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The United Nations General Assembly has voted to adopt a new world map that more accurately depicts Africa’s size. The decision followed a call by African countries for the UN to right the centuries-old wrong. Togo introduced the resolution to the assembly about a year after the African Union endorsed it. The resolution is part of the #CorrectTheMap campaign backed by all 55 African Union member states. The resolution seeks to replace the traditional Mercator map, which distorts the region, with the Equal Earth projection, which is believed to show countries’ true sizes. It calls for an “equitable” representation of…
The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Oyo State, Senator Sharafadeen Alli, has committed N50m to support traders affected by the recent fire outbreak at Oranyan Market in Ibadan. Alli disclosed the intervention in a post shared on his Facebook page on Friday, saying the donation was intended to provide immediate relief to traders who lost their businesses and livelihoods in the inferno. A victim of the Oranyan fire in Oyo…Photo Credit: Sharafadeen Alli He said the Director-General of his campaign, alongside the Deputy Director-General and other APC leaders, had visited the market to reassure the affected traders of the…
Microsoft is partnering with TCL to bring its Xbox app to supported TCL smart TVs. The Xbox app lets you connect to Xbox Cloud Gaming and stream Game Pass titles or select games you own as part of a subscription.The Xbox app will arrive on TCL TVs at some point “in the coming months,” which is just in time for Microsoft’s new pay-as-you-go option for Xbox Cloud Gaming in November. This will let anyone access the cloud streaming service without the need to subscribe to Xbox Game Pass — ideal for people who don’t own an Xbox console. Microsoft has…
Crypto’s August rally put corporate conviction to the test. Bitcoin (BTC) miners that spent much of the crypto downturn courting AI investors are once again trading like leveraged bets on BTC, while Strategy and Strive are adding thousands more Bitcoin to their balance sheets. The same concentration is playing out elsewhere. Bitmine is closing in on owning 5% of Ether’s (ETH) circulating supply despite billions in unrealized losses, while 21 major financial institutions are taking a different approach by developing stablecoins for payments and settlement.Bitcoin rally puts miners back in the spotlightBitcoin’s August rally lifted beaten-down mining stocks by as much…
Dancing With the Stars fans are speculating whether Witney Carson’s recent TikTok video is aimed at DWTS: The Next Pro contestant AJ Pritchard’s fiancée, Zara Zoffany. In a Wednesday, September 2, TikTok, Witney, 32, lip-synced to an audio of someone saying, “And you sound like you should shut the f*** up,” while Jan, 31, lip-synced, “God bless.” “The most unhinged pros just trying to keep the peace y’all – just doing our part,” the DWTS professional dancer captioned the clip. In the comments, fans questioned whether the video was directed at Zara, 32, who recently criticized DWTS pro Rylee Arnold’s…
The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Faith Birol, says Nigeria’s investment in its energy sector could double within five years as an associate member. He told Reuters on Thursday in Abuja that Nigeria’s admission as an associate member of the Paris-based agency could attract foreign investment into the country. Nigeria was admitted as the 14th associate member of the IEA in July after the US, Germany, Italy and other member states unanimously voted in its favour. With this, Nigeria became the first member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to join the IEA. Mr Birol said…
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said the American University of Nigeria, Yola, was established to serve the community rather than as a profit-making venture for him or his family. Atiku stated this on Friday while responding to an X user who questioned what he had done to address the plight of Almajiri children in northern Nigeria. Defending his record on education, Atiku said his decision to establish the university in Yola demonstrated that commercial gain was not his primary consideration. “If profit had been my primary motivation, I could easily have located the university in Abuja or Lagos, where…
Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors.As part of the lawsuit’s discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot chat logs to an expert hired by news publishers. The logs, it claims, were specifically chosen “because they hit on keywords implicating use of News Plaintiffs’ websites, and therefore the most likely to contain News Plaintiffs’ works.” It says the resulting analysis shows that 59,545 of…
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The Edo Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Eugenia Abdallah, says an Alfa and the paternal aunt of a 16-year-old student are in police custody over alleged sexual abuse. Mrs Abdallah gave the update in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin on Thursday, saying that the aunt, who had been granted bail, was re-arrested. She said the girl was placed in the care of her paternal aunt, her father’s younger sister, following the separation of her parents and subsequent family circumstances. According to the commissioner, the aunt regularly visited the Alfa’s residence for prayers…
