It is projected that by 2020, there will be four billion connected people on the planet, over 25 billion embedded and intelligent systems, and more than twenty-five million apps. Every time we connect to other people via email, social media platforms and other inter-personal digital networks enabled by the world wide
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The 3,050 megawatts Mambilla hydropower project in Taraba State has been moribund in the last 20 years, the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, has said. Ishaku, who disclosed this at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Power recently in Abuja, however, stated that his state was ready to support the
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Rwanda becomes the first African country to introduce Volkswagen electric car; Volkswagen and Siemens sign joint development agreement to conduct electric mobility feasibility project; Pilot Project part of Moving Rwanda Initiative; Four e-Golfs and one charging station for the initial phase of the pilot project; e-Golfs added into the Volkswagen
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Chevron is reportedly making plans to sell some of its Nigerian oil assets and focus on growing its shale production in the United States. Reuters reports that the action is part of a decision reached to reshape the company’s portfolio. Discussions are reportedly taking place directly between the company and potential buyers
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Chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a method of synthesising polymers that can break down more readily in the body and the environment. The chemical reaction, ring-opening metathesis polymerisation (ROMP) has been utilised by scientist to build novel polymers for various uses, such as, nanofabrication, high-performance resins
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In breast cancer pathology, a 2 percent chance of malignancy is the accepted threshold at which a radiologist refers the patient for further study. In reality, that threshold varies among doctors; some are more conservative, others less so. The result is either more false positives, in which a healthy patient worries
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Twenty to thirty-year-olds may feel like distributed computing is something from their age, however, in all actuality, it follows its foundations back more than 60 years. Since the 1950s, associations have been utilizing an undeniable mind-boggling and consistently changing the arrangement of centralized server PCs to process their information. In
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Ayodeji Ayorinde Olugbade is the MD, Atlantic ExhibitionTM the organizers of BuildmacexTM which has its 6th Edition recently. Exhibitors came from different parts of the globe such as Germany, Pakistan, Nigeria, India, and from Ethiopia to participate. The exhibition had a couple of sponsors such as CDK Integrated Industries LimitedTM,
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Exactly 50 years ago today, two students celebrated their success after transmitting the first message over what became the modern-day Internet. However, the early pioneers are now concerned that what was designed to democratize the public, has instead created a 'perfect formula for the dark side' They believe moderate voice are drowned
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In research, sometimes the investigator becomes part of the experiment. That’s exactly what happened to Efraín O’Neill-Carrillo and Agustín Irizarry-Rivera, both professors of electrical engineering at the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez, when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico on 20 September 2017. Along with every other resident of the island, they
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