Roughly a decade ago, I had an epiphany. While studying design thinking at d-school, I took a research assistant role for side income. My professional life up to that day had been a collection of right-brain entrepreneurial endeavours. Academically, I contrasted this with a business degree and honours programme in marketing
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Lightning has been deemed 'the most unpredictable phenomena in nature' - until now. By combining meteorological data and artificial intelligence, students have determined when and where lightening will strike within 10 to 30 minutes of it happening - and with an 80 percent accuracy The technology is set to work as an early
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Employer demand for engineers with Bitcoin, blockchain, or general cryptocurrency expertise continued to grow between September 2018 and September 2019—albeit in fits and starts (see graph, below). These figures come from job search site Indeed. The 26 percent increase that occurred over this period was not as dramatic as the jump of 214 percent
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An indigenous oil firm, Green Energy International Limited (GEIL), has announced its readiness to start generating electricity from its initial six megawatts gas-to-power facility. It said the plant, being constructed on GEIL’s operational base in Ikuru Town, Rivers State, would provide uninterrupted power to host communities in the state and the
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The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has commenced the radiometric survey of the Bida Basin, Niger State, in line with the federal government’s aspiration to diversify hydrocarbon exploration across all Nigerian basins.The Director, DPR, Ahmad Shakur, gave this indication when he paid a courtesy call on the Executive Governor of
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In line with plans to boost local production and foreign direct investments, the Nigeria Investment Gateway (NIG), a company registered both in the United Kingdom and Nigeria is set to host the 2019 edition of the ‘Best of Nigeria Investment Exhibition tagged BONIE2019. NIG, while inviting various companies and agencies to
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In reality, having a title, higher rank or position of authority is often loosely related to leadership: you are expected to lead as the in-charge, but more often than not, being in-charge does not determine the quality of leadership. Hence, it is possible for someone to be a great leader
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In 1666, the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz published an enigmatic dissertation entitled On the Combinatorial Art. Only 20 years old but already an ambitious thinker, Leibniz outlined a theory for automating knowledge production via the rule-based combination of symbols. Leibniz’s central argument was that all human thoughts, no matter how
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You could say that farming is in my blood: My grandparents on both sides ran large, prosperous farms in Iowa. One of my fondest childhood memories is of visiting my maternal grandparents’ farm and watching the intricate moving mechanisms of the threshing machine. I guess it’s not surprising that I
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The United Kingdom has reiterated its commitment to supporting the Nigerian financial technology (fintech) ecosystem. The British Deputy High Commissioner in Lagos, Ms Harriet Thompson, made the announcement at the 2019 Nigeria Fintech Week recently in Lagos. “The health of the Nigeria Fintech ecosystem is very important to the UK and we
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