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The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) in Zaria, Kaduna State, has dismissed as false a social media video alleging that the institution was involved in developing a nuclear weapon for Nigeria.

The university's Director of Public Affairs, Malam Auwalu Umar, described the viral AI-generated video as misleading and aimed at misinforming the public about Nigeria's peaceful nuclear energy program.

Umar in a statement noted that the video falsely claimed that Nigerian scientists in the 1980s secretly enriched weapons-grade uranium in Kaduna and that ABU researchers obtained centrifugal equipment from the AQ Khan network in Pakistan.

Umar stated that the information was "baseless, unfounded, and unsubstantiated".

He explained that most of the ABU scientists at the Centre for Energy Research and Training (CERT) were still undergoing training abroad as at 1980s and could not have participated in uranium enrichment.

According to him, ABU had no connection with the AQ Khan network and had never received any equipment for the construction of a centrifuge or nuclear device.

He maintained that by 1987, the only nuclear facility at the university was a 14 MeV Neutron Generator, which became operational in 1988.

“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,” he said.

Umar emphasized 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.

“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,” he said.

Umar further explained that the center has never engaged in any secret weapons programme.

“ABU has always pursued peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology for national development.

“ABU’s founder, Sir Ahmadu Bello, had demonstrated early interest in peaceful atomic research following his visit to the Museum of Atomic Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the U.S. in 1960, two years before ABU was established.

“The management, therefore, restated its commitment to advancing science and technology for the benefit of humanity and to upholding Nigeria’s international obligations on the peaceful use of nuclear energy,” he said.

Abdul05:
Who even accused them of building nuclear weapon in the first place?..

SeverusSnape:
There was a viral video of it on Tiktok, I was shocked to even see it. Who dash Nigeria nuclear weapons and scientists??

Topman7:
You have an inferiority complex.

NIGERIA has more than an enough scientific knowledge to develop nuclear weapons.

People like you need to type less and read more, because you don't know anything.

I'm sure you didn't know Nigeria has nuclear reactors which it has maintained for decades.

Do you even know what a nuclear reactor is?

FarahAideed:
Baba that one na lie ,enough scientific knowledge and the country look like garbage can like this ? Even electricity they cant make in ABU

Topman7:
Your house looks like a garbage can, not Nigeria.

Go and educate yourself, because you know NOTHING about Nigeria.

Topman7:
You have an inferiority complex.

NIGERIA has more than an enough scientific knowledge to develop nuclear weapons.

People like you need to type less and read more, because you don't know anything.

I'm sure you didn't know Nigeria has nuclear reactors which it has maintained for decades.

Do you even know what a nuclear reactor is?

SeverusSnape:
There was a viral video of it on Tiktok, I was shocked to even see it. Who dash Nigeria nuclear weapons and scientists??

Abdul05:
[b]Who even accused them [/b]of building nuclear weapon in the first place?..


Nuclear weapon ke? The only Explosion l know in ABU is when exam results drop and carry overs rise like smoke....

Whoever cooked that story needs a refund from their imagination supplier..

YouandiAllofus:
That university must be afraid of b2 bomber spirits.
Who ever cooked up that fake vid must be wicked.

FuglyGurl:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/10/25/ahmadu-bello-university-denies-involvement-nuclear-weapon-development

Topman7:
You have an inferiority complex.

NIGERIA has more than an enough scientific knowledge to develop nuclear weapons.

People like you need to type less and read more, because you don't know anything.

I'm sure you didn't know Nigeria has nuclear reactors which it has maintained for decades.

Do you even know what a nuclear reactor is?

GloriousGbola:
Pakistan is an analogue of Nigeria in many ways and they developed nuclear weapons.

All you need is people who know what they are doing and funding.

FarahAideed:
Baba that one na lie ,enough scientific knowledge and the country look like garbage can like this ? Even electricity they cant make in ABU

babzo:
The fear of American bombing is the beginning of wisdom

Otherwise they would have been proud of themselves for such a feat.