Though he ran the affairs of the United States of America for one term of four years, as the 39th president, he was on record as a president who made concerted efforts to, as he campaigned, promote “efficiency in government”. Until his death at the age of 100 years, making him the longest living American…
Criminal elements responsible for the circulation of fake products in Nigeria are not in a hurry to give up their trade. It is, however, apparent that the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), is also not willing to let them thrive. The agency announced over the weekend that it destroyed over…
Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure is from Idanre town, in Idanre local government area of Ondo State. He attended Saint George’s Primary School, Idale, Idanre, after which he proceeded to the Anglican Modern School also in Idale, where he spent just one year. during his first of the three-year course at the Mordern school he applied…
Cocoa producing countries like Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Ghana will need to brace up. This is because that money spinning crop, which occupies a prime place on the list of growers of the GDP, is under threat. The threat is that cocoa may soon lose the appeal which made companies in Western nations compete to…
Dr. Marcus Ogunbiyi has resumed duty as the Permanent Secretary of, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS). Ogunbiyi’s resumption is the sequel to the recent deployment of Permanent Secretaries to man various Ministries by the Office of the Head of Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Speaking during the handover ceremony at…
Special Adviser to the President on Economic Matters, Tope Fasua, has said that the strategy of floating the naira made local goods cheaper and e-commerce lucrative. Fasua made the assertion in an interview on Arise Tv. He said the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to float the naira was strategic. In June…
The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Blessing Agbebaku on Thursday said the State Governor Monday Okpebholo has earmarked over N70bn for agriculture in the newly-signed Edo 2025 budget. In line with his administration’s commitment to addressing food insecurity and making Edo sufficient in food production, Okpebholo had tagged the 2025…
If the target of the World Bank is met as planned, then the days of extreme poverty, particularly in low income countries, are numbered. This is as the global bank aims to raise the sum of $100bn to eradicate extreme poverty, which it said would take decades to accomplish , unless drastic actions were taken….
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), on Tuesday, said its investigative and enforcement directorate raided a warehouse at Apongbon, Oke Arin Market in Lagos following a tip–off about the sale of unregistered food products at the facility. A statement shared on the agency’s X handle (formerly twitter) said various unregistered…
Recently the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, acting on behalf of the federal government, gave some inputs to farmers in the state. But some of the farmers are not happy, because some of these inputs are sub-standard. BUSHLINK had an interview with one of the farmers, Pa Folajimi Israel Akinsulure, who is a member of…
