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This past week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word open letter, external entitled “The Future is for Everyone”.To some, it’s an expression of hope in AI’s promise. To others, it’s little more than a verbose public relations exercise.Zuckerberg’s manifesto is the latest example of a tech boss opining on why AI is the next big thing.His vision echoes what AI leaders have expressed in various forms: the product they are building is among the “most important technologies in history.”Marc Andreessen, co-founder of early web titan Netscape, perhaps started this trend in 2023 with a 5,000-word essay he called…

British diplomats in six locations around the world, including Buenos Aires and Santiago in South America, will no longer get hardship payments for working in dangerous cities.Bonuses and respite breaks are granted to those working in cities considered risky, like Beirut in Lebanon, or with high crime, such as Pretoria in South Africa, or high air pollution in cities including New Delhi and Beijing.The UK government has removed Santiago, in Chile, Panama City in Panama, Pyongyang in North Korea, Bamako in Mali, and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in addition to the two south American cities, according to the latest…

The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) has said critical data from the flight recorder of the private jet that landed on a road near Asaba Airport was overwritten after the aircraft was flown back to Lagos before investigators could take custody of it. The Director-General of the NSIB, Alex Badeh, disclosed this on Friday during a virtual media briefing, saying the development would make it more difficult for investigators to reconstruct what happened during the unusual landing. The incident involved a US-registered Bombardier Challenger 601-3A operated by VMO Aero Limited, which landed on a paved road near Asaba Airport in…

Mikel Arteta has revealed he will sign a new Arsenal contract and there is no need for fans to be worried about his future.Arteta has entered the final year of his contract with the Premier League champions – despite co-chairman Josh Kroenke saying in May that a new deal was an “upmost priority” of the club. But Arteta says he and the club will come together to “resolve” a contract extension in “an organic way” – because he is happy at the club, and his bosses appear happy with him. “They [the fans] don’t have to worry about any of…

By Benjamin Njoku King Izonebi Alfred fondly called Jking, the indescribably talented Nigerian highlife musician, has shaken the music world with six new songs. The six songs — ‘Biri Bein Ghan’, ‘Chief Adowei Binaebi’, ‘Chief Boro Opudu’, ‘Hon.Seles Saboh’, ‘Traditional Series (Bini Ebi)’ and ‘Izon Fiye’ — are thematically and instrumentally built to tell great stories as a guide for any society suffocated by moral and cultural deficit. In the new songs, Izonebi Alfred is philosophically situated by two quotable statements that ‘philanthropy is the prerogative of a good man with a good heart’, and that ‘taking a recourse to…

Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.To see the completed puzzle, buy the next issue of the Guardian (for puzzles published Monday to Thursday). Solutions to Friday and Saturday puzzles are given in either Saturday’s or Monday’s edition.

Bennett Oghifo  Nigeria must move beyond policy announcements and urgently implement a coordinated six-point roadmap to turn growing interest in electric vehicles into mass adoption, Metropolitan Electric Limited has said. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Olugbenga Obadina, made the call during a his presentation at the 3rd Nigeria Auto Industry Summit, organised by the Nigeria Auto Journalists Association (NAJA) in conjunction with the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC) in Lagos. Obadina said Nigeria had reached a critical turning point in the transition to electric mobility, arguing that the immediate challenge was no longer the formulation of policies but…

Zach Witkoff, co-founder and CEO of World Liberty Financial and chairman of Alt5 Sigma Corp., right, and Eric Trump at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, Aug. 13, 2025.Adam Gray | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesA federal financial regulator has conditionally approved an application for a bank charter by an entity connected to World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm partially owned by President Donald Trump’s family.The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Friday gave conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Co.’s application for a national trust bank, according to a letter posted on the OCC’s website. The trust company…

Bumble was supposed to be different. When it launched in 2014, it offered women a simple proposition: if you matched with a man, you had to make the first move. The rule was meant to make online dating safer and less intimidating, while giving women control over who got to speak first.This week, Bumble abandoned it.The change follows the introduction of Opening Moves, which had already softened the original rule, and comes as Bumble prepares to abandon another defining feature: the swipe.The company says it is responding to changing user behaviour and wants to encourage more meaningful connections.But there is…

Kano state government has taken some immediate steps to address perenial traffic snarl in the state capital, Kano. Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano state has personally supervised traffic compliance at Kofar Fanfo Junction, in Kano metropolis where he spent over one hour ensuring motorists obeyed traffic light signals. According to a statement issued by the Governor’s Spokesman, Sunusi Dawakin Tofa, the Governor was accompanied by the Secretary to the State Government, commissioners, and other senior government officials during the exercise aimed at restoring discipline and order on Kano roads. Yusuf directed motorists, commercial drivers, tricycle operators, and pedestrians to…