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A professor of Mass Communication at the School of Communication at Lagos State University (LASU), Lai Oso, is reportedly dead. Oso, aged 67, was reported to have died in a ghastly accident that happened on Saturday evening while returning from a conference in Abraka, Delta State. LASU aims to become best varsity in West-Africa — VC The Dean, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, LASU, Professor Sunday Olayinka Alawode, confirmed his death in a broadcast message sent to newsmen. Alawode wrote, “Good morning, family. I am constrained to inform us of the involvement of Professor Muraino Olayiwola OSO (we all…

Update your WhatsApp to get the chat edit feature Open WhatsApp and locate the chat you want to edit Long-press any of the WhatsApp chats you want to edit Select the edit option Save and send the edited message Final thoughts on how to edit WhatsApp chats WhatsApp is arguably the most popular messaging platform worldwide, and it offers a wide range of features to enhance your chatting experience. While editing messages after sending them was once impossible, WhatsApp has now joined the likes of Slack as it now allows users to edit their chats, fixing typos, mistakes, or adding…

Japan’s military is testing Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service with an eye to adopting the technology next fiscal year, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday, citing unnamed government sources. The Ministry of Defence already has access to communication satellites in geostationary orbit, but the use of Starlink technology, operated by Musk’s SpaceX, would add a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit, the Yomiuri said. BREAKING: 6.2m earthquake hit northern Japan Countries around the world are seeking to build resilience against the risk of jamming communications or attacks on satellites in the event of conflict. Japan’s Self-Defence Forces have…

Greeks went to the polls on Sunday for the second time in little over a month to elect a new parliament, with voters expected to give former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservatives a second term in office. Sunday’s election is being held in the shadow of a migrant shipwreck on June 14 in which hundreds of people are feared to have perished off southern Greece. One of the worst such disasters in years, it has shown the parties’ divisions over migration. 2023 Polls: Sierra Leoneans elect new president Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party won an election on May 21, 20 points…

The Nigerian Navy Victory boat rescued eleven medical students along the Calabar and Oron waterways on Saturday. An investigation revealed that they were in Calabar for the annual Nigerian Medical Students’ Association (NIMSA) health week. The group of visiting scholars embarked on a boat ride via the Calabar Marina Resort. Unfortunately, their boat capsized, but luckily the Nigerian Navy Victory Boat was close by, and frantic efforts were made to rescue them. As of the time this incident was reported, three of the students were still missing. Meanwhile, the Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has ordered an investigation into…

Mutinous Russian mercenaries and the Wagner army, who surged most of the way to Moscow, have agreed to turn back to avoid bloodshed, their leader said on Saturday, in a de-escalation of what had become a major challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s grip on power. The fighters of the Wagner private army were just 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital, said the leader, former Putin ally Yevgeny Prigozhin. The rebels had captured the city of Rostov hundreds of miles to the south before racing across the country. “They wanted to disband the Wagner military company. We embarked on a…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has adopted the National Minimum Tolerable Score for admission into universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education as 140, 100, and 100, respectively. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this at the 2023 Policy Meeting of Tertiary Institutions in Abuja on Saturday. JAMB proposes use of mobile phones ‘BYOD’ for UTME He said that all institutions must abide by this rule and not go below the approved points. He also said that every tertiary institution must ensure its own minimum standard, especially as it relates to institutional screening and grading in the Senior…

About 3,374 registered voters out of a total population of about 8 million Sierra Leoneans will have another opportunity to elect a new president, members of parliament, district, mayoral, or district council chair, and those into the council seats as they go to the polls on Saturday. The polls opened at 7 in the morning and are expected to close at 5 in the evening, with the election taking place in 3,630 polling centres and 11,832 polling units. The president is elected by popular vote for a five-year term in a two-round absolute majority system of 55 percent. Sierra Leone…

President Bola Tinubu concluded his official trip to Paris, France, on Friday, during which he had an outstanding participation in the summit for ‘A New Global Financing Pact, hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Tinubu lauds AFDB’s $520m Agro-investments  Aside from his participation at the event, where he represented Nigeria well, President Tinubu also held high-profile sideline meetings with fellow heads of state and government, global business leaders, and chief executives of leading multilateral and development finance institutions from around the world. The summit afforded the President the opportunity to project, on a global stage, his advocacy for widening the…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examinations (JAMB) said on Saturday it is planning a “Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)” initiative for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations and the Direct Entry Examinations. The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known during the 2023 policy meeting ongoing in Abuja at the National Judicial Institute. 2023 UTME: JAMB announces date for rescheduled exams According to Oloyede, the initiative is such that it would allow candidates to take the examinations on their mobile phones. The JAMB boss noted that the board has continued to spend huge amounts of money on the…