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The Lagos state government says a section of the Third Mainland Bridge will be shut for repairs on Sunday. In a statement released on Saturday, Frederic Oladeinde, Lagos commissioner of transportation, said a section of the bridge will be shut from 9 am to 4 pm on Sunday for repairs of some “failed […]

The Italian government has banned ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence tool, over data privacy concerns. Italy is the first country to restrict the use of ChatGPT since its popularity exploded globally in recent months. On Friday, the Italian data protection agency announced that it would immediately block the chatbot from collecting Italian users’ […]

The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has confirmed the arrest of Fredrick Nwajagu, the Eze of Ajao estate in Lagos, over an inciting statement he made in a viral video. In the clip that surfaced on the internet on Friday, Nwajagu, who was dressed in his royal traditional regalia, could be heard saying Igbo indigenes […]

The All Progressives Congress (APC) chapter in the United States says it has scheduled a solidarity march in Washington D.C. in support of Bola Tinubu, the declared winner of Nigeria’s presidential election. The group, in a statement signed by Tai Balofin, its chairman, said the march will take place on April 3 at […]

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has fined Channels Telvision N5 million over a recent interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed, vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). Last week, while speaking on Politics Today, a Channels Television programme, Baba-Ahmed asked Olukayode Ariwoola, the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), not to swear in Bola Tinubu as […]

Oyeyemi Kale, partner and chief economist of KPMG Nigeria, says Nigeria’s debt is only perceived to be too much because of the country’s poor repayment ability. In a series of tweets on Saturday, the former statistician-general of the federation said conversations on the country’s debt profile would disappear if there is an improvement […]

The Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) says the Department of State Services (DSS) is heating the polity by issuing statements and not making any arrests. The NGF said this in reaction to a statement issued by the secret police. On Wednesday, the DSS said it confirmed a plot “by some key players” to […]

The National Pension Commission (PenCom) recently asked all retirement savings account (RSA) holders to visit any branch of their pension fund administrators (PFAs) to participate in the ongoing data recapture exercise (DRE). In a statement to TheCable, PenCom explained that the DRE was initiated to obtain RSA holders’ current, complete and accurate data.  […]