National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has disclosed its plan to distribute food items donated by a Saudi Arabia-based international humanitarian organisation, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief) to a total of 5,606 beneficiaries. Those to benefit are most vulnerable persons in Kano, Jigawa and Katsina states and an educational foundation in Maiduguri, Borno…
Engineer Seyi Makinde, Oyo State governor has been lauded for his unique approach and commitment towards enhancing livestock production in the country. Makinde was commended by the World Bank, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, through the Livestock Productivity and Resilience Support Project (L-PRES), at a two-day livestock production stakeholders engagement by the World…
The seventh edition of the Guaranty Trust Holding Company, GTCO Food and Drink Festival has been announced by GTCO. It will hold on Friday, April 26th to Sunday, April 28th, at GTCentre, Plot 1 Water Corporation Drive, Oniru, Victoria Island, Lagos. The GTCO Food and Drink Festival is widely recognised as the continents biggest food…
For Alhaji Mudashiru Nurudeen Emiloju, it has become a yearly routine exercise to empower and uplift the lives of Iwo residents and cushion the effect of economic hardship in the country. Emiloju, a Special Adviser to the Osun State Governor on Community and Social Development Agency (CSDA), had, some years ago, launched a multi-million naira…
Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has flagged-off the 30 km Arochukwu-Ndi Okereke- Ozu Abam Road, with a pledge that no part of the state will be left behind in road infrastructural development. He said that the essence of fixing rural roads was to connect agricultural roads to the urban areas in order to boost…
The Abia State Government has assured residents of the government’s commitment to reviving all abandoned farm settlements in the state for increased food production. Engr. Ikechukwu Emetu, the state deputy governor, gave the assurance during an inspection tour of Ukwa Nkporo Palm oil Plantation on Saturday, where he decried the lack of attention by the…
Farmers in Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and Federal Capital Territory, have recorded a huge loss of N12bn following the outbreak of blight, a fungi disease also known as ginger tuber rot disease which affects mainly underground tubers. This was confirmed by the Minister of State Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security Sabi Abdullah on Monday…
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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…
Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has been commended by the World Bank over his numerous developmental strides in the areas of water and agriculture, particularly livestock farming, stressing that the governor’s efforts at transforming the state would help in up-scaling its agricultural productivity. The commendation was made on Wednesday by the National Coordinator of…
