Author: nuus.ng reporters

As a new week begins, PUNCH Online brings you some of the major stories making headlines across health, security, politics, metro and business. The Federal Government has warned heads of public institutions against inflated contracts and procurement violations, threatening sanctions for breaches of the Public Procurement Act. Meanwhile, the Independent National Electoral Commission has flagged

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The Independent National Electoral Commission has flagged 268 records in its preliminary Register of Voters for suspected artificial intelligence-generated photographs and other irregularities, as it begins a process to clean up the database ahead of the 2027 general elections. The commission’s Director of Information and Communication Technology, Lawrence Bayode, disclosed this on Channels Television’s Sunday

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China’s state broadcaster CCTV has refused to air a Real Madrid match despite an apology from French striker Kylian Mbappé over his controversial remarks about the late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, according to the BBC on Monday. The decision came on Sunday as Real Madrid faced Racing Santander in a La Liga fixture, which they

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The Nigeria Customs Service is deploying Artificial Intelligence and digital intelligence tools to combat fake news and online scams that threaten its reputation. Comptroller-General of Customs, Bashir Adeniyi, disclosed the move in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the service’s spokesperson, Deputy Comptroller Abdullahi Maiwada. Adeniyi spoke at the 2026 Nigerian Council of

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