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 …
Nigeria has postponed its plans to build and launch a satellite on home soil. The National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, said 2025 is no longer feasible due to financial constraints. The then Director General, Dr Halilu Shaba, was Read More …
Fasting is one of the five pillars of Islam. The others are: Belief in God and accepting Prophet Muhammad as the messenger, saying five prayers a day at affixed times, performing the Hajj pilgrimage and giving alms. Quran Chapter 2, Read More …
Six planets in our Solar System aligning, so that they can be seen in a line at once in the night sky, is a significant astronomical event. A planetary alignment forms when the planets appear as on same side of Read More …
Stars form, evolve and finally die. They form as huge amounts of Hydrogen atoms gather and, due to their own gravity, press together, heat-up and finally start “burning” in a nuclear process. They burn by nuclear fusion which makes 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 …
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 …
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr Matthew Olumide Adepoju as Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA. He replaces Dr Halilu Shaba, who was appointed in 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr Read More …
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543), a Polish Church cannon, in 1514 was the first to write and circulate discreetly, the arguments that the Earth is round, the Sun stationary and that all the planets rotate round the Sun. It was Read More …
The journey to discover what we now know – that the Earth is round and moves – was not an easy one. The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, in his book, On the Heavens, in 340 B.C. wrote that the Earth is round, Read More …
