By Lanre Omotoso Desertification and drought must be tackled to prevent the desertification of fertile lands in the country. A lecturer in the Department of Soil Science and Land Resources Management, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Professor Olubunmi Shittu gave the advice in Ado Ekiti to Continue Reading
The worst drought in four decades is raging through the Horn of Africa. The World Food Programme says up to 20 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia are at risk of starvation by the end of the year. Somalia is bearing the brunt with half of the population now hungry. Hundreds of thousands of […]Continue Reading