Can science learn anything about longevity from Jonathan the Tortoise who is 192 years old? It hatched in 1832, five years before the coronation of Queen Victoria of England and turned 192 years old by 2024. It has outlived seven Read More …
A total lunar eclipse on the night of 7 September, 2025, was seen by 77% of the world’s population, or 6.2 billion people. This was from 18:30 till 19:52.WAT. Sky watchers in India, China and East Africa had a full Read More …
Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, the focal nuclear agency in Nigeria, is yet to get a substantive Chief Executive Officer. Anthony Ekedegwa has been in acting capacity since September, 2024. He is yet to be confirmed, nor a qualified expert Read More …
Nigeria’s nuclear regulator is the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA. It was created by the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act (Act 19) of 1995, but it came into being in May, 2001. The pioneer Director-General was Professor Shamsideen B. Read More …
Shabani, this silverback, is considered the ‘most handsome’ gorilla in the world. Shabani is considered a symbol of how a handsome man should look like by Japanese women who call him “Ikeme” or handsome guy and flock in hundreds to Read More …
The Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa, NEISA, 2025, has been held in Kigali, Rwanda. The summit, held to stimulate the adoption of peaceful nuclear energy in Africa, took place from June 30 to July 1, 2025. International Atomic Energy Read More …
Lab-grown meat is meat grown from an animal’s (stem) cells in a laboratory. Cells come together to form tissues in higher animals, and tissues come together to form organs, and organs form systems which make up the organism. Cells are Read More …
The Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA, the country’s nuclear regulator, has revoked the licence of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Zaria, to operate a radioactive waste storage facility. NNRA, on 28 January, 2025, said this was after Read More …
There have been arguments over the possibility of some traditional and religious belief systems which have come to be generally accepted. One of them is that of a virgin birth and that Jesus could be born by Virgin Mary as Read More …
Africa, the second largest continent in the world today, is splitting into two continents to be separated by a sixth ocean. This will be in the next five to 10 million years. It has started as a giant rift or Read More …
