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By Aduragbemi Omiyale An artificial intelligence-powered feature, Dream Screen for Shorts, designed to redefine how creators use YouTube, has been unveiled by the video streaming platform. The feature was introduced by the tech giant on Thursday alongside others at the Made On YouTube event. It was created to allow YouTube creators to reach more viewers. According to the firm, Dream Screen allows creators to add AI-generated video or image backgrounds to their Shorts simply by typing an idea into a prompt. With Dream Screen, creators will be able to generate new, fantastic settings for their Shorts that are only limited

By Adedapo Adesanya President Bola Tinubu on Monday asked South African companies to consider investing in the Nigerian solid minerals development sector, promising them a conducive environment. Mr Tinubu made this call when he held talks with his South African counterpart, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Ajuri Ngelale, the Nigerian leader advanced his economic development diplomatic drive for investment attraction during the engagement. He told Mr Ramaphosa that, “South African mining industries have a

By Adedapo Adesanya The two leading opposition presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections, Mr Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, on Tuesday, approached the Supreme Court to upturn the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC), which on September 6, affirmed Mr Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the exercise held on Saturday, February 25. Mr Atiku, in his Notice of Appeal predicated on 35 grounds, insisted that the tribunal, in the judgment delivered by Justice Haruna Tsammani, committed grave error and miscarriage

By Precious Olisa Three Nigerian women entrepreneurs have been selected among 24 finalists for the 2023 African Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) awards. The Nigerians are the CEO of Bridge Merchant Enterprise (Agri Entrepreneur Award), Ms Chinwendu Nweke; the CEO of Clean Technology Hub (Energy Entrepreneur Award), Ms Ifeoma Malo; and the co-founder/CEO of D-Olivette Global Enterprise, (Social Entrepreneur Award), Ms Damilola Aminat Adeyemi. Launched in 2017, the annual AWIEF Awards is an initiative to recognise, honour, and celebrate women entrepreneurs and business owners in Africa across various industry sectors for their achievements and contribution to the continent’s inclusive

Leading payments technology and card business in Africa, Verve, and Discover Global Network, the payments brand of Discover, held an event to launch the Verve Global Card. With this, cardholders will now have the ability to use their Verve Global Cards on the Discover Global Network which provides acceptance in more than 190 countries and territories. This will expand Verve’s existing suite of tailored payment products and solutions for its customers. The first transaction occurred yesterday at Swarovski in New York City and senior executives from First Bank, Access Bank and Fidelity Bank purchased various items from Swarovski using their

By Adedapo Adesanya President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a blanket waiver of import duties for medical equipment and supplies as part of the country’s effort to strengthen health infrastructure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This was made by Mr Tolu Ogunlesi, the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Digital/New Media on Tuesday. According to Mr Ogunlesi, who wrote via his Twitter – @toluogunlesi, in addition to the import waiver, President Buhari has directed the Nigeria Customs Service to implement expedited clearing of all imported healthcare equipment and medical and pharmaceutical supplies. “President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a blanket

By Modupe Gbadeyanka On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, history was made as Star Lager Beer announced an unprecedented partnership with five football clubs in Europe. The clubs are Arsenal, Juventus, Real Madrid, PSG and Manchester City, having a combined history in football of 544 years. Star became the ‘Official Beer Partner’ of the five clubs, which have a combined history of 87 domestic league titles, 13 Champions League titles and numerous European titles. Marketing Director, Nigerian Breweries Plc, Franco Maria-Maggi described the partnerships as a commitment from Star, Nigeria’s foremost beer brand to bring new football experience to consumers and

By Modupe Gbadeyanka HexaTech Inc. announced today the signing of two strategic agreements with OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, of Regensburg, Germany. The agreements include a long term supply commitment for HexaTech’s aluminum nitride (AlN) substrates, direct support of HexaTech’s 2” diameter substrate development program, as well as licensing of certain HexaTech intellectual property (IP). HexaTech, the world’s leading commercial supplier of single crystal AlN substrates, has developed a unique and valuable knowledge base for optoelectronic, high power and RF (radio frequency) applications based on its proprietary material, helping to activate and promote a significant market pull for its underlying substrate

By Adedapo Adesanya Telecommunications stakeholders were met with shock as the Federal Government of Nigeria has directed all telecommunications providers to shut down services in Zamfara State. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in a letter dated September 3, 2021, said that the directive became imperative following the rising insecurity in the state. The letter on telecommunications services shut down titled Re: Shutdown of All Telecom Sites in Zamfara State and was signed by Mr Umar Danbatta, executive vice-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NCC, was addressed to the Chief Executive Officers of the telecoms companies. This is raising worries as

By Ehiedu Iweriebor The Dangote Group of Nigeria, one of the pre-eminent industrial conglomerates in Africa, in pursuit of its pan-African development and emancipation strategy, on November 23, 2017 formally launched its newest economic development industrial project, the Dangote Cement plant in Mfila, in Congo-Brazzaville. With this $300 million, 1.5 million metric tonne per annum plant, the Group now has a presence in ten of the 17 countries in which it plans to construct and expand cement plans. While it had to re-calibrate the pace and timing of its earlier ambitious plans to complete its various planned plants at an

By Nneka Okumazie An individual that does not – particularly – care about a successful marriage will find it easy to be agitated about the discipline applied or advised by another. An individual that has lived or gone somewhere will assert knowledge or experience over another that hasn’t been there. An individual will often judge or see others how they see themselves. Some see themselves as smart, liberated, exposed, special, etc. and they only respect those they think to be like them or above them, but look down on those they think are below them. Seeing self in a way,