The Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Christopher Musa, has warned the people of the South-East against propagating the activities of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and its armed wing, the Eastern Security Network, ESN, on the social media.

Musa, while speaking at a community engagement in Omor, Anambra East Local Government Area of Anambra State, stressed that the spread of unverified information not only endangers the region but also poses a threat to national unity and peace.

Represented by Group Captain Ibrahim Bukar, Deputy Director of Defence Media Operations, the CDS visited the Obi Eze Ana-Uku, Eze Igulube of Omor, as part of a people-centric diplomatic outreach within the Operation Udoka Area of Responsibility.

The defence chief stated that IPOB’s actions are detrimental not just to the South East, but to Nigeria as a whole, and should not be supported in any form.

The CDS condemned the trend of circulating false or harmful narratives pushed by IPOB and other outlawed groups, stressing that restoring security in the region requires the active cooperation of the local population.

“People should have trust in the military, because the military belongs to them. They should always provide us with actionable information.

“When you see something, say something. It is only through such cooperation that we can effectively tackle insecurity and restore peace,” he said.

He reassured the community of the military’s impartial role in maintaining peace and order.

A Melbourne cleaning company director has lost out on thousands of dollars after using artificial intelligence to help write a series of emails.

The business boss had hoped to improve his firm’s productivity, but one mistake alone cost it more than $2000 when he failed to pick up on the blunder.

End of Lease Cleaning Melbourne director Michael had introduced a generative AI tool to speed up the time it would take for his team to respond to customer emails.

Rather than have employees type out individual lists of cleaning services, they would input information such as the type of service required and let the tool do the rest.

The AI-powered tool would then generate an email that included the services, their costs and a job quote for each customer.

But the tool produced several emails with mistakes which were not picked up by the cleaning company’s employees.

‘We lost quite a lot of money,’ Michael told 9news.au.

The AI tool mistakenly listed different services to the ones required without changing the quotes to reflect the higher prices.

A cleaning company director lost out on over $2,000 after an AI tool to write emails (stock)

Michael and his team were forced to provide full wall cleans, priced between $500 to $700 for the price of a spot wall clean which is significantly lower.

The company’s most-costly mistake involved the director using the AI tool to generate a quote for property that required a deep clean worth around $2,000.

Michael read over the generated email but failed to spot several mistakes within the correspondence.

He didn’t spot the errors until a week later, by which time it was too late to correct them as the customer had signed up to a different company.

After the $2,000 mistake, End of Lease Cleaning Melbourne’s employees no longer use AI for business correspondence.

The response time for returning customers’ emails has now returned to five hours, the time it had previously taken prior to introducing the AI tool.

‘If you are using AI, you definitely need to read everything two to three times before you send that email,’ he added.

Almost half of all Australians use generative AI, according to a survey Google conducted with IPSOS in January.

According to a survey, around 65 percent of Australian workers said their employer had introduced AI in the workplace (stock)

Out of that 50 percent, almost 75 percent of those report using it for work.

In a separate survey carried out by HR platform Workday, around 65 percent of Australian workers stated their employer had introduced AI in the workplace.

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The embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the European Union, EU, and United States, US, to conduct an impartial investigation into state sponsored insecurity in the Southeast.

Kanu made the call during a meeting with his legal team to address Nigerian government’s alleged attempts to manipulate public opinion ahead of his trial on April 29, 2025.

He highlighted concerns over deliberate efforts to falsely link IPOB members to fabricated raids in Imo and Anambra States.

In a post by his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, Kanu described these raids as state-sponsored tactics to deflect attention from global campaigns for his release.

According to Ejimakor: “Today, April 23, 2025, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu met with his legal team to address the Nigerian government’s alleged attempts to manipulate public opinion ahead of his trial on April 29, 2025.

“Onyendu MNK highlighted concerns over deliberate efforts to falsely link the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to fabricated raids in Imo and Anambra, describing these as state-sponsored tactics to deflect attention from global campaigns for his release.

“In response, Kanu has instructed his lawyers to formally engage the United States and the European Union to conduct an impartial investigation into the wave of state-sponsored insecurity in Southeast Nigeria. We remain committed to truth and justice. #FreeNnamdiKanu.”

This comes as IPOB described the reports claiming that the Finnish government will extradite self-acclaimed Prime Minister of Biafra, Simon Ekpa to Nigeria to face terrorism charges as a manipulation ahead of Kanu’s trial.

IPOB claimed that the APC-led federal government’s manipulated false narrative was ill-timed, adding that Ekpa is not a member of the group.

It was widely reported that the Finnish authorities had confirmed that Ekpa will be extradited to Nigeria in July 2025 to face terrorism related charges.

The decision was said to have followed months of diplomatic negotiations and legal proceedings between Nigeria and Finland, marking a significant step in addressing the unrest linked to Ekpa’s activities in Nigeria’s southeast.

Ekpa was arrested in Lahti, Finland, in November 2024 by the Finish Police who accused him of using social media platforms to incite violence against Nigerians. Four others were also detained for allegedly financing his activities alongside Ekpa.

The Päijät-Häme District Court in Lahti finalized the extradition order on April 18, 2025, setting July 15 as the tentative date for Ekpa’s transfer to Nigeria.