Professor Jonathan Atungwu, the Head, Department of Crop Protection, College of Plant Science and Crop Production (COLPLANT), has described organic agriculture as safer, tastier, more nutritious, friendlier to the environment, and capable of bringing man closer to God. The Don noted that those who eat or work in an organic environment were always looking fresh and younger than their counterparts …

The University recently hosted the 40th edition of the Parasitology and Public Health Society of Nigeria (PPSN) Conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM), with the theme “Consolidating the Parasitic Diseases Elimination Strategies in Nigeria and Africa”. The Keynote Speaker and the Director-General, National Institute for Trypanosomiasis and Onchocerciasis Research (NITR), Kaduna, Professor Mo…

A staff in the Department of Animal Production and Health, College of Animal Science and Livestock Production (COLANIM), Mr. Joshua Odutayo, has won the Association of African Universities’ 2016 edition of Small Grants for Theses and Dissertations Programme to the tune of $3,500. Mr. Odutayo, who had an unprecedented 4.90 Grade Point Average in the University, to become the best graduating studen…

The Management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has backed the decision of University Senate, which held an emergency meeting recently, and approved Monday, October 3, 2016, as the resumption date for normal academic activities. The students, who have been on mid-semester break, are now to resume after the consideration of the report submitted by the committee that was …

A postgraduate student in the Department of Plant Breeding and Seed Technology (PBST), College of Plant Science and Crop Production (COLPLANT) of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Famogbiele Ayomide, has won the first prize under the M.Sc. Category in The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) Research Paper Competition, conducted by the Information Training and …