Science

Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China’s Shanxi Province on Wednesday. The five Ningxia-1 satellites were launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 2:35p.m. (Beijing time). The satellites...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is currently presiding over the Federal Executive Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. A minute silence was observed in honour of Professor Tamunoemi Sokari David-West, who passed at the age of 83 on Monday, November...

NAIJ Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, has decried the absence of credible databank in Nigeria. Onu stated this at the weekend in Abuja during the inauguration of the inter-ministerial committee on the establishment of National Science, Technology...

Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni has listed key areas that he wants the North-East Development Commission (NEDC) to intervene in, as it rolls out its activities in the region to help people affected by the Boko Haram...

The Admiralty University of Nigeria (ADUN), Ibusa, near Asaba was inaugurated on Friday by the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Ibok Ete-Ibas, with the first batch of 231 students matriculating. Ibas, a vice admiral, said at the ceremony that...

Passengers wait to board a train at the St George underground station in the capital Addis Ababa Ethiopia's Addis Ababa Rail project opened last month to the delight of excited residents of the country's capital. The $475m urban rail project...