To revitalise a seamless database in the Agricultural sector, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), Temitope Fashedemi has inaugurated a Technical Working Group (TWG) on farmers’ Data capturing. Speaking at the inauguration in Abuja, Fashedemi said the process will identify and develop modalities to achieve a seamless database, that would…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Cocoa Processors Association of Nigeria (COPAN), Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Network of Practicing Non-oil Exporters of Nigeria (NPNEN), and Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI), have agreed to work together to boost Nigeria’s non-oil export trade….
Farmers, particularly the youth in their midst, practising in Rivers State have a reason to celebrate. The Rivers State government has decided to give support to farmers in the areas of farm inputs and a credit scheme. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Irrigation Development, Rivers State, Johnson A. Ebokpo, revealed the provision of 108 medium-sized…
A lecturer at the Ekiti State University (EKSU) Ado-Ekiti, Professor Oyebode Famiwole, has suggested a panacea for the food insecurity ravaging the country. He has, therefore, called on the government at all levels to make agricultural science a compulsory subject for students in junior classes and all science students in all public and private secondary…
If things go according to the plan by the Kwara State government, then by next year the state should be producing more soyabean than it had produced in the past. Already the state is one of the leading producers of soyabean in Nigeria, which means that it is one of the states that has put…
Senator Ali Ndume, the lawmaker representing Borno South senatorial district is in the news again. This time, however, it is not about what he has said or the political correctness or otherwise of such statements. Rather, the legislator is in the news for the good that he has done in his constituency. That good deed…
The federal executive council has approved the construction of another highway that connects the regions of the southern and the northern parts of the country. The first one was the Coastal Road designed to connect Lagos in the southwestern part of the country with the south south, while the latest one connects Badagry in the…
The current hardship in the country is the creation of President Bola Tinubu whose policies have heightened the cost of living and reduced the purchasing power of the national currency. This is the view of an Ebonyi farmer, Ayogu Chukwuemeka, who said that President Tinubu’s unpopular policies and ineptitude over the plights of the citizenry…
The step towards improving on agricultural productivity in Nigeria has a new dimension in the use of technology. This will include the introduction of satellite to ease the practice of agriculture. The authorities are using one of its agencies to introduce the technology. That agency is the National Space Research and Development Agency, NASRDA. The…
Before Nigeria can arrest the current wave of food crisis in the country it must first stop the scourge of insecurity in the northern part of the country. This is because the country has, in the regions of the North, lost a good number of farmers to insecurity. Some of those who are alive have…
