Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnya Onu has said that food security was very critical to Nigeria and that the nation must be well-positioned to feed itself, he said this in Abuja on Thursday
Onu said Nigeria’s burgeoning population meant that its inability to feed its citizens would create problems for the country and also for the global community.
Receiving a delegation of the Nigerian Institute of Food Science and Technology that paid him a courtesy visit, he said continuous importation of food already created a hike in prices, thereby putting pressure on the country. He said that …
The European champions came to life following a nervy start and went ahead through a neat strike from the inside right by Joshua Kimmich, but the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) stepped in to call an offside.
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Los Tigres continued to hold ground as the match headed to the closing stages, with a move down the left from Javier Aquino allowing Guido Pizarro to take aim, but
Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has advised the federal government to ban foreign herders from coming to Nigeria as a means to taming the rising spate of insecurity in the country.
He also said it was wrong to tag all herders as criminals, saying many Fulani are doing legitimate business of rearing animals and needed the support of various stakeholders to do it better.
Ganduje also faulted the recent comment by Governor Nasir El-Rufai who said the North-West of Kaduna State governors were working at cross purposes, hence the escalation of security challenges in the region.
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US President Joe Biden on Thursday disclosed that his first phone call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping lasted a marathon two hours, during which he challenged Xi on human rights, trade, and regional muscle-flexing.
But an increasingly assertive Xi pushed back, according to Chinese state media, telling Biden that issues such as Beijing’s crushing of opposition in Hong Kong and saber-rattling on Taiwan are China’s ‘internal affairs.‘
‘Last night, I was on the phone for two straight hours with Xi Jinping,’ Biden told reporters — an unusually long interaction for a US president, with whom even face-to-face …
Following the recent ban of Cryptocurrency transactions in Nigeria by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian Senate has summoned the Governor of Central Bank, Godwin Emefiele, and Securities Exchange Commission to provide an explanation following the backlash.
The Senate is inviting the apex bank and SEC through its Committees on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions; ICT and Cybercrime; and Capital Market to brief the Committees on the opportunities and threats of the Cryptocurrency on the nation’s economy and security and to report back findings within two weeks.
The resolution was sequel to the consideration of a motion and …
The Governor of Bauchi State, Bala Muhammed, has lamented that it is a pity that some states in the Southwest region of Nigeria don’t want to accommodate other tribes especially the Fulani.
He was reacting to the recent development in some states in the Southwest where herdsmen were given quit notices and asked to leave.
The governor was speaking as a Special Guest of Honour during the launch of the inaugural edition of the Bauchi Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ’s magazine titled “Correspondents’ Watch” on Thursday.
Oyo and Ondo state government have been in the news …
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has tackled his Kaduna Counterpart, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, over his knowledge of security matters saying that he is either ‘misunderstood’ or ‘ill-informed’ on the insecurity affecting the north.
In an interview with BBC, El-Rufai had said the lack of synergy on how to tackle banditry is fuelling it.
But speaking on Radio France International on Thursday, Ganduje said he once spoke with El-Rufai and the governor of Bauchi State on how to tackle insecurity.
He said he initiated the conversation based on the advice of security agents on how Falgore forest in Kano could be …
Just a few days after a widely publicized speech on the state of insecurity in the nation, Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has once again called on President Muhammadu Buhari to avert the country’s drift to anarchy and disintegration by acting swiftly to curb the menace of Fulani herdsmen.
In a letter to President Buhari, Ortom noted that security challenges have assumed new dimensions where the now emboldened assailants and armed herdsmen daringly enforce their will on legitimate owners and occupants of ancestral lands.
He noted that the challenges were caused by actions and inactions of the Federal Government, which …
The usual outcry by Nigerians on fuel hike, resurfaced on Tuesday when the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva alerted the public to get ready for another increment.
…Sylva, who spoke at the launch of the Nigerian Upstream Cost Optimisation Programme in Abuja on Tuesday said, ‘Since we are optimising everything, NNPC (Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation) needs to also think about the optimisation of product cost because as we all know, oil prices are where they are today: $60.’
‘As desirable as this is, this has serious consequences as well on product prices. So we want
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has confirmed 1,131 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) in 21 states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The total confirmed cases in the country now stands at 142,578.
The health agency, wile making the announcement yesterday via a report on its website, said eight persons have also died of COVID-19 related disease in the country as total death figure has hit 1,702.
NCDC also confirmed the recovery and discharge of 839 patients in Lagos and Imo States.
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The report reads, ‘1131 new cases of …
Founder of Breast Cancer Association of Nigeria (BRECAN), Betty Akeredolu has blamed religious organisations for the high rates of cancer-related deaths.
The Ondo Governor’s wife regretted how breast cancer patients shun medical treatment for spiritual healing.
Akeredolu spoke on Wednesday at the Inter-School Arts Competition for secondary schools in Ibadan, Oyo State.
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She said most women die of ignorance and blamed them for approaching churches, mosques, and other places for automatic miracles.
…‘Our women present their cases late because they keep going to churches. The man and
Following the protest carried out on Tuesday by residents of Cottage Area, Ede against officials of the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC), Ede Business Hub, where the company was accused of extortion, epileptic power supply and deliberately imposing blackout on the town, the distribution company has appealed to customers in the town to exercise patience.
…In a press release by the Osun Spokesperson, Kikelomo Owoeye, IBEDC explained that their customers ‘on Cottage feeder are on Band C 12H according to the implementation of the Service Reflective Tariff (SRT) and classification of feeders on minimum of 12 hours to maximum of
