There was confusion Monday as the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) backed down on the planned upward review of tariff. The company said it was no longer possible as it had not gotten approval from the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC). This is just as the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) says
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Isa Yuguda, a former governor of Bauchi State has said that officials of the state oil firm, marketers and other influential Nigerians were involved in petrol subsidy scam. “Up until the time of its removal, the fuel subsidy has mostly been a scam run by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)
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A Florida State University faculty member’s research is helping to uncover more about the conditions necessary for the beginnings of life on Earth. FSU Assistant Professor Richard Bono was part of a multi-institution team that found evidence that the planet’s magnetic field was stable from 3.9 to 3.4 billion years ago,
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Teddy bears that read your children stories sounds like a premise for a horror film – but one expert says it will become a reality in just five years. Allan Wong, co-founder of toymaker VTech, thinks teddies will be fitted with AI that will offer an alternative to parents reading to
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Tech giants could face billions of dollars in fines for failing to tackle disinformation under proposed Australian laws, which a watchdog on Monday said would bring "mandatory" standards to the little-regulated sector. Under the proposed legislation, the owners of platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and podcasting services would face penalties
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For several weeks now, cybercriminals have been highly active, orchestrating attacks against some of the world’s largest organizations. Recently, Microsoft was at the receiving end of a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack by Storm-1359, also known as Anonymous Sudan, that resulted in service disruptions. As early as June, a surge of complaints
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Disproportionate collapse is a failure where one component of a building leads the collapse of the building. ASCE’s (The American Society of Civil Engineers) newest standard, Standard for Mitigation of Disproportionate Collapse Potential in Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE/SEI 76-23, provides a consensus perspective for mitigating this type of collapse.
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The early forays to the moon employed throwaway technologies, designed to function during the two-week period of lunar daylight, then to perish in the freeze of the equally long night. But to sustain a colony, everything must be made to survive deathly extremes. During daytime, lunar temperatures can reach 120
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Tesla's electric charging network has long pleased electric car mavens. But Elon Musk's "superchargers" are now winning endorsements from a more unlikely group: other auto companies. Ford was the first to announce a partnership with Musk in late May, followed by General Motors earlier this month. On Tuesday, EV truck company
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned the nation's airlines that flights could be disrupted because some planes lack updated equipment to prevent interference from transmissions by wireless companies. Buttigieg said that only planes retrofitted with the right equipment will be allowed to land when visibility is poor, such as during bad weather. The
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