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Author: Obiechina Obba

Obiechina Obba has been a science journalist since 1989 when he started with NTA Network News in the headquarters and rose to become NTA Network News Producer. He is an alumnus of University of Ife, Nigeria and Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He also have certificates in Voice Training from FRCN, Lagos, and in Editorial Writing and Analysis from University of Ibadan among others. He specialised in Science Programmes in DW, Berlin, Germany, and 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.

World’s first surviving nonuplets return home

Posted onDecember 14, 2020December 17, 2022Leave a comment

World’s first surviving nonuplets, comprising nine babies from a single birth, have returned home after 19 months in hospital. The babies, five girls and four boys, were born by Caesarean section on 4 May, 2021 in a hospital in Casablanca, Read More …

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Mass abortions for pregnant women and girls rescued from Boko Haram captivity in Nigeria?

Posted onDecember 8, 2020December 11, 2022Leave a comment

Reuters News Agency has released a report of forced abortions for rescued pregnant women and girls seized by armed terrorist groups in northeast Nigeria. The report which covers the period from 2013 to November, 2021 and published on 7 December, Read More …

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Ernie Puffett, 84, enrols to study Physics for GCSE

Posted onNovember 28, 2020December 4, 2022Leave a comment

Ernie Puffett, 84 years old, has enrolled for Physics GCSE at Chichester College in West Sussex, England. His old school re-admitted him, long after he tried five times and failed to pass the examination. He is giving the examination a sixth try. Read More …

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The night sky is black

Posted onNovember 16, 2020December 3, 2021Leave a comment

For centuries, scientists have suspected that the Universe was not static but, without a model or proof. If  the Universe is static and filled with stars, any direction one looks in the sky is supposed to end eventually on a Read More …

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Again, debris from China’s heaviest Long March rocket makes uncontrolled re-entry to Earth

Posted onNovember 4, 2020November 16, 2022Leave a comment

China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket, used to launch Mengtian laboratory, the final module for Tiangong Space Station, on 31 October, 2022 has made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth. It crashed into the Southcentral Pacific Ocean about Read More …

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China successfully launches Mengtian module to complete Tiangong space station

Posted onOctober 31, 2020November 7, 2022Leave a comment

China has successfully launched Mengtian laboratory module, the third and final component of its space station, Tiangong, that is under construction. The laboratory module was launched atop China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket on 31 October, 2022 Read More …

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Still alive, not extinct

Posted onOctober 30, 2020September 30, 2021Leave a comment

This giant tortoise specie, Chelonoidis phantasticus, thought to have gone extinct 100 years ago, is still alive, It was found in Fernandia Island in the Galapagos in 2019. DNA tests on this specimen believed to be 80 to 100 years Read More …

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Nigeria: A Case for Nuclear Energy

Posted onOctober 25, 2020November 22, 2023Leave a comment

The most popular peaceful use of nuclear energy is arguably, in electricity generation. Nigeria requires 25,000 to 30,000 mw of electricity for any meaningful economic development. Total output has been about 3,700 mw from total grid capacity of 6,000 mw. Read More …

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South Korea launches first space rocket

Posted onOctober 21, 2020November 15, 2021Leave a comment

South Korea has launched its first fully domestically produced space rocket. The three-stage rocket, KSLV-II Nuri, was launched at the Naro Space Centre, Goheung, on 21 October, 2021 (09:00 WAT), with the intention of putting a 1.5-tonne payload into a Read More …

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SpaceX Crew-4 returns from ISS

Posted onOctober 15, 2020October 23, 2022Leave a comment

SpaceX Crew-4 returned from the ISS on 14 October, 2022 after 170 days in space. The astronauts who are members of SpaceX Crew-4 are: Commander Kjell Lindgren; Mission Specialist, Jessica Watkins; Pilot Robert “Bob” Hines, all of NASA, and European Read More …

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