Covenant University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with OBTranslate to undertake research and development activities in a broad range of areas. The MoU between the two parties covers machine translation, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and linguistics for OBTranslate scientists to further develop the “OBTranslate” machine translation and generative …
Read More »Influential US jazz pianist and composer, Ahmad Jamal, dies aged 92
Acclaimed US jazz pianist, composer, and band leader, Ahmad Jamal, whose career spanned more than seven decades, passed away on Sunday at the age of 92. His wife confirmed his death to the Washington Post while his daughter, Sumayah Jamal, told The New York Times he’d died of prostate cancer. …
Read More »Mercy Chinwo Starts New Record Label, Drops Her ELEVATED EP
Xclusive Gospel. Mercy Chinwo Starts New Record Label, Drops Her ELEVATED EP Popular Nigerian Gospel singer Mercy Chinwo has just released her anticipated EP titled ELEVATED with a...
Read More »Fighting continues in Sudan as death toll climbs
Fighting continues to rage for the second consecutive day Sunday in Khartoum where violent clashes oppose the camps of two generals at the helm of Sudan since their putsch in 2021, leaving 56 civilians dead and 600 injured. The international community, which watched helplessly as the coup d’état took place …
Read More »SEC blames forex scarcity for low foreign investments
The Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Lamido Yuguda, has blamed the dwindling level of Foreign Portfolio Investments in the country on scarcity of foreign exchange. Based on data from the National Bureau of Statistics, the Foreign Portfolio Investment (including equity, bonds and money market instruments) dropped by 27.86 …
Read More »Burkina Faso: Support in Ouagadougou for govt ‘mobilisation’ against jihadists
Support is growing for Burkina Faso’s military junta declaration of a “general mobilisation” to give the state “all necessary means” to combat a string of jihadist attacks since the start of this year. The goal is to create a “legal framework for all the actions to be taken” against the …
Read More »Shocking prison break fugitive returned to S. Africa
A South African fugitive who faked his own death in a prison break that embarrassed the authorities has been extradited from Tanzania, the government said on Thursday. Thabo Bester, convicted of rape and murder, escaped from a privately-run prison in Bloemfontein in May last year — but South African police …
Read More »400 migrants die crossing Central Mediterranean in Q1 – IOM
A report by the International Organisation for Migration says no fewer than 400 migrants died between January and March 2023 while attempting to cross the Central Mediterranean. The Central Mediterranean route – stretching overseas from North Africa to Italy and, to a lesser degree, Malta – is the world’s most …
Read More »Comoros, France spar over Mayotte expulsions
The Comoros government asked France on Monday to abandon a planned operation of evictions, destruction of illegal housing and arrests in Mayotte, a French department in the Indian Ocean facing a galloping crime rate, against the backdrop of a migration crisis. The operation, named “Wuambushu” (“takeover”, in Moroccan) and conceived …
Read More »UN chief urges more aid on visit to Somalia’s displaced
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday visited a camp for internally displaced people in Baidoa, in Somalia’s southwest. Speaking through a translator, Guterres sat down with some of the displaced to hear their concerns. The UN chief arrived in Somalia on Tuesday on what he termed as a ‘solidarity visit’. …
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