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Google on Thursday announced Guetzli, a new contribution to its evolving set of tools for the open source community. Guetzli is an encoder that allows JPEG files to be compressed as much as 35 percent, resulting in much faster Web page loading. “Guetzli,” which means “cookie” in Swiss German, allows users to create smaller JPEG images while maintaining compatibility with existing Web browsers, image processing applications and the existing JPEG standard, noted Robert Obryk and Jyrki Alakuijala, software engineers at Google Research Europe. Source: Techy

Former president Goodluck Jonathan and his wife Dame Patience are currently in Okrika, Rivers state to honour her brother on the occasion of his, Chieftaincy Installation into the Okrika Divisional Council. See photos: Source: National Helm Source: Punch News

{$inline_image} The cold winter months can lead to a lot of small business owners feeling particularly uninspired about their day-to-day operations. But attending educational events can help entrepreneurs get out of those slumps and start feeling inspired again. There are plenty of great opportunities coming up with the spring thaw, including exciting options like EntreLeadership 1-Day and ICON17. Happening in Los Angeles in early April, EntreLeadership 1-Day lets you learn the six essentials of business leadership. Taking place this April in Phoenix, ICON17 features educational breakout sessions, inspiring keynote speakers, networking opportunities and more. And it all takes place over three…

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, on Saturday relieved the state’s Ministry of Lands of its original powers of granting approvals to persons wishing to establish petrol stations in the state. The governor, who made the announcement in a special broadcast to the people of the state, said, henceforth, only the governor could give such approval. He explained that the measure became necessary in view of the perceived complicity in the way and manner such approvals were frivolously granted in the past without considering safety of lives and property. The governor noted that victims of fire accidents…

Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti The Peoples Democratic Party in Ekiti State has described the meeting held in Abuja on Friday by 23 State Chairmen of the party as mere gathering of majorly strange people appointed by the National Chairman, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. The party claimed that no genuine state chairmen of the PDP will associate with Sherriff, considering the damage he had done to the party, except those he handpicked to buy legitimacy for himself. In a statement issued in Ado Ekiti on Saturday by the state Publicity Secretary, Mr Jackson Adebayo, the party said, “There are laid down…

Sen. Shehu Sani (Kaduna-APC) has urged the party to penalise Gov. Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State for allegedly leaking to reporters a memo he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari. Sani, who is the Vice-Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, called for the punitive measures in a statement he released in Abuja on Saturday in reaction to the alleged leakage. It will be recalled that media reports had alleged that El-Rufai told Buhari in a memo, that he was losing the vision and the momentum with which APC started the change campaign. The governor was alleged to have called on the…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday reaffirmed the commitment of his administration to continue to support universities and other tertiary institutions to enable them produce the necessary skilled  manpower. The president spoke at  the 33rd convocation ceremony of   Bayero University,  Kano (BUK). Buhari, who  was represented by the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC),  Prof.  Adamu Rasheed, said supporting the universities was necessary in order to ensure the development of an economy that would be capable of sustaining the change agenda of the government. “We shall continue to sacrifice our time and energy as well as to ensure fairness, integrity and…

Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party has taken a new dimension with 23 out of the 36 state chapter chairmen throwing their weight behind the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. They also said they were backing recommendations made by the Governor Seriake Dickson’s Peace and Reconciliation Committee for a unity national convention to hold not later than August this year. The state chairman stated this after their meeting in Abuja on Friday night. In their communique, which was made available to journalists on Saturday, they expressed concern that if the ongoing leadership…

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said he had made a decision about his future following his side’s dispiriting 3-1 defeat at West Bromwich Albion on Saturday. Wenger, Arsenal’s manager since 1996, has come under heavy pressure since his team’s 10-2 Champions League thrashing by Bayern Munich and fans made renewed calls for him to step down at The Hawthorns. “I know what I’ll do in my future and you’ll know very soon,” he told reporters after the game. Rival groups of Arsenal supporters paid for planes trailing banners that were both critical and supportive of Wenger to fly over the stadium during…

Bayern Munich’s Douglas Costa is injured and will miss Sunday’s key Bundesliga clash at Borussia Moenchengladbach and World Cup qualifiers for Brazil. The 26-year-old will stay in Munich for treatment and sits out the league match in Gladbach with Bayern ten points clear of their rivals and on course for a fifth consecutive Bundesliga title. The Selecao star, who injured his knee in training, will also miss Brazil’s World Cup qualifiers against Uruguay, in Montevideo on Thursday, and Paraguay, in Sao Paulo on March 28. Bayern are also missing Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal, who is suspended after picking up a…