‘ICT ‘ll increase food productivity, IGR’

By Francis Akinnodi | Amidst challenges facing agricultural extension services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Government has been charged to see the use of ICT as an alternative option going forward. The Chairman, Ondo State Agricultural Commodities Association (OSACA), Gbenga Obaweya, pointed out that providing extension services to farmers has become […]

Akure residents react to hike in fares

By Babatunde Ayedoju | Transportation is a service that one can hardly do without. One way or the other, everybody is involved in transportation everyday. It could be by air, rail, sea or land. Specifically, when we talk of transportation by a good number of people cannot afford their own cars hence, the popularity of […]

Can Nigeria benefit from Iweala’s WTO appointment?

Adetokunbo Abiola | Recently, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) appointed its first woman and first African director general, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Okonjo-Iweala takes the helm after the Biden administration endorsed her appointment earlier this month over Donald Trump’s candidate, South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee. But Yoo pulled out of the WTO’s leadership race on […]

Students’ abduction: ‘Beef security around schools’

By Kehinde Oluwatayo | Stakeholders in the education sector in Ondo State have been urged to beef up security around schools in the state to prevent students from kidnappers whose targets now are school children. Some experts made the call in separate interviews with The Hope while reacting to the incessant kidnapping of students in […]

Decay in educational system, bane of Nigeria problem -Afe Babalola

Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti | A legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Afe Babalola (SAN), has attributed the crises confronting the nation to decay in the country’s educational system . Babalola spoke in Ado Ekiti, at the weekend, while playing host simultaneously to leaders of Bursars’ Association of Polytechnics and Colleges […]

FUOYE partners police, DSS to tackle cultism

By Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti | The management of the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) has disclosed its plan to partner the Department of State Security Services (DSS) and police to deal with suspected internet fraudsters and cultists among students of the institution. The new Vice-Chancellor, of the university, Prof Abayomi Fashina, who said at a press […]