Day: October 5, 2017

Western Digital launches 14TB enterprise hard drive for big data

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Western Digital is raising the enterprise hard drive stakes once again with the announcement of a 14 TB 3.5” hard drive. The HGST branded Ultrastar Hs14 uses fourth generation HelioSeal and second generation host-managed SMR (shingled magnetic recording) to enable a 14 TB drive that is just as fast as its smaller capacity enterprise predecessors despite the impressive 1034 Gb/sq in areal density. Western Digital claims the new hard drive offers up 40% more capacity and twice the sequential write performance of its previous SMR drives. The 3.5” SMR hard drive comes in…

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Farmers to sell rice at N6,000 per bag

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The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) says it will reduce the price of locally produced rice from N18,000 per 50kg. bag to N6,000 within the next few months. This was disclosed in Abuja on Wednesday by Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, the National President of Rice Farmers Aassociation of Nigeria (RIFAN), during a meeting with Rice Processors Association of Nigeria (RIPAN) and the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh. Goronyo said that although RIFAN and RIPAN had agreed to fix the current price of 50 kg. bag of…

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Two reps members decamp from PDP to APC

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Two House of Representatives members on Thursday cross-carpeted from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmakers are Zaphaniah Gisalo representing Abuja Municipal Area Council/Buari and another member, Mr. Yusuf Tijani from Okene/Ogori-Magogo federal constituency of Kogi State. Both lawmakers cross carpeted on the floor of the House amid wide protest from PDP lawmakers. Both lawmakers, in their letter to the House attributed their defection to division in the various state chapters of their party. Reacting to the defection, the Minority Whip of the House,…

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October 1 and the torment of memory

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Forget the rose-scented official statistics, the sweet words of the establishment. There can be no procedure to tracking Nigeria’s progress graph more efficiently, more intimately than a gesture as ordinary as dusting up old copies of newspapers or journals to find just how much of yesterday’s promises were eventually delivered and the gradient to which current lamentations in the land bear resonance with the cry of yester-years. The first likely surprise on that excursion into the past: Not a few of yesterday’s heroes would have dramatically morphed into today’s villains,…

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Bayern appoints Jupp Heynckes as new head coach

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Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich has named Jupp Heynckes as head coach until the end of the 2017/18 season following the sack of Carlo Ancelotti last week. The German champion made the announcement on their website, on Thursday. The 72-year-old retired from football following the 2012/13 season, in which he led the Bavarians to an unprecedented treble of Bundesliga, DFB Cup and UEFA Champions League titles. Heynckes also bagged the FIFA World Coach of the Year award in 2013. Ancelotti was relieved of his duties in the wake of Bayern’s disappointing…

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Australia introduces tracker for terror suspects

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Australian police will create a national photo database using existing identification records held by state authorities to identify terror suspects, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Thursday, fanning privacy concerns among rights groups. Turnbull said the database was intended to accelerate the process of identifying potential terror suspects, replacing a time-consuming system that could take up to a week when national authorities requested information from their state counterparts. “It shouldn’t take seven days to be able to verify someone’s identity or seek to match the photo of someone, who is…

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