Last week, we noted that “there is an ongoing debate as to whether the President is ‘zonally’ qualified to contest
elections in 2011. On account of the feeling in some quarters that the presidency had been zoned to the North for eight years reckoned from 2007, the office of president they argue, would have no vacancy for a non northerner until 2015.

Scientists working at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), and the Agriculture Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture have identified strains of fungi native to Kenya that could solve large-scale grain contamination from aflatoxins and save millions of people.

If one is to believe the Bible declaration that King Solomon had so many women that he loved and that he married an Egyptian, the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites, then one might be tempted to believe that one of the 700 or 1000 wives he was reported to have married was Birikisu Sungbo, regarded as the Biblical Queen of Sheba.

The non-implementation of the National Tourism Master Plan in the country after two years of its launching should be put at the door steps of the steps of the civil servants in the Federal Ministry of Tourism & Culture.

Activities’ marking this year’s MTN Ayangalu talking drum festival was rounded up weekend at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife with a lecture on the Spirit of the drums in the palace delivered by Oba Olusanya Dosumu, the Olowu and Paramount Ruler of the Ancient Owu Kingdom.