A front line Igbo ideologist and 2023 presidential election aspirant, Chief. CBN, Onwuasoanya Ezendigbo has reacted to a trending video depicting the best template to serve as a good leader of any nation. In a viral video titled, ” How Two Poorest Presidents In The World Made Their Country Rich By Good Governance And Transparency”,…
Igbo women have called for the disarming of violent herdsmen wreaking havoc in various agrarian communities in South East.The women, under the umbrella of Igbo Women Assembly (IWA), shared their grievances at a press conference in Umuahia, Abia State. The women lamented that farmers are now scared of going to their farms due to the…
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas, has underscored the need for the establishment of more specialised agricultural institutions, saying it is necessary to accelerate the federal government’s drive for food security, mechanised farming and diversification of the economy. Speaker Abbas made the submission in Abuja while declaring open a public hearing…
The 300 beneficiaries of a fully sponsored programme in agriculture by the Abia State Government have arrived at the CSS Global farms, Nasarawa for a two-week training. The State Government had recently organised a capacity-building seminar for the first batch of the 300 candidates selected for the training. A statement by Nwahiwe Cleverson Chinonyerem, Information…
The first five world cocoa producers led by Cote d’Ivoire had better begin to expect a shaking in the table of ranking producers of that product. This is because Nigeria is rearing to overtake from its current sixth position on that table. Farmers in the eight states in the southwest and southsouth regions of the…
Have you noticed a hike in the price of eggs of late? Were you thinking that the prices might come down soon? There are indications that consumers may have to live with the hike for some time to come. This is because the factors that created the hike in price do not appear to have…
The Renewed Hope Initiative of the wife of the President, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has given out ₦10m to 20 female farmers in Rivers State to boost agriculture productivity in the state. The initiative aims to ensure the availability of food items at cheaper rates to mitigate the high inflation rate in the country. The cheques…
The Cross River State government has said that degraded areas of the state are to be restored. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Irrigation Development, Johnson Ebokpo, announced this during a critical stakeholders’ meeting. He said the state government has initiated plans to establish six new cocoa farm estates in six local government areas of the…
To ensure peaceful coexistence between farmers and herders, the Kogi State governor, Alhaji Usman Ahmed Ododo, has inaugurated a 17-member Conflict Prevention and Resolution Committee. Governor Ododo, who inaugurated the committee in Lokoja on Thursday, charged them to check, regulate and monitor the movement of herdsmen and their livestock along the stock routes to prevent…
The Nigerian government is concerned about the soaring prices of tomatoes in the country. The prevailing food inflation, which is the highest in decades, has been a challenge for the administration of Bola Tinubu, which declared a state of emergency in food production last year, as part of efforts to battle food insecurity. Unfortunately, a…
