Former African Player of the year winner, Victor Ikpeba has urged delegates to tomorrow’s Elective Congress of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to vote in Delta State Football Association Chairman, Pinnick Amaju as the next President of the NFF.

OHWORORIOLE et al (1988) reported a simple manual rig that worked on the principle of peel/flesh separation through compression followed by peel removal with knives. The principle looked promising for further research. However, before the design could commence, experiments had to be carried out on the physical properties of the cassava tuber. This resulted in the characterisation of the cassava tuber (Adetan et al, 2003).

Amidst reports that Boko Haram insurgents have over-run Bama, the second largest town in Borno State, the Defence headquarters yesterday said the curfew imposed on Maiduguri on Monday by the 7 division of the Nigerian Army has now been reviewed from 7pm to 6 am.

AKURE — The Ondo State police authorities, yesterday, inaugurated a 39-man Special Anti Cultism Squad, SACS, to fight cultism and other related violent crimes in the state, warning them against extortion and harassment.

LIKE most countries in Africa, Nigeria is experiencing low productivity in agriculture. The largely subsistence agriculture has not kept up with the rapid population growth of mostly young people who are not being absorbed into the sector. Sadly government policies have failed to address numerous challenges faced by farmers. The implication is that the country which was once reputed as a large net exporter of food now imports large quantity of its food products even as the entire sector accounts for only 40 percent of the gross domestic products, GDP.