Miss Kamsiyochukwu Umeh, the best performing candidate in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, may have just four years of university education to leave Nigeria. She scored a rare 360 out of 400, meaning that she correctly answered 90% of the questions set. In the results of the West African School Certificate Examinations (WSSCE) released this week, she again struck premium grades (A1) in eight out of nine subjects. She had a B2 in one subject. That young girl represents the heartbreaking scenario of talents daily lost to the costly pursuit of Golden Fleece abroad. An indigene of Anambra State in Southeast Nigeria, Miss Umeh is currently an SS3 science student of the Deeper Life High School, Mowe, Ogun State. According to the school’s administrator, Pastor Eze Emmanuel, 45 students scored over 300 in UTME. Of the 139 students who sat the UTME in the school, 46 scored above 300; 65 made between 250 and 299; 27 students made between 200 and 245, while only one stu...

  ABCON, NAIRA & DOLLAR The Association of Bureaux De Change Operators of Nigeria (ABCON) has urged the federal government to ban  binance operation in the country. Aminu Gwadabe, ABCON president, stated this in an interview on Tuesday in Lagos. Binance is an online exchange where users can trade cryptocurrencies. It supports hundreds of the most commonly traded cryptocurrencies. According to him, Binance is one of many factors putting pressure on the naira. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria had in June,  issued a statement emphasising that Binance Nigeria was not registered or regulated by SEC, making its operations illegal. Mr Gwadabe said, “If you know about Binance, you will know that binance trading is becoming the anchorage of both the investors and exporters window and the parallel market, which is unfortunate. So, we have to do something that can stop binance. It’s a competition. We need to ban binance and the only way to do so is if you ...

  Tinubu’s trip was confirmed in a statement released by former Presidential Spokesman, Dele Alake on Monday, saying the president would be accompanied by six state governors. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will, on Tuesday, travel to the Benin Republic to grace the 63rd independence anniversary celebration of the West African country. Tinubu’s trip was confirmed in a statement released by former Presidential Spokesman, Dele Alake on Monday, saying the president would be accompanied by six state governors. The trip is only a day before the nationwide strike by the organised labour over the hardship brought on Nigerians by the Tinubu administration. The Benin Republic trip would mark the second time the two leaders meet, following their initial interaction during the summit on the New Global Financing Pact in Paris, France. Subsequently, they met at the 63rd Ordinary session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS held in Guinea-Bissau and, more recently, at the Sta...

Published   on   July 19, 2023 By   Sunny Green Itodo Grammy award-winning singer, Ayodeji Balogun, aka Wizkid, has revealed why he rarely makes political comments in his music and interviews. According to him, the Nigerian masses don’t care about politics, saying they only care about how to make ends meet. Wizkid made the assertion in a recent interview with Evening Standard UK. He said, “I don’t like to speak about politicians in Nigeria. People in the streets care about themselves and what they are going to eat. They don’t give a f*ck about nothing else.” The ‘Ojuelegba’ crooner also disclosed his ambition as a leader of the new generation of Nigerian musicians. He said he wouldn’t judge “previous generations”, stressing that his goal is “to steer the new generation forward.” The 30-year-old said he desires for the new crop of afrobeats artists to make global exploits and be united.

  Published  on  July 19, 2023 By   Ifreke Inyang    from "Daily Post" Andre Onana has admitted that the chance to join Manchester United was “irresistible”. The Cameroon goalkeeper is in the United Kingdom currently to complete a £47 million move from Inter Milan. Erik ten Hag has picked Onana, who he managed at Ajax, as his top choice to replace David de Gea as United’s No. 1. The Red Devils will pay £43.8 million upfront for the 27-year-old and £3.4 million in add-ons. Onana has now spoken about his excitement at linking up with the Premier League giants. He told Gazzetta dello Sport: “The important thing is to be honest and always tell people the truth. “I am a person who always wants new challenges. “Playing in the Premier League and for a club like Man United is irresistible. All parties wanted this to happen. “But what matters is that, even if I had stayed, I would have been equally happy because I never had any problems at Inter. Indeed, a magic was...

  by Sarah Steimer,   University of Chicago "It's about changing the framing of AI from artificial intelligence to radically augmented intelligence," said study co-author Prof. James A. Evans. Credit: Shutterstock.com A new study explores how artificial intelligence can not only better predict new scientific discoveries but can also usefully expand them. The researchers, who published their work in  Nature Human Behaviour , built models that could predict human inferences and the scientists who will make them. The authors also built models that avoided human inference to generate scientifically promising "alien" hypotheses that would not likely be considered until the distant future, if at all. They argue that the two demonstrations—the first allowing for the acceleration of human discovery, while the second identifies and passes over its blind spots—means that a human-aware AI would allow for movement beyond the contemporary scientific frontier. "If you bu...

  New WHO and UNICEF data show promising signs of immunization services rebounding in some countries, but, particularly in low-income countries, coverage still falls short of pre-pandemic levels putting children at grave risk from disease outbreaks. 18 July 2023 © UNICEF/UN0640022/Ayene A baby received a vaccination during a campaign in IDP sites and villages affected by conflict in the Waghimra zone of the Amhara region of Ethiopia. GENEVA/NEW YORK,  18 July 2023  – Global immunization services reached 4 million more children in 2022 compared to the previous year, as countries stepped up efforts to address the historic backsliding in immunization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data published today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, in 2022, 20.5 million children missed out on one or more vaccines delivered through routine immunization services, compared to 24.4 million children in 2021. In spite of this improvement, the number remains highe...