To say that the discovery of crude oil in the late 1950s in Oloibiri community of Bayelsa State, Nigeria, was the last straw that destroyed the Nigerian agricultural nerve is to state the obvious. Before the discovery of this product that has been given different names including black gold, Nigeria ran an agrarian economy with […]
The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Saturday inaugurated a five-man board for SKYRUN Cocoa Processing Industry, Ede, Osun state in a bid to improve on cocoa production in the state and turn Osun to a hub of Chinese investment in Nigeria. This was even as the Chairman of the Shanghai Golden Monkey […]
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has solicited the assistance of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in boosting commercial agricultural in the state. Akeredolu made the call when the AfDB President, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, visited him on Sunday in Akure. The governor explained that the continental bank’s support was necessary to facilitate the cultivation of high-quality […]
The Oyo State Police Command on Saturday said it has launched a manhunt for a Fulani herdsman that killed a farmer in Igbeti, Oke-Ogun area of the state. The farmer, Musiliu Aliu, was hacked to death on his farm by the herdsman during an argument over the latter’s cattle grazing on Aliu’s farmland. It was […]
As the planting season commences, the Presidential Fertilizer Initiative has kicked off across the country, to provide farmers with fertilizers at affordable rate. A bag is expected to be sold at N5, 500, as against the initial price of N10, 000. This development is the fallout of an agreement signed in December 2016 between the […]
Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, will inaugurate a new world-class fertiliser plant built by Indorama Eleme Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited, today in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In a statement by his spokesman, Laolu Akande, the plant with production capacity for 1.5 million Metric Tons of Urea fertiliser is considered the world’s largest single-train Urea plant. According […]
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Komptu Idris have been called upon to intervene and bring to an end the menace of fake fertiliser sales and circulation in Yobe State by some unpatriotic citizens. Sparking to journalists in his office, the Yobe State chairman of Fertiliser Sales Association, Potiskum branch, Alhaji Ali Maitaki. According […]
The president, African Development Bank, AFDB, Mr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, in his opening remarks at IITA’s golden jubilee celebration on Monday, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital rated the aesthetic environment of the institute as second to none globally. His words: “My wife and I, and the African Development Bank, congratulate IITA on its 50th anniversary. […]
The goal of the African Development Bank is to ensure that the continent is able to feed its populace in the next decade. Dr. Akinwunmi Adeshina, stated this while delivering his speech at the IITA’s 50th anniversary celebration at the institute’s headquarters in Ibadan, where he also pledged more financial support for agriculture in Africa. […]
“Agriculture funds” President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will sustain concrete measures to diversify the economy by devoting more resources to agriculture in the 2017 budget. Speaking to reporters in Nairobi, Kenya at the weekend on the margins of the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI), President Buhari said African countries […]
While commissioning the new training facility for capacity development for youth agripreneurs on Monday, in Ibadan, the President of African Development Bank, (AFDB), Dr. Akin Adeshina, eulogized the contributions of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in advancing agriculture on the African continent in his address. The $700,000 youth training facility which was funded by the Federal Ministry […]
Solar-powered cold storage and biological pest control are helping protect Kenya’s mangoes from climate change. It is a hot and cloudless morning, a sign that it will be sunny right through the afternoon. Joseph Mailu moves along rows of fruiting mango trees with a long pole in his hand, harvesting the mature fruits. The succulent […]
…AfDB president to commission $700,000 building for youth Agripreneurs Nigeria’s Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, will on Monday speak on food security and Nigeria’s preparedness to diversify its economy using agriculture as a lever. Prof Osinbajo leads other dignitaries and leaders from scientific research, education, and corporate organizations from African countries and beyond, in celebrating […]
Dr. Rufus Ebegba, Director General/CEO, National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), has urged Nigerians to always research information from credible sources in order to be adequately informed and prevent misinformation. Dr. Ebegba said this while enlightening some staff and students of the Environmental Health Sciences department of Kwara State University, who paid an educational visit to […]
The federal government has declared its determination to provide all that it would require to ensure that the agricultural intervention project to be pioneered at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife and bankrolled by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to the tune of N3bn, is tremendously successful. The minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, […]