Engineers are developing a portable field testing device that health care workers could use to quickly test for active infections of COVID-19 and other diseases. Mechanical engineer Juan Santiago is an expert in microfluidics — compact chemistry labs that are increasingly being used to test various liquids for toxins, pollution, parasites, microbes and
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The Federal Government’s recent N200bn payment to the power sector has yet to address the most severe challenge in the industry – gas shortage The dearth of gas stalled the generation of 23,081.5 megawatts of electricity in eight days despite the N200bn that was paid by the Federal Government recently to
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As governments around the world issued directives that individuals need to stay home and isolate amid the current COVID-19 pandemic, organisations scrambled to set up the infrastructures to protect the business and its employees. Now that organisations have made headway in their remote working practices, with some even considering its
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Microsoft is using its massive userbase of one billion devices running on Windows 10 to monetise, says GlobalData. The analyst firm says with employees across the world undertaking remote working for an extended period of time due the COVID-19 crisis, the tech giant is looking to generate revenues via its Office
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Sextortion continues to be one of the most effective methods of extracting monetary value from victims, used by cyber-attackers around the world. But according to Sophos, the crimes don’t stop at just sextortion – a recently released report reveals funds gleaned from victims led to an underbelly of criminal activity. Sextortion is
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Financial services company INTL FCStone Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia market analysis head Rhona O’Connell says the majority of precious metals have moved into uncertain territory, with future trends difficult to predict as Covid-19 disrupts international buying and selling markets. She further notes that although gold has performed well
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Tech companies are finding themselves at the center of the falling out between the US and China as the two nations spar over the Communist Party’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Quarterly earnings reports are due out this week from Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which will offer a first
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) said within 13 days, it recorded over 2,600 customer complaints on electricity supply interruptions. The Commission had earlier in April announced the constitution of the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry(NESI) ‘Situation Room’ to forestall prolonged electricity supply interruption by the industry operators for the period of
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While the human world is reeling from one pandemic, there are several ongoing epidemics that affect crops and put global food production at risk. Oranges, olives, and bananas are already under threat in many areas due to diseases that affect plants’ circulatory systems and that cannot be treated by applying
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NIGERIA alongside other African nations are considering a shift to an unexpected power source especially nuclear energy as many face power shortfalls while demands for greener energy and drought threaten hydropower. South Africa has the continent’s only commercial nuclear power plant, but according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a
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