VOICES for Food Security, VFS, has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to direct the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources and other relevant agencies to draw up a contingency plan to mitigate the impact of lower rainfall as predicted by the National Meteorological Agency.

One of the positive outcomes of the Umaru Yar’Adua saga has been the sudden drive to amend relevant sections of the constitution to avoid a repeat of the situation where Nigeria has to be leaderless either due to mischief on the part of an incumbent President or genuine incapacitation.

As part of its efforts to alleviate the ardent effect of HIV/AIDS in the country, the Lagos State Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development has embarked on an extensive training aimed at brainstorming farmers, other extension officers as well as agriculture rural change agents on the impact of HIV/AIDS such that they take the campaign to the grassroots farmers as they proceed on their farming activities.

A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State, Mr. Andrew Aganbi, has challenged the G3 political group, comprising the Ijaw, Itsekiri and Isoko, to rouse itself from sleep and finish what it started some years ago by supporting Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan for Governor in 2011. Mr. Aganbi made this wake-up-call in a […]

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and two private multinationals in weed control say they are tying up a model to tackle the menace of weeds in Africa.

Fishermen operating in Akwa Ibom say they need divine intervention to end the dwindling fish catch occasioned by the Dec. 4, 2009 oil spill from the Qua Iboe oil fields.

The personal Physician to the ailing President Umar Yar’ Adua, Dr. Saliyu Banye has been requested to immediately write and sworn to a statement on the medical records of President Umar Musa Yar’ Adua to allow Nigerians, especially the National Assembly to decide whether the President is capable of continuing to perform his constitutional duty.

Trevor Ward is an international hospitality consultant and Managing Partner of W Hospitality Group, specialists in advisory services to the hospitality industry, based in Lagos, in this interview with Jimoh Babatunde, he shares his opinions on the current expansion of hotels in Lagos, international chains managing hotels and the country’s tourism. Here is an excerpt

In the wee hours of November 23, 2009, President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was hurriedly flown out of Aso Rock to Saudi Arabia for urgent medical attention. The urgency of the evacuation, Nigerians were made to understand, neither allowed the President to inform his Deputy, Dr Jonathan Goodluck, that he was proceeding on medical vacation nor permitted him to cede powers to him in accordance with the provision of section 145 of the 1999 constitution.

THE trend of political assassination continued Thursday as a gun totting three-man gang shot dead a local government chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo state.

The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation, Otunba Olusegun Runsewe has assured hoteliers that the era of multiple taxation in the hospitality industry would soon be a thing of the past.

The Director General of the Nigerian Tourism Development Otunba Olusegun Runsewe has promised to support the efforts of the Osun State Tourism Board in the development and promotion of Tourism in the state.

A civil rights organisation, Partnership for Justice, PJ, has raised concern over the blocking of the reading of a human rights report on arrest and secret detentions around the world at the 13th session of United Nations Human Rights Council scheduled to hold from March 1- 30, 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.

Driven by losses on the prices of blue chips stocks on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Wednesday, the bullish run witnessed in the market since the beginning of the week was halted, Wednesday, as the value of listed equities dipped by N3.75 billion.

The federal government Thursday threw caution to the winds and lambasted the Nigeria Police high command over what it termed ‘increase in current rate of crime across the nation, rising cases of extra-judicial killings, human rights violations, robberies, high profile assassinations and deliberate failure to comply with government directives’.