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 …
The UN nuclear energy body, International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, has invited Nigeria’s Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, to participate in the Response and Assistance Network, RANET. RANET is a global system for the provision of international assistance, 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 …
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 …
The term Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAP, is preferred to Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO, because they may be optical illusions like of the Sun and the sky or camera tricks, after all. In that case, they may not all be objects 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 …
Nigerian telecommunications regulator, Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has issued a deadline for all mobile telephone users in the country to register their Subscriber Identification Module, SIM, by linking it to their National Identity Number, NIN, with their telecommunications operators. The Read More …
Have humans ever been to the Moon? The overt answer is: Yes, and six times. Starting from Apollo 11 – that landed Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin with the Lunar Lander, Eagle – on 20 July, 1969, 12 American men Read More …
A United States court in Los Angeles, California, on 7 November, 2022, sentenced international fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, Hushpuppi, to 11 years and three months in a federal prison. He was also ordered by the federal judge to pay $1.7m 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 …
