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- 13 Aug 2025
Perplexity AI Stuns Tech World with $34.5 Billion Bid for Google’s Chrome Browser
AI-powered search startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Google’s Chrome web browser, a bold move targeting Google’s dominance in the internet space. The San…
- 10 May 2010
Consultant Tasks Public on Commercial Property Insurance
An aviation insurance consultant Mr. Fidelis Ako has called on the insuring public to buy commercial property insurance on their property so as to reap the many benefits of such, as well as securing…
- 30 Nov 2012
Premature Call to Make Nitda a Commission
The recent prescription that National Information Development Agency (Nitda) be upgraded to a National Information Technology Development Commission (NITDC) to ensure adequate regulation of the…
- 12 Jul 2013
Senate, NCC Disagree over Irregularities in Sim Card Registration
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has disagreed with the Senate over alleged irregularities in the just concluded Sim card registration with the Commission insisting that the information…
- 24 Sept 2013
Zinox Boss Urges Review of Education Policy to Foster Unity, Knowledge Era
Leo Stan Ekeh, chairman Zinox Group has called for rejig of the national education policy to foster national unity and create a knowledge era. Ekeh said that Nigeria is running on a digital age and…
- 16 Nov 2014
UAE Calls Boko Haram, Others “Terrorists”
United Arab Emirates (UAE) has formally designated scores of groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood, Boko Haram and scores of others as "terrorist groups". The list, which includes about 80 groups,…
- 7 Jun 2018
eCommerce and the Nigerian Amazon
For long muted on Wall Street, the signal is now clear. Amazon, global e-commerce giant, is on the verge of not only overtaking Apple as the world’s most valuable company but the first company…
- 21 May 2019
ICPC: Corrupting the N2. 5Bn News
By Hamid Hendrix The ICPC should have learnt lessons on the ills of trial-by-media by now, but the contrary is evident. It all began when it put out a press release in November last year announcing…
- 9 Feb 2020
Forensics Experts Raise Alarm as Nigeria Loses N5.5trn to Fraud, Cybercrimes
Nigeria is estimated to have lost about N5.5trillion to fraud and cybercrimes in the last 10 years, according to Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigative Professionals of Nigeria’s…
- 23 Jul 2021
Nigeria Battling Worst Unemployment Crisis – World Bank
A report by the World Bank suggests that Nigeria’s unemployment crisis in recent times is the worst in the nation’s history. The report, which raised an alarm over the nation’s rising unemployment…
- 7 Oct 2021
CBN Commits over N1.3 trillion to Boost Economy
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has committed over N1.3 trillion to various intervention programmes, in order to boost the economy, in the last one and half years following the outbreak of the…
- 14 Feb 2022
PFN Seeks Probe of Emefiele, CBN Governor over Alleged Diversion of Funds for Presidential Ambition
Patriotic Front of Nigeria (PFN), a youth-based civil society group, has called on members of the National Assembly, to as a matter of urgent public importance, investigate cases of financial…
- 27 Sept 2023
FG Ignores Concerns, Takes $1.95Bn World Bank Loans
Federal government has secured a substantial $1.95 billion loan from the World Bank within the initial four months of President Bola Tinubu’s tenure. Bola Tinubu This is coming amidst rising public…
- 26 Nov 2023
Customer Questions “Disappearance” of N3.7m from his Ecobank Account
Peter Ezeike, a customer of Ecobank, has accused the bank of orchestrating the theft of N3,755,000(Three million, Seven Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand naira) from his savings account during the…
- 14 May 2024
Google to Offer AI-generated Answers in Search Results
Google has announced it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries made by users in the United States, in one of the biggest updates to its search engine in 25 years. “I’m excited to…
- 30 Jul 2024
Arik Air kicks as Minister orders grounding of airline fleet
Management of Arik Air (In Receivership) are dismayed by the sudden order issued by the Honourable Minister of Aviation to ground our Aircraft. This decision, made without warning or consultation,…
- 26 Mar 2025
Heritage Bank Depositors Seek National Assembly's Help to Recover Trapped Funds
Depositors of Heritage Bank with deposits exceeding N5 million have appealed to the National Assembly to intervene and assist in the resolution of the bank’s license by the Central Bank of Nigeria…
- 26 Jun 2025
ChatGPT-mimicking Cyberthreats Surge 115% in Early 2025, SMBs Increasingly Targeted
In 2025, nearly 8,500 users from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) globally faced cyberattacks where malicious or unwanted software was disguised as popular online productivity tools,…
- 6 May 2008
Revealed! How FG stalled Rural Telephony Project
Sudden availability of GSM, premium telecommunications service, government’s lack of interest and sabotage are the reasons for the monumental failure of rural telephony project;…
- 13 Aug 2025
AfDB Adopts AI to Fast-track Africa’s Development Blueprint
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is betting big on Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a catalyst for delivering Africa’s ambitious Agenda 2063. With hands-on training in tools like ChatGPT and Google…