The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has explained that the existing arbitrage fueled by the prevailing huge price differentials in pump price of petrol in Nigeria and neighbouring countries is responsible for the smuggling of petroleum products in the country.  In a presentation at an interactive session by the Joint Senate Committee on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)...

Bayer has developed and launched a new crop protection product known as Lagon to help farmers tackle the problem of weeds in cassava and raise yield. Tested on more than 200 trials and demos across Nigeria and Tanzania, Lagon was rated among the top best pre-emergence herbicides for control of both grasses and broad-leaf weeds in cassava. “The launch of Lagon...

Nigeria’s Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, currently director-general of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, has been appointed to lead the World Health Organization (WHO) Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence based in Berlin. The hub inaugurated today by the German Chancellor, Dr. Angela Merkel and WHO director-general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is to better prepare and protect the world from global...

…It Is An Attempt To Cover Up Failures - PDP President Muhammadu Buhari has relieved two ministers of their appointments. They are the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Sabo Nanono and his power counterpart, Engr. Saleh Mamman. The special adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this on Wednesday. He said the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abubakar has been redeployed...

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure's (NASENI's) special statutory levy of ¼ per cent on income or turn-over of commercial companies and firms as stipulated in its establishment Act is an imperative requiring urgent implementation as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari. This is because NASENI and all other research activities nationwide, today, hold the key to national...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) are set to partner on digital transformation to drive the achievement of a digital economy. The NITDA director-general, Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi made this known when he received the NCAA director-general, Captain Musa Nuhu, who led his technical team on a courtesy visit to the agency’s headquarters in...

All is now set for the historic launch of the compendium of landmark speeches and presentations of the executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta. Scheduled to hold at the Communications and Digital Economy Complex, Mbora, Abuja, on September 7, 2021 by 10 am, the epoch-making event will also feature the unveiling of two other...

The role of dietary fats and oils in human nutrition is one of the most complex and controversial areas of investigations in nutrition science. The joint WHO/FAO export consultation on diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic disease held in Geneva in 2002 (WHO, 2003 and Nishida & Yany, 2009) recognized that the growing epidemic of chronic disease afflicting...

The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has called for a renaissance of Nigerian technological innovations, products and services to be of global standards.  He made the call on Monday in Kano when he visited the Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State. The working visit was essentially to intimate the governor and people of Kano State on the...

The former co-chairs of the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response (IPPPR), Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former president of Liberia, and Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand, have expressed their deep concern at the slow pace of redistribution of COVID-19 vaccines from high income to low-income countries. “The independent panel report recommended that high-income countries ensure that at...