Two Fake Buhari-security Aides Arrested In Governor Fayose’s Home (Photos)

Two men who disguised as President Buhari’s private security aides have been arrested at the Afao-Ekiti country home of the Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose.

The two men, Benedict Ola Idega and Abdulsalami Leader H., presented themselves as staff of the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), with influence over the report of the military panel set up to investigate alleged involvement in partisan politics by some soldiers and officers during the 2014/ 2015 gubernatorial election conducted in some states such as Ekiti, Osun, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom.

The two men

According to reports, the men said that although they have the preliminary report of the military panel but if the governor can cooperate, they can help him manipulate the final report if necessary. This got Governor Fayose suspicious. He informed the state commissioner of Police and director of the State Security Service and the Police commissioner had his men on standby.

Corruption War: An Arms Deal Probe And Its Political Dimension

While the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has consistently been crying foul over alleged plot by the federal government to decimate it, last week’s arrest of its spokesman, Olisa Metuh is for the umpteenth time putting the All Progressive Congress (APC) government on collision course with the opposition party, reports JONATHAN NDA -ISAIAH.

There is no doubt that the period we are in now in the most populous country in subsaharan Africa is not the best of times for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). After losing out in the 2015 general elections, hence crisscrossing the political divide from a once powerful ruling party to the opposition camp, the party is currently fighting for survival- something similar to what the late Bob Marley described as the great survival.

Scientists say humans have now brought on an entirely new geologic epoch

A group of 24 geoscientists last week released a bracing assessment, suggesting that humans have altered the Earth so extensively that the consequences will be thoroughly detectable in current and future geological records. They, therefore, suggest that people should consider the Earth to have moved into a new geologic epoch, the “Anthropocene,” sometime circa 1945-1964.

The current era (at least under present definitions), known as the Holocene, began about 11,700 years ago, and was marked by warming and major sea level rise coming out of a major cool period, the Younger Dryas. However, the researchers suggest, changes ranging from growing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to infusions of plastics into marine sediments suggest that we’ve now left the Holocene decisively behind — and that the proof is already being laid down in polar ice cores, deep ocean sediments and future rocks themselves.

How to develop a nation through science and technology – Part One

— Galileo Galilei, Michael Servetus, Henry Odenburg, Gerhard Domagk and Albert Einstein. What do all these people have in common? Some will be quick to say that all of them are scientists. Yes, indeed that would be a correct answer. Howbeit, that is not the answer I am looking for this time around. Apart from the fact that all these people are scientists, there is something else that unites them. They were all persecuted and prosecuted for their discoveries and beliefs in the role of science in our world.

GALILEO GALILEI: One of the most famous scientists in the world. The Italian physicist and astronomer was put on trial and convicted in 1633 for discovering and claiming that the earth revolves around the sun. Today, that discovery is at the very heart of our existence as a modern civilization. Moreover, the civilization and development of our modern age could be credited largely to the works of Galileo Galilei.

MICHAEL SERVETUS: Servetus was arrested, tortured and burned at the stake in Geneva in 1553, for daring to voice his ideas about reforming Christianity. Servetus was a Spanish Physician, credited with discovering pulmonary circulation. But without him and his discovery, we would not have our modern medicine today.

Funding to flow for climate change project

Robert Pickersgill (left), minister of water, land, environment and climate change; and Lt Col Oral Khan, chief technical director in the water ministry, speak to members of the media during a press conference on the outcomes of the COP21 climate change talks in Paris at ministry’s office in New Kingston last December.

 

The Paris Agreement will help increase Jamaica's resilience to climate change by making funding available for the country to undertake works on projects such as sea walls, ports, roads, and bridges.
That is according to Robert Pickersgill, the portfolio minister.

NASA creates new office to detect Near-earth objects

NASA has come up with a new office that will check detection of potential asteroids crashes and ‘planning for planetary defense’. The Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), a part of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, will monitor near-earth objects (NEOs), like asteroids and comets.

The new office will have the responsibility and right to warn about the NEO approaches and their potential impacts. The office will also head interagency and intergovernmental response efforts in any chance of potential impact events.

PDCO will work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the US Department of Defense. The office will also have the task to supervise all the NASA-funded projects of NEOs. Over 13,500 near-earth objects of varying sizes have been discovered till date. Over 95% of them have been detected since 1998 when NASA-funded surveys have started. Every year, around 1,500 NEOs are detected.

Deformed Mountain Lion Found in Idaho

A hunter tracking down a mountain lion that attacked a dog in the US state of Idaho has stumbled upon a rare deformed big cat. The images of that deformed big cat have now become an Internet sensation.
The deformed mountain lion, which was legally killed by an unidentified hunter, was found to have a set of teeth growing out of the side of his head. Mountain lions are common in Idaho and they usually prey on deer, elk, moose and other wild animals but sometimes attack domesticated pets and livestock.