Sabee is Facebook’s first app built entirely in Nigeria, by its research and development. A group of Facebook software engineers in Lagos, Nigeria, has created a smartphone app that Facebook thinks will address the issue of education access in Nigeria. Facebook stated last year that it would open a new office in
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The Standards Organisastion of Nigeria (S0N) has said the agency’s ultra-modern laboratory located at Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos can now be used to test all required quality parameters of sandcrete blocks. Disclosing the development after a successful testing demonstration exercise recently, SON Director in charge of Laboratory services, Bath Ugwu, appealed to
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Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, executive vice chairman and chief executive officer (EVC/CEO), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said that the commission will continue to strengthen its various commitments aimed at providing capacity-building opportunities in various institutions of higher learning in Nigeria. This is even as the Nigerian Academy of Engineering (NAE),
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The Nigerian Air Force has said a rocket launcher made by its researchers and engineers is used in fighting Boko Haram and other insurgents in the North East. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Isiaka Oladayo Amao, disclosed this during the disbursement of NOTAP-Industry Technology Transfer Fellowship (NITTF) award letters
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The International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank, published a new study that ranked the U.S. as the world's only "top tier" cyber power and said China is firmly within the second group-- joined by Russia and France, to name a few. The Financial Times, citing the study, reported that
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Bill Gates was an office bully who brushed-off diversity initiatives as attempts to “destroy” Microsoft — and was once seen lying on top of a woman at a company event, according to a new report. A former Microsoft executive told news site Insider that he saw Gates lying on top of
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Director-General, National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Dr. Dan Azumi Ibrahim (right); presenting a gift to Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria, Carl Michael Grans during a visit to NOTAP in Abuja. Director-General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Dr. DanAzumi Ibrahim, has said 90 per cent
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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has shut two steel manufacturing factories in Ikorodu area of Lagos State for production of substandard iron rods. The SON task force team stormed the factories in Ikorodu on Tuesday and met four trucks loaded with substandard products. In a statement on the development, the President,
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The amount spent on subsidising electricity every month in Nigeria is now about N30bn, the Federal Government has said. It disclosed that the government’s subsidy on electricity had been reduced by N20bn monthly following improvements in the collection of power tariffs by distribution companies. The government stated this in a document on
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ABSTRACT Security is vital for the socio-economic development and sustainability of any nation. Currently, militancy, Boko Haram crisis, Fulani herdsmen, cow herders, local farmers’ clashes, and the heightening wave of kidnapping sums up the current state of security in Nigeria. Poor data management techniques on the part of government agencies have
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