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The GAIN PLAN: Improving Nigeria’s fruit and food yields by cutting down postharvest losses

Estimates from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) reveal that almost 40% of all fruits and vegetables in the whole of Africa are lost...

Why Inadequate pesticide laws, regulatory lapses exist in Nigeria: Call for caution (II)

Continued from yesterday Part 2: Checking the flaw Based on the issues identified regarding inadequate pesticide laws and regulatory lapses in Nigeria, here are some recommendations...

Why inadequate pesticide laws, regulatory lapses exist in Nigeria: Call for caution

Part One – the why! Since 2015, the Nigerian government has grappled with the ongoing issue of its food exports consistently being rejected by the...

Kogi urged to knock out poverty, land degradation with palm oil production

Solidaridad, a solution-oriented civil society organisation, has called on the Kogi State Government to promote massive palm oil production to curb poverty and land...

Group calls for caution on Egyptian investment in Ogun agro processing zone

The Ecological Think Tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has called for caution over the planned investment by the Government of the Arab...

World Hunger Day: NABDA, OFAB, others advocate use of biotechnology for food sufficiency

As Nigerians celebrate World Hunger Day, agricultural stakeholders launched the National Farmers Day to celebrate and honour farmers across the country for their hard...

AATF partners ECOWAS to improve agricultural productivity

Low agricultural productivity, food and nutritional insecurity and availing smallholder farmers access to life-changing technologies are issues that AATF and ECOWAS have agreed to...

Govt, charcoal export group plant trees to reforest, combat climate change

The Charcoal Export Legality and Compliance Group, in collaboration with the Federal Government, has flagged off symbolic tree planting project in Iseyin area of...

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A greener path forward: Commending Ogun’s housing drive, calling for urban tree canopy

Nigerian Canadian environmentalist, Surajdeen Alabede, commends Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun for his outstanding commitment to affordable housing in Ogun...
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Dangote-NNPC alliance to redefine Nigeria’s energy security, deepen industrialisation – Ojulari

Strategic collaboration between the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) and Dangote Petroleum Refinery & Petrochemicals has the potential...

Tobacco control researcher, Charity Aienobe-Asekharen, bags WHO, PhD awards

A health promotion expert, and researcher associate at the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB), Dr. Charity Aienobe-Asekharen,...

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A greener path forward: Commending Ogun’s housing drive, calling for urban tree canopy

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Dangote-NNPC alliance to redefine Nigeria’s energy security, deepen industrialisation – Ojulari

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