To say the nation’s aviation sub-sector is sagging under the weight of debts is certainly stating the obvious. Truth is the rising debt profile of the aviation sector owed by indigenous carriers is not only worrisome but cause for concern. Crux of the matter While explaining the enormity of the crisis bedeviling
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Every day, aircraft of all shapes and sizes take off from and land on an airport runway. Runways are built to accommodate and guide pilots, using visual aids to ensure safe operation. Have you ever considered how it is runways are arranged or what the different markings, signs and layouts
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Light-emitting concrete can trap solar energy during the daytime and convert it into visible light in the night. According to the manufacture methods, light-emitting concrete can be divided into three main categories: the luminous component mixed, the microstructure modified, and the surface coated. The concrete emits soft light all the
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Humans regularly tackle and solve a variety of complex visuospatial problems. In contrast, most machine learning and computer vision techniques developed so far are designed to solve individual tasks, rather than applying a set of capabilities to any task they are presented with. Researchers at York University in Canada have been
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Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be the longest immersed tunnel ever in the world. This much awaited work has begun which is connecting Denmark and Germany. The fixed immersed tunnel link across the Fehmarnbelt will be more than 18 km long and carry a four-lane motorway alongside a twin track-electrified railway across
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The Managing Director of the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, Mrs Abimbola Akinajo, has said the Lagos Red Rail Line will be operational in 24 months (October 2022). She made this statement in Lagos on Tuesday at a milestone meeting on the implementation of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit Red and
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In the 2019 Boeing 737 Max crash, the recovered black box from the aftermath hinted that a failed pressure sensor may have caused the ill-fated aircraft to nose dive. This incident and others have fueled a larger debate on sensor selection, number and placement to prevent the reoccurrence of such
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The Nigerian Federal government has removed right-of-way charges (RoW) for telcos to lay fibre-optic cables on federal highways around the country. This is part of ongoing reforms by the government to boost Internet connectivity. Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Communications announced this on Thursday, August 20, 2020, dubbing it a government palliative
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Cities across Asia are growing exponentially, and there seems to be no end in sight to the rapid urbanization that is driving city populations up around the world’s largest continent. Large influxes of people migrating from the countryside to urban centers means that road and traffic systems are constantly being tested
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AirAsia is embracing robotic process automation (RPA), with the help of enterprise automation platform provider JIFFY.ai. The airline conducted a review of its internal processes and workflows, which showed clear areas that could benefit from business process automation. The company has been working with JIFFY.ai to implement an artificial intelligence-enabled automation platform,
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