African experts have expressed the need for national governments and regional bodies to adopt effective policies and technology-driven interventions to reduce post-harvest losses stifling food security in the region. This was the concluding call by a panel of experts who spoke during a webinar on ‘Accelerating Access to Post-Harvest Management Technologies for Enhanced Food Security and Trade in Africa’ organised by AATF. Dr Emmanuel Okogbenin, the Director of Programme Development and Commercialization at AATF, noted that promotion and uptake of integrated post-harvest management systems that combine the best of technologies to reduce cost and maximize returns was the best approach…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
Again, this Monday, as we do now and then, we are giving our social media followers the opportunity to voice out their minds on what we have been writing. Thank you. Ibekwe Spinoza Nonyerem The treatment of the surrendered boko haram combatants will follow Geneva convention if they are classified as prisoners of war. It is difficult but government cannot be seen to be killing surrendered combatants Bashir Umar Nice Quote. Caxton Patience A very wonderful piece. I pray we hearken to this advice. Kudos to you sir! Abdulmalik Bala Haruna Allah ƙara Basira, the message have been passed. Obinna Iheonu…
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday tasked governments at all levels to deliver on their roles on provision of basic education for the benefit of all Nigerians, especially the girl child. Osinbajo made the call as the special guest at the Mallpai Foundation 2021 Literacy Day, with the theme: “Promoting Literacy for Better Education in Nigeria,” in Abuja. According to him, education is the best ticket to the full enjoyment of all human civil, socio-political and economic rights. Osinbajo said: “So, when we talk about human rights that have been declared, the only way to access those rights, including economic…
UNESCO’s invitation, Fani-Kayode’s defection, FIFA President’s visit mark Presidential Villa’s major engagements The Presidential Villa has recorded three major events in the preceding week, including UNESCO’s invitation to President Muhammadu Buhari. The other epochal events witnessed at the Villa were the defection of Chief Femi Fani-Kayode from the PDP to the APC and the visit of FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Buhari commenced the week under review on Sept. 13 with a special invitation from the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, to the organisation’s 75th Anniversary, scheduled for November in Paris, France. Azoulay…
Police in the FCT say they have arrested two suspects in Abuja over “one chance’’ con trap, rescued a female victim and recovered N401,000. The FCT Command spokesperson, DSP Josephine Adeh made the disclosure in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday. “One chance’’ is a crime in which assailants pose as cab drivers and passengers, take victims, particularly female commuters into their cabs and dispossess them of their valuables. DSP Adeh said the suspects in this instance were arrested by operatives of Wuse Division of the police on “stop-and-search’’ duty to specially look out for victims of “one-chance’’ criminals.…
Another batch of 10 abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Maraban Damishi, in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state, have regained their freedom, bringing the total of those released to 100. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Kaduna State, Rev. John Hayab, confirmed the release of the students on Sunday, in Kaduna, adding that the students were freed on Saturday evening. “We are praying that, the bandits will release 21 remaining students soon”, he said In the early hour of July 5, bandits invaded the school and kidnapped 121 students. When contacted, the spokesperson of…
Prof. Christian Madu, a Professor of Environmental Management and Control, has urged the Federal and state governments to strengthen all existing emission control laws to check air pollution. Madu, who is of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), gave the advice in Enugu on Sunday. He said that existing emission control laws should be tightened in terms of enforcement to check the growing air pollution coming from carbon-monoxide of imported fairly-used vehicles in the country. According to him, air pollution remains one of the highest environmental pollutions, while transportation is the number one source of carbon-monoxide emission, leading to air…
A Benin-based Paediatrician, Dr Samuel Ikponwonsa has advised the public, especially adults to always wear face mask in order to curtail the spread of the Delta variant of the COVID-19. Ikponwonsa, who gave the advice on Saturday in Benin, said that the new strain of the virus was highly contagious and easily transmitted. According to him, nearly 80 per cent of patients who tested positive for COVID-19 around the world had the Delta variant. “The Delta variant, which originated in India, began spreading more rapidly and making news around the middle of June. “The symptoms of the Delta variant appear…
A 2018 report by the World Health Organisation indicates that about four million people die every year from diseases related to the use of inefficient cooking practices and a lot of children less than five years old die from pneumonia caused by smoke inhaled from air pollution in the house. One of the major sources of household air pollution, especially in developing countries, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, is fuel used for cooking as well as heating practices. Homes from developed countries and many houses in the developing world use electricity, natural gas, or clean Liquefied Petroleum…
By Ishaq Zaki, Gusau The World Food Programme (WFP), in collaboration with the Zamfara state government has distributed cash, food items, medicines and other household items to 5,022 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) households. Hamza Salihu, the Coordinator, State Operations Coordination Unit (SOCU), disclosed this in Kaduna on Saturday, at the close of a three-day dissemination meeting of the social inclusion assessment report on Zamfara state. The assessment was facilitated by the Expanding Social Protection for Inclusion Development (ESPID) a UKaid funded programme, with CSOs and other key stakeholders from Zamfara state. The meeting was organised by Save the Children International, UKaid-funded NGO,…