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Trials, registration of cotton varieties: Nigeria’s biosafety in shambles – HOMEF

Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) has condemned the alleged illegal confined field trials and registration of four new transgenic cotton hybrid varieties -...

Nnimmo Bassey: Straight from the Strait of Hormuz

No matter the reason for warfare the environment and the innocent end up bearing the brunt of the inevitable destruction. This fact is clearly...

Nnimmo Bassey: Junk foods and the politics of hunger

Food occupies a central place in our culture. It plays a key role in religious/social activities and is a major marker of the passage...

Niger Delta: Activists decry persistent oil spills, slow pace of cleanup

Environmental activists in Rivers State have decried the environmental degradation prompted by persistent oil spills and the slow pace of cleanup efforts, causing health...

Why Nigerians do not trust biosafety agency’s regulation of GMOs

The deployment of products of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continues to raise concerns and resistance, not only in Nigeria but across the world among...

Nnimmo Bassey: Colonialism’s Nunc Dimittis in Africa

The African Union (AU) has “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations” as its theme of the year 2025. This theme...

Nnimmo Bassey: The force and the fire at COP30

The opening and closing of COP30 were marked by significant events. Not about climate ambition or high sounding speeches but by unplanned events. First...

International Tribunal urges govts, masses to acknowledge nature’s rights

Governments and everyday people have been charged to acknowledge that nature has rights just as humans do, and that ecosystems deserve to exist, thrive,...

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Food security: Stakeholders urge Nigerians to embrace biotechnology, digital tools

Stakeholders  at the 51st Annual Conference of Nigerian Society for Plant Protection have raised concerns over the effect of...
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World Migratory Bird Day 2026 to spotlight role of community science in species conservation

On Saturday May 9, 2026, World Migratory Bird Day will spotlight the important role of community science (also referred...

The Earth Prize 2026: Two young Nigerian teams among world’s top 35

Three young Nigerians have been named among the top 35 global teams in The Earth Prize 2026, the world’s...

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Food security: Stakeholders urge Nigerians to embrace biotechnology, digital tools

Stakeholders  at the 51st Annual Conference of Nigerian Society...