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  New wireless technology has been tested that is 100 times stronger than Wi-Fi. It is called Li-Fi and it could revolutionise the way we interact online. The technology, which transmits information using visible light communication, is being tested in offices and other workplaces in Tallinn in Estonia.

The All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government, yesterday, said the payment of the N5,000 stipend to the unemployed Nigerian youths will commence next year. It regretted that the payment could not take off immediately because it was not included in this year’s budget.

A South Korean court on Thursday jailed a university professor for 12 years for forcing a student to eat human faeces and drink urine during a two-year period of physical and psychological assault.

  The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, apologised to Nigerians for the hardship experienced in purchasing petrol, while it also stated that it had entered into a partnership with security agencies in the country to assist in the monitoring of fuel supply across the country.

  A mother who left her newborn son in a manger at a New York City church will not face criminal charges for giving him up, a prosecutor said on Wednesday. A custodian on Monday found the crying infant with his umbilical cord still attached wrapped in towels and placed in the indoor nativity scene at the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens , New York police said.

  Corporal Yinka Oloko is being held by his colleagues at the Lagos State Police Command after he0 allegedly shot his wife dead in the Egbeda area of the state. The incident occurred at about 10pm on Tuesday in the rented apartment of the policeman, Punch reports.

Two months after “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed made international headlines, new details of his controversial arrest emerged Monday in a letter his attorney has sent to school and city officials in Irving, Texas. As many as seven adults teamed up to interrogate the 14-year-old boy after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb and pressured him to sign a confession, according to the “letter of demand” from his lawyer warning of plans to file a $15 million suit.

A Chinese woman aka ‘Tiger Mom’ had a six-month prison term upheld by a local court, which ruled that she had gone “too far” for flogging her foster son over unfinished homework. Legal experts say the case has shed light on the controversial practice of physical punishment in Chinese families to encourage young children to excel. The case broke in April after widely shared pictures on the Internet showed a boy, known only by his surname Shi, with raw red welts criss-crossing his back.

Turkey has shot down a Russian warplane on the Syrian border, a senior Turkish official has said. According to Al Jazeerah, the plane was shut down on Syrian territory in Latakia's Yamadi village. The plane was downed by the Turkish military according to the rules of engagement because it violated Turkish airspace, the Turkish official said.

Ona Ekhomu, the President of the Association of Industrial Security and Safety Operators of Nigeria, has raised an alarm, saying that an ISIS attack on Nigeria is imminent. Ekhomu said recent intelligence reports obtained, revealed that Nigeria may be the next target of the International terror organisation. He said “ISIS could use its Nigerian affiliate, Boko Haram, to wreak havoc here in order to signal its capability to carry out worldwide terrorist attacks and add to its stocks of fear.

  37-yr-old Meaghin McIntyre was due to get married in five days to the love of her life when she was hit with a devastating news that could change her life forever.

  The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared a man wanted after he withdrew and made off with N45m which was mistakenly paid into his account' The man whose picture has been shared all over the country, is Jerry Ogbonna Obike Phillip , and is still very much at large. Read the EFCC press statement below: