Bassey Warns Against GMO Entrenchment, Calls for Food Sovereignty in Nigeria
By Tracy Ohovwore Dr Nnimmo Bassey, Executive Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has cautioned that Nigeria’s embrace of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) threatens the country’s food sovereignty, biodiversity, and cultural heritage. Delivering a keynote address at the National Symposium on GMOs held on 1 September 2025, Bassey argued that the root…