Author: damazah@gmail.com

For nearly a decade, the company Flock Safety has gradually built out a network of cameras across the US that allows law enforcement officials to conduct about 20bn license plate scans every month.In that time, the company had largely left the decision to turn on safety measures up to its customers. Many of those organizations did not turn them on.Now, the company is doing damage control. Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, announced on Thursday that the company would begin mandating that law enforcement agencies switch on features that could help audit the way individual officers use its tracking capabilities. It had…

Farage had earlier told supporters at a Reform UK event that he was “damned if I’m going to stand on a stage, having won a resounding victory, a ringing endorsement of all that I’ve tried to fight for, and you’ve tried to fight for, and be demeaned and humiliated by nobodies”.He then added he would not attend the count as Essex Police had told him about an “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result”.Count Binface said he had asked police if was there “any credible threat of a disruption here”, adding: “I can tell you they said unequivocally no,…

Charlie described the atmosphere as “magical”, and said: “The kids haven’t stopped screaming and been dancing around since we’ve been here.”Some people marked birthdays and anniversaries during the eclipse, giving the evening a romantic significance.One young girl named Alice described the eclipse as brilliant, and said: “It kind of looks like Pac-man”, whilst another felt that the sun disappearing was “kind of scary”.Commander Dave Lee, Royal Navy Parachute Display Team, spent the event parachuting into Pendennis Castle at the beginning of the eclipse.Lee was one of five members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines jumping out of the small…

We have a busy day’s racing on Saturday with flat action from Deauville, Doncaster, Lingfield, Newbury and Ripon, live on Sky Sports Racing…3.10 Newbury – Group Two Hungerford Stakes – Never So Brave and Coppull head competitive featureNever So Brave and Coppull head a very competitive feature Visit Malta Hungerford Stakes at Newbury this afternoon. Never So Brave holds the strongest form, having enjoyed a fruitful campaign last year, with wins in the Buckingham Palace Stakes at Royal Ascot, the Summer Mile and then topped off his season with success in the City Of York. Andrew Balding’s gelding is nought…

By Fred Iwenjora Nico Jnr and Phils, two sons of famous musician Prince Nico Mbarga founder of Rocafiljazz band were in Enugu over the last weekend in what many consider a musical conquest of the coal city state. And fans agree that they were victorious in this musical  battle. This is in the family’s resolve to continuously work musically to keep their father’s musical heritage and legacies alive. The duo backed up by the reconstituted band brought their father’s panco system brand of highlife music  first to Toscana, then at the International conference centre Enugu for an NGO anniversary before…

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has warned that funding constraints could threaten gains recorded under an EU-funded peacebuilding programme in Katsina and Zamfara states as the 18-month intervention approaches its end. Sharon Dimanche, Chief of Mission of IOM Nigeria, raised the concern on Friday during a media briefing on displacement and peacebuilding in Katsina, North-west Nigeria. She said IOM and other humanitarian organisations were facing financial constraints while programmes dealing with displacement, conflict prevention and community resilience still required support. “You have seen from the programme which is coming to an end very soon,” Dimanche said during the question-and-answer…

The shallower an earthquake is, the more destructive its effects on the surface tend to be.Strong aftershocks were felt in the same area, including one with a magnitude of 6.1.Video taken at the port in Maumere showed large chunks of concrete breaking off the terminal building onto passengers waiting to board an inter-island ferry. Some were thrown into the sea when the gangway to a ship collapsed. Emanuel Melkiades Laka Lena, governor of East Nusa Tenggara province, told a news conference that they were killed in their sleep by collapsing rubble. A stream of people could be seen moving inland…

For millions of Nigerians, the past three years of economic reforms have brought significant hardship, but emerging indicators suggest the difficult adjustments are beginning to yield results. The Chairman, Nigeria Revenue Service, Zacch Adedeji says stronger revenue, investment, production and financial stability are laying the foundation for broader prosperity. Dike Onwuamaeze brings the excerpts:   For millions of Nigerians, the past three years have been a period of difficult economic adjustment. The removal of petrol subsidy, changes in the foreign exchange market, tighter monetary conditions and other structural reforms came with higher costs and significant pressure on households and businesses. Yet,…

Nuseirat, Gaza Strip – Mohammad al-Halabi, 50, bends over tomato and eggplant seedlings in a 300-square-metre plot in the middle of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, inspecting the leaves, watering the plants and monitoring their growth.The small plot he is tending is an attempt to reclaim his old profession as a farmer with his father, Marwan, on their land in northern Gaza’s Jabalia.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listAl-Halabi once owned a much bigger plot of farmland – around 40,000 square metres (about 10 acres) – in northern Gaza, where he grew strawberries, tomatoes, flowers, potatoes and eggplants. His…

Three years ago, I agreed to accompany my children to a Nick Jonas concert. The appeal of the Jonas Brothers, and in this case only one of them, was unfamiliar territory.The concert happened to land on a particularly inconvenient day. As I sprinted out of the hospital, my mind was filled with the “what if’s” and “should haves” about our work that day.After lengthy negotiations with my daughter at the merchandise stand, we settled in as Nick Jonas began. I found myself surrounded by thousands of young people all singing the same songs, swaying to the same rhythm, and participating…