Category: TECH

The two-seater flying car performed the successful test on February 17, 2023 (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu) A flying car achieved the first manned outdoor flight in Japan on Friday morning in a trial by a local consortium of aviation and automobile businesses, a big step for a technology seen as serving remote islands and mountainous regions that lack transportation. The two-seater took off from an artificial island in the western Japanese city of Oita and traveled about 400 meters at an altitude of about 30 meters without a pilot controlling the…

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By Tony Adibe The Roxettes Eco-Drives Ltd has said it would launch Electric Vehicle (EV) cars on roads in Nigeria, Africa and entire globe, while employing 320 direct workers at a start. Chief Executive Officer of the company, Arc. Dr. Kaycee Orji told newsmen in Enugu on Thursday that the EV cars, which will come from the first indigenous EV company, would be rolled out in the country before the end of 2023. Orji noted that the EV assembly plant, which would be situated in Enugu, would also employ 800…

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By NewsBits Nigeria’s Federal Road Safety Corps known for short as FRSC has drawn the attention of the motoring public, particularly those who are presently using Lexus NX260, Lexus NX3650h, and Lexus NX400h+ manufactured between March 31, 2021 to April 26, 2022 to a faulty programming of the Lane Keeping Assist (LKA) System, which has prompted the manufacturers to recall the categories of the listed vehicles. According to the report contained in a memo forwarded by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, the company is…

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By Tony Adibe The Vocational Skills Department (VSD), of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE), has commenced a one-month training of 100 people in Enugu State on Quick-fix Demand Driven Training Scheme (QDDTS) and Technocultural Crafts Training Scheme, (TCTS). The one-month training will train the beneficiaries on Bead making, Shoe making, Tye & Dye, Cosmetology, Catering, Fasunato/Turban making and others. Declaring the training open, the Director General of NDE, Mallam Abubakar Nuhu Fikpo, said that the Technocultural Crafts Training was designed to revamp the practice of indigenous cultural crafts as…

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Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye, (SAN), the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), has identified the deployment of technology as crucial to the fight against corruption and Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs). Owasanoye made this known at the presentation of demo hacking solutions by seven innovators at the ICPC Headquarters, Abuja. The Illicit Financial Flows Hackathon is an initiative of the ICPC and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) with support of the Ford Foundation, West Africa. The hacking solutions are aimed at curbing corruption and…

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Transport Trade Union leaders, at an event in Accra, Ghana have called on governments and employers to work with trade unions to end violence and harassment in the workplace. The event, which was hosted by the International Transport Workers’ Federation, was held as part of an ongoing C190 campaign to support labour organising and campaigning to end gender-based violence and harassment. Alongside delegates from unions in Ghana, the workshop was attended by women trade union organisers from Cameroon, Senegal, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Togo, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire. They have…

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