Nigeria's worst flooding in decade worsens food insecurity
At least 32 of Nigeria's 36 states are expected to be impacted by flooding, a scourge that is destroying farmlands and the country’s already precarious agricultural production.
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At least 32 of Nigeria's 36 states are expected to be impacted by flooding, a scourge that is destroying farmlands and the country’s already precarious agricultural production.
The “Trustees” of the Florida Legislature aren’t listening because they do not think they need to.
The 2021 VBank Open Snooker and Billiards tournament held in partnership with the Lagos Country Club, Ikeja, closed in grand style over the weekend, with Gideon John emerging the biggestwinner of the night after defeating Shehu Bamidele, 3-0. Wale Akintola took the blliardsgame in an exciting 150 to 135 win. The tournament which kicked off on Tuesday, 6thApril 2021, had 32 initial players before whittling down to the Top four who played their hearts out last Saturday. Victor Ukueku bested Abiodun Christopher in a match of five frames to clinch the third-place prize of N80,000 and consolation ...
Get the Apps Farmers dig out from tonnes of volcanic ash, face uncertain future Article by April 17, 2021 KINGSTOWN – Farmers in St Vincent’s breadbasket region are counting thousands of dollars in losses after the decimation of their crops from the erupting La Soufriere volcano’s ashfall. The fallout could trigger food shortages and price hikes in Barbados, some market watchers said Friday. In the villages of the island’s southern farming heartland, Mesopotamia Valley, life is once again springing forth from the earth. But for hundreds of root crops, bananas and...
The FCT Police Command has arrested five suspects for cultism and ‘one chance’ robbery along the Gwagwa and Lugbe axis in Abuja. The Public Relations Officer, Mariam Yusuf, in a statement, gave the cultists’ names as Peter Ajari, 24; Gideon John, 28; and Emmanuel Agwu, 26. They were arrested by operatives from the Gwagwa Division during a routine patrol on Friday, March 12. “The suspects confessed to being members of Aro Baga confraternity terrorizing Gwagwa axis. Exhibits recovered from them include one locally-made revolver and two unexpended cartridges”, Yusuf said. Similarly, th...