Lagos Fog not Radioactive: Nuclear Agency
Sanya Adejokun
Daily Independent
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Lagos (Nigeria):
Director General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), Prof. Shamsideen Elegba has dismissed speculations that the mystery fog that beclouded parts of Lagos recently could be radioactive.
He nonetheless declared the controversy trailing the incident was an embarrassment to the Nigerian scientists that one-week after the incident no concrete explanations have been given on it.
He lamented that the arguments over the foggy cloud have so far been based on mere
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See Also:
Nuclear Agency Warns on Lagos Mystery Gas
(This Day , Nigeria)
See Archives:
Pollution Blamed for Strange Smog in Lagos
(Independent Online)
Strange Fog Envelopes Lagos
(Africasia)
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speculations in a city as sophisticated as Lagos where a simple vacuum cleaner could have been used to sump air sample for test in any of the numerous laboratories that abound in the commercial capital of Nigeria.
According to Elegba, who spoke with a gathering of energy, health and science correspondents and editors in Abuja, basic questions such as: “Does the fog have hydrocarbon origin? Are they heavy metal?” could have been asked.
The NNRA boss also wondered why the meteorological centre at Ikeja, close to the scene could not locate the direction from where the fog came and insisted that somebody must be held responsible to forestall future occurrence.
In the view of the physicist, the emission must have emanated from a factory and the air sample should reveal raw materials that were contained, which organisation uses the raw materials and so on.
Oct 17, 2005
Sanya Adejokun Daily Independent
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Lagos (Nigeria):
Director General of the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NNRA), Prof. Shamsideen Elegba has dismissed speculations that the mystery fog that beclouded parts of Lagos recently could be radioactive.
He nonetheless declared the controversy trailing the incident was an embarrassment to the Nigerian scientists that one-week after the incident no concrete explanations have been given on it.
He lamented that the arguments over the foggy cloud have so far been based on mere
_______________________________
See Also:
Nuclear Agency Warns on Lagos Mystery Gas
(This Day , Nigeria)
See Archives:
Pollution Blamed for Strange Smog in Lagos
(Independent Online)
Strange Fog Envelopes Lagos
(Africasia)
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speculations in a city as sophisticated as Lagos where a simple vacuum cleaner could have been used to sump air sample for test in any of the numerous laboratories that abound in the commercial capital of Nigeria.
According to Elegba, who spoke with a gathering of energy, health and science correspondents and editors in Abuja, basic questions such as: “Does the fog have hydrocarbon origin? Are they heavy metal?” could have been asked.
The NNRA boss also wondered why the meteorological centre at Ikeja, close to the scene could not locate the direction from where the fog came and insisted that somebody must be held responsible to forestall future occurrence.
In the view of the physicist, the emission must have emanated from a factory and the air sample should reveal raw materials that were contained, which organisation uses the raw materials and so on.
Oct 17, 2005
