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Meta's Threads hits 175m monthly users amid challenges
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Threads user accuses Zuckerberg of censoring anti-LGBTQ posts

The new Threads app from Mark Zuckerberg has come under fire for allegedly restricting users who disagree with gender ideology and making false claims. Since the app’s launch earlier last week, there has been outrage on Twitter, a competitor network, over reports that content challenging gender ideas is being removed. In order to compete with […]

Alibaba considers selling shares to Ant as probe ends
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Alibaba considers selling shares to Ant as probe ends

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is considering selling shares to Ant Group Company as part of the fintech company’s planned buyback. This follows the conclusion of a nearly three-year investigation by financial regulators into the financial technology business. In a stock exchange statement in Hong Kong, Alibaba, which owns nearly a third of Ant, stated that […]

US authors sue OpenAI, Meta for copyright infringement
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US authors sue OpenAI, Meta for copyright infringement

Authors Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, and comedian Sarah Silverman are suing OpenAI and Meta in a US district court on separate counts of copyright infringement. The lawsuits claim, among other things, that OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s LLaMA were trained on datasets containing their works that were obtained illegally. They claim these datasets were obtained from […]

BREAKING: Tinubu emerges ECOWAS Chairman
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BREAKING: Tinubu emerges ECOWAS Chairman

  President Bola Tinubu has been named the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States’ Authority of Heads of State and Government. Tinubu was voted head of the regional group during its 63rd Ordinary Session on Sunday afternoon in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau’s capital. “We will take democracy seriously, Democracy is very tough but […]

Friendly market policies'll boost Nigeria's credit profile - NGX
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ECOWAS set to name Tinubu Chairman

According to Daily Post, this was stated in a tweet sent on his official account on Sunday by a former media aide to the president, Bayo Onanuga. Tinubu is now in Guinea-Bissau for the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS after leaving Nigeria on Saturday. According to Onanuga’s tweet, Tinubu […]

World Bank approves $300m support package for Ghana's economic recovery
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FG, World Bank inspect Enugu’s N350 million agro-processing projects

The World Bank and as well as a delegation from the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Finance on Saturday toured several multimillion Naira agricultural produce processing facilities that have been established in Enugu State. The initiatives under the Agro-Processing, Productivity Enhancement and Livelihoods Improvement Support initiatives are located in 15 centres across the state’s three senatorial […]

FERMA to fix 50 failed roads in Lagos, Zamfara, others
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FERMA to repair 36000km federal roads

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency has said that measures are in the works to patch potholes and intervene in the rehabilitation of failed roads around the country as the rainy season approaches. This was disclosed in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja by the interim Managing Director of FERMA, Mr. Godson Amos. He […]

NERC considers increase of prepaid meters
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Nigerian manufacturers reject world bank-funded bid for smart electricity meters

The Association of Metre Manufacturers of Nigeria has demanded the immediate suspension of the World Bank-funded bid procedure in a letter dated July 4, 2023, that was sent to the director general of the Bureau of Public Procurement. According to Arise News, the meter manufacturers have filed a protest in opposition to the World Bank-funded bid process […]

Google to add digital watermark to AI-edited images
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Google tests medical AI chatbot in hospitals

Google’s Med-PaLM 2, an AI tool made to respond to inquiries regarding medical information, has been tested in the Mayo Clinic research hospital, among others, according to The Wall Street Journal. PaLM 2, which was unveiled at Google I/O in May of this year, has a variation called Med-PaLM 2. The language model supporting Google’s […]

IPMAN threatens strike over Soludo's taxation
Business

IPMAN seeks govt intervention to curb pipeline vandalism

The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Ejigbo Satellite Depot, has expressed concern about ongoing pipeline vandalism at Idimu in Lagos’ Alimosho Local Council Development Area. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the chairman of IPMAN Ejigbo Satellite Depot, Mr. Akin Akinrinade, stated on Sunday that some vandals had been caught stealing petrol on a section of […]

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law has advocated for increased engagement with the Corporate Affairs Commission to help the Nigerian economy.
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NBA seeks improved CAC partnership to boost economy

The Nigerian Bar Association Section on Business Law has advocated for increased engagement with the Corporate Affairs Commission to help the Nigerian economy. This was stated by the Chairman of the Governing Board of the NBA-SBL, Dr. Adeoye Adefulu,in a statement made by the Head of Media for CAC, Rasheed Mahe, on Sunday in Abuja. Speaking at the 17th […]

Lagos bans alcohol sales, street selling in parks, garages
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Lagos bans alcohol sales, street selling in parks, garages

The Lagos State Government, through the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps, has insisted on a complete crackdown on the selling of alcohol as well as street dealing and hawking along roadsides, medians, major highways, parks, and parking lots. The Corps Marshal of LAGESC, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (rtd), recently made this disclosure in a statement. She also […]