Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, has declared that achieving food security through agricultural development is among the topmost agendas of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s eight-point agenda. The minister who said this also affirmed that all the programmes on the agenda are connected to agriculture. Kyari made this known at the launch…
Fatima Aliyu, National Programme Coordinator of the Federal Government of Nigeria/Internatioal Fund for Agricultural Development, Value Chain Development Programme has distributed farming inputs to 619 farmers in Nasarawa State for the 2023/2024 dry season farming. The effort is part of the initiative of the federal government and IFAD VCDP to ensure food security in the…
Barely two weeks after it cautioned residents of Lagos State against the consumption of plantain chips not produced under hygienic condition, the Lagos State Consumer Protection Agency, LASCOPA has issued another warning. This time the agency has warned producers, entrepreneurs as well as other stakeholders in the food supply chain against peddling unregistered food products….
If you are the type who indulges in eating between meals, and your favourite is that snack you can readily grab on the road, you must watch what you eat from now on. This is because there are suspicions that some of the people who sell snacks, particularly along the road, most especially in traffic,…
The hope that food production will increase in 2024, giving impetus to the goal of targeting zero hunger in the near future, appears to be coming to reality by the day. This is because the decision by the federal government to undertake massive production of food items is being keyed into by the state governments,…
The budgetary allocation for the school feeding programme is a further demonstration by the administration of Bola Tinubu that it is a lover of children and education. This was stated by Dr. Yetunde Adeniji, the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to President Bola Tinubu on School Feeding at an event in Abuja. She said that by…
Those who have been praying for a reprieve in the flying inflation in the food sector may have to apply more energy on that spiritual exercise. This is because there are indications that rather than abate the cost of food will continue to soar in the new year. That is the result of the survey…
The worrying escalation of the cost of food in Nigeria is not peculiar to the country. That is stated in the latest report by the World Bank in its Food Security Update. Other countries most hit by food inflation include countries in Africa, North America and Latin America. According to the report, aside from the…
The federal government has shown demonstrable energy at increasing the production of wheat in the country. If this is done, it will not only assist in getting more food for the people, it will also reduce dependence on foreign countries. And wait for this: the economy will also breathe because the amount of foreign exchange…
The federal government is not alone in the race for improved production of food in 2024. It has the support of state governments who have shown considerable pursuance of the goal towards the production of food items with a purpose to making same available at affordable rates. One of such state is Niger State. Governor…
