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Day: August 2, 2024

Protest: Police Boss Places Officers on Red Alert

The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun has placed all police commissions nationwide on red alert as the #EndBadGovernance# continues, to respond swiftly and decisively to public safety and order.

Addressing newsmen in Abuja, IGP Egbe…

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Turkey Suspends Instagram Access, Cites No Reason

According to the country’s information technology regulator, Turkey has barred access to social media network Instagram without specifying why or for how long. The suspension also rendered the platform’s mobile app inaccessible.

The move follows comm…

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Voice Game Actors Protest AI Job Threat

Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket on Thursday in front of Warner Bros. Games and said artificial intelligence was a threat to their professions.

‘The models that they’re using have been trained on …

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Badminton: Nigeria’s Opeyori crashes out of Olympics

Nigeria’s Anuoluwapo Opeyori is out of the men’s Olympic Badminton event after falling 0-2 to the world’s number six, Li Shifeng of China.

The 17-21, 17-21 defeat was Opeyori’s second loss in the Group N of the men’s singles event.

The loss also end…

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World prison population reaches 11.5million

The number of people held in prisons worldwide has reached 11.5

million people in 2022, after a decrease during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Incarceration rates vary between regions, with 2022 estimates indicating that people in the

Americas are four tim…

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Qatar To Hold Hamas Political Leader’s Funeral

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh will be buried today in Qatar, as his killing raises fears that Israel’s war with the Palestinian militant group in Gaza could spiral into a fully-fledged Middle East conflict.

US President Joe Biden said the ass…

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