NGE-Jakande Lecture 2026: All roads lead to Sheraton - ITREALMS

All roads lead to the Sheraton Hotel in Ikeja, Lagos, today, July 23, 2026, as media executives, policymakers, civil society leaders, and academia converge for the 4th Lateef Jakande Memorial Lecture organized by the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), reports ITREALMS.

Starting at 11:00 AM, this prestigious annual event honors the enduring legacy of the late Alhaji Lateef Jakande; pioneer NGE President, former Lagos State Governor, and former Minister of Works, while tackling critical national discourse on governance and the role of the press.

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AI ‘Driving Test’ for our roads, loading - ITREALMS

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​​​​A new ITU Focus Group on 'AI for autonomous and assisted driving' will work towards the establishment of international standards to monitor and assess the performance of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) 'Drivers' steering automated vehicles, reports ITREALMS.

The group, ITREALMS gathered, is open to all interested parties and is expected to build public trust in automated vehicles as the prerequisite to their success in reducing the 1.3 million deaths on roads each year.

Also, the Focus Group's primary objective is to validate the driving behaviour of automated vehicles so as to present evidence to justify this public trust.

Its ultimate aim is to meet the public expectation that:

• AI never engages in careless, dangerous or reckless driving behaviour
• AI remains aware, willing and able to avoid collisions at all times
• AI meets or exceeds the performance of a competent, careful human driver

"Connectivity and automation show great promise to improve road safety," said ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao. "This Focus Group is a welcome initiative to ensure that assisted and autonomous driving technologies exhibit the behaviour required to fulfil this promise."

"Standards support new partnerships," said Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Tele​communication Standardization Bureau. "This Focus Group builds on over a decade of ITU work to ensure that the convergence of the ICT and automotive industries is rooted in mutual trust and understanding."

"Should there be an equivalent of a Turing Test for AI on our roads? Absolutely," said the Focus Group's Chairman, Bryn Balcombe, Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA). "Especially when all drivers, human or AI, need a shared understanding to predict both behaviours and risks."

The motivations for the project were first elaborated at the third edition of the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, 28-31 May 2019, where discussions led by ADA highlighted the public expectation that AI Drivers should be held to the same legal standards as human drivers.

The original Turing Test is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

The proposed Turing Test for the road could become the basis for an International Driving Permit for AI. The right hold to this permit would be assessed continuously, based on the AI Driver's behavioural performance on the road.

The Focus Group will contribute to ITU's development of technical standards in support of the UNECE Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) and in accordance with the 1949 and 1968 United Nations Conventions on Road Traffic.

ITU Focus Groups accelerate ITU studies in fields of growing strategic relevance to ITU membership. They establish a basis for related international standardization work in ITU Study Groups. The ITU Focus Group on ‘AI for autonomous and assisted driving’ will report to​ ITU-T Study Group 16 (Multim​edia).​

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All roads lead to Daylight leadership awards

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All roads would this weekend, lead to the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, the venue for the maiden edition of Daylight Annual Leadership Awards (DALA) and first anniversary of Daylight Newspaper, reports ITRealms. 

The Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Daylight.ng, the reliable online newspaper, Mr. Azuh Amatus (NGE), confirmed in a press statement available to ITRealms that the highly-rated awards ceremony slated for Sunday, May 22, at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, amid glitz, grandeur and glamour with the green and white carpet starting at exactly 4.PM.

Amatus, who doubles as the Chairman and Founder of DALA, said several A-listed Nollywood stars, captains of industry, top government officials, musicians, comedians and celebrities would grace the two-in-one ceremony already serenading Lagos and its environs.

“This maiden edition of DALA is definitely going to be star-studded and extraordinary. We are expecting in attendance dignitaries from all walks of life. Amazingly, DALA awardees cut across all frontiers of our national lives. We are celebrating them as true leaders in their respective fields of human endeavours. At the same time we are also celebrating our first anniversary as a media house in the nation’s tough publishing industry because it is not easy doing business in Nigeria as a young entrepreneur contributing to national growth and development,” stated Azuh, a multiple award-winning journalist that has extensively covered Nollywood, for almost two decades.

DALA, he said, is an award scheme primarily to recognise, reward and celebrate excellence among Nigerians who have excelled immensely in various leadership positions and equally impacted positively on our nation in both public and private sectors.

Interestingly, the talented and famous duo of comedian Okey Bakassi and actress Jennifer Eliogu have been sensationally chosen as anchors of the historic event.

And to further rev up the evening of high-net-worth gathering, the hilarious quartet of Klint Da Drunk, De Don, D’Lectura and Mr. Makati, will thrill and titillate special guests with undiluted comedy from their rich repertoire of jokes and humour vaults.

In addition, music star, Mr. Raw Nwanne would lead other talented acts on stage to make the evening more exciting, memorable and fun-filled.

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