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Benin · #1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2006, 10:59 PM

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Nigeria's nuclear project is for peace, says official

THE Federal Government yesterday assured Nigeria's neighbours that the country's nuclear power programme was to foster peaceful co-existence.
The position was articulated by the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria, Prof. Sani Sambo, shortly after an inspection of the Centre for Energy Research and Training, Zaria, Kaduna State.

The nation's nuclear programme was meant to promote economic development through electricity generation, he stressed.

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Hubscrown · #2 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 12:12 AM

Another means to looth money. Why are this people using English words to cover their agenda as if we the readers are stupid?

What da heck is this???

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The nation's nuclear programme was meant to promote economic development through electricity generation, he stressed.

According to Sambo, the programme will also be used to boost agriculture, water resources management as well as health and mineral exploration.

Do you guys know that they never explain precisely the definite type of nuclear project this is? Neither we know what it will entails. Rather they put up bunch of excuses and oblivious advantages.

kolinzo · #3 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 02:36 AM

warra hell is nuclear project that boos agriculture, health etc?

#4 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 08:50 AM

As long as they don't blow us all up. For as long as I can remember, we have never even managed to competently airlift pilgrims to Mecca - how the hell are we going manage a nuclear plant.. idiots

vince · #5 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 09:07 AM

Scary stuff!

Hubscrown · #6 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 04:59 PM

Can someone change this topic to what it really is, rather than an opinion in regard of past situation. This is about nuclear project not space program.

zenke · #7 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by pompom

As long as they don't blow us all up. For as long as I can remember, we have never even managed to competently airlift pilgrims to Mecca - how the hell are we going manage a nuclear plant.. idiots

U dey mind dem!

gogetter · #8 (**permalink**) 01-18-2006, 05:34 PM

Na nuclear projects our pple go chop??...how nuclear project go help promote peace??..they think say na mugus dem dey yarn?.cos me i no understand this one.

Benin · #9 (**permalink**) 01-19-2006, 01:31 AM

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Oldy but Goody

On March 3, 2004, Nigeria’s Defense Ministry issued a statement that indicated that Pakistan would help the poverty-stricken African nation produce or acquire nuclear weapons. General Muhammad Aziz Khan, chairman of Pakistan’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to the statement, told Nigeria’s Defense Minister Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso in talks in Abuja that Pakistan “is working out the dynamics of how they can assist Nigeria’s armed forces to strengthen its military capability and to acquire nuclear power.” If true, this may raise questions about Pakistan’s intentions for nonproliferation, especially in regard to Abdul Qadeer Khan’s illegal nuclear sales to Iran, Libya and North Korea that have come to light in recent months.

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IAEA Inspectors Visit Nigerian Nuclear Reactor
On 17 January, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei led a team of inspectors to inspect two nuclear facilities in Nigeria and advise on safety and security. Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo welcomed Dr. ElBaradei and his team and declared that Africa's most populous country has no ambition to become a nuclear power. He said Nigeria was only interested in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Inspectors visited Nigeria's first nuclear reactor at the Ahmadu Bello University in the northern city of Zaria. The IAEA team later inspected the Gamma Irradiation Plant at Sheda near Abuja.

The two Nigerian facilities were set up under safeguards provided by the IAEA that limit nuclear activities to research for peaceful uses.

After initial delays in obtaining nuclear fuel, the research reactor, built by China's Nuclear Energy Industry Corporation in 1991, began operating in September last year.

Some analysts have expressed concern that Nigeria, with a population of more than 126 million people, is angling to become the world's latest nuclear power, or at least posturing for overseas aid in return for abandoning such ambitions. In May 2004, after a visit by Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff General Muhammad Aziz Khan, Nigeria's Defense Ministry issued a statement saying it would get Pakistani help to "strengthen its military capability and to acquire nuclear power."

The statement was quickly retracted and the ministry called it an error. Another statement issued weeks earlier by the vice president's office – saying North Korea would provide Nigeria with missile technology – was similarly retracted. At the time, the IAEA said Nigerian facilities were inspected regularly to prevent nuclear proliferation.

Source: AFP, 20 January 2005.
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Niger Ratifies IAEA Additional Protocol
On 3 February, Niger, the world's third-ranked producer of uranium, ((That's right over the Naija border.)) announced in a statement that it has ratified the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The voluntary Additional Protocol is designed to strengthen and expand existing IAEA safeguards for verifying that non-nuclear weapons states parties to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) only use nuclear materials and facilities for peaceful purposes.

In ratifying the protocol, the west African state said in a statement that Niger is showing its commitment to the “ideology of the IAEA and the will of the international community to stem the proliferation of nuclear weapons.”

According to 2001 statistics, the annual output of uranium averages 3,000 tons. Niger joins Russia as the third-ranked producer of the radioactive material used in the construction of nuclear weapons.

Source: AFX, 3 February 2004.

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