The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has earmarked N1 billion for the construction of hostels in 12 institutions under the Fund’s 2024 intervention cycle. The Executive Secretary of the Fund, Sonny Echono, disclosed this at a One-Day Workshop on ‘Emerging Areas of Students Needs in Benefi...
An Ogun State High Court sitting in Abeokuta, the state capital, has sentenced a 47-year-old secondary school teacher, Ojo Ezekiel to life imprisonment for raping a seven-year-old girl. Ezekiel was first arraigned on July 1, 2022, on one count charge of rape contrary to section 3 (1) and punishable un...
Sat in a circle on the nursery floor, a group of Swiss three-year-olds ask a robot called Nao questions about giraffes and broccoli. By the time these children become adults, interacting with robots may well be as commonplace as using a smartphone, experts believe. So one Lausanne creche has decided to...
Google on Tuesday said it would introduce AI-generated answers to online queries made by users in the United States, in one of the biggest updates to its search engine in 25 years. “I’m excited to announce that we will begin launching this fully revamped experience, ‘AI overviews,’ to everyone in the US...
A peace advocacy group, operating under the aegis of Coalition for Peace and Justice in Nigeria,CPJN, has flayed Monday’s protest against Bingham University by some members of its host community demanding jobs,scholarship opportunities, contract opportunities, among several others. The group which noted...
Nigerian music artiste, Habeeb Okikiola, popularly called Portable, has passed the night in a police cell following his failure to meet the bail conditions set for his release after he was arrested for refusing to pay the N14m debt he incurred when he purchased a G-Wagon from a car dealer in Lagos State...
