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A Professor of Biochemical Toxicology from the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Prof. Polycarp Nnacheta Okafor, has taken time to refute long-held assumptions that the consumption of garri and other cassava products has negative effects on eyesight and also causes goiter. Prof. Okafor cleared the air on the unsubstantiated theories on the negative effects of the metabolism of cassava cyanide, on Wednesday, while delivering the 52nd inaugural lecture...Read More

It was a time for eulogizing the achievements of a distinguished academic, yesterday, when the University’s College of Agric Economics, Rural Sociology and Extension (CAERSE) honoured her pioneer dean, Prof. Aloysius Chidi Nwosu. In his welcome speech at the lecture and book launch held in honour of Prof. Nwosu, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, represented by the DVC (Academic), Prof. Udo Herbert, congratulated the honouree for his achievements during his...Read More

Indigenes of Abia State working in the University under the aegis of Abia Staff in MOUAU (ASIM), as well as other notable personalities from the State, on Wednesday, gathered to honour the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Maduebibisi Ofo Iwe. Speaking during his opening remarks at the colourful Grand Civic Reception held at the University’s Senator Anyim Pius Anyim Auditorium, the Chairman of the Occasion and former Vice-Chancellor of Abia State University, Uturu,...Read More

The Academic Quality Assurance and Monitoring Committee has charged Deans and Heads of Departments in the University to be committed to the discharge of their duties and responsibilities, to ensure that the institution meets global best practices in education. The chairman of the eleven-man committee, Professor C. O. Ofor, made the call, yesterday, at the kick-off of a sensitisation exercise across the 54 departments in the 10 Colleges of the...Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has urged Nigerian Universities of Agriculture as cardinal tools for rapid transformation in agricultural sector to collaborate with National Agricultural Land Development Authority (NALDA), to ensure increase in the production of food and raw materials. The President made the call while speaking at the 10th Convocation ceremony of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU). President Buhari who was represented by the Minister of Agriculture and...Read More