The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) @KashifuInuwa, joined by Japanese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Kazuyoshi Matsunaga, celebrated the winners of iHatch Startup Incubation Programme Cohort III, a collaborative initiative between NITDA and the Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA).
This partnership is a significant stride in our ongoing efforts to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in Nigeria, aligning with NITDA's Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan (SRAP 2.0) pillars of Forge Strategic Partnerships and Collaboration; and Nurture an Innovative and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem.
In line with President @officialABAT administration's priority area of Accelerating Diversification through Industrialisation, Digitisation, Creative Arts, Manufacturing and Innovation, IHatch programme is fostering a thriving ecosystem for startups, empowering the next generation of tech innovators in Nigeria.
@SarkinMota_AMF Hello @SarkinMota_AMF, we would love to support this by branding Mr Haladu's Indomie Mai Shayi shop and supplying him with some Indomie cartons. Thank you.
After all the media hype about Ahmed XM supporting his wife’s business Darr Safeerah, I wanted to play the supportive husband role too. Since my wife is a makeup artist, I told her that for any lady coming for makeup, her husband (meaning me) would be the pickup guy. I would go and pick her client up, then take her back home after they were done.
Since morning, I’ve not been able to understand this look from her. Hope I’m safe. 😂
You’ve never touched anything in your life. Not your phone. Not your morning coffee. Not the person you love.
Every atom in your body is 99.9999999999999% empty space. If the core of an atom were the size of a marble, the nearest electron would be all the way out in the parking lot of a football stadium. Everything in between is empty.
We’ve known this since 1911. A physicist named Ernest Rutherford fired tiny particles at a sheet of gold foil expecting them all to pass right through. Most did. But about 1 in 8,000 bounced straight back at him. He said it was like firing a cannon at tissue paper and having the shell come back and hit you. That one result proved every atom is almost entirely void, with all its weight crammed into a core 100,000 times smaller than the atom itself.
So when you sit in a chair, you’re not actually sitting on it. The electrons in your body are pushing against the electrons in the chair. Same force that makes two magnets resist each other when you flip one around. You’re floating above the surface, separated by a gap about 10,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper. Every handshake is two invisible clouds of electrons pressing against each other without ever merging.
Remove all that empty space from every atom in every human on Earth, and 8 billion people compress down to a single sugar cube. It would weigh billions of tons and fall straight through the floor, through the crust, all the way to the center of the Earth. Same density as a neutron star.
But the tweet gets one thing a little wrong. Whether atoms “touch” depends on how you define touch. Philip Moriarty, a physicist at the University of Nottingham who literally pushes individual atoms around with a needle for a living, says contact does happen at the atomic level. It’s the point where the pull between atoms balances the push. And when you eat food, your body breaks those molecules apart and chemically bonds with them, atoms merging across boundaries. That’s real contact.
So what you feel when you hold someone’s hand isn’t skin on skin. It’s the same force that holds together every molecule in every star, pressing your electrons against theirs. You’ve never made contact the way your brain pictures it. What’s actually happening is stranger and honestly way cooler.
As Nigeria marks 65 years of independence, we reaffirm our mission to bridge information gaps and empower communities with access to knowledge. Together, let’s keep building a connected future.
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October 1st reminds us of Nigeria’s independence journey. Beyond the celebrations, may this day be a call for reflection, growth, and renewed commitment to building a better tomorrow.
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LMAO!! Bello Turji is out there in the open bush, Ado Aleru too, yet no one bothers to go after them or other criminals. But it’s Sultan, someone without access to even a machete, let alone a gun, who has never kidnapped anyone or collected ransom, that our operatives, the almighty DSS, stormed into his house to bundle him as if he were a murderer.
And then some foolish people online think they can silence others from speaking out about this. Those wishing evil on others for political or personal reasons, you will surely get what you’re looking for, Insha Allah. At the end, gaskiya zatayi halinta.