiu Bala Gombe and the ADC. Ukandu claimed that the Supreme Court, in…

Troops of the 177 Guards Battalion have arrested five suspected illegal miners and recovered explosives and other mining equipment during an operation in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. This was disclosed in a post on X on Tuesday by Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency and security expert in Lake Chad region. Zagazola stated that the suspects were arrested at about 12:00 p.m. on June 1 during a long-range patrol conducted by troops deployed at Forward Operating Base, FOBm Tattara and Patrol Base Zango under Operation MESA. He said that the operation targeted an illegal mining site located at Tattara…

Rivers United Technical Adviser, Finidi George, has expressed satisfaction with his team’s 3-2 victory over Rangers in the President Federation Cup. Chijioke Mbaoma, Wisdom Samuel, and Handsome Surveyor were on target for Rivers United in the game. Rangers got their goals through Godwin Obaje and Precious Agu. Finidi said his team will now shift focus to the next round of the competition. “We started the game well, and we are happy with the victory,” Finidi told the club’s media team. “The boys did well, and Rangers scored two goals. It was a little bit scrappy towards the end, but we…

Somewhere in Jigawa, a community health worker is waiting for the blood pressure cuffs that never arrived. In Mushin, a patient has rationed her last tablet of Amlodipine for the third consecutive month. These are not edge cases; they are the lived reality behind Nigeria’s headline health numbers. When the Presidency released the 2026 federal budget for health – a record N2.48tn, signed into law by the President—it was easy to feel a cautious optimism. But for the estimated 38 per cent of Nigerian adults living with hypertension (four in 10, per the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare’s…

The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of two officers of the Ogun State Community, Social Orientation and Safety Corps, popularly known as So-Safe Corps, over the death of a man identified simply as Success, who reportedly died from injuries sustained after the officers allegedly tortured him. The command’s public relations officer, Babaseyi Oluseyi, confirmed the development in a terse response to an enquiry by our correspondent on Tuesday. Oluseyi disclosed that the officers had been taken into custody following the incident. “I can confirm that we have the officers involved in custody,” he said. PUNCH Metro had…

Last weekend, from Thursday, May 28 to Sunday, May 31, 2026, I was in Abia State on an official assignment. I flew from Abuja to Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport in Owerri and did the 1 hour 30 minutes trip from Owerri to Umuahia by road. It wasn’t my first time in the state whose moniker is” God’s Own State”, but I haven’t been there in about 15 years. Meanwhile, I have heard so much about Governor Alex Otti’s magic in the state and looked forward to seeing things for myself; after all, it is said that seeing is believing!…