Buhari holds first meeting with state governors

Abuja - President Muhammadu Buhari and
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo are currently
meeting behind closed-doors with all state
governors, Punch reports.
The meeting, holding inside the Council
Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, is
the first since Buhari was sworn in on May
29.
Top of the agenda to be discussed at the
meeting Issues such as the debts being
owed state governments by the Federal
Government and the lifeline being sought by
state governors in order to meet their states’
demands are expected to dominate
discussions at the meeting.
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The meeting started at exactly 10.10am with
the arrival of the President.
Among state governors in attendance when
the meeting started were those of Rivers,
Ogun, Imo, Gombe, Benue, Delta, Niger,
Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, Kogi, Borno and
Jigawa.
Others were governors of Kebbi, Kwara,
Taraba, Ekiti, Ondo, Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, Edo,
Anambra, Sokoto, Ebonyi, Lagos, Adamawa,
Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Yobe States.

Hackers steal data using gadget inside pitta bread

The radio sniffer was small enough to conceal
in a serving of pitta bread
Secret encryption keys can be stolen using a
cheap gadget so small it could be concealed
inside some pitta bread.
Israeli security researchers have demonstrated
how to capture radio emissions given off by
laptops that inadvertently leak data about the
keys.
Before now, grabbing the radio signals was
thought to require expensive, bulky equipment.
But the four-strong team managed it with
cheap components small enough to conceal
inside a piece of pocket bread.
'Not impressed'
The attack, developed by Daniel Genkin and
colleagues from Tel Aviv University, monitors
the radio signals given off by laptops when
their central processing unit is crunching data.
The team discovered that many different
operations in a computer, such as playing a
game or decrypting a file, had a characteristic
pattern of radio activity.
The differing power demands a CPU made as it
worked gave rise to these telltale signals, said
the group in a paper detailing their work .
By monitoring these signals when the
computer was decrypting a specific email
message sent to it by an attacker, it became
possible to work out the key being used to
secure data, they said.
After demonstrating that the attack worked in
the lab, the group created a mobile version
they dubbed the Portable Instrument for Trace
Acquisition (Pita), which they managed to
conceal inside a piece of pocket bread.
The attack had been demonstrated to work
from a distance of about 50cm (1ft 8in), said
the researchers.
Using their technique, the researchers were
able to grab keys used in several widely used
encryption programs and algorithms to protect
data.
Such attacks were well established, Steve
Armstrong, managing director of Logically
Secure, told tech news site The Register.
"If they can do it at 10m (32ft) in a different
room, I would be impressed. If the device
needs to be within 20cm, I am not," he said.
The team plan to present their work at a
technical conference on cryptographic
hardware in September.

Olu Maintain allegedly owes house rent

Singer Olu Maintain was almost
kicked out of his house in Ikeja for owing
house rent, reports btcollections
The Yahooze crooner is said to be presently
down financially with his landlord asking
him to evacuate his apartment.
According to reports It took the intervention
of a good neighbor to prevent Olu Maintain
from being evicted by uniformed officers
from his residence located at Akin Osiyemi
street,Off Allen Avenue Ikeja, Lagos.
Olu Maintain was a member of a group then
called Maintain but the group split years
after it was formed in 1997.

Lamboginny to sue KCee’s Five Star Music

Pop star, Lamboginny is taking Five
star music and Goge Africa to court for
selling his track ‘ Meje ’ on itunes illegally,
reports Information Nigeria
The singer said he’s not signed to either
Five Star music or Goge Africa and he don’t
understand why they are selling his music.
In a statement released to the media he said
he had signed a deal with a Canada based
distribution company, and was angry with
Five Star Music and Goge Africa .
He said that he was not getting anything
from his song being sold at $1.29 by the
two esthablishments, and did not want to be
ripped off.

Facebook offers businesses free Place Tips beacon devices

Facebook is giving away the beacon device
needed to detect nearby smartphones
Facebook has begun a roll-out of Place Tips -
a system allowing businesses to send updates
to a person's smartphone when they are
nearby.
Keen to get retailers on board, Facebook is
sending out free Bluetooth beacon devices to
firms that request them.
Other tech companies, including Apple, have
experimented with similar systems.
One marketing expert told the BBC it is
important the systems do not become
"intrusive".
Facebook has been conducting a trial of Place
Tips in New York City since the start of the
year, where more than 100 businesses have
taken part.
Currently it only works with Apple devices, but
a version that supports smartphones powered
by Google's Android operating system is being
developed.
The social network has now announced it is
rolling out Place Tips across the US, but has
not said when it plans to bring the system to
other parts of the world.
'Fun, useful and relevant'
Once a business - such as a coffee shop or
restaurant - sets up a beacon, it can detect
when a Facebook user is within a set
distance.
The beacon can then send "fun, useful and
relevant" information into the user's News
Feed.
According to Facebook's explanation page ,
this information could include content posted
by friends in the same place, as well as
popular menu items and upcoming events.
Place Tips will appear in users' News Feeds
when they are nearby
The page notes that the feature can be turned
off.
Aaron Wachsstock, a digital content strategist
at the Virginia-based Borenstein Group, told
the BBC that Facebook would need to be
careful in how it allowed information to be
sent out.
"I can definitely see the potential, but I can
also see how people could feel it is intrusive.
"If people get all these messages when they
enter a store, they could view it as spam."
Beacon boom
Facebook told the btcollection

