Yawa Reporters

   The Special Anti -Robbery Squad of the Cross River State Police Command has rescued a woman and killed six suspected kidnappers in Ikom Local Government Area. Spokesperson of the command , ASP Irene Ugbo, who confirmed the development on Wednesday,  said the suspected kidnappers had been under the trail of the police since they abducted the woman four days ago. She said that men of the SARS unit on gathering intelligence information traced the kidnappers to their hideout in the bush where the shooting occurred. "Our men today had an encounter with some kidnappers in Ikom local government area while trying to rescue an abducted woman in their captivity. During the process of rescuing the victim , the kidnappers engaged our men in an exchange of fire and we were able to rescue the woman while six of the kidnappers were shot dead. "We also arrested two of the kidnappers and our men are bringing them down to Calabar as we speak," the spokesperson said....

As humans keep evolving, technology keeps advancing. Gabriel Eze and Maven Harry have co-founded an evolutionary way of engaging with pictures — Touchabl. Touchabl is social-commerce platform that enables people search and shop for items in pictures simply by touching them, even when the names of such items are unknown. It was launched on October 7, 2017. Together, the founding team has led other developers and worked on the object detection algorithm for about 6 years. The team also prides the application as being indigenious. “Touchabl is made in Nigeria for the world,” says Gabriel. Gabriel also claims that currently, the application is arguably Africa’s most advanced AI project in the area of computer vision. Usage scenario of Touchabl Jane Doe shares a picture on her timeline, and her followers like/comment on the picture. But there’s this fine red shoe she is wearing in the picture that particularly caught Fiona’s (Jane’s follower) eyes. Fiona is more th...

    Are you new to music production? Or are you returning to music making and need a refresher in certain aspects of recording, mixing and mastering? If either of these applies, then you’ve come to the right place. We’re going to explain all of the main principles of music technology and music production in as straightforward a way as possible. Read the following and you should be in a good place to start (or restart) your music making, whether as a hobby, semi-professionally or even as a career. click here:  vializer.com/5A3j

Are you job hunting? Discover some interesting job vacancies this week. Follow the instructions specified for each role to apply. Commercial Partner Leader at Microsoft Location:  Lagos, Nigeria Job type:  Full-time Job Description Partner Strategy:  Lead the One Commercial partner engagement strategy across the Microsoft Build-With and Sell-With lifecycle. Team Leadership:  Recruit, retain and manage a world-class high-performance team that drives growth while maintaining efficiency. Business Orchestration:  Drive One Commercial Partner and One Microsoft orchestration across teams to secure partner commitment to Microsoft platform and services. Requirements 10+ years of experience in partner management, sales management, partner channel development, people management, business development, alliance management in the technology industry. 5 years of leadership experience. Extensive experience of managing people and virtual teams across func...

     There are uncountable service providers offering a wide range of services across Nigeria. From real estate, event planning, plumbing, to shoemaking, tailoring and other services, you will find them all over the place. However, there is a shortcoming. Clients are usually unsure of their expertise and reliability. The worse of it is quite a large number of them lack customer relationship skills. OgaAgent was founded to rid clients of this challenge. Instead of searching and thinking of where, how or who to hire users only need to inform OgaAgent of the service(s) they desire, and in few minutes, they are certain to get the most suitable and nearest verified hand to serve the needed request. Asides being a hyperlocal on-demand service advisory and virtual assistant platform, the startup also offers real estates services; property sales and management. And unlike many similar platforms, OgaAgent claims to be very reliable, thorough and swift in ...

    In its most recent report for the month of September, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) put the number of internet users in Nigeria at 93 million,  a slight increase from the 92.1million  reported in August. It is pertinent to clarify that the term “internet users” includes subscribers who pay for Internet access (dial-up, leased line and fixed broadband) and people who have access without paying directly, either as a member of a household or from work, school, a public library or Internet café. Going by Nigeria’s population of over 180 million people, what this tells us is that about half of Nigerians are online — which in itself should spur the internet economy. But that remains to be seen. Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology for Innovation Foundation,   notes   that internet penetration is positively related with economic prosperity. In other words, the ubiquity of the internet is something that shou...