Visitors to Egypt can be rest assured that they will not suffer any bout of malaria in the north African country any longer. This follows the certificate of fitness from the World Health Organisation, WHO that Egypt is now malaria-free. The country can celebrate because it has been weaned from a battle of 100 years,…
A lecturer at the Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, Professor Oyebode Famiwole, has suggested a panacea for the food insecurity ravaging the country. He has, therefore, called on the government at all levels to make agricultural science a compulsory subject for students in junior classes and all science students in all public and private secondary…
The National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday said the national average Cost of a Healthy Diet was N1,255 per adult per day in August 2024. This, the statistics hub said, was prominent in Ogun state at N1,641, Lagos State at N1,615 and Rivers State at N1,572. However, Katsina, Kaduna and Sokoto states accounted for the…
Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Olufemi Oluyede, has urged the government to adopt ranching as a national policy to address the growing food insecurity in the country. Open grazing, he notes, is no longer sustainable. “The issue of food insecurity is give and take. Even if all security agencies are deployed to the…
CHIEF: Leader, quite a long time. What is happening? l called your lines severally to no avail. Each time I called; I met a brick wall. What is the problem? Leader: Immediately we finished our festival last year, I had to go back to our village, in fact, my trip was timely, because my people…
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has urged the Kano State government to establish a Ministry of Livestock. The association expressed confidence that if this done, it would improve the welfare of herders and their livestock. The call was made by the Kano State chairman of the association, Ambassador Abdullahi Bakoji Adamu….
Grandma: Good evening everyone, I am very happy to have nearly all of you in this meeting, my happiness came from the fact that, with the short notice I gave, all of you came to honour me with your attendance, this is a sign that all of you can be trusted, once more, I say,…
The National Apex of Cashew Farmers, Processors and Marketing Cooperative Ltd has pledged to protect farmers from exploitation by eliminating the role of middlemen in the cashew industry. According to Yunusa Gabriel Enemali, president of the cooperative, the organisation’s primary goal is to empower farmers and ensure they receive fair prices for their products. He…
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has urged the adoption and consumption of healthy diets as a consistent lifestyle habit. The report, released on Thursday, emphasised that eating healthy should not be limited to a New Year’s resolution that is abandoned as the year progresses. It added that the food consumed…
About 4,563 youths in Ondo state have been trained in modern agriculture through various youth development programmes of the state. This was disclosed by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Olayato Aribo when he was hosted by the Nigeria Union of Journalists in Akure. He said, “Some of our youths have been empowered because we discovered…
