Technology

The Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) has developed a cardiovascular drug from oyster mushrooms. The innovation is through patents created by the agency’s researchers and developed at the Professor Hussaini Ibrahim Technology and Innovation Center. Project officer at the centre, Engr. Florence Madueguna said the drug known as Lovastatin is …

 President Muhammadu Buhari administration has backtracked on the plan to remove petroleum subsidy. The National Economic Council, on Thursday, in Abuja, said it has agreed that petrol subsidy should “not be removed” as earlier planned for June 2023. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, disclosed …

The nation’s foremost Company Registry,the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) has won the Legislative Award for the Companies and Allied Matters Act (CAMA) 2020 at the 5th PEBEC Awards. Held at the State House Conference Hall, the award isin recognition of CAC’s immense contribution and support towards the ease of doing …

The Federal Government has lauded the efforts of the World Trade Organization for organizing training programs aimed at enhancing participants’ capacity in the application of agreements on Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Measures and the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT). Speaking at the opening ceremony of a three-day WTO National workshop …

The Abuja Electricity Distribution Plc has explained that the onstream of its three new 33KV feeders would improve electricity supply to its customers in Gwarinpa, Life Camp, Kubwa, and other parts of Abuja, the nation’s capital. The utility explained that the completion of construction on the 33KV feeders and the …

The National Bureau of Statistics has disclosed that Nigeria’s internet users grew to 154.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2022. The bureau disclosed this in its latest data released Saturday. The increase portrayed 9.07 per cent from 141,971,560 in Q4 of 2021. It added that the number of active …

The Standards Organisation of Nigeria has reiterated its commitment to continually drive initiatives that promote the development of Halal products standards.The Director General of SON, Mallam Farouk Salim, in a statement, said this would be done in line with internationally-accepted Standards for both domestic and foreign consumers.Salim said this at …

American media giant, Fox News, has been accused of defamation by election technology company, Dominion Voting Systems over its coverage of the 2020 United States presidential election. Dominion filed its lawsuit in 2021, alleging that Fox News knowingly aired falsehoods about its voting machines in an attempt to boost lagging …

Like his predecessors in office, the resuscitation of the recklessly abandoned Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASCO), the largest integrated steel complex in the Sub-Saharan Africa, occupying 800 hectares of land on 24,000 hectares of an expansive greenfield area, was one of the promises President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) made to the people …

The Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering (NATE) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the bill seeking an end to the discrimination between Bachelor’s Degree and Higher National Diploma (HND) holders in the Nigerian civil service into law. The National Assembly has passed the “Bill for an Act to Abolish …