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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.

Zaporizhzhia NPP: IAEA’s Grossi visits Putin

Posted onOctober 12, 2020October 24, 2022Leave a comment

The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, visited President Vladimir Putin on 11 October, 2022 to discuss protection of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amidst the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Grossi is seeking for a nuclear safety Read More …

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Uses and regulatory control of ionizing radiation in Nigeria

Posted onOctober 11, 2020May 15, 2024Leave a comment

Radiation is energy from any source travelling through space or some material. It can be in the form of light, heat or sound. It can also be in the form of radioactivity or emissions from unstable atoms giving-off some excess Read More …

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Russia takes over Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

Posted onOctober 6, 2020October 16, 2022Leave a comment

Russia has announced the take-over of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Russian President, Vladimir Putin, on 5 October, 2022 signed into law the Russian parliament’s approval of the result of the referendum in four occupied territories belonging to Read More …

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WHO bans four Indian-made cough syrups after 66 deaths in Gambia

Posted onOctober 6, 2020October 11, 2022Leave a comment

The World Health Organisation has raised a health alert and barred people from using four Indian-made cough medications after the death of 66 children in Gambia, West Africa. The drugs are: Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff Baby Read More …

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Scholarships for studies to save the gorilla

Posted onSeptember 30, 2020October 5, 2022Leave a comment

The Nigeria Conservation Foundation, NCF, has offered scholarships in the University of Calabar, Nigeria, for studies in wildlife conservation to save endangered gorillas. The natural habitat of gorillas is threatened by logging and deforestation. The NCF thought that gorillas were extinct Read More …

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Nigeria Inaugurates National Council on Climate Change

Posted onSeptember 29, 2020October 6, 2022Leave a comment

Nigeria has inaugurated a National Council on Climate Change. The council is to formulate appropriate policies for achieving lower Green House gas emission in the country. It will also seek ways to promote sustainable growth of the economy. The Council Read More …

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First European female Commander of ISS

Posted onSeptember 28, 2020September 30, 2022Leave a comment

Italian astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, makes history as the first European woman to ever command the ISS. On 28 September, 2022 cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev handed over the symbolic key and command of the orbital station to her. Samantha Cristoforetti first traveled Read More …

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DART spacecraft to stop asteroid promising

Posted onSeptember 27, 2020October 25, 2022Leave a comment

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft was deliberately, crashed into an asteroid on 27 September, 2022 as part of a study to defend the Earth from incoming asteroids that may pose a threat. The collision was at more than Read More …

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Landsat 9 satellite launched

Posted onSeptember 27, 2020November 15, 2021Leave a comment

Landsat, arguably, the most successful Earth Observation satellite series in the world, launched its 9th satellite on 27 September, 2021. It was launched with an Atlas rocket from the  Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, USA, Read More …

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MS-21 returns to Earth from ISS

Posted onSeptember 21, 2020October 3, 2022Leave a comment

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov in MS-21 have returned to Earth from the ISS. They returned on September 29, 2022 after 195 days in the ISS. The three cosmonauts were powered by a Soyuz rocket, from the Read More …

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