Author: Adewale Kupoluyi
By Omolola Pedro The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, has said that the Federal Government is making plans to stop parents from using their children or wards for manual labour on their farms. This was disclosed during the inauguration of the Initiative for Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) Project Steering Committee and commissioning of the project consultants, which was held in Abuja. Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, in a statement signed by Olajide Osundun, Director of Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, he urged the committee to synergise with his ministry in order…
By Omolola Pedro Driven by the aim to address some challenges facing the agriculture sector, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), First City Monument Bank (FCMB) and the Centre for Food and Research (CEFTER) of the Benue State University, have supported 25 early-stage Agritechs with financial grants to help them improve their businesses and develop innovative solutions in the sector. The beneficiaries were winners at the grand finale of the just-concluded Agrohack Challenge held in Makurdi, Benue State. According to a statement released by FCMB, the selected Agritechs received varying amounts of funding that address challenges in the agriculture sector.…
By Omolola Pedro To further build youths capacity on innovative agricultural practices, over 160 students of the Faculty of Agriculture, Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU), Obio Akpa campus, have received training on agripreneurship, oil palm management and horticulture. The training exercise, which was held at the university premises, was organised by an International Civil Society Organisation. Addressing students of the institution during the training, the Programme Manager, Solidaridad, Oil Palm Nigeria, Kenechukwu Onukwube, said the programme was designed to support AKSU to become a centre of excellence in innovative and sustainable agriculture in Nigeria. Onukwube noted that oil palm business…
By Bukola Adenubi The month of March has ushered in a new President-elect to pilot the affairs of the most populous nation and largest economy in Africa, Nigeria. Prior to this time, the nation has been plagued with naira shortage, scarcity of petroleum products, erratic electricity generation, bad, unmotorable road networks, insecurity and other sundry issues, which directly or indirectly, impede on food security. The massive turnout at the recently-concluded Presidential and National Assembly elections shows the pains and aspirations of the Nigerian people. In all of these and for this new dispensation, I would like to point out the…
By Sodiq Lawal Scores of farmers, under the auspices of the All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), have congratulated Asiwaju Bola Tinubu on his victory, as declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), as winner of the 2023 presidential election. In a statement signed by AFAN National President, Kabir Ibrahim, described the victory of Tinubu as “the beginning of new epoch in the history of Nigeria.” The farmers said “Bola Ahmed Tinubu marks the beginning of new epoch in the history of Nigeria as he represents ‘renewed hope’ for the prosperity of a richly-endowed nation yearning for an astute administrator,…
By Olamide Tejuoso The National Diploma (ND) admission list for the 2022/2023 academic session of the Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology (OYSCATECH), Igbo-Ora, is out. Over 200 students in and around Oyo State, were offered the agriculture institution’s admission. Meanwhile, the list of successful candidates have been uploaded online via the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), which is available on JAMB website at: www.jamb.org.ng. All candidates, who participated in OYSCATECH’s Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been advised to proceed to check, if their names are on the provisional admission list, to confirm their status…
By Olamide Tejuoso The World Vegetable Centre (WorldVeg), which has its headquarters in Taiwan and five regional offices globally, has called for applications to fill two Agricultural Economics positions in Tanzania and Benin Republic. WorldVeg is a non-profit international centre for vegetable research and development in the world, which is committed to reducing poverty and malnutrition in developing countries through improved production and consumption of vegetables. Interested candidates are encouraged to have a PhD in Agricultural Economics and are to submit a letter of application, explaining their suitability and interest in the position, along with a curriculum vitae and recent passport-size…
By Oludele Taiwo A lecturer in the Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Federal University, Lokoja, (FUL), Kogi State, Prof. Mohammed Suleiman, has called for global intensive study in Mycology (Fungi) in all secondary schools, as part of measures to curb global food deprivation. He made the call in his inaugural lecture titled; ‘Pathogenic Fungi and Food Deprivation: The Challenges of Plants Pathologists’, at the university campus in Lokoja. He said fungi, until recently, are highly under-reported, marginalised and totally-ignored in secondary schools to the extent that only plants and animals are being studied, leaving a large number of students ignorant of the whole fungi kingdom. “In fungal/pathology science, we see…
