The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has arrested two candidates and a parent over the alleged forgery of 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results using Artificial Intelligence and other electronic tools. The board disclosed this while announcing the release of results for 632,788 candidates who sat the exa...
Vice Chancellor of Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State, Professor Haruna Ayuba, has tasked academic staff and postgraduate students to engage in the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence(AI) in their academic research work and writing. Prof. Ayuba stated this recently at a two-day training programme for postgraduate students and academic...
Google yesterday unveiled a new iteration of its professional Gemini AI suite geared toward online retail, seeking to create seamless interactions for shoppers from product searches to customer service. Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience (CX) will “use complex reasoning to understand intent and execute multi-step tasks on behalf of a cu...
A fact-check report by Reuters has said that the circulating social media reports on a fire outbreak at the Central Bank of Nigeria’s headquarters in Abuja was an AI-generated image. The report comes following the denial of the fire by the apex bank. The CBN had said claims that fire engulfed its head office in […]
•Asake and Wizkid Nigerian music stars Wizkid and Asake have shared their thoughts on Artificial Intelligence and its growing role in the creative industry during an Instagram session titled, “For Friends Only.” The clip, which has gone viral, showed the duo speaking casually about technology, music, and the future of performance. During the s...
•2024 NYSC Orientation Camp The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) said it is overhauling its Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) training for corps members through standardisation of the curriculum for deeper impact. A statement by the body said the Director General (DG) of the Scheme, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, ...
•AI, Headphone and music icon on a mobile phone display Britain’s music industry contributed £8 billion ($10.5 billion) to the UK economy in 2024, but the effects of Brexit and AI have clouded the sector’s outlook, an industry report showed yesterday. UK tours by Taylor Swift and Take That helped lift the industry’s contribution to […]...
The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has warned doctors, especially newly qualified professionals, against over-reliance on Artificial Intelligence, saying it neither has the logical reasoning nor empathy they have garnered in their training. This is as former Rivers State Governor, Dr Peter Odili, appealed to the federal government to re...
A Commonwealth Bank employee has revealed she was sacked after 25 years, unaware that she had been helping train AI to take over her role. Bank teller Kathryn Sullivan, 63, said she was completely unaware that her work was preparing a chatbot to replace her before being made redundant in July, ending a long career […]
•Tertiary institution students in Nigeria The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ajibola Bashiru, has raised concern over the growing trend of students relying on Artificial Intelligence tools to write their academic projects, warning that the development threatens the originality and human depth of scholarship. Bashi...
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