Tag: Research
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Study links social media use to higher risk of depression
A study has shown that teenage girls are twice as likely as boys to show depressive symptoms linked to social media use – mainly due to online harassment and disturbed sleep, as well as poor body image and lower self-esteem. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports the study analysed data from nearly 11,000 young people in Britain and…
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NCC restates commitment to funding research works
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said it would continue to encourage research works in line with its mandate of ensuring excellence in all Human endeavors. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Director of NCC, disclosed this when he received some research projects from Federal University of Technology FUT Minna, on Monday in Abuja. The projects -Mobile Communication…
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9 researchers get N50m NCC grant for telecoms research
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has given a N50 million grant to nine researchers in Nigerian institutions to carry out research in the telecommunications sector. Prof. Umar Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, while presenting the award letters in Abuja, said the grant would go a long way in transforming the country’s telecoms sector. Danbatta…
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FG to commercialise research results toward industrialisation
Federal Government on Friday in Abuja said it would deepen efforts toward commercialising research results for industrialisation of the nation. Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, the Minister of Science and Technology made this known at a news conference on the forthcoming Technology and Innovation Expo 2018. Onu said such effort was needed to promote Nigeria from the…
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Take advantage of international funding for your research projects – Expert
A researcher, Dr Eric Mwangi, has advised researchers to take advantage of the international funding to overcome the critical challenges of funding facing research projects. Mwangi, who is a lead researcher in Kenyan Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, gave the advice in a paper entitled: “Strengthening Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) between Europe and…
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Unilorin to contribute 10,000 genome to boost human cells, research
University of Ilorin’s Institute of Molecular Science and Biotechnology (UIMSB), will be contributing 10,000 genomes to the 100 million genome project in the next five years. Dr Kolawole Matthew, the Ag. Director of the institute, made the disclosure in Ilorin on Tuesday while declaring open the annual workshop on Biomedical Innovation and Research Commercialization. A…
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Which are you? Study shows four types of Facebook users
A new study has shown there are four types of Facebook users on the social media platform, revealed in what users display the most, and why they do so. The researchers from Brigham Young University say 1.28 billion people check in on Facebook each day, and that they each spend about 35 minutes browsing their…
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Big Data: Taking Nigerian universities research works from ‘rusty shelves’
The question of when Nigerian universities research works will leave rusty shelves has been asked time and time again with no end seems to be in view, but experts have provided a tech solution, and there is one university in Nigeria that is at the forefront driving efforts in that direction to removing its pile…