By Isabell Scheuplein, dpa BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The number of new arrivals from Syria in Germany has declined significantly since the fall of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad late last year, slumping by 46.5% in 2025, the federal statistical office said on Friday. According to the preliminary figures, some 40,000 Syrian nationals migrated to Germany…
By Mercy Omoike LAGOS (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Food Systems has wrapped up its 2025 Agrithon with 36 applicants reaching the grand finale on Thursday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Lagos agrithon is an initiative of the Ministry and the Lagos Agrinnovation Club formed in…
By Angela Atabo ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The Prison Fellowship Nigeria (PFN) has called for urgent reforms in the nation’s criminal justice system to decongest the rising number of inmates in correctional centres across the country. The Executive Director of PFN, Dr Jacob Tsado, made the call at PFN’s Family Weekend and 2025 Annual General…
By Felicia Imohimi ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Agbeyewa Farms Ltd. for cassava production. NALDA Executive Secretary, Mr Cornelius Adebayo, said at the signing in Abuja on Friday that the partnership aimed to accelerate land development and large-scale cassava cultivation. He…
By Vivian Ihechu ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – For many years, families like Faustin Menzan’s in Côte d’Ivoire, who farm cocoa in West Africa, have been suffering. They help produce chocolate for the whole world, but they never see enough money to live better. Their farms are old, the market price for cocoa is never stable,…
By Folasade Akpan ABUJA (NAN, CONVERSEER) – The Rotary Foundation is targeting malaria, diarrhoea, and pneumonia, Africa’s leading killers of children, through its Rotary Healthy Community Challenge. Mr Holger Knaack, Chairman of the Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees, said this in Abuja during a medical outreach, explaining that teams would move from community to community…
