Petrol price to go up —Jonathan

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said the Federal Government would still remove fuel subsidy.

But he said the government would first discuss the proposal with Nigerians before removing the subsidy.

The President said at the Nigeria Summit, which held in Lagos, “We cannot continue to waste resources meant for a greater number of Nigerians to subsidise the affluent middle class, who are the main beneficiaries (of fuel subsidy).

“We believe that as we progress, government is going to continue to enlighten Nigerians on the need to remove fuel subsidy.”

The Federal Government had announced the total removal of subsidy on petrol on January 1, 2012 without prior announcement, raising the price of a litre of the commodity to N141 from N65.

PDP’ll win Lagos, other S’West states – Oyedokun

A member of the  Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, on Monday  said the PDP would  win  governorship elections in Lagos  and other South-West states in the next elections.

Oyedokun stated  in Osogbo, that  President Goodluck Jonathan and the national leadership of the PDP were  in support of the bid  to wrest power from  the Action Congress of Nigeria and Labour Party  in the zone.

Kanye wants to name child North

Kanye West wants to call his baby North.

The 'Stronger' hitmaker and girlfriend Kim Kardashian will welcome their first child into the world in July and the rapper wants to show his sense of humour by naming the tot North West.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "Kanye's ego is something else, so he's quite serious about the title.

Twitter scores a patent for Twitter

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last year. Today, Dorsey and fellow Twitter co-founder Biz Stone were granted a patent for their service.

(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)

If you're thinking about copying the way Twitter works, you might want to get a good lawyer: the technology at the core of the social network is officially patented.
As first reported by The Verge, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Twitter a patent today for what it termed a "Device independent message distribution platform:"

Add your own silent movie titles with Google's Peanut Gallery Web Speech demo

Google's latest Chrome Experiment aims to demonstrate the browser's ability to turn speech into text by letting users add intertitles to old film clips by speaking into their computer's microphone

Google has recently developed a Web Speech API for Chrome which enables users to interact with their browser via speech rather than using the keyboard. This latest project from Google Creative Lab is an attempt to demonstrate the abilities of the API, but in an engaging, fun way.

AMAA nominations announced

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The nominations for the 2013 AMAA (Africa Movie Academy Awards) were announced last week at a glittering ceremony in Lilongwe, Malawi, hosted by President Joyce Banda.

This year AMAA received 328 entries from across Africa, up from 220 in 2011. These included 134 feature films, 88 short films, 57 documentaries and six animations. Entries from America, Canada, France, Germany, Guadalupe, Italy, Jamaica, and the UK also received nominations.

Here are the nominees: