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Mr Alex Ohikere, the Director-General, National Steel Raw Materials Exploration Agency (NSRMEA), says the agency has acquired new rig to boost exploration activities in three states of the federation. Ohikere, who spoke to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday,...
The Enugu State Police Command has discovered the bodies of suspected cable vandals in a NITEL manhole at the Ogbete Main Market in the state capital. The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr Ebere Amarizu, told journalists in Enugu on Thursday that the...
We apologize to Oracle Corporation, its subsidiary Oracle - Nigeria, and to our readers for the misunderstanding we caused by publishing an article titled “ Oracle Experience wins IDMN award”, on Tuesday February 7, 2012, in our newspaper o...
Katsina State Government says it has earmarked N1.7 billion for the purchase of modern equipment for the state’s owned radio and television stations this fiscal year. The Commissioner for Information, Culture, Tourism and Home Affairs, Alhaji Gid...
The need to develop science and technology into all sector of the economy in both developed and developing countries cannot be over emphasized as top political leaders and policy makers has been urged to join hand in achieving this. It has been globall...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) on Wednesday said that the Number Portability (NP) service would begin by September. In an interactive session with journalists in Lagos, Dr. Eugene Juwah, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, said that...
Indians in Nigeria last week celebrated their country’s Republic Day. In this chat, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mahesh Sachdev, tells NGOZI OBOH some of the interventions of his country in Nigeria’s science and technology secto...
The Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST), Mr. Jacob Durosomo, has disclosed that the total worth of stamps collection and other postal matters globally has now been put at over N7trillion. Philately is the art of collecting stamps and other post...
The Federal Executive Council last week approved a memo from the Ministry of Science and Technology to set up a National Science Research Technology and Innovation Fund for the development of science and technology in Nigeria. Minister of Science and T...
NASA has announced its new heavy-lift launch vehicle that is to provide an entirely new capability for human exploration beyond Earth’s orbit. The Space Launch System (SLS), NASA says, will provide the Earth with a safe, affordable and sustainabl...
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture’s Ambassador, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said that Africa needs to rethink its food import burden and consider local content options, such as the inclusion of cassava flour in wheat ...
Nigeria spends N3.9 billion annually on importation of 95 percent dairy in the country in the form of powdered, evaporated, canned, sweetened, condensed milk and other dairy products. The director-general of Raw Material Research and Development ...
Nigeria is blessed with abundant raw materials, yet its economic growth is not encouraging. A recent report showed that poor utilisation of its local raw materials is a contributing factor. CHINYERE AMALU writes. Over dependence on the imported raw mat...
The Borno State Commissioner of Home Affairs, Information and Culture, Mr. Inuwa Bwala, has said that very soon the civil servants in the state work with digital facilities to meet the global trend in information technology. The commissioner dis...
The Minister of Power, Prof. Bart Nnaji, has directed the management of each of the 18 companies created out of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) to start paying the staff a 50 per cent salary increase from this month. Nnaji disclosed ...