How can anybody actually send $10 million to a complete stranger?
That’s over 13 billion naira. This is pure madness.
FBI just locked up a Nigerian man named Kelvin for a $10 million real estate crypto scam that hit blogger Perez Hilton.
Reports say they were chatting about some investment deal. Perez sent the full $10 million in crypto, then Kelvin vanished.
Six days of total silence later, Perez went live on TikTok looking broken and started cutting himself on stream.
They rushed him straight to hospital where he’s still getting treatment.
When will people finally stop destroying Nigeria’s reputation like this, Omor
$150,000. That's the price tag on a humanoid robot built to carry the same rifle a soldier carries — walk at almost 4 mph, haul 44+ pounds of gear, clear a building before any person steps through the door.
A US startup called Foundation already holds $24 million in contracts with the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Their stated goal: 50,000 units manufactured by the end of 2027 — scaling from roughly 50 units this year to 10,000 next year alone.
Here's the part people get wrong: nobody's building a robot that decides who to shoot. Current protocol requires a human to confirm before any automated system engages. What they're actually replacing is the soldier who has to be the first one through a door, the first one over a hilltop, the first one into a room nobody's checked yet.
An Army general once floated the idea that robots could replace a quarter of combat soldiers by 2030. That prediction is now over a decade old and still hasn't happened — which tells you the timeline, not the direction, is what keeps being wrong.
The honest version of this story isn't "robots are replacing soldiers." It's "the military just found a $150,000 way to stop sending a person first."