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Doctors on Tuesday successfully separated a baby girl, from the Ivory Coast, born with four legs and two spines in a rare and complex surgery at a Chicago hospital. Paediatric and reconstructive surgeon Frank Vicari said the ten-month-old Dominique underwent a six-hour procedure involving five surgeons at the Advocate Children’s Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, on March 8. “She is now thriving with the Chicago foster family who will look after her until she is well enough to return home. “It’s going rather well. She was only in the hospital a total of five days. She’s been home with ‘step-mom’…

Alexander Okere, Benin The Edo State Police Command on Tuesday has arrested a 57-year-old pastor, one Abel Eku, for allegedly attempting to blow up the headquarters of the Christ Chosen Church of God in Benin, with explosive devices. ‎Eku was said to have planted the explosives inside the church auditorium on January 22, prior to the commencement of its international conference. ‎His plot was, however, said to have been foiled when the objects were detected, leading to his arrest by some policemen. It was also learnt that the explosive devices were detonated by the security operatives, after he reportedly alerted…

Ade Adesomoju, Abuja A lawyer, Mr Mohammed Ibrahim, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja, for an order stopping the National Assembly from further mandating, the Comptroller General of Custom, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), to wear the Customs’ uniform. The plaintiff argued in the suit filed on Tuesday and marked FHC/ABJ/CS/207/2017 that Ali, not being a commissioned officer of the Customs, could not be forced to wear the uniform of the Service in the discharge of his duties as the CGC. He also wants the court to hold that compelling Ali to wear the service’s uniform was not part…

Apple is stockpiling resources to make a splash in the augmented reality market. The company reportedly is not only marshaling internal resources behind its AR efforts, but also hiring talented outsiders and acquiring companies with expertise in AR hardware, 3D gaming and virtual reality software. The new outsiders include a former Dolby labs executive, and engineers who worked virtual reality headsets for Google and Microsoft. “We’ve been waiting for Apple to launch something in AR,” said Strategy Analytics’ David MacQueen. Source: Techy

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IBM on Monday unveiled the first enterprise-ready Blockchain as a Service offering based on The Linux Foundation’s open source Hyperledger Fabric version 1.0. IBM Blockchain, which lets developers quickly establish highly secure blockchain networks on the IBM cloud, is a transformative step in being able to deploy high-speed, secure business transactions through the network on a large scale, the company said. The platform offers the world’s safest Linux infrastructure, with tamper-responsive hardware security modules, according to IBM. Source: Techy

The Deputy Governor of Adamawa, Mr Martins Babale, on Monday assumed office as Acting Governor following Governor Muhammadu Bindow’s commencement of two weeks vacation. The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Malam Ahmad Sajoh, in Yola said the development was in line with Section 190 of the 1999 Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria as amendment. “His Excellency, Gov. Muhammad Jibrilla has transmitted a letter to the Adamawa State House of Assembly, intimating it of his intention to proceed on two weeks vocation, effective from March 20, 2017. “The House at plenary deliberated and approved the request. The approval was transmitted…

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue has cautioned youths in the state against taking the law into their hands over recent attacks on some rural communities. “No one should take the law into his hands over the attacks; what we should all do is to report any breach of peace to the law enforcement agencies for necessary action,” Ortom said on Monday in Makurdi, during a stakeholders’ meeting. He said that he had consistently briefed President Muhammadu Buhari about the activities of herdsmen in the state, and expressed optimism that permanent peace would soon return. “I have intimated the president about…

The National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff, has said the party is a creation of God and cannot be destroyed by anybody. Sheriff made this known while briefing journalists on Monday in Abuja on the recommendations of the party’s Reconciliation Committee, chaired by Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa. He said, “Everywhere in our party, we are working across the board; everybody is working for the party to come back to its position in 1999. “We are for peace and that does not mean that we are afraid of anybody; we will not be relenting. “We need…

 Google painted a bleak picture of cybersecurity trends Monday, saying the number of websites hacked rose 32 percent last year, with little relief in sight. “We don’t expect this trend to slow down. As hackers get more aggressive and more sites become outdated, hackers will continue to capitalize by infecting more sites,” Google said in a post on its webmaster blog. Google, which inserts security warnings when it detects hacked sites, said most of those warned can clean up their pages, but that 61 percent are not notified because their sites are not verified by the search engine. “As always,…