Data on the Gross Domestic Product, GDP report has shown that Nigeria’s agric growth slowed to 1.4 percent in the second quarter of 2024 on worsening insecurity and rising production costs, On a year-on-year basis, the sector grew by 1.41 percent in real terms from 1.50 percent, a decrease of 0.09 percent points from the…
The value of post-harvest losses in Nigeria is put at N3.5 trillion, which is three times higher than the country’s five-year federal agricultural budgetary allocation of N1.13 trillion. This has generated criticisms on the government’s food security policies. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says about 50 percent of fresh agricultural produce in Nigeria…
Abuja based Agri businessman Akomolafe Bankole is still in pains over the demolition of his poultry farm in Abuja by the Federation Capital Territory Development Authority. The poultry farm worth N150 million located in Lokogoma area in Abuja was demolished, according to him, without any form of notification. The demolition, which also resulted in the…
A sociocultural group in southeastern part of Nigeria, the Igbo Ekene Global Development Union, IEGDU has taken a bold step to sensitise Nigerians on the importance of climate-smart agriculture and sustainable agricultural practices in the country. The Union demonstrated this during its celebration of the 2024 National Indoor plant week. At the event, the President…
Next year will witness aggressive efforts at development in sugar project in Nigeria. This follows the pledge by the Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council, Kamar Bakrin. He said his council has set 2025 as the year for intensified efforts towards sugar project development in the country. Bakrin made this declaration during a…
The House of Representatives member for the Mbaitoli/Ikeduru (Mbaike) Federal Constituency, Hon Akarachi Amadi has flagged off the distribution of over 800 bags of fertiliser to the 63 communities in his Mbaike constituents. This distribution took place at his Constituency Office in Owerri, the Imo state capital. In a statement issued by the Head of…
Soon the government at the federal and state levels will no longer need to go to any foreign company, putting pressure on the country’s foreign reserve to import tractors to the country. This is because by next year it will be possible to purchase tractors locally. The hope towards this end was raised by the…
Mr. Kenneth Ifeakandu, a farmer from Okofia village Obeledu in Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra State, has won five hundred thousand Naira for harvesting 95 kg of yam in the community. Yam competition was part of the new yam festival for the 2024 edition of Obeledu’s new yam festival. “The prize money is a…
Wife of Ganiyu Aliyu Garu, a member of the House of Representatives has drawn the anger of the public as a result of the type of empowerment she did for youth in her husband’s constituency. Hajiya Fatima Aminu Aliyu Garu is seen in a viral photograph distributing sugarcane sticks to youngsters, some of whom are…
In the bid to reposition the state’s mining sector for enhanced revenue generation Governor Caleb Manasseh Mutfwang has organised a two-day stakeholders’ forum aimed at exploring revenue generation strategies in the state’s mining sector and identify opportunities for sustainable development. While opening the consultative forum with key stakeholders on Emerging Reforms in Nigeria’s Mining Sector…
