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The Osun State government has summoned cooks and officials of the O-Meal at St James Primary School B, Owoope Osogbo following a food poisoning scare, reports NaijaAgroNet.The incident which led to hospitalisation of some students saw the government raising tot he challenge by footing the hospital bills, even as the students have since been discharged.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Miss Ghana UK 2017 to hang out with tertiary students
Food for All Africa in partnership with Miss Ghana UK
Foundation and Psychosocial Africa would next month, April bring together
tertiary students within Accra to hang out with the current Queen, Miss Sabina
Lawabea Awuni, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The hangout, NaijaAgroNet
gathered would culminate in a social event aimed at promoting mental health and
nutritional well-being among tertiary students in Ghana.
NaijaAgroNet
also gathered from Food for All Africa that for
every case of suicide reported, five people have already contemplated
committing suicide, making a total of about 200,000 people contemplating the
idea annually.
Sabina said that on the use of social get
together as a means to suicide prevention as such programmes tend to give
people listening ears.
According to a 2012 survey conducted by the
Network for Anti-suicide and Crisis Prevention in Ghana, five or more people
commit suicide every day in the country.
The dominant cause of their
death ranged from problems with parents, failure at school, inability of
parents to provide needs, impotence and relationship related issues.
Former Chief Psychiatrist of the Accra Mental
Hospital, Dr Akwesi Osei reiterates that suicide is premeditated. It is not
something one does the first time he or she thinks about it.
“There are three organizational stages of
suicide, involving “getting used to,” the idea, the means and the opportunity
or motivation,” he said.
He described the first stage as the preparation
state where a person prepares to commit suicide. People who are naturally
secretive, who come from broken homes, people with no loving childhood and
people with traumatic stress disorders are susceptible.
The second, he said were the precipitate factors
that triggered one to commit suicide. Some of the triggers were financial
crisis, loss of a loved one and separation.
The final stage was when victims remained in a
perpetual state of the desire to kill him or herself, and with the triggers
including the lack of financial support, among others.
Hang Out with Miss Ghana UK 2017, The Jubilee
Queen on Saturday 7th April 2018 at Tuo Restaurant and garden
on Ring road Central will be an experience sharing session with the
Queen, Sabina Awuni, mental health advocate, Nana Abena Korkor
Addo and Chef Elijah Addo in promoting mental health and nutritional
wellness among tertiary students in Ghana through activities such as cooking
competition,eating,games,let’s talk and music jams.
The Queen together with SRC executives of
participating schools will in the morning cook and serve breakfast to patients
of Accra psychiatric hospital.
Friday, September 29, 2017
PAUWES graduates 48 on energy, water, climate change
The Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences including Climate Change (PAUWES) celebrated the second graduating class of its both tracks of two Master programmes with 47 students from across the African continent, report NaijaAgroNet.
The graduating students, NaijaAgroNet gathered have received their diplomas during a ceremony at the University of Tlemcen.
NaijaAgroNet reports that in order to gain a transcontinental perspective of those same challenges, our students have also completed international internships in the private and public sectors at renowned research institutions cross Africa and beyond. Besides focusing on their studies, the students of the Class of 2017—with the support of PAUWES—launched the first student-lead clubs, the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Club and the Community of Practice (CoP), which have contributed to the overall sense of community and leadership that our institute strives to promote.
This cohort of graduating students, NaijaAgroNet reports, represents and fulfills one of the key objectives of the Pan African University (PAU) and PAUWES, which is to foster an African learning environment of the most qualified and motivated scholars while revitalizing and nurturing the quality of African higher education.
Not only are an array African Union member states and eleven female students represented in the Class of 2017, but this diverse cohort of students have had the opportunity to study alongside an international faculty of over 100 professors and researchers from across Africa and the world.
Supported by PAUWES, the University of Tlemcen and our key thematic partner—Germany, we are confident that students of the Class of 2017 are well positioned to become leaders in public administration, policy-making, research, technology, private enterprise, and civil society.
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
Rwanda youth meet to develop ICT solutions for agriculture
Rwanda
Information Communication Technology (ICT) students and technology
entrepreneurs assembled at KLab, the Rwanda's technical hub for a 36-hour
programming competition to come up with ICT solutions for the agriculture
sector.
The
competition organised by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Technical Centre for
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) and the Rwandan Information
Communication Technology (ICT) chamber saw
the participants tasked with challenges to come up with ICT solutions that
would either help with information sharing/communication between farmers and
extension workers or make it possible for farmers to access financial services
with ease.
Founder
and Managing Director of Axis Ltd, Clement Uwajeneza, said the panel of judges
was made up of managing directors of tech companies, a professor from Carnegie
Mellon University Rwanda Campus and a representative of the ministry of education
who looked out for the feasibility, originality and practicality of the
innovations presented to see how they would solve the challenges farmers face.
NaijaAgroNet learnt
from Uwajeneza that the competition also served to select the country's
representatives to an oncoming regional solutions competition that will take
place during the ICT4Ag conference due in Kigali from November 4 to 7.
The
winning group made up of students from Kigali Institute of Science and
Technology (Kist) presented a hardware and software solution, and fertiliser
logic that determine the quantity of Nitrogen Phosphorus and potassium in the
soil. They were awarded with a laptop, a chance to participate in the upcoming
regional competition and incubation facilities to polish their projects, while
the other four runners-up were also awarded with laptops.
Hillary
Muramira, a member of winning group, said that being in touch with the end user
of their innovation enabled them to come up with a winning project.
AN/GEE
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