Intel, Facebook, Google Withdraws From World’s Biggest Tech Summit Over Organisers Comments On Middle East Crisis

Facebook and Instagram owner, Meta and search giant Google have pulled out of one of the world’s biggest technology conferences — Web Summit.  Their action follows comments by the organiser of the event criticised Israel’s actions following the Hamas attacks. A spokesman for Meta confirmed that it would not take part in this year’s event….

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European Union Set To Invest 5.4m Euro For Teachers Training In NorthWest

The European Union (EU) has disclosed it interest to invest 5.4 million euros in building the capacity of teachers in the Northwest. The EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, disclosed this at the official launch of the 4O million Euro intervention programme on education and youth empowerment in North Western Nigeria through the Global…

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Borno State Government Orders Probe Into Commissioner’s Death

The Borno State Police Command has launched an investigation into the death of the State’s Commissioner for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Resettlement, Ibrahim Idriss Garba. Garba died, on Saturday morning, October 21 in Maiduguri, according to a statement by Governor Babagana Zulum’s spokesman, Isa Gusau. The investigation, according to Gusau, in a statement, is at the…

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