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The Chairman of Benue State Governorship Primary Election Committee, Professor Mohammed Kabiru Isa on Friday declared Governor Hyacinth Alia as the winner of the the governorship primaries. According to the results annoumced, Alia secured an overwhelming figures to defeat the other two contestants, Terwase Orbunde and Jeffrey Kuranun. Isa declared that the incumbent governor scored 367,786 votes to defeat the other contestants, Jeffery Kuranun and Terwase Orbunde who polled 2,923 and 3,247 votes respectively. Alia who was present during the announcement of the results called on all party members to join hands with him He said, “We are all APC…
Technology company, ipNX Nigeria, has warned industries against excessive dependence on artificial intelligence without first putting in place reliable systems, quality data, and sustainable digital infrastructure. The caution was given during the 2026 edition of the IoT West Africa Conference and Exhibition held in Lagos, where industry stakeholders gathered to discuss the future of digital transformation across Africa. This was made known through a statement made available to The PUNCH on Thursday. According to the statement, the company’s Chief Technology Architect, Oluwaseun Oluboyo, said organisations must avoid embracing technology simply because it is trending. He said this during a boardroom…
Manchester United on Friday rewarded Michael Carrick with a permanent deal as head coach for guiding the club to a third-placed finish in the Premier League. “We are delighted to announce Michael Carrick will continue as our head coach, having signed a new contract,” United said in a statement on Friday. Carrick, the 44-year-old former United player, took charge on an interim basis after Ruben Amorim was sacked in January and led United to Champions League qualification with an impressive run of form. “From the moment that I arrived here 20 years ago, I felt the magic of Manchester United. Carrying the responsibility…
The Destiny Trust has expanded access to education in Lagos riverine communities with the launch of a new digital learning space and classroom block for children in Abegede, Idi-Ori, Dongo and surrounding areas in Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area. The intervention is aimed at addressing persistent barriers to education in hard-to-reach communities, including poor infrastructure, shortage of classrooms and teachers, low internet connectivity and lack of electricity, which have contributed to high numbers of out-of-school children. Co-founder of The Destiny Trust, Abimbola Ojenike, said the new facility marks a shift in how education is delivered to underserved communities, with technology playing…
Microsoft is rolling out Office app updates next week that allow users to disable a floating Copilot button. The button appeared in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in recent weeks, and floats above the bottom right-hand section of spreadsheets or documents. It has angered many Excel users in particular, because it obstructs cells and you can’t fully disable it.“While we are seeing increased engagement with Copilot in Office apps with this update, we are also hearing the need for more control over how Copilot appears,” admits Katie Kivett, partner group product manager at Microsoft. “While one of our goals is to…
The attacker behind the Verus bridge exploit has returned 4,052 Ether, worth about $8.5 million, to the project’s team wallet after Verus offered a 1,350 ETH bounty for the recovery of most of the stolen funds.The return represents about 75% of the stolen funds, with the exploiter retaining 1,350 Ether (ETH), worth about $2.8 million as a bounty, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield on Friday.Verus had offered the bounty a day earlier, saying it would treat the retained ETH as a reward if the exploiter returned 4,052.4 ETH to the team address within 24 hours.The recovery shows how some…
The news about Dutton Ranch losing its showrunner in a surprise shakeup has finally been addressed. Executive producer Christina Voros broke her silence about Chad Feehan‘s reported firing, telling ScreenRant earlier this month that the screenwriter did “an exceptional job building a world of adversaries for Rip and Beth” in the Yellowstone spinoff. Voros noted that when it came to “dynamics behind his departure,” she didn’t have much to add. She went on to say that Dutton Ranch had at that point not “come out into the world yet” so a future without Feehan was “beyond” her knowledge on the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its governorship primaries in Kwara and Bauchi states to Friday, according to a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka. The party also rescheduled the State House of Assembly primaries for Maradun I and Maradun II constituencies in Zamfara State to Sunday. In the statement issued on Thursday from the APC National Secretariat in Abuja, Mr Morka said the decision was approved by the National Working Committee (NWC) following consultations with stakeholders. The decision, he said, was taken “in furtherance of the party’s commitment to ensuring a transparent, orderly, peaceful and credible…
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday granted leave to Malabu Oil & Gas Limited to apply for a judicial review against the Federal Government over the alleged splitting of Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245. Delivering the ruling, Justice Mohammed Umar held that the ex-parte motion filed by the company through its lawyer, Reuben Atabo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, was meritorious. The judge said the court was satisfied with the depositions contained in the affidavit attached to the application, particularly some of the paragraphs relied upon by the applicant. Mr Umar subsequently adjourned the matter until 11 June…
Amid the ongoing legal battle over the Blue Silks rank introduced by the Association of Legislative Drafting and Advocacy Practitioners, ALDRAP, as an alternative to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, title, indications have emerged that a new set of organizations have taken over the conferment of the controversial rank. A statement released on Thursday announced that the Body of Senior Counsel of Nigeria, BOSCON, and the Nigerian Legal Society, NLS, would henceforth confer the Blue Silks rank on interested and deserving lawyers. Following a suit filed by ALDRAP and its Executive Director, Dr Tonye Clinton Jaja, to stop the Nigerian Bar…
