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Your phone rests on the nightstand. Your laptop lid is shut. But Gemini Spark is still working for you. Most AI assistants wait for you to speak before they do anything. You tap, you ask, you wait. Gemini Spark changes that model completely. Google’s latest AI feature is not a smarter chatbot. It is…
Armed hoodlums have attacked the Nigeria Immigration Service passport front office in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, escaping with an operational rifle and personal valuables. The assailants breached the facility at approximately 10:00 p.m. on Tuesday night during a period of low administrative activity. The gunmen overpowered the personnel deployed to secure the facility before ransacking the…
Nigeria’s economy sustained its slow climb out of stagnation during the first quarter of the year. Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed real gross domestic product expanded by 3.89 per cent year-on-year. This performance marks an improvement on the 3.13 per cent growth recorded during the same period last year. However, the…
Online shopping has always been messier than it should be. You find a product on Google Search, open the retailer’s site in a new tab, get distracted, lose the tab, and start over. Or you build a cart on one site, realise a better deal exists elsewhere, and end up juggling three browser windows and…
The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers raised the alarm on Monday over a severe supply squeeze that pushed retail cooking gas prices above N1,500 per kilogramme. The commodity recently traded under N1,000 before worsening depot bottlenecks disrupted the domestic supply chain. Depot operators have hiked bulk pricing to between N25.2 million and N26.2…
Google is back in the glasses business. And this time, the company is playing a much smarter game. At Google I/O 2026, held on May 19, Google and Samsung officially previewed the first Android XR smart glasses, giving the public its clearest look yet at what these devices will do, who is making them, and…
You have not changed what you eat. You are not eating more than usual. But your stomach is constantly distended, uncomfortable, and unpredictable. Some days, you look three months pregnant by mid-afternoon. Clothes that fit in the morning feel tight by evening. And nobody warned you this was coming. Bloating is one of the most…
Fifteen years is a long run for any product category. On May 12, 2026, exactly 15 years and one day after the first Chromebook shipped, Google ended that chapter. At The Android Show: I/O 2026 Edition, the company officially announced Aluminium OS, a new Android-based desktop operating system built to replace ChromeOS on consumer hardware….
China and Nigeria have expanded their bilateral relations through a cultural exchange programme centred on traditional tea heritage. The initiative gathered diplomats, artists, and government officials at the China Cultural Centre in Abuja on Wednesday. Dubbed the 2026 Maritime Silk Road Impressions salon, the gathering used the ancient beverage to anchor talks on people-to-people diplomacy….
Something has shifted in the health and fitness world, and the data is hard to ignore. For years, the goal was simple: lose weight. Drop the number on the scale and assume everything else will follow. But researchers, clinicians, and performance coaches are now pointing to a different marker as the better measure of long-term…
