Old age Scientists have provided explanations on why humans are never going to be able to live beyond 150 years of age. They developed an app to predict the maximum lifespan. The study was published in the journal Nature Communications. Experts in biology and biophysics fed an artificial intelligence system vast amounts of Deoxy ribonucleic […]
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The Pentagon building | Charles Dharapak/AP Photo The Pentagon reopened on Tuesday afternoon, roughly an hour and a half after the building was placed on lockdown following a “shooting event” near the Metro bus platform. “The Pentagon has lifted the lock down and has reopened,” the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, which is responsible for […]
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Some former Chief Executives/Registrars of key agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education, whose tenure expired on July 31, have handed over to the most senior directors in the agencies. At the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede handed over to the Director of Information Technology Services, Fabian Okoro, at the expiration […]
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Ondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, in his Amotekun uniform A 14-year-old boy, names withheld, a secondary school pupil who also hawks slippers in Owo, Owo local government area of Ondo State, has narrated how he escaped from kidnapper’s den. The boy who said he was abducted by three men on Monday while going to the […]
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Over 17 parastatals under the Federal Ministry of Education are facing leadership crises as the tenure of all the chief executive officers are said to have expired with no clear directive from the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, to the affected officers on whether to hand over to the next person in command or […]
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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Ms Zainab Shamsuna-Ahmed, has said that Nigeria imported about 400,000 vehicles between 2015 and 2020. Shansuna-Ahmed, made the disclosure at a one-day sensitisation on the National Vehicle Registry (VREG), on Tuesday in Kano. The minister, represented by Mrs Fatima Hayatu, Director Technical Services in the ministry, said […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives’ Congress have begun consultations on how best to resolve the internal crisis in the APC following the Supreme Court judgment on the chairmanship of Mai Mala Buni. On Monday in Abuja, it was gathered that Osinbajo, under the directive of President […]
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The Federal Government has again raised the alarm over what it described as incessant unauthorised disclosure of official documents on social media and other platforms. It has therefore threatened to henceforth dismiss officials caught doing so. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, handed down the warning in an August 2, […]
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The State Working Committee (SWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom has suspended 17 caretaker committee chairmen and two other members for allegedly sponsoring youths to protest against Saturday’s ward congress. Akwa Ibom publicity secretary of the APC, Nkereuwem Enyongekere, in a statement, condemned the pockets of protests at the Secretariat by […]
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The Presidential Steering Committee, PSC, on COVID-19 has warned that vaccination is not a total cover from contracting the virus, especially as the third wave of the pandemic has started sweeping through some states. Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and PSC Chairman Boss Mustapha spoke yesterday during the PSC’s national briefing in […]
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