During the 2008 food crisis, soaring fertilizer prices which rose alongside the price of food drove farmers across Africa, Asia and the Middle East to hold mass protests.
More fertilizer shortages could become common, some scientists say, as demand increases and supplies remain limited. A recent study warns that soil erosion from rain and running water is depleting farmland of phosphorus, an essential nutrient for plants. This drain not only compromises crop productivity and farmers’ livelihoods, but also threatens global food security.
On average, farmland worldwide is losing about five pounds of phosphorus per acre each year, the study found. While five pounds may not sound like a lot, many farmers struggle to afford fertilizer to replace any amount of lost soil nutrients, according to environmental scientist and the study’s lead author Christine Alewell from the University of Basel in Switzerland.
Boboye Oyeyemi PHOTO: TwitterThe Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC), Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, has inaugurated the Committee on the proposed National Road Assessment Programme (nRAP), to facilitate safer road infrastructure, and complement existing efforts geared toward the reduction of road deaths and injuries on Nigerian roads.
In a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer, Bisi Kazeem, the Road Assessment Programme is an international concept and practice that has gained acceptance in regions and countries around the globe. It targets to purposely enhance existing road safety engineering practice and create safe road infrastructure for all road users. x
He explained that the programme is a deliberate effort by concerned authorities to assess road infrastructure with a view to improving the safety of roads. In addition, the main focus of RAP is placed on improvement of roads for vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, two and
Urges South-West govs to unite against criminals Ahmadiyya has effective structures that care for members world-over Says: Covid-19 vaccines should not go the way of palliatives
By Haroon I. Balogun
Alhaji (Barr.) AbdulAzeez Alatoye is the Amir (President) Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Nigeria. Alatoye who is the founder and Senior Partner of Ascension Consulting Services, an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK); in this interview says there is gross injustice in Nigeria which according to him, has exacerbated the presence of violence, killings and clashes here and there.
The Ahmadiyya leader who is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN); Fellow, Nigeria Institute of Management also advised governors of the South-West states to unite against the criminal elements in the society; just as he spoke on issues of vaccines among others.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) says Nigeria will stick with AstraZeneca vaccine based on its epidemiological and equity assessment done by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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The Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR), Rivers State chapter has called on the new service chiefs to exhibit a high level of professionalism in the discharge of their duties while taking the whole Nigeria and Nigerians as their constituency and their people irrespective of ethnic and religious leanings.
The public relations practitioners gave the charge in Port Harcourt through a communiqué issued at the end of the monthly PR moment.
In the communiqué which was signed by the Chinedum Emeana, Apianbo Abbey and Parry Saroh Benson officials of the institute, the body observed that the outgone Service Chiefs actually performed well at the early stage of their appointment but began to derail as time went on.