A notorious major supplier of illicit drugs, Chibuike Apolos has been arrested at Mbausi in Isialangwa North Local Government Area of Abia State. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Wednesday by the spokesperson of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Femi Babafemi, adding that the suspect was nabbed today in his hideout following an early morning raid. Apolos had been on the wanted list of the Abia State Command of the NDLEA since February following the arrest of one Chima Ukeleonu NDLEA said Ukelonu is the suspect behind the video that went viral in January showing a…
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Gunmen have abducted three construction workers in Ondo State. The victims were among those working on the rehabilitation of the Ikaram/ Akunnu -Akoko axis of Akoko North/West and North/East Local Government Areas of the state. The Public Relations Officer of Ondo State Police Command, DSP Tee-Leo Ikoro confirmed the incident to Channels Television via a telephone call on Wednesday, adding that the workers were kidnapped on Tuesday. He noted that two of the abducted workers are from the southwestern part of the country, while the third one hails from Plateau State. According to him, the Commissioner of Police in the…
A mentally challenged woman has allegedly stabbed a 14-year-old boy to death. The incident occurred in Bayelsa. The Infostride gathered that the mentally challenged woman went on a rampage in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital on Tuesday, April 20, stabbing a 14-year-old boy, Joseph Thomas; to death along Genesis Street, off Okaka road. According to reports, the woman, believed to be an indigene of Enugu State, was popularly known to be a Christian woman; who preaches the gospel in the early hours of the morning along Okaka road. Residents said on Tuesday morning, she arrived in the area with her…
Israel’s government chose Amazon Web Services (AWS); and Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military. Amazon and Google beat out Microsoft, Oracle and IBM in the tender for the four-phase project known as “Nimbus”; the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. They will establish local cloud sites in Israel with an initial investment of 4 billion shekels ($1.2 billion). These sites will keep information within Israel’s borders under strict security guidelines. The four phases of the project include acquisition and construction of cloud infrastructure, formulating government policy for migrating…
A few hours ago, it was revealed that Netflix fell short of its paid members forecast by two million accounts, a piece of news that also resulted in its stock price taking a bit of a hit. Although the firm pinned the reason on a “lighter content slate” during the first half of this year due to production woes caused by the global pandemic, we do know that the company is cautious of password-sharing between customers too. In an investor call (via IGN, Deadline), Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was asked if the company is ready to “turn the screws” on…
Some app makers who rely on mobile distribution from Apple and Google are scared of how much power the tech giants have over their businesses; according to congressional testimony delivered Wednesday. “We’re all afraid,” Match Group Chief Legal Officer Jared Sine told Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; the chair of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, at a hearing. The hearing comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are working on updates to the antitrust laws; that could better account for the power a few tech giants hold over many digital markets. That includes the ability of platforms such…
After the last year of growth in the world’s largest auto market, China’s electric car start-ups are stepping up plans to take on Europe. Chinese authorities only began peeling back restrictions on full foreign ownership of local automobile production in the last few years. But more than a decade ago; Beijing began spending the equivalent of billions of dollars on developing its own electric vehicles. That’s helped local players gain an edge in producing battery-powered cars; which they’re now aiming to sell overseas. Goldman Sachs analysts predict that in four years, new government policies mean electric cars will account for…
Twitter started testing support for 4K images for its Android and iOS apps last month. It has now announced it is rolling out support for Twitter users to post 4K images on Android and iOS. Prior to this update, Twitter allowed a maximum resolution of 2048 x 2048 for images uploaded from its mobile app. Twitter users can now upload and view 4K images on their timeline from the Android and iOS apps. Twitter’s web client already supports 4K images in tweets. It looks like the tests were successful as Twitter has made the feature available to all users. To…
Bandits have attacked a military base in the Zazzaga community, Munya Local Government Area of Niger State. One civilian identified as Jacob Auta was killed and a military vehicle was stolen during the attack which took place around 4:00 pm on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses said the gunmen numbering about one hundred, came riding on motorcycles as they stormed the area, shooting sporadically at the camp. Although the soldiers were able to repel the attack, their properties were burnt by the bandits A youth leader in the area, Usman Babangida told newsmen that there was an exchange of fire between the military…
Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter Tuesday in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions. A racially-diverse jury of seven women and five men in the Midwestern city of Minneapolis took less than two days at the end of a three-week trial to find the white officer guilty in unanimous decisions on all three charges he faced. Chauvin, 45, could be handed decades behind bars for Floyd’s May 25, 2020 killing, which sparked protests against racial injustice around the…
