Electoral Act: This Is Just a Warning — Isaac Fayose Speaks During Protest at NASS
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Electoral Act: This Is Just a Warning — Isaac Fayose Speaks During Protest at NASS

Businessman Isaac Fayose has described Monday’s protest at the National Assembly complex as only the beginning of a larger movement. Politics Nigeria reports that a cross-section of Nigerians converged on the National Assembly on Monday morning to demand that electronic transmission of election results be made compulsory. Despite several clarifications by the Senate following reports that it rejected electronic transmission of results, the protesters insist that lawmakers must be clear by explicitly inserting the phrase “real-time electronic transmission” in the proposed legislation. Senate announced earlier that it would hold an emergency plenary session on Tuesday to address the concerns raised. Speaking to journalists at the protest ground, Fayose said the decision reached at the emergency sitting would determine whether the protest would continue. He said, “We all know what happens in a collation room. A collation room is a room...
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Research, innovation and South-South cooperation: the main axes of the debates
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Research, innovation and South-South cooperation: the main axes of the debates

The work of the 41st National Congress of the Moroccan Society of Medical Sciences (SMSM), organized under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, ended last Saturday in Casablanca. The closing conference, focused on “South-South Relations: African Academy of Sciences and Health: a strategic lever for research, innovation and training on the continent”, marked the end of this event which brought together a host of medical professionals including doctors, researchers and experts from various disciplines. For two days, wide-ranging exchanges and debates enriched the participants, under the honorary presidency of Professor Lahcen Belyamani. Opening on Friday, February 6, the 41st National Congress of the SMSM proposed several activities promoting the sharing of expertise and the emergence of concrete avenues for improving...
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Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center
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Trump admin is pulling supercomputers out of key weather and climate research center

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder in December.RJ Sangosti/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post/Getty ImagesA leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released Thursday by the National Science Foundation.The move is part of the Trump administration’s effort to disassemble the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, one of the world’s top weather and climate research centers, which the admin views as a source of climate change alarmism.The computing center, which is slated to be turned over to an unspecified third party, runs weather and climate research models and is used by about 1,500 researchers from over 500 universities around the country. The work done on this supercomputer benefits the American people by leading to more accurate forecasts of extreme weather and climate events, aircraft...
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Trump officials sued over effort to ‘erase history and science’ in national parks
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Trump officials sued over effort to ‘erase history and science’ in national parks

Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks. A lawsuit filed in Boston says orders by Donald Trump and the interior secretary, Doug Burgum, have forced park service staff to remove or censor exhibits that share factually accurate and relevant US history and scientific knowledge, including about slavery and climate change. Separately, LGBTQ+ rights advocates and historic preservationists sued the park service on Tuesday for removing a rainbow Pride flag from the Stonewall national monument, the New York site that commemorates a foundational moment in the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. The changes at exhibits came in response to a Trump executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks. It directed the...
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