ICRISAT awarded 2021 Africa Food Prize
For improving food security across 13 countries in Sub Saharan Africa, the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, ICRISAT, has been awarded the 2021 Africa Food Prize of the year award.
Sudan summoned Ethiopia’s ambassador over 29 bodies found in river
Sudan summoned Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum to inform him that 29 corpses found on the banks of a river abutting Ethiopia were those of Ethiopian citizens from the Tigray ethnic group, Sudan’s foreign ministry said. It said in a statement late on Tuesday that the ambassador had been summoned on Aug. 30 and was told […]
COVID-19: Lagos’s revenue may drop $4bn by year end — OSIBOGUN
Based on the statistics from the Lagos Bureau of Statistics, which put the Gross Domestic Product, GDP, of the state at $18 billion in 2010 and annual growth rate of 10 percent, the state lost $1.62 billion to the Ebola outbreak in 2014, and that the current pandemic is costing it an average of $2 billion annually
A plea for understanding in Zamfara tech shutdown
I begin this material with a solicitation that you join me in prayers for a dear friend, Ahmed Abudulkadir, who was kidnapped on Monday along with his daughter in Bakori, near Funtua in Katsina State. Ahmed is a nice fellow, a genuine go-happy gentleman who has no time for misery and regrets
6 men in police net for alleged murder of Delta prince, 2 policemen – Ag PPRO
The police in Delta has arrested six additional suspects in connection to the alleged murder of Prince Eric Takerere and two mobile policemen in the state. The acting spokesman of the command, DSP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Warri. Edafe said the suspects are Onoriode Shefo, Omagbeosa Sholla, Godwin Obukoemu, […]
We must sustain peace in Akwa Ibom beyond 2023- PDP tells supporters
By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo THE People’s Democratic Party, PDP, Akwa Ibom State chapter has stressed the need to sustain the peace efforts of governor Udom Emmanuel-led administration beyond 2023. National Legal Adviser of the PDP and Chairman of a new political campaign group the Maintain Peace Movement, (MPM) Barr. Emmanuel Enoidem made the assertion yesterday while inaugurating the steering committee of […]
