Science World is designed to bring you the latest stories in the world of science as they happen.
Efforts are specially made, using experts in the field, to break down important new discoveries and innovations in science so that the ordinary person can follow all of them.
The Producer is Obiechina Obba who has been a Science journalist since 1989. He was Science Correspondent with NTA, Africa’s first and largest television network, and rose to become NTA Network News Producer from 1996 to 2008.
He is an alumnus of University of Ife, Nigeria; Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria; and also has certificates in Science Programmes from DW Akademie, Berlin, Germany, as well as in Voice Training from FRCN, Lagos, and in Editorial Writing and Analysis from University of Ibadan, among others.
He was the only Nigerian journalist to cover the launch of NigeriaSat-1, Nigeria’s first national satellite, live, in Pletsesk, Siberia, Russia, on 27 September, 2003. His 164-page book, NigeriaSat-1 the Full Story, on that was assessed by National Universities Commission, NUC, and placed in libraries of all government-owned universities in the country.
He has been on a nation-wide tour twice for NTA before moving on to head the Information Office of Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, from 2008 to 2012.
An award winner of “Outstanding Corps Member” in his NYSC service year of 1983/84 in Rivers State; he is a member, Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, and Associate Member, Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, ANIPR.
