From Our Correspondent The National Agency for Science and Engineering (NASENI) is set to make its products and technologies available in every household in Nigeria in the next few years. Mr Suleiman Halilu, Executive Vice-Chairman of the agency, announced this during his maiden interactions with the Media, on Thursday, in Abuja. Halilu said some tangible […]
Three scientists, Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 rewards the discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties, […]
By Abdullah Olalekan Abdulfatah Closures, Closures, Closures !!!!🤔 If you’ve ever felt puzzled by closures in JavaScript, you’re in good company. You could be using closures every day in your code and not even know it! Yep, true story. Believe it or not, I once aced a closure-based interview question without fully understanding what closures […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has sought business collaboration with the Czech Republic to deepen Nigeria’s economic and technology development. In pursuit of the collation, the Vice Chairman of the Agency Dr Bashir Gwandu, at weekend, visited the Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Nigeria, Zdeněk Krejčí in Abuja. […]
The lander module of India’s ongoing Moon Mission-3, or Chandrayaan-3, will land on the lunar surface as scheduled on Aug. 23 at around 6.04 p.m. Indian Standard Time. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced the landing of Chandrayaan-3 on Sunday. ISRO said in a statement that it will telecast the moment live on its website, […]
By Abdullah Olalekan Abdulfatah “DevOps engineers don’t really need the knowledge of git”. That is something you might say to yourself if you are still quite new to programming. after all, isn’t DevOps all about infrastructure, deployment, and automation? okay! maybe testing too. Why would they need to border about the version control system that’s […]
From Abdulfatah Babatunde, Akure The library of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) has begun pilot test run of software, TouchNut, developed by a student for access control. This is after the Vice-Chancellor Prof. Adenike Oladiji, granted approval for the use of the software called TouchNut. Mr Adegbenro Adebanjo, the spokesman of the institution […]
From Our Correspondent in Abuja Associate Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University, USA, Aisha Gombe says she is proudly a product of Nigerian education system and ready to give back to her home country. Gombe made the pledge when she visited Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, on Wednesday, […]
By our reporter The Covenant University in Nigeria says it is partnering with OBTranslate to undertake research and development activities in a broad range of areas. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two parties covers Machine Translation (MT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics. Under the arrangement, OBTranslate scientists would develop […]
From Abdulfatah Babatunde, Akure …..To train 27 young Africans in Akure The International Society of Neurochemistry (ISN) has approved a grant award for Dr Stephen Adeniyi Adefegha, an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Technology Akure FUTA, to host 27 young aspiring neuroscientists. This is contained in a statement by the Public Relations […]