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The humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria remains severe, with aid agencies reporting uneven progress. In areas they have been able to access, relief organizations say they have successfully reduced malnutrition. But in other areas still cut off by insecurity, they fear the worst. Rainy season is coming in northeastern Nigeria, and aid agencies are worried. […]
The Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and the British American Tobacco Nigeria Foundation (BATNF) at the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for establishment of a collaborative relationship to provide weather information to farmers under the foundation. According to the Executive Director of BATNF, Mrs. Oluaseyi Ashade, the objective of the partnership is for NIMET […]
The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will adopt agriculture as the major job creator for corps members. Mr. Salawu Abdulrazak, the NYSC FCT Coordinator, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday. Abdulrazak explained the scheme was concluding plans with the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to achieve this target. He said the NYSC was […]
Integration of the Southwest region through joint security network to enhance socio-economic development as well as adoption of a uniform education curriculum to address declining moral standards and sports formed the kernel of a regional governors’ meeting yesterday in Ado Ekiti. The state chief executives agreed to make it a matter of compulsion to monitor […]
The African Cassava Agronomy Initiative in 2016 established 563 trials across Nigeria and Tanzania to help unlock the agronomy of cassava. The trials were part of the broader initiative by the research community led by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) with its international and national partners to increase the productivity of cassava and […]
Kwara State government says the increasing rate of youth unemployment in Nigeria now stands at 24 percent. Saka Babatunde, senior special assistant (SSA) to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on youth empowerment, said this yesterday in Ilorin, at a day sensitisation workshop. The workshop titled: “Business Conceptualisation and Planning to Access Local and Foreign loans and Grants […]
The National Research Institute for Chemical Technology (NARICT) in Zaria is collaborating with Katsina state government to set up a processing factory to produce natural tomato paste free of additives. A statement issued by the institute’s public relations officer, Aliyu Bala, said that Katsina state is to provide N35 million for the project not N500 […]
The federal government has no plans to increase taxes, rather to get tax avoiders to do the needful, Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, said on Monday. Reacting to a comment by Ben Murray-Bruce, a senator, at the public hearing of the Joint session of the National Assembly on the 2017 Budget, the […]
World Bank has said Nigeria needs $140 billion to achieve its climate change commitment and control its impact on the country through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) of the Paris Agreement. World Bank Practice Manager for Environment and Natural Resources, Benoît Bosquet, speaking at a workshop in Abeokuta, Ogun State on “Climate Change Knowledge Immersion,” […]
A chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger, Alhaji Muazu Bawa, on Tuesday said Nigerians must support the measures put in place by the Federal Government to end recession and set Nigeria on the path of growth. Bawa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna that the measures would take time […]
Stakeholders in Agriculture under the aegis of the National Agricultural Production Cooperative Union of Nigeria (NAPCUN), South-South zone, says, it has perfected plans with state governments in the zone to revive aggressive farming and all agricultural schemes across the local government areas in the zone to boost massive food productions. The zonal coordinator of the […]
The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has announced its plans to recruit 6,545 staff members in different cadre of the service. Comptroller General (CG), NPS, Jaffaru Ahmed, made the disclosure on Monday in Abuja during the 2017 budget defence in the House of Representatives. He said N6 billion was allocated for recruitment in the 2017 budget. […]
A consultant to the Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) Farmers Association, Mr Kolapo Raji, has advise commercial banks who offer loan facilities to farmers to desist from attaching stringent contingents to the facility that makes it unrealistic or difficult to farmers to frustrate them from accessing the loans. Raji gave the charge while […]
How safe is the food you eat? Do you know that food is only as good as it is safe? Experts say this is because food can be the best medicine or the worst poison. This aptly explains concerns by the Federal Ministries of Health and Agriculture for embarking on public awareness on food safety. […]
“Our vision is for Edo State to become a leading agricbusiness hub in Nigeria, attracting some of the biggest agric-investors, transitioning the state into a world of Agro-industrialization” – Obaseki When the Godwin Obaseki led administration during the governorship electioneering campaign promised to create 200,000 jobs, the major opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party […]