Fighting hunger with improved food preservation
Nigeria’s food crisis is not merely a failure to grow enough; it is also a failure to preserve what farmers produce. The reported 11-million-tonne requirement for cold storage, against less than 20,000 tonnes of long-term capacity, exposes a massive weakness in the food supply chain. The Organisation for Technology Advancement of Cold Chain in West […]
Facing down the Zika virus challenge
ON February 1, 2016, the World Health Organisation, WHO, declared the Zika virus infection a public health emergency of international concern, following widespread reports about its suspected role in causing birth defects among newborns when pregnant women are infected. The WHO says it expects 3-4 million Zika infections in the Americas over the next 12 months.
Aluko’s confession on Ekiti poll
The ripples generated by the June 21, 2014, governorship election in Ekiti State seem to be widening. Former People’s Democratic Party,PDP Secretary in the state, Dr. Temitope Aluko, recently made startling revelations in Abuja on how federal might was allegedly used to subvert the poll’s credibility.
Let there be peace in Rivers
With the recent Supreme Court verdict on the epic gubernatorial election in Rivers State which pronounced Governor Nyesom Wike as duly elected, we are calling on all political gladiators to sheath their swords and give peace a chance.
Gov Wike’s victory at the Supreme Court
Governor Nyesome Wike, of River state last Wednesday got a reprive at the Supreme Court which upheld his victory in the April 11 2015 governorship election. The seven-man panel at the apex court in a unanimous decision read by Justice Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, returned the embattled Wike as the valid winner of the poll as declared […]
Reward For World Golden Eaglets 30 Years After
President Muhammadu Buhari last Thursday rewarded members of the under seventeen World Golden Eaglets that won the maiden edition of the youth soccer championship in China in 1985. Members of the squad were given monetary rewards along side the winners of last year’s FIFA organized U 17 Championship in Chile.
