Day: November 6, 2017

La Liga: Zidane reveals what Real Madrid will do about Ronaldo, Benzima’s goal drought

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Real Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane has reacted to the goal drought affecting star players, Karim Benzima and Cristiano Ronaldo in the Spanish topflight this reason. The Frenchman said the club will be calm about the situation. Ronaldo and Benzema have not scored a La Liga goal since mid-October, but Real Madrid head coach said he is not losing sleep over the development. Ronaldo has scored only one La Liga goal after 11 rounds of matches. His frustration continued after he could not find back of the net against Las Palmas…

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Why Buhari cannot succeed in fighting corruption – Senator Zwingina

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Senator Jonathan Silas Zwingina, the former Senate leader, has said President Muhammadu Buhari can’t fight corruption because he is surrounded by corrupt officials. The former Senate leader said this during a sensitisation workshop on the activities and achievements of Buhari held in Bauchi, on Sunday. Zwingina expressed fears over the success of the fight against corruption. He said, “It is quite unfortunate that the President is surrounded by so many doubtful assistants. “With the foot soldiers available to Mr. President to fight the war against corruption, there are many cases…

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The Internet of Things holds great promise but also massive threats

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While the Internet of Things (IoT) held great promise for a utopian future in which everything was connected to everything else, there were also huge security risks. “Despite the very best efforts by IT security experts in academia and industry, manufacturers continue to bring devices with huge security flaws to market. “At the same time, consumers are criminally negligent by not changing the passwords of new devices and making it dead-easy for hackers to penetrate their networks,” said Professor SH (Basie) von Solms, Director of the Centre for Cyber Security…

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Swedish Mobile App Truecaller Launches Developer Program For African Coders

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Truecaller, a Swedish mobile app that provides the identity of unknown callers, has launched its developer program at an event in Nigeria. Having recently signalled its intention to expand across Africa, Truecaller launched a developer program for African coders at the CcHUB, Africa’s leading social innovation centre, according to ITNewsAfrica. The event was held by the company in order to launch the program and explain their expansion plans throughout the country and the region. The Scandinavian firm will be hiring key African personnel, and it will also decide on a location, either in…

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Nigeria can be net exporter of skills – Governor Ahmed

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Nigeria can be a net exporter of skills to the West African Sub-region by training youths to fill local and regional middle level manpower gaps. Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed, stated this during a meeting with the Vice Chancellor of University of Wolverhampton, as part of his official visit to the United Kingdom. Governor Ahmed maintained that if the proper structures for the training of Nigerian youths in market-relevant vocational skills are put in place, the country will not only meet local needs for critical vocational skills but will…

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The perilous episode of fake news in Social media

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I don’t know about you, but based on the massive amount of data that’s available in the more credible news outlets, I am firmly of the opinion that fake news has reached an epidemic proportion, and Social media sites, particularly Facebook, appear to be the most efficient conveyors. A recent 2017 paper published by Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Volume 31, Number 2 , pages 211-236) reports on carefully conducted study on Social media and fake news in the 2016 election in the U.S.…

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2019 election: UN predicts what will happen

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The United Nations (UN) has predicted that the 2019 general election in Nigeria will be free of violence. Head of UN Office for West Africa, Mohammed Ibn Chambers, stated this in a chat with Channels Television. He said: “Let us not forget that so far there have been some significantly successful elections in this country by the current INEC leadership – gubernatorial elections, senatorial elections, and other by-elections. “So there have been opportunity for INEC to test itself and so far, as we can all attest to, those elections have…

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2019: Reno Omokri reveals how Buhari plans to win second term in office

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Reno Omokri, a former Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on New Media, has raised the alarm over what he described as President Muhammadu Buhari’s lack of intention and capacity to hold credible elections in 2019. In an open letter to the international community published through his Facebook page, Omokri alleged that President Buhari has unleashed the fascist in him by taking steps to undermine democracy and take Nigeria the way of Venezuela as the country prepares for another round of presidential elections. Omokri cited the cases of the two…

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Buhari’s Credibility Crisis

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In the Muhammadu Buhari II era, the war of convenience against corruption has also emerged in the suppression of the tradition of an annual National Honours scheme.  The government feels it is an affront to honour anyone who bears Nigerian nationality (unless, of course, such a person has been celebrated internationally). But I believe that rather than this being an actual policy, it is merely part of the haphazard and arbitrary character of this government that historians will flesh out in due course. For myself, I announce Winifred Oyo-Ita Ekanem,…

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How I got ex-President Obasanjo to act in my movie – Sam Ajibola

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Nollywood producer cum actor, Samuel Ajibola, has revealed how he convinced ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo to ”act” on his coming series. The comic actor had weeks ago kicked off his series ‘Dele Issues’ with a special episode featuring former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. In an interview with Inside Nollywood, Ajibola, aslo known as Spiff in the sitcom, ‘The Johnsons’ said it was by God’s grace as everything about the production happened all of a sudden He said: “Well, it didn’t take much time, when God wants to bless you, it just happens…

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