Aderolu Ademola Zaid
7 Sep
Despite being endowed with good quality water for the rearing of fishes, Nigeria’s aquaculture sector still faces challenges such as inadequate supply of inputs, inadequate database for biological reprogramming of species
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The incessant rejection of Nigerian livestock and fish abroad has been partly linked to wrong application of antibiotics by farmers, which has been identified as causes of serious cases of antibiotics resistance in humans. To this end, experts have discovered an alternative – onion peels, considered as the richest part of onions because it contains…
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The head of Spain's eastern Valencia region admitted Friday to "mistakes" in handling the country's deadliest flood in decades that killed 216 people there and apologised. The October 29 disaster claimed 224 lives nationwide. The floods wrecked infrastructure, gutted buildings and submerged fields. The final bill is expected to soar to tens of billions of…
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The Bauchi State Civil Service Commission (BSCSC), has suspended six civil servants over alleged gross misconduct. The Information officer of the commission, Sale Umar, confirmed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Bauchi. According to him, the commission considered the suspension of the officers on Thursday during its…
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Police made 40 arrests at a tense football match between France and Israel in Paris but the city's police chief said on Friday the huge security operation had "worked very well". The Nations League game at the Stade de France on Thursday took place under intense security after fans of Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv…
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One week after being given the power to seize luxury items from people not suspected of a crime, Swedish police said on Friday they had already confiscated items worth nearly $1.0 million. The law, which was passed by parliament on October 2 and came into force on November 8, is part of the right-wing government's…
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Nigeria needs an additional 11.6 million toilets to meet its 2030 Open Defecation Free (ODF) target, says Prof. Joseph Utsev, Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation Utsev, speaking with newsmen on Friday in Abuja, noted that achieving ODF status involved more than building toilets. He said that while huge progress had been made, ensuring access…
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A senior Hamas official on Friday said the group is "ready for a ceasefire" in Gaza, urging US President-elect Donald Trump to "pressure" Israel as it continued to pound the Palestinian territory. It comes nearly a week after Qatar, which hosts much of the Palestinian group's political bureau, announced it was suspending its role as…
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The wife of a Russian poet jailed for seven years for reciting anti-war verses said she was afraid he could be killed in prison after he was sexually assaulted with a dumbbell during his arrest. Artyom Kamardin was arrested in September 2022 after reciting -- on a Moscow square where dissidents have been gathering since…
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Lagos State has emerged the overall best state at the 27th Edition of the National Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientists (JETS) competition in Abuja on Friday. The state also won the best overall JETS award with 200 students from 20 states participating in the competition as well as the overall best in the quiz competition.…
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A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said. The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves France, French…
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The Enugu Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned two Chinese siblings, Wang Jian and Wang Richard, before Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court sitting in Independence Layout, Enugu. The Chinese siblings were arraigned alongside Michael Berneth Agu, a Nigerian, on a three-count bordering on exporting mineral…