AI-powered identity verification provides swift and robust compliance processing for currency transfers
San Francisco, USA: Onfido has announced a partnership with Currencies Direct, the leading international payments provider, to power its identity verification for onboarding new customers. Onfido’s AI-based identity verification technology will allow Currencies Direct to offer its intentional currency exchange service to more users as it continues to scale.
Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll has shadowed a Russian naval task group through the English Channel and North Sea. The Plymouth-based Type 23 frigate was called upon to sail on Sunday (14 Jul 2019) and keep watch on the task group which included the frigate Admiral Gorshkov as it passed close to UK territorial waters.
McAdam joins the Quantexa board to support rapid growth
Quantexa, the decision intelligence company specialising in AI and network analytics, today announced John McAdam, board member of data visualisation company Tableau, has joined its board.
With over 30 years’ experience, McAdam served as president and CEO of F5 Networks where he brought the company to profitability and grew annual revenue from $100 million to $2 billion. Prior to this, he was General Manager of the web server sales business at IBM, after serving for 10 years as President and COO of Sequent Computer Systems, which was sold to IBM in September 1999.
WHY NIGERIANS ARE DISCUSSING YESTERDAY’S MATTERS TODAY
Series: Wailing and Loud Lamentation in the Land as the Original Next Level!
THE DISAPPEARING FADAMAS…THE FOLLY OF A PEOPLE AND WHY DUBAI IS THE NEW MECCA FOR NIGERIANS
In fact, what the nation should be talking about now is how the mega dams and massive irrigation projects, both of which have acted as catalysts to worsen the Northern Nigerian ecology and caused the near extinction of the fadamas – traditional agriculture in the North, have contributed to causing famine and general poverty in Nigeria, particularly in the North, earning her the shame of being labelled the POVERTY CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.
We should also, be talking about the effects of over-grazing on the Nigerian environment – intractable desertification (North) and erosion/flooding (South, particularly the South East), and impending flooding all over the nation due to poor land management and climate change, amongst others.
Where there is a vision, the nation ought to have turned the whole desert up North into oceans and seas, bursting with agricultural activities, having all sorts of sports such as car racing – FORMULA 1, skyscrapers, ice skating in the desert, the trans Sahara high way to Europe with HS2 speed train, etc.
In fact, what Nigerians and indeed, all persons of African ancestry are good for, is sight-seeing and not inventions, creativity, innovations, imaginations, strategic deep thinking, futuristic planning – the reasons why our boys have continued to be ambushed and killed time and again by a band of street urchins – the Almajiris, who form the BOKO HARAM FIGHTER FORCE (BHFF), despite all my security inputs and leads from over here to the Nigeria authorities.
JOHN ODEY ADUMA, PUBLISHER AND BRITISH CHEVENING SCHOLAR, UNITED KINGDOM
To expose official corruption in Nigeria, re-orientate the psyche of Nigerians and usher in the Nigerian renaissance
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