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Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who defected recently, from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the Peoples Democratic party, has denied a festering rumour that he is about to dump the PDP for the resuscitated Social Democratic Party. This is coming barely four months after he left the APC. Atiku, in this interview with LASISI AYUBA, says the SDP defection story is absolute falsehood, and volunteers a historical recall of how he was hounded out of the PDP and begged to join the APC. The former VP, widely believed to be in the presidential race, also offers glimpses into a Nigeria of his You are a Fulani and most of the recent killings of innocent local people in Benue, Nasarawa and Taraba states have been attributed to herdsmen of Fulani extraction. Does this not make you uncomfortable? The herdsmen crisis actually came about as a result of leadership failure. Nations are not static; they grow and change. To be sincere, desertification was not an issue in northern Nig...

When it was predicted some years back that cars will run on water, many people thought the speaker is crazy. 3D printing has just allowed a car company (XEV) and a printing company (polymaker) to manufacture an electric car, LSEV, for $7,500 USD that is 2.7million naira. By 3D printing the city-ready vehicle, XEV and polymaker have knocked the number of individual plastic components down from the typically-used 2,000 to, oh, 57 parts — excluding mirrors, lights, chassis and such. ‘XEV is the first real mass production project using 3D printing. by saying really, I mean there are also lots of other companies using 3D printing for production. but nothing can really compare with XEV in terms of the size, the scale, and the intensity,’ said, Dr. Luo Xiaofan, co-founder, and CEO of polymaker. The transportation industry is certainly in a state of disruption. amidst this disruption — LSEV is an affordable solution for city drivers. its top speed is 43 miles per hour. It covers a range...