The National Universities Commission (NUC) has received a notice of offer of scholarship to eligible Nigerian students who may wish to undertake postgraduate studies in Japanese Universities for the next academic year commencing in April or October, 2018.

This is an opportunity for Nigerian students below the age of 35 to pursue academic programs under full scholarships from the Japanese government.

To apply, visit this link

Closing date: 9 June, 2017

This is the NUC letter announcing this opportunity.

More materials form the website

1. Japanese Government(MEXT) Scholarship

• Application period for the Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship for International Students for 2018 Academic year has opened.

Completed MEXT scholarship application forms can be submitted by hand or by post to the Information and Culture Section, Embassy of Japan office, No.9 Bobo Street (off Gana Street) Maitama, Abuja (PMB 5070, Wuse, FCT)

MEXT Scholarship Flyer
Scholarship is available in four categories: (Plase click to access)

1. Research students

2. Undergraduate students

3. College of Technology students

4. Specialized Training College students

Please note that applications forms for the current exercise is clearly marked – (2018). Applications made with the 2017 forms will, therefore, not be processed by the Embassy.

The closing date for submission of all completed application forms is June 9, 2017; applications not received on or before that date will not be processed.

In this videocast, I discuss the emerging African online printing sector. As broadband penetrates across the continent, this sector will continue to grow. Despite the digitization of enterprises, printing will remain a key part of commerce for a very long time. Companies like HP and Dell that make printers are seeing growth in the sub-sector. In Africa, printing is still largely managed by small fragmented family companies. The online is certainly one way to bring scale, digitally, in the sector. Nigeria’s Printivo is a leading firm in this sector, and others like Printweza and Brandcoma are coming up.  From wedding cards to business cards, printing is a growth industry in Africa, though it may be a low-margin one where scale will determine the winners. Any firm emerges as a category-king company will dominate the industry when it becomes a norm to order printed documents via the web as is done in the U.S. now.

A Chinese energy giant Sungrow which makes photovoltaic (PV) inverter systems has unveiled the world’s largest floating PV power plant. The plant capacity is astonishing 40-megawatt solar power plant, situated atop a flooded former coal-mining town in the Anhui province of eastern China. “The plant not only makes full use of this area, reducing the demand for lands – but also improves generation due to the cooling effects of the surface,” a local government official said.

The water has no other major value as it is mineralized which makes it valueless, notes Sungrow.

Sungrow is one of the world’s largest PV inverter system suppliers with over 31 gigawatts installed worldwide as of December 2016.

We need this type of solution in the lagoons of Lagos, Niger Delta and River Niger where we do not have uses for the water bodies.