Day: August 29, 2023

For decades, teachers in Nigeria have used corporal punishment on schoolchildren under the guise of disciplining them.In 2022, the global children’s rights organization UNICEF estimated that 85% of Nigerian children under the age of 14 experienced beat…

No fewer than 50 farmers and extension agents have been trained and empowered in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, on resilient practice in cassava production, with a view to boosting food production in the country.The training was sponsored by the F…

The 4th Tribe Global Movement, has frowned at the exclusion of immediate past Katsina state Governor, Aminu Masari in President Bola Tinubu’s government.The South-West based political group alleged that the Tinubu-led government, schemed out Masari in …

An award of excellence has been presented to Dr Rufus Ebegba, the immediate past Director-General, DG, of the National Biosafety Management Agency, NBMA, by the Programme for Biosafety System, PBS, in Nairobi at its 20th anniversary.This is contained i…

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, has urged the federal government to set up a joint palliative monitoring implementation committee in all states to ensure smooth and equal distribution of palliatives to farmers and other beneficiaries.Dr F…

Police in Nigeria say they have arrested about 200 gay men at an event in southern Delta state.Sixty-seven of them will now be charged after investigations.However, most of the men who were paraded in front of journalists on Tuesday said they were not …