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Delegates from seventy eight countries from all over the world will come to Israel to compete in the 2019 International Physics Olympiad in July.  The Olympiad, being held for the fiftieth time, will begin with an opening ceremony on July 7 at the Smolarz Auditorium, Tel Aviv. It consists of several stages in both theoretical and practical examinations taking place over the course of nine days, at the end of which gold, silver and bronze medals are awarded to the competition's winners.  Israeli Minister of Education, Rabbi Rafi Peretz said, "The State of Israel is making another achievement in the area of ​​scientific excellence, and I welcome the seventy eight delegations from around the world who will be in Israel throughout the competition. We wish wish our Israeli delegation the best of luck." The three hundred and sixty participants and two hundred and fifty guests will be able to travel up and down the country, visiting historical sites and experiencing Isr...

The National Youth Service Corps Foundation is searching for about 75 corps members who took between N300,000 and N400,000 loans to start small businesses but refused to pay after about four years. The defaulting corps members, who have now passed out, used their certificates as collateral, which was the only condition to access the loans. Our correspondent learnt the corps members had abandoned their certificates with the foundation for almost four years. The NYSC Foundation Chief Executive Officer, Bako Ventim, confirmed this in an exclusive interview on Monday during the opening of Skills’ Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development workshop at the NYSC Orientation Camp in Kubwa, Abuja. The foundation was in the camp to donate 10 sewing machines to the camp for SAED training. The director said, “We have been providing loans to corps members and our interest rate is one digit. There is no collateral except the NYSC certificate and two guarantors. We make the conditio...