The Nigeria Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA) has issued a certificate of accreditation to Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, to provide radiation quality assurance/control service and workplace monitoring to authorised users of diagnostic radiology equipment in Nigeria.

Indigenous contractors in the oil and gas sector of the country under the auspices of the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) have raised an alarm over what they termed the ploy by multi-nationals to drive them out of business

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Allocations to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and Ministry of Niger Delta in the Federal Government Appropriation Bill were yesterday rejected by some leaders from the region who described them as inadequate and unrealistic.

LAGOS State Government said it will begin to generate about 25 megawatts of electricity from the Olusosun landfill site by the end of the third quarter of next year. The state government is also discussing with reputable international media to

DEPUTY President Baleka Mbete accepted a pledge yesterday by Business Unity SA (Busa) to increase energy efficiency in support of meeting national energy challenges.

The Borno State Government officials came back from a trip to China with an eye to build solar power generators in the state in other to improve the perennial energy problem in the state.

Minister of State for Finance and Supervising Minister, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr. Remi Babalola, has dispelled fears over the benchmark oil price of $45 per barrel in the face of continuous downward trend.

A member of the Technical Committee on Niger Delta and gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress, (AC), Prince Tonye Princewill, said yesterday that the committee recommended 50 percent derivation which should start with 25 percent and increased to 50 percent

WORKERS in the nation's oil industry have decried alleged casual attitude of government in handling the insecurity and underdevelopment problems in the Niger Delta region and the collusion of government officials in perpetuating acts of kidnapping, maiming and killing of

Director, Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), Shamsudeen Elegba, has stated that Nigeria needs to build at least 10 nuclear power plants to generate 30,000 megawatts of electricity and suggested additional importation in order to meet the stated target.

PRESIDENT Umaru Yar' Adua, yesterday, presented a deficit budget with a total expenditure of N2.87 trillion on an expected federal revenue forecast of N1.778 trillion including Independent Revenue of N306 billion leaving a financing gap of N1.09 trillion or 38

OBONTIE community in Delta State, yesterday, washed its hands off a threat by a coalition of an Itsekiri militant group to cause mayhem in the state over the kidnap and murder of a missionary, attached to the Soul Harvesters Ministries

IT'S human nature to forget about the problem once the crisis passes. But governments are supposed to be a bit more farsighted.

To avoid future agonies and traumatic experience of the ceding of the oil rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroun Republic, the Federal Government has embarked on aggressive boundary demarcation exercise in order to ensure that her boundaries between other African countries

With paltry allocations to the Power and Transport sectors, two critical sectors needed for the realisation of the seven-point agenda of President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration, Nigerians may look beyond next year to have problems in those sector properly addressed

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The European Union is financing ecologically and socially destructive projects in Africa, a Brussels conference has been told.