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Ecosystem Restoration: Foundation Plants 10,000 Trees In Edo
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EditorThe Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) has disclosed its plans to plant 10,000 trees in Edo State, aimed at restoring the ecosystem in the state.
Mrs Edosa Esosa, the Edo coordinator, NCF, stated this during the tree planting exercise at St Maria Gorretti Girls Grammar School and Idogbo Junior Secondary School, all in Benin, Edo State on Friday.
Esosa who said the tree planting exercise is to save the school environment, added that it is in collaboration with the Edebiri family in honour of their late mother Omo’Oba Mary Mojisola Edebiri (Nee Awolesi).
“The idea to plant trees in schools is to provide the much needed shade and cooling, as well as creating a more pleasant and friendly environment for the school children to play.
“The tree planting exercise is to spread across the public schools in Edo. Today we are planting 50 trees at St Maria Gorretti with another 50 trees at Idogbo school
“Our aim is to ensure we plant trees in all public schools in Edo”, she said.
Esosa noted that the trees planted on school ground would also provide opportunities for environmental education, as well as getting young children to think about environmental conservation early.
The Edo NCF Coordinator disclosed that the foundation would establish a conservation club for school children to nuture them on the important of tree planting, nature conservation and biodiversity resource.
The Chairman of Grassroot Consultative Committee, Edo Forest Reserve, Mr Monday Iyayomwangbe said 5000 of Khayar seedlings and another 5000 Senegelisis seedlings are to be planted in the state.
According to him, the species of the two seedlings would help to regenerate and protect the ecosystem of the state.
“The benefits of tree planting cannot be over emphasis, part from the beautification of the environment, it helps develop plantations, as well as wind breakers to protect both residential, industrial and public structures.
“When we plant trees, it cools the environment, absorbs greenhouse gases, increase humidity and aesthetic beauty, provides food and improve wildlife habitat and the ecosystem,” he said.
He, however, called on organisations and well-meaning individuals in the state to collaborate with the government and NCF in combating climate change through tree planting and sensitisation against tree felling.
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Google To Offer AI-generated Answers In Search Results
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EditorGoogle has announced 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 this week,” Google chief executive Sundar Pichai said at an event in California on Tuesday, May 14.
Google’s search results will feature an AI summary at the top of the page before the more typical unfurling of links.
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The AI answers generated by Google’s Gemini technology will offer succinct summaries of what it found on the internet with links to the online sources that supplied the information.
“You can ask whatever’s on your mind or whatever you need to get done – from researching to planning to brainstorming – and Google will take care of the legwork,” said Google Search team boss Liz Reid.
The change comes as Google feels growing pressure from AI-powered search engines like Perplexity, and from the rumors that OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, is building its own AI search tool.
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Searches through AI chats have also appeared on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, with users able to get information from the web without Google.
The change will soon spread to other countries, Pichai added, making it accessible to more than a billion people.
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College Volleyball Player Killed In US Nightclub Shooting
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EditorAlbany State University volleyball player Mariam Creighton has been tragically killed in a nightclub shooting in Atlanta.
Atlanta Police Department said on Tuesday, May 14, that the incident happened around 2:28 AM on Sunday, May 14, when officers responded to shots fired at the Elleven45 establishment.
Six people were shot, two of whom were pronounced dead at the scene, Creighton and 20-year-old Nakyris Ridley.
The police department said in a statement;
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“Preliminary investigation indicates the shooting occurred during a physical dispute at the location that escalated to gunfire.”
Creighton was a member of the ASU Golden Rams volleyball team, and was one semester from graduating from the HBCU with a biology degree.
Her family said she was at the club on Sunday celebrating her niece’s birthday. “It’s just senseless,” Creighton’s sister, Tiffany, said. “My sister was just out having a good time, and now our lives are just altered forever.”
A 35-year-old Nigerian man identified as Daniel was burnt to death in a car accident in Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok’s Prawet Police Station, confirmed the identity of the Nigerian national in a statement on Tuesday, May 14, 2024,
Daniel, whose Thai wife came to confirm his identity with the police, died on Saturday, May 11, when his car crashed into a road median and caught fire.
This serious road accident occurred at 5:30 a.m. on a three-lane road near Soi Phatthanakan 53/1, Suan Luang Subdistrict and District, Bangkok.
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When officials received the report and arrived at the scene, they found a gray Toyota Vios with Samut Prakan province license plates overturned and engulfed in flames, blocking the middle of the road.
The officers spent about 10 minutes spraying water to extinguish the fire, but the car was completely damaged by the flames.
At that time, rescuers had to use cutting and prying equipment to remove the driver’s body from the wreckage and send it to the Police Hospital for an autopsy. They found a document with a front-facing photo of a foreign man.
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Eyewitnesses stated that they saw the car driving at high speed in the far right lane before losing control and crashing into the road median.
The car spun and hit a palm tree with such force that it flipped over and ended up on its roof in the middle of the road.
At that moment, good Samaritans tried to pry open the door to help the unconscious driver, but before they could pull him out, sparks ignited, and the car quickly caught fire.
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