This summer, American Airlines is giving customers more than 150 new opportunities to reconnect with friends and family as it continues to rebuild its network to match demand. “Throughout the pandemic, our trademark has been to build a schedule based on what customers tell us they want and need,” said Brian Znotins, American vice president of network planning. “And today, they are telling us they’re eager to get back to travel. With our summer schedule, we can offer customers the best network; and also continue welcoming them safely back to the skies.” In addition to flights that are on sale…
Gunmen have attacked a private university in Kaduna State on Tuesday night, abducting an unspecified number of students. The academic institution, Greenfield University, is located along the Kaduna–Abuja Highway in Chikun Local Government Area, and also the first private university in the state established three years ago. The latest incident is the first major attack that bandits will launch on communities around the Kaduna-Abuja Highway since 300 female soldiers were deployed to the general area in January this year. The Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the incident to Channels Television. However, eyewitnesses, said…
Two officers have died following an attack on a police station in Adani, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, raising concerns over incessant assaults on security formations in the largely peaceful South-East region of Nigeria. The incident happened on Wednesday morning with the yet-to-be-identified assailants razing the police station. A statement issued by the Enugu Police Command said the operatives engaged the attackers in a gun duel during which two of the officers were injured and later confirmed dead. “The unknown assailants, who attacked the Station in their numbers, were resisted by Police Operatives on duty and in the…
No fewer than 30 people have been killed in renewed bandit attacks on four villages in Zamfara State, authorities and locals have said. The attacks, which were carried out simultaneously, occurred on Tuesday in two Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Villages attacked by bandits were Gobirawa, Rini, Gora, and Madoti Dankule in Bakura and Maradun LGAs in the state located in the north-western region of the country. Witnesses said the assailants, who came on motorcycles in a large number, stormed the villages and began to fire sporadic gunshots. This led to the loss of lives and several…
The Commissioner of Police in Bayelsa, CP Mike Okoli, has ordered investigations into circumstances leading to the death of a popular Bayelsa-based baker. This was disclosed in a statement on Monday by the Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Asinim Butswat. The Rivers born cake baker was found dead in his apartment on Saturday. Preliminary investigation revealed that the deceased was allegedly strangled to death. Butswat said the scene was visited by police detectives; adding that the corpse had been taken to the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for autopsy. Further, he said the case had been transferred to the…
Google introduced the RenderScript API for Android 3.0 Honeycomb almost a decade ago. It offered a way to accelerate certain performance-critical tasks by making use of heterogeneous hardware such as GPUs. Now, the company has announced that it will no longer recommend the legacy API for such tasks, and says that developers should shift to alternatives such as Vulkan. RenderScript APIs will be deprecated in Android 12, and while they will continue to work, if you compile RenderScript code that is targeting the latest version of the mobile operating system, you will receive a warning. Google has also noted that…
Mozilla has released Firefox 88 with several small but important updates, it is also the final version of Firefox to ship before Mozilla gives Firefox a facelift with the new Proton interface that we reported on earlier in the month. Some of the main changes in Firefox 88 include the disabling of FTP support and the isolation of window.name data to prevent cross-site privacy leaks. The most important change in this update is the fact that Mozilla has disabled support for the FTP protocol. The browser vendor said its full removal is planned in an upcoming release. The firm said…
A lot has been talked about Apple Car and the company’s partnership with different car makers over the past few months. However, nothing has been confirmed and all the news that we have heard about, comes from tipsters and analysts. A new report now states that Apple might finally reveal some information about its new platform in the coming months. According to Wedbush analyst Dan Ives, the company might give some details on the ‘Project Titan’ aka Apple Car project; in the next 3-6 months. Ives said this during a segment on CNBC Television. However, the analyst did predict that…
At least three people have been killed in two separate attacks by bandits in Kajuru and Igabi Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs in the state, Samuel Aruwan, confirmed the attacks on Monday. He said one of the victims was killed by bandits at a settlement near Maraban Jos in Igabi LGA, while bandits also killed another man on the outskirts of Garu village, also in the same local government. Aruwan explained that the killing in Garu village occurred after the bandits rustled an unspecified number of cows belonging to the brother…
NASA has announced that it has successfully flown its Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on the Red Planet. The event is historical as it’s the first time that humans have performed a powered, controlled flight on another planet. The flight was controlled by the Ingenuity team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The aircraft first flew at 3:34 a.m. EDT (12:34 a.m. PDT) but due to the data having to travel 178.9 million miles, the confirmation of the flight was not received until 6:46 a.m. EDT (3:46 a.m. PDT). Commenting on the news, acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said: “Ingenuity…