All set for today’s flag off of yam export to UK, others in Lagos
Barring last minute hiccups, the nation’s flagship seaport of Apapa will witness the first shipment of Nigerian yam to United Kingdom. This is coming after the first deadline of June 23 failed. This is as the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service…
Accent delay sending wrong signals to investors, recession recovery efforts—Experts
Discordant voices trailing the observed delay in the presidential accent to the already passed 2017 national budget without any form of objection or otherwise is rising on a daily basis. Finance analysts over the weekend averred that the scenario is…
FG, 36 states in need of N3bn to fight army worm infestation, silent on moribund Silos
The federal government has begun a joint tailored to end the ongoing invasion of army worm in several farms across the states. The worm known attacking maize, seems to have extended its destruction to other crops including cocoa, sorghum, tomato,…
Nigeria’s 33 silos built with taxpayers N280bn rot away across the nation
…Reps kick as storage challenges frustrate farmers nationwide The Nigerian House of Representatives have expressed dismay at the observed abandonment of all 33 Silos built by the federal government to facilitate storage of agricultural products across the country. A silo…
Again, Ogbeh boosts, says local rice’ll flood Nigerian markets before year end
Additional highlights from the presentations of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh during the mid-term reports presented by some Ministers at the 10th Town Hall meeting organised by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture in…
Again, FG, Rice farmers assure bag of rice’ll sell at N10, 000 come June 2017
Barely less than one month after the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has disclosed while in a Town Hall meeting in Umuahia, the Abia State capital that Nigeria will before the end of the year become…
Help Nigeria’s food security target by increasing agric funding, Ogbeh urges banks
To deepen Nigeria’s quest for food sufficiency, the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has called on Nigerian banks, to increase funding in agriculture with ease to credit for farmers. While noting that lack of capital and…
