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Farmers blame rainfall for high cost of garri

Farmers in Boki Local Government Areaof Cross River on Wednesday blamedexcessive rainfall for the high cost ofgarri in the area.They made the remark in separateinterviews with the News Agency ofNigeria (NAN) in Boki, Cross River State.The President of Boki FarmersAssociation, Richard Abang, said the priceof garri had risen because farmers had toprocess the commodity under the rain.Mr. Abang said that during the rainyseason, it was difficult to produce a basinof garri, adding that so much water hadentered into the body of the cassava,thereby making it difficult to harvestenough tubers to produce a basin. During the dry season, it takes fewtubers of cassava to produce a basin ofgarri, but it is not so in the rainy seasonwhen you need to harvest enough tubersin order to produce a basin of garri, hesaid.According to him, there are fears that theprice of a basin of garri will increase fromN4, 500 to N5, 000 before the end of ...
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Jonathan Paying More Attention To PDP Crisis Than ASUU Strike – NANS

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National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has noted that if President Goodluck Jonathan gave the same level of attention he has been giving to the crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU would have been called off since. The students, who slammed Mr. Jonathan’s “uncaring attitude towards the future of Nigerian Students”, expressed their dismay with the way he is handling the ASUU Strike and called on him to personally wade into the matter instead of leaving it in the hands of the Gov. Gabriel Suswam-led Needs assessmentcommittee. In a statement issued by its National FinancialSecretary, Comrade Timileyin Ayenuro, NANS said it is disheartening that Nigerian Students in public varsities have been at home for over two months without the federal government finding a lasting solution to the strike. The statement read in part: “It is sad that ASUU has been on strike for...
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Latest On The ASUU Strike

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Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okojie, says he is confident that the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will soon be called off. Speaking, Wednesday, in Abuja, at a media parley with journalists, Okojie said the commission was doing everything within its powers to ensure a speedy resolution of the issues raised by ASUU so that students could return to school. “We are part of the system and we understand the issues, we are meeting with members of the union all the time and the issues are being tackled. “So, we are optimistic the strike will soon be called off and our children can go back to school in the shortest possible time,” he said. In reaction to the call by ASUU for NUC to be scrapped, Okojie said “the call is not in good faith as the commission has not gone to sleep over its duties”. Also speaking on the recurrent disagreements between the commi...
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