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Drogba just  announced on his instagram page that he's back at  Stamford Bridge .  Chelsea manager  Jose Mourinho revealed recently that he wanted Drogba back, and he's made it happen

Yesterday the Lagos State Ministry of Health said a  Liberian  man is being tested for the deadly Ebola virus in Lagos (read  here ). The man,  Patrick   Sawyer , (pictured above) has reportedly died. According to reports, Patrick died yesterday night at the First  Consultant Medical  Centre, Obalende, Lagos where he'd been receiving treatment. His condition was said to have worsened. Sawyer, who was an official of the Liberian  Ministry of Finance , arrived in Nigeria on Sunday July 20th for a conference.

What a man! Pope  Francis  pictured above after he popped in unannounced at the  Vatican  workers' cafeteria  this afternoon where he lined up, tray in hand, along with stunned workers and had  lunch  with them. See  more  photos after the cut...

President Jonathan today July 22nd met with parents of abducted Chibok girls and rescued girls at the State House in Abuja. Present at the closed door meeting was the Senate President David Mark, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Principal of the school, Mrs Asaba Kwambura as well as some Heads of Nigeria's Security Agencies. The media was sent out of the room once the meeting kicked off. See more photos after the cut...

President Jonathan today July 22nd met with parents of abducted Chibok girls and rescued girls at the State House in Abuja. Present at the closed door meeting was the Senate President David Mark, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Principal of the school, Mrs Asaba Kwambura as well as some Heads of Nigeria's Security Agencies. The media was sent out of the room once the meeting kicked off. See more photos after the cut...

President Jonathan today July 22nd met with parents of abducted Chibok girls and rescued girls at the State House in Abuja. Present at the closed door meeting was the Senate President David Mark, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Principal of the school, Mrs Asaba Kwambura as well as some Heads of Nigeria's Security Agencies. The media was sent out of the room once the meeting kicked off. See more photos after the cut...

President Jonathan today July 22nd met with parents of abducted Chibok girls and rescued girls at the State House in Abuja. Present at the closed door meeting was the Senate President David Mark, Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Principal of the school, Mrs Asaba Kwambura as well as some Heads of Nigeria's Security Agencies. The media was sent out of the room once the meeting kicked off. See more photos after the cut...

The field of biomimetics is a varied one. From large helicopters to tiny nano-bots, the scope is massive. Scientists have looked to nature for sometime now in order to reproduce it in a way that will be beneficial to mankind. Boston Dynamics , funded by  DARPA , created a running robot called Cheetah, a quadruped that could run at speeds of over 29 mph. To put that into perspective, it is faster than Usain Bolt, the fastest man on the planet. But they didn’t stop there. In fact the team then created Wildcat, a similar quadruped, which was designed around the Cheetah, but could run at fast speeds over rough terrain. The US is not the only country that is showing great interest in this field. Scientists from KAIST have designed and built a new robot that has almost matched Cheetah’s speed record.  This design wasn’t built around a cat like frame, instead the team opted for something that isn’t alive anymore; the Velociraptor. This two-legged machi...

Computex  2014 kicks off today in Taipei starting with a press conference, followed by an official start tomorrow when over 1,700 companies will showcase their new designs to 130,000 attendees. Asia’s largest technology show is an opportunity for some of the big name and less-known vendors to launch their smart innovations and give us a glimpse of cool technology that is not yet available; here is what to expect from this year’s show. 1. SmarTech This year sees a new area named the SmarTech Area, where everything from smart wearables and 3D printing, to intelligent vehicle systems and security can be displayed. This addition is a sign of just how important smart technology has become and we can expect to see more interesting applications that will reach every area of our everyday lives. It will be here that Acer will launch its first wearable, the Liquid Leap Smartband. 2. Google Glass Alternatives There are some companies keen to produce fierce competition for Google Glas...

In a classic case of “what not to do when you’re bored”,  a New York man was arrested after he decided to fly his drone outside of a New York hospital . According to the 49-year-old, he had just dropped off his mom for an appointment when he decided to get out his drone  (a DIJ Phantom 2) and fly it around the hospital. I guess the “real” problem began when the drone kept being spotted by doctors and medical staff outside of the hospital’s exam windows as they were examining patients. Staff called the police and the man was promptly arrested for illegal surveillance activities. I don’t own a drone, but if I did, I don’t think I’d fly the thing outside of a hospital of all places, but that might just be me. The man has stated in a Facebook post that what he did was the result of a lapse in judgment and that the drone’s camera couldn’t glimpse anything through the hospital’s windows. Whether that last part’s true or not I cannot say – all I know is it seems the police might’v...

The advent of lifelike holograms is upon us.  We have seen celebrities who are no longer around;  appear on stage and ‘converse’ with real people thanks to new standards in holographic technology.  Imagine this type of breakthrough tech being wielded in the palm of your hand?  Well folks, we don’t have to wait too long as the technology, which makes an image ‘float’ as a 3D image in the air, is finally here. The company that has made this breakthrough,  Ostendo , has produced a hologram with a 5,000ppi projector.  It is this type of projector that should interest us, as they plan to fit it into smartphones in the second half of 2015. The hologram is created using six projectors, which layer light to create an image floating in the air,

President Goodluck Jonathan President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to tarry a little, before attempting to declare his second term ambition. Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, stated this at a meeting they had with the President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday night. Though the governors   were in support of the President’s bid for re-election, they said the nation’s mood was not ripe for such a declaration. Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Tuesday and Wednesday showed that the meeting considered the plight of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls and security challenges facing the country. It was learnt that based on these two major issues, the governors asked the President to study the mood of the nation more before considering an open declaration for re-election. Two of the governors, who were at the meeting and spoke with our correspondent separately, said that the President was advised to either v...

