The national electricity grid collapsed on Wednesday, dropping power generation to about 260 megawatts (MW) and causing nationwide outage. According to real-time power grid records by the Independent System Operations (ISO) section of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), none of the over 20 generation Companies (GenCos) produced energy as of
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Popular drop-in audio app Clubhouse announced that it will finally be available for Android users on the Google Play Store in the U.S. and then followed by other English-speaking countries and then the rest of the world, the company said in a statement. Many analysts consider the move – which comes
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As revenue from oil nosedives following incessant global price fluctuations, the Federal Government is now channelling efforts to the development of minerals in the mines and steel industry to shore up foreign exchange earnings. Officials of the Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development said on Wednesday that while there had
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In the past five years, West Africa’s tech scene has witnessed a boom, with a dramatic increase in innovators and tech entrepreneurs—aka ‘tech-preneurs’—using technology to provide simple and accessible solutions to everyday problems. From payment services to apps helping people grow their savings and making it easier for Africans to
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The fallout of the Federal Government’s failure to build on the progress made in the country’s space project since 2011 came to the fore on May 5, 2021 when the Director-General of the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Halilu Shaba, said in Abuja that inadequate satellite coverage hinders
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Social media giant, Facebook, has announced a new feature that will see users get a pop-up asking whether they have read an article that they intend to share. This feature was announced on Twitter. Although the pop-up will prompt users to read the article, they can still share without reading it.
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US-based Space exploration company, SpaceX has said it is working with the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to secure the required licences to launch Starlink, its satellite Internet service, in Nigeria. Per the NCC, Ryan Goodnight, SpaceX’s Starlink Market Access Director for Africa, disclosed this in a meeting with NCC’s Executive Vice-Chairman
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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has pledged support to the hitch-free completion of Nigeria’s first floating Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production plant. Mr Sarki Auwalu, Director, DPR gave the assurance at the online contract signing of an agreement by an indigenous oil and gas company, UTM Offshore Limited and its
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The Federal Government has taken delivery of 656,752 prepaid meters, under the phase 0 of the Central Bank of Nigeria-funded National Mass Metering Programme, NMMP. This represents almost 85 percent of the one million meters to be provided to Nigerians, whose bills are still based on estimation. However, of the 656,752 prepaid
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A Nasa spacecraft is beginning its two-year trip back to Earth carrying what is believed to be chunks of a distant asteroid. Blasting off in September 2016, the OSIRIS-REx probe had a primary goal of obtaining at least 60g of material from 101955 Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, and return it for
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