Day: June 30, 2019

I was once raped by an armed robber—Elvina Ibru

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Elvina Ibru, an actress and scriptwriter, has recently revealed that she had once been raped by an armed robber in her home. Lending some words of advice to rape victims, Ibru said, “You mustn’t be scared of what people are going to say because it is not your fault. I got a lot of snide remarks when I revealed my experience; some people said I was looking for attention. Meanwhile, it is because of talks like that, that many victims don’t report rape incidents. I wish everybody has a strong…

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Creators shut down App That Virtually ‘Undresses’ Women

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After a social media uproar over its potential for abuse, the creators of an application allowing users to virtually “undress” women using artificial intelligence have shut it down. The creators of “DeepNude” said the software was launched several months ago for “entertainment” and that they “greatly underestimated” demand for the app. “We never thought it would be viral and (that) we would not be able to control the traffic,” the DeepNude creators, who listed their location as Estonia, said on Twitter. “Despite the safety measures adopted (watermarks), if 500,000 people…

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Soldier arrested for selling bullets to kidnapper

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Koza Yabiliok, a 32-year-old Lance Corporal, has been arrested by the Kaduna State Police Command for allegedly selling ammunition to a suspected kidnapper that has been terrorising the state over the years. Yabiliok revealed that he sold out each round of the live ammunition for N400. The soldier serves in one of the military units at the Jaji Military Cantonment in the state. But Yabiliok said he never knew that his customer was a kidnapper. He added that the suspected kidnapper only told him that he needed the ammunition for…

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