No fewer than 24 suspected bandits have been killed by the air component of Operation Thunder Strike in Birinin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The local government is one of the hotbeds of banditry and kidnapping in the state where many people have been killed and hundreds of others displaced from their homes. Confirming the development, the Kaduna State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said that the bandits were killed during an aerial mission carried out by the troops over Ungwan Nacibi in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area. READ ALSO: Four Bandit Leaders Surrender…
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Gunmen have abducted the General Manager of a filling station situated in Isan Ekiti, the home town of Governor Kayode Fayemi. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Sunday Abutu confirmed the abduction, adding that the operation was carried out by close to 10 gunmen on Thursday evening. According to Abutu, the abductors took a bush path with about six motorcycles and started shooting sporadically before whisking the victim away. The State Police Command said it has deployed a rescue team to ensure the release of the victim and the arrest of culprits. A similar incident occurred in January…
The Zamfara State Police Command in collaboration with the ministry for Security and Home Affairs have secured the unconditional release of 11 kidnapped victims abducted by a group of kidnappers and taken to a forest near Gobirawan Chali in Maru Local Government. Ten out of the 11 kidnapped victims are natives of Kyakyaka, Tungar Haki and Gidan Ango villages of Gusau Local Government Area, while the other victim is from Kaduna state respectively. The release of the kidnapped victims was part of the ongoing peace process enunciated by Governor Mohammed Bello Matawalle. All the rescued victims have been debriefed by…
Therefore Zamfara State Police Command has repelled an attack on Yarkala village in Rawayya District of Bungudu Local Government Area by suspected armed bandits. In a statement signed by the police spokesperson Mohammed Shehu an AK 47 Rifle and a Magazine containing 10 Rounds of live ammunition was recovered from the bandits. “On 8th April, 2021 Police operatives attached to Operation Puff Adder deployed to Rawayya – Yarkala axis were alerted about the presence of a large number of armed bandits who were moving to Yarkala village on an attack mission. On receiving the distress, the operatives quickly mobilised and…
Security operatives at the Kogi State Polytechnic have arrested one Shehu Mohammed for being in possession of a locally fabricated revolver pistol. Mohammed is a National Diploma II student of the Department of Public Administration of the institution, with matriculation number 2018/ND/PAD/170. In addition to the illegal possession of the pistol, he was apprehended with five rounds of live ammunition while making his way through the main entrance of the school on Friday. The student, who was coming to the campus purportedly to write his ND II final examination, was accosted by a ‘stop and search’ officer who asked…
It has been a few days since Apple announced the dates for its Worldwide Developers Conference or WWDC. And now, we have the second tech giant Google, announcing the date for its version of developers conference, Google IO 2021. The conference, where we see the new Android version being officially launched and showcased; will be held from May 18 through May 20. It is worth adding that Google entirely scrapped its conference last year due to the pandemic. This one, however, will be free to attend as it will be completely virtual – just like WWDC. And like always, Google…
WhatsApp has expanded its offerings for business users and has added a few handy features that make the shopping experience better. They have announced two features that will make WhatsApp Business; which is the e-commerce side of the messaging app, more business-friendly and easier to use. These new features include better support for WhatsApp catalogs on desktops and the option to hide items that are out of stock. WhatsApp had introduced Catalogs for WhatsApp Business in 2019; and it allowed businesses to create a storefront and also menus of the products they sell. The Facebook-owned messaging platform has said that…
Back in spring 2017 when Microsoft released the Windows 10 Creators Update, it came with an app called Paint 3D. This was back when the firm thought we were going to have 3D everything. The average user was going to be making 3D art in Paint 3D, they’d be viewing it on Windows Mixed Reality, adults would be putting this stuff in PowerPoint presentations, and more. Because of that, Microsoft announced that Paint, which has been part of Windows for decades, was being deprecated that fall. Amid user backlash, it took two days for the company to come out and…
The UK launched a tough new regulator on Wednesday, which it says will help make sure tech giants such as Facebook; and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU), based within the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA); will oversee plans to give consumers more choice and control over their data, promote online competition; and crack down on unfair practices which can often leave businesses and consumers with less choice and more expensive goods and services. The UK government says it has asked the new watchdog to begin…
Tesla has refunded customers it charged twice for new vehicle purchases made at the end of the first quarter, CNBC has learned. The refunds followed CNBC’s reporting on the duplicate charges and a video review by “Everyday Chris,” Christopher T. Lee, on YouTube; urging other Tesla buyers to use a cashier’s check if they could, instead of allowing Tesla to debit their bank account directly. Six customers in California and North Carolina who spoke with and shared records with CNBC found; that their refunds took about a week to come through after they initially complained to Elon Musk’s electric car…
