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…Says Nigeria produces 20% of world CassavaIduozee Efe PaulThe executive director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Dr. Olusegun Awolowo, says Nigeria is the highest producer of cassava, producing about 20 per cent of the total world production but national cassava production faces a lot of challenges that need to be addressed.Dr. Awolowo who, is also the CEO of NEPC, made the disclosure at a one-day workshop on the implementation of the One-State One-Product (OSOP) Value Chain in strategic production of the zero oil cassava plan in Benin city.Awolowo who was represented at the event by the trade promotion…

….New President Pledges Inclusive, Dedicated Leadership By Constance  MejuLeadership of  Ogwashi-Uku Development Association, OYDA,  Port Harcourt Branch, changed baton Saturday December 5, 2020 asewly elected  executive led by Mr  Henry Chiedu  Igwe was sworn –in  at Galaxy Event  Center, Port Harcourt.Other exco members are-Mr Ifeanyi Ifedinkor, vice president, Miss Rita Ogordinuor, secretary-general, Miss Nneka Emelieze, assistant secretary, Chris  Nwakaji, financial secretary and Miss Mary Nwaka, assistant financial secretary. Others are, Mike Azuani, treasurer, and Alexander Ikelia, PRO.In his post-inaugural speech, the new president, Mr Chiedu Igwe promised to run an inclusive government that ill positively impact both the association and…

By Constance Meju…FollowTheMoney Movement To Beam Light On 10 Rivers LGs Niger Delta youth have been advised to change their strategy for demanding government attention to be more productive as people appear to be no longer afraid of violence.A resource person at a two-day capacity training for community champions, leaders, media and civil society representatives organized  by Connected development, CODE as part of its Follow The Money, FTM movement  pushing  for government accountability.  The event held at Trulli Hotel, Port Harcourt.The resource person, Busayo Morakinyo said there is need for youth in the oil rich rejoin to re-evaluate their method…

ARE YOU AN OFFENDER OR DEFENDER?GENDER BASED VIOLENCE MEANS:• Inflicting Physical/Psychological injury on the other sex• Rights/Privileges Denial because of gender• Unnecessary display of power against the opposite sex• Discriminatory acts because of gender• Non-provision of necessary social services to improve living standard by Government like Water, Power, Security-services that reduce the burden on Women and Girls• Taking from the WIDOW her husband’s property/wealth thereby exposing the children to harm, poverty• Lack of education/educational opportunities for the Girl-Child and Women• Not addressing abuses perpetuated by men in positions of authority• Unequal attention to Boys and Girls in schools• Absence of…

By Ibiba DonPedroDikio who spoke at a Stakeholder gathering in Yenagoa Wednesday, November 18,2020 to seek understanding and to reposition the beleaguered Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration, DDR programme in the Niger Delta noted that:‘This approach of protest, protest is antithetical to the progress of the region. We have to find creative ways of bringing back business to the region’.The interim administrator who is on a Niger Delta wide tour themed, ‘Back To The Region Tour’, in responding to the myriad of concerns about the beleaguered programme which is thumbed down for the culture of fraud, including a scheme of corruption…

By Contance Meju, Henry EferegboFor Ogonis, Niger Delta, Nigerian activists, government and the environment world, November has assumed a month of significant events. On November 9, 1995, the then military government of Gen. Sani Abacha stamped itself as a government with impatience for dissenting voices. It gruesomely snuffed life off a world recognized environmental activist, playwright, poet and great advocate for ethnic nationality, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis over the killing of four pro-government Ogoni leaders.The killing of Ken and the others was the climax of a long series of brutalization, dehumanization and destruction of hundreds of Ogoni lives…