Lifestyle blogger Yemisi Aiyedun popularly known as Sisi Yemmie and her man Yomi Odusanya got married traditionally yesterday July 17th at The Summit, Alausa, Ikeja.   Yemisi and Yomi were the lucky winners of a N15 Million wedding in the 'My Big Nigerian Wedding Season 1' contest organised by WED Expo.

Twitter just announced  it’s acquired  CardSpring  to enable “in-the-moment commerce experiences.” CardSpring is an application platform that lets developers build card-linked offers electronic coupons, loyalty cards, and virtual currencies that work with credit cards and other types of payments. Twitter will keep the service open.

I n a night of fun filled activities, Remy Martin treated Industry Nite founder Matthew Ohio and his friends to a VIP styled party at The Place, Lekki.   Matthew Ohio  is a showbiz enthusiast,  show promoter and business man who started the Industry Nite in 2009 as an independent platform for artists to showcase themselves. Continue to see more photos...

Online security is a horrifying nightmare.  Heartbleed .  Target .  Apple .  Linux . Microsoft .  Yahoo .  eBay .  X.509 . Whatever security cataclysm erupts next, probably in weeks or even days. We seem to be trapped in a vicious cycle of cascading security disasters that just keep getting worse.

Indexeus.net looks like it could have been a Y Combinator project. With a slick design, snappy copy, and a  bitcoin -based payment system, it looks unusually legit. But what the site is hiding is the produce of hundreds of hacking efforts from around the web. I’ve left out the link because it’s unclear if the site may deliver malware now or in the future. You can type it in if you’re curious.

A Malaysian passenger plane with 295 people on board has been shot down as it flew above eastern Ukraine, according to aviation sources. The plane, which is believed to have been flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was travelling at an altitude of 10km (6.2 miles) when it was shot down, Russia’s Interfax reported. The aircraft, reportedly a Boeing 777, was brought down by a Buk ground-to-air missile, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior ministry quoted by the news agency said.

Microsoft may have done a lot to encourage new people to buy the Xbox One by removing the Kinect from the basic bundle and dropping the price by $100 accordingly, but it still can’t catch up to the PlayStation 4. According to new numbers from NPD, Sony’s is the  top-selling U.S. next-gen console for June , which marks the sixth month in a row it has collected that honor.

Don’t look now, but  BlackBerry  — you know, the butt of most cell phone jokes — is mounting an impressive comeback. BlackBerry’s  stock  is up 50 percent on the year and one of the best performers in its sector. BlackBerry has been written off as dead countless times. The company is often viewed as a relic of a bygone era. Its CEO is a  blowhard , not afraid to take spats with the company public. Yet the company is creating value for its shareholders.

Google Glass has made a name for itself (somewhat infamously) as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now, a team based out of interactive studio  This Place  in London, is launching a new app that it hopes will kickstart an even more seamless way of interacting with the device: with the power of your mind. MindRDR, as the app is called, links up  Google  Glass with another piece of head-mounted hardware, the Neurosky EEG biosensor, to create a communication loop.

Editor’s note:   David Greenbaum  is CEO and co-founder of  Boost Media . Previously, David worked in venture capital and at Goldman Sachs, and was director of strategy and M&A at Interval Leisure Group. Jon Evans’ post “ Welcome To Extremistan! Check Your Career At The Door ” on TechCrunch warns of mass penury for this generation and the next as the dual horseman of the techno-apocalypse, robots and software, strip humans of their ability to make a living.

It’s happened before and it’s happened again – a popular commodity appears and is remade in so many permutations and from so many manufacturers that the differentiation ultimately focuses on price. When this happens, the small players sneak in with cheap hardware, the big players stumble and try to buoy sales with higher-end models (an example of this is the  Dell Adamo  as the netbook market tanked) and everyone falls down in a heap. See laptops, feature phones, and the aforementioned netbooks for further examples. Now we’re in a race to the bottom for smartphones. High flyers like LG and HTC are already flat. Now the next big player to stumble under commodity hardware is  Samsung . And it won’t be pretty.

Microsoft  today  announced  a raft of new  Office  365 plans for smaller businesses that will eventually supplant its extant offerings. The company is lowering the price of its most expensive smaller business offering — from $15 per seat per month to $12.50 — and raising the employee cap in some cases to 300 from 25.  Microsoft  has preserved a $5 per seat per month  Office 365  option that includes its cloud products,  but not desktop versions of Office proper. The moves are customer-friendly because we are in a period of  intense competition . Microsoft wants to bring people in from the cold of their past multi-year software buying cycles, while also shepherding smaller companies and businesses into its fold by selling them Office as a service at moderate price points. Google , Apple,  Dropbox  and  Box  want that same action. Far more than a trillion dollars in market cap is fighti...