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Delta 2023: I Have Not Endorsed Anyone – Okowa

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3 years ago

March 25, 2022

Ifeanyi Okowa, Delta State Governor has clarified his stance over reports he might have endorsed a particular candidate as his successor ahead of the 2023 elections.

In a statement, Commissioner of Information, Charles Aniagwu, in Asaba said Ifeanyi Okowa is focused on delivering dividend of democracy to the people of the state.

He noted that he had not endorsed anybody as his successor while stating that some aspirants are using his name to gain traction for their campaigns.

The statement reads, “everybody knows that the governor has recorded a number of achievements, and it is believed and rightly so that any direction he shakes his body will have a whole lot of advantage because he has been able to add a whole lot of values to the promises he made.

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“If in that light because they believe the name of the governor is capable of giving them an advantage, you can’t blame them, and we are not going to fight them for using the name of the governor because they are trying to associate themselves with what is good.

“At the end of the day, we are going to have one governorship candidate in the PDP. The governor’s pedigree is quite high and everybody wants to have that covering.

“If you go and meet him to say you want to run, you are being courteous. Naturally, he will not ask you to stop because it is assumed that you have accessed and you have the capacity to run.

“And if you believe that because he did not ask you to stop, that it is an endorsement, there is nothing wrong with it.

“So the governor hopes that anybody who is contesting will use the sanest words; have respect for one another; recognize the fact that we are one family; recognize the need for us to sustain the development trajectory in the state.”

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Police arrest Rivers pastor over alleged homosexual activities

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5 hours ago

April 3, 2025

Seyi Babalola

Detectives from the Octopus, C4i, Strike Force Unit of the Rivers State Police Command are investigating the General Overseer of a new-generation church in the Eagleland area of Diobu, Port Harcourt, over allegations of homosexuality.

The pastor, popularly known as Elijah, got into trouble after videos of him engaging in homosexual acts were leaked to the police by a man he allegedly made sexual advances toward.

A source in the area revealed that the whistleblower pretended to be the pastor’s lover in order to gather evidence.

He allegedly recorded a video of the cleric while he was engaged in romantic activities with another man and soliciting sex.

Acting on credible intelligence, operatives of the Octopus Strike Force tracked the suspect to a relaxation spot in Port Harcourt, where he was arrested and taken into custody for questioning.

An insider disclosed that the General Overseer has reportedly confessed to multiple homosexual encounters involving both adult males and minors, within and outside Port Harcourt.

Confirming the incident, the Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, Superintendent of Police Grace Iringe-Koko, stated that an investigation is ongoing.

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OpenAI finalizes $40 billion funding at $300 billion value

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2 days ago

April 1, 2025

Seyi Babalola

OpenAI on Monday said it raised $40 billion in a new funding round that valued the ChatGPT maker at $300 billion, the biggest capital-raising session ever for a startup.

The infusion of cash comes in a partnership with Japanese investment giant SoftBank Group and “enables us to push the frontiers of AI research even further,” the San Francisco-based company said in a post on its website.

“Their support will help us continue building AI systems that drive scientific discovery, enable personalized education, enhance human creativity, and pave the way toward AGI (artificial general intelligence) that benefits all of humanity,” the company said.

AGI refers to a computing platform with human-level intelligence.

SoftBank said in a release that it is on a mission to realize Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) that surpasses human intelligence, and that OpenAI is the partner closest to achieving that goal.

The advancement of OpenAI’s AI models is key to achieving AGI and ASI, and massive computing power is essential,” SoftBank stated in its rationale for the latest investment in the company.

SoftBank is to pump $10 billion into OpenAI to start, and $30 billion more by the end of this year pending certain conditions.

OpenAI plans to scale its infrastructure and “deliver increasingly powerful tools for the 500 million people who use ChatGPT every week.”