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  A Nigerian engineer and neuroscientist, Oshiorenoya Agabi, is blazing a trail in America’s Silicon Valley by developing drones that are capable of smelling bombs far away. Agabi is the founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley startup, Koniku, a wetware company which is the world’s first neurocomputation company. Koniku is a privately held, venture backed company using biological neurons to interface with the real world. They build systems that use real biological neurons for sensing, control and computation.

     A Nigerian student choked to death soon after participating in a bread-eating competition during a friend’s birthday party at a hotel here today.

  Abuja — The three non-academic staff unions in the universities have said that failure of the Federal Government to address their agitations, along that of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), would lead to a declaration of industrial dispute.