The Ezza South Local Government Area in Ebonyi State has taken a significant step towards promoting environmental sustainability and food security with the launch of a massive tree planting and agricultural initiative. The program involves planting 10,000 economic trees and 30,000 palm seedlings across schools, farmlands, and communities. According to the Council Chairperson, Mrs. Nwali,…
Senator Abubakar Kyari, minister of agriculture and food security is asking stakeholders in the agriculture and food chain to collaborate with the government in the provision of seedlings for the major food crops that are needed to solve the challenge of food production in the country. He made the call at the high-level stakeholders’ forum…
The war against climate change is not being left to the government alone. Operators in the private sector and the non government organisations are also enlisting in it. One Acre Fund, a non-profit development organisation, has kicked off the distribution of 938,000 Albizia Lebbeck tree seedlings to 34,000 smallholder farmers in Nasarawa state. The gesture…
At the ongoing 2024 US-Africa Business Summit in Dallas, United State of America, Abiodun Abayomi Oyebanji, governor, Ekiti State Governor and Niyi John Olajide, Chairman of Cavista Holdings, (owners of Agbeyewa Farms Limited) signed multi-billion Naira Memorandum of Understanding to establish a state-of-the-art cassava farm of over 100,000 hectares in the State. Olajide Chairman of…
300 farmers comprising 140 livestock farmers, 140 cassava and maize farmers and 20 tomato farmers from three Farmers Community Associations ( FCA ), which includes beneficiaries of the Youth Entrepreneur Agro-preneur Programme (YEAP), have been empowered with agricultural inputs for use in their respective agrotypes in the fourth phase of Oyo Community Action Resilience And…
Save the Children (SCI) Nigeria, disclosed that over 150,000 children in 26 camps in Borno State are at risk of being malnourished following the flood that occurred in Maiduguri. The Country Director, SCI, Nigeria, Duncan Harvey who disclosed this during a press conference held in Abuja, stated that many children were already malnourished before the…
Enugu State Government and Jelfah Nigeria Ltd have signed a N40bn deal for the revitalisation of the long-moribund and state-owned Sunrise Flour Mills, Enugu. The deal, which was signed at the Government House, Enugu, Tuesday, saw Jelfah acquire 60 per cent equity stake in Sunrise Flour Mills and is expected to invest N24bn in the…
The Katsina State Commissioner for Health, Alhaji Musa Adamu-Funtua, has called for a school-based campaign against the use of tobacco in the country. According to him, raising awareness in schools against tobacco consumption can reduce the prevalence of smoking among young people. Adamu-Funtua made the call during a press briefing in collaboration with the Civil…
Farmers at Ebonyi State University, EBSU, farm, in Abakaliki, have lamented that the herders grazing over two hundred cows stormed their farmlands and destroyed their vegetable and crop farms. Speaking to newsmen, they recounted how these herders have incessantly destroyed their farmlands rendering their crop yield useless. A widow, Ibi Eunice, narrated that her family…
It is not just insecurity and scarcity of commodities that are responsible for persistent hike in the prices of commodities, particularly food items. The development is also compounded by a conspiracy at the market that confers undue powers on some interest groups who then determine the price rates and the people who would be admitted…
