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Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu said President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of an agency on robotics and artificial intelligence(AI) for the South East.

Onu revealed this at a grand rally of the All Progressives Congress in Abakaliki, capital of Ebonyi state. The rally which received defectors from the Peoples Democratic Party, was attended by the national chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole.

Some of the defectors who were received include, Senator Sonni Ogbuoji, former Minister of Power and Steel, Chief Goddy Ogbaga, former Secretary to the State Government, Bernard Odoh and former attorney general and commissioner for justice, Chief Augustine Nwankwegu.

Onu told the rally that in 2015 he pleaded with South-East not to put its eggs in one basket but his pleadings fell on deaf ears.

“In 2015 I pleaded with the zone not to put our eggs in one basket. Today I want them to compare the 16 years of PDP and relate it with just 3 years of APC.

“The three years of APC is greater than the 16 years of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP); the second Niger bridge is nearing completion, the Enugu – Port-Harcourt and Enugu – Onitsha highways are in various levels of completion,” he said.

“The time has come for the South East to be in the mainstream of Nigerian politics by voting for President Buhari and APC in 2019”.

APC chairman Adams Oshiomhole said that the current security challenge in the country was devoid of religious or ethnic colouration.

Oshiomhole therefore urged Nigerians not to allow themselves to be deceived by the antics of selfish politicians in the country who are trying to give the security challenges in the country an ethnic colouration to score cheap political points.

According to Oshiomhole, there is a plot to paint the government of President Muhammadu Buhari in bad light by portraying all the killings in some states in the country as the handiwork of herdsmen.

“Let me urge you to be more careful because in this season people are spreading untruth. People are being hired to turn the gospel upside down. They want us to believe that every problem should be explained in ethnic and religious terms.

“We have a problem and we must confront those problems. Criminals must be dealt with individually as criminals. Government at all levels must work hard to protect every Nigerian regardless of tribe or religion, ” he said.

He said Buhari and the security agencies are working hard to put an end to the security challenges facing the country.

Oshiomhole urged the people of the South-East to vote for APC and President Buhari in  the 2019 general election as he has delivered democracy dividends to the zone.

” If Buhari has remembered the South-East which did not give him more than 10 percent in 2015, imagine what he will do if you give him 85 per cent in 2019″.

Former Governor of Abịa State, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu said the new River Niger bridge, which the PDP could not construct in 16 years, has now reached 53 per cent completion.

According to him, the South-East will give the President and APC majority of its votes in 2019 in appreciation for all the projects and democracy dividends he has given the zone.

The rally earlier scheduled to hold at the Pa Oruta Ngele Stadium Abakaliki was later moved to a a playground near the Enugu-Abakaliki Expressway following the refusal of the state government to grant the APC permission to use the stadium. (NAN)
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Nigeria is to create an Innovation and Technology Advisory Council to harness and support the creativity and innovative ingenuity of young Nigerians and drive the growth of the sector in the country.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who stated this on Tuesday while speaking with reporters after visiting seven technology and innovation hubs in different parts of Lagos, South West Nigeria, said a similar council has already been created for the industry.
He said: “Already, we have an Industrial and Competitiveness Council.  But what we want to look at is doing one for technology and one for innovation as well so that we bring in some of the key players and thinkers around technology, working with the government and working with government officials to develop policy and to develop all of the various ways by which we can help them to what they are doing better.”
Professor Osinbajo noted that so much innovation was going on in Nigeria and that there were many creative young Nigerians and innovators changing the way of doing things.
“I have seen for myself the sheer creativity and completely blown with what I see here and other places,” he said, pointing out that “practically every type of enterprise has been affected by technology and innovation.”
The Vice President, who chairs the Economic Management Team of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the National Economic Council, NEC, said government recognizes that technology is imperative to commerce and trade in contemporary society and has collaborated with a number of hubs to create a seamless environment for them to thrive.
He listed the hubs that government was working with to include the Civic Hub in Abuja; the North East Hub, which focuses on the use of technology and innovation to tackle the humanitarian challenges in North East Nigeria; and the Climate Change Hub, in collaboration with the Lagos Business School.
He added that government planned to collaborate with the Co-Creation Hub, one of the hubs he visited on Tuesday.
The vice president, who was accompanied during the visit by the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and other government officials,  said that government was “anxious not to get in the way of enterprise,” but to partner with them and create the right environment for business.
The vice president’s visit to the hubs also took him to Paystack , Ikeja; Andela, Ilupeju; Workstation and African  Fintech Foundry, Victoria Island.
Others were the Crowdy Farm and Flutterwave, both in Lekki.
Each of the hubs has young Nigerians developing ideas and designing solutions to various problems in confronting mankind.
At the Co-Creation Hub, Yaba, the Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bosun Tijani, informed Professor Osinbajo, that the firm was founded not only to build businesses but also to use technology positively.
He said his firm was also creating “awareness that what we need to build as a nation is to make the most of technology.”
The Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Crowdyfarm, Onyeka Akuma, said his hub was established to provide solutions to problems in agriculture, transportation and the environment.
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Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor-battery-performance, according to eight-lawsuits filed in various federal courts this week.
Since the company opened up about the year-old software-change, the tweak may have led iPhone owners to misguided attempts to resolve issues over the last year, the lawsuits contend.
All the lawsuits – filed in U.S. District Courts in California, New York and Illinois – seek class-action to represent potentially millions of iPhone owners nationwide.
A similar  case was lodged in an Israeli court on Monday, the newspaper Haaretz reported.












