See The Nigerian Boy That Won The British Petroleum Prize Award For Best Project

British Petroleum Prize Award For Best Project Won By A Nigerian

 

•  See The Nigerian Boy That Won The British Petroleum Prize Award For Best Project

This Nigerian have Make History in the United Kingdom

Ignatius Akpabio, an Indigene of Akwa Ibom state, has won the British Petroleum Prize for the best project on the course at the School of Computing Science and Digital Media’s 2016 Annual Awards Ceremony of the Robert Gordon University, UK.

A Nigerian Masters student who has graduated with distinction from Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen is also celebrating picking up an industry prize for his academic performance.

Ignatius Akpabio (23),graduated with an MSc in IT for the Oil and Gas Industry in July, and was awarded the BP prize for the best project on the course at the School of Computing Science and Digital Media’s annual awards ceremony.

Ignatius said:

“I feel very excited to have won this prize as I didn’t expect it and I’m very grateful to the best project supervisor anyone can have, Dr Iain Pirie, for been very supportive of me during the implementation of my MSc project.”

Ignatius decided to embark on the course due to its unique nature in the higher education sector, as well as the growing importance of the oil and gas industry in his home country.

“Oil and gas being the major source of GDP in Nigeria means that the future of the country might well depend on the sector,” he said. “I’m a strong proponent of the ‘Nigeria of Tomorrow’ and therefore, in every possible way I want to contribute my own quota to the development of my country.

“Coming from an IT background, I would like to use IT to develop and improve the oil and gas sector.”

Ignatius developed an inventory management system for an oil and gas servicing company as part of his MSc project, which was able to monitor and ensure effective management of goods to and from the warehouses and also record sales and purchases of goods while automatically updating stock levels with each transaction.

He said: “Implementing the system was very challenging as it consists of a lot of functionalities. It was developed as a web application to aid authorized access from anywhere around the world as long as there is connection to the internet.”

Ignatius added: “The MSc course content itself is a very rich one which encompasses modules from core oil and gas engineering, petroleum geo-science and information technology.

“I have found my time at RGU very rewarding and the School, alongside dedication on my part, has helped me improve on my software development skills.

“Thanks to lecturers like Dr David Lonie and Dr Angela Siegel, I found software development very interesting and this enabled me to excel exceedingly well in both modules.”

Despite offers to stay back abroad, Akpabio has resolved to return home to pursue the Nigerian dream!

University students perish in fatal accident after an all white party in Kenya

Eight people have been confirmed dead in a fatal accident along Kisii-Ogembo road near Sameta Lounge on Friday night July 1st. Majority of the deceased were university students (pictured above) who were returning from a party. According to the source of the photos, the one in a dress with brown boots survived.

They were on their way back from Kisii where they had attended an all white party on Thursday night at Club Dallas. Three vehicles, including a canter, a saloon car and a Noah were involved in the accident. All occupants in the Noah perished with three passengers in the canter surviving with serious injuries, SDE Kenya reports.

6 people perished on the spot while three people were also admitted at the hospital, with two of them later dying. The University students had hired two private cars from Nairobi to attend the party.

According to a witness Joseph Nyabuto, the driver of the Noah car tried to overtake another car and got involved in a head on collusion with the canter that was coming from Kilgoris. "All the vehicles were on high speed. Three of the victims remained stuck in the wreckage for almost 30 minutes," said, Mr. Nyabuto.
These are the victims...

New 23 Words Added To The Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary has revealed the menu of new words added to its monumental collection. Now you can call someone bruh without fear of contradiction or error. Among the new list you will find numerous shocking and funny entries.
Check out the new words below and tell us which one is your favorite in the comment box.

