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LAGOS( Reuters)-Nigeria's electoral commission on Friday suspended voter registration in most parts of oil-producing Imo state after an election official was shot dead by unknown gunmen, as the country prepares for a series of votes early next year. Armed groups have since last year burned down electoral offices and police stations in states in the southeast, which government blames on the banned separatist Indigenous People of Biafra( IPOB) group.... IPOB denies the charges. Independent Electo

His head was found on Saturday night in a park in the Nnewi south local government area, Anambra state police spokesman Tochukwu Ikenga said.“ The lawmaker was killed.... There is no suspect in custody yet, ” Ikenga said. The Anambra state governor has put up a 10 million naira($ 24, 000) reward for information on the killers. Early this month, gunmen killed and beheaded two soldiers in neighbouring Imo state.... The government did not comment. Reporting by Anamesere Igboeroteonwu, Writing by

LAGOS, Nigeria— Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions.... Advertisement Marivate is part of a coalition of African researchers who have been trying to change that.... He’s a founding member of Masakhane, a pan-African research project to improve how dozens of languages are represented in the branch of AI known as natural language processing....

LAGOS, Nigeria--Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions.... He's a founding member of Masakhane, a pan-African research project to improve how dozens of languages are represented in the branch of AI known as natural language processing.... " You were not allowed to write a general text in any language because the colonizing country might be worried that people communicate and w

Open this photo in gallery Gloria Nkechi Onyekweli, centre, stands with a group of Canadian Olympians at Narita International Airport on July 30, 2021, including swimmers Kierra Smith, Tessa Cieplucha and Bailey Andison.... They were Olympians – rowers, swimmers and boxers – preparing to board their flight home from Narita International Airport.In a few hours, she knew, Canada would be her home, too. For nearly 15 years, Ms.... Onyekweli lived in poverty, repeated imprisonment and legal vulner

By Camillus Eboh3 Min ReadABUJA( Reuters)-Nigerian separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu pleaded not guilty to charges including terrorism in an Abuja court on Thursday, three months after his trial was delayed when authorities failed to produce him in court. FILE PHOTO: Indigenous People of Biafra( IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu is seen at the federal high court in Abuja, Nigeria, January 20, 2016.... His social media posts during his absence, and his Radio Biafra broadcasts, outraged the government, which

YENAGOA, Nigeria( Reuters)-The detained leader of a separatist group in Nigeria has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was illegally transferred from Kenya to Nigeria and demanding he be freed and allowed to go to Britain, according to media reports citing legal documents. Nnamdi Kanu, who holds British citizenship, leads the Indigenous People of Biafra( IPOB) group which campaigns for part of southeastern Nigeria to secede and has been labelled a terrorist organisation by the Nigerian authorities

Onyekweli.In nearly 15 years in Japan, she was kept behind bars for 30 months and occasionally treated harshly.... But when it comes to refugees, “ they just want us to vanish from the Earth and get out of Japan.” We must maintain Canada’s status as an immigration nation In her final hours in the country Thursday, Ms.... Onyekweli cast her mind to an imminent future in British Columbia, where she looks forward to being in a place where “ my life is not limited again....