A team of researchers working on the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-managed Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) have said findings from the 5-year project will respond and address the problems of weeds especially in cassava farming systems. The challenge of weeds on Nigeria’s agricultural productivity was brought to the fore at the meeting of the Nigeria Zero Hunger Forum (NZHF) …

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Nigerians have been enjoined to maximize the opportunities of the ongoing Continuing Voter Registration (CVR) exercise in order to prepare themselves for the 2019 elections. The appeal came during a one day Citizens Engagement/Forum on Advancing the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) Exercise in Lagos on Tuesday. The event, orgnised by the International Press Centre, Lagos under the Strengthening Citizens Engagement …

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Pastor Ed: Ahead of His Time By Betty Abah At the two-day funeral events at his father’s expansive compound in Tse-Damwa Mbapiegh, Zaki-Biam, Benue State (February 2 and 3), a towering tree lay slain and even offered shelter to several mourners in its lying -in-state status. The tree, curiously, had another tree sucked in-between. ‘A mighty tree has fallen’, were …

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The Kenyan elections  have come and gone but the sour taste the exercise left in the mouths of many is still fresh. Though peace is back to the east African powerful nation, one man instrumental in the peace process through outreaches to the slums of Kenya is not a Kenyan. Johnbull Da Prince is a Nigerian who has seen Kenya …

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Hundreds of million people around the world have come to embrace the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day on 14th February of each year but many are still ignorant of its origin. The history of Valentine’s Day and the story of its patron saint is shrouded in mystery but everyone has accepted the second month as a month of romance. St. …

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The Executive Director, Commercial of Agro Park Development Company Limited, Mr. Seun Edun has called on Nigerians to embrace commercial agricultural practices in order to position the country as a serious agricultural nation. Edun in an interview told journalists in Lagos that Nigerians are largely practicing subsistence farming through which it cannot benefit maximally from the vast arable land the …

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Residents of Iju Station area of Lagos have called on the Lagos State government to ensure the agency responsible for emptying the waste containers tagged ‘Cleaner Lagos,’ is up and doing. A member of the community who talked with National Wire on the condition of anonymity noted that the refuse dump at the front of the group of schools located …

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Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) has indicted President Muhammadu Buhari and berated the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, and the Commissioner of Police, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, on the violation of the rights of the members of the Bring Back Our Girls Group in Abuja, on Tuesday 23rd January, 2018. CDHR condemned the conduct of the …

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If only everyone could see the massive wealth obtainable from discarded products, perhaps none would retain the title of ‘the poor’ in the world anymore. That seems to be the message passed across by a budding women and girls empowerment NGO, The Save Our Women and Girls Foundation  (SOW&G) when it set out on its latest empowerment drive. The Lagos-based …

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Nigerian missionaries have called on the Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) to make enough copies of the Holy Bible in Fulfulde language available. A missionary to the Gando Fulani tribe of Northern Benin Republic, Pastor Olusina Sadiku said that the Fulfulde Bible is scarce and would appreciate if the BSN could intensify efforts in making more available. “We operate among …

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