Apple did not respond to an email seeking comment on the filings.
The company acknowledged last week for the first time in detail that operating system updates released since “last year” for the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone SE and iPhone 7 included a feature “to smooth out” power supply from batteries that are cold, old or low on charge.
Phones without the adjustment would shut down abruptly because of a precaution designed to prevent components from getting fried, Apple said.
The disclosure followed a December 18 analysis by Primate Labs, which develops an iPhone performance measuring app that identified blips in processing speed and concluded that a software change had to be behind them.
One of the lawsuits, filed Thursday in San Francisco, said that “the batteries’ inability to handle the demand created by processor speeds” without the software patch was a defect.
“Rather than curing the battery defect by providing a free battery replacement for all affected iPhones, Apple sought to mask the battery defect,” according to the complaint.
The plaintiff in that case is represented by attorney Jeffrey Fazio, who represented plaintiffs in a 53-million dollars settlement with Apple in 2013 over its handling of iPhone warranty claims.
The problem now seen is that users over the last year could have blamed an aging computer processor for app crashes and sluggish performance – and chose to buy a new phone.
Meanwhile, the true cause may have been a weak battery that could have been replaced for a fraction of the cost, some of the lawsuits state.
“If it turns out that consumers would have replaced their battery instead of buying new iPhones had they known the true nature of Apple’s upgrades, you might start to have a better case for some sort of misrepresentation or fraud,” said Rory Van Loo.
Loo is a Boston University professor specialising in consumer technology law.
But Chris Hoofnagle, Faculty Director for the Berkeley Center or Law & Technology, said in an email that Apple might not have done wrong.
“We still haven’t come to consumer protection norms around aging products,’’ Hoofnagle said.
Pointing to a device with a security flaw as an example, he said, “the ethical approach could include degrading or even disabling functionality.”
The lawsuits seek unspecified damages in addition to in some cases, reimbursement.
A couple of the complaints seek court orders barring Apple from throttling iPhone computer speeds or requiring notification in future instances.
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Popular Nigerian singer/songwriter, Oluwabankole Wellington, a.k.a Banky W, and actress Adesua Etomi’s wedding dominated the internet search engine Google this week.
Mr Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade, Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager, Anglophone West Africa, made this known in a dispatch to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos.
He said that the Anambra state governorship election also top the chat of the search engine.
“The highly anticipated wedding of Nigeria’s favourite couple, R&B singer, Bankole Wellington and Nollywood actress, Adesua Etomi was held on Sunday.
“The couple, who announced their engagement shortly after co-starring in the Wedding Party movie, also held their court wedding on Monday.
“The video of the court wedding went viral as soon as it was posted on social media by the happy couple.
“Fans and friends have since taken to Google to search for more photos from the couple’s traditional wedding,’’ Kola-Ogunlade said.
The Google manager said that Governor Willie Obiano, this week, was declared the winner of the Gubernatorial Election held in Anambra State.
IPAC, Buhari Congratulates Obiano
He added that in his acceptance speech, Obiano thanked the citizens of Anambra State for voting despite several instances of election manipulation and over-voting cited by the election officers.
Kola-Ogunlade said that this led to the cancellation of results in several units.
Well-wishers also raced to Google to search for more details about the election results.
Also, the reported death of the former Vice President Alex Ekwueme who died in the early hours of Sunday in a London clinic became a trending topic.
“The sad news was confirmed by his family in a statement. This followed his family debunking news of his death two weeks earlier.
“Fans and well wishers raced to Google to confirm the sad news,’’ he said.
Kola-Ogunlade said that the news of the resignation of the Zimbabwean leader, Robert Mugabe also trended on google.
“Mid last-week, in what was referred to as a “bloodless transition”, Mugabe was removed from office and placed under house arrest.
“After almost a week of uncertainty, the 93-year old dictator resigned on Tuesday after nearly four decades in power.
