A total of 500 Anambra farmers will benefit from the Co-operative Farmers Scheme sponsored by John Bosco Onunkwo Foundation, a private initiative. The scheme, which is distributing fifty seed yams to farmers across the twenty-one local government areas of Anambra state, has commenced the first phase of the programme in Aguata local government area.According to…
The Aliko Dangote Foundation on Wednesday gave the Lagos State government 80,000 bags of rice of10 kilogrammes each to the vulnerable people across the state. The donation a part of the foundation’s ongoing rollout of one million bags of 10kg rice is expected to bolster the state’s interventions aimed at ameliorating the impacts of persisting…
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…
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…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), in a bid to ensure food security, has partnered with the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria to promote rice cultivation in the region. Dr Samuel Ogbuku, the commissions Managing Director, made the disclosure during a strategic meeting with a delegation of the farmers association, led by its Deputy National…
Aliko Dangote, billionaire businessman has joined the league of people who have decided to ease the hardship that Nigerians are currently going through. In line with his practice during the month of Ramadan, he launched the distribution of rice to the people. Dangote, Africans richest man, will distribute one million bags of rice to vulnerable…
The Minister of Agriculture Food and Security Abubakar Kyari, on Tuesday, announced a new development by the federal government to inject 58,500 metric tons of rice into the country’s markets. Kyari’s assertion was made at an interactive session with the National Assembly joint committee on agriculture and rural development in Abuja. This move he noted…
To cushion the effect of hardship ravaging the country, the management of Fidelity Bank Plc has reached out to over 3,000 people. They gave the food items to vulnerable households and underprivileged families in Gusau, Zamfara State, noting that the gesture was part of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiative. A statement released by the bank…
….SOME LUCKY, SOME FRUSTRATED Sunday March 17 was an unusually busy day in Lagos State. Many people trooped out to designated markets where the Lagos State government assembled vendors to sell food items at discounted prices. The centres spread across 57 locations in five divisions in the state had people fill the spaces from about…
