The hope for Nigeria’s interconnectivity by rail may not be coming any time soon, as the cost of completing the project is estimated at $40 billion. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, made this known during the inspection of the Lagos-Ibadan rail project Friday. He, also assured that the project would
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The federal government may have concluded arrangement to move all official government documents and exchanges on to a more secure domestic security infrastructure.This is in a renewed security ethos designed to permeate through all tiers of government and its agencies and to protect state mechanism from deliberate and unintended abuse. With
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The helicopter was put through its paces in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. NASA has successfully tested a mini helicopter that's set to fly on Mars in 2021. While exploration of other planets has previously been restricted to rovers on the ground, NASA is making progress in developing a
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates celebrated proposed legislation which would advance the development of nuclear energy technology.. Gates, a notable backer of nuclear energy, responded to proposed legislation “which establishes an ambitious plan to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactor technologies,” “Yesterday, a bipartisan group of leaders in the U.S. Senate introduced
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the investment was subject to certain conditions, which were not stated. The statement revealed that Jumia and Mastercard first partnered in 2016 with the successful launch of Mastercard Payment Gateway Solutions in several markets and launch of JumiaPay, the payment service of the Jumia platform that facilitates transactions for consumers and
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Many mental health apps may overstate their effectiveness, according to new research. Research published this week in the peer-reviewed journal Naturel Digital MedicineNatural examined 73 top-ranking mental health apps found by searching the iTunes and Google Play stores for apps related to anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, self-harm and substance use. “You’re kind of
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Artificial intelligence can predict when you’ll die Everyone is faced with the prospect of death, though not knowing when the time will come can be unsettling for many. Now, researchers have uncovered a disturbing benefit of artificial intelligence – the ability to more accurately predict a person’s demise. The unsettling research, published
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Equatorial Guinea, DRC, Angola, Libya have high rates The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) has disclosed that although Internet data services remain high in Africa, Nigeria, Egypt and Rwanda offer cheapest tariffs on the continent.As at the end of 2018, it ranked Nigeria as the second country after Egypt with
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Huawei Technologies Company Nigeria Ltd., an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) company, says it is currently working with more than 40 universities to ensure digital inclusion in Nigeria. Zhang Lulu, Its Managing Director, said yesterday in Lagos that the company was working with the universities in establishing Huawei Authorised Information and
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The way that we carry out our banking operations has changed dramatically over the years. With the increase in Internet use a decade ago, it helped to remove the need to go to our banks or ATMs to manage transactions or to move money around. In the past couple of years,
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