STATEHOUSE PRESS RELEASE PRESIDENT TINUBU CONGRATULATES KOLA ADESINA ON HIS BIRTHDAY President Bola Ahmed Tinubu warmly congratulates Mr Kola Adesina, renowned entrepreneur, energy-sector leader, and Group Managing Director of Sahara Group, on his birthday, August 12. In a birthday tribute, President Tinubu acknowledges Adesina's outstanding contributions to Nigeria's private sector over the past 25 years, especially his pivotal role in advancing investment, entrepreneurship and innovation in the nation's energy sector. President Tinubu notes Adesina's distinguished leadership as Chairman of the Board of Ikeja Electric and Egbin Power, along with his stewardship at Sahara Group, which have significantly advanced the growth and development of Nigeria’s energy sector and fostered greater private sector participation. The President also commends Mr Adesina’s commitment to nation-building, describing his career as a testimony to the vital role Nigerian entrepreneurs and business leaders play in driving economic growth, creating opportunities, and supporting national development. "As you celebrate your birthday, I commend your remarkable journey in entrepreneurship and your enduring commitment to Nigeria's economic development. Your contributions to the energy sector and the wider business community remain worthy of recognition," the President says. President Tinubu wishes Adesina continued good health, wisdom and fulfilment, praying that Almighty God will grant him many more years of productive service to humanity and the nation. Bayo Onanuga Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy) August 11, 2026

🦈 Before that press release goes live, why not test it against "hundreds of public voices" first? A slightly futuristic engine now simulates an entire crowd's reaction for $1 in 10 minutes. Title: aaronjmars/MiroShark URL: 📦 Overview MiroShark is a "Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine." For any scenario—a press release, a news headline, a policy draft, or a question—it simulates in real time how hundreds of AI agents would react. The agents post, argue, trade, and shift their positions as simulated time passes. ❓ Challenges Solved Organizations want to test how the real public will receive an idea before committing resources. MiroShark removes the need for lengthy focus groups and expensive market research, enabling validation for under $1 in less than 10 minutes. 💡 How It Works It runs in five phases. ・Generate an ontology from the input documents ・Build a Neo4j knowledge graph of entity relationships ・Ground 100+ personas using demographics, web enrichment, and graph attributes ・Have agents interact hourly across Twitter, Reddit, and prediction markets ・Generate reports that cite the actual simulated posts and trades Posts are ingested via NER, embeddings, and entity resolution, then retrieved by fusing vector, BM25, and graph traversal. 🎯 Use Cases ・PR crisis testing and market-reaction forecasting ・Ad campaign pre-testing and policy impact analysis ・Personal decision scenarios and historical counterfactuals You can also inject breaking news mid-run, or fork a running simulation (counterfactual branching). 📊 Highlights ・1.3k GitHub stars and 265 forks, AGPL-3.0 licensed ・Each simulation runs at roughly $1, about 10 minutes, with 100+ agents ・Python backend, Vue.js frontend, Neo4j database; LLMs via OpenRouter (local Ollama also supported) #AIAgents# #Simulation#

A tax agency once lost $4.8 MILLION because it accidentally published the private keys in a press release On February 26 the South Korean National Tax Service wrapped up an enforcement against 124 high value tax delinquents, walking away with 8.1 billion won in seized crypto The agency then published a press release showcasing the confiscated assets. Among the photos were the seized Ledger hardware wallets with the handwritten seed phrases sitting right next to them. Within hours, one of the exposed wallets was drained On chain data shows the thief first deposited a small amount of ETH to cover gas fees, then moved 4 million PRTG tokens worth $4.8 million to a fresh address in three transactions A blockchain professor at Hansung University traced the transactions and called the leak "an advertisement inviting people to take your money" The NTS deleted the press release, but the pattern around it is even worse In January, prosecutors in Gwangju lost over $48 million in seized Bitcoin to phishing A month later a Seoul police station discovered 22 Bitcoin seized back in 2021 had vanished from a cold wallet, because the suspects kept a copy of the recovery phrase and simply took the evidence back Three crypto custody failures in two months involving more than $50 million in seized assets Seoul's answer was a national audit of every government held wallet and a plan to hand seized crypto to private custodians, an admission that the state cannot even keep its own funds safe

Woah! @Nubank just got authorization to become a bank in Mexico. 15% of Mexican adults were already Nu customers before it was legally a bank. The numbers from the press release: - 15 million customers, adding 12,000 per day (!!!) - $5.9bn in deposits - 54% of customers got their first-ever credit card from Nu - Breakeven in Q1 2026, with the efficiency ratio improving 78 percentage points - A projected $4.2bn investment in Mexico through 2030 Nubank is a monster. Just a monster. And the detail that got me: Nu built all of this on a SOFIPO license, a wrapper originally designed for community savings co-ops. The company calls the conversion "unprecedented" because no SOFIPO has ever transformed into a bank before. Nu is the first. Which makes Mexico arguably the most competitive digital banking market anywhere right now. Revolut launched its first bank outside Europe there in January. Plata (built by the ex-Tinkoff team, now a $3.1bn valuation) got its de novo license in February. Ualá and Klar bought theirs. Santander launched Openbank. Hey Banco spun out of Banregio. Every region's neobank war produced a winner, and those winners have never fought each other on the same turf. Brazil's champion, Europe's most aggressive fintech, the Tinkoff diaspora, Argentina's Ualá. Mexico is the first market where all the playbooks collide. Nubank enters that fight with 15 million customers, a deposit book, and breakeven economics. What I wonder about is the next product. A bank license unlocks nómina, and payroll is how Mexican banks lock customers in. Whoever wins payroll wins the market. And Nubank's take on that could be fascinating.

Robinhood Chain is already cooking. A few launches in, liquidity is showing up, builders are shipping, and people are finally paying attention. This is exactly how new ecosystems start. Not with a press release. With markets. If you're building AI and thinking about launching, stop waiting for the "perfect time." Come launch where attention is growing. Robinhood Chain 🤝 Virtuals We're just getting started. onwards

BREAKING: SpaceX will join the Nasdaq-100 Index before market open on Tuesday, July 7, 2026, Nasdaq announced (Source: Nasdaq press release, June 26, 2026). Index funds and ETFs tracking the Nasdaq-100 will begin buying SPCX shares after market close on Monday, July 6. The Nasdaq-100 is tracked by more than 200 investment products with over $800 billion in assets under management worldwide. This is one of the fastest Nasdaq-100 inclusions in recent history. SpaceX went public on June 12, just 25 days before inclusion. SpaceX will join Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla and Meta in the index.