THE REGIONAL MALARIA RESEARCH Institute - African Malaria Network Trust (Amanet) - has received $4.1 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to do more research on the tropical killer disease. The funding will also be used for building

THE Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) has embarked on massive training of Ugandans to ensure that they get clean water.

The rush to produce biofuels, driven by the threat of global warming and higher oil prices, is exerting price pressure on staple foods in South Africa, according to a report by the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), a nongovernmental

Scientists and experts in agriculture and renewable energies are meeting for an annual congress to discuss new research with regard to grazing, livestock production and challenges the sector faces.

Efforts by western multibillion organisations to introduce new agricultural technologies in Africa are putting the continent under threat.

A partnership between two key donor agencies aims to spark an African 'green revolution' by addressing farm productivity and training the next generation of agricultural scientists.

A non-governmental organisation wants test-tube births stopped until there is a legal framework to guide it.

Whilst scientists in Ghana are waiting for the approval of the Biosafety Bill, the United States Agency International for Development (USAID) and Africa Bio (a Non Governmental Organization based in South Africa) have organized a three-day workshop for the media

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) through UNDP has approved a grant of US$5.45m to strengthen the biodiversity conservation in the mountain forest protected areas systems in Rwanda.

THE Federal Government has charged the eighteen (18) parastatals under Ministry of Science and Technology to make submission of all the Research and Development (R&D) projects and results for immediate commercialization.

Authoritative sources at the Ministry of Transport and Communication intimate that meteorological equipment worth 10,000-pound sterling was carted away by rebels from five sub stations countrywide during the years of mayhem in the country.

Following the long history of violence in Kwa- Zulu Natal Province in south Africa, a group of renowned psychologists in the University of Natal embarked on an extensive research as to the underlying causes of the violence, with a view

The debate on agricultural biotechnology in many African countries oscillates between two extreme views. Diehard proponents of biotechnology are impatient to have the technology adopted at all costs and present it as the magic wand and panacea to the multitude

In her book titled "The Hunt: Me and My War Criminals", the former International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR ) Prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, describes her mandate as the head of the UN Rwanda tribunal between 1999 and 2002, including

The Senate Committee on Education headed by Senator (Mrs.) Joy Emordi has commended the Management of Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), for judicious utilization of its funds.

Babcock University, Ilishan, spends five per cent of its annual budget of N2.3 billion on Research and Development (R/D), according to the President/Vice-Chancellor, Professor J.A. Kayode Makinde.

JINJA district has drafted a bylaw requiring parents to feed children in Universal Primary Education (UPE) schools.

Former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Salihu Modibbo Alfa Belgore has commended the efforts of the immediate past Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos(UNILAG) Chief Afe Babalola(SAN) on education saying that his contributions should be emulated by other stakeholders in

In just under two weeks 300 000 adults who missed out on school will start learning how to read, write or count.

In Arua District are reportedly forging academic transcripts inorder to access loans from banks, the District Education Officer, Mr Nicholas Tembo has said.