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Again, protest at veterinary institute over Prof. Ahmed’s appointment

Dozens of protesters on Monday staged a peaceful demonstration at the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Vom, Plateau State, demanding the reversal of the appointment of Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed as provost of the Federal College of Animal Health and Production Technology. The college is located within the premises of the NVRI in Jos South Local […]

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Porting a Python PEG parser to Rust in 72 hours, and actually proving it worked

There's a joke that every Rust project starts with someone saying "we should rewrite this in Rust" and ends four weekends later with a half-finished repo and a lot of new opinions about lifetimes.

  • Team ported parsimonious Python PEG parser to Rust in 72 hours for Port Mortem 2026 hackathon
  • Rust parser achieved 23x performance increase over original Python parser
  • Optimized Rust parser used 6.7 MB memory vs. 13 MB, with 0.016 ms peak latency

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Taraba gov’t denies N1.2 trn debt

The Taraba State Government has debunked reports suggesting that the state’s debt portfolio had risen to N1.2 trillion. The State‘s Commissioner of Finance, Dr Sarah Adi Enoch, while reacting to the…

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