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Google  announced  that it is retiring its  official Adsense plugin , previously known as the Google Publisher plugin. For the past three years it has allowed WordPress users to easily add Adsense ads to their sites, enable mobile-specific ad layouts, and manage ads with a point-and-click interface. “After reviewing the AdSense Plugin for WordPress, we’ve decided that in the future we can support WordPress publishers better with new innovative features like our automatic ad formats and other upcoming initiatives,” Google said. “As a result, we will be deprecating the AdSense Plugin for WordPress in May 2017.” Google published the following timeline for sunsetting the plugin: Early March 2017: New publishers will not be able to sign up for AdSense by using the plugin. Early April 2017: Existing publishers will not be able to change their ad settings or ad units through the plugin. Early May 2017: Google will no longer provide support for the plugin. Although Google’s Adsens

                       There was a bloody  fight  between Igbo traders and the Hausa traders at Panteka market, a major spare-parts market in Kaduna state following the naming of two dogs, ‘Muhammad’ and ‘Ibere’ by both an Igbo trader and a Hausa trader respectively.  According to reports, the Igbo trader named his newly bought dog after the Hausa man who bears the same name ‘Muhammad’ in retaliation to the Hausa man who first bought his own dog and named it ‘Ibere,’ after the Igbo trader. An eyewitness, Aminu Ibrahim was quoted saying “trouble started when one Muhammad bought a dog and allegedly named it Ibere after an Igbo trader.”  “Since the boy named the dog after the trader, the trader had warned him on several occasions to rename the dog, but the owner of the dog Muhammad refused.   The Igbo trader, Ibere also bought a dog and named it Muhammad, this is when all hell was let loose,” Aminu said.  The reports also said that the market has been closed down by men of the Nigerian P

Boko Haram insurgents have  killed  a Nigerian soldier while two others were reported missing during an encounter with the terrorists at Sa’ada village in the Northeast. The Nigerian Army Spokesman, Brig. Gen Sani Usman, in a statement said ”on Tuesday, troops advancing towards Sa’ada village, met heavy presence of Boko Haram terrorist in the area. ”They however engaged them and destroyed the terrorists’ makeshift camps at Gwari and Ganye villages.  The troops had to withdraw to Forward Operation Base at Kerenoa. Unfortunately, 1 soldier paid the supreme price, 2 others were missing in action, while an officer and 13 soldiers were wounded in action. The wounded are in stable condition, while concerted effort is ongoing to recover the 2 missing in action.” Usman disclosed further that a suspected Boko Haram terrorist, Alhaji Mustpha Bulama, was on Monday arrested by troops of 7 Division Garrison at his residence located at Musari, along Baga road, Maiduguri.  The suspect, who hailed f

The latest WhatsApp beta 2.17.93 has made a couple of changes that do seem small on the surface but that should make it easier to initiate calls and share attachments in the app. The most obvious change is the new attachment button placement in the text box, next to the camera. You won't have to reach out to the top of the screen to send a document, location, contact, or some sort of media anymore. And it makes a lot more sense: now everything you can share in a chat is there in the bottom row: attachments, camera (which gets a new icon), and voice messages. The attachment overlay also shows on the bottom of the screen now.   Attachment icon moved from the top title bar (old, left) to the bottom text box (new, right). The empty icon space left in the top title bar is filled by a standalone video call button. Instead of tapping the call icon first then choosing between voice and video calls, the two are now separate and you can quickly initiate whichever one yo

Photos of a Catholic priest and an Islamic cleric locked in a tearful farewell embrace have gone viral after they were shared by a Nigerian Facebook user named Halima Bwari. According to Halima, it happened in Minna, Niger state between Father O'Connell, a Catholic Priest, and Shaykh Ahmad Lemu, an Islamic Cleric. Halima captioned the photos: The kind of embrace that is much needed especially in these days of insistent hate & dislike.  Father O'Connell, a Catholic Priest, in a tearful farewell embrace with Shaykh Ahmad Lemu, an Islamic Cleric, in Minna.  Father O'Connell has served in a Government Secondary School, Minna as a Principal for 50 years. He turned 80 earlier last week or so.  He returns to Ireland on retirement.  These 2 men have between themselves, educated, positively influenced and molded many Nigerlites, including my father & mother, among other close family & friends. May our lives be that of service & usefulness to others. Ami

Moshood Owolabi, a 200 level student of Lead City University, Ibadan, has been sentenced to death for stabbing his fellow student to death. Justice Adegboye Gbolagunte of an Ibadan High Court, delivering the judgement on Wednesday, sentenced Owolabi to death by hanging for causing the death of one Seun Kolawole, two years ago. Owolabi, who was a student of the Physical and Health Education Department in the University, caused the death of Kolawole by stabbing him with a bottle in the neck, following a misunderstanding between him and the deceased, on Jan. 12, 2014 at toll-gate area of Ibadan.

Snapchat has some special lenses in store for International Womens Day. IMAGE: LILI SAMS/MASHABLE Snapchat is making its own contribution to International Women's Day with, what else, a set of new animated lenses. The app updated its lenses with three new offerings for the occasion: animated lenses celebrating Marie Curie, Frida Kahlo and Rosa Parks.  A spokesperson for Snap said the lenses will be live in the app for 24 hours and are meant to celebrate women they represent. The lens for Kahlo, for example, transforms your face into the artist's iconic look complete with flower crown, red lipstick and, of course, unibrow. In a statement, the  Frida Kahlo Corporation  said the lens is meant to "capture the faces of all her followers around the world." The Frida Khalo Snapchat lens give you the artist's signature look. IMAGE: SNAPCHAT "In the age of the selfie, Frida is considered to be the first selfie artist, she told a story of love,