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 …
The world of ocean exploration will forever remember 18 June, 2023, when Titan submersible with five persons on their way to see the wreckage of Titanic, died. The search and rescue efforts for the missing Titan craft on 22 June, Read More …
Roger Payne, the US scientist who galvanised a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales sing, has died. He was 88. His wife, actress Lisa Harrow, said he died of pelvic cancer on June 10, 2023 in his Read More …
Theodore Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber for his deadly bombing campaign against scientists, died in his prison cell on 10 June, 2023. He was aged 81 years. Ted Kaczynski was sentenced to life imprisonment, without an option of parole, after Read More …
The 400-year-old kapok tree in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, fell during a rain storm on the night of 24 May, 2023. The tree known in Sierra Leone as the Cotton Tree, is a national symbol adoring bank notes and Read More …
