2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (634+ words) Katsina State Governor, Dikko Umaru Radda, has launched a $1 million food security project aimed at strengthening the resilience of vulnerable farming communities against recurring floods and drought in the state. The 12-month intervention, titled: ‘Protecting Food Security Against Recurring Floods…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (646+ words) THISDAYLIVE THE OKRIKA BURNING WELLHEAD Regulatory authorities should live up to their responsibilities For two years, a wellhead fire has been burning at Ofioma-Ama Alakiri, in Okrika Local Government Area of Rivers State, upending livelihoods in the fishing and farming…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1048+ words) Generative AI has already made it easier for businesses to create images, write copy and produce video, but most tools still work in batches: make a request, wait for a result, edit it and publish. The next shift is happening…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (649+ words) A Nigerian linguistics researcher at the University of Chicago, Uduma U. Umeh, is generating data on Igbo as part of his research roadmap that could contribute to the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and language technologies for low-resource languages. Umeh, a…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (825+ words) An artificial intelligence-powered innovation capable of reducing Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) acquisition time by up to 90 per cent has won the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Science and Innovation (NPSI). The innovation, GenScan AI, also known as GenMRI/C-MORE, was developed by…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (285+ words) The Abuja Master Plan must not be subordinated to plot-allocation pressures, writes PAT ONUKWULI Abuja was conceived as the triumph of planning over disorder. Yet after recent deluges turned Wuse II, Maitama, Gudu, Lokogoma, Wuye and major arterial roads into…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (396+ words) You are an award-winning Data & AI Leader, entrepreneur, educator and public speaker. What sparked your journey into the world of data and artificial intelligence? You founded AI Every Time, described as the world’s first 24/7 AI newsroom and AI content hub....

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (354+ words) The Lagos workshop, attended by more than 60 participants, took place weeks after a stakeholders’ engagement in Abuja. At the workshop, CcHub facilitator, Gbanaibolulou Burutolu, took participants through the identification and assessment of innovation hubs. He explained that the defining characteristics…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (935+ words) Environmental activist and President of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), Nnimmo Bassey, has warned that the reported death of at least 37 people at Okrika in Rivers State has exposed the deepening environmental and public health crisis confronting communities…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (566+ words) Nigeria’s vultures are facing a worsening extinction threat, with illegal killing, poisoning and trafficking of their body parts driving a sharp population decline, the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has warned. The Foundation, marking International Vulture Awareness Day 2026, called for urgent…...