Nigeria news today headlines : Wednesday 16th September 2020
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Nightjet To Expand Services In Europe
SBB and ÖBB are working to increase Nightjet services to 25 European destinations from 2023 in response to rising demand for sustainable travel. SBB and ÖBB are further expanding their night train services, with plans to increase from six to 10 lines. Preparations are being made for new night trains from Switzerland to Amsterdam, Rome and Barcelona. This …
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SoftBank-Backed Opendoor To Go Public
SoftBank-backed home-selling platform Opendoor is going public through a merger with a blank-check company led by venture investor Chamath Palihapitiya in a deal that will value the combined entity at $4.8 billion, the companies said on Tuesday. Opendoor buys properties from sellers and makes repairs, at a service charge, and then lists them for sale. …
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Spine Align Raises $1.75m Series Seed Round
The financing is led by the Rockies Venture Club, with additional support from members of the Berkeley Angel Network, NO/LA Angel Network, Pasadena Angels, Bellingham Angels, the Abell Foundation, and VentureWell. Spine Align, a medical device company developing a portfolio of products that enable spine surgeons to measure, visualize, and adjust patients’ spinal alignment during …
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Uber Makes A Uk Safe Place
Uber makes London a ‘safer place’, a court has heard as the taxi app battles against TfL for its licence to be renewed – after 44,000 fares were taken by bogus drivers. The ride hailing app, which first operated in London in 2012, has admitted ‘mistakes were made’ in the identity fraud scandal that allowed 24 drivers to take thousands …
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Shell Awards Digital Twin Contract
Shell Global Solutions International B.V. (NYSE: RDS.A) has awarded Kongsberg Digital an enterprise framework agreement to supply digital twin software, Kongsberg reported last week. The deal covers digital twin cloud-based services for the global portfolio of assets and capital projects under Shell’s upstream, integrated gas, downstream and manufacturing business lines, Kongsberg noted in a written …
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Galfi Receives 2019 Donald L. Turcotte Award
Vera Melinda Galfi received the 2019 Donald L. Turcotte Award at AGU’s Fall Meeting 2019, held 9–13 December in San Francisco, Calif. The award is given annually to a recent Ph.D. recipient for “outstanding dissertation research that contributes directly to nonlinear geophysics.” Vera Melinda Galfi received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in meteorology from the …
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COVID-19 Works With Bacteria To Increase Disease Severity In Obesity, Diabetes
The combined effects of the body’s microbiota working together with COVID-19 in the lungs could explain the severity of the disease in people with obesity and diabetes, according to a new article published today in eLife. The review offers important mechanistic insights into why people with obesity and diabetes seem to be at increased risk of …
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Expert Comment About COVID-19 Testing Issues
Journalists have asked for comments on the current COVID-19 testing issues being discussed in the media. Prof Brendan Wren, Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “It seems that there are several bottlenecks in the testing procedures. These are not being made publicly available so we can only speculate that …
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Sugrue To Play With Westwood, Watson At US Open
Irish amateur James Sugrue will enjoy some star company over the opening two rounds of the US Open this week after he was grouped with Lee Westwood and Bubba Watson at Winged Foot. Mallow golfer Sugrue, who earned the invite thanks to his victory at the Amateur Championship at Portmarnock last year, will tee off at 5.54pm …
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Chadwick Boseman Laid To Rest In South Carolina
Chadwick Boseman has been laid to rest. According to his death certificate, the Black Panther star was buried at Welfare Baptist Church Cemetery in Belton, S.C., which is located only a few short miles from the late actor’s hometown of Anderson. Boseman reached his final resting place on Sept. 3, six days after he passed away on Aug. 28 following a …
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