Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State has disclosed that there is no access road to the project site of the 3050 megawatts Mambilla Hydroelectric Power Dam. The governor said the site can only be accessed using an helicopter. Ishaku spoke at the instance of the Management and Board members of the North-East
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Buildings that own and run themselves: this idea, from the think-tank Dezentrum, was put into action for the first time at ETH Zurich in the form of a prototype. The result is a meditation cabin that shakes up the usual economic and social expectations. The outward appearance of the small, prism-shaped
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It is a notorious fact that the epileptic nature of power supply makes Nigeria one of the harshest environments to do business, and this renders the country less competitive. The implications are there for all to see. In the face of fitful electricity supply, individuals, and businesses resort to self-help
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A certain type of artificial intelligence agent (neural networks) can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training. Neural networks can learn to solve all sorts of problems, from identifying cats in photographs to steering a self-driving car. But whether these powerful, pattern-recognizing algorithms actually understand the tasks they
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Notwithstanding the challenges undermining the attainment of production targets, the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) has advocated the adoption of innovative technology in hydrocarbon exploration and production. According to the professionals, technological innovations will be critical not only in ensuring the supply of affordable hydrocarbons, but also in mitigating the
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For many years, deep learning technologies have been successfully applied in many different sectors—civil engineering included. In fact, machine learning technique took the center stage in the industry long ago with the emergence of complex buildings such as skyscrapers. Now more than ever, we see the application and development of
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The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun, said Nigerian banks would soon start operations in China to facilitate trade and investments. Jianchun who disclosed this during a roundtable discussion with newsmen in Abuja said he was working hard to actualise the banks’ operations in both countries. He also said that he was
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Nigeria has, in the first 152 days of this year, flared about 85.4 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas, translating to monetary loss of about $510 million (N209 billion), a figure, averaging the three per cent funding to host communities in the 2021 Petroleum Industry Act. Coming amid pressure to
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MIT researchers develop a new way to control and measure energy levels in a diamond crystal; could improve qubits in quantum computers. Physicists and engineers have long been interested in creating new forms of matter, those not typically found in nature. Such materials might find use someday in, for example, novel
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New research on the ways fake news spreads via social media refines conventional wisdom and offers potential solutions to a vexing problem. In the last decade or so, much handwringing has transpired over what is quaintly described as “fake news” — stories that are not factually accurate that seem to get
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