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Alphabet has confirmed with TechCrunch that it has disabled certain Google Maps live traffic tools in Ukraine which is meant to confuse Russian troops.  The news, reported by Reuters, comes after the company has consulted with local authorities as the country faces attacks from Russian forces. The features will remain on for local turn-by-turn navigation for drivers, while broader global access is disabled. The popular mapping technology has served a surprise role in the invasion of Ukraine since the outset. One research facility in California was able to spot the Russian approach toward the Ukrainian border hours before the “special military operation”…

The clamour for local government autonomy yielded result as Nigerian Senate passed bills granting financial and administrative autonomy to local government areas in the country. While 92 senators voted to pass financial autonomy for local government areas, 88 voted to pass administrative autonomy of local government areas. The Senate also approved financial autonomy for state legislatures and the judiciary. Read also:  Senate in a fix as Buhari Rebuffs assent to Electoral Act Amendment Bill Senate President Clears air on Salaries for Senators and House of Reps Nigerian Senate approves Buhari’s $16b, €1b loan requests The approval came on Tuesday during…

Publisher: Parresia Publishers Limited, 82 Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. 2020 Number of Pages: 192 Author: Anietie Usen Arnold Udoka, Ph.D Chapter 18, Sharpshooters and the Hooligans, introduces the reader to sports native to and imported into Afaha Akpan Iman Ibom of the 1960s like ekak, oyo, ikara, nsa isong and backyard football. A lively community with tempestuous youth, Akan soaks in this milieu, but he is not as fierce as Odudu who canes people once he is behind the mask or snatch a football even from the owner in his family house. Akan acquits himself of the character of a bully.     …

Officials of the Nigerian Embassy said they have received 130 Nigerians safely at Bucharest, Romania where they have been provided accommodation and would be documented. Ministry of External Affairs added that “Officials at Budapest, Hungary have received and accommodated 74 Nigerians safely, “We expect another batch of about 200 into the city of Budapest, tomorrow.” The ministry stated that in Warsaw, Poland, they have received 52 Nigerians and 23 Nigerians are being processed at the Polish Government Reception Point, and at Hala Kijowska, Milny 90, 37-552 Milny, which they say is near the border of Korczowa-Krakowiec. Read also: US boosts Ukraine…

The Nigeria-Russia trade valued at more than $2 billion is facing risk following Russia declaration of war against Ukraine. Nigeria also stands the risk of suffering from significant food shortages and uptick food inflationary pressure, following the war, which broke out last Thursday. The war started after the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of his troops into Ukrainian territories, thereby causing several casualties in the area having camped at Ukrainian borders for weeks. Russia is a powerhouse in the global economy, being one of the largest exporters of crude products, coupled with its impact in the energy…

Publisher: Parresia Publishers Limited, 82 Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. 2020 Number of Pages: 192 Author: Anietie Usen Arnold Udoka, Ph.D Chapter 9, The Reluctant Schoolboy, is about Akan rejecting to no avail, his oversized school uniform sewn by his mother. He is forcefully dressed in his oversized uniform and literally dragged to school. At registration in the school, Akan is so miffed by uncle Ekong’s character and betrays to his mother, a radical trait earlier unknown to the mother. He chooses not to share the same surname with his terror of an uncle, Ekong. Instead, he chooses Godsday as…

Russia is gradually paying huge price for Ukraine invasion as many European Union countries have taken compelling steps to force her to back down on the action. The European Union placed flight ban on Russian planes, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced Sunday. “We are shutting down EU airspace for Russian-owned, Russian-registered or Russian-controlled aircraft,” she said. European Union members Austria, Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Finland, Romania, Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, and Denmark.] Read also: Russia launches military onslaught for full-scale Ukraine invasion All such planes, including the private…

Liverpool won the Carabao Cup final after beating Chelsea 11-10 in an extraordinary penalty shootout at Wembley on Sunday. After a brilliant match somehow finished goalless, the first 21 penalties were all converted successfully. Then Kepa Arrizabalaga, who was brought on at the end of extra-time, launched his penalty over the bar. Until then, the match had been a story of two other goalkeepers: Caiomhin Kelleher and Edouard Mendy, who made a series of outstanding saves to keep the score at 0-0. Read also: Liverpool crush 10-man Man United in humiliating win A pulsating match ebbed and flowed throughout. There…

Publisher: Parresia Publishers Limited, 82 Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. 2020 Number of Pages: 192 Author: Anietie Usen Arnold Udoka, Ph.D Anietie Usen’s Village Boy is based on the account of what happened to a boy who lost his father at a very tender age. It is the heroic narrative of the vicissitudes foisted on a youthful family by death and the problematic adventures by a youngster and an equally young widow straddling harsh cultural milieux of rural and urban lives where survival is both a matter of self-help and reliance on others as coordinates to locate destiny’s El Dorado. …

The Independent National Electoral Commission has moved the 2023 Presidential and National Assembly elections from February 18, 2023 to February 25, 2023. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, who stated this at a news conference in Abuja Saturday, February 26, attributed the rescheduling of the election to the late signing of the Electoral Amendment Act by President Muhammadu Buhari. Yakubu said Presidential and National Assembly elections would now hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023, while governorship and state houses of assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023. Read also: Shake-up: INEC redeploys RECs, directors According to him, the new…