The Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) has revealed that it is putting measures in place to fully clampdown on substandard steel products in Nigeria. Speaking at the meeting with South-South and South-East region of Steel manufacturers and dealers in Asaba, the Director-General of SON, Farouk Salim noted that, “after the expiration
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Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) reported that a total of 4,309.18 barrels of crude was spilled into the Niger Delta environment from its operations in the second half of the year 2020. The report says the spills comprise 102.7 barrels through operational failure and 4,199.48 barrels through
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The shipping industry will need to invest about $3.4 trillion in the next 30 years to replace the existing fleet in line with the sector’s decarbonization plans. An industry top analyst and Non-Executive President of Clarkson Research Services Limited, Mr. Martin Stopford, made the projection while giving a keynote address during
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For context, USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) is that infrastructure that allows you to execute transactions on your mobile, without requiring the internet. That's why by dialling *919# or *737# as a UBA or GTB user respectively, you're able to run financial transactions even on feature (not smart) phones. Now the numbers. A
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Scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and from the Fritz Haber Institute Of Berlin have addressed this almost philosophical question in the context of machine learning. Learning is no more than drawing new decisions on prior experience. In order to deal with a new situation in this way, one
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According to a report by fDi Intelligence, South Africa soared to the top of the Africa Tech Ecosystems of the Future ranking, taking first place not only overall, but also for Economic Potential, Start-Up Status, and Business Friendliness. According to Briter Bridges statistics, South Africa had the second-highest number of start-ups
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The Governor of Cross River State, Prof Ben Ayade, has taken delivery of the second Boeing 737 aircraft at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos for the state’s commercial airline, Cally Air. According to a statement by the governor’s Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Christian Ita, the arrival of the aircraft
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Few weeks ago, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), released guidelines on national roaming, collocation and infrastructure sharing, aimed at developing a regulatory framework for the implementation of national roaming services in Nigeria. The primary objective of the guidelines is also to establish a framework within which access providers and access seekers
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Some government agencies on Wednesday opted out of funding from the federal budget and refunded millions of revenues due to the Consolidated Revenue of the Federation. They took the decision at the ongoing investigation by the Senate Committee Finance on remittances of internally generated revenues by ministries, departments and agencies of
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A pair of researchers with the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis has looked into the problem of some people who buy electric vehicles reverting back to gasoline powered cars as their follow-up vehicles. In their paper published in the journal Nature Energy, Scott Hardman and Gil
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