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 Niger Delta Development Commission has announced a partnership with communities in the Niger Delta region to empower 4,500 rice and cassava farmers to ensure food security in the region and the country at large. The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, disclosed this during the onboarding programme for the empowerment of the farmers at…
The Enugu state government has reiterated its determination to empower youths with agricultural innovations to drive the process of the GDP projection of the state to $30b. Dr Patrick Ubru, Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro- Industrialisation in Enugu State who made this known on while declaring open the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase-1 (ATASP-1)…
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike has got laboratory equipment from the PZ Cussons Nigeria PLC. The company donated the equipment, which will be used to upgrade Chemical Engineering and Chemistry laboratories at the university. Engr. Ifeanyichukwu Abadom, the CEO of the company, represented by Supply Chain Director, Africa, in his speech at the occasion,…
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…
The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has warned traders, and farmers to desist from the forceful practices of ripening fruits, adulterating palm oil, and sale of contaminated meat and grains. During a sensitisation campaign in Abuja, the Acting Executive Vice Chairman of FCCPC, Dr Adamu AbdullahI on Thursday decried the unhealthy attitude of…
The World Bank has revealed plans to disburse $500m as loan to enhance rural road infrastructure and agricultural marketing in Nigeria. The financial institution said the fund requested was contained in the final draft of the Resettlement Policy Framework for the Nigeria Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project Scale-UP (RAAMP-SU) under the Federal Ministry of…
In a bid to cushion the effect of hardship and the food crises in the country, the Federal Government has donated 70 trucks of fertilisers to support farmers, agricultural activities in Kano state. In a statement released by Malam Sunusi Bature, Director- General, Media and Publicity it was made known that Kabir Yusuf, Kano State…
