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​ The TMTR Training Room, a skills-based, practice-led certificate-awarding institute commenced operations with a training programme for select journalists drawn from the print, broadcast and online platforms on Saturday, February 10, 2018. It is run by Toni Kan and Peju Akande. The programme focused primarily on equipping the participants with tools and insights to better understand the Cybercrimes Prohibition Act 2015 and how it affects their practice especially with the imminent 2019 elections. The institute was conceived in January 2015 with the mission to evolve a teaching culture that will…

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All candidates seeking admission into all tertiary institutions in Lagos State must henceforth possess credit in Yoruba Language, the state Yoruba Language Preservation and Preservation Law has said. The law, which became effective last Thursday, would now make compulsory for all primary and secondary schools – private or public – in the state to include teaching of Yoruba Language as a core subject at all levels. The state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, had formally signed a bill into law “to provide for the preservation and promotion of the use of…

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The management of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, is yet to come to terms with an explanation by an official in the Makurdi, Benue office of the Board that proceeds from the sale of admission scratch in the state, totaling N36million have been swallowed from the cash vault by a mystery snake that comes in the night. The mystery snake was said to have sneaked into the account office of the Board in Makurdi, a number of time, and made away with the N36m. A sales clerk, Philomina Chieshe,…

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Chinese security operatives have began to use smart glasses equipped with facial recognition technology to identify citizens. The new initiative is to help identify culprits, missing persons, or crime witnesses by scanning the faces of people in a crowd and areas where there are no CCTV cameras. Before now the country uses CCTV cameras that can identify citizens and even track their movements around, now the facial recognition sunglasses will help security personnel in both crowed area and areas where are no cameras. While this may be a good initiative,…

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In a bizzare marriage of absurd twists and deliberate unethical legal practices, the scandal involving a Canada-based stripper and aspiring musician, Stephanie Otobo and Apostle Johnson Suleiman of Omega Fire Ministries, Auchi, sprung more surprises as the lady’s lawyer, Festus Keyamo has filed a plea to relinquish his position as counsel to Miss Otobo in court. It appears that the controversial lawyer has been given a black eye by his client as he said in his application that recent events, including his client’s confession at OFM and her subsequent refusal…

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  A warrant of arrest has been issued against the chairman of Innoson Motors Nigeria Limited, Innocent Chukwuma by a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, over his failure to appear in court. Justice Mojisola Dada made the order on the request of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Anselem Ozioko. The EFCC had instituted a suit bordering on fraud and stealing against Chukwuma, alongside his company, Innoson Motors Limited, and his brother, Charles Chukwuma. Innoson did not appear in court for the scheduled arraignment. Consequently, Justice Dada…

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At a security summit yesterday, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has explained why Nigeria is ripe for state police. The inability of governors, as state chief security officers, to commandeer police forces has always been on the front burner of complaints about defects in the nation’s structure. Present at the summit were the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, Chief of Army Staff, Lt-General Tukur Buratai, and the Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok-Ete Ekwe, among others. “We cannot realistically police a country the size of Nigeria centrally from Abuja. State police and…

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