The Federal Ministry of Water Resources on Tuesday in Sokoto reiterated federal government’s commitment to explore all irrigation areas for economic development. The assurance was given by Mrs Esther Oluniyi, Director Irrigation and Drainages in the ministry. She was declaring open a four-day consultative meeting on Transforming Irrigation Management in Nigeria (TRIMING) project, on behalf of Mr Suleiman Adamu, Minister of Water Resources. She said the ministry had used TRIMING to provide technical assistance to train farmers, farmers associations and River Basins Development Authorities (RBDAs) personnel for effective operation and maintenance of irrigation systems. Oluniyi said the technical assistance was…
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A German Non Governmental Organisation, known as GIZ says it is targeting training 650, 000 farmers on four value chains of agriculture to enhance food security in the country. Dr Folarin Oguntolu, Potatoes Value Chain Advisor, GIAE/GIZ Project, made the disclosure while declaring open a five-day training workshop on Potato Value Chain in Pankshin, Plateau, on Tuesday. “The essence of Green Innovation Centre Project is to help ensure food security in Nigeria through building farming capacity of 650,000 farmers, creating employment and increasing productivity/income of the rural farmers. “Out of the targeted 650, 000 farmers, 250, 000 are being physically…
Savannah Centre for Diplomacy, Democracy and Development (SCDDD) has faulted the three-month ultimatum by Niger Delta leaders to the Federal Government, to convene a national dialogue. SCDDD Executive Director, Amb. Sani Bala, said this in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Bala said that while the centre aligned with the Niger Delta leaders on the need for the Federal Government to convene a national dialogue, it should not be with a timeline. “The centre is aware that achieving these takes time and resources and considers it unrealistic to propose nor support any timeline to the federal government. “However, a call…
Lionel Messi has reached an agreement with Paris Saint Germain (PSG) over a transfer to the French soccer club. Sports paper, L’Equipe, said on its website, adding he was due to arrive in Paris in the coming hours. Messi, the 34-year-old record goal scorer for both Argentina and FC Barcelona, is one of the greatest players of all time. The six-time Ballon d’Or winner, wept on Sunday as he bade farewell to his boyhood team, after the club said it could no longer afford to keep him, due to La Liga’s fair play rules. The PSG frontline is already formidable,…
Abba Kyari The first time I heard his name was when I had the misfortune of being visited by night marauders in the early hours of the night a few years ago. It was a 30-minute operation but it became the most terrifying period of my life, the type you cannot even pray for your known sworn enemies to experience. Thank God, no life was lost, the injured recovered fully, the lost properties were replaced with better ones and we have all moved on with our lives. In the melee of the unfortunate incident, one-security personnel said to me “your…
Any politicisation of COVID-19 origin tracing should be resisted, Maltese Foreign Minister Evarist Bartolo has said. Bartolo in a recent exclusive interview with Xinhua said “for us at the moment, definitely the enemy should be the pandemic, not each other. “We are at a very difficult stage, the pandemic is getting longer than we expected. New variants are approaching,’’ he said. Bartolo showed concern over the inequality of vaccination in the world, pointing out that Africa was suffering high infection rate but with extremely low vaccination rate. “This is a health crisis where if not all the world is safe,…
China has been striving to make COVID-19 vaccines more available in developing countries, and had already provided more than 770 million doses of vaccines and concentrates to the world. China ranked first in the world in terms of vaccines offered to the international community. “China will do its best to help developing countries cope with the COVID-19 pandemic,’’ President Xi Jinping said recently in a message to the first meeting of the International Forum on COVID-19 Vaccine Cooperation. China would strive to provide two billion COVID-19 vaccine doses to the world throughout this year, and offer 100 million U.S. dollars…
South Korea health authorities on Tuesday confirmed a total of 1,540 COVID-19 infections from people who tested positive after full vaccination. The number of the fully vaccinated people who were infected with COVID-19 was 1,540 as at Aug. 5, up from 1,132 a week earlier, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said. It said the figure represented 23.6 per cent out of every 100,000 people. As of Aug. 5, the number of the fully inoculated people was 6,516,203. Among the total, 221 were infected with the Delta variant, 24 with Alpha, one with Beta and one with Gamma.…
Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama has summoned the Indonesian Ambassador to Nigeria over the alleged assault on a Nigerian Diplomatic Agent in Jarkarta, Indonesia. Onyeama in a statement in Abuja said that the unfortunate incident is against international law and the Vienna Conventions governing Diplomatic and Consular Relations between states. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is in receipt of a report and has seen a video in circulation regarding an unacceptable incident in Jakarta, Indonesia concerning the manhandling and arrest of a Nigerian Diplomatic Agent in front of his official quarters on 7 August 2021. “The Nigerian government has complained strongly to…
Air quality in the Mongolian capital city of Ulan Bator has been deteriorating dramatically due to smoke from massive wildfires raging in Russia’s Siberia, authorities said on Monday. The Mongolian national agency for meteorology and environment monitoring said in a statement that air quality in the capital city had reached very unhealthy levels. “Today, the average density of PM 2.5 in the city stayed at 151.5 micrograms per cubic meter, which is 15 times above WHO exposure recommendation. “The northern and central parts of Mongolia, including the capital city, were covered with smokes since the middle of last week. “The…