Abuja   – The Senate on Thursday humbled Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, by sending him packing at a committee sitting where the minister was to defend the budget of his ministry.

A recent report has highlighted a worrying fact about Android mobile phones.  Even if the user has opted out of location services,

Thanks to Botnik, a self-described “community of writers, artists and developers collaborating with machines to create strange new things,”  Harry

Between Russian interference in the US presidential election, the spread of “fake news” more broadly, one-click online ordering for almost anything I need, and my cellphone that now seems to know more about me than I might know myself, I’m amazed by the influence that internet companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon have so quickly amassed. Their power is undeniable, and it is also inescapable.

By LISA EADICICCO December 13, 2017 Google may be the household name when it comes to search, but Microsoft is hoping it can make its Bing search engine the smartest. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has announced a handful of new features that it says are powered by artificial intelligence. The updates will start rolling out on Wednesday and will continue over the coming week.

Google is expanding its artificial intelligence, or AI research to China. The search giant said Wednesday that it is opening a facility, Google AI China Center, intended to help the company conduct AI research in the country and hire employees with backgrounds in machine learning. The research facility will be based in Beijing, where Google has an existing office.

CLEVELAND -- LeBron James sat in front of his locker Tuesday night following the Cavaliers' 123-114 win over the Atlanta Hawks, a game in which he tied his career high in assists with 17, but he wasn't ready to talk about his team's 15th victory in its past 16 games.

Who created Donald Trump, who breathed so much life into him?

Analysis by  Stephen Collinson , CNN President Donald Trump woke to a self-inflicted political disaster Wednesday morning that even he could not chalk up to fake news, after Republican Roy Moore crashed to defeat in the Alabama Senate race.

By Egufe Yafugborhi & Davies Iheamnachor  PORT HARCOURT—Thirteen women allegedly selling the country’s currency were arrested by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and the Rivers State Police Command in a joint sting operation in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

Oby Ezekwesili, the convener of the BringBackOurGirls, BBOG, has said that President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent visit to Ebonyi and Kano states was a campaign for the 2019 presidential election.

Ifeanyi Ejiofor, counsel to elusive leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has called on the Federal Government to grant state pardon to Igbo youths and members of the group held in various prisons across the country.

The Ikoyi cash whistle-blower has finally received his commission from the Ministry of Finance and has left the shores of the country.

Cameroon's Anglophones Flee to Nigeria as Crackdown Grows IKOM, Nigeria (Reuters) - When soldiers burst into her village in southwest Cameroon last month with guns blazing, small farmer Eta Quinta, 32, raced into the forest with three of her children.

Tin miner Timah to expand operations to Nigeria State-owned tin miner PT Timah is set to team up with Nigeria-based Topwide Ventures Limited to jointly develop a tin mining site in Nigeria.

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA—THE Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr.   Ibe Kachikwu, yesterday stated that Nigeria lost about $21 billion (N7.6 trillion) to International Oil Companies, IOCs, operating in the country due to non-implementation of the Production Sharing Contract, PSC, Act of 1993, otherwise known as the Deep Shore Act. Ibe Kachikwu Consequently, the Federal Executive Council, FEC, at the weekly meeting presided over by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at the Council Chamber, approved an amendment of the Act, especially Section 15,   by the Ministries of Petroleum, and Justice for subsequent passage by the National Assembly.