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North Korea is claiming it has successfully detonated a miniaturised hydrogen bomb. Tremors were picked up by seismologists in the US, South Korea and China at 10am local time (1.30am GMT) at a known nuclear test site at Punggye-ri and confirmed by state television. What is a thermonuclear bomb? According to John Carlson, the former head of the Australian Safeguards and Non-Proliferation Office, a thermonuclear bomb – colloquially known as a hydrogen bomb – is essentially a two-stage explosion: one a nuclear fission reaction, the other a nuclear fusion reaction. The “primary” explosion is the fission reaction – think, a conventional nuclear bomb – that emits x-rays which cause the “secondary” explosion, triggered by the fusion of tritium and deuterium, two hydrogen isotopes. These two isotopes naturally repel each other, but the x-rays weaken this repellent force, causing the pair to fuse together. It is the fusion of these two isotopes that triggers the enormous energy release...

There’s currently uneasy calm in the Nasarawa State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as a team of lawyers purportedly engaged by the party to represent it at the Local Government Election Petition Tribunal in 2014, have dragged the ruling party to court over N92.7 million debt. One of the lawyers, who gave his name as Mr Shikammah Sheltu, told newsmen on Tuesday in Lafia that the party had contacted five of them to represent it at the tribunal in respect of chairmanship and councillorship elections in 13 local government areas of the state. The lawyer, however, said that the party had agreed to pay N100 million as professional fee to the legal team out of which only N7.3 million was paid, leaving a balance of N92.7million. He said that their decision to go to court was fueled by the party’s refusal to pay the balance after several reminders. The lawyer said that the suit had been fixed for hearing at the state High Court 1 on Jan. 19, 2016. Reacting to the claim, APC...

Thousands of Igbo men and women have come forward to recount tales of how officials of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), defrauded them with the promise of getting them Biafran International Passport. According to findings by New Telegraph, MASSOB generated over N500 million from the sale of the passport alone. But the passport lead to nowhere, all those who obtained it could not travel with it. One of the victims, Ngwoke Ibem Ngwoke,described their misfortune as ‘mass deception’. He said: ”I paid N10,000 to buy the passport. At the time, I was the Administrative Secretary. Members and interested persons paid the sum of N10,000 into a designated bank account at First Bank, then presented the teller to me. ”I verified and issued receipt and they in turn took the receipt to the passport officer, who was delegated by Uwazuruike (MASSOB Leader), one Ambrose Anyasoh, who will see the receipt and then issue the passport. ”Based on the assurances given to us by ...

For the past year, Kentucky Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens, one of the few black judges in Louisville, has had to fight through an outrageous amount of racism. On Monday, after Stevens revoked the bond of a white man arrested on drug charges, Adam Satterly can be heard on video shouting a racist slur. As Satterly left the court, he was recorded yelling that Stevens was a "punk ass n-----." This, it appears, is still the painful reality for an African-American judge in 2016. Rightfully so, Stevens refused to simply let it go and ordered a deputy to bring Satterly back into the courtroom. As calm and dignified as ever, Stevens asked Satterly, "Is there something that you wish to say to me?" Sensing he was in trouble and may have to pay a price for the words that came out of his mouth, Satterly first told the judge that he was just talking to his brother. "No, no, no, I didn't mean it like that," Satterly stammered. Stevens made it clear it was ...

The Cross River State Governor, Prof Ben Ayade, on Tuesday paid an unscheduled visit to some ministries in the state, where he ordered three commissioners to be locked out for failing to be at their duty posts as early as 8am. They include Ministries of Agriculture, Water Resources, Women Affairs and Sustainable Development. Out of the four ministries visited by the Governor on Tuesday, only the Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Stella Odey, was on hand to receive him. At the Ministry of Agriculture, where Ayade made his first point of call, the commissioner, Prof. Egrinya Eneji, and his directors were unavailable to receive him, with no explanation given for their absence. The Governor on getting to the Ministry of Water Resources, was visibly enraged that the commissioner, Gabe Odu Orji, was not on duty at the time of his visit, prompting his directive that the commissioner be locked out. Also at the ministry of Sustainable Development, the Governor was equally disappoi...

Former militants of the Niger Delta have threatened to declare war on Nigerian government if the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and director of radio Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu is not released with immediate effect. The former militants under the aegis of Niger Delta Peoples Democratic Front (NDPDF) issued the threat at the weekend in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The leader of the group, Precious Iyoyo (aka General Playboy) warned President Muhammadu Buhari to free Kanu without delay, in order to reduce the growing tension in the country. According to him, the continued detention of Kanu after a competent court had granted him bail was provocative and dictatorial. He also demanded the immediate pullout of the military personnel drafted to Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra state, to allow free flow of traffic for the “innocent citizens of South- South and South East.” “The Nigerian government is dangerously pushing us to the wall. The unprovoked mass ...

So son to the Owner of Daar communication, Chief  Raymond  Dokpesi and his team were at the state house to make a presentation of a huge birthday card to President Muhammadu Buharitoday and APC United kingdom replied with the tweet below 30m 30 minutes ago APC United Kingdom  ‏ @APCUKingdom If u like, present PMB with a birthday card that sings & dances, d SCAM TRIAL will NOT stop! @AIT_Online @FemAdesina https:// twitter.com/SaharaReporter s/status/684409131843883009 … 7 2

The billionaire founder of Facebook has revealed plans to build a domestic robot capable of babysitting his infant daughter. Mark Zuckerberg wants to build a “simple artificial intelligence to run my home” by the end of the year. He announced this ambitious scheme in his annual New Year’s Resolution Facebook post. Zuck said his “personal challenge” for the year would be to design a robot which can perform basic childcare and other tasks around the house. “I’ll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home – music, lights, temperature and so on. I’ll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell. I’ll teach it to let me know if anything is going on in Max’s room that I need to check on when I’m not with her,” he wrote. This is like the 1998 movie Dream House. Hope it doesn't turn sour at the end.

The Lagos state government has announced its plan to have 10,000 CCTV cameras  installed across the state for improved security. The Lagos state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, made this known as she did the breakdown of the 2016 budget which is tagged, ’The Peoples’ Budget’ to the press. According to her“We will be expanding our ICT infrastructure statewide. A budget of N9.6 billion has been approved for this purpose in 2016.This will include a Smart City project targeted deploying technology to enhance security in the state. The existing 1,000 cameras will be reactivated and these will be increased by an additional 3,000 cameras after the completion of the first phase of this project. What happened to the one's already installed and how has it helped in combating crime? Source: Daily sun