The World Bank Group announced it has decided to discontinue the publication of its doing business rankings of countries after a review of data irregularities in the 2018 and 2020 reports. The bank disclosed in a statement on Thursday that the internal reports raised “ethical matters” regarding the two reports. “Trust in
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ABSTRACT This work aims to present a design for a medical Chatbot that provides diagnosis and remedies based on the symptoms provided to the system. The system also provides contact to doctors for further medical diagnosis. 1.1 PRELIMINARY STUDIES/INTRODUCTION A Chatbot is a system that can interact with human users with natural language.
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Professor Ibiyemi Ibilola Olatunji-Bello was born in Lagos and had her primary education at Anglican Girls Primary School, Surulere, from 1970 to 1974 and her secondary education at Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere, between 1974 and 1979. Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello then proceeded to Methodist Girls High School, Yaba, and
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A Chinese high-tech company, Clou, and its Nigerian partners, Jumbo Goois Global Services, are set to establish a smart prepaid metering assembly factory in Bayelsa State. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Jumbo Goois Global Services, Mr. Timipre Ogoibiri, who led the delegation, disclosed this in Government House, Yenagoa, during
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When MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) joined forces to advance textile research and to develop and employ sustainable fabrics of the future, they found that their work was so synergistic that they were compelled to write an instruction manual about their multi-year partnership so that other organizations
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Cotonou, Benin — Benin set up a service early in the COVID-19 pandemic to allow people to register their business online, and now the West African country is the world's fastest place to start a business, according to a U.N. agency. Sandra Idossou, owner of a store selling art in Cotonou,
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Technology is such a ubiquitous part of modern life that it can often feel like a force of nature, a powerful tidal wave that users and consumers can ride but have little power to guide its direction. It doesn’t have to be that way. In a new book, three Stanford scholars
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Starting this November, WhatsApp will no longer support devices running anything older than Android 4.1. Other supported OSes include iOS 10 or newer and KaiOS 2.5.1 or newer. The firm said it is ending support for some older devices. The firm said Google debuted Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich nearly 10 years
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NeoPhotonics has announced a tunable high power FMCW (frequency-modulated continuous-wave) laser module and high power semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) chips. Both components are optimized to enable long range automotive lidar and high resolution industrial sensing applications. The FMCW Laser is C-band tunable and can be directly modulated to provide >21dBm (126mW) fiber
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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has established that the telecommunications sector is the largest segment of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Today, Nigeria has one of the largest telecoms markets in Africa, contributing over 17 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Nigerian Telecommunication sector has
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