Sierra Leone Cultivates Coffee Adapted to Higher Temperatures

Global coffee drinkers must welcome the news that Sierra Leone has achieved significant progress with a project to re-cultivate a historic local species better adapted to higher temperatures than climate-vulnerable Arabica, the main source for commercial coffee. Lost from cultivation for more than half a century, stenophylla coffee, or Coffea stenophylla, its scientific name, has been grown successfully at a pilot project in the east of the country following its rediscovery in the wild. It took a five-year-long search by a Sierra Leonean forestry expert, a sort of botanical Indiana…

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Buhari Under Probe, Senate Investigates Ex-President’s Airport Deals

The Senate on Thursday moved against the concessioning of all airports in the country by former President Muhammadu Buhari for “peanut” as the angry lawmakers resolved to launch investigation into the process. Platforms Africa reports that the decision of the Senate was sequel to the motion sponsored by Senator Suleiman Kawu, who noted that the concessioning occurred less than six days to the expiration of Buhari’s administration. Kawu informed the lawmakers that the Federal Ministry of Aviation lacks the power to concession the airport. READ ALSO Wife He Sent Abroad,…

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Wife He Sent Abroad, Reactions Trail Sanyeri, Wife’s Separation

“I choose happiness over drama” – Mother of Sanyeri’s children declares   Reactions have again trailed the crashed marriage between Nollywood actor, Olaniyi Afonja, popularly known as Sanyeri, and Omolara Olaiya Jimoh, his estranged wife. Omolara has earlier shocked the internet last year after revealing that she and the actor have been separated and co-parenting for nine years. She disclosed this via a post on her Instagram page, where she shared a picture of herself and Sanyeri. READ ALSO: BREAKING: Osun Gov Nominates Commissioners, Advisers + FULL LIST Why We’ve…

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BREAKING: Osun Gov Nominates Commissioners, Advisers + FULL LIST

House of Assembly receives list, begins scrutiny of nominees OSUN ASSEMBLY RELEASES NAMES OF COMMISSIONER AND SPECIAL ADVISER NOMINEES The Osun State House of Assembly, under the leadership of Rt. Hon. Adewale Egbedun, has made public the names of Commissioner and Special Adviser nominees as forwarded to the Assembly by the Executive Governor of Osun State, Sen. Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke. The Speaker read the Governor’s letter containing the nominees to Members of the House of Assembly at Plenary on Friday, 7th July, 2023. The Nominees are: 1. Barr. Oladosu…

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