I wanted to think over my entrepreneurial journey and share it with other fellow entrepreneurs. Once a year, I reflect upon the year that has passed. Sometimes startup entrepreneurship has become part of the larger rat-race of society. What began as defiance against a society built on neatly parcelled careers and
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First Graphene Ltd has gained an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Manchester in order to develop graphene-hybrid materials to be use in supercapacitors. The licensing agreement, between the University of Manchester and First Graphene Ltd, is for the manufacturing of metal oxide decorated graphene materials, using a proprietary electrochemical
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New research by the Oxford Internet Institute has found that social media manipulation is getting worse, with rising numbers of governments and political parties making cynical use of social media algorithms, automation and big data to manipulate public opinion at scale — with hugely worrying implications for democracy. The report found
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Remote work has gone from mainstream to rushing river. While the productivity boosts of working from home are getting press, as are the skill sets required to succeed in working from home, the movement is broader and growing faster than most realize. Besides the homebound, remote work includes employees working outside
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Check Point Research has published its latest Global Threat Index for August 2019. The Research team is warning organisations of a new variant of the Mirai IoT Botnet, Echobot, which has launched widespread attacks against a range of IoT devices. First seen in May 2019, Echobot has exploited over 50 different
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Domestic carrier, Air Peace commenced flight service to Warri. The inaugural flight operated with an ERJ 145 aircraft arrived at the Osubi Airport, Warri at 11.15am, piloted by Capt. Crosby Otobo. The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, Mr Allen Onyema, said the move to extend operations to Warri was
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Today, the brand has established itself as an e-commerce player. According to a recent press release, the Adidas and Reebok websites are already the brands’ largest and most profitable own points of sale globally. By 2020, the company plans to achieve EUR4 billion (US$4.38 billion) in sales coming from its own
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We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics” – Katherine Johnson, American Mathematician, whose calculations, as a NASA employee, were critical, to
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A legal consultant on African energy access matters, Anastasia Walsh, has said Nigeria and Kenya are at the forefront of grid revolution. Microgrids are small-scale power grids that run on a combination of solar, wind, biomass or fossil fuels to provide reliable power. They operate either independently from the main grid or
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Having a compact, yet robust, structurally-based identifier or representation system for molecular structures is a key enabling factor for efficient sharing and dissemination of results within the research community. Such systems also lay down the essential foundations for machine learning and other data-driven research. While substantial advances have been made
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