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Police Take Over Nigerian House In New York As Anti-Buhari Protest Heighten

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3 years ago

September 25, 2021

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Personnel of the New York Police Department were deployed to keep order at the Nigerian House, Kudirat Abiola Corner, Manhattan Friday evening as members of the Yoruba Nation and the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) invaded the premises protesting against the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

The detachment of law enforcement officers had a hard time keeping the crowd in check as they vented their anger against any person perceived to be a government official present in the area.

Some of the important personalities they hounded included the Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, one of his predecessors in office, Babagana Kingibe, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar.

According to Nigerian Tribune, the protesters were initially calm as they even mingled with pro-administration protesters on the opposite side of the road for most of the time.

However, as the day went by, they sneaked across the road and started to confront any person in sight outside the lobby of the Consulate.

They chanted expletives on anyone they saw including people who were not connected to the government but just happened to be present at the building.

The protesters accused them of being aiders and abetters of Fulani herdsmen who they accused of killing members of other tribes in the country.

At a point, Nigerian security agents and members of staff at the Consulate confronted the protesters, almost resulting in a fisticuff exchange.

The police quickly arrived and created a wooden cordon around the entrance of the building.

They thereafter prevailed on the protesters to maintain their distance behind the cordon as they continued to express their anger at the state of the nation.

Theycarried banners with various inscriptions including: “Break up Nigeria to save lives; Buhari is a life patron of Fulani terrorists ; Fulani pose an existential threat to indigenous sub-Saharan Africans;

Fulani are terrorists; Free Sowore, drop all charges against him; stop giving loans to the Nigerian government; End Fulani terrorism in Nigeria.”

The pro and anti-Buhari protests were a constant feature throughout the duration of President Buhari’s participation at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

The pro-government protesters who congregated under the name of “One Nigeria” carried out their solidarity marches around the Nigerian Consulate daily, stressing the need for the country to remain as one.

They also carried posters, which affirmed that the claim of killings and marginalization were propaganda against the country.

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Google To Offer AI-generated Answers In Search Results

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7 hours ago

May 14, 2024

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Google 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.

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.

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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May 14, 2024

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Albany 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;

“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.”

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Nigerian Burnt To Death In Bangkok Car Crash

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May 14, 2024

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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.

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.

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.