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Harvestplus, an international agricultural organisation, yesterday launched this year's planting season for bio-fortified vitamin A cassava and maize in Akure, Ondo state.Speaking at the event, which was held in Akure, Ondo State, the Country Manager of the organisation, Mr Paul Ilona, said that the aim was to ensure that Nigerians have access to nutritious foods through bio fortification. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Harvestplus is an international organisation, which provides global leadership in bio fortification evidence and technology. According to Ilona, many people go blind as a result of lack of essential nutrients such as vitamin A, zinc and iron needed for the body. “No fewer than 2,200 children under the age of five die every day in Nigeria due to lack of these nutrients, to curtail this we must improve our nutrition. “We intend to make eating of staple crops become the channel of good nutrients for the body; we have vitamin A varieties released in Nige...

The two elderly Zimbabwean women died after Joshua Bhebhe and his cousin Edica Mutero from Gokwe forced their mothers Erita Bhebhe , 76, and Jessy Mutero , age unknown, to attend a church service. There they were made to drink the water which reportedly caused the death. According to Zimbabwean media house, B-Metro , soon after drinking the water and holding the prophet’s "holy" stick, they collapsed and died at Baba Wechishanu Wenguwo Tsvuku Church. Prophet Pira , the church leader and custodian had initially said if the women drank the water they would die if they were witches but live if they were not. The two boys who forced the women to the church were caught after they both gave similar stories of their mothers' deaths, raising the suspicion of family members. “Joshua and Edica tried to cover up the issue after realising that their mothers died at church. They took them home leaving each one of them in her kitchen hut,” said a family source. “The grandchildren, real...

Ruth says she was grossly misinterpreted as she had only expressed her admiration of Genevieve 's supreme acting qualities. She says she sees Genevieve as a role model, and that her love fro her has not even diminished tiil date. “I am not a lesbian and I can never be a lesbian. My mother is a devout Christian and she is an evangelist. I can never be a lesbian. I lost a four-year old relationship because of that interview. I never said that; all I said in the interview was that I love Genny very much and I still love her till date. I don’t care about what anybody says. I don’t judge anyone whether they are a lesbian or not. It is between you and God because the Bible says we should not judge.” Acording to Ruth, her ex did not believe her side of the story, and she felt really bad when he refused to trust her even when she told him what truly happened. “If you are my boyfriend and you cannot stand by me in times of little trouble, what would happen when something big comes? What if ...

A nine-year-old girl, one of the 65 girls rescued by the troops from Sambisa forest has pleaded to return to her Boko Haram husband in Sambisa. To press home her point, the girl has embarked on an hunger strike. While the girl continues to insist on going back to the forest to see her husband, it has also been discovered that about 12 other rescued girls were pregnant while others have already been delivered of babies. Borno state Governor, Kashim Shettima, revealed this when he visited the headquarters of the 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maimalari Cantonment to officially receive the Boko Haram hostages from the General Officer Commanding (GOC), Major General Victor Ezegwu . Vanguard reports that most of the rescued hostages comprising 27 children, over 30 young girls and a few women including two Camerounians have been indoctrinated by the sect, having been with them for as much as three years in the worst case. Some of them confessed that they were willing to go back to Sambisa to mee...

Following reports that the United States of America is willing to sell 12 A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to Nigeria in the fight against Boko Haram, investigation conducted by Pulse has shown this might gulp over 21.5billion. In a report by Nation Newspaper, though the planned sale of the attack aircraft is still subjected to review by Congress. the country has been dedicating more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to the campaign against terrorism. In another report by Reuters, U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Michael Franken, a deputy commander of the Pentagon’s Africa Command, told a Washington forum last week that there now are 6,200 U.S. troops – most of them Special Operations Forces – operating from 26 locations in Africa. A check on the attack aircraft shows that it costs a whopping sum of between $9m and $14m to acquire just one unit. Manufactured by Embraer and first flown in June 1999, Wikipedia revealed that the A-29 is a turboprop aircraft designed for li...

“I love my husbands eyes at the Met #AfterPartyVibes,” she captioned the image, in which Kanye , bathed with green light, 38, stares straight at the camera in light-colored contact lenses. His wife, Kim Kardashian can be seen sitting off to the side chatting with a pal. The pair, who were both decked out in matching Balmain for the fashion fete, also caught some Internet attention after Us Weekly shared an exclusive image of the 'Famous' rapper resting his head on Kardashian’s impressive buttocks at the afterparty. In the photo, Kardashian stands facing the wall and looks seductively over to the side as West snuggles up to her and bows his head over her bum.

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari has finally signed into law a budget for 2016 after months of wrangling. He had refused to approve the 6.08tn-naira ($30.6bn; £21bn) budget amid claims of mismanagement and kickbacks among the officials who drew it up. The budget triples capital expenditure in Nigeria. Some 34 projects will get extra spending to help revive the economy, including improvements to power, health, and transport. "It is a great pleasure to sign the budget. It is a serious article of faith for the Nigerian people," the president said at a ceremony. "The signing of the budget today will trigger concerted efforts to reflate the Nigerian economy, a key element of which is an immediate injection of 350bn naira into the economy by way of capital projects." The budget is based on an oil price of $38 per barrel, slightly below the current global market rate of just over $40. Mr Buhari delayed signing the budget after finding errors in the spending program...