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The Updates: Federal Operations Unit, FOU, Zone A, Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Hussein Ejubunu, has warned against the importation and use of ‘used clothes’, especially with the outbreak of Monkeypox in the country. Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, the Customs boss explained that the world is wary of Monkeypox whose mode of transmission includes clothing. Ejibunu also pointed out that smuggling of used clothes has economic and health implications on Nigerians. What Customs Controller said: Customs made a massive discovery of 1,955 bales of used clothing in an abandoned building around the Lagos International Trade Fair Complex. "We made the discovery and evacuation using combined strategies of intelligence, tact and enforcement. He also noted that serious health implication associated with the use of such clothing exposes users to skin diseases like scabies, as well as fungal diseases which can be transmitted by wearing unwashed second-hand clothes. It...

NITDA is said to train 1million Nigerians: NITDA Training For 1 Million Nigerians (Apply Here) Nigerian's will receive training from the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Robotics (NCAIR) on how to design current technological products, including games, and how to manage them. A specific initiative by the  NITDA with the goal of training 1 million Nigerians in groups .  Eligibility Anyone in Abuja who is a citizen within the age of 15 above, graduates and undergraduates are eligible. Apply here

Meet the Worlds Youngest Leader: Junta chief beats incumbent to become world’s youngest leader Traore Ibrahim Just a week ago, 34-year-old Ibrahim Traore was an unknown, even in his native Burkina Faso. But in the space of a weekend, he catapulted himself from army captain to the world’s youngest leader – an ascent that has stoked hopes but also fears for a poor and chronically troubled country. Traore, at the head of a core of disgruntled junior officers, ousted Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who had seized power just in January.   The motive for the latest coup – as in January – was anger at failures to stem a seven-year jihadist insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives and driven nearly two million people from their homes. On Wednesday, Traore was declared president and “guarantor of national independence, territorial integrity… and continuity of the State.” At that lofty moment, Traore became the world’s youngest leader, wresting the t...