Senator Oluremi Tinubu, wife of President Bola Tinubu, has launched the Renewed Hope Initiative-Women Agricultural Support Programme, RHI-WASP in four of the six geo-political zones of the country. The zones are the Southwest, the Northcentral, the Northeast, the Northwest. The programme is part of efforts to compliment the steps being taken by her husband to…
Temitope Amujo, Chairman of AMU-Gold Global Network, a cosmetic manufacturing company has pledged to plant a minimum of one million Shea butter trees to restore the vital trees destroyed by Charcoal dealers in the Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. Amujo said his company will partner the Elumelu Foundation to achieve this target, the…
Senator Abubakar Kyari, minister of agriculture and food security is asking stakeholders in the agriculture and food chain to collaborate with the government in the provision of seedlings for the major food crops that are needed to solve the challenge of food production in the country. He made the call at the high-level stakeholders’ forum…
The current hardship indicated in the high prices of food and living conditions is a temporary situation that will give way to a better life for Nigerians. That was the assurance that President Bola Tinubu gave leaders of the Afenifere, the Yoruba Socio-Cultural organisation led by its leader Pa Reuben Fasoranti at the State House…
Sesan Olowa, Chairman, Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Area of Lagos State has disclosed that the council has concluded its plans to boost agricultural produce within the council area. This, he said, would enable the council to also raise more revenue, disclosing that towards this end, the council is embarking on the establishment of cassava plantation hubs….
There are indications that otherwise hostile stakeholders in the food production chain will close ranks and focus on their responsibility to the society, particularly in the southwest geo-political zone of the country. This hope emanated from a recent reconciliation between herders and farmers in the zone. The step is being taken to promote food security…
The people of Sokoto State joyfully received the grains that were sent by the Federal government for distribution to vulnerable residents. Thank God for the vigilance of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC who stopped bandits who had laid in ambush at the federal government silo in Katsina State a few days ahead…
Bandits operating in Katsina State would have carried out another successful operation in the state recently but for the vigilance of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC. This time the target of the bandits who planned the raid a few days to the end of Ramadan was not just to kill or kidnap…
As palliative to mark the Easter celebrations, Chief Adedoyin Ibikunle-Eshanumi, founder and Executive Director of Doyin and Suzan Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has distributed food items to over 300 vulnerable widows in Kogi. The items were distributed to some rural communities in Isanlu, Yagba East Local Government Area of Kogi. Ibikunle-Eshanumi during the distribution…
The government at all levels have been called upon to bring back industries in agriculture that have become challenged or moribund, and also build new ones. This call was made by Rev. Father Andrew Obinyan in Benin, Edo State recently. He made the call while distributing money, clothes and food items to widows and indigent…
