ASHENEWS reports that the Kano State Executive council has approved the release of N40,353,117,070 for the execution of various projects in the state in it’s 8th meeting
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Despite public outcry, and the House of Representatives’ rejection of the presidential yacht purchase, the Nigerian government has taken its delivery.
The constant question is, where will food for the fast-increasing population come from, if, according to African Development Bank (AfDB) statistics, 2019; Africa is the most vulnerable continent to climate change impacts under all climate scenarios and Sub-Saharan Africa has 95% of rain-fed agriculture globally; and if Agriculture in Africa continues to be characterized by aged farmers (on average 65 years), most of them smallholder farmers with less than 2 hectares of cultivable land, growing low yielding varieties, often times landraces.
The director general of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and CGIAR’s regional director for Central and West Asia and North Africa, Aly Abousabaa, writes that the Middle East’s expertise in handling heat could be of benefit worldwide.
ASHENEWS reports that the Transition Monitoring Group (TMG) has questioned the Imo government’s alleged occupation of all rooms in all hotels ahead of the governorship election in the state, and described it as an act to deny election observers the right to monitor elections in the state.
ASHENEWS reports that the National Assembly (NASS) on Thursday, passed the N2.17 trillion 2023 Appropriation Bill after the third reading.
The Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), and
Chairman of Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), Auwal Rafsanjani has called on Nigerians to accept the Supreme Court verdict as the completion of the 2023 presidential election cycle.
ASHENEWS reports that the Sokoto National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal, on Friday, dismissed the petition against the election of Abdussamad Dasuki.
ASHENEWS reports that a German government-funded capacity building programme, the West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Competence Centre, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, has donated an Automatic Hydrological Sensors equipment to the Department of Meteorology and Climate Science of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA) and Benin-Owena River Basin Development Authority (BORDA) through its affiliate FUTA WASCAL.
The Chairman of the Committee on Senate Services, Sen. Sunday Karimi (APC–Kogi) told newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, that in questioning the senators’ possession of the SUV vehicles, Nigerians should also raise the same questions about Ministers having four official vehicles.