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CALL FOR PAPERS! 2024 All Africa Intellectual Property Summit
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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL | SBMEN Announces Its Virtual Copyediting Course in March 2023
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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Improved storage facilities for enhanced agricultural productivity in Nigeria
“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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Agriculture: From a business to a commercial ecosystem In Nigeria
“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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: APP: substituting importation with exportation in Nigeria
“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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Mechanization as a path to increased agricultural productivity in Nigeria
“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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: CBN: Making access to finance easier for Nigerian farmers
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…
Read More »ADVERTORIAL: Agriculture as a means to economic diversification
“Nigeria’s early development was financed with agricultural wealth, including development of the oil sector. Agriculture has left a far better legacy of infrastructural facilities than the current oil-based economy.” – Dr Abbati Bako, International Political Resource Centre The reality of the hard-hitting consequences of Nigeria’s overdependence on oil –…
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