• Float Blood Donation Centre • NBA To Bail Arrested Persons Free, Establish Helpline • No Work, Market Tomorrow, Protesters Declare • Warns Against Deploying Soldiers Twelve days after the #EndSARS protest started, the movement has not lost steam. The campaigners have already established a helpline to provide needs to their members nationwide. According to the protesters, the…

The Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) has expressed its readiness to work with the National Association of Technologists in Engineering (NATE), Lagos State branch, to eliminate post-harvest food wastage. Acting Director-General of FIIRO, Dr (Mrs) Yemisi Asagbra, expressed FIIRO’s readiness to deploy its human and material resources to assist NATE in realising its…

Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc (FMN) has announced activities to commemorate its 60-years of creating innovative and sustainable value in agriculture and food production.

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent directive to the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to restrict foreign exchange for the purpose of food and fertiliser importation into the country should not be trifled with. The presidential order emerged at the National Food Security Council meeting held in the nation’s capital, Abuja.    To underscore…

As prices of food items skyrocket due to production, storage, processing, and marketing challenges, lawmakers and policymakers have been called upon to make the right to food

President of the Fertilizer Producers and Suppliers Association of Nigeria (FEPSAN), Thomas Etuh has commended President Buhari for re-emphasising the need to sustain the ban placed on the importation of fertilizer and some staple food items into Nigeria, saying the presidential pronouncement is a demonstration of the determination of the president to ensure self-sufficiency in…

Pope Francis has described sex and eating a well cooked meal as "simply divine" pleasures from God. Pope Francis, who is the religious head of over 1.3 billion Catholic around the world, spoke with Italian writer Carlo Petrini, who has compiled several conversations with the pope for a new book. "Pleasure arrives directly from God,…

Barely one month after Rivers State House of Assembly approved N18 billion for Governor Nyesom Wike, the House, yesterday, approved another N6.5 billion loan for the state from Zenith Bank. The first loan, which was approved on August 10, 2020, is meant to accelerate development in the state, take care of the construction of the…

A faction of the National Union of Food, Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE) has insisted that until elections are conducted by the leadership of the main body for new executives to emerging, they were not ready to reconcile.   The aggrieved members, who pulled out to form a faction, alleged that the leadership of the…

Most women are obsessed with the health of their vagina and this is a good thing. There is nothing bad to want your lady-bit to be healthy. As always stated, your vagina is capable of protecting and cleaning itself. Proper vagina care, such as good hygiene, safe sex, and regular gynecological visits, all play a…

Overuse and non-replenishment of farmland by small-scale farmers while they lack the capacity and resources for organic agriculture have constituted a barrier to the food productivity of farmers per hectare in the country. Also, imported or most locally blended organic fertiliser brands are still relatively expensive for the resource-poor farmers. Hence, the coming into the…

The ECOWAS Commission has donated about 4,000 tonnes of food items to the Federal Government for distribution to vulnerable households, to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.