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[ad_1] Prof. Eustace Iyayi is a Rector of Nigerian Institute of Animal Science, and also the Chairman of Organising Committee of Feed Nigeria Summit 2020. He spoke with Cornelius Essen in Abuja on the event, and how agricultural policies and activities can boost Nigeria’s economy. Tell us more about ‘Feed Nigeria Summit.’ The Feed Nigeria Summit is […]
[ad_1] The British government on Monday confirmed that a new farming policy would replace the current EU subsidies when the Brexit transition period ends on Dec. 31 this year. The new system, named Environmental Land Management (ELM), will pay farmers if they protect “heritage’’ farm buildings and stone walls, expand hedges, capture carbon in soils […]
[ad_1] Not fewer than seven farmers including a nursing mother have been killed by bandits who attacked three communities of Tashar Bama, Dogun Muazu, and Unguwar Maigayya villages of Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State. The lawmaker representing the area at the statehouse of Assembly, Ibrahim Danjuma Machika, confirmed the killing during the plenary […]
[ad_1] PROMINENT Urhobo leaders have called on investors to harness the huge agricultural potentials in Urhobo land to create employment and reduce the level of poverty among the people of the ethnic nationality. The leaders held that the age-long practice of subsistence farming was no longer fashionable, and could not create the desired level of […]
[ad_1] AFAN says farmers in the north “are now very scared to go to their farms to do dry season farming”. The All Farmers’ Association of Nigeria has urged the federal government to take a decisive action against Boko Haram after Saturday’s killing of scores of farmers in Zabarmari, Borno State. The group said the […]
[ad_1] The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday, took exception to a comment credited to Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, who while fielding questions from the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, asked if the 43 farmers beheaded by Boko Haram insurgents obtained a military clearance before venturing into the bush where they met their untimely death. The party […]
[ad_1] Some Nigerians on Monday lambasted the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity to the President Muhammadu Buhari for saying that the farmers who were killed by Boko Haram did not obtain military clearance before going to the farm. Shehu who made this comment on Monday in an interview with BBC stated that the “government […]
[ad_1] LOKOJA- Against the backdrop of the dwindling revenues from crude oil and the imperative of an oil palm production, Kogi State Commissioner For Agriculture, Mr David Apeh has called on the government to urgently diversify to Agriculture to hedge the impending economic doom for the country. The Commissioner gave the warning on Monday at […]
[ad_1] WOMEN farmers under the auspices of Smallholder Women Farmers Organisation of Nigeria, SWFON, Monday, disclosed planned stoppage of supply of farm produce to markets across the country following Saturday massacre of 43 rice farmers in Borno State. This was made known in a telephone interview with the National President, SWFON, Mary Afan, while she […]
[ad_1] President of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan is leading a federal government delegation to Maiduguri, Borno State on a condolence visit over the killing of farmers at the weekend by terrorists. According to a statement Monday in Abuja by his Special Adviser, Media, Ola Awoniyi, the President of the Senate left for Maiduguri today, […]
[ad_1] Presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu has said that farmers who were killed by Boko Haram on Saturday did not have military clearance to be on the rice farms. Shehu said this in an interview with BBC on Monday, stating further that people need to know what it is like in the Lake Chad Basin area. […]
[ad_1] Following the killing of over 43 rice farmers on Saturday, in Garin-Kwashebe, about 20 kilometers north of Maiduguri, Borno State Capital, farmers Sunday, sent Save Our Soul, SOS, message to the Federal Government for adequate protection. This was contained in a statement signed by the Managing Director,Wal-Wanne Group, Dr Abiso Kabir, where the farmers […]
[ad_1] As reactions continue to pour in over the killing of 43 rice farmers in Borno State by Boko Haram insurgents on Saturday, a Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Constitution, CDNDC, Sunday, demanded the sack of Service Chiefs and Heads of Department of State Security and Nigeria Police Force. […]
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[ad_1] GOVERNORS of the thirty six states of the country under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF have described the killing of over forty (43) rice farmers in Garin Kwashebe in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State on Saturday, November 28, 2020, by suspected Boko Haram terrorists as obnoxious, wicked, unwarranted, and […]