On a Friday morning in May, a tired Omosehin Adekanle stared at a heap of palm kernels at her milling store in Okitipupa, a town in Ondo State, and a major palm oil-producing area in Nigeria. The 45-year-old woman had…

A new agricultural project in Plateau State is being celebrated as a turning point for Nigeria’s livestock sector. Experts say the successful cultivation of Alfalfa, a high-protein forage crop known globally as “green gold,” could become a model for sustainable…

The cold bites harder at night. Nathaniel Bitrus* feels it on his face as the motorcycle roars along the dirt path to Sunawara, a small community in the Toungo area of Adamawa State, north-east Nigeria. A chainsaw sits carefully on…

In Obiakpu, a farming community in Ohaji-Egbema Local Government Area of Imo State, Beatrice Okiro braces up to harvest cassava from her two plots of land. It’s only been five months since the planting season began, but Okiro is already…

At Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Stephanie Michael, a final-year Crop Science and Horticulture student, points toward a makeshift nursery, a thatched-roof structure supported by bamboo sticks, housing plants labelled with students’ names. “That’s our nursery for plants,” she said.…

“Every morning, I pray to God that I won’t give birth at the hospital, because I won’t be able to pay the hospital bill,” says Terguhe Akpaku as she wipes mucus from the nose of one of her twin children.…

Barely three minutes into its journey from Ilaro to Sango-Ota in Ogun State, a vehicle carrying fresh maize was stopped at a police checkpoint along the Ilaro-Papalanto road. It was in the first half of June, and the midday sun…

The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye, has clarified that foods designated as genetically modified organisms (GMO) are safe for human consumption.  There have been concerns by many Nigerians that GMO…

Stella Ojulowo, 48, stepped out of her floating home in the early morning light, adjusting her wrapper. She paused beside a younger woman packing bowls of crayfish, scooped a handful, and popped a few into her mouth to have a…

Ndianaabasi Innocent stared forlornly at his rice farm in Ekoi Atan Ubom, a village in Ini Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State in south-south Nigeria. “I invested about N400,000 in the four plots, but two are gone,” said the…

The primary landing site for fishing boats in Bosaso, north-east Somalia, is a beehive of activity from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. every day. Traders, fishermen, food sellers and Puntland government officials haggle, shout and exchange pleasantries over the night’s…

On 6 May, a Trans Niger Delta pipeline carrying crude oil burst at B-Dere, a community in the Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State. The incident forced Daniel Kpoobari-Bani, his wife, and their four children to leave their home…

President Bola Tinubu has approved a 6-month temporary ban on the export of raw shea nut to curb informal trade, boost local processing, protect and grow Nigeria’s shea industry. The ban, which is with immediate effect, is subject to review…

When Monday Nweze left for his farmland on a cloudy Tuesday in late June, he had one thing in mind: to clear the grass that had grown on it. Not with any cutlass, but with some litres of uproot, a…

The cattle herders-crop farmers’ crisis in Benue State has taken a new twist as a prominent traditional ruler openly accused the Nigerian military of complicity and demanded the withdrawal of soldiers from his community. Daniel Abomtse, a first-class traditional ruler…