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Prof. Onje Gyewado, a former deputy governor of Nasarawa, was abducted by gunmen in his village in the state’s Wamba local government region. Between 1999 and 2003, Gyewado served as the previous governor Abdullahi Adamu’s deputy. The command is stepping up its quest to free the former Deputy Governor, according to CP Maiyaki Baba, commissioner of police for the Nasarawa State Police command. “The Commissioner of Police, Nasarawa State Command, CP Maiyaki Baba has reassured the general public, especially the family of Prof Onje Gye-wado that effort is ongoing to rescue the victim who was abducted by yet-to-be-identified hoodlums in…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), which receives 2.5% of the mobile telecommunication network operators’ annual revenue as a license renewal fee, will be the subject of an investigation by the House of Representatives into how the fund has been used. A special ad hoc committee will be established to “investigate the failure/inability of the NCC to promote widespread availability and usage of mobile telecommunication network services throughout Nigeria, including the underserved and un-served areas,” according to a resolution made during Thursday’s plenary by the House. The commission must submit a final report for additional legislative action within four weeks. Mark…

According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd), Nigeria’s domestic gas infrastructure network can transport 6.9 billion standard cubic feet (BCF) of gas to support power-generating and gas-based companies. M Mele Kyari, Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of NNPC Ltd., said this on Thursday at the Oloibiri Lecture Series and Energy Forum (OLEF) 2023 in Abuja. The seminar was organised by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), with the theme “Effective Gas Resources Utilization: A Lever for Enhancing Energy Security and Achieving Net-Zero Emission Goals in Nigeria.” According to Kyari, Nigeria’s enormous investment in gas infrastructure is predicated…

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has requested the Federal Government to begin the process of appointing new rectors to five federal polytechnics. Mr. Anderson Ezeibe, President of ASUP, made the appeal at the conclusion of the union’s 106th National Executive Council (NEC) meeting on Thursday in Abuja. The Federal Polytechnic Ugep in Cross River, the Federal Polytechnic Shendam in Plateau, the Federal Polytechnic Mungonu in Borno, the Federal Polytechnic Enugu in Enugu State, and the Federal Polytechnic Wannune in Benue are among the institutes. According to Ezeibe, the conference was organised to address major concerns impacting the Nigerian…

According to Jilo Wile, a local government official, more than 100 local inhabitants are in severe conditions in hospitals due to starvation as a result of drought. The cattle in the southern Ethiopian town of Kura Kalicha are dying after three years of no rain. Scavengers dig through the flesh of dozens of rotting livestock corpses that lay on the dry land. “This number includes children, elderly people, and pregnant women,” Jilo, who has lost 73 of his 75 cows to famine, said. Southern Ethiopia, like its neighbours Somalia and Kenya, is experiencing the worst drought in decades in the…

According to Italy’s data protection body Garante, ChatGPT manufacturer OpenAI aims to offer solutions on Thursday to address concerns that led to an Italian ban on the chatbot last week. Microsoft Corporation-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI pulled ChatGPT down in Italy after Garante briefly banned it last week and launched an investigation into a possible violation of privacy standards. The agency accused OpenAI last week of failing to verify the age of ChatGPT users and of having “no legal basis that justifies the massive collection and storage of personal data.” On Thursday, it said that it had no intention of halting AI…

On Wednesday, the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu, was ordered to be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Center by the Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba. Following a viral video in which he threatened to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to Lagos to protect the properties of Igbo people living in the state, Nwajagu was detained last Saturday. The 67-year-old was charged on Wednesday in front of the P. E. Nwaka-presiding magistrate court. He was accused by the police of two charges, including misbehaviour and attempting to disturb the peace in Lagos State. The…

On Wednesday, Facebook-owned Meta (META.O) released an artificial intelligence model that can detect specific items within a picture, as well as the world’s biggest collection of image comments. In a blog entry, the company’s research section stated that its Segment Anything Model, or SAM, could recognise things in pictures and videos even when it had not met those items during training. Objects can be chosen using SAM by tapping on them or typing text instructions. Writing the term “cat” caused the tool to create circles around each of several animals in a picture in one example. Since Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI’s…

A source close to the situation said on Thursday that Four-times Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed with cancer, a day after he was taken to critical care with respiratory difficulties. The 86-year-old, whose media business has made him a millionaire, is being treated in Milan’s San Raffaele Hospital’s heart section. There has been no formal statement on his health, but a story in the Corriere della Sera daily verified the source’s prognosis of leukaemia, a disease of the blood cells. Ansa, an Italian news service, claimed that Berlusconi had started chemotherapy, with the first procedure taking place…

According to reports, a fire event in Kafanchan town, Jema’a Local Government Area, Kaduna State, killed a couple and their daughter while they were sleeping. Residents claimed they only noticed smoke emanating from the home on Tuesday night at around 11 p.m., so details of what started the fire incident are still vague. All attempts to save the family from the flames by those who arrived at the home, according to Maikano Abdullahi, a neighbour of the victims who also lost property in the blaze. According to him, the flames began around 11:03 p.m. “I woke up upon hearing my…