The director-general of the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), Dr Halilu Shaba has said the time has come for Nigeria to harmonise and unify the various operational boundaries to ensure interoperability and removal of wastages in generation of similar datasets. He spoke at the opening of a three-day stakeholders’ workshop on the Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for...

Nigeria, the giant of Africa, is currently battling a myriad of challenges in the area of environmental pollution. Some of the key challenges include solid and plastic waste management due to indiscriminate disposal of waste, inefficient collection method and insufficient coverage of the municipals. Similarly, artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) which contributes immensely to mercury emission/release into the environment...

The Federal Government has approved rule making process and new regulations for the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST). The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami made this known at a stakeholders’ meeting to review the rule making process and new regulations in Abuja.  The meeting which was chaired by the minister had in attendance the chair, Senate Committee on Telecommunications (represented by the vice...

One of the world’s leading satellite operators, Eutelsat Communications, is partnering Facebook, the social network giant, to provide broadband services via satellite across several regions in Sub-Saharan Africa using its Express Wi-Fi platform. With Express Wi-Fi, Eutelsat aims to connect thousands of people in rural and underserved communities spanning Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya,...

The director-general of the National Agricultural Seed Council (NASC), Dr. Philip Ojo, has identified the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) law as the panacea for sustainable progress in agriculture, horticulture and forestry. He gave this verdict at a virtual media dialogue in Abuja with the theme ‘Why Nigeria Needs the Plant Variety Protection (PVP) Law’ convened by NASC in partnership with Wandieville. Recall the PVP bill was...

The Federal Government has tasked the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) to intensify research in improving productivity and yield in animal farming in the country. The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, gave the charge at the national stakeholders’ sensitization workshop on animal biotechnology application and regulatory perspectives organized by NABDA in collaboration with the African Union International Bureau for Animal Resources...

The director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, has said the NITDA-MassChallenge Partnership Initiative is designed to identify and accelerate top startups based in Nigeria and grow their businesses to serve the Nigerian and global market. In his speech at a virtual media stakeholder engagement on the ‘Bridge to MassChallenge Initiative,’ today (May 18, 2021) in Abuja, he explained that MassChallenge is well known...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released its first net-zero report outlining a full-fledged scenario that charts the course of reducing emissions from the energy sector in alignment with the Paris Agreement. The report is remarkable because the IEA is viewed as a relatively conservative organization that has, in the past, consistently undermined the potential of renewable energy. IEA reports are often pivotal...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has resolved 99.2 per cent of service-related complaints received from telecom consumers across the major network operators in the first quarter of 2021 (Q1, 2021). According to the Q1, 2021 Report on Complaint Management issued by the consumer affairs bureau of the commission, a total of 3,019 consumer complaints were received from four complaint channels...

On March 3, 2021, the Plant Variety Protection Bill was passed into law by the National Assembly to establish a legal framework to protect the rights of breeders of new varieties of plants or plant groupings and promote the breeding of new varieties of plants. The bill is awaiting presidential assent and printing of law and regulations for implementing...