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| L-R, the Program Director, IIPM, Eburuche Banito, presenting Award to Permanent Secretary's representative, Mr. Ibrahim Bello, during Award ceremony in the Ministry |
The Director General (DG), National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Dr. Rufus Ebegba has warned Federal Government (FG) not to allow foreign donors to champion funding of the safety regulations of the Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) products, just as he hailed the Federal high court judgment delivered last week Wednesday.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar has described lack of animal disease control surveillance to why the country cannot timely report any disease outbreak to the global world. And this did not conform with expected global practice.
The usual highly celebrated animals’ vaccination and inseminations across some states in the country has been described as a charade and waste of government resources, an anonymous source told Foodfarmnews.
The Executive Director (ED), Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Prof. M.F Ishyaku has allayed the fear of food security being put in a jeopardy by the ongoing university strikes, saying there is understanding with the internal union not to obstruct strategic crops research being an economic activity of the government towards food security.
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The office of the presidency under the food security matters, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD),and the farmers’ apex body under Architect Ibrahim Kabir have dissociated themselves from the information being circulated on social media asking farmers and non-farmers to register online for Federal Government (FG) grant of one hundred and fifty thousand naira.
