The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Abubakar Kyari, CON, has inaugurated the Agricultural Sector Working Group (ASWG) to enhance food security, nutrition, and sustainable agricultural development across the continent. Speaking while inaugurating the committee, at the ASWG Inaugural and Inception meeting held at Rock View Hotel, in Abuja recently, the Minister pointed out…
The Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Dr. Aliyu Abdullahi has said that a revamped cooperative sector would ensure empowerment and prosperity for Nigerians, thereby making Cooperators part of the One Trillion US Dollar Economy within the decade. The Minister revealed this during the flag-off ceremony of the National Training/Workshop for Trustees, Management…
The preference of Nigerians for foreign products is being exploited by marketers in the country. For instance, it has been discovered that there are marketers who sell local rice to Nigerians as foreign brands. This came to the open, when the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) raided the Utako Ultramodern Market on Tuesday…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Tuesday alerted the public of the presence of counterfeit Artemether/Lumefantrine tablets circulating under the brand name Aflotin 20/120 in Nigeria. The agency said on its X handle that the counterfeit product was discovered and reported to the agency by the genuine manufacturer, Ajanta…
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said that Nigeria’s headline inflation rate edged up to 24.23 percent in March 2025. The NBS announced the increase in its consumer price index (CPI) for March on Tuesday. The new rate indicates an upward movement from the 23.18 percent reported in February. It also signals a return to…
The Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS), Yobe branch, on Tuesday, shared N77,000 to each of the 1,000 victims of the 2024 flood disaster in three Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. The LGAs include Fune, Bursari, and Gulani. Each beneficiary received an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card loaded with N77,000 to support livelihood recovery….
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has reported 674 confirmed cases of Lassa fever out of 4,025 suspected cases across 18 states and 93 local government areas from January to April 6, 2025. According to the NCDC’s latest situation report, 127 deaths have been recorded with a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of…
The Federal Government has gazetted and transmitted the ECOWAS schedule of tariff offers for Trade in Goods under the African Continental Free Trade Area to its secretariat. The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Jumoke Oduwole, said this through a statement issued in Abuja on Tuesday. Oduwole said that, the move was ahead of…
Federal government is showing a further concern in the growing crisis of malnutrition and food insecurity in Nigeria. It has therefore stressed the need for an urgent need for the coordination of the national interventions in this regard. This was made known on Sunday in Abuja by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and…
The National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) has signed a major Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with SINOMACH, a Chinese conglomerate, for the development of a sugarcane cultivation and processing project capable of producing one million metric tonnes of sugar in the country. The MoU, which is an early dividend of the Nigeria-China Strategic Partnership—an initiative of…
