NASA’s Curiosity rover is providing critical insights into what Mars may have been like long ago, and one of its latest discoveries helps support the idea that the Red Planet was once very blue. Scientists believe that Mars was once a fairly wet place and, just like here on Earth,
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THE INSTITUTEThe aim of this year’s IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference (IEEE WIE ILC) was to increase the number of women in middle- to senior-level positions. I attended several sessions that offered career advice to attendees about how they could rise up the ranks. The event was held
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A total of 557,083,712 electronic-payment transactions valued at N34.02 trillion were recorded in selected banks across the country in the first quarter, 2019, Nigeria’s statistics bureau has said. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said this in a report on Selected Banking Sector Data: Sectorial Breakdown of Credit, ePayment Channels and
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Two of the world’s largest foundries—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung—announced in April that they’d climbed one more rung on the Moore’s Law ladder. TSMC spoke first, saying its 5-nanometer manufacturing process is now in what’s called “risk production”—the company believes it has finished the process, but initial customers
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A former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba, has said Air Peace Airlines has brought transformation to the airline industry in West and Central Africa. Osoba also stated that the airline had been doing well in Nigeria despite the numerous challenges confronting airline operators in the country because of its
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African Natural Resources and Mines Limited is collaborating with Stanbic IBTC and Standard Chartered Bank to build a steel plant, capable of producing 5.4 metric tons of steel daily in Kagorko, Kaduna State. According to The Nation, the plant, which requires a $600m investment will create about 3,500 direct jobs.
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Facebook has several other options that you can arrange now, including turning your profile into a memorial page, or making your account delete itself after you die It’s not the most che erful thought, but you may find yourself wondering what happens to your Facebook account after you die. Unless you pre-prepare,
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Under the newly adopted rule, nearly all applicants for United States visas will now have to submit their social media details. According to the State Department regulations, people will have to submit social media names and five years’ worth of email addresses and phone numbers. Authorities had estimated that the proposal would
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Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has approved the immediate disengagement of all political office holders including the dissolution of all Local Government Councils Management Committee members in the State. The order for the disengagement and dissolution was contained in a terse statement signed by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mohammed Sabiu
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One expert predicts that in just over 30 years, sex robots could become so popular that they could replace relationships altogethe While sex robots were once the subjects of science fiction films, they’re very much a reality these days. Now, one expert predicts that in just over 30 years, sex robots could
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