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Showing posts with label Biotechnology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biotechnology. Show all posts
Friday, 6 September 2024

Editorial: Why researchers should stop at scientific proof on GMOs

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  The negative criticism Genetically Modified Organism Seeds ( GMOs) is receiving in the recent times may have not been that much if our sci...
Monday, 29 April 2024

Editorial: Embark on GMO enlightenment on dos and don’ts now

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  The new scientific exposition on the recently released transgenic maize varieties into the Nigerian seeds market has taken a new turn with...
Tuesday, 30 May 2023

Genetic experts commend farmers for resilience against hunger

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  Genetic Engineering technocrats from National Biotechnology Development Agency ( NABDA) and West Africa, African Agricultural Technology F...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Press Release: Former President Goodluck Jonathan is Africa’s Agriculture Technology Ambassador

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L-R : Dr Canisius Kanangire, AATF Executive Director, Dr Goodluck Jonathan,former President of Nigeria, Prof. Emmanuel Ikani, Executive Dire...
Monday, 19 September 2022

Images speak @ the ongoing training on Genome Editing Communication.

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Images speak @ the ongoing training on Genome Editing Communication.

There is need for GMO seeds investment, says OFAB Coordinator

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As part of efforts to ensure that more farmers get access to approved genetically modified seeds, the country coordinator, Open Forum on Agr...
Friday, 2 September 2022

Experts reject bio-safety Act re-amendment

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Science experts at the public hearing organized by Senate Committee on Environment to amend 2015 National  Biosafety Management Act ( NBMA) ...
Monday, 8 August 2022

NISS Registrar endorses GMO seeds for farmers

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Soil expert, Registrar/ Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Nigeria Institute of Soil Science (NISS), Prof  Victor Chude has endorsed Genetically...
Monday, 1 August 2022

Rising Population:Experts, others endorse Bt innovations for food security

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Scientists, farmers, media and civil society at a recently held science journalists hangout in Abuja have supported adoption of  biotechnolo...
Saturday, 23 July 2022

GMO: FG cautioned against foreigners funding bio safety regulation

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The Director General (DG), National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Dr. Rufus Ebegba has warned Federal Government (FG) not to allow fore...
Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Conventional farming can’t guarantee food security — Prof Mustapha

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The Director General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor Abdullahi Mustapha has reiterated that traditional farmin...
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Friday, 13 May 2022

NABDA is now more empowered

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President Mohammed Buhari has signed into law the 2022 National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA) establishment bill which by provisi...
Friday, 8 April 2022

GMO, a panacea not to sleep on empty stomach, says NABDA DG

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  The application of Genetically Modified Crops (GMOs) technology into our food security programme has a solution to avert people from goi...
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Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Senate insists on GMOs thorough regulation, passes bill to committee on environment

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In a bit to ensure healthy food consumption and soils management against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) products, the senate presided ...
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Sunday, 29 August 2021

Biotechnology can protect Africa’s biodiversity, says conservation biologist BY JOSEPH MAINA

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  Though biotechnology is most often seen as a tool to meet Africa’s food needs, it could also play a role in protecting the continent’s ...
Friday, 13 August 2021

UN Food Systems Summit: Biotechnology key to meeting zero hunger goals

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Agricultural biotechnology is a crucial tool for transforming global food systems to meet the United Nation’s goal of ensuring zero hunger b...
Tuesday, 10 August 2021

Bt not an option, but necessity to crops productivity, says AATF Dr. Okogbenin

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The director, Programme Development and Commercialization at African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), Dr. Emmanuel Okogbenin. T...
Saturday, 2 January 2021

IAR cotton breeder wants non Bt on farms for higher yield

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  A cotton breeder and principal investigator of 2018 Biotechnology (Bt) cotton varieties from Institute for Agricultural Research, Zaria, D...
Monday, 28 December 2020

Biotechnology: DG says we will intensify sensitization

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The new Director General (DG) of National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof. Abdullah Mustapha has described unacceptability of...
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