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Kindly Share This Story: By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Nigeria Labour Congress,Wednesday morning, led many workers across government agencies to picket the Corporate Affairs Commission, CAC,over alleged unfriendly policies against workers of the commission. The action was carried out at the headquarters of the commission,located at the Maitama highbrow area of Abuja,the nation’s federal capital city. The NLC accuses the CAC leadership of clamping down on members of the union,who are opposed to CAC’s anti-workers’ policies. READ ALSO 2020 Budget: Senate approves N11.35bn for Police Trust Fund The Trade Union Congress and the NLC, however, are divided on the issuue, a development that resulted in a clash between the rival unions members during the picketing. The national leadership of NLC, led by its President, Comrade Ayuba Waba,led executive executive and members of several registered unions to the action intended to change certain policies … [Read more...] about NLC pickets Corporate Affairs Commission over alleged unfriendly policies

A videographer who specializes in 360-degree imagery is helping people to explore the surface of Mars. Hugh Hou , founder of the YouTube channel CreatorUp , shared an interactive video to his Facebook account on Tuesday. His "virtual tour" of the Red Planet's barren exterior has since been shared more than 1.2 million times. The panorama image that Hou used to create the 360-degree tour was released by NASA 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday. It was taken on February 20 by navigational cameras on the Perseverance rover, which had landed on Mars two days earlier, and "stitched together" from six images after they were sent back to Earth, the space agency said. The sky in Hou's tour has been edited to show it full of stars, so the experience works better on virtual reality headsets, he wrote in a disclaimer on Facebook. Hou explained: "The original photo does not have the full sky, I edited the sky to have a full 360 experience inside a VR headset … [Read more...] about Mars ‘Virtual Tour’ Gives 360 View of Planet From NASA’s Perseverance Rover

The NHS is facing a legal challenge over its data deal with controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir, Sky News can reveal. Palantir, which has become notorious for its close ties to security services and immigration agencies in the United States, secured its first ever deal to handle NHS data in March last year for the nominal sum of £1. Legal group Foxglove announced today that it was bringing a court case against the health service to force it to reconsider the contract, which was extended in December 2020 and is now worth £23.5m. Government's failure to publish COVID contracts details was unlawful, High Court rules The lawsuit is the latest challenge over procurement during the pandemic, which has become a highly contentious topic in recent months, with critics accusing the government of favouring its own contacts. It comes as a batch of internal government emails uncovered by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and seen by Sky News reveal that … [Read more...] about NHS facing legal challenge over data deal with controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir

By Jon Cohen Feb. 15, 2017 , 2:30 PM The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruled today in favor of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the initial legal step of a high stakes battle over who will control the valuable intellectual property linked to CRISPR, the powerful genome-editing tool. The decision may be appealed by the University of California (UC) , however, which last year requested the “interference” from the patent board because it contends that a team of scientists it represented invented the technology and that the Broad researchers piggybacked on their discovery. The patent board decision declared “Broad has persuaded us that the parties claim patentably distinct subject matter, rebutting the presumption created by declaration of this interference." Jacob Sherkow, an intellectual property attorney at the New York Law School in New York City, says the decision could be “a decisive knock out for the Broad.” He says he now expects UC to take the … [Read more...] about Round one of CRISPR patent legal battle goes to the Broad Institute

A business or enterprise is an entity designed to address a certain pain point, fill some gap or solve a problem. Well, today the biggest problems we are facing are those being addressed in the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs ), designed to help end poverty and protect the environment, set by the United Nations in 2015 to be met by 2030. It has long been believed that sustainability goals are for not-for-profit organizations. For-profit Social enterprises are changing this mindset through their work. They are showing their counterparts and their customers that sustainability can reap profits while taking care of the planet and people. Building businesses that solve problems that truly matter To reach the SDGs we need to create global solutions that are highly scalable. How does one create a highly scalable solution? In the same way any business grows – profits. It is estimated that achieving the SDGs would cost $3 trillion dollars (4% of global GDP). This should make … [Read more...] about OPINION: How for-profit enterprises can help in reaching sustainability goals