Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, is seeking partnership with Baroness Sandip Verma, former UK minister of energy and climate change. Governor Alia said the move was to boost agricultural investment opportunities for foreigners in the state and country at large. The governor expressed confidence that the partnership will enhance development in the agricultural sector in…
The federal government is planning to get revenue from agritourism in Nigeria. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), Aliyu Abdullahi made this known over the weekend. While admitting that the country had hitherto not tapped into the potentials in the industry, the minister said the government would set up an agritourism…
Inflation rate in Nigeria takes an all time high driven mainly by the high cost of food, fuel, drugs and transportation, as well as the dwindling fortune of the naira, even as local production of foods in particular continues to drag. This is contained in the latest report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS),…
In the struggle to tackle the problem of food security in Nigeria the federal government has won the support of another country that is willing to invest in the ongoing efforts to undertake massive production of food items in the country. This was revealed when Saudi Arabia disclosed its preparedness to collaborate with the federal…
President Bola Tinubu has once again restated his determination to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production during his tenure. The President spoke on Thursday in Niger State during the groundbreaking ceremony for the 84 km, N169.7bn Bida-Minna Road construction in the Kakakpagi, Katch Local Government Area of the state. Tinubu, who was represented by the…
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMA&FS) in collaboration with the Self Help Africa (SHA) Group has strategized to mitigate Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) effect on farmlands. This is done to accelerate food and nutrition security, promote climate change, generate employment and transform Nigeria into a leading global food producer. The project aims…
There is sufficient restoration of peace in the northeast zone now for the federal government to include it in its ambitious agricultural plans for the country. For that to happen, Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has called for the revitalisation of the South Chad and Yauri irrigation projects in the state. That appears to…
The Aliko Dangote Foundation on Wednesday gave the Lagos State government 80,000 bags of rice of10 kilogrammes each to the vulnerable people across the state. The donation a part of the foundation’s ongoing rollout of one million bags of 10kg rice is expected to bolster the state’s interventions aimed at ameliorating the impacts of persisting…
Farmers in Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and Federal Capital Territory, have recorded a huge loss of N12bn following the outbreak of blight, a fungi disease also known as ginger tuber rot disease which affects mainly underground tubers. This was confirmed by the Minister of State Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security Sabi Abdullah on Monday…
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari has said that the persistent food insecurity in the country reached its peak when traders and citizens decided to hoard food commodities while creating man-made scarcity. Kyari disclosed this in Abuja at a special Ramadan lecture/Iftar organised by the Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture…
