TIME October 25, 1971 12:00 AM EDT The ways of treating oil spills are many and mysterious. Some involve nothing more than sopping up the mess with absorbent straw or raking in spills with floating booms; others involve complicated machines that vacuum oil-drenched sand. All have two things in common: they are painstakingly slow and they often leave as much oil behind as they pick up. Thanks to a Canadian invention called the Oilevator, grimy beaches and greasy seagulls may soon be a thing of the past —provided the machine, nicknamed the “slick-licker,” can get to the scene on time.

The acting Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Dr Adamu Abdullahi, said in a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday, that the penalty was slammed on the companies after three years of intensive investigations. Abdullahi said the companies were found culpable of denying Nigerian data subjects the right to self-determination, unauthorised transfer and sharing of personal data which was not the practice in other climes. He said the companies gave options to data subjects in other climes to decide whether their data would be shared or not.

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According to Caroline Lucas, Director Special Projects, of TEXEM UK, the United Kingdom based leadership development firm, Ilori’s appointment marks a watershed moment for the entire landscape of Nigerian insurance. “In the intricate web of the insurance world, there are figures whose presence resonates far beyond the boardrooms and policy documents. “They are the luminaries, the visionaries whose every step reverberates through the industry, shaping its trajectory and defining its ethos.

Jimmy John's is being asked to cut sprouts from the menu after a food poisoning outbreak. The Illinois Department of Public Health has asked the sandwich chain to stop serving alfalfa sprouts in the state until an investigation of a recent salmonella food poisoning outbreak is complete. So far, two people have reported becoming ill after eating at Jimmy John's in late December. Jimmy John's announced on Friday that it had directed all locations across the US to temporarily stop serving sprouts "