The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has pleaded with the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) to suspend its ongoing strike and return to work. It said the strike poses risk to the health, safety, and security of Nigerians, as critical regulatory functions are being disrupted. The agency’s…
Concerns resonating from the ten-day protest planned for August has the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprises (CPPE), Muda Yusuf, warning that the fundamental actions are most likely to be attended by a great cost. He said that the economy stands to lose a whopping sum of N4trn. In…
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…
Governor Usman Ododo of Kogi State is walking the talk on the development of agriculture with a purpose to ensure the sustainability of food security and better agricultural practices in the state. He partnered with World Bank Group on the second phase of the Community Revolving Fund of the Agro-climate Resilience in Semi-arid Landscapes (ACReSAL)…
The Federal Government is leaving no stone unturned to bring about a radical increase in food production in the new year, as part of efforts to mitigate the projection that over 26 million Nigerians may be caught up in the hunger bracket in the new year. It is doing this through the Ministry of Agriculture…
There are indications that the prices of food items that have been going up since last year may nose dive soon. This follows a bold step by the federal government on Monday to prioritise a crash in the prices of food items above revenue drive. The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (FMAFS), on…
The administration of President Bola Tinubu appears to be working hard to ensure that the problem of food insecurity is tamed within the shortest time possible. It has continued to give support to states and farmers so they can produce food towards making Nigeria self-sufficient in food production. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security,…
The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari has said that the persistent food insecurity in the country reached its peak when traders and citizens decided to hoard food commodities while creating man-made scarcity. Kyari disclosed this in Abuja at a special Ramadan lecture/Iftar organised by the Special Assistant to the President on Agriculture…
No fewer than 3,000 farmers in the North Central state of Kwara have received support from the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies, NILDS. The Director-General of the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS), Professor Abubakar Sulaiman said this was done in partnership with a body known as Kwara Renaissance Group (KWRG)….
