Russia’s state-owned corporation, Rosatom, is building Egypt’s first nuclear power plant of 4,800 MW for electricity generation. The nuclear power plant, which will have four reactors of 1,200 MW each, is in El Dabaa, by the Mediterranean, 300 kilometres northwest Read More …
World’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, made space history on 20 July, 2021, 14:30 WAT, as the richest billionaire astronaut ever. The history was made together with 82-year-old Wally Funk as the oldest and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen as the youngest person Read More …
Europe is wilting under extreme temperatures. At least one thousand, seven hundred people have died from heat-related conditions in July, 2022. Seville, Spain, has had a temperature of 41 °C (106 °F). Suffolk, eastern England, had its third-hottest day on Read More …
The World Health Organisation, WHO, on 6 October, 2021 approved the use of RTS, S vaccine for children in regions with moderate to high levels of malaria transmission. The vaccine known by the brand name, Mosquirix, is effective against P. falciparum, a Read More …
A Tokyo district court has found four former executives of Tokyo Electric Power Company guilty of not exercising due care and failing to prevent the nuclear accident in their Fukushima Dai-ichi plant on March 11, 2011. They are to pay $95 Read More …
Three of the top-20 rated tennis players in the world have tested positive for Covid-19 and pulled out of Wimbledon. Marin Cilic was the first to test positive followed by Matteo Berrettini and withdrew from their first-round ties in Wimbledon Read More …
A swarm of desert locusts has been reported in two northern Nigeria states of Zamfara and Kebbi. Farmers in the affected states are complaining of loss of produce to the swarming locusts as their northwestern neighbour, Sokoto State, is threatened. Read More …
The Electric Vehicle, EV, revolution is catching on. EVs, apart from being environmentally friendly, have much lower acoustic noise while in operation. Also, they are more reliable and cheaper to operate because they have less parts to break down or Read More …
The Director-General of Nigeria’s space agency – National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA – Dr Ahmed Shaba Halilu, has decried the fact that all satellites owned by it have gone past their design life and are yet to be Read More …
Chief of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, Igor Kirilov, says four laboratories funded by US in Nigeria released the monkeypox virus spreading now and responsible for the recent outbreak. He alleged that a strain of the virus from Read More …
