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Group Defends Gov. Mutfwang, Faults Margif Over ‘Silence on Bokkos Attacks’ Claim

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11 months ago

August 12, 2025

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A group under the banner of the Vanguard for the Voice of Reasoning has dismissed allegations by former Plateau State Labour Party governorship candidate, Chief Yohanna Margif, accusing Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang of remaining silent as Fulani militias attack communities in Bokkos Local Government Area.

Margif, the Waziri Mushere, had in a recent statement alleged that Governor Mutfwang had abandoned his community while Fulani herders continued to kill residents, displace communities, and seize their lands.

Responding in a statement on Monday, Vanguard Chairman James Buba described Margif’s accusations as “false and baseless,” insisting the governor has never been silent on the violence in Bokkos or other parts of the state.

Buba accused Margif of neglecting his own people for over a year, failing to visit or commiserate with them despite repeated deadly assaults.

“It is shocking to hear Mr. Yohanna Margif, who has abandoned his people for several years, accuse Governor Mutfwang of being silent over the attacks,” Buba said. “If there is any governor Plateau State has produced who has stood firmly with his people, it is Governor Mutfwang. Idle minds and shortsighted individuals like Margif should not be allowed to mislead the public with unfounded claims.”

According to the group, Governor Mutfwang visited Mushere and other affected communities on June 22, 2025, to console victims, restore hope, and deliver relief materials. It also noted that the governor recently sent a high-powered delegation led by the Speaker of the Plateau State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Naanlong Daniel Gapyil, to Mushere to ensure the speedy completion of a bridge project.

Buba further condemned Margif’s comments as “unguided and self-serving,” alleging that he has been “living comfortably in Abuja while ignoring the pains and sufferings of his people.”

While expressing sympathy for Mushere residents over the sustained violence by armed herdsmen, the Vanguard urged the community to remain resilient in defending themselves. It also called on security agencies to live up to their constitutional duty of protecting lives and property—or allow communities to defend their land.

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SEC Halts Promotion of Unapproved Dangote Refinery IPO, Warns Investors

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13 minutes ago

June 23, 2026

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BY NKECHI NAECHE-ESEZOBOR—The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has directed an immediate halt to all marketing and promotional activities relating to a purported Initial Public Offering (IPO) by Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals FZE, warning investors that the offer has neither been filed with nor approved by the regulator.

In a public notice issued on Tuesday, the Commission said it had become aware of advertisements, digital campaigns, flyers, and targeted emails circulating across social media and investment platforms promoting an alleged public share offering by the refinery.

According to the SEC, no application for the registration of an IPO or any public offer of shares by Dangote Refinery has been submitted to or cleared by the Commission.

The regulator expressed concern over reports that some Registered Capital Market Operators (CMOs) were actively soliciting subscriptions and collecting investor commitments for the purported offer.

It described the activities as misleading and capable of creating false market expectations, information asymmetry, and risks to the integrity of Nigeria’s capital market.

The Commission noted that invitations encouraging investors to create accounts, pre-fund subscriptions, or secure guaranteed share allocations amounted to market manipulation and constituted serious violations of the Investments and Securities Act.

Consequently, the SEC directed all registered market operators, including stockbrokers and digital investment platforms, to immediately cease the publication, distribution, or promotion of any materials related to the alleged offering.

The regulator also ordered operators to remove all unauthorized promotional content from websites, social media platforms, and messaging channels within 24 hours of the notice.

In addition, the Commission instructed operators to stop accepting deposits, account openings, expressions of interest, or any form of commitment linked to the purported IPO. Any funds already collected from investors in connection with the offering must be refunded within 24 hours.

The SEC warned that failure to comply with the directive would attract sanctions under the Investments and Securities Act, 2025, and the Commission’s Rules and Regulations.

The regulator advised investors to exercise caution and rely solely on official communications issued through SEC-approved channels when considering investment opportunities.

It further urged members of the public to disregard high-pressure marketing tactics and requests for fund transfers tied to any “pre-IPO” placement, stressing that such activities have not received regulatory approval.

The Commission assured investors that should Dangote Refinery eventually submit and obtain approval for a public offering, an official prospectus would be released in accordance with the provisions of the Investments and Securities Act, 2025.

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Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

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15 minutes ago

June 23, 2026

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Anthropic is introducing Claude Tag in research preview, an “always-on Claude” that lives in Slack and acts as an AI teammate. The new feature — which allows users to tag @Claude to provide insights in chats and assign tasks — will begin in research preview, available through Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team customers.

Claude Tag is an evolution of several integrations that already exist. Users can already DM @Claude within Slack or tag it in channels for on-demand help, and Claude Code in Slack routes coding tasks from channel mentions to full coding sessions on the web, posting updates back into the thread.

But Claude Tag adds a layer of persistent context and memory that would be difficult to maintain with previous tools. “As Claude follows along with its channel, it learns ever more about the work,” reads a statement from Anthropic. “Claude can also automatically gather facts from elsewhere in the organization, if it’s granted permission to read other channels.”

With Claude Tag, everyone in a given Slack channel can access a single Claude identity, meaning “anyone can see what Claude has been working on, and can pick up the conversation from where the last person left off.” System administrators will specify which tools, information, and channels Claude can access, and each Claude identity will stay scoped to whichever channels the admins define, so that a Claude set up for legal work can’t seed memories into the engineering channel, for example.

When assigned a specific task, Claude Tag will break down the task into stages and will work through them using whichever tools it has access to, responding in a Slack thread with what it has created. But Claude Tag also features an ambient mode that proactively jumps into the chat of its own accord to keep your team updated, flag things from across the organization, and follow up on threads or tasks that have been forgotten.

Anthropic says this makes it feel like you’re “working with a real colleague — one that can produce work in public view, with far greater context and understanding than before.”

That context is an increasingly critical part of enterprise deployments, and Anthropic isn’t the only company focused on it. Microsoft also has Graph, expressed through Copilot and Work IQ. Snowflake and Databricks are positioning their platforms as the back-end support containing tacit organizational knowledge that agents can tap into. Glean is also building an intelligence layer that understands company context and sits between the model and the enterprise data.

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