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Statistics: Buhari spends 225 days on medical trips, visits 40 countries

Statistics: Buhari spends 225 days on medical trips, visits 40 countries

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has spent at least 225 days away from the country on medical trips since assuming office in 2015, a Sunday PUNCH investigation has uncovered. On February 5, 2016, eight months after assuming office, the President took his first medical trip to London, the United Kingdom, spending six days. Buhari’s second medical trip would follow four months later on June 6, 2016. He spent 10 days treating an undisclosed ear infection after which he rested for three extra days before returning to Abuja on June 19, 2016. On January 19, 2017, the President embarked on his second-longest…
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More trouble for Kanye West as Elon Musk suspends him from Twitter

More trouble for Kanye West as Elon Musk suspends him from Twitter

The United States rapper, Kanye West has been suspended from Twitter, after being accused of “inciting violence” over harsh tweets, barely two months after his last ban. West, also known as Ye on Elon Musk-owned microblogging site, posted a sequence of erratic tweets, one of which seemed to display a symbol combining a swastika and a Jewish star. CNN reports that Twitter’s chief executive officer (CEO), Musk was asked by one user to “fix Kanye.” West had “violated our rule against incitement to violence”, Musk tweeted. “Account will be suspended,” Musk wrote in a Twitter post. West, during an interview…
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Osinbajo inaugurates Omeife, Africa’s first humanoid

Osinbajo inaugurates Omeife, Africa’s first humanoid

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Friday in Abuja, inaugurated Omeife, Africa’s first humanoid to boost Artificial Intelligence (AI) and technological development in Nigeria and the continent. Osinbajo was represented by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Pantami, who in turn was represented by the Director-General, of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Kashifu Inuwa. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Omeife, the first African humanoid robot was developed by the Uniccon Group. Omrife is with near-human resemblance, language competency, movement, navigation, and behavioral intelligence using AI and computer vision capabilities. “We are living in an…
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Baba-Ahmed hails Shettima’s ‘improved dress sense’

Baba-Ahmed hails Shettima’s ‘improved dress sense’

The vice presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba-Ahmed, has sarcastically applauded his counterpart in the ruling All Progressives Congress, Senator Kashim Shettima, over his “improved dress sense” at public functions. This is even as he described the former Governor of Borno State as a “morally-bankrupt character” who is out of touch with reality. The APC vice presidential candidate, who stood in for his principal, Bola Tinubu, was mocked on August 22 for dressing in an oversized suit-and-sneakers combo at the Nigeria Bar Association conference in Lagos. The development led to a backlash, especially on Twitter where #ShettimaChallenge trended…
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World AIDS Day: 36,797 persons living with HIV in Niger

World AIDS Day: 36,797 persons living with HIV in Niger

Niger State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Makusidi Muhammad, has revealed that at least 36,797 persons are presently living with HIV in the state. The commissioner stated this through the Director, of Medical Services and Training, Dr. Baba Uthman at a press briefing to mark this year’s World AIDS Day in Minna with the theme “Equalize to End AIDS: Equal Access to Treatment and Prevention Services.” According to him, between January and September this year, a total of 2,628 clients tested positive for HIV in the state. Muhammad disclosed: “HIV/AIDS data for the year under review shows that between 1st January…
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