Electricity distribution companies will resume distribution of prepaid meters under the Meter Assets Provides programme this week, Report has shown This was revealed by the Head, Metering Team for Ikeja Electric, Morenikeji Amosun, at a virtual stakeholders’ forum. While giving an update on IE’s metering efforts to customers during the meeting, Amosun
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The world we live in today has been aptly described and qualified by the acronym of VUCA: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. It is a world that is changing every day, assuming different shapes and forms and leaving behind those who are resisting change. In this uncertain and complex world,
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Sergey Brin, the co-founder of tech giant Google, has finalized his divorce from second wife Nicole Shanahan, amidst swirling rumors of an affair between Shanahan and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Business Insider reports that Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, has officially ended his marriage with Nicole Shanahan. The divorce, finalized on May
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It takes over the brains of ants, causing them to cling to blades of grass against their will. The lancet liver fluke has an exceptional lifecycle strategy, in which snails, ants and grazing animals are unwitting actors. Imagine coming-to, jaws gripping the top of a swaying blade of grass, unaware of
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Hydrogen is viewed as a promising alternative to fossil fuel, but the methods used to make it either generate too much carbon dioxide or are too expensive. Rice University researchers have found a way to harvest hydrogen from plastic waste using a low-emissions method that could more than pay for
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Not everyone you disagree with on social media is a bot, but various forms of social media manipulation are indeed used to spread false narratives, influence democratic processes and affect stock prices. In 2019, the global cost of bad actors on the internet was conservatively estimated at $78 billion. In the
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The European starling boasts a remarkable repertoire. Versatile songbirds that learn warbles, whistles, calls, and songs throughout their lives, starlings rank among the most advanced avian vocal learners. Now a new study published in Science finds that starlings, along with other complex vocal learners, are also superior problem solvers. “There is a long-standing hypothesis
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The Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) has witnessed a three-month bullish rally attracting more and more people to trade on it and with the rise of digital technologies, investing in stocks on the NSE has become easier than ever before. Recently, the NSE All Share Index hit a record high with investors
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Germany has blocked a complete Chinese takeover of a satellite startup on national security grounds, sources close to the matter told AFP Thursday, as Berlin takes an increasingly hard line against Beijing. Concerned at the heavy reliance of Europe's top economy on China, Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government has been pushing to
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Smart contracts, or computer programs that automatically execute certain agreed-upon actions when agreed-upon conditions are met, are considered safer for online transactions than traditional contracts, but they are not error-proof. Researchers from the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), as part of a multi-institution effort, developed an
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