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The Honourable Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbe, has said that, for Nigeria to survive as a nation, banks must support farmers through agriculture financing with single digit interest loans, warning of a possible catastrophic disaster in the near future if the nation fails to achieve food sufficiency and security. Audu Ogbe […]
As part of plans to enable businesses in the agricultural sector gain insights on how its innovative solutions will support business development, and believe that reinventing agriculture is the key factor to sustainable national development, First Bank of Nigeria plc, one of Africa’s leading banks, will today, the 14th day of March, 2017, play host […]
Olam, one of the multinational organisations producing rice locally in Nigeria has been honoured with the National Productivity Order of Merit award (NPOM) for the year 2016. Olam Rice Farm in Rukubi, Nasarawa State, sits on 14,000 hectares equipped with a 105,000 metric tonnes capacity rice mill. The award ceremony, which took place at the […]
All social societies, clubs and council of chiefs in Egbaland have been directed to formulate strategies to harness the huge export potentials in agricultural products common in the area. The Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo, gave the directive in his closing remarks at the Seminar on “Self reliance through agriculture for a secured future” […]
First of all I must apologize for my hiatus, I took a break in December and promised to be back in January but occupational ‘Force Majeure’ precluded me but nice to be back again in 2017,fresh from a year 2016 that some want to term Annus Horribilis. I digress. As a major player in the […]
The Federal Government skills acquisition training programme has taken off with the inspection of facilities at the Lagos training Centre, by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige. The Federal Government will in the next two months flag off skills acquisition training in 18 states, three in each geo-political zone, with Lagos and the […]
As part of the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation-UNIDO-EU-FGN Food Safety Capacity Building Programme for Nigeria, the first Nigerian Food Safety And Investment Forum has been billed to hold between February 7-8, 2017 at the Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. According to a statement signed by UNIDO Representative & Director Regional Office, Abuja, […]
Former Head of State, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, the King of Brass in Rivers State, Chief Alfred Diete-Spiff and the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Obong Victor Attah, have identified absence of infrastructural facilities, effective insurance packages, access to finance and absence of quality inputs and ready markets as some of the problems confronting […]
Tourists from different parts of the world who are partaking in the first cocoa festival in Africa have converged on the Eti-Oni, the ancient town in Osun State that pioneered the production of cocoa in Nigeria over 120 years ago. The maiden edition of the cocoa festival which began on Sunday November 27 would come […]
Attend the first-ever Food Revolution Farming Summit and get over N560, 000 Interest & Collateral-free Agro-investment LOAN, deductible only after sale of your farm produce. THEME: “Discovering the Great Success Secrets of Plantain Plantation Farming” VENUE: This absolutely FREE Farming Summit hold at Ihunbo Plantain Plantation Site, Customs Checkpoint, by Merit Choice Agric Villa, Ihunbo, […]
The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, will on Friday, November 18, 2016, host the 4th Agricultural Policy Research Seminar, themed; Growth Enhancement Scheme (GES) of Nigerian Agricultural Transformation Agenda: Looking Back and Thinking Ahead. The event, which is being organized by the Agricultural Policy Research Network (APRNet) in collaboration with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI-Nigeria) […]
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has said that food worth at least N3 billion is being consumed daily by 22 million residents of Lagos State, representing N1.095 trillion spent on food items annually in the state. Meantime, Vice President of Dangote Group, Sanni Dangote, disclosed that Nigeria can save $700 million spent annually on […]
The much awaited Lagos Food Security Summit and Exhibition 2016, kicked-off yesterday, Thursday, November 10, 2016, at the Lagos Airport Hotel, Ikeja, with so many players from agriculture, agribusiness, food industry, Academia and Government dignitaries in attendance. The maiden edition of the summit, which had Chief (Mrs.) Nike Akande, DG, Lagos Chamber of Commerce in […]
From November 9 to 11, 2016, HarvestPlus, would be bringing together heavyweights in the industrial sector, food processors and farmers for the second edition of the annual Nutritious Food Fair (NFF), taking place at TINAPA and the Calabar International Convention Center (CICC), Cross River State. The Country Manager of HarvestPlus Nigeria, Paul Ilona, who announced […]
The Stanbic IBTC Business Leadership Series 2016, titled; “Gem in the Field”, took place on Thursday, 20th, October 2016, at the Federal Palace Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos.