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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has partnered with Meta to promote responsible digital citizenship and protect young Nigerians online. The Director-General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa, disclosed the partnership at the Youth Safety Summit organised by Meta on Thursday. At the summit, held in Abuja, Meta, in partnership with NITDA and the Federal Ministry of Youth Development, also launched the Youth Online Safety Campaign and My Digital World 2.0. The stakeholders at the summit, including government officials, civil society organisations, educators, and industry leaders, deliberated on strategies to create a safer digital environment for young people. Represented by Ahmed…

AI agents are becoming more sophisticated. They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks. But before these agents can be trusted to book trips or conduct financial analysis on behalf of users, model providers and the startups building such agents want to ensure that they perform reliably across a vast range of scenarios. AI labs often use benchmarks to show off their model’s prowess, but a high score, even on an agent-oriented benchmark, doesn’t actually prove that an AI can accomplish various complex, real-world jobs correctly. Patronus AI, a startup founded in 2023 by former Meta…

*Party chair warns nobody will take their victory and run away *PDP declares minister on loan to APC without transfer clause Chuks Okocha in Abuja The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has dared the Tanimu Turaki faction of the party that June 26 would determine the authentic PDP faction, saying “lets know who the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) would give the access code to upload the nomination forms.” By the INEC guidelines, all registered and approved political parties would be issued access code from June 26. The Turaki-led Interim National Working Committee, said INEC Wednesday validated…

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is escalating rapidly, with 89 deaths recorded in the past week alone, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). Jean Kaseya, the Director-General of the Africa CDC, warned that the latest figures have heightened concerns over growing community transmission and the limited capacity of treatment centres, many of which are operating at 95 per cent bed occupancy. Speaking during an online media briefing, Mr Kaseya noted that health authorities must simultaneously expand treatment capacity and strengthen early case detection to curb virus transmission. “Authorities must…

A rare and aggressive form of liver cancer has long resisted immunotherapy, a treatment that helps the body’s own immune system attack cancer cells. Now, researchers have identified a potential way to overcome that resistance using an FDA-approved drug that is already available for another medical condition. The findings suggest a possible new treatment strategy for fibrolamellar carcinoma, a rare liver cancer that primarily affects children and young adults. Fibrolamellar carcinoma makes up about 2% of all liver cancer cases. There is currently no cure, and the disease is often discovered only after it has spread to other parts of…

Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold has been charged with leading a plot to kidnap and pistol-whip three people he believed had stolen from him.Arnold, 23, who has also been charged with armed robbery, could face up to life in prison if found guilty.Three men in their late teens were held at gunpoint, struck and robbed at an apartment in Tampa, Florida on February 4 of this year, said police, who claim Arnold was the “primary conspirator”.That incident occurred three days after possessions worth over $250,000 (approx £189,400) were reportedly stolen from Arnold and others at a rental property in Largo,…

American writer Ben Lerner has won this year’s Orwell prize for political fiction for Transcription, a novel exploring technology and memory.In nonfiction, the prize went to Karen Bartlett for The Escape from Kabul, which looks at Afghan women lawyers who came under threat after the fall of Kabul in 2021.The prizes, which aim to highlight books that best meet Orwell’s own ambition “to make political writing into an art”, come with £5,000.The first section of Lerner’s novel sees the narrator travelling to Providence, Rhode Island, to conduct a final interview with an eccentric German intellectual, Thomas. However, in his hotel…

“I’m like a big giant sieve of history and I just turn it into the clothes,” said Nigel Cabourn of the inspiration for his decades of quietly influential designs for men’s clothes. To Cabourn, who has died aged 76, history meant war – his grandfather’s memories of trenches in the first world war, his father’s stories of Burma in the second, even his own awareness of the US M65 field jacket and other uniform novelties of the Vietnam war, as paired with jeans by students and protesters post-1968.He was passionate about mountaineering and exploring too, especially Edmund Hillary’s conquest of…

The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) says 26 persons have been rescued, while eight persons, including a baby girl, have died following the collapse of a three-storey shopping complex in the Alakija area of Lagos. LASEMA disclosed this in an update issued on Thursday, saying the figures were confirmed as of 4:20 p.m. The agency added that search and rescue operations were still ongoing, with emergency responders continuing efforts to locate and extricate any additional victims trapped beneath the rubble. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the building collapsed earlier on Thursday in Alakija, Ori-Ade Local Council…

new video loaded: Venezuelans Search for People Trapped by Twin EarthquakesAfter two earthquakes on Wednesday, some Venezuelans trapped in collapsed buildings awaited rescue and others searched for loved ones in the rubble. Others spoke about the fear they felt when the earthquakes struck.By Axel Boada, Jon Hazell and Alisa Shodiyev KaffJune 25, 2026