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Nokia 9 Pureview Likely To Come With Penta-Lens Rear Camera Setup It certainly won’t be an exaggeration to say that Nokia 9 PureView has generated a considerable amount of hype in the past couple of months. The alleged Nokia flagship has been a regular to the rumor mill town with a number of leaks surfacing on the internet. Though HMD Global recently acknowledged (sort of) that a smartphone called Nokia 9 is in the works but the Finnish company has not given any timeframe or any additional details about the upcoming device. As reported, the rumors in the past have given us a brief idea of what to expect in terms of specifications when HMD Global plans to launch its top-tier smartphone in the coming months. Regardless of the fact that it will be one of the first flagship smartphones that HMD Global will launch after resurrecting the Nokia brand, one highlight that everyone is excited to see it the camera capabilities of the device. According to rumors, the Nokia 9 Pure...

Staff Desert National Assembly Despite Work Resumption Many staff of the National Assembly ‎yesterday failed to show up at work despite the expiration of the 2-day Christmas break given by the federal government. The government had announced December 25 and 26 as public holiday for the Christmas celebrations, while January 1, 2019 would b‎e for New Year break. Civil servants and private workers were expected to resume work yesterday being December 27. Our correspondent who was at the National Assembly premises from morning to afternoon yesterday observed that only few staff and security men were present at work. Some policemen, personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), men of the sergeant-at-arms as well as officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) were seen performing their functions. There were also other support staff such as cleaners, bankers, journalists, among others that were seen at the National Assembly premi...

Badeh : Family denies report on cause of death [ Update Vanguard ] By Kingsley Omonobi, Joseph Erunke & Okolie Ifeanyi …As Police fail to parade suspects Family of late former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshal, Alex Badeh, yesterday, refuted claims by the suspects linked to his death that they killed him to seize alleged huge sums of money he had on him to buy farmland. The family insisted that contrary to the claim, Badeh did not discuss any issue about the acquisition of land neither was he with up to N500 on the day he was killed. Late. Alex Badeh This came as Police authorities failed, yesterday, to parade five suspects, including two masterminds of the December 18  killing of Badeh. The five suspects who the media expected would be paraded, yesterday, at Force Headquarters, Abuja, were not paraded as the Police said doing so would jeopardize ongoing investigation and efforts to arrest other members of the gang still at large...

Boko Haram: Need to deploy drone If we must defeat Boko Haram, we need Israeli military equipment which, is ‘Drone Dome’ developed in the Jewish state that can be used to stop Boko Haram drones in the Sahel of Africa. The military equipment can be used to stop further drone attack in Nigeria and is capable of jamming signals to the rogue devices as well as tracking them. The Israeli-developed Drone Dome system could be among the technology that should be deployed in West Africa that can detect and jam communications between a drone and its operator. The system, which is said to have a range of several miles, uses four radars to give 360-degree detection in order to identify and track targets. It also includes the ability to jam communications between a drone and its operator in order to neutralise the craft in question. Other versions of the system can also include a high-powered laser beam to shoot down drones. The introduction of military jamming equipment will ...

The ominous silence on herdsmen  [ Update Vanguard ] By Tochukwu Ezukanma THERE are inherent conflicts between sedentary farmers and itinerant herdsmen because of their competing needs for water and ever diminishing arable land and pastures. With population growth and increasing urbanisation steadily encroaching on available land, the competition for land between them continually intensifies; increasing the possibility of their periodic clashes. Unfortunately, a new dimension has crept into this understandable rivalry between farmers and herdsmen. Their clashes took a macabre twist: attacks by herdsmen on farmers became too frequent, superfluously violent and extremely deadly. Herdsmen, armed with machine guns and high-powered assault rifles, and a new found audacity, took to the mass-murder of the innocent in farming communities in central and southern Nigeria. And their attacks became well planned and coordinated, evincing strategies and dexterity beyond...

 Oil price drops to $48, $12 below 2019 budget benchmark  [ Update Vanguard ] By Udeme Akpan & Prince Okafor LAGOS—The price of crude oil, yesterday, dropped from $50 to $48 in the international market, showing $12 below Nigeria’s $60 per barrel 2019 budget reference price. Specifically, the price of Brent, West Texas Intermediate, WTI and the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, basket of 15 crudes stood at $48.00, $43.38 and $47.92 per barrel respectively. Oil money This means that the government projections, especially total revenue projection and expenditure in the budget may not be realised, should the volatility continue in the market. This came as there are indications that Nigeria’s Egina oil will hit the global oil market in February, 2019, according to loading programme. The loading programme obtained by Vanguard showed that the first cargo of the oil grade will be lifted by stakeholders, including Total, Nigerian Natio...

Suspected killer of Alex Badeh speaks, reveals why himself and his gang killed him The Nigeria Police Force on Thursday, announced it has arrested five suspects for their alleged involvement in the killing of a former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Vice Marshall Alex Badeh. Speaking at a press brifeing today, the Spokesman of the force, Ag. DCP Jimoh Moshood, who refused to give the names of the suspects, said two out of the five suspects arrested actively participated in the killing while the remaining three suspects acted as accomplices.  Moshood said the postponement of the parade would help the investigators to arrest fleeing members of the gang. “The suspects arrested actively participated in the killing of the former Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh. On the directive of the IGP, the Police Joint Investigation Team set up by the IGP were mandated within the shortest possible time to arrest all those responsible for the killing of th...