Achieving a decarbonised future will require efficiency-boosting measures that AI can help to identify and implement. Artificial intelligence is taking the stage as smart cities become not just an idea for the future, but a present reality. Advanced technologies are at the forefront of this change, driving valuable strategies and optimising
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With the adoption of digital banking channels and more customers migrating to electronic banking following Covid-19 restrictions, three leading banks, Zenith Bank Plc, Access Bank Plc and Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc have generated a sum of N75.24 trillion from electronic banking transactions in the first half of 2021. This represents
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In June 2016, Ventures Platform launched as an innovation hub where tech enthusiasts, freelancers, startup founders, and professionals in Nigeria could meet, network, and co-create. The 1,200-square-meter hub in Abuja also served as a residential base for technology entrepreneurs on the continent selected to go through the VP accelerator programme. Over
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Nigeria major carrier, Air Peace said that it would connect to more destination in Nigeria, the West Coast and create thousands of new jobs with the delivery of additional brand new aircraft, Embraer E195-E2, which is the fourth of the 13 aircraft already paid for by the airline. This is coming
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Africa requires access to global submarine network infrastructure to fully benefit from an international digital economy bearing in mind that submarine cables carry close to 99 per cent of the world’s intercontinental electronic communications traffic This was the submission of the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of MainOne, Anil Verma at an
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The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday said the ongoing 895 contracts and 795 infrastructural projects nationwide were part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s plan to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. Speaking at the 27th meeting of the National Council on Works and Housing, taking place
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Seventeen year-old Ekene Franklin Ezeunala, who won acclaim for making the highest score of 347 in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), is settling down at the Columbia University, New York, United States, where he is a Computer Science major. He tells of his experience in getting into the
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The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Udom Emmanuel, yesterday called for an upward review of the three per cent allocation to host communities as contained in the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA). He said oil producing communities in the Niger Delta were hurt by what he described as the paltry three
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi, have organised a training workshop for lecturers and heads of tertiary institutions in the North-East on grant-writing skills. President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the increase of the National Research Fund (NRF), domiciled in TETFund from N5 billion
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The aviation industry was understandably one of the most adversely affected following the global lockdown triggered by COVID-19 pandemic. It was a challenge that shoved the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority into unchartered space. Amazingly, a year after the lockdown, the industry in Nigeria is firmly back to business. reports The major
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