that companies would
not yet be able to use the service to advertise,
but that this position may change in the
future.
The social network was also keen to stress
that information sharing is "one way".
"The beacons don't collect any information
from people or their phones or change the
kind of location information Facebook
receives," the company explained.
Apple's own beacon technology - iBeacon - is
also currently being tested by businesses
around the world, including a select number of
McDonald's restaurants and shops on
London's Regent Street.
At McDonald's, special deals for chicken
nuggets were pushed to customer's phones as
they entered the premises - resulting, the
restaurant chain said, in a 7.5% increase in
nugget sales in the 26 locations involved.
Mr Wachsstock said companies must be
completely open about how the systems work.
otherwise people would simply disable the
feature.
"There is a lot of paranoia - people might
wonder 'who's watching me?'
"As long as people are aware of how it's
supposed to act it should be accepted."

Baby born from ovary frozen in mother's childhood

A woman in Belgium is the first in the world to
give birth to a baby using transplanted ovarian
tissue frozen when she was still a child,
doctors say.
The 27-year-old had an ovary removed at age
13, just before she began invasive treatment
for sickle cell anaemia.
Her remaining ovary failed following the
treatment, meaning she would have been
unlikely to conceive without the transplant.
Experts hope that this procedure could
eventually help other young patients.
The woman gave birth to a healthy boy in
November 2014, and details of the case were
published on Wednesday in the journal Human
Reproduction.
Bone marrow transplant
The woman, who has asked to remain
anonymous, was diagnosed with sickle cell
anaemia at the age of five.
She emigrated from the Republic of Congo to
Belgium where doctors decided her disease
was so severe that she needed a bone marrow
transplant using her brother's matching
tissue.
Scientists had frozen the woman's ovarian
tissue when she was 13 (file photo)
But before they could begin the bone marrow
transplant, they needed to give her
chemotherapy to disable her immune system
and stop it from rejecting the foreign tissue.
Chemotherapy can destroy the ovarian
function, so they removed her right ovary and
froze tissue fragments. At that time, she was
showing signs of puberty, but had not yet
started her periods. Her remaining ovary failed
at 15.
Ten years later, she decided she wanted to
have a baby, so doctors grafted four of her
thawed ovarian fragments onto her remaining
ovary and 11 fragments onto other sites in her
body.
Baby boy
The patient started menstruating
spontaneously five months later, and became
pregnant naturally at the age of 27.
The gynaecologist who led the treatment to
restore the patient's fertility, Dr Isabelle
Demeestere, told the BBC the patient was very
stressed during the procedure because it was
her only option to have a child, but that now
she "is of course very happy and is enjoying
her new life".
Dr Demeestere said it was now hoped the
procedure could help other young people,
especially given there is an increasing number
of long-term survivors of haematological
diseases diagnosed in childhood.
She said it was suitable for those who were at
high risk of ovarian failure, such as survivors
of treatment for lymphoma, leukaemia and
sarcoma.
She said thousands of people had now
undergone the procedure to freeze tissue and
in Dr Demeestere's clinic, 20% of them were
children.
"However, the success of this procedure
requires further investigation in very young
pre-pubertal girls, as our patient had already
started puberty even though she had not
started menstruating," she explained.
The risks involved
She also warned that it would only be suitable
for patients at high risk of ovarian failure,
because the procedure itself carries risks
such as damaging the removed healthy ovary
or reintroducing malignant cells at the time of
transplant.
Professor Adam Balen, chairman of the British
Fertility Society, welcomed the news.
"One would anticipate that young ovaries
should have lots of eggs in them, the concern
was whether those eggs might develop to
maturity, if the ovarian tissue was taken at
such a young age and frozen and then re-
implanted," he told the BBC.
"So, this is proof of that concept... it's very
important information."
About 40 babies have already been born
across the world using frozen ovarian tissue
taken from older women.