For Nigerian ports to improve in the Ease of Doing Business (EODB), concerned stakeholders in the industry have urged the Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) to stay away from the seaports. The Director-General, SON, Mallam Farouk Salim, had recently sought the return of SON to the ports, claiming that this would
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In the eyes of Ethiopia’s government, the future is a 145-meter-tall monument of rolled concrete and Francis turbines that spans the Blue Nile River within a shout of the Sudanese border. That future shifted from vision to reality on 20 February, when Ethiopian president Abiy Ahmed (a Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Plants and animals on land aren't the only organisms that need oxygen to survive. Underwater aquatic life also requires dissolved oxygen to live and prosper. But factors such as pollution, water temperature and bacteria can deplete the amount of dissolved oxygen in an aquatic ecosystem, setting off a chain reaction that
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New findings could “help accelerate the adoption of technology that mitigates pollution, recovers valuable resources and creates potable water all at the same time.” One person’s wastewater is another person’s treasure. A new Stanford University study paves the way to mining sewage for valuable materials used in fertilizers and batteries that could
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In the aftermath of the ongoing energy crunch in the country that has lasted for weeks brought about by worsening electricity supply from the public mains, the Minister of Power, Abubakar Aliyu, in a media briefing, blamed the embarrassing situation on low water level in the nation’s hydro dams. The
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Although solar cells are typically designed to turn light into power, researchers have shown that they can also be used to achieve underwater wireless optical communication with high data rates. The new approach—which used an array of series-connected solar cells as detectors—could offer a cost-effective, low-energy way to transmit data
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For centuries, people have been trying to divine freshwater from the ocean. Ships in the 16th century carried small distilleries that could be used in the event of an emergency to boil seawater. But trying to do this on a large scale cooks up equally large-scale problems. "It's an energy question,"
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MIT ocean and mechanical engineers are using advances in scientific computing to address the ocean’s many challenges, and seize its opportunities. There are few environments as unforgiving as the ocean. Its unpredictable weather patterns and limitations in terms of communications have left large swaths of the ocean unexplored and shrouded in
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MYSTERY "UFO sounds" recorded from under a lake in the USA have sparked a bizarre alien base conspiracy. But science may have some more mundane explanations as to where this Martian noise is coming from. Recordings taken from Steamboat Springs in Colorado were recorded by an employee of the Colorado Parks and
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Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel has assured Akwa Ibom people that the Ibom Deep Seaport project when operational will transform the State into a transhipment city that will provide thousands of direct jobs to citizens. The Governor who spoke through the Commissioner for Economic Development and Ibom Deep Seaport,
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