GODWIN ATSER, Ibadan – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) working in collaboration with the National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI) and the Foundation for Partnership Initiative in the Niger Delta (PIND) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build and promote a cassava seed system that will...
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The Black Stars of Ghana have landed safely in Sudan ahead of their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Tuesday. Ghana departed from the Kotoka International Airport on Sunday for the return encounter against Sudan. The team touched down in Omdurman in the early wee hours of the...
A BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed the existence of a secretive but thriving illegal market for babies and young children in Kenya. For over a year, a team of undercover investigators infiltrated a series of child trafficking rings that extend from the slums of Nairobi to one of...
Guests attending the inauguration ceremony for 2020 Batch B, Stream I Corps members at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camp in Keffi, Nasarawa state have been subjected to coronavirus (COVID-19) test. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the guests were also made to observe other...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The result of 2020/2021 Entrance Examination into the Federal Unity college conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO), has been released. Briefing the press in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, said the highest scorer in the exam was Umeonyiagu...
By OLAWALE RASHEED – Nigeria is systematically and fundamentally responding to new economic challenges through a coordinated revival and expansion of special economic zones (SEZ) across the country. A renewed attention is being paid to the reform of SEZ to cope with demands of post-pandemic recovery and requirements of...
Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum, said at the weekend that the dreaded Boko Haram sect caused more than $6 billion worth of destruction in the state. Zulum disclosed this when he unveiled a 25-year strategic recovery plan from the mayhem caused by Boko Haram. The plan tagged:...
Indigenous electricity meter manufacturing company, MOMAS, has offered free training on prepaid meter installation for 300 unemployed youths to complement Federal Government’s mass metering programme. The Chairman of MOMAS Mr Kola Balogun, said in a statement on Sunday in Lagos, that the step was part of the company’s Corporate...
Gunmen killed at least 34 people in a “gruesome” attack on a passenger bus in western Ethiopia, a part of the country that has recently seen a spate of deadly assaults on civilians, the national human rights body said Sunday. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a...
Ghana will go into their 2021 Africa Cup of Nations return leg clash against Sudan away without all three appointed captains. Substantive skipper Andre Ayew picked up a training ground injury on Saturday in Accra and has been ruled out of the contest in Khartoum on Tuesday, 17 November...
Chairman of Anambra Sports Development Commission (ASDC), Mr Toni Oli, Chairman, has disclosed that 225 athletes are in camp ahead of the National Sports Festival scheduled to hold in Edo from Dec. 3 to Dec. 17. Oli told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Awka that...
An agritech focussed company, Farmcrowdy Limited (FC), says it is committed to impact 25,000 farmers across Nigeria through its Structured Financing of N5.7 billion. Mr Oluwakotanmi Ojo, the Chief Financial Officer and Business Leader, FC Structured Finance, made this known at the firm’s fourth year anniversary in Lagos. Ojo said...
From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Borno State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aliyu Salihu Kwaya Bura has flagged off the fourth Seasonal Malaria Chemopreventuon (SMC) campaign with a target to totally eliminate Malaria in state. Performing the cweremony at El Miskin Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camp, Madinatul in Maiduguri...
Gunmen abducted a lecturer and two children of a member of staff of the Nuhu Bamali Polytechnic Zaria, Kaduna State, on Saturday. The Secretary, Information and Protocol Unit of the polytechnic, Mr Abdullahi Shehu, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in a telephone interview on Sunday that the...
Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Natives under the umbrella body of the “Abuja Indigenous Liberation Movement (AILM), on Sunday in Abuja, called on the Federal Government to consider FCT indigenes for ministerial appointments and to reorganise FCT as a state so as to ensure equality and development. The Director, Institution...
Nana Yaa Ofori-Atta, a communications consultant and cousin to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has written a brief of her childhood recollection and an interesting eulogy of the late President Jerry John Rawlings. She wrote on her Facebook timeline: “It is particularly ironic that the end, came in the comfort of...
Pakistan on Sunday held local elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northern part of the disputed region of Kashmir bordering China, amid heightened tensions with India. Voting for the 23 seats of the regional legislative assembly took place weeks after Prime Minister, Imran Khan announced his plan to give provisional provincial...