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Bauchi State Government has signed a $1 billion memorandum of strategic cooperation on investment potential relating to agriculture, solid minerals and tourism as well as another MoU on the establishment of 100MW solar power project with Chinese investors. The state Governor, Mohammed Abdullahi Abubakar, while signing the MOU at the Government House in Bauchi wednesday […]
The Plateau Command of the Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), has harvested 400 bags of rice from its farm at Lakushi in Shendam Local Government Area of the state. Mr Luka Ayedoo, the command’s Public Relations Officer, made this disclosure in a statement he made available in Jos on Wednesday. He explained that the bumper harvest […]
The federal government has warned all contractors handling Fadama lll Additional Financing projects and facilities in Anambra state to expedite action on the projects to ensure their completion before January 2018. The government, through the World Bank and supervision team, handed down the order at the end of a two-day supervision mission in the state. […]
The President of Nigerian Association of Women In Agriculture, NAWIA, Mrs. Ngizan Chahul has appealed to the Benue State House of Assembly to prioritize budgetary allocation to the agricultural sector to ensure sustainable growth and development in the sector. She spoke at a one day Benue state Legislative Interactive Forum on 2018 Agricultural Budget and […]
The National Agency for Food Drugs and Administration Agency (NAFDAC) has called for full branding of rice products to save consumers from harm. Dr Christiana Esenwa, the Coordinator of NAFDAC in Anambra, made the appeal when she led a team of the agency to the state Ministry of Agriculture in Awka on Monday. She raised […]
SENATOR EMMANUEL ONWE IS AN EPITOME, EMBODIMENT AND IDEAL DEFINITION OF OPERATION FEED THE NATION & THE NEW FACE OF REVOLUTION OF AGRICULTURE IN EBONYI STATE Preamble As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality exist in our world, none of us can truly rest. There are people in the world so hungry that God […]
In line with boosting agriculture, Bauchi State is expected to provide 8,000 metric tons of wheat for Nigerian milling companies to meet the needs of confectioneries in the country. The Managing Director of Agro Services,Akubo Adegbe, disclosed the plan to increase wheat production in the State at the launch of this year’s wheat farming season. […]
The Bank of Agriculture (BOA) Friday said it has recovered N375,906,289.72 out of the over N1.4 billion loan facilities extended to customers in Kogi State, since the bank’s inception. Managing Director and Chief Executive of Bank of Agriculture, Mallam Kabir Muhammed Adamu disclosed this during the inauguration of the BOA branch Friday in Okene. Describing […]
No fewer than 6,520 farmers from five north-central states and Abuja have been selected to participate in this year’s dry season farming under the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. Mrs Rabi Emaikwu, Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) in Kogi, disclosed this on Friday in Lokoja at the meeting of the Core Delivery Team (CDT) of […]
Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger on Friday said the state government would equip farm institutes at Tegina, Kuta, Nasko and Bida local government areas to train youths in modern farming methods in 2018. The governor said this while presenting the state’s N128 billion 2018 budget proposal to the state House of Assembly. Bello added that […]
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has disclosed that the state government’s skills and vocational programmes of job creation have made 2,324 previously unemployed youths in the state employers of labour. He made the disclosure Wednesday in Asaba in his address at an exhibition held to showcase the products and services of youths and women in […]
The Ogun State Police Command says it has arrested three herdsmen for attempted murder and unlawful possession of an AK-49 rifle. The suspects’ names were given as Mohammed Bello (40), Muhammed Momoh (30) and Yisau Umoru (18). PUNCH Metro gathered that they were arrested following information received by the police that one Ige Orisade was […]
The Provost of the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Ondo State, Dr. Samson Odedina, has expressed concern that the non-inclusion of the college as part of beneficiaries of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been having negative impact on the activities of the college particularly efforts to engage the youths through agriculture. Odedina, who […]
FADAMA III additional financing, The state Project Co-ordinator for FADAMA III in Enugu State, Mr Jude Ogboke, said over 350 hectares of rice farms in the state would be irrigated for all-year farming in 2018 farming season. FADAMA is a modern agricultural and agro-allied project, meant to boost local food production and sponsored by the […]
…As NSE Plans to Raise N50b for Commodity Exchange In a deliberate move to pursue and attain the Federal Government goals on agriculture and food security as enunciated in the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan(ERGP), 2017-2030, Corporate Farmers International Limited (CFIL) in collaboration with the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and the International Institute for Tropical […]