The startup journey is an endless roller coaster ride, full of highs and lows, and yet the journey has been a 24/7 hustling experience for you. So it’s funny that we’re looking back at your startup life, like some kind of cheesy 80s movie montage. Granted, you do have interesting jargon
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A former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Prof. Charles Soludo, on Tuesday urged Nigeria to invest more in technological innovations for the country to compete favourably in a 21st century without oil. Soludo said this in his paper titled “The Economic Restructuring of Nigeria: Nigeria of the Future,”
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The Minister of Communications, Dr. Isa Ibrahim Pantami, Executive Vice Chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Dambatta; Director-General, National Technology Development Agency (NITDA), KashifuInuwa Abdullah and others are expected to grace the maiden edition of Mobile and Disruptive Technology Forum 2019 (ModiTECH’19: www.Next. TechEconomy.ng), being organised by TechEconomy.ng in
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The People’s Bank of China has approved PayPal’s acquisition of a 70% equity state in GoPay (Guofubao Information Technology Co. [GoPay], Ltd.), which will make PayPal the first foreign payment platform to provide online payment services in China. GoPay has licenses for online and mobile transactions, and mainly provides
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Tech companies are reporting a boom in online photos and videos of children being sexually abused — a record 45 million illegal images were flagged last year alone — exposing a system at a breaking point and unable to keep up with the perpetrators, an investigation by The New York
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Although Earth only has one moon, it does have other natural satellites, including asteroid 2016 HO3, known as a “co-orbital object.” These tiny celestial objects could be an “attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence,” according to a new study. The research suggests that these space rocks could be hiding grounds for an
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It’s been nearly six years since NASA unveiled Valkyrie, a state-of-the-art full-size humanoid robot. After the DARPA Robotics Challenge, NASA has continued to work with Valkyrie at Johnson Space Center, and has also provided Valkyrie robots to several different universities. Although it’s not a new platform anymore (six years is
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With the deregulation of the telecoms sector about two decades ago came massive investment by telcos on infrastructure. But the rise of platforms that have neither erected a base station, pay taxes to government nor licensed by the government to provide services challenges the bottomline of telcos. Gbenga Adebayo, an engineer,
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In adherence to global best practices in the provision of cleaner and sustainable sources of energy, as well as fulfilling Nigeria’s commitment to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to reduce carbon footprint, the federal government recently inaugurated the 7.1MW power plant, the largest off-grid Solar Hybrid plant in Africa at Bayero University, Kano, under the
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In addition, President Buhari in 2018, declined to sign into law, a reform bill – the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill (PIGB), which experts believed could halt the decline and gradually restore comprehensive productivity in the industry. According to industry experts, this meant that the industry would continue to operate with the
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