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 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…
….SETS UP HELP DESk The Ekiti State Government has advised farmers to be on the lookout for the Fall Armyworm (FAW) infestation outbreak in the state. The worm is known to attack over 60 plants, particularly corn and rice (but also Bermuda grass, soybean, peanut, cotton, and alfalfa). The warning was contained in a statement…
The federal government is making moves to reverse the slow pace of distribution of farm inputs to farmers in Nigeria. This is with the objective of ensuring that the delay do not inhibit the planned objective of the government to win the war against food insecurity in the country. This was hinted by the minister…
A senator has asked the federal government to institute an investigation into the delay in the distribution of the fertilisers it mandated the federal ministry of agriculture and food security to give to sub-national governments in the country. The call was made by Onyekachi Nwebonyi, Senator representing Ebonyi North senatorial district, who is also the…
Senator Ede Dafinone, representing Delta Central Senatorial District touched the real people in need recently. He went to an internally displaced persons, IDP camp in Okuama, Delta State to donate food items worth millions of naira to people there. Conscious of the fact that what he has given may not be enough to last for…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has vowed to revamp the water infrastructure across the country. This is just as the Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation, Engr Joseph Utsev stated that the current output of dams cannot cater for the usage of the local communities. Utsev, while inspecting dams in Osun State; Ile-Ife and Ilesa…
Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has spelt out plans by his administration to respond to the demands of protesters who decried bad governance and hardship in the country. In a statement on Thursday, the governor issued a directive on his plans to address the hardship. The statement signed by his spokesperson Olawale Rasheed, said…
