The federal government on Friday in Ado Ekiti distributed 50,000 certified yam seeds to farmers to boost food security in the country. Karima Babangida, the Director, Federal Department of Agriculture in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, while distributing the seedlings, said that the aim was to boost high yield for export. Babangida reaffirmed its commitment towards ensuring that smallholder farmers across the country have access to quality seeds. The director, who was represented by Mr Deola-Tayo Lordbanjou, the Programme Manager of Root and Tuber Expansion Programme, said the seedlings were of high quality with export value. ‘It is…
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The federal government has listed several actions said to have been committed by Twitter, and capable of destabilizing the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed gave the details on Friday when he featured on a live programme of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), ‘Good Morning Nigeria’. The minister said that Twitter had become a platform of choice for separatists to carry out their agenda, including being a platform to consistently promote activities that would lead to the collapse of the country. According to him, the leader of Independent People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu who stays comfortably…
The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege has said June 12 has crystallized into a beacon of hope and rallying point for the development of democracy under a progressive agenda. In a message to mark this year’s Democracy Day, Senator Omo-Agege who chairs the Senate Committee on Constitutuon Review, assured that the exercise would deepen our democracy. Describing the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief MKO Abiola and his wife, Kudirat Abiola, as icons of democracy, the Delta Central lawmaker called on those championing the drumbeats of war to have a rethink and explore peaceful…
The federal government has signed shareholders agreement for the construction of Brass Petroleum Products Terminal Ltd (BPPT) to curb illegal refining and stabilise products price in the Niger Delta. Chief Timipre Sylva, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, at the signing ceremony on Friday in Abuja said the project would help to sanitise the system in the region Shareholders in the BPPT are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and ZED Energy Ltd. The BPPT when completed will help close infrastructure gap in the distribution of petroleum products and also stop illegal…
The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, French government, in collaboration with Oyo and Kaduna state governments, on Friday inaugurated a project to support women entrepreneurship in Nigeria. The project tagged, ‘’Support to Women Entrepreneurship in the Agri-Food Sector in Nigeria’’ has French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs as its donor. Speaking at the event in Ibadan, the France Regional Agriculture Counsellor, Dr Sonia Darracq, noted that the project was to extend skills development of women agri-entrepreneurs in Nigeria. Darracq stated that it was geared towards women’s greater empowerment and their dynamic inclusion in market networks, locally and…
Ondo State Police Command has said that it will not fold its arms and watch any protest, under whatever guise, in the state to degenerate to the #EndSARS mayhem. The Command’s spokesperson, DSP Tee Leo-Ikoro said on Friday that the police were battle-ready to forestall any breakdown of law and order by any individual or group. Several government property were destroyed by suspected hoodlums who hijacked the peaceful protest against police brutality, popularly known as ‘EndSARS’, held across the country in October 2020. Leo-Ikoro said that the command had deployed its men in all the nooks and crannies of the…
The WHO and UNICEF on Friday, applauded the Philippines for ending the polio outbreak almost two years after the highly infectious disease re-emerged in the country. In a joint statement, the UN agencies said the Philippines’ Department of Health (DOH) officially stopped the polio outbreak response on June 3. “The decision came as the virus has not been detected in a child or the environment in the past 16 months,” the statement said. The agencies said comprehensive outbreak response actions, including intensified immunisation and surveillance activities in affected areas of the Southeast Asian country, curbed the spread of the poliovirus.…
The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN) has sealed 305 pharmacies and patent medicine shops in Kebbi for various offences. The PCN Director, Enforcement, Mr Stephen Esumobi, made this known while briefing newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Friday on behalf of the council’s Registrar, Mr Elijah Mohammed. Mohammed said that the council sealed 20 pharmacies and 285 patent medicine shops. He said that the existence of unregistered medicine shops across the country was a major factor militating against rational distribution and use of medicine. “Also a large number of registered patent medicine shops carry out activities that are beyond their approved…
Amid worrying prevalence of childhood malnutrition in Nigeria, scientists and researchers in nutrition and dietetics have agreed on partnership to end malnutrition in the country. The two parties arrived at this resolution on Friday in Ibadan during the inauguration of Academic and Research Network for Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (ARN-SUNN) in Oyo state. A Professor of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at University of Ibadan, Rasaki Sanusi, noted that childhood malnutrition had been a public health emergency in the country for the past 30 years. “Malnutrition in under-five is a public health problem and it has been so for the past…
Afrobeat singer, Damini Ogulu, a.k.a Burna Boy, has received his Grammy awards plaque. The afrobeat singer’s ‘Twice as Tall Album’ won Best Global Music album at the 63rd Grammy awards, which was held in March in Los Angeles, United States of America. The singer took to his Instagram page @burnaboygram to announce the award of plaque, as he posted photos and a video clip of himself with the plaque. ”Early Morning deliveries from across the pond. “My parents prayed for excellent children, not houses, cars or “things”. “They asked my sisters for stellar degrees; one got a first class in…