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QUANTUM COMPUTING RESEARCH DEVELOPING ACROSS AFRICA, WITH SOUTH AFRICAN WORK UNDERPINNING PROGRESS
The cutting edge IT field of quantum computing is developing across Africa, with South Africa considered the hub, in part through an IBM centre in Johannesburg that enables academics throughout the continent to freely access its quantum computer network, based in the USA, through the cloud.…
NIGERIAN ACCOUNTANT MOVES COUNTRIES AND BECOMES UGANDAN AND KENYAN BEER FINANCE BOSS
Taking up a new job where you are responsible for overseeing how a business operates in three countries during a global health pandemic is not a task many financial professionals would take on lightly. But that is what Busola Doregos, a Nigerian accountant working in Uganda has just done. …
NIGERIA’S PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES LEAD IN ONLINE LEARNING AMIDST CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
With Nigeria continuing its lockdown closure of education institutions into late June, the country’s private universities are continuing to develop online learning, while many public universities are waiting for their physical facilities to reopen before restarting services. Access to such buildings by essential staff have eased from June 2, with Nigerian government loosening a nationwide curfew from 8pm and 6am, which will now be in force from 10pm to 4am until June 29.…
UNIVERSITIES IN NORTH EAST NIGERIA STRIVE TO SURVIVE AND PROGRESS AMIDST BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY
Universities and other tertiary education institutions in northeast Nigeria are working to recover from severe disruptions to operations and academic life, in some cases lengthy closures and falls in enrollments caused by attacks from insurgent group Boko Haram.
Its activity has become less intense in recent years following aggressive campaigns by the Nigerian military, although attacks such that last month (June) on a village in north-eastern Borno state, where 81 people were killed, show the group has yet to be defeated.…
BENIN’S UNIVERSITIES RESUME ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES, BUT NIGERIA-BASED OVERSEAS STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO RETURN TO CLASS
THE HIGHER education system in the Francophone west African country of Benin is getting back to work, after the government said a ban on classes being held to fight the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic would end on May 11.
However, while the public higher education segment has quickly returned to teaching, partly leveraging a new remote learning system, the country’s private universities have struggled to return to normal, with one major obstacle being cross-border movement controls imposed on overseas students from Nigeria, who have been a key component of their classes.…
BENIN’S UNIVERSITIES RESUME ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES, BUT NIGERIA-BASED OVERSEAS STUDENTS STRUGGLE TO RETURN TO CLASS
THE HIGHER education system in the Francophone west African country of Benin is getting back to work, after the government said a ban on classes being held to fight the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic would end on May 11.
However, while the public higher education segment has quickly returned to teaching, partly leveraging a new remote learning system, the country’s private universities have struggled to return to normal, with one major obstacle being cross-border movement controls imposed on overseas students from Nigeria, who have been a key component of their classes.…
WHISTLEBLOWING RULES IN MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA EMERGE, BUT ARE INCONSISTENT
Only a handful of countries in the Middle East and Africa have dedicated whistleblowing laws – South Africa, Mozambique, Zambia, Uganda, Ghana, Liberia, Algeria, Morocco, and the Israel-occupied Palestinian territories, according to Blueprint for Free Speech, a charity promoting freedom of expression (https://www.blueprintforfreespeech.net/).…
COVID-19 SHUTDOWN LEAVES NIGERIAN STUDENTS AND ACADEMICS STRUGGLING TO WORK BECAUSE OF POOR INTERNET INFRASTRUCTURE
Nigeria’s universities have been struggling to work online following the March 20 federal government shutdown of all education institutions to restrict public gatherings and curb the spread of the coronavirus. The shutdown has left campuses deserted as students returned to their various homes.…
PMI PUSHES AHEAD TO SEIZE GROUND IN SOUTH AFRICA’S GROWING VAPING MARKET
South Africa’s electronic vaping product (EVP) market is growing fast – at 5% a year, according to management consultant Canback Consulting, and already estimated to be worth South African Rand ZAR1.16 billion (EUR82.8 million/USD68.2 billion). To target such growth, Philip Morris South Africa (PMSA) opened its first standalone IQOS store last August (2019), selling its smoke-free devices and associated product in the upmarket Johannesburg neighbourhood of Sandton, adding to the 11 kiosks in malls it was already operating in the provinces of Gauteng, Western Cape and Kwazulu-Natal.…
AFRICA’S CIVIL AVIATION SECTOR GROWS, BUT FACES CHALLENGES TO BUILD SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL MARKET
AFRICA is commonly hailed as the world’s next big focus of economic growth, but for the civil aviation industry, this prospect will require significant investment in new intra-African routes and related airport and ATC infrastructure. It will also require governments to remove immigration barriers preventing African air travellers flying to other countries on their home continent.…