The nuclear security workshop in Nigeria formerly planned for 25 April to 6 May, 2022 held on 23 May to 3 June, 2022. The venue was the Auditorium, Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna Read More …
Morocco’s Triga Mark 11 Reactor has joined the Internet Reactor Laboratory project in the Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Nigeria. This was on 11 April, 2023 and broadens the capacity-building network in nuclear reactors using the internet in Read More …
Kenya’s first Earth Observation satellite, Taifa -1 (one Nation in Swahili), was launched with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on 15 April, 2023. A microsatellite with multiplespectral imagers, Taifa -1 was among Read More …
Germany shutdown its three remaining nuclear power plants on 15 April, 2023. This follows concerns for safety and a fierce national debate on the sustainability of nuclear energy after the Fukushima accident in 2011. Chancellor Angela Merkel announced 2022 as Read More …
Happy International Day of Human Spaceflight! The day, 12 April of every year was recognised by the UN General Assembly in 2011 as International Day of Human Spaceflight to mark 50 years of Yuri Gagarin’s first manned spaceflight. Russian Read More …
The government of Nigeria has flagged-off its “Solar Power Naija Programme” with the provision of solar home systems to 100,000 households. The programme, which hopes to provide five million such connections in its first phase, was launched by Vice President Read More …
Did world famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking (8 January, 1942 – 14 March, 2018) change his view on time? Thomas Hertog, cosmologist in KU Leuven University, Belgium, said he did. Hertog worked with Hawking since 2002 till his death in Read More …
Professor Bosede Afolabi, FRCOG, FWACS, has won the Bill and Melinda Gates grant of $2,518,474 (N880,465,900). The grant is to support her work on sickle cell pregnancy and maternal and foetal health. Bosede Afolabi is a Professor of Obstetrics and Read More …
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper of Motorola made the first cellphone call in New York using a brick-sized device he developed. That was on Sixth Avenue in New York while walking between 53rd and 54th streets with a handset Read More …
Widespread anger has greeted the death of a lion in Kaduna State’s Gamji Game Zoo, northwest Nigeria, from apparent starvation. The condition of the lion, known as Shadow the Lion, was made public by a zoo visitor in November, 2020 Read More …
