The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, in collaboration with the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, is holding a regional training course on Conditioning and Storage of Categories 3 to 5 Disused, Sealed Radioactive Sources in Nigeria. The venue is the Read More …
The National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, Nigeria’s space agency, says it has approval to launch four new satellites. The Director-General, Dr Matthew Adepoju, says President Bola Tinubu has given approval for the building and launch of four satellites Read More …
Two men and a woman shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2022. They are: Carolyn Bertozzi, Barry Sharpless and Morten Meldal. This is Sharpless’ second Nobel Prize in Chemistry as he also won it in 2001. The prize in Read More …
Cameroon says it is releasing excess water from its Lagdo dam from 17 September, 2024. It will last seven days. This is a flood alert for the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency as the released water flows into River Benue and Read More …
Residents of Mpape district in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, reported some tremors with intermittent vibrations in the ground on 14, 15, 16 and 17 September, 2024. The tremors increased in intensity and was felt in Read More …
Dangote refinery started selling petrol from its gantry to suppliers on 15 September, 2024. This was a huge national relief as the four refineries in the country are not working, and Nigeria – an oil producing nation – had to Read More …
Nigeria’s food and medicine regulator, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has stopped the sale and use of miracle water and soap from Christ Mercy Land Deliverance Ministry, a faith-based organisation. This follows petitions to Read More …
Oil and gas accounts for 90% of export income for Nigeria. About 85% of government revenue comes from the industry. According to the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI, the country earned $741.74 billion from oil and gas from 1999 Read More …
The Federal Government of Nigeria – through the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri – waded into the heightened row in the mid and downstream petroleum industry between Dangote refinery, the regulator and refined oil importers. The government was Read More …
Nigeria approved the sale and public use of the TELA variety of genetically modified maize in 2024. The approval on behalf of the Federal Government was by the National Committee on Naming, Registration and Release of Crop Varieties, Livestock Breeds/Fisheries, Read More …
