Tunde Opalana, Abuja The Senate Committee on Science and Technology has constituted an Ad-hoc Committe to probe a sum of N11 million unaccounted for in the budgetary provision the procurement of an Integrated Cassava Processing Plant in Nkalagu, Ebonyi state, Daily Times gathered. The ad – hoc committee is saddled with the task of determining what […]
Two weeks after a petition was written to the Attorney General of the Federation to demand the prosecution of suspended and disgraced former Acting Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi, the Human and Environmental Development Agency (HEDA) has expressed optimism that the ex-FIIRO DG would be prosecuted. Speaking with The Daily Times in a […]
The Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) now has a new Acting Director-General – Dr (Mrs) Yemisi Asagbra. Until her appointment, Asagbra was the Director, Production, Analytical and Laboratory Management department. She was also the Deputy Director at the Food and Quality Management Division of FIIRO. Asagbra holds a doctorate in Food and Industrial Microbiology. […]
The dust raised by an alleged non-existent doctorate of the acting Director-General of the Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO), Chima Igwe, is far from settling as the clamour for the suspension of the DG and intervention of President Muhammadu Buhari has reached new decibels. The Daily Times in July 2019, had exclusively reported […]
The Green Innovation Center for Agriculture in Africa in partnership with the Federal Institute of Industrial Research Oshodi (FIIRO) has established the funding of Cassava Processing Innovation field in Ogun State. To achieve these goals, GIZ under it’s Green Innovation Center For Agriculture in partnership with Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) and a […]
The Federal Institute of Industrial Research, Oshodi (FIIRO) has disclosed in Abuja, during the FIIRO day at the ongoing Technology and Innovation Week, 2018, with the theme “Stimulating Economic Growth through Commercialization of Indigenous Research and Development Results” that it has automated the plants for the production of Kunu and Zobo drinks. The Director General, […]
The Director General of the institute, Prof. Gloria Elemo, announced this yesterday, at the ongoing Technology and Innovation Expo, 2018 in Abuja. Prof. Elemo said the initiative, which is already waiting for commercialization by investors was in partnership between FIIRO and an indigenous automation company, Automation and Engineering Nigeria Limited. The DG also said the […]
Against the backdrop of the high unemployment level in the country, the Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO), Oshodi, Lagos, stunned the nation recently when it claimed that it has developed a workable blueprint that could effectively curb the menace of unemployment by providing well over five million job opportunities annually in the country. The […]
Yam (Discorea spp), a tropical perennial crop cultivated mainly for its edible tubers is a staple food consumed worldwide and provides much economic benefit to the producers. Yam (Discorea species) can also be described as an annual or perennial tuber-bearing and climbing plants belonging to the family of Diocoreceae. In Nigeria, yam is eaten boiled, […]