Across Nigeria’s bustling cities and growing peri-urban communities, the signs of progress are everywhere – expanding markets, rising consumption, and a youthful population driving demand. Yet this growth brings with it a familiar challenge: plastic waste. From busy Lagos streets to the creeks of the Niger Delta, discarded packaging often
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Nigeria’s long-awaited steel revolution may finally be taking shape as the Federal Government on Wednesday announced the signing of a $400m cooperation agreement with Stellar Steel Company Limited, a Chinese-backed firm, to establish a major steel plant in Ewekoro, Ogun State. The deal, signed in Abuja between the Federal Ministry of
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The Petroleum Training Institute has announced plans to unveil a more adaptable modular refinery as part of efforts to deepen local refining capacity and boost Nigeria’s self-reliance in oil and gas technology. The Principal and Chief Executive Officer of PTI, Samuel Onoji, disclosed this at a world press conference on Monday
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The Federal Government has taken steps to stop the use of substandard kits in the conversion of petrol/diesel-powered vehicles to compressed natural gas. This was aimed at preventing any form of explosion during the CNG refilling process. On Thursday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, launched the Nigerian
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With growing concerns over fossil fuel depletion and the environmental impacts of petrochemical production, scientists are actively exploring renewable strategies to produce essential industrial chemicals. A collaborative research team—led by Distinguished Professor Sang Yup Lee, Senior Vice President for Research, from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, together with
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MIT researchers discovered a hidden atomic order that persists in metals even after extreme processing. For decades, it’s been known that subtle chemical patterns exist in metal alloys, but researchers thought they were too minor to matter — or that they got erased during manufacturing. However, recent studies have shown that
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South Korea has officially broken ground on the world’s largest hydrogen fuel cell power plant, which is expected to generate enough clean electricity to power around 270,000 households annually. Located in Gyeongju, in the North Gyeongsang province, the 108-megawatt (MW) Gangdong Hydrogen Fuel Cell Power Generation Project is set to become
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New findings could provide a way to monitor batteries for sounds that could guide manufacturing, indicate remaining usable life, or flag potential safety issues. Before batteries lose power, fail suddenly, or burst into flames, they tend to produce faint sounds over time that provide a signature of the degradation processes going
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A new study has linked the likelihood of heat waves to carbon emissions from individual fossil fuel companies and cement producers. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) study analysed 213 global heat waves between 2000 and 2023. The findings show that one-quarter of these can be directly
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Former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Prof. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, has called for bold reforms, policy stability, and stronger local participation in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry to reposition the sector for sustainability and competitiveness in the face of global energy transition. Kachikwu, who made the call on Monday while
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