The hope of Akwa Ibom State becoming the hub of technological innovations as envisioned in the Ibom Science Park project has been dashed, as the project remains a still dream 24 years after its conception.
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ASHENEWS reports that drivers in the United States of America (USA) are currently switching to electric vehicles (EV) due to the falling prices and improved technology of the electric vehicles.
Prof. Chukwumerije Okereke has been elected Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries in recognition of his contribution to science and its promotion in the developing world.
A Data Protection Consultant, Mr. Tokunbo Smith, on Tuesday urged relevant stakeholders in the Education Sector to include data protection and privacy in the curricula of schools.
A professor of Pharmacological Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dickson Musa of the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida University Lapai (IBBUL), has disclosed that answers to Nigeria and world’s several health problems and can be found in the plants that grow around us.
The Lagos State Government (LASG) on Saturday inaugurated an ultra-modern student’s union building at the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) campus in Ikorodu area of the State.
The Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD) has finalized the payment of ₦1.023 billion to 7,091 pensioners of the Power and Transport Sectors of the Parastatals Pensions Department (PaPD).
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Office in Nigeria in collaboration with South Korea International Cooperation Association of Nigeria (SKICAN) on Friday lauded its alumni’s commitment and contribution to nation-building.
The constant question is, where will food for the fast-increasing population come from, if, according to African Development Bank (AfDB) statistics, 2019; Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts under all climate scenarios and Sub-Saharan Africa has 95% of rain-fed agriculture globally; and if Agriculture in Africa continues to be characterized by aged farmers (on average 65 years), most of them smallholder farmers with less than 2 hectares of cultivable land, growing low yielding varieties, often times landraces.
An entry at www.sciencedirect says, “Extensive tar sands with reserves of about 41 billion barrels of oil are known to occur in Cretaceous terrigenous sediments in Ondo and Ogun states. The hydrocarbon occurs in two predominantly sandy zones separated by an eight-metre thick oil shale.”