Abdallah el-Kurebe

Investigative, Science, Agricultural Journalist

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Katsina: How gunmen abducted students as Buhari visits state

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Kankara bandit attack: Katsina governor orders closure of all boarding schools

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Leadership publisher, Nda Isaiah dies, Buhari mourns

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COVID-19: Nigeria records highest single-day new cases of 796 - NCDC

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Why we must resettle indigenous communities in Abuja - FCTA

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UK to enter trade agreements with 14 African countries

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Nigeria: Agency validates National Biosafety guideline on gene editing

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FUTA TETfund: Experts x-ray economic benefits of wood, plastic wastes

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Maina paid $1.4m for Abuja property, pocketed N146m DTA - Witness 

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Court orders arrest of Faisal Maina

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Electoral Act Amendment Bill passes 2nd reading in House of Reps 

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Court hands 10-year jail term on 2 sisters 

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Police reject N250,000 bribe, recover stolen vehicle in Zamfara 

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Gombe proposes N116bn budget for 2021 

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Bauchi First Lady honours Bogoro heroine, Mrs Habila

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Scientists develop new malaria vaccine using parasite mapping technique

Scientists develop new malaria vaccine using parasite mapping technique

Australian scientists on Thursday said they have taken a crucial step toward in developing a new malaria vaccine by using a novel “atomic-scale” blueprint to track how the parasite invades human cells.

“With this unprecedented level of detail, we can now begin to design new therapies that specifically target and disrupt the parasite’s invasion machinery, preventing malaria parasites from…

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WHO reveals new drug to save thousands of women’s lives from post-childbirth bleeding

WHO reveals new drug to save thousands of women’s lives from post-childbirth bleeding

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that a new drug – Carbetocin – has the potential to save thousands of women’s lives in childbirth annually.

WHO said Carbetocin now serves as a new competition – with improved benefits – to Oxytocin, a stand-by drug used to prevent potentially-fatal bleeding after childbirth.

WHO said excessive bleeding after childbirth still kills around 70,000…

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194 WHO member states finally ratify treaty against illicit tobacco trade

194 WHO member states finally ratify treaty against illicit tobacco trade

The 194 Member States of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have finally ratified the framework on tobacco control.

The ratification, aaccording to WHO, comes almost six years after the first protocol was adopted.

The WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) announced that with the ratification of the UK, the necessary number of parties to the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in…

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Nigeria: FAO targets 149,730 farming households in 2018 rainy season in Northeast

Nigeria: FAO targets 149,730 farming households in 2018 rainy season in Northeast

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says it plans to assist more than one million people in the Northeast to grow between six and eight months’ worth of food in the 2018 rainy season.

Mr Suffyan Koroma, the FAO representative in Nigeria said this on Wednesday in Maiduguri in his message at the launch of the organisation’s rainy season programme.

Koroma said an estimated 149, 730…

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East African, Spain researchers to develop climate-smart casaava

A group of researchers from Kenya, Tanzania and Spain have joined forces to develop a breed of cassava which would be more resistant to the destructive effects of climate change.

The cooperative project, funded by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is targeted at achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and will have researchers from various agricultural research…

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Using CRISPR to block production of HIV in infected cells

Using CRISPR to block production of HIV in infected cells

By Kristen Hovet

Contracting HIV is no longer the death sentence that it was in the 1980s and early 90s. The first cases of AIDS in the United States were reported in 1981, and since then the antiretroviral drugs used to treat HIV have come a long way in both safety and efficacy. HIV-positive individuals who take antiretroviral medications are estimated to have a life expectancy close to the…

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Talking food system jobs

Talking food system jobs

In developing countries, the food system employs the majority of people in self and wage employment both on and off the farm. Globally, 65% of poor working adults relied on agriculture for their livelihoods in 2016. According to 2017 data, farming generates about 68 percent of rural income in Africa, and about half of rural income in South Asia.

Changes in diets, rising consumer demand and…

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Octopuses can ‘see’ with their skin

Octopuses can ‘see’ with their skin

Detecting light away from eyes can trigger animals’ color changes By SUSAN MILIUS

  Octopus skin can detect light and respond to it — no eyes or brain required.

Tests of fresh skin samples from California two-spot octopuses (Octopus bimaculoides) show this ability clearly for the first time in any cephalopod, says Todd Oakley of the University of California, Santa Barbara. White or…

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Genetically modified animals

Despite its potential to battle disease and hunger, genetically engineered food is still controversial By Ian Tucker Pigs

Last week, scientists from the University of Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute announced they had deleted the section of DNA that leaves pigs vulnerable to porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome, which is estimated to cost European farmers £1.5bn a year in…

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AATF receives grant to make new drought-tolerant, insect-resistant maize hybrids available to farmers in Africa

AATF receives grant to make new drought-tolerant, insect-resistant maize hybrids available to farmers in Africa

The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF) has been awarded a $24.6 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the commercialisation of insect-resistant and drought-tolerant maize in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A statement issued by AATF said the fund complements the ongoing $5 million commitment by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the project.

Ac…

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GCP21 calls for regional action to stem Cassava Mosaic Disease outbreak in Southeast Asia

GCP21 calls for regional action to stem Cassava Mosaic Disease outbreak in Southeast Asia

ByStuart Smyth

The Global Cassava Partnerships for the 21st Century (GCP21) has called for urgent regional approach to halt the spread of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) that is threatening cassava production in Southeast Asia—a region that accounts for about 55 million tons of cassava and host billions of dollars in cassava investment.

CIAT and national partners through extensive field surveys and…

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How foreign governments, eNGOs are playing politics over a handful of GM wheat kernels

How foreign governments, eNGOs are playing politics over a handful of GM wheat kernels

ByStuart Smyth

In mid-June 2018, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported that a few GM wheat plants had been detected in southern Alberta, amounting to no more than a handful of seeds. Using Canada’s science-based risk assessment system, the CFIA clearly stated, “[t]here is also no evidence that this wheat has entered the food or animal feed system, nor is it present anywhere else in…

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Ultra-processed foods and noncommunicable diseases

Unhealthy commodities (including ultra-processed foods, soft drinks, tobacco and alcohol) are important risk factors for many chronic noncommunicable diseases. 60 to 65% of all deaths globally are caused by noncommunicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancers, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases and diabetes. This amounts to 34.5 million of 52.8 million total deaths (in 2010).

The…

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Nigerian community laments pollution by oil spill from Shell’s oilfield

Nigerian community laments pollution by oil spill from Shell’s oilfield

Residents of Agoro Community in Ekeremor Local Government Area of Bayelsa state, Nigeria on Monday berated the poor and slow response to an oil spill from shell’s oilfield in the area.

They appealed to the Federal and Bayelsa state governments to come to their aid over the spill as well as compel Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) to respond to their plight.

The community alleged that…

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Nigeria to commence artificial insemination of cows to boost milk production

Nigeria to commence artificial insemination of cows to boost milk production

Nigerian Government says it would commence artificial insemination of cattle at its different research institutes and centres to aid multiplication of cows and increase milk production in the country.

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh said while speaking with youths at a ‘Leadership Clinic’ organised by the Guardians of the Nation International (GOTNI) in Abuja…

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