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At the Cross River University of Technology (CRUTECH) annual stakeholders forum held on Tuesday right in the Campus in Calabar, the Chairman of the council of traditional rulers in Cross River State, Etinyin Etim Edet has suggested that the Cross River State Government should privatize CRUTECH, over lack of adequate fundings.

 Dr. Maikanti Kacalla Baru, the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has on Wednesday announced that the corporation lost over N51 billion due to about 1,447 cases of pipeline vandalisation that occured between the first 5 months of 2016 (January-May).

Photo source: nigeriagalleria.com A sad news came from the Borno State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), as they confirmed the death of one of their official who drowned in a river at Maiduguri, while trying to pursue a bad drug lord (drug baron).

Photo source: hdwallpapernews.com Google has officially released the Android .0 Nougat on Monday, which is it's latest version of it's mobile operating system. You could rememeber that Google asked you guys to name the "N" which is now known as   Nougat  .

Photo source: skysports.com After Usain Bolt anchored his teammates to win the 4 by 100 meter relay race, the Jamaican-Born Sprinter is now confirmed to have won his third gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Photo source: beegeagle.wordpress.com The Nigerian Navy has disclosed that two suspected members of the popular militant group, Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has being arrested on Saturday, during an operation by the men of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Delta.

Photo source: senatorbenayade.org The Governor of Cross River state, Prof. Ben Ayade has on Wednesday announced plans to build a beach resort in Calabar South, he said a team of investors has set aside $3 million for the purpose of the project.

Photo source: trustedreview.com Tech giant, Microsoft has on Thursday acquired an interactive game streaming service called Beam, the game lets viewers play along with fellow streamers as they watch also.

Photo source: vg247.com A source has reveled that the official Chat forum for Valve Dota 2 game has being hit by hackers which means that the email addresses, user names and passwords of about 2 million people are at risk.

Photo source: dustmoon.com Google has being fined $6.8 million by Russian Antitrust officials on Thursday, saying that they broke the Antitrust rules of Android.

Photo source: pmnewsnigeria.com The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode has on Thursday commissioned the first state-owned Helipad, that would be used for medical emergencies in Nigeria at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

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Photo source: reporter365.com No fewer than 15 inmates have reportedly escaped from the Nuskka Prison in Enugu State on Tuesday night.

Photo source: treehugger.com A team of scientists at Iowa State University have developed Lithium-ion battery that can "self-destruct" (ie. dissolve on it's own).  According to the Scientists, when you drop it in water, the polymer casing swells, breaks apart the electrodes and dissolves away, this happens within 30 minutes.

Photo source: urhobotoday.com Some oil marketers have recently speculated that the price of petrol should be increased says because there is scarcity of foreign exchange to finance the importation of the petrol product.

Photo source:provensec.com An android vulnerability known as QuadRooter has being identified by some researchers which could give cyber attackers the chance to have complete to a person's android phone. Imagine a vulnerability that affects close to a billion android devices !!

Photo source: informationng.com  It is no longer news that the Calabar-Itu road connecting Cross River state and Akwa-Ibom state has being in a bad state for while now and many of the road users and most especially the petrol tanker drivers are appealing to the government to fix the bad road.

Photo source: onnigeria.com A passenger train moving at Woji axis of Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State has on Monday reportedly collided with a Toyota Hilux that was on the rail line, which left two people seriously injured.

Photo source: pulse.ng The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has reportedly payed in N55.96 billion into the Federation Account for the month of June.

Photo source:news.softepdia.com The tech giant Apple has being approved by the US Federal Energy regulators to start the sales of solar power at market-based rates.

Photo source: equipment.julius-berger.com Due to the bottle-neck traffic usually experienced at the Lagos-Ibadan expressway when Julius Berger  construction company are working on the road, the Ogun state government has ordered Julius Berger not to work during the day  but preferable at night.

Photo source:  championnews.com.ng A Lagos Monarch the Oniba of Ibaland, Oba Goriola Oseni who was kidnapped by some gunmen over three weeks ago has being released.

Photo source: bellanaija.com The Nigerian Army has reportedly killed 8 armed bandits who were  believed to have being terrorizing the Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State. Meanwhile, 57 others were nabbed by the soldiers.

Photo source: buzznigeria.com The Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC), has brought in fresh reports to investigate Senator Godswill Akpabio who was the former Governor of Akwa Ibom state over alleged N108 billion fraud.

Photo source: mumbainews.com A sad incident happened recently in Sagamu, Ogun State where two vehicles ran into a tanker that was loaded with fuel and one person died and about 11 were injured.

Photo source: buzznigeria.com This is the full story of how a 17 year old girl named Blessing Adaeze Nnamani, who schooled at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) died after going out with a sugar daddy, which has being the trending talk of the town since the incident happened in this past week.

Photo source: bitbag.com So much has being said about the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 just as Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge which went well in the market. Here I am going to reveal to you some specifications of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 including when it would be available for sale.

Photo source: premiumtimesng.com  South Africa's based telecoms network MTN has recorded loss in it's first half of the year earnings, they said Nigeria's fine  really affected them (including the cut-down of subscribers).

Photo source: nigeriancurrent.com Following the scarcity of dollar at both the interbank foreign exchange market and the black market the dollar as at Wednesday now exchanges for N390 at the parallel market, which tends to cause an economic crunch in Nigeria.

Photo source: recode.net  Facebook, the social networking site has built it's new hardware laboratory called Area 404 were Facebook engineers will gather and work on making up high-tech gadgets that would be able to deliver faster internet signals in a bid to "connect people together".

Photo source: thesheet.ng Many Nigerian financial institutions are scared of the increase in the rate of Cyber attacks especially the one that is called Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) the one that is capable of stealing billions from banks which of course is a huge loss.

Photo source: bizarreedia.com A man named Mr. Popoola Adepoju in Ona Ara Local Government Area of Ibadan has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself to death.

Photo source: herald.ng A mass protest was observed on Wednesday by some Edo State Local Government workers on issues that was about non-payment of their salaries. The protest was so obvious that it affected commercial activities in the state's capital Benin City.

Photo source: pulse.ng Muhammad Sanusi II (Sanusi Lamido Sanusi), the Emir of Kano, has urged the Buhari led administration to prosecute looters of public funds in as much as the funds are being recovered, says it will serve as a deterrent to others.

Finally, the Rio 2016 games is left with less than 24 hours... chilling

Rio 2016 Olympics sports commences is just 2 days, that's 48 hours.

Photo source: en.wikipedia.org The Katsina State Government has on Tuesday distributed about 720 special goats from Niger Republic to various women in the state, which they say is part of it's Women Empowerment Scheme.

The 2016 Rio Olympics is just left with three days that is 72 hours to go !!!

It's now 4 days to the Rio 2016 Olympics, just so close.