The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) says complimenting conventional breeding with biotechnology is the panacea for maximum result in the agriculture sector. The AATF director of programme development and commercialisation, Dr. Emmanuel Okogbenin, made this assertion at the 23rd virtual annual meeting of China Association of Science and Technology (CAST), anchored by the China Crop Science Society, on July 27,...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and National Institute for Security Studies (NISS) are set to enter into a partnership to build more manpower in the forensic sector for enhanced security, especially cyber security. The NITDA director-general, Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi, made this known when he received the NISS Commandant, Alhaji Saheed Adeleke, who paid a courtesy call on him at the agency's corporate headquarters in Abuja, saying the...

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has bagged the Lateef Lawal Award for Airport Manager of the Year for its outstanding service delivery in the aviation sector. Receiving the award at the just concluded League of Airports and Aviation Correspondents (LAAC) 25th conference with theme – ‘Aviation in Nigeria: Management, policy and regulation’ the director of airport operations, Captain...

The Federal Government is currently putting together guidelines for the regulation of stacked gene organisms in the country, the director-general, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), Dr. Rufus Ebegba, has said. He made this known at a two-day meeting on the development of a guidance document on risk assessment of and decision making on GM plants stacked transformation events in Abuja,...

As Nigeria enters the peak of the rainy season, the director-general of the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA), Engr. Clement Nze, has lamented that state governments are not proactive in their actions to curtail flooding incidences in the nation. Addressing a press conference on the overview of 2021 Annual Flood Outlook (AFO): Update of flood situations in the country, said...

The provost, Centre for Strategic Research and Studies, National Defence College (NDC), Ambassador Chijioke Wigwe, has said available data shows the COVID-19 restrictions contributed to the upsurge in domestic violence and other crimes such as looting, cyberfraud, and internet scam. At the citizens forum on Strengthening Citizens Voices for Security Sector Accountability (SPaCVOSSA) during the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria organised...

The Minister of State for Science and Technology, Barr. Mohammed Abdullahi, has called on government and the organised private sector (OPS) to initiate urgent interventions in order to engage Nigerian youths and make their lives more meaningful. The minister said this when he gave a goodwill message at the Generation Unlimited Nigeria launch in Abuja, making reference to a disturbing 2020 report by the managing director of World...

“This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society – like systemic racism, gender inequality, and poverty,” – Melinda Gates When Melinda Gates made the above statement, many did not streamline it to what we see in our general policy system, and it is why I have decided to open this discourse with the quote. In today’s Nigeria, many live...

In the heat of the debate over the Electoral Act Amendment Bill and the propriety and workability of electronic transmission of result, the House of Representatives invited the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, the nation’s telecom’s regulator. The house also invited the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to answer to some questions. But as it has now turned out, the invitation...

The executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has said the commission is particularly noted for its faith in strategic collaborations and partnerships as a central principle of its stakeholders’ relationship management and regulatory activities. He made this assertion in his keynote address at the 2021 virtual conference and exhibition on Information Communication Technology and Telecommunications (ICTEL) with the theme –...