“His resignation letter was read out at a joint session of the Zimbabwean Parliament in Harare and as celebration continues in Zimbabwe, Nigerians took to Google to confirm Mugabe’s resignation,’’ he said.
Early this week, news broke of Cyntoia Brown, a 29-year-old victim of sex trafficking, who had been sentenced to life in prison in Nashville, Tennessee,’’ the Google manager said.
He added that she was sentenced for shooting her abuser after being forced into prostitution at the age of 16.
“Brown, who has already served nearly 13 years in prison, will be eligible for parole after serving 51 years behind bars.
“This sentence has drawn outrage from celebrities such as Kim Kardashian West and Rihanna, who has began a social media protest with the Free Cyntoia Brown.
“Nigerians raced to Google to read more about Brown’s story, making her name a top trending search term,’’ he said.
NAN reports that Google Trends launched in May, 2006, allows one to see how popular, search terms and its demography have been over time on Google.
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Latest Gionee X-series smartphone, Gionee X1s, has been launched into the Nigerian market, ahead of the Black Friday sales on November 24.
The smartphone, which was unveiled by the Chief Executive Officer of Gionee, Mr. Chen Lei, in Lagos, was presented to Gionee’s Brand Ambassador, Oluseyi Joshua, popularly known as ‘Seyi Shay’.
According to the Marketing Director, Gionee Nigeria, Mr. Somoye Habeeb, Gionee always tries to move ahead of time, which was what prompted the launch of the smartphone, ahead of the Christmas Black Friday sales.
He stated that the smartphone was introduced to bridge the gap between the high-end and the low-end people.
Habeeb described the smartphone as a ‘mid-range gadget’ because its price was relatively low as compared to other devices, which possessed the same features with the smartphone.
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The major highlight of the device is the 16-megapixel ‘selfie’ camera with front flash and its 4000mAh battery capacity.
The device also comes with features such as the rear mounted fingerprint shutter, 13-megapixel rear camera with LED flash, Android 7.0 operating system, Amigo 4.0, 5.20-inch touchscreen display and 16GB internal memory and 3GB RAM.
The X1s combines IR remote and flash together, which is able to control devices at home.
Speaking at the event, the Managing Director, Gionee Nigeria, Mr. Ben Ekechukwu, said Gionee was partnering online gadget stores for Black Friday’s freebies.
He said the product launch was Gionee’s way of offering perks to consumers for the fast approaching Black Friday and beyond.
According to him, the Black Friday period should be taken advantage of, as it will afford people the opportunity of purchasing the phone at a give-away price.
He gave other benefits that came with purchasing the device as a 15-month warranty and the after-sales service rendered to customers.
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Uber on Wednesday unveiled a partnership with NASA that will see it develop flying taxis priced competitively with standard Uber journeys.
It also announced Los Angeles will join two other previously revealed “UberAIR” pilot schemes in Dallas Fort-Worth, Texas, and Dubai.
California and Texas are the US states with the largest number of cars.
“Uber’s participation in NASA’s UTM (Unmanned Traffic Management) Project will help the company’s goal of starting demonstration flights of uberAIR in select US cities by 2020,” the ride-sharing company said in a statement.
Uber wants to “explore other collaboration opportunities with NASA” with a view to open “a new market of urban air mobility,” it added.
The first demonstration flights are expected in 2020, moving into commercial operations by 2023 — in plenty of time for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
The flights will have a pilot during initial flights, but could be automated in the future, spokesman Matthew Wing confirmed to AFP.
An UberAir journey between Los Angeles’ airport and the Staples Center arena, for example, would take 27 minutes — three times less time than the same journey by car.
A promotional video illustrated the app would work in a similar way to the current set-up for ordering a car ride.
But the planned electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLS) “differ from helicopters in that they are orders of magnitude quieter, safer, more affordable, and more environmentally-friendly,” the company said, adding that journeys will be priced competitively with a standard Uber trip.
The vehicles will take off, land and recharge upon a network of “vertiports” installed on top of parking garages, on existing helipads or on unused land around road interchanges.
Deloitte’s Pascal Pincemin said at the Paris Air Show flying taxis will not be commonplace until 2050, as their reliability will need to be established first.
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