JEREMAYA: Ziki, how are you? It has been a long time, anyway, I don’t want to bother you much, I thought you will branch at my place yesterday, at least, if not for any other thing, we would have been able to take a decision on where and when to hold our next meeting. ZIKI:…
Due to rising cost of living ravaging the country, the federal government has called for collaboration between the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Water Resources, and their sub-national counterparts are to ensure sufficient irrigation of farmlands for a year-round food security. Aliyu Shehu, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation, revealed this…
Officials of the Abia State Government have visited Edo State to understudy its agriculture initiatives with a view to boost the sector in her state. The delegation was led by Prof Monica Ironkwe, the Abia State Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security. Ironkwe, who met with her Edo State counterpart, Hon Stephen Idehenre said they…
In a rather damning report, 22 corruption scandals worth over N12 billion have been discovered in the University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State. According to a 2020 audit of Nigerian ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) by the Office of the Auditor-General of the Federation (OAuGF), released in December 2023 the Agriculture institution was discovered to…
Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria (CFAN) has disclosed that a fire outbreak has destroyed about 30 hectares of farmlands in Abia State. In a statement, the Zonal Chairman of CFAN, John Kalu, in some cases the fire was started by farmers who were setting lands ablaze which they see as a quicker and cheaper method…
In its bid to improve productivity and food security, the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), has distributed plant seedlings, fertiliser, herbicide and poultry feeds to 250 farmers in Anambra State. The items were distributed at a Training and Empowerment of Verified and Validated Beneficiaries of the National Poverty…
It was just a demonstration of how emotive the issue of presence of herdsmen in certain areas in Nigeria could be. The Enugu State Government, in an attempt to regulate and ensure non-denial of source of meat to its people, decided to encourage ranching in the state but the response was an uproar from the…
In a bid to end hunger and high cost of living in Nigeria and South East in particular, the wife of the president, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has concluded arrangements to empower Twenty farmers each from the five South East States. This is even as she assured Nigerians that hard times would soon be over. The…
TRADERS IN FOODSTUFF AND CATTLE DECRY MULTIPLE TAXATION IN SOUTH-SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST The Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has decried the multiple taxes imposed on them on South-East and South-South highways. The national president of AUFCDN, Mohammed Tahir, made this known during a meeting of the union in Enugu on…
All is set for the African Development Bank (AfDB) to commence the disbursement of $540 million fund to the first set of States in Nigeria for the development of Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZs) in the country. This is just as Vice President Kashim Shettima called for immediate action, saying it was time for the…
