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<p>A viral social media video claiming that Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, is involved in developing a nuclear weapon for Nigeria has been dismissed by the institution.</p>
<p>In a statement issued through the university&#8217;s bulletin, the management described the viral video as misleading, aimed at misinforming the public about Nigeria’s peaceful nuclear energy programme.</p>
<p>&#8220;The attention of the Management of Ahmadu Bello University has been drawn to an AI generated video widely circulating on the social media by unscrupulous persons. In the video, ABU was mentioned as the institution under which nuclear weapons/devices was being developed for Nigeria.</p><div class="Onga557a" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>It&#8217;s pertinent for the university management to debunk the assertion and put the facts straight&#8230;,&#8221; the bulletin said.</p>
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<p>The statement said the video falsely claimed that Nigerian scientists in the 1980s secretly enriched weapons-grade uranium in Kaduna and that ABU researchers obtained centrifuge equipment from the AQ Khan network in Pakistan.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the 1980s, a majority of the scientists at the Centre for Energy Research and Training(CERT), Ahmadu Bello University, were trainees in foreign institutions and were not back in the country until earlier 1990s. So, how could it have been possible for trainee scientists to enrich uranium?&#8221;, the management questioned.</p>
<p>Describing the allegations as baseless, the university stressed that most of its scientists at the Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT) were still undergoing training abroad in the 1980s and could not have participated in uranium enrichment.</p>
<p>The statement further noted that the university had no connection with the AQ Khan network and had never received any equipment for the construction of a centrifuge or nuclear device.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nigeria and, indeed, ABU have no connections with the AQ Khan network from Pakistan let alone receiving equipment for the construction of a centrifuge.&#8221;</p>
<p>It stated that by 1987, the only nuclear facility at the university was a 14 MeV Neutron Generator, which became operational in 1988.</p>
<p>“Nigeria’s first nuclear reactor (NIRR-1) was established much later in 1996 under the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Technical Cooperation Programme and commissioned in 2004,” it said.</p>
<p>The statement stressed that Nigeria’s nuclear activities had always been open and pursued strictly for peaceful purposes, in line with the country’s obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Pelindaba Treaty, which prohibit the development of nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>The statement reaffirmed that the Centre for Energy Research and Training, established in 1976, operates in collaboration with the IAEA and international partners from the U.S., Russia, and China.</p>
<p>&#8220;ABU has always pursued peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology for national development,” the statement concluded.</p>
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