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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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.

Commandant of the AFIT, Kaduna, Air Vice Marshal Toni Adokwe, made the disclosure at a gathering ahead of the institute’s 44th convocation ceremony.

CSO’s Launch Online Portal to Track Police Abuse [2016]

A coalition of 49 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) has launched an online portal to document and track human rights abuses by the Nigerian police.

The coalition Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRIN) and Connected Development [CODE], a non government organization whose mission is to empower marginalized communities, said unlawful police detentions are escalating and police extortion of citizens had become alarming.

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