The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has ranked Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC)-operated onshore joint venture as the industry leader in the implementation of chapter three of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which deals with host community development. NUPRC disclosed this during the announcement of fund managers for
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Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai and a ministerial nominee has proposed stringent measures in the electricity sector to help boost the sector. It includes hardline stance against those that bypass metering. He made the proposal during the screening of ministerial nominees submitted to the Senate by President Bola Tinubu. El-Rufai said
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An algorithm designed to uncover asteroids that are “potentially hazardous” to the Earth has made its first discovery. Developed by a team at the University of Washington, the algorithm is designed to analyse data taken from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (pictured), which is still under construction in Chile. The observatory is
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Alexandria Johnson does hard science on the most nebulous of subjects: clouds. As an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor of practice in Purdue University’s College of Science, she studies clouds wherever they are: in her lab, on Earth, throughout the solar system and into the galaxy. “The coolest thing about my
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Facebook CEO and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg has successfully continued his quest to mine data, but this time, via schools. Zuckerberg partnered with leftist elites to get into schools by convincing educators they needed big tech to make children go woke, according to a new book. Author Kenny Xu explains in his
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Hybrid and remote models are not just influencing how we do our jobs but significantly transforming the approach towards elder care. These new work formats have empowered the way we care for our elderly loved ones while diminishing the previously unchallenged role of senior housing facilities. Unfortunately, newspapers like The Wall
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Cathedral roofs could hold the key to understanding the origins of the solar system in the form of cosmic dust. University of Kent scientists are roaming the roofs of cathedrals spread across the UK in search of dust particles that might have accumulated over the centuries. Dr Penny Wozniakiewicz and Dr Matthias
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They also discovered a bright optical emission. Joseph Shklovsky, one of the pioneers of modern astrophysics, posited that a star’s existence is an eternal struggle between two conflicting forces: gravity, which endeavors to shrink the star, and the opposing gas pressure that seeks to disperse it. When the thermonuclear reactions that
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Made of cement, carbon black, and water, the device could provide cheap and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources. Two of humanity's most ubiquitous historical materials, cement and carbon black (which resembles very fine charcoal), may form the basis for a novel, low-cost energy storage system, according to a new
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The UK government is looking to train the tens of thousands of workers needed to build nuclear power stations and submarines. The government is reacting to warnings that the UK lacks the skilled workers needed to deliver on the country’s target of building 24GW of new nuclear power-generating capacity by 2050. The
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