NASRDA, is to launch Nigeria and Africa’s first nanosatellite (an artificial satellite with a wet mass between one and 10 kg 2.2–22 lb) into the orbit, the Director-General of National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Prof Seidu Mohammed, has said. Mohammed said, in New York, that the Nigeria’s nanosatellite would be launched alongside four…
EFCC Docks Two “Whistle Blowers”
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned Buhari Fannami and Ba-Kura Abdullahi for allegedly giving false information to the agency under the whistle blowing policy. The two men were arraigned before Justice M. T Salihu of the Federal High Court Maiduguri, Borno State. Fannami allegedly misled the EFCC to act under the impression…
Leicester City Owner To Buy Belgian Club
The owner of Leicester City, King Power International have agreed to purchase OH Leuven, the Belgian club says. The Belgian second-tier club, located just east of capital city Brussels, narrowly avoided relegation this season. The club’s board set a time limit in its search for investment and said King Power is the only bidder who…
The World’s Tiniest Baby To Have Successful Heart Surgery
A baby boy born weighing just over 1lb is the world’s tiniest baby to have successful heart surgery. The yet to be named baby was born at just 28 weeks at a government-owned hospital in Udaipur in the state of Rajasthan in India. Measuring the length of a palm, the baby’s eyes, lungs and skin were…
Ebola Outbreak: Kenya Issues Alert
The Kenya’s health authority on Tuesday released an alert on Ebola outbreak following the disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health Jackson Kioko said the government has reactivated the rapid response teams for enhanced surveillance and follow-up of travellers with elevated body temperatures…
Facebook Accuse Of Violating French Digital Privacy Regulation
In a sign of the ongoing tension between European privacy officials and Facebook, the social network was fined $166,000 in France today over changes in is terms and conditions announced in 2014. The fine is modest for a company of Facebook’s size. But France’s Commission Nationale de l’informatique or CNIL noted that it’s just one…
Tennis: Japanese Gets Life Ban For Match-Fixing Offences
Junn Mitsuhashi a Japanese has been banned from tennis for life after being found guilty of match-fixing offences. The twenty-seven-year-old, who asked players to underperform at ITF Futures tournaments in South Africa and Nigeria in 2015, was also fined $50,000 (£38,600). Junn Mitsuhashi placed 76 bets on matches in 2015 and did not co-operate with Tennis…
Senate Warns Kachikwu On PIB
The Senate has cautioned Ibe Kachikwu, minister of State for Petroleum Resources, to stop making false claims in the on-going process of passing into law the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Senator Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, spokesman of the Senate said in a statement that the PIB which has got to the final stage and is scheduled…
Senator Dino Melaye Book Launch
SPEECH BY HIS EXCELLENCY (DR.) ABUBAKAR BUKOLA SARAKI, CON, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE BOOK, ‘ANTIDOTES FOR CORRUPTION’ BY SENATOR DINO MELAYE, AT THE SHEHU YAR’ADUA CENTRE, ABUJA, MAY 14, 2017. A couple of years ago, I read an interesting article in The Economist that tried to argue that there is direct correlations between…
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