Nigeria to establish GMO testing laboratory
Efforts have advanced to establish a laboratory dedicated to the testing of Genetic Modified (GM) products as the country awaits the assent of President Goodluck Jonathan on the National Biosafety bill.
Director, African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) Professor Diran Makinde, has called on Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan to assent to the National Biosafety Bill before “unscrupulous people take advantage of the situation to cause problems of wider implication for the country’s agricultural biotechnology developments.”
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For Isaiah Ibeh, university professor and AIDS cure claimant, fame came like a flash. His day in the sun wasn’t even up to 24 hours.
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Nigeria minister of science and technology, Prof. Ita Okon Bassey Ewa has called on the African Union (AU) to consider the engagement of Nigerian Scientists in its research activities. Speaking when he received in audience a delegation from the African Union Science Technical Research Commission (AU/STRC) led by the Executive Secretary, Dr Ahmad Hamdi in [...]
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John Idoko, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control AIDS, said at a post-International AIDS Society (IAS) meeting that the country will adopt the use of Tenofovir (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to block the infection. “We have issues about how to finally put an end to HIV. We are looking for cure, that cure is [...]
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By Onche Odeh Experts meeting on Mycotoxinfood poisoning in Osogbo, Osun State in South Western Nigeria have pointed out that some of the cases of infertility recorded among Nigerian men may be the direct consequence of consumption of food contaminated with the poisonous fungal secretion. This comes amid concerns by food and agriculture experts that [...]
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The United Nations welcomes the decision by the Nigerian Government to clean up a major oil contamination in the Ogoniland region of the country. The decision comes a year after the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) presented a scientific assessment of oil pollution in Ogoniland to the Government, underlining serious public health and environmental impacts. “On [...]
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Tertiary institutions in Nigeria have a shortfall of 61,738 academic staff especially in the fields of science and technology.
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Nigeria needs biotechnology to save it from starvation as the technology can produce abundant food which will go round its entire population.
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NKECHI ISAAC Nigeria’s Vice President, Namadi Sambo has urged scientists in Nigeria to utilise nuclear technology in a manner that would boost the nation’s economy. Sambo made the call while inaugurating a N650million Researchers Hostel and Conference Centre (RHCC) at Sheda Science and Technology Complex, Abuja. He said: “The use of nuclear technology for peaceful [...]
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