Category: Features

Temi Otedola: Demystifying autistic disorder 

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  This post is a long awaited follow up to a blog post I published on April 2nd 2017 (here). World Autism Awareness Day falls on the 2nd April; however, every year the month of April remains the designated month to increase people’s awareness about autism. In my 2017 blog post that you can read (here), I discussed my own personal journey growing up with a brother who is on the autistic spectrum and how it’s impacted my life. After reading the responses to this blog post, I soon realised…

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580 young scientists picked for Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting

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The Council for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings has released letters of acceptance to 580 young scientists from 88 countries to be part of this year’s meeting. During the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate taking place from June 30 to July 5, 2019, the young scientists will come together with 42 Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. This year’s edition is dedicated to physics; key topics are cosmology, laser physics and gravitational waves. A statement released by Head of Communications, Gero von der Stein, said the selected young scientists were outstanding undergraduates,…

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South-West leads in drug abuse in Nigeria

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Leader of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug Abuse (PACEDA), South-West, Mrs Oluwatoyin Odeku, said 22.4 per cent of drug abuse cases in Nigeria happened in the South-west. Odeku disclosed this at a press conference in Akure, Ondo State on Friday. She said the figure was in line with the official statistics released by the UN in its fact finding mission in the region to curb drug abuse in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari had on Dec. 10, 2018 inaugurated the committee chaired by Maj.-Gen. Buba Marwa…

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