Body-editing apps advertised on social media platforms TikTok and Instagram are “triggering” young people with eating disorders, campaigners fear. Adverts show how the apps can be used to alter body parts, including making waists slimmer and adding muscles. Eating disorder charities have said technology firms should consider the impact on vulnerable people. The
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COVID-19 rapidly swept across the globe with the knock-on disruption affecting business across all industries in 2020. As a result, it’s forced millions of employees to do their jobs from home. But the remote work phenomenon was already well underway before the pandemic, and experts expect that the crisis will further
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She is Ella Podmore, a materials engineer for super car maker McLaren Automotive. “Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this [materials] department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further,” according to the IET. Apprentice non-destructive examination engineer
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Rollout of 5G technology are expected to give the global economy a $1.3 trillion boost by 2030, a new report from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has stated. The report revealed that more than half of the global economic impact of 5G will be seen in the health and social care space by driving
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The debate over Federal Government’s proposed $1.5 billion to be spent on rehabilitating the 210,000-barrel per day (bpd) Port Harcourt refinery intensified yesterday as more opposition voices registered their concerns. Renowned economist and founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc, Atedo Peterside, who had earlier asked the government to subject the plan
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INADEQUATE infrastructure provision and maintenance has been a bane of the Nigerian economy for several decades; and this challenge has been perennially rooted in shortfalls in budgetary allocations for infrastructure financing. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have thus emerged as alternative models in infrastructure financing to rescue the ailing stock of infrastructure
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The National Ecosystem Advocates of Nigeria (NEAN) has urged the Federal Government to save Nigeria’s bushes, forests and water areas from marauding Chinese nationals.It said it was expedient for the government to preserve and protect the listed spaces from unscrupulous Chinese nationals. NEAN National Coordinator, Ben Iguabor and Secretary, Silas Modaccai,
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Facebook froze the page of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro for violating its policy against spreading COVID-19 misinformation, the company confirmed Saturday. As first reported by Reuters, Maduro had promoted a “miracle” remedy that he claimed would cure the coronavirus, but those claims have not been supported by the medical community. Facebook
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The inability of the National Assembly to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill despite repeated promises to do so is beginning to look very suspicious indeed. The incapability is fuelling the belief among many that there are indeed dishonourable reasons other than legislative responsible for the lethargy of a section of
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The number of telecom subscribers in the country dropped by 11.84 million in four months, according to latest industry statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission. The recent report shows that telecommunications operators in the country recorded yet another loss of 4.13 million active subscribers in February 2021, as the industry recorded
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