Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, NAEC, the focal nuclear agency in Nigeria, is yet to get a substantive Chief Executive Officer. Anthony Ekedegwa has been in acting capacity since September, 2024. He is yet to be confirmed, nor a qualified expert 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 …
Nigeria reiterated its position in support of a comprehensive nuclear test ban on 7 July, 2025, when Vice President Kashim Shettima received the Executive Secretary of Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organisation, CTBTO, Dr Robert Floyd, in Abuja. Vice President Shettima 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 …
Pope Leo XIV marked 56 years of human Moon landing on 20 June, 2025, with a visit to the Cupole of Vatican Observatory in the Apostolic Palace of Castle Gandolfo. The Pope looked through the telescopes and admired the heavenly 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 …
The world remembers the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States on 11 September, 2001. Four passenger airplanes were hijacked by 19 terrorists of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda on a suicide mission. They crashed two of the hijacked airplanes 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 …
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 …
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 …
