There were 15 seconds left on the clock when a 19-year-old college basketball player launched a 16-foot winning shot that would change sports marketing forever. Watching that day was marketing executive and grassroots promoter Sonny Vaccaro. He was so impressed by what he saw that two years later he would bet his job at sports manufacturer Nike on backing this …
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A Nigerian marriage therapist, Shamsedeen Giwa, has addressed men who don’t provide for their wives, preferring to spend money on girls and vices. “She would be called names; selfish, stingy, arrogant and the likes but a wife who was financially neglected when the husband had the means is unlikely to be there for the man when he needs her,” …
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A 31-year-old Nigerian man, Chijioke John Okoye, has been arrested in India for allegedly blackmailing and extorting money from a female doctor which led her to commit suicide. The accused had allegedly obtained some obscene photographs of the woman and used them to extort lakhs of rupees from her. The woman allegedly ended her life as the accused …
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It was a bold move from City to replace Gareth Taylor with former boss Cushing in the week of a cup final but, after Wednesday’s Champions League victory, it seemed inspired. Cushing won the WSL, Women’s FA Cup and three League Cups in seven years at City before leaving in 2020 for MLS side New York City FC. And he …
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Lara Lewington, Liv McMahon & Tom Gerken BBC News BBC Having a chip in your brain that can translate your thoughts into computer commands may sound like science fiction – but it is a reality for Noland Arbaugh. In January 2024 – eight years after he was paralysed – the 30-year-old became the first person to get such a device …
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A 35-year-old Nigerian man, Lotenna Chisom Umeadi, who was extradited from Germany to the United States of America, has pled guilty on to two counts of wire fraud. United States Attorney John A. Sarcone III and Erin Keegan, Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), made the announcement in a statement on …
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The Kaduna State Police Command has arrested twelve suspects who attacked worshippers performing Tahajjud prayer in Rigasa, k! lling a 23-year-old man identified as Usman Mohammed. The spokesperson of the command, DSP Mansir Hassan, disclosed this in a statement on Friday, March 21, 2025. “Police operatives in Kaduna State on 21st March 2025, at about 0200 hours, …
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A chief magistrates’ court in Ikorodu, Lagos, on Friday remanded a 20-year-old man, Daniel Olojede, in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a six-year-old girl. Mr Olojede, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on defilement, indecent assault, child abuse and assault. The chief magistrate, B.A. Sonuga did not take the defendant’s …
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The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has obtained the conviction of one Hammed Saka, who was sentenced to three months in prison for hawking new Naira notes. Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, sentenced Saka to jail after he pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read …
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Imran Rahman-Jones Technology reporter Reuters A Norwegian man has filed a complaint after ChatGPT falsely told him he had killed two of his sons and been jailed for 21 years. Arve Hjalmar Holmen has contacted the Norwegian Data Protection Authority and demanded the chatbot’s maker, OpenAI, is fined. It is the latest example of so-called “hallucinations”, where artificial intelligence (AI) …
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