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LG’s roll-up TV screen.

LG Display has been working on its fully flexible screen for some time now, but it’s at this year’s CES the BBC was given the exclusive first hands-on. The screen can be rolled up and scrunched around, and the display is full HD. The one I played with was 18in (45.7cm) corner to corner, but the team at LG say they’re aiming for screens that are 55in and beyond. At that size they will be able to produce a screen quality of 4K, they say – that’s four times HD. Right now, the resolution is 1,200 by 810 pixels. How did they do it? Of course they wouldn’t share the precise details, but the crucial technological leap has been moving from LED TVs to OLED TVs. The O stands for organic, and it removes the necessity of a back panel providing light to the screen. Therefore, it bends. Why would you want a bendable TV? LG says it’s ideal for making displays, like in a shop, but also for people who no longer want to sacrifice an entire corner of a room to a television. With a bendable scr...

Allegedly This is How Dasuki Arrested and Ruined Buhari's Marriage In 1985

Immediate past National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Dasuki (retd) was the one who led a team of three army officers to arrest Buhari on August 26, 1985 He became the ADC (aide-de-camp) to Ibrahim Babangida after the coup. Buhari spent two years in prison and this ruined his first marriage to Safinatu. Buhari and Hajia Safinatu were married in 1971 and they were blessed with five children: four girls and a boy. However, upon Buhari’s release from a jail Safinatu divorced him as she was reported to had been desolated over his imprisonment. While Sambo Dasuki is being Prosecuted by Muhammadu Buhari over alleged Fraud and Embezzlement of Funds Meant for Procurement of Arms during the last Administration. From the developments on the Dasuki trial it seems Buhari has vowed to jail Dasuki as a payback for the pains he went through in the hands of Dusuki and his principal IBB.