The Oyo State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Titus Badejo, a radio presenter who was allegedly shot at the premises of a nightclub at Oluyole Estate in Ibadan. Police spokesman Adewale Osifeso in a statement on Sunday said the incident was reported at the Oluyole police station in the early hours of the morning, by the manager of the lounge. The deceased was until his death a freelance journalist and a disc jockey at the club where he was killed. Witnesses say Badejo was shot around 9pm Saturday night by gunmen who rode on motorcycles to the club…
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Police operatives from Kubwa Division foiled an armed robbery attempt at a Hotel along the Kubwa axis of the Abuja metropolis on Friday, June 18. The officers who were on routine patrol engaged the robbers in a fierce gun duel, however, one of the suspects sustained serious gunshot injuries, was rushed to the hospital where the doctor confirmed him dead. Exhibits recovered from the late suspect are one (1) Beretta pistol, three (3) rounds, one(1) silver Mazda space wagon, and plate numbers. Police authorities say efforts are in top gear to arrest the fleeing suspects while those already apprehended will…
Police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have arrested one (1) suspect for culpable homicide along Kasuwa-Dere, Gwagwalada axis. According to a communique by the command’s spokesperson, ASP Yusuf Mariam, the operatives acting on credible intelligence arrested the suspect – Danladi Abubakar ‘m’ (20 years) on Thursday the 17th of June, 2021. He was arrested for the gruesome murder of a yet-to-be-identified middle-aged woman. The suspect who was identified by another victim confessed to being a member of a notorious phone snatching syndicate operating along the Gwagwalada axis of the FCT. Exhibits recovered from the suspect include one (1)…
Troops of the Nigerian Army operating junder the auspices of Operation Hadarin Daji supported by the Nigerian Air Force component have rescued more abductees of the Federal Government College Birnin Yawuri in Kebbi State. A statement signed on Sunday by the Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, disclosed that one teacher and three students were rescued on Saturday at Makuku in the ongoing search and rescue operations. According to the statement, the troops also killed one bandit, recovered nine motorcycles and four phones from the fleeing bandits. Nwachukwu also noted that additional troops have now been deployed to…
Police authorities in Benue State say 14 bandits were killed following an attempted attack on a police station on Sunday morning. A spokesperson for Benue police, Catherine Anene, said in a statement that the gunmen numbering about 50 launched an attack in early hours of Sunday on a police station at Katsina-Ala town of the state, in a bid to free some suspected bandits who were arrested by police on Saturday and detained in the station. Anene said, “Operatives at the police division, who were already on alert, engaged the attackers in a fierce gun battle,” adding that 14 of…
Big tech companies observed Juneteenth by offering education resources during the week of the newly official U.S. holiday. President Joe Bidensigned a bill to made Juneteenth a federal holiday on Thursday afternoon. The holiday, which landed on June 19 every year, commemorates the ending of slavery in the U.S. Tech companies’ reactions came after a year of racial reckoning and increased scrutiny of recruiting practices and treatment of Black employees. Some, like Twitter and Square, began recognizing the holiday last year. “Juneteenth is not just about Black History—it is American history” and a “complex” one, said Tiffany Bowden, program manager…
Morgan Stanley analysts said in a Friday note that Facebook remains the top pick among large-cap social media stocks; with its investments and monetization efforts offsetting any near-term engagement drop-offs as the coronavirus pandemic nears an end. “We remain most positive on FB within the large cap social media names as we see their leading ROI, product innovation, and monetization call options (Reels, Marketplace, Shopping, etc) enabling them to navigate through difficult near-term engagement headwinds,” the firm said. Morgan Stanley also sees Facebook driving ad growth, helping the social media giant with a potential drop-off in engagement. “We also note…
One of the abducted students of Federal Government College Birnin Yauri in Kebbi State has died. However, five others, comprising four students and a teacher have been rescued by the Joint Taskforce Component of Operation Hadari Daji. The Deputy Force Commander of the Joint Taskforce in the North-West Zone, Air Commodore Abubakar AbdulKadir, confirmed this on Friday to reporters in Zamfara State. He explained that the troops came in contact with the bandits in the early hours and engaged them in a gun duel, which forced them to abandon five of the students and a teacher. One of the students…
Alphabet Inc’s Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry-standard method for classifying skin tones; which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color. At issue is a six-color scale known as Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST); which dermatologists have used since the 1970s. Tech companies now rely on it to categorize people and measure whether products such as facial recognition systems or smartwatch heart-rate sensors perform equally well across skin tones. Critics say FST, which includes four categories for “white” skin and…
Spotify has just acquired Podz. Podz is a startup that generates preview clips of podcasts and unlike other services that podcasters use to manually create clips; this service “automates the process of finding key moments from episodes using machine learning trained on over 100,000 hours of audio”. This particular acquisition should help Spotify improve podcast discovery and let users browse through short clips to decide what they want to listen to instead of 30-minute plus episodes. As Spotify explains, this is going to make it “easier for listeners to find the content they want to listen to, and for…