An apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide has applauded the National Assembly effort over the passage of the South-East Development Commission, SEDC, bill to its final stage. Recall, the Senate had on Thursday passed the bill for final reading two months after its passage by the House of Representatives. 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that banks were involved in about 70 per cent of financial crimes committed in Nigeria. This was made known by EFCC’s Director of Internal Audit, Idowu Apejoye who represented the EFCC Chariman, Ola Olukayode at the 2023 Annual Retreat and General Meeting of the Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria (ACAEBIN).

The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun has banned the use of Point of Sale (POS) machines and other electronic mobile money transaction devices within the premises of police stations and facilities across the country. This was made known in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, which stated that the development was a result of “public outcry on alleged illegal and illicit transactions through POS machine operators and connivance with certain police operatives”.

A United Kingdom-based Nigerian researcher, Yunusa Jibrin, has revealed his newest innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool having the capacity to recognize terrorists irrespective of their location in Nigeria. Jibrin stated that if his findings are been adopted by the federal government, would help to direct the efforts of the military toward identifying and eliminating bandits wherever they may be hiding in the country. Being a Master’s degree graduate in computer science from the University of Sussex, Jubrin in an interview with Vanguard on Sunday that he leveraged AI-driven image synthesis to generate thousands of visual representations depicting bandits in desert environments.

Residents of Southeast region will not participate in the economic sabotage by some sacrosanct s in other region to protest against the high cost of living in Nigeria, as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has relatively resolved insecurity ravaging the zone.

The Borno State government has revealed that more than 95 per cent of people in the state whom were holding the ideology of Boko Haram , especially the founding members are either dead or have gave up on the ideology.  Special Adviser to the Borno State Government on Security Affairs, Brig. Gen. Ishaq Abdullahi (Rtd) disclosed this during an interview with Daily Trust in Maiduguri yesterday Sunday. The retired Army General said the leadership of the deadly group has become frenzy as only about 10 of the founding members might still be alive and on the run.