Optimum Petroleum Development Co. and partner Lekoil have completed a site survey over the OPL 310 license offshore Nigeria, ahead of a planned two-well appraisal drilling program. The survey involved identifying potential hazards to top-hole drilling, the jackup and future platform foundations, plus seabed obstructions. The partners are now in a position
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Employment in this country’s electricity sector is no longer the exclusive domain of men, says the founder and executive director of Women of Powerline Technicians (Women of PLT). Women are making strides in obtaining apprenticeships and securing employment. But they still have a long way to, says Lana Norton, the second
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The Technical Committee of Standards Organisation of Nigeria adopted 16 number standards on Electromedical Equipment and systems recently. Speaking on behalf of the DG, Barrister Osita Aboloma, the Director of Standards, Mrs Chinyere Egwuonwu said that the technical session was urgent and necessary in view of the current global Covid 19
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Google is set to automatically delete user data including their location and search history after 18 months, in a landmark update to its privacy settings. YouTube was also included in the shakeup, and will now start removing users' history data after 36 months. Google said the longer time period was needed
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Some years ago, the three of us found ourselves together in a very long security line at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Maybe, we joked, Superman could use his X-ray vision to help out the beleaguered Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees and the traveling masses. After an oddly technical discussion
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Nigeria’s ministry of communications and the digital economy has unveiled a five-year Strategic Management Plan 2020-2024 (SMP) for the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) that contains plans to regulate emerging technologies and over-the-top services like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others. Last week, Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and the Digital Economy, unveiled
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From a $15-million World Bank fund to an experimental gold-buying project in Burkina Faso, development agencies are delivering financial aid to subsistence miners the Covid-19 pandemic has impoverished. World market prices of gold - viewed by investors as a safe store of value in uncertain times - have surged to levels
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Unbreakable quantum keys that use the laws of physics to protect their secrets could be transmitted from orbiting devices a person could lift with one hand, according to experiments conducted from the International Space Station. Researchers launched a tiny, experimental satellite loaded with optics that could emit entangled pairs of photons. Entangled
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US-based seed-stage accelerator, Y Combinator (YC), is reducing the standard deal of its investment from $150,000 to $125,000. However, it is maintaining its 7% equity stake in backed startups. This was made known yesterday by Y Combinator president, Geoff Ralston. Also, this announcement coincides with the accelerator’s call for application for
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Cybercrooks are not resting on their oars as they keep devising ways to beat security measures put in place by business organisations and individuals. A house wife and mother of four had lost her bag which contained her mobile phone, automated teller machine (ATM) card, cash and other personal effects on
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