Land Speculation: Onitsha businessman cries out to Okowa, IG for rescue

An Onitsha business man, Mr. Chibuzor Ezeamaka, has made passionate appeal to the Inspector General of Police (IG), Usman Alkali Baba, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone Five, Benin, to come to his rescue over the dispute arising from the land he bought from Umu Odogwu, Ogboli family of Ibuzor in Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State. Briefing newsmen in Asaba, Delta State capital, Ezeamaka narrated his inability to access the land in which he paid four million, five hundred…

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$27.3bn lost to salinity-induced soil degradation annually –SSSN

As the world mark the Soil Science Day, the Soil Science Society of Nigeria (SSSN) says that at least $27.3 billion is lost annually to salinity-induced soil degradation around the world. The President of SSSN, Prof. Bashiru Raji, represented by his deputy, Prof. Damician Asawalam, said this in Abuja on Sunday at a press briefing organised by the group to mark this year’s World Soil Day (WSD). During the 68th General Assembly of the United Nations in 2013, December 5 of every year was designated as WSD following the recommendation…

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