Last week, a user dumped personal details of over 533 million Facebook users on a hacking forum. These details included Facebook IDs, phone numbers, names, locations, birthdates and even email addresses. Legally, companies are required to notify users when their data has been leaked. However, we have seen companies make vague statements and empty promises about data security in the past. As such, more often than not, users don’t know if their data has been leaked; or they don’t know how to check if their data was a part of a recent breach. Fortunately, security researchers work tirelessly to make…
On April 1, 2021, Microsoft experienced a massive outage across most of its services, which were rooted in DNS issues with Azure. Now, the company has released a more detailed status update explaining what caused Azure to fail to respond to queries (via ZDNet). According to the update on the Azure status history page, there was an unusual surge in Azure DNS queries from all over the world, which Azure’s systems are designed to mitigate through “layers of caches and traffic shaping”. However, a specific series of events exposed an error in the code for Azure’s DNS service, which made…
LG has announced its 2021 lineup of soundbars, which offer new features along with coming with more eco-friendly designs and packaging. The lineup includes the SP11RA, SP9YA, SP8YA, SP7Y, and SPD7Y. The soundbars work better with LG TVs, as the company added support for the AI Sound Pro feature. Audio from a TV can be shared to the soundbar and use all the sound modes you’d get from the TV’s built-in speakers, but on dedicated hardware. This applies to the entire soundbar lineup. Of course, the soundbars also feature audio tuning by Meridian Audio, which has collaborated with LG on…
In January 2021, Microsoft released Cloud Services (extended support) in the form of a public preview. The new Azure Resource Manager (ARM)-based deployment arrived as a replacement for the Azure Service Manager (ASM)-based Cloud Services – which has since then been referred to as Cloud Services (classic). Today, Cloud Services (extended support) has been announced to have been made generally available. Alongside this, a platform-supported tool to help users migrate their cloud services to this new model is also being showcased in preview. With the newer variant, key changes that are introduced include Azure Key Vault being used for certificate…
This year’s new Apple iPhone design promises some long awaited features that will help Apple’s totemic smartphone to stand out from the crowd, offer an enticing upgrade to existing owners, and to catch up with one of the key advantages currently enjoyed by Android users. The new secret sauce will be in the screen, and the latest look at the technology shows Apple is finally addressing a point of physical contention. The details come from noted Apple source Macotakara, Obtaining a mockup of the upcoming iPhone 13 is a significant moment, Mockups are used by many peripheral manufacturers for checking…
Google’s YouTube is one of the most popular platforms on the internet, and that means it’s prone to some abuse. The company has an ever-changing set of Community Guidelines and, every three months, it shares a report on how its work to enforce those guidelines is going. Soon, that report is getting a new metric that reveals how much exposure rule-breaking videos get on the platform. The new metric is called Violative View Rate (VVR), and as mentioned above, it exposes how often its users are viewing content that breaks its Community Guidelines. The numbers are measured by taking a…
A suspected serial killer cultist declared wanted by the police has been arrested in the Odongunyan area of Ikorodu in Lagos State. Segun Agodo was apprehended by a team of police detectives led by the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at the Sagamu Road Division at about 10am on Sunday, police authorities in Lagos said. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, noted that Segun – a senior member of Eiye Confraternity – had been on the run for a while since he got the wind that he had been declared wanted by the police for his alleged…
The Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu has slammed curfew on Aba and Umuahia metropolis following gunmen’s attack on Owerri Correctional Prison in the Imo State and freed over 1500 inmates. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday, April 5, by the Abia State Commissioner for Information, John Kalu, who said Governor Ikpeazu had directed the imposition of curfew in Aba and Umuahia metropolis between 10pm and 6am daily from today, Monday, 5th April, 2021 till further notice. According to the statement, this was is sequel to security reports received from multiple sources; and informed by the need…
It’s been just one under one year since Google was first reported to be developing custom processors for its Pixel devices with the Whitechapel codename, which were set to replace the Qualcomm Snapdragon processors we see on the majority of Android phones. The report suggested that the chips wouldn’t be ready until this year; and it seems that things are on track with the plans from a year ago. A new report from 9to5Google, based on internal Google documentation the outlet had access to; claims that Google’s Pixel phones coming this fall will indeed be powered by the Whitechapel chip.…
Unlike the norm of searching for both simple as well as complex words and topics, many seem not to know what they can do with Google search engine. We have compiled some amazing things you can do beyond just searching. Google has been saving lives for many years now. While many of us rely on it as a search engine, there are many other interesting features you may not know about. It has a bunch of extras ranging from useful learning tools to simple fun. In this article, we have located some of the awesome things you can do with…