A featherless breed of broiler chicken developed by poultry breeders is yet to gain recognition despite the many advantages it may have. It grows well in tropical climate without overheating and eliminates the need for expensive air-conditioners in poultry farms. 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 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 are only two northern white rhinos in the world today and both are female – Najin and Fatu. The last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died in 2018. The animal is, therefore, functionally extinct. Scientist are in a race Read More …
There have been arguments over the possibility of some traditional and religious beliefs 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 in Read More …
What role can all the satellites launched for Nigeria play in efforts to prevent terrorism in the country and rescue the abducted schoolgirls and others still in captivity? In April, 2014, there was the kidnap of 276 schoolgirls from Government 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 …
Satellite images from the 1970s to date show that Lake Chad, which provides economic livelihood to 30 million people, has shrunk by 90%. There is historical evidence of a Lake Mega Chad, about 1,000 years ago, connected to the Nile, Read More …
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 …
