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The State Government of Osun has signed a concession agreement with an aggregator, Oklan Best to partner it in boosting the Osun Rural Enterprise and Agricultural Programme, O’REAP. The signing of the agreement done by the state of Osun Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Adekunle Ige and Mrs Lanre Nwankwo on behalf of Oklan Best is […]
A Memorandum of Understanding between Dangote Group and Niger State government would be signed today for a $450million investment in sugar and rice production, the Executive Director, Corporate Services of Dangote Group, Dr. Mansur Ahmed, has disclosed. Speaking at the Niger State Investment Summit yesterday, in Minna, Ahmed, who represented the Chairman and CEO of […]
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in collaboration with C. Hassan Consultancy Ltd. has commenced a refresher training of 400 unemployed youths in Kaduna state on agricultural skills for gainful employment. The training, according to the Director-General of NDE, Dr. Nasiru M. Ladan is to impart on the trainees, skills such as crop production, livestock […]
Gaate is about an hour drive away from the Abuja municipality. But this rural settlement along the Keffi-Akwanga road in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State could as well have been in another country. Blessed with vast arable land, majority of the residents are subsistent farmers and neither dream or feel the glitz of […]
Ten thousand farmers in Edo State cannot access the N350 million donor fund, Edo North Coordinator of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) Alhaji Mohammed Oshiobugie has said. Oshiobugie, in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Benin, said the government failed to pay the N94 million counterpart fund for Fadama III and […]
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has concluded the 5th e-Government Capacity Building Program for 181 public servants in Abuja. The training by KOICA was held in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Communications and Public Service Institute of Nigeria. A statement made available in Abuja by KOICA said the training “brings the total number […]
The Executive Secretary of the Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association (FEPSAN), Alhaji Ahmed Rabiu Kwa, says Nigeria will begin to export fertiliser in the next five years going by the programme of the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative (PFI). Kwa in an interview in Abuja said the PFI of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration had seen the revival […]
For the umpteenth time, the Federal Government has been reminded of its pledge and responsibility to drive the economy back to stability, use homegrown resources that are available to sustain growth and implement faithfully its fiscal plans, which include effective utilisation of borrowed funds. The economy, going through recession (officially) in the last four quarters, […]
Yobe state government in collaboration with the World Bank have supported returnee Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and those still in camps with farm inputs. The farm inputs will enable them to engage in agricultural activities toward economic recovery. Musa Jidawa, permanent secretary, Yobe state emergency management agency (SEMA), disclosed this in Damaturu, on Sunday. Jidawa […]
The Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo will today pay a one day official visit to Niger State. He will be joined by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, immediate past military head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar and Governor Abubakar Sani Bello to flag off Niger State Investment Summit holding in Minna, the Niger state capital. The […]
Agribank and the Namibia Development Corporation (NDC) signed a one year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on August 2, in terms of which Agribank will finance the purchasing of female breeding livestock by farmers in the Northern Communal Areas (NCA) from the NDC’s Kavango Cattle Ranch (KCR). To ensure wider benefit to farmers, the MOU provides […]
An expert in snake management and Associate Professor, Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Edem Archebong Eniang, has raised the alarm, that Ghana, Togo and Republic of Benin, had appropriated Nigeria’s annual export quota of 2000 baby-pythons to Europe, causing the country a huge loss […]
The Mozambique Commodity Exchange (BMM) says that it needs at least 25 million meticais (about 410,000 US dollars at the current exchange rate) to correct mistakes made during the construction of grain storage silos across the country. Cited in the weekly “Domingo”, BMM Chief Executive Officer Antonio Grispos said that several mechanical and electrical errors […]
Ethiopia earned 866 million USD exporting 221,000 tons of coffee during its last fiscal year . According to Ethiopian Coffee & Tea Development and Marketing Authority, it has accomplished 92 per cent of its set goal to increase coffee exports. ” It is a very great achievement compared to nation’s previous years’ coffee export performance […]
Three flower firms, Wagagai Ltd, Ugarose Flowers Ltd and Jambo Rose have pledged to invest $17.8m in Uganda’s flower sector in the next 4 years aimed at increasing flower export volume on the global market. The investors said in Kampala that, the market is available on the international market but they cannot afford to maximize […]