The project Building Economically Sustainable Seed Systems for Cassava, Phase 2 (BASICS-II) organized a day-long National Cassava Business Summit to develop a cassava seed system in Tanzania. The summit was held recently in Dodoma, Tanzania. The meeting aimed to catalyze Public-Private Partnership sector-led investment in the cassava seed value chain, bringing together about 100 participants from government, public and private sectors, NGOs, institutions, entrepreneurs, farmers, and other key cassava stakeholders. In her opening remark, the IITA Eastern Africa Hub Director, Dr. Leena Tripathi noted that cassava is at the heart of IITA’s work. She lauded the government for putting efforts into…
Author: Newsdesk
Advancing gender equality in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss is one of the greatest sustainable development challenges of our time, according to experts at a global symposium held in Beijing on Tuesday. The symposium, in the celebration of International Women’s Day 2022 (IWD 2022), was jointly hosted by the Centre for China and Globalisation and UN Women, an organisation delivering programmes and policies to uphold women’s human rights. IWD 2022, under the theme of “Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow,’’ recognised the contribution of women around the world. Women are leading the charge on climate change…
Google on Tuesday announced that Google.org, was committing $1 million in charitable funding to support programmes to help women entrepreneurs grow their businesses. Mojolaoluwa Makinde, Head Brand and Reputation, Africa-Google said that the funding was as a part of a series of new initiatives aimed at supporting women-owned businesses. Makinde said this at a virtual event on Tuesday to mark the International Women’s Day tagged ‘Know Her Name’. According to her, research shows that 58 per cent of small and medium-sized business (SMB) entrepreneurs in Africa were women. ‘Know HerName’ is a virtual event organised by Google to project Women entrepreneurs in commemoration of International Women’s Day…
World Footballer of the Year, Robert Lewandowski has ended his cooperation with Huawei, the Chinese technological company confirmed on Tuesday. Huawei gave no reasons why the partnership with Bayern Munich and Poland striker Lewandowski ended. Huawei has dismissed speculation the decision could have to do with Huawei allegedly helping Russia make its networks safe against hackers in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. It described a report to that effect as “untrue and based on inaccurate and false information” in a tweet on Monday. That report is said to refer to a now deleted Chinese report which said Huawei…
The Bauchi state government has pledged to marry off at least 100 repentant commercial sex workers who indicated interest and presented themselves to the state’s Hisbah Department. The Permanent Secretary in charge of the department, Aminu Isah, made this known on Tuesday at the formal inauguration of vocational training for 575 repentant commercial sex workers in Bauchi. He said the government would sponsor the weddings of both Muslim and Christian women among them, and provide them with dependable and reliable sources of livelihood. He added that “we would facilitate the entire process after obtaining their consent and that of their…
Members of Nigeria’s House of Representatives have rescinded their decision on three bills earlier rejected in the process of the 1999 constitution amendment. The bills are on indigeneship, citizenship, and 35% affirmative action for women. The bills will be recommended for consideration and will be part of the second batch of the constitution amendment to be presented in a couple of months. The decision to revisit the bill follows earlier disapproval by women who stormed the National Assembly lamenting rejection of women-related bills. The women, under the aegis of Nigerian Women Groups last week protested against the action of the…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Ebonyi state governor, Dave Umahi and his deputy, Eric Igwe to vacate their seats on grounds that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won the election on March 2019 and not its candidate. It held that their defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC) cannot transfer the mandate of the PDP to the APC. Citing section 221 of the constitution, Justice Inyang Ekwo ordered the PDP to send names of replacements to INEC immediately so that fresh elections can be conducted. Justice Ekwo also ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to…
The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) has observed that any nation that excludes more than 50 percent of a segment of its demography does not progress. This is contained in a statement by the president, Ladi Bala on Tuesday, commemorating Nigerian women on the occasion of the International Women’s Day. NAWOJ also called on all Nigerian women to rise and demand from their representatives the fulfilment of the social contract of effective representation they signed. According to the association, until the Gender bills are reconsidered and passed into law, Nigeria cannot be seen or considered to be a full…
The Acting Chairman APC Caretaker Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC and Governor of Niger State, Abubakar Sani Bello has received the report of the Zoning Committee of the Party. This official description of Sani Bello as APC Caretaker Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC Chairman was contained in a statement signed by Mary Noel-Berje, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor of Niger State on Monday.This puts to an end doubts over who is actually in charge at the party’s helm of affairs. According to Noel-Berje, the report received by acting APC Chairman, Sani Bello, was submitted by the Chairman of the…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it is investigating six accredited Computer Based Tests (CBT) centres for alleged exploitation of candidates in its ongoing exercise. The board disclosed this in the Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar, JAMB on Monday, in Abuja. JAMB said that the action, followed reports from its monitoring team, which had been going round the country to assess the conduct of the 2022 registration for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE). The team, JAMB said, monitored over 800 accredited centres nationwide. “JAMB has placed six centres under watch giving…