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… Harps on collaboration, warns against fanning embers of disunity, hatred Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has said the government is deploying technology to deal with insecurity in the state, urging residents to give relevant information that will assist the government in protecting the lives and property of citizens. The governor said this while playing host to Muslim faithful …

Nigeria’s Federal Government in collaboration with the Edo State Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commenced training for 4,250 youths and women on agribusiness to boost food security in the country. Speaking at the opening of a six-days training programme, Agribusiness Promotion Coordinator, Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise-Niger Delta (LIFE-ND) Project, Mrs. Anthonia Esenwa, said the project …

Over 30 Nigerian Civil Society organisations have opposed the Archbishop of Canterbury’s support for Shell Carbon Energy Plan, and have requested the Archbishop to withdraw such support for a favorable Church of England position. In a letter of May 10, 2021 signed by over 30 civil society organisations, convener of the groups and Executive Director of the Africa Network for …

Melinda French Gates had concerns about her husband’s dealings with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein when she consulted lawyers to explore the option of divorcing the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, according to reports. The billionaire philanthropists announced their decision to divorce last week after declaring their marriage “irretrievably broken” – but did not explain why. The Wall Street Journal reported that in 2019 Melinda, …

Three design and multiple implementation flaws have been disclosed in IEEE 802.11 technical standard that undergirds Wi-Fi, potentially enabling an adversary to take control over a system and plunder confidential data. Called FragAttacks (short for FRgmentation and AGgregation attacks), the weaknesses impact all Wi-Fi security protocols, from Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) all the way to Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3), thus virtually …

More than 16,000 jobs would be created during and after the ongoing renovation of the National Theatre, Iganmu, Lagos, Prof. Sunday Ododo, General Manager of the 44-year-old complex, said on Thursday in Lagos. Ododo told the News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) that most of the jobs would come from the fields of music, movies, fashion and information technology. “Some of the …

There have been several news reports over last Friday’s Supreme Court decision over the illegal dissolution of elected council chairmen and councillors in Katsina and Oyo states. The Nation newspaper of Saturday, May 8, 2021 reported that the apex court, in two judgments on Friday, May 7, 2021, set aside the decision by Governors Aminu Masari of Katsina State and …

Long after the declaration of Fulani herdsmen as the fourth deadliest terrorists’ group in the world by the World Terrorist Index, those Nigerians who often play the ostrich and whose narrative is often promoted by the media are the same people who today assault our ears with talk of ethnic profiling. The identity of those who killed, maimed, confiscated farmlands …

Barring last minute change, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will announce the extension of the deadline for the ongoing registration for its 2021 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) and the direct entry (DE) programme. This decision may not be unconnected to the difficulties being experienced by candidates in their attempts to generate the required codes towards setting up profiles using …

The police in Delta State have banned their operatives from embarking on escort duty to Nigeria’s South-east states – Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Anambra, and Abia – because of the ongoing attacks on officers and police facilities in the states. Rivers State, in the South-south, is also included in the ban which is contained in a wireless message issued by the commissioner of …