Cycling can be fun, but it can also be a dangerous sport. A record 846 bicyclists were killed in motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. in 2019—the second highest number in three decades. And a further 49,000 were injured, according to the latest figures from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. To reverse
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Washington University researchers have developed a filter that treats wastewater and also generates electricity—an advance that could reshape energy use at treatment plants. The new system uses bacteria as a "bio-catalyst" to produce an electric charge while breaking down organic material otherwise seen as waste. The findings from the lab of
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The Nigerian government announced Friday it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s operations in the West African country — but drew mockery for posting its statement about the ban on Twitter. Minister for Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said that the country had “suspended, indefinitely, the operations of the microblogging and social
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Dangote Industries Limited says its three million metric tonnes granulated urea fertiliser plant is now completed and its products will flood the Nigerian market from Monday. Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Chairman, Dangote Group, made the disclosure on Friday, as the Central Bank Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele, came on a final inspection tour
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, has said the Federal Government hopes to achieve 90 per cent broadband penetration in the country by 2023. Pantami said this on Thursday at a briefing organised by the All Progressive Congress Professional Forum in Abuja, according to a statement by the
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Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for Special Duties, Mr Okpolupum Etteh, has saiad that Ibom Airline will begin international flights within the sub region as soon as the aircrafts purchased for that purpose arrive in the state. Etteh disclosed this while inspecting the new Airport Terminal under construction. He said the government was
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With as much as $220 million investments in about 11 data centre operations in Nigeria, utilisation of this huge infrastructure is still below 30 per cent in the country. Report gathered that a data centre requires between $10 million and $20 million depending on the Tier before it could be sited. While
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Abstract People are still dying every day, of covid-19. As of April 1, 2021, approximately 3 million deaths had been traced to COVID-19 globally, with over 2,000 deaths from Nigeria. These deaths are increasing, every hour, as a result of a continuous transmission of the virus among people, and also due
Read MoreWhen President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Paris Agreement committing to minimum nationally determined contributions to be made by Nigeria to reduce the impact of global warming, he was reiterating Nigeria’s commitment to remain a respected and respectable member of the civilized global community. The responsibility for delivering on that commitment now
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Billionaire friends Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will build a $1 billion "next generation" nuclear reactor in Wyoming, the state's governor said. Gates' advanced nuclear reactor company, TerraPower, and Buffett's power company, PacifiCorp, said in a press release they had selected Wyoming for their first
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