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We suspended Chief Judge, we didn't remove her – Osun Speaker

View this email in your browser Headlines We suspended Chief Judge, we didn't remove her – Osun Speaker The Osun State Speaker, during an emergency plenary, said the suspension was based on series of petitions received by the assembly against the Chief Judge. Read More We are expanding our newsletter offering and would like to know what newsletters you, our loyal readers, would be interested in receiving from PREMIUM TIMES. Kindly fill in this survey. It should take no longer than five (5) minutes to complete. Thank you! TAKE THE SURVEY! It's Official: Joseph Boakai wins Liberia's presidential election Mr Boakai garnered 814,481 votes of the available 1,625,684 votes cast in the run-off election in Liberia. Again, CBN postpones MPC meeting This is the second time in three months the CBN monetary policy committee meeting would be postponed. Why aren't sanctions preventing coups in Africa? 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Annual Banking Report - Measuring Banks' Resilience Business Investment Environment: Why Nigeria has advantage over other nations – Tinubu President Tinubu said apart from Nigeria's abundant natural resources, its citizens are "highly educated, highly skilled, and naturally industrious…" Former OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, gets new job The former Chief Executive and Co-founder of OpenAI, Sam Altman, will join Microsoft to lead a new advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) research team. Editorial cartoon of the day Arts and Entertainment MOVIE REVIEW: Magenta Coal: Promising series crashlands at tail end In the quest to present an unravelable mystery, the plot twists into a knot so tight it is hard to follow. INTERVIEW: How President Tinubu can alleviate hunger, suffering in Nigeria – Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo "The challenge of this administration is like a man who received a DHL parcel and the item was already damaged; DHL would write on the item, 'Damaged on Arrival." Opinion What I fear about generative AI, By Uddin Ifeanyi Luckily, hallucinating generative AI is fixable by human editors. What is not likely to be fixable is when these new models, without any limitations or biases in the data on which they are trained or kinks in the algorithm that is to be trained, knowingly produce untruths. That, incidentally, is mankind's special gift. And only then, not before the technology singularity or after, will technology begin to threaten mankind's dominance of this big blue marble. George Weah's ways, By Dakuku Peterside George Weah made history in 1995 when he was named African, European, and FIFA World Player of the Year, thus becoming the first and only African footballer to win the prestigious FIFA Player of the Year award. Before that time, precisely in 1989, he was named African Footballer of the Year. In 1996, he was named African Footballer of the Century in what seems like a crowning glory. But George Weah had a date with Destiny. He transposed his success in the football field to the political field when he was elected in 2017 the president of Liberia, defeating the then-incumbent Vice President Joseph Boakai and succeeding Mama Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Sports Colombia 2024: Falconets edge Tanzania 3-2 on aggregate to reach final round The Nigeria U-20 women's team is through to the final round of World Cup qualifiers where they will face Burundi. 2023 ECOWAS Abuja International Marathon holds December 16 For this year's race, the start point for the Half Marathon is the ECOWAS Secretariat while the 5km race will be starting at the Nnamdi Azikwe Express Way. Health Nigerian govt indicts hospital's Chief Medical Director for job racketeering The statement termed the conduct of the teaching hospital chief and his accomplices as a "flagrant abuse of extant rules and regulations." 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