While mankind grapples with the continued assault and ravages of diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, malaria and lately COVID-19, among others, the fear of the impact of genetically-modified organism, GMO, on human health and survival has been growing at an alarming rate.

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 […]

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- […]

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.”

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 […]