Author: Chronicle Editor

To understand the new smart watched and other pro devices of recent focus, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement. Apple’s Watch records exercise, tracks our moves throughout the day, checks the amount of time we are stood up and reminds us to get up and move around if we have been sat for too long – let’s not forget Tim Cooks “sitting is the new coolness” line. What we like: Angled second screen is quite useful.Durability is top notch.Better dual-screen software.Powerful hardware features. What we dislike: Less battery life than other options.Keyboard and trackpad are flimsy.No…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…

VP pledges FG’s support so Nigerians can benefit Team, composed of LUTH, Diaspora-based professors and scientists, notes encouragement from Presidency Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has welcomed efforts by a team of Nigerian professors and scientists investigating the effectiveness of, and roles that Ivermectin drug can play in the treatment of the coronavirus disease. The team, which is composed of Nigerian scholars at home and abroad, has also submitted their report on the usefulness of the drug to the World Health Organisation which has already appointed a Peer Review expert from the United Kingdom. Speaking yesterday while being briefed on the…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…

To understand the new politics stance and other pro nationals of recent times, we should look to Silicon Valley and the quantified movement of the latest generation. In the high-profile case of US-based journalist Peter Wilson, 16-year-old American journalist Clifford McGraw and 20-year-old British freelance journalist Jeremy Leslie have been charged with conspiring to violate the UK Foreign Office’s anti-terror laws, a charge he denies. On Monday, UK attorney Andy McDonald revealed that he had spoken. “Few worry about catching Covid anymore, as it’s just a matter of time before they do,” says Tea, a teacher at a school for…

A 35-year-old bartender, Godwin Job, was on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 sentenced to eight years in prison for illegally withdrawing the sum of N1,079,290 (One million, Seventy Nine Thousand, Two Hundred and Ninety Naira) from a Fidelity Bank account belonging to his boss, Olufemi Joseph Odusanya. Job was convicted by Justice Bayo Taiwo of the Oyo State High Court in a two-count charge bordering on stealing, filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office. Following an investigations into a petition from his estranged boss, the Commission arraigned Job on August 17, 2020 to answer…

The Lagos Police Command have arrested 43 clubbers, including strippers, at a night club on Victoria Island. They were arrested on Sunday for allegedly violating COVID-19 protocols/guidelines. Spokesman of the State Police Command, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said in a statement on Monday: “The Police operatives attached to Maroko Division, on the order of the Commissioner of Police, went after the deviant clubbers, strippers and got them arrested in the club clustering and clubbing without any regard for the COVID-19 protocols. “The CP, Hakeem Odumosu, has ordered that the suspects be moved to taskforce office in Oshodi for prosecution. LERSA donates patrol…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has denied reports that its chairman, retired Col. Muhammad Abdallah, has been sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari. Mr Jonah Achema, the spokesperson for the drug agency said this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday, in Abuja. Achema, a Deputy Commander of Narcotics (DCN), said, however, that the tenure of Abdallah who was appointed on January 12, 2016, expired on January 11. NDLEA arrests 29 drug traffickers in Edo “The chairman was not sacked as reported by some media organisations. However, his five-year tenure elapsed on Jan. 11,” he…

A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, has tested positive for coronavirus in the United Arab Emirate (UAE), where he had gone for medical check-up. He is stranded in the UAE and is unable to return to Nigeria, according to some reports. His lawyer, Kanu Agabi (SAN), disclosed this on Monday at the resumption of proceedings in the money laundering case involving Adoke and a businessman, Aliyu Abubakar, at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The court had, on December 11 last year, granted Adoke permission to travel abroad on medical ground, despite…

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered Emirates Airline to pay $1.63 million to a businessman, Mr. Orji Prince Ikem, being the amount in his hand luggage which went missing in the airline’s custody during a 2007 China trip. Justice Muslim Hassan also ordered Emirates Airlines to pay Ikem N50 million as damages for the “untold hardship and loss of earning” he suffered by the deprivation of use of his money from 2007 till date. The judgment followed the plaintiff’s nearly 12 years battle to recover two hand luggage containing personal effects and $700,000, as well as $930,000…