Can Agriculture Replace Crude? Experts reveal path to Nigeria’s export revival
By Cynthia Alo For more than five decades, crude oil has remained the dominant pillar of Nigeria’s economy, displacing agriculture from the position it once occupied as the country’s major source of revenue and foreign exchange. However, with the global shift towards cleaner energy and growing concerns over the sustainability of oil dependence, experts are […]
Lagos community where potable water, good toilet, school, hospital don’t exist
By Rasheed Sobowale “Find your way to Agboyi Road at Alapere, Ketu, Lagos State. Follow the road down. Take a boat to Agboyi 2”, reads the direction given to locate this Lagos community. Anybody scared of water might not like here. While those interested in a sea tour might find it interesting at first, they […]
Inside Kebbi’s floods of fury, pains and tears
Let our humanity help restore hope for Kebbi people ― Gov Bagudu Now, I have nothing to call my farm anymore; everything has been taken up by the floods-Kalango Argungu fishing ground is buried-Argungu LGA chairman We lost 50,000 farms to the flood-Kebbi Rice Farmers Secretary We’ve never seen this type of disaster in our time- […]
Starting early: Medical students, sexual/reproductive health and secondary school girls
On the likely causes, United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, says: “Adolescent pregnancy is generally not the result of a deliberate choice – these girls often have little say over decisions affecting their lives. Rather, early pregnancy is a consequence of little or no access to school, information or health care.”
When Agbeloba women joined hands, they mechanised palm oil production
By Agbonkhese Oboh As litres of clean palm oil come off the boiling drum, allowed to cool and then sealed up in 25-litre jerry cans, the immediate crude past is hard to imagine. That past was women threading out oil, barefoot, in palm nuts-filled Eku (pit). But for the members of Agbeloba Multipurpose Women Farmers […]
HEALTHCARE: 21 years of unsteady steps, policy somersaults in Edo
That is why people like bone specialists got retired and it was not easy to replace them and till date, we have really not fully recovered because to train a consultant takes a long period.
