Details of Tuesday’s arrest remain sketchy, but police confirmed that officers from their Force Intelligence Department and Intelligence Response Team were involved. The suspect is expected to be transferred to the police headquarters in Abuja for further questioning. Police launched a search for Adeyemi after allegations about the PFIPC emerged last week. Tinubu’s office said
To do what the PFIPC did, an agency in Nigeria must pass through some of the most powerful offices in government: the secretary to the government of the federation; in fact, the chief administrator of the government, the head of the civil service, the accountant general who controls the public accounts, the budget office and,
Google’s SynthID system has been used to debunk a high-profile AI-generated fake image, in a rare but significant victory for the system. Earlier this week, an image circulated online that appeared to show Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell covered in tubes in a hospital bed in a state of extreme distress. The image was widely shared
Nigeria’s president has ordered a corruption investigation into allegations that a fictitious government agency was created within his own office, with public funding worth $950,000 (£700,000). According to the presidency, the letter from the president’s chief of staff creating the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC) had been forged. Police have launched a manhunt for
The United States, however, has continued to tighten the screws. In late May, it launched an investigation to determine whether Vietnam’s failure to eradicate intellectual property violations was “unreasonable” and problematic for U.S. trade. So the Vietnamese authorities tightened their own screws. On June 10, police in Thanh Hoa province dismantled a network that manufactured