Day: January 1, 2021

Nigeria Disqualifies 439 Firms In Oil Blocs’ Bid Round

Efe Wellington

  161 companies now in race for 57 marginal fields – DPR The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has disqualified 439 firms as bid round for marginal oil fields entered the final stage. Over 600 companies applied for pre-qualification, but spokesman for the DPR, Mr. Paul Osu, who confirmed the screening to Platforms Africain phone, declared that only 161 companies are now in race for the licensing round. “One hundred and sixtyone successful companies have been shortlisted to advance to the next and final stage of the bid round process…

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Woman gives birth to twins with different fathers + DNA details

Dawood Rabiu

  Couple were asked to undergo a paternity test to register the twins’ births and discovered the “mystery.” Mother later confessed she had had a one-night stand after the DNA test. A woman in China has reportedly given birth to a pair of twin boys found to have different fathers. The result of a DNA test led the new mother to admit that she had cheated on her husband in a one-night stand, according to a report from a Chinese newspaper. It is said that the husband had felt strange as he thought…

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Are taller people more at risk of contracting COVID-19?

Precious Ibekwe

  Here is an expert reaction to preprint of a survey on transmission and height in relation to COVID-19 A preprint, an unpublished non peer-reviewed study posted on medRxiv, looked at transmission and height in relation to COVID-19. Prof Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, The Open University, said: “This research didn’t use any objective measures of viral spread.  The finding on height, like all the other findings, is based on a survey of 1000 adults of working age in the UK, and another similar survey in the USA. …

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