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As the continent commemorates Africa Day 2025, the Advisory Council of All Africa Intellectual Property Summit 2025 (AAIPS 2025) has described the day as not just ceremonial rather as “a rallying call, a moment of reflection, and a time for celebration to honour the resilience, creativity, and relentless innovation of…

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat has confirmed a strategic partnership with the 6th All Africa Intellectual Property (IP) Summit, scheduled for November 12th to 14th 2025 in Dakar, Senegal. This partnership, which aligns the Summit’s mission with AfCFTA’s ambitious agenda to harmonize intellectual property rules across the continent, promises to be a…

The Coalition for the UN We Need (C4UN) is seeking a dynamic and experienced Managing Director to lead the Coalition’s Secretariat in the execution of the 2025-2028 Strategic Plan and its ongoing advocacy for a more effective, accountable, inclusive, and equitable UN. DEADLINE: May 23 Commitment: Full-time Location: Strong preference…

The call for papers is open for the 5th Annual Africa Intellectual Property Rights Summit (Africa IP Summit) under the theme: Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs): The Catalyst for Sustainable Development Goals in Africa, holding November 28-30, 2024, in Kigali, Rwanda. Why don’t you submit an abstract? Introduction:The All Africa IP…

Lagos, 8 March 2023 – The Board of Trustees and Management of the Society of Book and Magazine Editors of Nigeria (SBMEN) is proud to announce its forthcoming editing workshop themed: Elementary Copyediting. A 2-day virtual training scheduled to be held from 24 to 25 March 2023.   The training…

    “Given the current post-harvest loss rates of up to 60 percent for perishable crops, Nigeria needs to rapidly introduce new storage solutions across its agricultural system,” says Audu Ogbeh at the launch of the Agriculture Promotion Policy (2016 – 2020)  of the Buhari administration.   Nigeria’s current post-harvest…

“Anchor Borrowers Programme has produced 2.1 million metric tonnes of rice, setting the country on the road to rice sufficiency by 2018,” Mr. Isaac Okorafor‏, acting director of communications of Central Bank of Nigeria Until recently, many Nigerians could not connect with or rather appreciate the huge potentials that lie…

“Nigeria’s trade value in export is now more than the value of its import as agricultural exports increased by 82 percent in quarter ,  2017,  export earnings from agricultural goods were worth N30 billion,” – National  Bureau of Statistics (NBS) From colonial times up to the 1970s, Nigeria’s export was…

“There are less than 30,000 tractors in Nigeria and we should at least as at today have a million… Increased mechanization is even more important now that we are trying to encourage the youth to embrace agriculture.” – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Chief Audu Ogbe Agricultural mechanization has…

The two major hindrances when it comes to access to finance by farmers is lack of collateral and high interest rates” – Abdulkadir Ahmed Faragai, Central Bank of Nigeria   Accessing agricultural finance or loans is one of the most daunting challenges Nigerian farmers are grappling with, most especially uneducated…