In another development, the Cassava Adding Value for Africa (C:AVA) project introduced to the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta(FUNAAB) in 2012 and led by the University of Greenwich, United Kingdom (UK) has won the 2014 prestigious Times Higher Education Awardfor International Collaboration of the Year. A follow-up project, C:AVA II, has been launched and funded with $18.8 million from …

A scholar, Professor Bola Okuneye, of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Farm Management, has advocated for the adoption of the Green Economy, as panacea to taking Nigeria out of the rising poverty in the face of its ever-increasing population. The Don gave this advice at the 14th Professor Anthony Afolabi Adegbola Memorial lecture, held recently, in Lagos which was titled, “The Green Ec…

Officials of Novus International and their representatives in the country, Norgem (Nigeria) Limited recently visited the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), to explore the possibility of establishing a technical co-operation with the University. The Director of Novus International for Latin American and Africa, Dr. Luis Azevedo, while expressing the intention of his firm to ventu…

The Cassava Weed Management Project Team of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has applauded the University's effort at ensuring optimum production of cassava using effective and sustainable weed management technologies. The Project Administrator, Mrs. Ezinne Ibe, gave the commendation during a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, as well as the…

The 47th Inaugural Lecturer of the University, Professor Carolyn Afolami, has called on the government to focus its attention on rapid industrialisation for sustainable national development. This could be achieved by according agriculture its pride of place by engendering good policies, particularly, those that would make agriculture attractive to the teeming unemployed youths in the country. Deli…

The Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), is planning to establish an Institute of Animal Science in the University. Disclosing this was the leader of the NIAS Resource Verification Team, Professor Akintunde Akinsoyinu, while on a courtesy visit to the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole. The leader of the team noted that he was in FUNAAB to verify the available facilities that would…

Awareness and sensitization seminar on Myths and Realities of Ebola Virus Disease by Faculty of Medicine Kaduna State University Download Full Text…

The National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation team to the University's Postgraduate School has disclosed that the exercise of accrediting programmes in the nation's ivory towers was not an effort at witch-hunting any institution, but for better productivity. The head of the team, Professor Gabriel Yomere, who stated this during a wrap-up session after their visit to the University, adde…

The importance of maritime education in the development of the Sub-saharan Africa has been stressed. This observation was made by the President of the Association of African Universities (AAU), Professor Olusola Oyewole, at the just-concluded 2014 African Maritime Domain Conference, held in Port-Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa, with the theme, “The African Maritime Domain: Building Capacity …

It has been observed that the inclusion and adoption of horticulture in agricultural production is capable of transforming the nation's economy, aid development and improve the livelihood of the citizenry. The President-in-Council (PIC) of the Horticultural Society of Nigeria (HORTSON), Dr. Bala Giginyu, stated this while delivering his address at the 32nd Annual Conference of HORTSON, hosted by F…

It has been ascertained that despite the remarkable progress being made in increasing food production at the global level, approximately half of the population in the developing countries, do not have access to adequate food supplies which arise mainly from food losses that occur in the post-harvest and marketing system. This position emanated from the just-concluded “Capacity-Building Training on…