The Nobel Prize winners for Medicine/Physiology were announced on 7 October, 2024. They are Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum for their work on MicroRNAs, how they bind to Messenger RNA and regulate proteins. On 9 October, it was announced that Read More …
The Vice Presidential debate between Tim Walz (Democrat) and T. D. Vance (Republican) was hosted by CBS News on 2 October, 2024, before the election on 5 November, 2024. Both men started nervously, spoke too fast and failed to answer Read More …
Arewa Tech Fest, an exhibition of technological innovations in northern Nigeria, has been held. It was held in Amana Event Centre, Tamadu Road, GRA, Kano, on 25 and 26 September, 2024, with the theme, “Empowering Innovation for Economic Growth.” Former Read More …
The 2024 US Presidential election will go down as one of the most acrimonious in history. Floating garbage used for Puerto Ricans, and Donald Trump dressing in a garbage truck driver’s attire after showmanshiply, selling chips in a Macdonald’s shop. Read More …
Nigeria’s food and medicine regulator, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has stopped the sale and use of miracle water and soap from Christ Mercy Land Deliverance Ministry, a faith-based organisation. This follows petitions to 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’s Vice President Kashim Shettima, in the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, said Nigeria will revive the $3.2 billion Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, southern Nigeria. He was speaking on 27 July, Read More …
The website of Oceangate Expeditions company, the owner of Titan submersible that suffered a catastrophic implosion killing all five people onboard, had the advertisement for tourists for its 2024 expeditions till 6 July, 2023. The advertisement read: “95% of the Read More …
Alef Automotive’s “Model A” is the first, fully electric vehicle, that can drive and fly, to be granted an airworthiness approval by the US Federal Aviation Administration, FAA. It has vertical take-off and landing capabilities, with a road-range of 200 Read More …
President Muhammadu Buhari renewed the appointment of Victor Adetiloye, a professor of radiology, as the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State, southwest Nigeria, for the second and final term of four years. This was Read More …
