We have read with interest Monsanto’s defence of NBMA in its response to Premium Time’s report highlighting NBMA’s surreptitious granting of permits to them to bring their...
The African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE), an Agency of the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) and Nigeria's Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu will...
We are at crossroads in the struggle for sustainable agriculture, safe foods, biosafety and biosecurity. Navigating this intersection and assuring Nigerians that their concerns...
The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) has said that, during the last year, African farmers planted a total of 3.5...
Minister of Environment, Amina J. Mohammed, has said that Nigeria is ready to deploy biotechnology to boost the nation’s economy.
She told media executives at...
The Nigerian Textile Manufacturers Association (NTMA) has expressed its support for the environmental release and commercialisation of genetically modified Bt Cotton for Nigerian farmers....
About 100 groups representing some five million Nigerians, comprising farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, students and local community groups, have lodged an opposition...
"Agriculture must cease from being treated as development programme; agriculture must be treated as business. Our goal will be to pursue government supported private...
