A market survey by Peoples Gazette on Sunday has indicated a sharp surge in prices of cooking gas, charcoal and kerosene, putting the essential fuels, used in most Nigerian households, beyond the reach of many. Checks by The Gazette across markets around Nigeria showed that one kilogramme of cooking gas now
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MIT engineers report creating the first high-quality thin films of a new family of semiconductor materials. The feat, which lead researcher Rafael Jaramillo refers to as his "white whale" because of his obsession in pursuing it over the years, has the potential to impact multiple fields of technology if history
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The Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) says the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited had made history for being the company with the highest share capital in the country. The Registrar General, Corporate Affairs Commission, Alhaji Garba Abubakar, revealed this on Friday, in Abuja, while presenting the Certificate of Incorporation of the
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Plans are underway by the Federal Government to remove subsidies on petrol and electricity in 2022, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Dr. Zainab Ahmed, has said. Ahmed, who disclosed this in Abuja, yesterday, while giving a full breakdown of the 2022 budget, explained that the removal of subsidies
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Wageningen University & Research and its partners have developed a new type of aviation fuel that is produced using bio-based waste streams from the agriculture industry. One of the targets of the Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II) is to increase the use of advanced biofuels in the transport sector, to
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The Federal Government is aiming to transform the mining sector by automating most of its operations including licensing and data. Though while the Nigerian Geological Survey Agency (NGSA) believes the country has over 34 different solid minerals and precious metals available in commercial quantities in more than 500 locations across the
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Movable airborne antennas receiving cellphone signals could reduce EMF exposure while offering higher data transmission speed and using less power. Mobile tethered drones might offer a speedy and environmentally friendly alternative for receiving terrestrial base stations while alleviating public concerns about exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF). A solution has been proposed by
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of board members of the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission. The confirmation of the nominees followed the consideration of a report by the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources. The new agency has automatically replaced the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) because the commission would take over
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US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. They have also shrunk Huawei's market for fifth-generation wireless network infrastructure around the world. Huawei chairman Eric Xu said last week
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A filtration system fuelled by whisky co-products is being developed by researchers to sustainably extract rare and valuable metals – including gold, silver and palladium – from waste electronics using a new combined biological and chemical approach. The consortium of organisations – comprising of Aberdeen-based environmental tech company SEM, waste services
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