using banana peels as pesticides

CIRCLE has impacted on Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Africa

Climate Impacts Research Capacity Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE) Programme which has been supported by Department for International Development (DFID), African Academy of Sciences (AAS), Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) has made significant impact on Early Career Researchers in Africa. I am particularly happy that the pool of next generation of researchers are having their capacity built up for the future. I am more excited about the Mentorship scheme which has obviously been missing in our institutions. I am happy to be a stakeholder in this regard and will want to do all within my powers to strengthen this campaign. The University of Port Harcourt has particularly benefited as adequate sensitization within the University is helping young researcher redefine their stance on research

HIGH QUALITY CASSAVA FLOUR PRODUCTION

High Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) is a good alternative to wheat flour. Below are the steps in making HQCF.

Step 1: Wash and Peel your cassava
Step 2: Pack in a basin and send to teh cassava grating machine to grind
Step 3: Dewater completely as much as possible
Step 4: Spread on a clean, dry tarpaulin under the sun, especially on a sunny day
Step 5: When properly dried pack in a dry bag
Step 6: Send to a mill and grind to smooth powder.

That is the flour ready to make any type of snacks

HQCF on display at an exhibition in Rumuekini community hall

Showing women the various products from HQCF

Women inspecting the products themselves

Women inspecting the products

Teaching in progress

Teaching in progress

Secondary Education for what?

I recently discovered that in SS1, students in some schools offer Data processing as a course and also Computer science as another course and this got me worried. Is Data processing not part of Computer science. I also observed that Fishery was made compulsory while Agricultural Science was made optional. Where are we leading these children to? Interestingly the textbooks used in the schools were government approved!!!

Come on! Why are we doing this at this point in time? I remember those days when it was fun to learn Woodwork, metal work, shorthand, typing, accounts, technical drawing. Everything seems watered down these days!! When will we get it right? When? When? When?

High quality cassava flour

There is gain in producing high quality cassava flour