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Middle Belt Forum Endorses Peter Obi and Datti in Jos Plateau

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The Middle belt forum led a large crowd of supporters to troop out yesterday evening to receive Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi and his running mate, Mr. Yusuf Ahmed-Datti to Jos, the capital of Plateau state.

The visit which was at the instance of the Middle Belt Forum, came as national campaigns for the 2023 general elections officially kicked off on in accordance with INEC timetable.

The presidential candidate and his entourage arrived at the Rwang Pam township stadium for the rally amidst cheers from supporters who took over the entire streets of Jos.

Obi had earlier hinted of his plan to honour the invitation of the Middle Belt Forum who organised the rally in solidarity with his ambition.

He said on his tweeter handle, “Honouring the Middle Belt Forum invitation for the solidarity rally is a good avenue for me to discuss issues of national interests with like minds in the state.”

Meanwhile, speaking at a rally to welcome him, Obi has promised to end insecurity, poverty and unemployment in the Nigeria if elected in 2023.

The LP candidate, who also promised to address hunger, unemployment and corruption, said that he would promote quality of education at all
levels and improve power supply.

”If you elect me as your president, I will end provide security at all levels so that our people can go to farm and by so doing, the issue of food insecurity and hunger will be a thing of the past.

”We will create jobs for our teeming unemployed youth and end poverty. We will make our educational system functional and improve electricity supply.

”We will block all leakages and end corruption at all levels; our government will be a responsible one. We will not fail Nigerians.

”We want a new Nigeria and we are determine to make Nigerians happy again,” he said.

Obi, however, advised the people to pray for a peaceful and credible elections in 2023, adding that only credible polls would produce credible leaders.

Earlier, the Dr Pogu Bitrus, the President of Middle Belt Forum, said that the forum is in support of Obi’s candidature, insisting that Obi’s presidency would address the problems the middle belt has been faced with.

Bitrus explained that the forum had thrown its weight behind Obi based on the principle of justice and fairness.

”We didn’t arrive at the decision to support Peter Obi on sheer sentiments, but on the principle of justice and fairness.

”Again, after a careful study, we realise that Obi is competent and capable to take this nation out of its current challenges

”So, we organised this rally to show that we are fully in support of his candidature,”.he said.

Also speaking, Prophet Isa El-buba, the Convener of the Initiative for Better and Brighter Nigeria (IBBN), advised Nigerians to vote credible and responsibile leaders in 2023.

El-buba said as a preacher, he is supporting Obi because he believed he would salvage the nation from it current woes.

He, however, called on Nigerians, not to sell their votes and ensure they vote for credible candidates in the forthcoming polls.

 

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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

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Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers.

That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to Superblocks will be able to offer vibe coding to the company’s business users, and those apps will not send data or information externally to model providers or databases. The apps will spin up Amazon Aurora databases within the company’s private cloud, not, for instance, create external Supabase databases, the vibe-coding database of choice.

The apps will also integrate with Amazon Bedrock, the cloud giant’s AI app development/AI gateway/inference platform. Essentially, these apps will automatically fall under IT’s management and security, rather than be rogue applications.

“We’re going to bring it to your data inside your private cloud,” Superblocks co-founder and CEO Brad Menezes tells TechCrunch of vibe coding. “The big thing about that is data never leaves. … It’s their AWS account and basically secure with all of the auditing, all of the encryption, all of the network controls.”

AWS will also help sell Superblocks to enterprises as it does for many of its Marketplace partners. “We support partners where we see strong customer demand and alignment with how customers want to build,” an AWS spokesperson tells TechCrunch.

Still, AWS does not yet have its own vibe-coding agent aimed at business users. It has Kiro, an AI coding agent aimed at developers, but it’s not a vibe coder. Amazon also has an AI assistant, Quick, for business users. But again, that’s more like a Claude Cowork or Microsoft Copilot, rather than a Lovable or Replit.

So this should be a nice boost for early-stage Superblocks, which has 50 employees and raised a total of $60 million as of its Series A, announced in May 2025, backed by Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Meritech Capital, and Greenoaks.

Yet, it’s actually a more significant symbol than that. It’s part of a growing trend where the hyperscaler cloud providers urge their enterprise customers to separate their AI models from all the other scaffolding needed to run enterprise AI and do so on their clouds. They want enterprises to buy AI harnesses (aka agentic apps), AI orchestration, security tools, and the like from them, and not from the frontier providers.

In the past few weeks, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been banging the drum with exactly that message. He’s been telling his many enterprise customers to use multiple models to reduce costs and avoid lock-in. He’s also been preaching that the AI labs are not trustworthy enough to turn to for agent orchestration or app-level harnesses because they may use that data to study a business and later compete with it.

Enterprises perhaps don’t need such warnings. They have already decided to adopt multiple models, particularly frontier Chinese open-weight options. “That is flipped because 60 days ago they were like, I want a specific model. It’s called Anthropic,” Menezes adds.

Open models, for instance, accounted for 29% of all traffic routed through Vercel’s AI gateway last month, a popular tool among enterprises to manage multi-model AI use.

Then, by necessity, all of their AI scaffolding can’t be tied to one provider.

“Having a multi-model strategy across big frontier labs, OpenAI, Anthropic, and open source — and I’d say Chinese open source right now, but also U.S. open source is now starting to come up. It’s a must-have for the CIO,” he says. They want model choice for coding as well as customer service, HR, [and] sales automation, he adds.

Menezes says the movement is so strong, he predicts that “any enterprise that is betting on a single model provider, that executive will be fired.”

So now, we’re seeing the cloud providers bring vibe coding for business users into private, secure clouds, too. That’s like a potential second wave after bringing AI coding agents for enterprise developers. “It’s an emerging category with real momentum, and exactly the kind of innovation we support,” AWS tells TechCrunch.

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2027: Come, tell Nigerians primary, secondary school you attended – Kalu challenges Tinubu

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A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Kalu Kalu, has challenged President Bola Tinubu to tell Nigerians the primary and secondary schools he attended.

Kalu threw the challenge to the President on Monday while appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today.

His challenge stems from the publication of the credentials and personal particulars of presidential candidates ahead of the 2027 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

DAILY POST recalls that Tinubu did not list his primary and secondary school qualifications in the educational details section of the personal particulars he submitted to INEC for the 2027 presidential election.

Reacting, Kalu said, “Come and tell Nigerians which primary and secondary schools you attended.

“Even in 2022, in the INEC document he submitted, he claimed he had a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate.

“And the name on that certificate was Bola Adekunle Tinubu. So where did he get ‘Adekunle’ from? He claimed he graduated, but the certificate was forged.”

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