Foreign

Elon Musk Weighs in on South African Anti-Apartheid Song Controversy

Ihesiulo Grace 29 March 2025 0

A decades-old struggle song, once a rallying cry against apartheid, had resurfaced, stirring the embers of South Africa’s painful history. The lyrics, once whispered in defiance and chanted in the streets, were now at the center of a fiery national debate. It began when a viral clip showed a

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Senator Rand Paul Backs Elon Musk for House Speaker

Ihesiulo Grace 22 December 2024 0

United States Senator for Kentucky, Rand Paul, has endorsed Elon Musk as the next Speaker of the House. Senator Paul hinted this in a statement on his official X account on Thursday. According to him, the speaker of the House does not need to be a Congress member “The Speaker of the House need not […]

Foreign

Elon Musk named world richest man, beats Bill Gates, Zuckerberg

Ihesiulo Grace 15 August 2023 0

Global data body, the World of Statistics, has released the list of the top richest persons in the world. Twitter X CEO, Elon Musk, remains the most richest person in the world with a staggering $224 billion dollars in net worth. The popular business magnate and investor is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology […]

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Twitter: Elon Musk adds audio, video calling features

Ihesiulo Grace 10 May 2023 0

Twitter owner, Elon Musk has announced some major feature additions to the microblogging platform. He said Twitter will get video, audio calls and encrypted chat features soon. He disclosed this in a tweet on Wednesday morning. Musk said with the latest version of Twitter, users can reply to any message in a thread. He said […]

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Elon Musk removes Davido, Wizkid, Burna Boy, other’s verification badges

Ihesiulo Grace 21 April 2023 0

Microblogging site, Twitter has stripped notable Nigerian musicians of their Legacy verification tick. The microblogging platform, on Thursday, removed the verification badges of the Nigerian singers, Burna Boy, Davido, Wizkid and Peter Okoye. Recall that Twitter owner, Elon Musk, had in March, in a tweet accompanied by links to subscribe to the premium program, hinted

Business

How $4m daily losses trigger Twitter’s massive sack

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2022 0

By Motolani Oseni Following the massive layoffs embarked upon by the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, facts have emerged that the company was losing not less than $4 million on a daily basis, due to its huge workforce. Before Elon Musk’s takeover, Twitter is said to have had 8,000 workforce, out of which 3,700 […]

Tech Technology

Gigafactory: Elon Musk visits Germany, meets with state leaders

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2021 0

Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Brandenburg’s leadership on Wednesday evening, according to its Economy Minister Joerg Steinbach on Twitter. Brandenburg is the German state where the company’s 5.8 billion euro ($6.9 billion) European gigafactory is being built. Steinbach, who posted a picture of Musk along with the tweet, said the meeting was also attended […]

Business

Tesla chair sells shares worth more than $22 mln

Ihesiulo Grace 5 August 2021 0

According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) chair Robyn Denholm sold more than $22 million worth of stock after exercising stock options (SEC). Denholm sold 31,250 shares at weighted average prices ranging from $703 to $726.200 in transactions that took place on Aug. 2, according to the filing […]

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Jeff Bezos overtakes Elon Musk as world richest man

Ihesiulo Grace 17 February 2021 0

Jeff Bezos has reclaimed his title as the richest person in the world, ending the roughly six-week reign of Elon Musk atop the list. After Tesla’s (TSLA) shares fell 2.4 percent, Musk lost about $ 4.5 billion on Tuesday, which was enough to knock him to second place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking.  As […]

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Elon Musk’s partner, Gimes, explains meaning of new born child’s name, “X Æ A-12”

Ihesiulo Grace 6 May 2020 0

Canadian singer, Gimes has confirmed that she and partner Elon Musk have named their newborn son, X Æ A-12. The 32-year-old singer, who gave birth to couple’s first child on Monday, took to Twitter to reveal the meaning of their son’s bizarre name.  X [represents] the unknown variable,’ Grimes wrote, referring to the first letter […]

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Tesla stock sinks 12 per cent after Musk tweets price is ‘too high’

Ihesiulo Grace 2 May 2020 0

Tesla chief Elon Musk posted several bizarre tweets on Friday, including one saying the electric carmaker’s stock was overpriced, leading to a nearly 12-per-cent sell off on US markets. Tesla stock dropped from an intra-day high of nearly 770 to 690 on the tweets. “Tesla stock price is too high imo,” Musk said on Twitter, using an […]

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Asking Elon Musk for ventilators is highly regrettable – Ministry

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2020 0

The Special Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mr. Yunusa Tanko Abdullahi has issued a disclaimer over the unauthorised post made with the ministry’s verified Twitter handle as regrettable and therefore brought down. The Ministry of Finance withdrawn the plea it made to a United […]

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‘Nigeria is not only the country begging Elon Musk’

Ihesiulo Grace 2 April 2020 0

Many Nigerians have taken to Twitter to criticize the Nigeria Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning for asking founder of the electronic automobile company, Tesla Inc., Elon Musk, for ventilators. @Tesla had tweeted: “We have extra FDA-approved ventilators. Will ship to hospitals worldwide within Tesla delivery regions. Device & shipping cost are free. Only

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Outspoken Tesla chief Elon Musk faces $1 billion trial, test of temperament

Ihesiulo Grace 13 March 2020 0

Elon Musk is expected to defend a $2.2 billion deal in court next week criticized by shareholders as benefiting Musk at the expense of Tesla Inc, and the outcome may depend as much on the chief executive’s temperament as on the facts of the case. The electric vehicle maker’s unconventional CEO has shown two sides […]

Business Tech

Microsoft set to invest $1bn in OpenAI

Ihesiulo Grace 23 July 2019 0

Ladesope Ladelokun with Agency Report Not less than $1 billion will be invested by Microsoft Corporation in a partnership with research group Open AI, gaining a cloud-computing customer from the artificial intelligence field. OpenAI is expected to use Microsoft Azure cloud services to train and run the group’s AI software. The two will also jointly […]