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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Johnbosco Agbakwuru ABUJA – THE House of Representatives, experts in the Agriculture sector and the academia Wednesday expressed concerns over the prolonged neglect and underfunding of research, training and extension services in the Nigeria’s Agricultural sector. Consequently, stakeholders at a public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture Institutions have called for deliberate policy and action plans towards revamping the sector as part of efforts to make Nigeria self sufficient in production of agricultural produces and exporter to other countries across the world. Speaking at the public hearing, the House Committee Chairman on Agricultural Colleges and Institutions, Rep Linus Okorie, said that Nigeria was endowed with all that was required for self-sufficiency and food security. The public hearing was on three bills: for an Act to amend the Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria Act, bill for an Act to establish th...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Expectant mothers have been advised to eat locally made food, especially vegetables and fruits, for the proper development of their unborn babies. Dr Marian Unachukwu, the President, Association of Female Laboratory Scientist of Nigeria, gave the advice in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja. “A woman who is pregnant needs blood and she can get it in her immediate environment by eating the proper vegetables and the proper fruits around her and keeping herself clean. “Already the baby would have been formed by your maker, but what you need to do are the little things that you must do around you to help nurture the baby. “Good food, simple hygiene and eating proper vegetables at the right time will nurture your baby.’’ Unachukwu also stressed the need for expectant mothers to keep the domestic environment clean to guard against infection and to ensure healthy living. “In those days, our parents hardly had maternal mortalities; they were there, but ve...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said that the Almajiri practice which involves children who have deviated from being students of Quránic schools to being beggars in the streets after their parents had sent them to distant Islamic schools to learn does not represent Islam and its teachings but instead, represents hunger and poverty. The Sultan spoke during a meeting in preparation for the Ramadan period. According to him, “Almajiri does not represent Islam, but hunger and poverty. Almajiri system of begging is not representing Islam and must therefore be distinguished from Islam,” the sultan said. “Islam encourages scholarship and entrepreneurship and frowns at laziness and idleness as exemplified by itinerant Almajiri. Therefore attempt must be made to stop the practice Almajiri system of begging among Muslim faithful.” Recall that, in like voice, the Kano state Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje had in April raised an alarm over the increasing number o...

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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Jane Echewodo L AGOS— BOSE Oguntoye, a fashion designer, pleaded with a customary court sitting in Agege, Lagos, to end her five-year-old marriage, citing her husband’s fetish practices and threats to her life as reasons. Oguntoye told the court’s President, Mr. Phillips Williams: “My husband is  desperate to make money at all costs. I live in fear of the unknown because of all kinds of charms I see with him. He also beats me the slightest opportunity.” She alleged that in 2015, her husband took her to a cleric when she was pregnant, who placed a charm on her to make her run mad. She continued: “He took me to somewhere in Matogun, Ikorodu, under the pretext of curing me and I was fed assorted charms.” The petitioner said she is still alive due her family’s interven-tion, who “took me to Ikare in Ondo State, where I spent five months, before I became well.” Bose alleged that when she came back to her matrimonial home, her husband did not relent in his ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Louis Otieno This World IP Day, Louis Otieno, Corporate Affairs Director at Microsoft 4Afrika, explores the state of intellectual property (IP) rights in Africa. Where do we stand? What are we doing right? And what can we do better to foster more innovation-driven economies? It has been 17 years since World IP Day was first launched. The world – and more specifically, technology – has changed significantly in this timespan. In April 2000, there were no smartphones. There was no 3D printing, Wikipedia or even YouTube. Yet, the occasion of World IP Day is more relevant today than ever before. With the creation of accessible tools and mediums like smartphones and YouTube, there has come a whole new wave of creativity and innovation. Whether developers are using mobile services to build new eHealth apps, or artists are recording and uploading original songs to YouTube, IP – from inventions to art – is being created and shared every day. A valuable commodity A...