A 25-year-old Nigerian aerospace engineering graduate, Shamsudeen Jibril, has developed an innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The vehicle is unique in the sense that it would be sent to fly over a farm and detects agricultural diseases. But that is not the only critical reason to celebrate. Jubril’s product also gives support to the farmer…
The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has partnered with a lawmaker, Mr. Paul Ekpo, to empower 50 farmers in Etinan Federal Constituency, Akwa Ibom State. Each farmer received 100 stands of oil palm seedlings and N100,000 to boost palm oil production. According to Mrs. Nonye Ayeni, NEPC’s Executive Director, “Although Nigeria has huge potentials in…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Nigeria Police are getting cooperation in the effort to recover loans given out by the past administration under the Anchor borrowers scheme. The help is coming from the Maize Association of Nigeria (MAAN), which collaborating with the security agencies to aide efforts to recover loans from…
The fertiliser sector in Nigeria is in good season. There has been a remarkable transformation from where it was in 2016, when the country had just four operational plants. Thanks to the Presidential Fertiliser Initiative, PFI, which is managed by the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, NSIA. By July this year the local fertiliser blending capacity…
Nigeria has secured a major breakthrough in its non-oil export drive as Niger State Governor Mohammed Bago announced a $100 million livestock offtake agreement with the Saudi Export and Import Bank to supply meat and related products to the Middle East. Bago, who made the disclosure at the First Bank Agric and Export Expo 2025…
The Federal Government on Tuesday launched a three-day validation workshop in Abuja to review the 2022–2024 Agricultural Joint Sector Review (JSR) reports and the 3rd National Agrifood Systems Investment Plan (NASIP) for 2025–2027, aimed at transforming the country’s agricultural sector. Declaring the event open at the Abuja Continental Hotel, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture…
The Federal Government has expressed concern over Nigeria’s poor performance in agricultural exports, lamenting that despite the sector’s huge contribution to the economy, it generates less than $400m annually in foreign exchange earnings. Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, stated this in Lagos at the First Bank of Nigeria Ltd. 2025 Agric…
The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Tuesday, inaugurated the rehabilitated phase 2 water treatment plant at the Lower Usuma Dam in Ushafa, Bwari Area Council, valued at about N50bn. Speaking at the ceremony, Wike disclosed that President Bola Tinubu has approved the commencement of additional water projects in satellite towns,…
Analysts at Afrinvest West Africa have projected that Nigeria’s headline inflation will ease further to 21.3 per cent year-on-year in August 2025, supported by foreign exchange (FX) stability, early harvest inflows, and relatively subdued global commodity prices. However, they cautioned that persistent food supply constraints and seasonal factors are likely to sustain upward pressure on…
Senator Ned Nwoko (APC-Delta) has called for the establishment, development and management of ranches across all 774 local government areas and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to enhance food security across the country. Nwoko, who represents the Delta North Senatorial District in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria Abuja, said that his proposal…
