10/03/17

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Zimbabwe First Lady, Grace Mugabe

A Zimbabwean journalist has been detained for writing a news story deemed insulting to the country’s first lady, Grace Mugabe, a legal aid group said on Tuesday.
Kenneth Nyangani of the privately-owned Newsday newspaper was detained late Monday, police spokeswoman, Charity Charamba, confirmed, adding that a full statement would later be issued on the case.
Nyangani had written an article alleging that the first lady — a notorious shopper with a penchant for designer goods — had made a charitable donation of clothes, including used undergarments, to supporters of her husband’s Zanu-PF party.
“We understand police officers are planning on charging him with criminal defamation,” said Kumbirai Mafunda, spokesman for Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, the group representing the journalist.
Zimbabwe ranked 128 out of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders 2017 World Press Freedom Index.
The group called the media situation in the southern African country “oppressive” and noted that both local and foreign journalists regularly face arrest.
Nonagenarian President Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for three decades and intends to contest elections again next year.
Grace has been widely tipped as a possible successor to her 93-year-old husband.
Mugabe has been accused of vote rigging, multiple human rights violations, and self-enrichment in a country where 63 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, according to the UN’s World Food Programme.
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WiFi could become obsolete in a few years as Chinese scientists have  developed a faster way of transmitting data via LiFi.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported  the  breakthrough by the scientists in creating full-color emissive carbon dots (F-CDs), which brings them one step closer to developing a faster wireless communication channel that could be available in just six years.
Light Fidelity, known as LiFi, uses visible light from LED bulbs to transfer data much faster than radio wave-based WiFi.
A 2015 test by a Chinese government ministry showed that LiFi can reach speeds of 50 gigabytes per second, at which a movie download can be completed in just 0.3 seconds.
While most current research uses rare earth materials to provide the light for LiFi to transmit data, a team of Chinese scientists have created an alternative — F-CDs, a fluorescent carbon nanomaterial that proves to be safer and faster.
“Many researchers around the world are still working on this. We were the first to successfully create it using cost-effective raw materials such as urea with simple processing,” said Qu Songnan, an associate researcher at Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which leads the research.
Qu said rare earth has a long lifespan which reduces the speed of LiFi transmission. However, F-CDs enjoy the advantage of faster data transmission speeds.
In previous studies, carbon dots were limited to the emission of lights such as blue and green. The new nanomaterial that Qu’s team has developed can emit all light visible to the human eye, which is a breakthrough in the field of fluorescent carbon nanomaterial.
Qu said this is significant for the development of LiFi, which he expects to enter the market in just six years.
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Students of the defunct Moshood Abiola Polytechnic (MAPOLY), Abeokuta, have staged a protest march over the delay in the conduct of their second semester examination.

The students are also demanding if they will be moved to the campus of new Ogun State Polytechnic, Ipokia, which was set up to replace MAPOLY.

The delay in holding the examination, was largely caused by the MAPOLY’s lecturers, who were on strike over the uncertainty on the status of the new polytechnic.

The students in their hundreds, marched to the Governor’s Office at Oke Mosan in Abeokuta, where they were addressed by Governor Ibikunle Amosun.

The governor, appealing for calm, explained that the existing MAPOLY students will remain at the Abeokuta campus, while only the newly admitted students will report at the Ipokia campus of the new polytechnic.

Amosun also promised to meet the striking lecturers, to facilitate the conduct of the examination, which ought to have began last September 18.
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Jigawa State government has reiterated its commitment to support women entrepreneurship, especially in hard-to-access areas of the state.

The state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Ladi Dansure, gave the assurance during the graduation of 53 girls trained in fashion design and tailoring services.

Hajiya Dansure said the beneficiaries were selected from local government areas across the state to become self-reliant.

She commended the effort of Women for Health, a non-governmental organisation, for its support in the training and provision of sewing machines to the beneficiaries, and urged them to make good use of what they were given and as well train others.

Also speaking, the state Team Leader of Women for Health, Mr. Robert Bature, said the beneficiaries were those not able to get admission into the School of Health Technology and Midwifery of the state due to deficiency in their results.

Bature explained that the organisation focussed on girls’ education, especially health education and assured of his organisation’s support to empower women in the state.
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The Ekiti State Government on Monday  in Abuja described the arrest of two of its commissioners by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission as unconstitutional.

The two government officials until their arrest, were serving under the administration of Governor Ayodele Fayose.

The Commissioner for Finance, Toyin Ojo; and the Accountant General of the State, Yemisi Owolabi were picked by the EFCC  over allegations bothering on misapplication of certain resources that accrued to the state government.

However, speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Monday, the Attorney-General of the State, Mr Kolapo Kolade, described the action of the EFCC as unconstitutional and a display of  what he called executive lawlessness.

He said that  a valid subsisting  court order was issued in 2016 by a Federal High Court in a suit FHC/AD/CS/32/2016 in which the EFCC was a defendant.

He said that  the order of the court barred the EFCC from “arresting, detaining or investigating any person or persons whether past or present officials in the Ekiti State Government without any report of indictment by the Ekiti State House of Assembly.”

The order of the court, he said, was duly served on the EFCC on November 7,  2016, adding that the order had yet to be vacated as of the time the officials were arrested by the EFCC.

The commissioner said, “Following the Interim Order, the EFCC wrote a petition to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for the transfer of the case to another Federal High Court Judge and the case was subsequently transferred to the Akure Judicial Division of the Federal High Court.

“The Akure Judicial  Division of the Federal High Court sat over the case on the 24th day of January, 2017 and re-emphasized the order made earlier by the Ado Ekiti Judicial Division of the Federal High Court.

“The case was adjourned to 15/02/2017 for hearing. However, the Judge referred the case back to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court to have a second look at the issue of transferring the case to the Akure Judicial Division of the Federal High Court.

“The Order of the Federal High court has not been vacated till date. In Order words, the issue of the arrest and or detention of the Ekiti State Government Officials is subjudice.

“The EFCC is not above the law and the Agency is bound to obey Lawful Orders made by Courts as in this case.

“The Actions of the EFCC are to say, the least lawful and a raw show of executive lawlessness.”

Kolade accused the EFCC of acting outside its constitutional mandate by attempting to look into the account books of the state.
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