One Nigerian teenager must feel like she has the world at her feet after receiving 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, a 17-year-old high school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars' worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate program of study,
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Today, no industry is left untouched by the 4th Industrial Revolution (IR 4.0). For the manufacturers within the production sector, one significant change brought about by IR 4.0 is the mass automation of processes. Automation has brought many benefits to the manufacturing industry. Through programmable logic controllers (PLC), it is now
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Huawei’s smartphone rivals in China are quickly divvying up the market share it has lost over the past year. Indeed, 92.4 million units of smartphones were shipped in China during the first quarter, with Vivo claiming the crown with a 23% share and its sister company Oppo following closely behind with
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We explore the social media best practice that startups of all types can use as a guide to drive customer engagement and brand recognition. In today’s digital world, one of the biggest goals for startups is being recognised and trusted by their core audience through the art of brand awareness. Whether
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Over half a billion Facebook users have had their data, including names, birth dates, and phone numbers have been leaked to a hacker website and it has been happening since 2019. Having been left unnoticed, experts claim the breach to be the biggest one yet by the social media giant. According
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Researchers in the UK have developed an autonomous machine learning algorithm that dramatically simplifies quantum systems. Researchers at the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) developed a new protocol to formulate and validate approximate models for quantum systems of interest. The Quantum Model Learning Agent (QMLA) algorithm works autonomously, designing and performing experiments on the targeted quantum system, with the resultant data being fed
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Engineering change management can be a complex and involved process. There are many steps in the process, and involve stakeholders from both inside and outside the organisation. Controlling and simplifying change requests is key to success. Visibility into each step of the process is also fundamental once the organisation has worked
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The Federal Government has inaugurated a homegrown ‘Plagiarism Detection Software Code’ called EagleScan to enhance the integrity of higher institutions. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the inauguration of the software in Abuja said that plagiarism was a form of corruption. Mr Osinbajo said that the initiative was part of the core mandates
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Airtel Africa Plc has announced the appointment of the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Nigeria, Olusegun Ogunsanya, as MD/CEO of the Airtel Group. He is to succeed Raghunath Mandava, following Mandava’s decision to retire. According to a statement from the group on Thursday, Ogunsanya will join the board of
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Stakeholders in the power sector have noted that the N120 billion investments by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, would improve power supply across the country especially in distribution infrastructure. The apex bank had last week disclosed that it has disbursed about N3.6 billion for procurement of pre-pay meters to stabilise
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