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–Tina Hesman Saey Treatment timing can dramatically lower risk of death or needing a ventilator, or raise it. A simple blood test may help doctors decide who could benefit from treatment with steroids, lowering the risk of needing a ventilator or dying. A cheap and…

–Afrik21 Photovoltaic solar energy provider Redavia has recently received a €1.5 million loan from EEP Africa, a multi-donor fund hosted and managed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). This funding will enable Redavia to expand the deployment of its solar systems to businesses primarily in…

–Hameed Ajibola Jimoh Esq. The legal practice is a very delicate practice considering its nature. A lawyer has to deal with the life, property, money (which might worth millions or billions of naira or in other currencies belonging to his clients), the fight for freedom…

-Aficionado | Aba Poetry Club 2020 Two rivers flowed through my land Like her Niger and Benue I could not swim once either or both One rose from her Deltaic planes The other kissed the Anam mouth Two rivers meander my land I stood, a…

–Melissa Clason Melissa graduated from NC State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in geology in 2015 and currently works as a geotechnical lab technician. Diamonds are probably the most beloved mineral on Earth. These beautiful pieces of pure carbon are useful for so many tasks:…

–Zimbabwe Standard Harnessing Zimbabwe’s abundant renewable energy resources is key to helping the country support its development strategies and leapfrog towards low-carbon socio-economic progress. Energy is increasingly being recognised as a prerequisite for human development: it’s surprising that it took the world so long a…

-Vision Reporter The gold, according to sources, belongs to a Tanzania-based gold dealer. Smuggling. The Police Mineral Protection Unit is reported to have intercepted 93kg of gold worth nearly $5m (about sh18.5b) that reportedly was being smuggled out of the country through Entebbe airport on…

–Oriental News Nigeria is translating its critical thinking in gas development to actual investment in line with the declaration of 2020 as Year of Gas for Nigeria, by Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, writes Yemisi Izuora. At the beginning of the year,…

–Nancy Shute This isn’t the first time in history that societies have been racked by social unrest while in the grip of a pandemic. That may be scant comfort, but as Bruce Bower explains in this issue (Page 24), impacts of a pandemic often reach…

–Tina Hesman Saey The drug might save one of every eight people on ventilators and one of 25 on oxygen. Given as intravenous injection, the steroid dexamethasone reduced the number of deaths among COVID-19 patients on ventilators, scientists say in a news release. The low-cost…