On Thursday, August 7, 2025, OpenAI released GPT-5, the latest iteration of its ChatGPT platform, describing it as a “generally intelligent” model with significant advancements in coding, writing, healthcare, and other domains, available free to all 700 million weekly users, with premium tiers (Plus, Pro) offering enhanced capabilities, per CNBC and Reuters. CEO Sam Altman, […]
On Thursday, August 7, 2025, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NiHSA) issued a flood alert warning of heavy flooding risks in 198 Local Government Areas (LGAs) across 31 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) from August 7 to August 21, 2025, due to rising river levels and persistent rainfall, as reported by SolaceBase and […]
A commercial dispute between IHS Towers, a major telecom infrastructure provider, and the Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria (NOGASA), escalated by the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), threatens to disrupt telecom services across Nigeria. On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, NUPENG and NOGASA blocked diesel access to IHS-operated depots […]
On Wednesday, August 6, 2025, staff members of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU) in Anambra State called on Governor Chukwuma Soludo to appoint a substantive Vice-Chancellor (VC) to end the ongoing leadership vacuum, as reported by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The statement, signed by Professors Peter Okonkwo, Stephen Unachukwu, and Mbanefo Odum, follows […]
On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, Mr. Cletus Obun Mbia, a former lawmaker and All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, criticized Mr. Peter Obi’s pledge to serve a single four-year term if elected president in 2027, calling it an unconvincing political stunt during an interview on Trust TV’s Daily Politics. Mbia, a Cross River APC leader, rejected […]
According to a Swiss Re report released on Wednesday, August 6, 2025, natural disasters in the first half of 2025 resulted in $135 billion in global economic losses, a 9.8% increase from $123 billion in the first half of 2024, with insured losses reaching $80 billion, the second-highest for any first half since 1980. The […]
On Wednesday, August 6, 2025, dozens of civil society organizations (CSOs) supportive of the Julius Abure-led faction of the Labour Party (LP) staged a peaceful protest at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) headquarters in Abuja, demanding the inclusion of LP candidates in the August 16, 2025, bye-elections across 12 states and the Federal Capital […]
On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) announced it has severed all ties with the Church in Wales following the appointment of Bishop Cherry Vann, an openly lesbian cleric, as the 15th Archbishop of Wales on July 7, 2025. The decision, declared by Primate Most Reverend Henry Ndukuba during the opening […]
On Monday, August 4, 2025, tensions flared between the Igede-speaking communities of Oju and Obi Local Government Areas (LGAs) and their Tiv neighbors in Gwer East and Konshisha LGAs in Benue State, following the killing of two Igede youths, Jonathan Ogah and Gabriel Ogodo, on the Oju-Awajir road. The duo, one recently married, were ambushed […]
On Wednesday, July 30, 2025, seven farmers abducted from their farmland in Itaogbolu, Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, on Saturday, July 26, 2025, were released after five days in captivity, as confirmed by a relative of one victim to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday, August 1, 2025. The kidnappers […]