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 Federal Government of Nigeria – through the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Heineken Lokpobiri – waded into the heightened row in the mid and downstream petroleum industry between Dangote refinery, the regulator and refined oil importers. The government was Read More …
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has concluded an International Physical Protection Advisory mission, IPPAS, to Nigeria. The 12-day mission, which started in beginning of July, 2023 at the request of the Nigerian government, reviewed the security regime for nuclear 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 …
India’s first indigenously-built 700 MWe Unit, KAPP-3, in Kakrapar, Gujarat, became commercial on 30th June, 2023. The unit is operating at 90% capacity and was connected to the grid on January 10, 2022 before it started commercial operations. It is Read More …
Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic company’s first commercial suborbital spaceflight for fee-paying tourists on 29 June, 2023 has been held. The flight, which took the crew to the edge of space, was earlier planned for a launch window between 27 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 National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA, on 19 June, 2024, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Space Exploration and Research Agency, SERA, to send the first Nigerian to suborbital space. SERA, a Delaware, USA, based company with the Read More …
