{"id":171707,"date":"2025-08-28T01:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=171707"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:17:12","slug":"nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=171707","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Egusi Seed Heads to Space in Historic ISS Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is set to make history as egusi melon seeds sourced from Oyo State prepare for a groundbreaking journey to the International Space Station (ISS). The seeds will be launched into orbit on July 31 as part of a multinational agricultural science mission \u2013 the first time a product native to West Africa&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hallmarknews.com\/nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria is set to make history as egusi melon seeds sourced from Oyo State prepare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":171708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission.jpg",1000,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission-300x180.jpg",300,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission-768x461.jpg",640,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission.jpg",640,384,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission.jpg",1000,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission.jpg",1000,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission.jpg",1000,600,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/171707-nigerias-egusi-seed-heads-to-space-in-historic-iss-mission-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}