Facebook buys ‘mind-reading wristband’ firm CTRL-Lab
Facebook has acquired a start-up, CTRL-Labs which is developing devices that can pick up electrical signals from the brain and transmit them to a computer. CTRL-Labs has designed a wristband that can identify the signals the brain sends to the hand telling it to move, and decode them, according to BBC report. It could then […]
Our Judiciary must be free
The Chief Justice of Nigerian, Tanko Mohammed, unwittingly contradicted himself in addressing the vexed issue of freedom of the Judiciary arm of government at the commencement of this year’s Legal Year of the Supreme Court, during which 38 new Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, were inaugurated.
Retirees’ crisis: Police warns NPA pensioners against demonstration
THE Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Port Police Command, has intervened to restrain a group of the agency’s retirees against embarking on a demonstration without a permit.
Illegality of forceful restriction of movement on account of environmental sanitation
ON September 28, 2019, residents of states such as Oyo, Ekiti and Ogun will be restricted to their homes from 7.00 am to about 9.00 am or 10.00 am. The restriction, which is observed in several other states of the Federation on the last Saturday of every month, was first introduced by the military to force Nigerians to remain indoors and clean their surroundings. However, 20 years after the end of military rule, Nigerians are still stuck with this relic from our past.
Buhari reshuffles cabinet, separates Keyamo from Akpabio
By Omeiza Ajayi President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday (Tuesday) reshuffled his cabinet, redeploying two Ministers of State. A statement issued by the Director, Press, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation OSGF, Mr Willie Bassey stated that “Mr Festus Keyamo, Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs is to move to Ministry of […]
Atiku, PDP list 66 reasons why Supreme Court should sack Buhari, order fresh election
Insist tribunal’s judgement was perverse, occasioned miscarriage of justice Allege Buhari gave false information of fundamental nature By Ikechukwu Nnochiri The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and its Presidential candidate in the last general election, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday, approached the Supreme Court, adducing reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election should be nullified. In a 66-ground […]
