By: Mandy Park The Centre for Human and Socio-Economic Rights (CHSR) has strongly condemned the demolition and destruction of shops and goods at Owode Motor Spare Parts Market, Owode Onirin, in Lagos State. This is as CHSR has written to Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, urging him to intervene and restore peace as those whose shops were destroyed may become a security risk for the state, if the impasse is not properly addressed and justice given to victims. The organization views the demolition as a “brazen act of land grabbing”…
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Nto Champions Intensive Farming To Address Food Insecurity
By: Mandy Park The Director, Agricbusiness Incubation Centre, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, ( MOUAU),Dr Philips Nto has advocated aggressive farming by all adult Nigerians as a practical step towards curbing food insecurity. He said Nigerians must farm what to eat and eat what they farm “,if they must overcome the existential threat of shortage of food. Speaking when he received some farmers in his office, Nto enjoined Nigerians to ensure that they farmed even at home to raise basic food such as vegetable, yam, and cassava. He noted…
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