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The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control has said it will soon ban the use of Paraquat and Atrazine products by farmers. The agency said it would mount evidence that the products hurt applicators and the environment. Dr Husman Bukar, the Director, Veterinary Medicine and Allied Products …

The University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, has sacked its visiting Nigerian lecturer, Prof. Augustine Uzoma Nwagbara, over comments he made in a video that has since gone viral. In a statement on its website on Wednesday, the university said, it took exceptions to the comments made by the professor in …

  The Nigerian Police Force, Rivers State Command has confirmed the killing of Prof. Emmanuel Amadi by some unidentified armed robbers at his residence in Port Harcourt on Wednesday. Speaking in a telephone chat with Campus Focus, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Rivers Command, Nnamdi Omoni, disclosed that the …

The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Prof. Elias Bogoro, has said Nigeria’s private universities and polytechnics does not deserve to benefit from federal government’s support funds. Bogoro who accused the private institutions in Nigeria of charging tuitions in dollars rather than in naira, also claimed that 94 percent of …