The 2024 Cadre Harmonise report on Wednesday said over 31.8 million Nigerians are suffering from acute food insecurity compounded by malnutrition among women and children in the country. According to the statistics, the surge in food commodity prices is due to the removal of fuel subsidies, in addition to security challenges, that have placed millions…
The prices of some basic food items took a flight for the worse in the last 12 months. The result is that the items went out of reach of consumers. This was the outcome of the survey by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) contained in a report released on Wednesday. It said that prices…
The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, NEITI has received the records of 198 companies in the mining and oil and gas sectors for auditing. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of NEITI, Dr Orji Ogbonnaya Orji, on Tuesday. He said the records contain the activities of the companies, which include government agencies. Orji disclosed…
The Head of Press and Public Affairs at the National Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (N-HYPPADEC), Nura Wakili in a statement on Tuesday, expressed concerns to farmers who were affected by the environmental disaster. The statement quoted the Commission’s Managing Director, Abubakar Yelwa addressing the disaster as an unfortunate event that portrays a significant…
The paramount ruler Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin 1 has asked Belgium to consider a partnership with the Oyo State government to help boost agricultural prpduction in the state. He told the visiting Belgian Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E Pieter Leenknegt in his palace on Monday. According to the royal father, Ibadan has enough arable…
The damages done by incessant floods to crops and the danger it poses to availability of food items will not upstage the planned massive production of food in the country. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, gave the assurance in Abuja. He sympathised with thousands of farmers whose farms were destroyed by…
The Ekiti State Government is already taking a practical step towards fighting food insecurity in the State. By the time Governor Biodun Oyebanji and his cabinet rose from the State Executive Council (SEC) meeting on Monday a quantum amount of money had been voted for the clearing of about 325 hectares of farmland. The amount…
The Katsina State Government has said that it has decided to invest N30 billion in agriculture in the state. The investment is part of efforts to boost agriculture and improve food security. In this regard the objective is to promote mechanised agricultural practices towards, ease the challenges of the farmers and enhance economic development at…
Despite complaints that the huge investments in the agricultural sector did not yield the desired outcome, the sector is said to have contributed to the national gross domestic products GDP in the second quarter of this year. This is the submission on Monday of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which said that Nigeria’s Gross…
For the government to encourage growth in the mining sector it must do an appraisal of the relevance and observance of the law on local content in the country. It must also do a proper assessment of its decision to increase rates in the sector. This is the position of the Association of Miners and…
