Much worse for the climate than carbon dioxide, despite global efforts to control methane, emissions continue soaring. With over a third stemming from fossil fuels production and operation, oil majors – led by Shell – publicly claim to be reducing…

The appearance of sun rays in the partly cloudy sky on Monday morning in early July excited Dorathy Friday, a cocoa farmer in Ikom, Cross River State. She had feared that the relentless rainfall would spoil her freshly harvested cocoa…

Clutching a shovel, Yunusa Umar, 30, joins a group of young men at the ever-expanding bank of Tumburawa river in Tassa, a village in Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State. There, they collect sand extracted from the…

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday said 34,000 metric tonnes of Russian Fertiliser meant for Nigeria was stuck at EU ports. According to Russian News Agency, TASS, Mr Lavrov speaking to reporters at the 78th United Nations General Assembly…

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday said 34,000 metric tons of Russian Fertilizer meant for Nigeria was stuck at EU ports. According to Russian News Agency, TASS, Mr Lavrov speaking to reporters at the 78th United Nations General Assembly…

Israel’s Ambassador to Nigeria Micheal Freeman in this exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES talks about how his country’s drip technology can enhance rice production in Nigeria. He also speaks about many other issues including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Excerpt PT: What…

Ilyasu Umar’s farmland in Adudu, Nasarawa State, served his family for generations until he was evicted from it in 2021. Adudu is located in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa, an agrarian northern Nigerian state with lots of mineral deposits.…

Atinuke Akinbade is a smallholder farmer. She is into crop production in Oyo State, south-west Nigeria. She started farming, mainly cassava, 15 years ago after an unsuccessful trading career. Ms Akinbade is the coordinator of the Smallholder Women Farmers Organisation…

Sixteen-year-old Samuel Agboola has a passion for higher education but something is hindering his burning aspiration: His mother’s vegetable farm which was used to fund his education has crumbled. Five years ago, his mother, Yeyeoni Agboola, had a vegetable farm…

Samsom Odeyemi wistfully recalls when he was a successful farmer in his native community of Itajirin in the Ogere Remo area of Ogun State. Mr Odeyemi earned millions of naira annually from his 15-hectare farm where he produced rice, vegetable…

Etim Effiong had just returned home after hours of toil at sea with little catch. Experts would describe him as one of the numerous victims of climate change. The fisherman operates at the Museum Fishing Port behind the dilapidated National…

On a Monday morning in July, Usman Muhammad, one of the 70,000 beneficiaries of Nigeria’s Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP), was in a magistrate courtroom adjusting and readjusting his belt as he waited for a judge to deliver his prison sentence…

On a Monday morning in July, Usman Muhammad was in a magistrate courtroom adjusting and readjusting his belt as he waited for a judge to deliver his prison sentence in Birnin-Kebbi, the capital of Kebbi State. Mr Muhammad was one…

Divine Samuel grows rice on his farm in Mdiogbuonye Oma Ndi, Aro-Amuro, a rural community in Okigwe Local Government Area of Imo State in Nigeria’s south-east region. But early this year, he was attacked on his way to the farm…

A new research has recommended four major policy interventions within the agriculture sector that the Nigerian government could adopt to address the biting hardship of rising food inflation in the country. The new body of work, which has been published…