By Abdallah el-Kurebe Some Facts on Global Water Pollution: > “The current piped sewerage systems do not treat sewage but merely transport it away. They are toxic and extremely polluting for the rivers and lakes where they are dumped,” – CSE > The global population is expected to exceed nine billion people by 2050. Major growth will take place in developing countries, particularly in urban areas that already have inadequate waste-water infrastructure. The financial, environmental and social costs are projected to increase dramatically unless waste-water management receives urgent attention – UNEP > Every day, two million tons of sewage, industrial and…
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Some IDPs By Abdallah el-Kurebe The Director General (DG) of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Muhammad Sani Sidi has called for deployment of more medical doctors and others health personnel to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps to improve their healthcare. A press release signed and issued by the Senior Information Officer of the Agency, Sani Datti on Thursday stated that the DG made the appeal when he led a team of Health Policy Specialists and Clinicians for an on-the-spot Health needs assessment and strategy appraisal at IDPs camps in Maiduguri, Borno State. Sidi explained that the assessment was to…
By Aghan Daniel MESHA Secretary I aghan@meshakenya.org MARCH 22, ACCRA, GHANA – “Are all roads in Ghana this smooth? This good?” asked Maina Waruru, a senior MESHA member from Kenya as we approached the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra last Monday afternoon. As we got off our hostess’ car, one Linda Asante, a very kind member of Science and Technology Communicators Association of Ghana (SaTCOG), received us and led us to the Scoop, the institutions canteen run by Akan, a very talkative woman. For me, I rushed to the washroom to empty my bowels in a nearby modern toilet.…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (UNFAO) will hold its 29th session of the Regional Conference for Africa in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, which has a theme: “Transforming African Agri-food Systems for Inclusive Growth and a Shared Prosperity”, is billed to hold at Sofitel Abidjan Hotel Ivoire, from 4th to 8th April, 2016. According to a statement by FAO, among those expected to attend the event, which would jointly be hosted by the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and UNFAO are “ministers and other high level delegates from FAO Member States, partners, representatives of Civil Society Organizations in Africa…
Accra (Ghana), March 16, 2016: Experts expressed strong disapproval against centralised wasterwater or excreta management which was the norm the world over, particularly in urban areas of India and other parts of the world. “Centralised wastewater management means excreta is not managed locally but is only transported through pipelines and dumped somewhere else,” said Dr Suresh Rohilla, Director of Centre for Science and Environment’s Water Programme. He was speaking at the Second India Africa Dialogue and Media Briefing Workshop held in Accra, Ghana, which was attended by journalists from around 15 countries of Africa. The workshop, Sewerage to Sanitation, Opportunities…
Sokoto government has set up a technical committee for the establishment of a new fertiliser plant in the state. The plant will be established by Prime Gold Fertiliser and Chemical Company, an indigenous company based in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Inaugurating the committee in Sokoto Tuesday, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Professor Bashir Garba, said the project is of prime importance to the government and will will do everything possible to ensure it comes to fruition. He said the technical committee will study and appraise the proposal sent by Prime Gold Fertiliser Company towards ascertaining its credibility and…
Gov. Tambuwal, Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar, Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewale and Com of Health, Dr. Balarabe Kakale at the opening of the 58th National Council on Health meeting in Sokoto By Abdallah el-Kurebe Sokoto state governor Aminu Tambuwal has revealed government’s plan to establish a new medical school, an infectious diseases hospital and a state-of-the-art renal and cardiac centre in the state. Speaking at the opening of the 58th meeting of National Council on Health in Sokoto on Thursday, Tambuwal said the new health centres would provide training and research, and would complement the existing health facilities across the…
Gov. Tambuwal at Goronyo Dam in Sokoto state By Abdallah elKurebe Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto state has called on the Federal Government to concession all Dams that are situated in various states for the state governments that are interested in managing them, observing that such state governments would put such Dams to better use for the benefit of their people. The governor who spoke when he inspected irrigation works at the Goronyo Dam in Sokoto further observed that it would be more economically viable if states were allowed to manage the Dams since they benefit directly from its resources.…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe The President and Chief Executive of Erisco Foods Limited, Chief Eric Umeofia has called on the Federal Government to ban the importation of tomato paste into the country in order to encourage domestic manufacturing companies to invest in agriculture. He stated during the commissioning of a tomato processing plant, the first in Africa and fourth in the world, that domestic processing of tomato paste would ensure the consumption of fresher and healthier tomato by Nigerians. According to Umeofia, Erisco Foods revolution in tomato paste would stop the 75per cent annual waste in fresh tomatoes across the country,…
By Abdallah el-Kurebe > “Agriculture must cease from being treated as development programme; agriculture must be treated as business. Our goal will be to pursue government supported private sector agriculture value chain to make agriculture more productive, efficient and competitive.” -President Buhari > Most of those engaged in agriculture are the old people who are no longer strong enough to produce enough food for the population > The tedious nature of traditional methods of farming is not attracting the youth to embrace agriculture Since his assumption of office in May last year, Muhammadu Buhari, president of Nigeria has repeated at many…