UN Health Agency Group Finds Coffee Poses No Cancer Risk - Issues Warning On 'Very Hot' Drinks

United Nations

An international working group of scientists convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that coffee should no longer be considered a carcinogen, although it found limited evidence that drinking very hot beverages can cause oesophageal cancer.

RIPPLE Africa Ensures Fish for Tomorrow in Lake Malawi

A conservation project devised by RIPPLE Africa is ensuring that there are fish for tomorrow in Africa’s third-largest lake.

A revolutionary conservation project devised by a small United Kingdom nonprofit organization is helping to build fish stocks in Africa’s third-largest lake, Lake Malawi.

IITA-CWMP gets 58 on-farm trials, targets 11000 farmers across Nigeria

IITA

The Steering Committee of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture-managed Cassava Weed Management Project (IITA-CWMP) has approved the establishment of 58 on-farm trials across Nigeria for the 2016 season.

MALNUTRITION: NEMA TAKES OVER FEEDING IDPS

Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs

Towards ending malnutrition of Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has taken over their daily feeding at various resettlement camps and other satellite centres across Borno State.

Nigeria: Caterpillars Ravage 300 Hectares of Cocoa Farms in Cross River - SEMA

Cross River State Governor

The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, said a multitude of caterpillars has ravaged at least 300 hectares of cocoa farms in Cross River.

Editorial- Need for livestock breeding policy

livestock breeding

 Nigeria has been spending billions of naira on meat and milk importation to complement its short fall demand since time immemorial without a concrete steps taken to checkmate this abnormally despite our ability to structure livestock policy on breeding to ensure maximum productivity. 

Helping African researchers gain new knowledge on weed science

IITA

The Cassava Weed Management Project which is managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is assisting African researchers to gain new knowledge on advances in weed science by drawing the expertise of United States researchers and their Nigerian counterparts thereby putting alive the legacies of Charles Darwin and making him proud.

Lake Chad Research reinstates readiness for improved crops productivity in the North east

Executive Director of the LCRI, Dr. Oluwasina Gbenga Olabanji

The manifest hope of peace become obvious In the last four years of insurgency that has paralyzed economic activities especially in agricultural productivity in the North East as Lake Chad Research Institute (LCRI) played a five days in- house Review Meeting and REFILs host to other scientists, extension officers and farmers in the region towards ensuring accelerated food production to boost food production with improved method of farming and technologies.

Nafdac, Son and Police alone can’t control adulteration says Notore.

Notore.

An indigenous fertilizer company Notore has said that National Agency for Food Drug Administration Commission (NAFDAC), Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) and the Nigerian Police Force (NPF)  may not be able to  sufficiently curb the level of abnormalities in  fertilizer adulteration based on the fact that most of the products are sealed when being imported.

12,000 farmers get fertilizers, maize seedlings

 fertilizers

About 12,000 farmers in Adamawa have benefitted from free fertilizers and improved maize seedlings.