23 Remaining Train Passengers Held by Terrorists Regain Freedom
By Ruth Tene Natsa, Abuja It is good news for victims and their families as the 23 Remaining Train Passengers Held by bandits today Wednesday regain their freedom. It will be recalled that the victims were taken hostage on March 28, 2022, en route Kaduna In a statement by the secretary, Chief of Defense Staff […]
Atiku Visits Bauchi, Receives Over 25,0000 Decampees from opposition parties
Betty Earland, Bauchi The Presidential candidate of the PDP for the 2023 elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar GCON has received over 25,000 decampees, from the All Progressive Congress (APC) and other opposition parties in the state. He was received by thousands of supporters of the PDP, APC, and other political parties in the state who decamped to […]
Agroecology is Africa’s Solution to Climate Adaptation, Resilience-Stakeholders
It was a most unifying gathering, when the continent’s most prominent civil society organization(CSO) movement, representing 200 million small-scale farmers, fisher-folk, pastoralists, consumers, religious groups, and indigenous people, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) hosted stakeholders from 33 African countries, including Nigeria, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to adopt agroecology, as the solution to […]
Full text: Buhari’s 62nd Independence Day speech
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) 1st October 2022 INDEPENDENCE DAY ADDRESS BY MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA DELIVERED ON THE OCCASION OF NIGERIA’S 62ND INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION ON 1ST OCTOBER, 2022 Fellow Nigerians, I address you today, with a deep sense of gratitude to God […]
Flooding Submerges VCDP Rice Farm In Kogi
By Austin Alfa, Lokoja Rice farmers who are beneficiaries of the Value Chain Development Programme (VCDP) under the FGN/IFAD assisted project in Kogi State have lamented over the colossal loss of their rice farms to flooding. These beneficiaries are vulnerable farmers under the IFAD-VCDP Rural Poor Stimulus Facility (RPSF), aimed at cushioning the effects of […]
FBO Fetes Over 1000 Children to Food, Back to School Kits
By Ruth Tene Natsa, Abuja It was a time of great fun and activities for children, when a faith-based organization (FBO), the ‘Women With Answers Christian Ministry’ hosted over one thousand (1000) children in Aso Pada Community area, Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa state to food, music and back to school packs. Saturday, August […]
Seeing Red with the Blue Economy
By Nnimmo Bassey Director, HOMEF One of the biggest errors anybody can make is to see the ocean as limitless. Without a doubt, nothing on Earth is limitless. We live in a limited, blue planet, a tiny ball floating in the sea of galaxies loaded with larger planets and non-planets. The notion that the ocean […]
AFSA Calls for Northwest Inclusion in UN Humanitarian Plan
By Ruth Tene Natsa, Abuja The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) has raised the alarm that Africa’s small-scale farmers risk being disregarded and shut out at international climate negotiations (COP27) in Egypt this November. AFSA which is the largest civil society movement, represents over 200 million small-scale farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, and indigenous peoples. […]
MSF Raises Alarm Over Malnutrition Crisis in Northwest, Nigeria
By Ruth Tene Natsa, Abuja Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has described the malnutrition crisis in northwest Nigeria as catastrophic, this is even as it calls on the humanitarian community to respond to the emergency needs of the region. MSF further urges that northwest Nigeria be included in the UN’s humanitarian response plan to enable a […]
COP 27: 32 African Countries Advocate Adoption of Agroecology for Africa.
By Ruth Tene Natsa, Nigeria As the world grapples the occurring issues of Climate Change, 32 African Countries have converged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to set a Roadmap for better understanding and inclusion of Agroecology to, during and beyond COP 27. The three days conference, organised by the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa(AFSA) in […]