Oba Basiru Aremu Sotonwa, Osomeku 1, Sekumade of Ipakodo, in Ikorodu, Lagos State has announced an annual distribution of food items to indigent residents, comprising the aged, widows and less privileged individuals. He made the declaration as part of activities commemorating Ipakodo Day celebration annually. According to the monarch, the gesture is facilitated by the…
A group, Nigerian Institute For Oil Palm Research (NIFOR) Childhood Friends of 1979-1983 Association, says it has finalised plans to invest massively in the agricultural sector. This according to its President Mr. Wilson Etinosa Ekhomogiazin was to support President Tinubu’s effort in tackling food insecurity in 2025. At a get together ceremony in Benin, the…
A total number of one hundred youths and women have been trained and empowered in tomato and pepper production in Adamawa state. The programme, organised by the federal ministry of Agriculture and food security in conjunction with the National Horticulture Research Institute, NIHORT, trained the beneficiaries on different techniques in agriculture. These include seed transplanting…
The Embassy of Netherlands in Nigeria has trained over 59,000 smallholder farmers as well as 2,000 agro-entrepreneurs in Nigeria on innovative ways of farming. This areas include the production, distribution and marketing of vegetables in Ogun, among other states. The training programme was implemented by a consortium, including the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), East-West…
The governor of Osun State, Asiwaju Ademola Adeleke, has pleaded with farmers to sell at reasonable prices to consumers. It was in a bid to cushion the effects of rising prices of food items in the state and Nigeria at large. The governor made the appeal at the Ayegbaju Market during the launching of a…
Companies in the consumer goods segment of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX) paid a total of N603bn in taxes to the federal government. The Chief Executive Officer, NGX, Jude Chiemeka disclosed this during the fact behind the figures of PZ Cussons. Chiemeka revealed this in an appeal to the federal government to provide infrastructural support…
The Enugu State government has affirmed that its partnership with the federal government on cassava to bioethanol production was yielding the desired results. The government said it was intensifying cassava cultivation in the state to boost the economy, while helping to address unemployment and insecurity. The Commissioner for Agriculture and Agro-Industrialization, Mr. Patrick Ubru made…
Rivers State Governor, Mr. Siminalayi Fubara, has promised that the state government would provide the necessary financial support to enable the 45,000 metric tonnes capacity Rivers Cassava Processing Factory at Afam, Oyigbo Local Government Area expand its production lines.The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Nelson Chukwudi, said the governor made the promise after…
The division in Nigeria widens with the insistence of the passage of the bill seeking to nullify open grazing in the country. While farmers, seeing advantage of a proposed law in this direction, herders insist that such proponents should perish the thought. The legislation, titled “A Bill for an Act to Establish the National Animal…
Emmanuel Ijewere, successful accountant, administrator and businessman is dead. His demise was announced by Kabir Ibrahim, chairman, administration of the Nigeria Agribusiness Group, NAGB, which the deceased led for many years. Agribusiness? Not many people remember him for agriculture, because in public life in was an accountant, a businessman, a financial guru, the man who…