 Awesomesauce, adj. : (U.S. Informal) extremely good; excellent


 Bants (also bantz), pl. n.: (Brit. Informal) playfully teasing or mocking remarks exchanged with another person or group; banter

 Beer o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink beer

 Blockchain, n.: a digital ledger in which transactions made in bit coin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly

 Brain fart, n.: (Informal) a temporary mental lapse or failure to reason correctly

 Brexit, n.: a term for the potential or hypothetical departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union

 Bruh, n.: (U.S. Informal) a male friend (often used as a form of address)

 Buttdial, v.: (U.S. Informal) inadvertently call (someone) on a mobile phone in one’s rear trouser pocket

 Butthurt, adj.: (U.S. Informal) overly or unjustifiably offended or resentful

 Cakeage, n.: (Informal) a charge made by a restaurant for serving a cake they have not supplied themselves

 Cat café, n.: a café or similar establishment where people pay to interact with cats housed on the premises

 Fast-casual, adj.: denoting or relating to a type of high quality self service restaurant offering dishes that are prepared to order and more expensive than those available in a typical fast food restaurant

 Fatberg, n.: a very large mass of solid waste in a sewerage system, consisting especially of congealed fat and personal hygiene product that has been flushed down the toilets

 Fat-shame, v.: cause (someone judged to be fat or overweight) to feel humiliated by making mocking or critical comments about their size

 Grexit, n.: a term for the potential withdrawal of Greece from the Eurozone (the economic region formed by those countries in European Union that use the Euro as their national currency)

 Hangry, adj.: (Informal) bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger

 MacGyver, v.: (U.S. Informal) make or repair (an object) in an improvised or inventive way, making use of whatever items that are at hand

 Manspreading, n.: the practice whereby a man especially one travelling on public transport adopts a sitting position with his legs wide apart, in such a way as to encroach on an adjacent seat or seats

 Mic drop, n.: (Informal, chiefly U.S.) an instance of deliberately dropping or tossing aside ones microphone at the end of a performance or speech one considers to have been particularly impressive

 Mx, n.: a title used before a persons surname or full name by those who wish to avoid specifying their gender or by those who prefer not to identify themselves as male or female

 Rage-quit, v.: (Informal) angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating especially the playing of a video game

 Skippable, adj. : (of a part or feature of something) able to be omitted or passed over so as to get to the next part or feature

 Wine o’clock, n.: an appropriate time of day for starting to drink wine

Credit: Oxford Words Blog

History Scientists Discover The World's First Warm-Blooded Fish

The large, round fish—about the size of a

manhole cover—uses its warm blood as

an advantage in the ocean's freezing

depths,

Deep-water fish called opah appear to be

the first fully warm-blooded fish species

ever discovered, according to a new paper

published in Science. Researchers say the

unique biology behind opah, also known

as moonfish, allow the species to operate

at peak performance even within frigid

ocean depths.

Being warm-blooded has its perks. Birds

and mammals (or endotherms) conserve

their internal heat to maintain high body

temperatures, which helps them flee

predators, chase prey and thrive in sub-

zero climates. But fish—and other cold-

blooded animals, like reptiles and

amphibians—aren't so lucky. Most deep-

sea fish move slowly, preferring to

ambush prey rather than give chase, was

their low body temperatures (and reaction

speeds) mirror the cool ocean water. But

now, scientists say they have discovered

one exception to this rule: opah.

"It's a real advantage if you're in this

deep, cold habitat and you're swimming

around with a warm body," says Nick

Wegner, an NOAA fisheries biologist and

lead author on the paper. "It increases

the rates of all the reactions that occur

within the body—you can swim faster, see

better, react faster and capture cold-

bodied prey that are not able to respond

nearly as quickly."

Opah, which resemble large, colorful tires,

thrive in the deep sea and are an

increasingly popular seafood. Although

Wegner had been studying opah for years,

he recently noticed that warm blood

vessels leaving the fish's heart wrap

around cooler blood vessels returning from

its gills. Later, he determined that

opah generate heat by flapping their

pectoral fins, and retain that heat through

this dense layer of blood vessels. Opah's

internal heating system is capable of

keeping the fish's heart and brain at peak

performance, even at depths of up to

1,300 feet.

Certain tuna and shark species also retain

body heat, and warm select muscles for

high-performance hunting, but these

species are far from warm-blooded: Most

of a shark or tuna's body (including its

heart and other vital organs) remains

cold. "Opah is the first fish that can

circulate warm blood throughout the

entire body, and that gives it some

advantages over tuna and shark species,"

Wegner says. "Since they can keep their

entire bodies warm, they can stay down

deep, continuously close to their forage

base."