Africa committed the continent to being a nuclear weapon-free zone with the Pelindaba Treaty which was signed on April 11, 1996, in Cairo, Egypt. The Treaty prohibits the development, manufacture, testing and possession of nuclear weapons in Africa. It entered 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 …
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 …
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 …
The Director -General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, on August 27, 2024, visited the nuclear power plant in Kursk, western Russia, in the theatre of the Russia-Ukraine war. He described the situation in the plant as Read More …
Twenty members of the Federation of Catholic Medical and Dental Students who were kidnapped on their way to their annual convention in Enugu, southeast Nigeria, have regained their freedom. They were freed on 23 August, 2024, a week after their 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 Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security, widely considered as a first global compendium on the subject, was published on 20 June, 2023. It has 41 chapters, written by 63 experts from six continents on their perspectives in various aspects of 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 …
