The Chinese government on Monday ordered billionaire Jack Ma to break up his financial services empire, reducing his Ant Group down to its “origins” as a payment services provider. The move will decisively neutralize Ma’s growing power and eliminate him as a threat to the authority of the Chinese Communist Party
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The recertified Boeing 737 Max completed its first U.S. commercial flight on Tuesday, almost two years after the aircraft was grounded worldwide. The Max was banned in March 2019 after a Lion Air crash in October 2018 in Indonesia killed 189 people and was followed five months later by an Ethiopian
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Materiality in architecture is a concept or the applied use of various materials or substances in the medium of building. This concept was previously regarded as a secondary consideration in architecture but recently emerged as an important element due to advances in digital fabrication and digital science. Architecture is a function
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Telecom dealers in the North have said that about 2 million Nigerian youths were rendered jobless, allegedly by the suspension of sale, registration and activation of SIM Cards by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. Arewa Telecom Operators Agents and Simcard Dealers Association (ATOASDA), told journalists in Kaduna that,
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On December 27, three days before the curtains finally draw on 2020, data obtained from the office of the vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, revealed that the average volume of power generated and distributed to Nigerians from the national grid within the year was 4,045 megawatts (MW) daily, about 264MW
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The Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria, South-South, have highlighted the need for the nation’s ailing refineries to be repaired to avoid a monopoly in the oil refining market in the coming years. The Chief Coordinator, ICEN, South-South, Mr Friday Udoh, lamented that Nigeria had continued to rely on importation for
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Researchers at Oxford University converted carbon dioxide into jet fuel in their lab using a new iron-based catalyst, a method they hope can eventually be used to reduce the carbon footprint of air travel. Oxford chemist Tiancun Xiao and colleagues published their study in Nature Communications “Climate change is accelerating, and we have huge
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Oil and gas industry experts have described Nigeria’s current deregulation of its downstream oil sector as uncertain, contentious and identified some inefficiencies therein. Speaking during a recent webinar organised by the Nigeria Natural Resource Charter (NNRC) to review the government’s deregulation policy, the experts explained that the current legislation and institutional
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Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have discovered a new "distance sensitive" cell, which acts like a GPS for the brain. Their study, published in Nature Neuroscience, was detailed in a report by Study Finds. The researchers from Durham University found that these cells record how far we travel during trips and can even
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