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Ekiti Govt. reviews Fayose’s last minute recruitment of 2,000 workers

Posted by admin Ekiti, General Politics, Governors, Headlines, State News Friday, May 3rd, 2019

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Nigerian scientist develops 1st global AI platform for translation of over 2,000 African languages

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Friday, May 3rd, 2019

Mr Emmanuel Gabriel, a 41-year-old Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT) expert, has developed a global Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform, known as ‘OBTranslate’, for over 2,000 African language translation. Gabriel, based in Germany, told Newsmen in an email on Wednesday in Abuja that the invention, being the first globally, was intended to create massive jobs for […]

Zainab Aliyu Poses With Nigerian Officials In Jeddah After Release From Detention

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, April 30th, 2019

he release of innocent Nigerian detainee Zainab Aliyu from detention in Saudi Arabia was completed on Tuesday, after which the Maitama Sule University, Kano student posed with Nigerian officials before the cameras, as captured above. The picture was taken in Jeddah, a Saudi Arabian port city and modern commercial hub and gateway for pilgrimages to […]

Uganda clinches $160m marijuana export deal to Canada, Germany

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Canadian Politics, Headlines Monday, April 29th, 2019

Joseph Inokotong, with agency report, Abuja At a period many African countries are experiencing financial crunch partly due to their inability to look inwards for alternative sources of income, the government of Uganda is smiling to the bank in marijuana transactions with Canada and Germany. Though it is still illegal to use marijuana in Uganda, the government, in […]

Kim, Putin hold talks in Russia tomorrow

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet tomorrow in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok to discuss the international standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear program, a Kremlin official said. The visit is part of Kim’s effort to build foreign support after the breakdown of a second United States-North Korea summit in […]

Islamic State group claims Sri Lanka Easter bombings

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

The Islamic State group yesterday said it was behind a devastating string of suicide attacks against churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed more than 320 people on Easter Sunday. The claim emerged more than 48 hours after the near-simultaneous blasts tore through three high-end hotels popular with foreigners and three churches packed with Christians […]

Saudi Arabia executes 37

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019

Saudi Arabia has executed 37 people in connection with terrorism crimes, its interior ministry has said. “The death penalty was implemented… on a number of culprits for adopting extremist terrorist ideologies and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disrupt security as well as spread chaos and provoke sectarian strife,” the state news agency said in a […]

5 traffic robbers arrested

Posted by admin Headlines Monday, April 22nd, 2019

Christopher Oji The Lagos State Police Command has arrested five suspected notorious traffic robbers. The suspects were nabbed while robbing motorists and passenger around 10 pm at Toyota bus stop and under Daleko bridge. State Command’s Police Public Relations Officer ( PPRO) DSP Bala Elkana said the hoodlums were taking advantage of the traffic congestion […]

British woman killed, three other people kidnapped in northern Nigeria

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, April 22nd, 2019

(Reuters) – Kidnappers in Nigeria killed a British woman and a Nigerian man and abducted three others in the northern city of Kaduna, local police and the British High Commission said on Sunday. Kidnappings are rampant in Nigeria, where both locals and foreigners are targeted — mostly for ransom. The woman traveled from Lagos as […]

Attack on Mali army base kills 11 soldiers

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Headlines Monday, April 22nd, 2019

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen attacked a Malian army base in a dawn raid on Sunday, killing 11 soldiers and burning the camp in west-central Mali, the army and a local lawmaker said. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Central Mali has in the past few years been overrun by jihadists with links […]