Category: Security & Law
2016 Security Watch Africa (SWA) Awards
- Best security and most safety conscious State in Africa – Lagos State (Nigeria)
- Best anti-crime police squad in West Africa – Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State Police Command
- Most outstanding police operational officer in West Africa – RRS Commander (Lagos State Police Command), ACP Olatunji Disu
Plateau State Launches Automobile USSD Validator
The Plateau State Government has launched an automobile Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) validator to assist the Vehicle Inspection Officers (VIO) and Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in verifying the genuineness of vehicle documents and certificates in a bid to curbing forgery and weed out unlicensed drivers in the State.
Team OAU Wins 2016 World Rounds Of Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition
A team of three students from the Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) emerge with a second position finish at the 2016 World Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition held in Guadalajara in Mexico.
The team appeared as Africa’s representatives at the 2016 World Rounds of the Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition held in Guadalajara in Mexico where this year’s International Astronautical Congress (IAC) also held.
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2016 International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition
Winners Of 2016 ESQ Nigerian Legal Awards
Winners have emerged at the 2016 ESQ Nigerian Legal Awards, which was held on the 7th of October, 2016 at the Civic Centre Lagos.
Nigerian AFIT Develops Bomb Detector Robot
The Nigerian Air force has invented two Unmanned Ground Vehicles and a Light Surveillance Aircraft developed by the Nigerian Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Kaduna, north-west Nigeria.
The bomb-detecting robot is capable of defusing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). The development is as part of the force’s contribution to the fight against insurgency in the troubled North-eastern region.