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The Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Usman Jibril, yesterday in Calabar officially handed over three boxes containing 145 assorted snakes to authorities of the University of Uyo (UNIUYO) in Akwa Ibom State. The presentation took place at the premises of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the presence of officials of […]
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts on Thursday in Abuja placed two officials of the Bank of Agriculture in National Assembly custody for failure of the bank’s Managing Director, Kabir Adamu, to appear before it. The staff that were detained are: Emmanuel Ameh, the Executive Director, Regional Banking, Bank of Agriculture and the […]
Nigeria relies heavily on dairy imports to bridge the gap between local milk production and total milk consumption estimated to be 1.3 million tonnes with the government spending an estimated $1.3billion annually on importation of dairy products into the country. According to National Agricultural Sample Survey, 2011, Nigeria as a country, is endowed with an […]
Less than seven months after Audu Ogbe, Minister of Agriculture promised the nation that the government was poised to crash fertilizer price down to N6,000 or below, tangible evidence has emerged that this is a promise kept. Last Monday. Uche Orji, the ebullient Managing Director of the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA, revealed that the […]
An official of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development says the country cannot export honey because it produces less than three per cent of its current needs. Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, a Director in the Department of Veterinary and Pest Control Services of the ministry, made the statement in Abuja on Friday on the occasion of […]
The President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has said that the company is planning to invest over $1 billion in agricultural production and processing of selected commodities like sugar, rice and tomatoes across Nigeria.Speaking at the 2017 Niger State Investment Summit in Minna, the state capital on Monday, Dangote, who was represented by […]
Prof. Sani Ahmed-Miko, Country Director, Sasakawa Global 2000 (SG 2000), when he visited some Community Demonstration plots at at Dakaiyawa village, Kaugama Local Government area, Jigawa on Wednesday advised rice farmers in the country to embrace the improved rice production technology introduced by the organisation. Some officials of the NGO were in the area to […]
A private company, Corporate Configurations Limited has decried illegal trespass on its farmland situated at Shika district, Giwa local government, Kaduna state by Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Microfinance Bank Ltd (ABUMFB), Zaria. In a statement made available by the company to LEADERSHIP Sunday, it recalled that Corporate Configurations Limited obtained a loan from A.B.U Microfinance […]
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 had a […]
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has challenged scientists in Nigeria to find ways of resolving the economic recession by introducing innovative agriculture methods that will help grow the economy. Addressing the opening session of the 60th anniversary of the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) in Port Harcourt, Wike said new methods in agriculture would […]
Chairman, Kaduna State Chapter of All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Alhaji Nuhu Aminu, has said that agriculture is the only sector that can provide jobs to every Nigerian irrespective of qualification. Aminu made the observation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna on Wednesday. “Agriculture not only in […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), through the Bank of Agriculture (BOA), has disbursed the sum of N216.6 million as loan to 1, 171 rice farmers in Gombe State. The Branch Manager of BOA in Gombe, Adamu Idris Dula, stated this at the launch of the first phase of CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Programme for rice […]
The Nigeria Expanded Trade and Transport (NEXTT) project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Nigeria on Monday in Abuja launch eight model business/industry studies for processing, export across eight commodities value chains in Nigeria. The commodities are cassava, ginger, kenaf, moringa, sesame, shea, soya milk and yam flour, which form a […]
As part of efforts to tackle one of Africa’s major health concerns, malnutrition, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has provided a $10 million grant for food fortification in Nigeria, Tanzania and Kenya. The grant, which is being managed by TechnoServe, an international nonprofit organisation that promotes business solutions to poverty in developing world, is […]
Nigeria will be saving about N300 billion it spends annually on importation of rice as local production of the commodity has now reached 15 million metric tonnes, the federal ministry of Agriculture disclosed yesterday. The director of Agriculture at the Kano office of the ministry, Muhammad Adamu, who gave the hint, while inaugurating the Rice […]