The lord wants to show mercy to His people. It is our responsibility to connect to this mercy. It is available. We must pray about it. We must touch heaven from the earth by crying to God for mercies. “So…

Salifu James needs six to eight 50kg bags of fertiliser for his 35 acres of rice and sugarcane crops. But the 49-year-old farmer could only buy a single bag this year. To make up for the low quantity, he adopted…

Oluwatosin Aretola, 21, is one of the many young people in Nigeria who believe in the nation’s agricultural potential. In 2021, as a 400-level student of the University of Abuja, he went for the compulsory undergraduate Industrial Training (IT) programme…

On Wednesday, pictures of the deposed emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, and the leader of the junta in the Niger Republic, Abdrahmane Tchiani, surfaced online. Mr Sanusi was accompanied by the sultan of Damagaram, from Zinder in Niger, Aboubakar Oumarou.…

Another ministerial nominee of President Bola Tinubu, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, is currently enmeshed in a controversy surrounding the authenticity of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) certificate he submitted for his screening by the Nigerian Senate. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported…

Gambo Ibrahim sold two of his farmlands to raise the N900,000 ransom demanded by kidnappers for the release of his two brothers. Mr Ibrahim was a large-scale farmer in Kuka, a village in the Jibia area of Katsina State. His…

Kingswill: Operations in Secrecy This is the second part of this report. You can read the first part here. James, George, and Obi have common tales of urban poverty. Aware of the near impossibility for many young Nigerians to earn…

Nigeria is one of the top biodiversity hotspots in the world. However, over the past few decades, this plethora of biodiversity has come under significant threat amid a rapidly growing population. Within a decade, Nigeria’s population rose from 161 million…

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) have expressed their readiness to partner to check and control the spread of Anthrax disease in the country. Their partnership followed…

Nigeria has mobilised over half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable and sustainable food systems transformation initiative, Vice President Kashim Shettima has said. The vice president made the disclosure while chairing a high-level meeting on the first day of…

Nigeria recorded an average of about 28.2 per cent increase in the prices of major food items consumed in many households in the country in the last year, a PREMIUM TIMES’ market survey has shown. A market check conducted on…

Amidst rising food prices, President Bola Tinubu last week declared an immediate “State of Emergency” on food insecurity in the country. The move is seen as part of an aggressive push to boost agricultural productivity and reduce the high prices…

President Bola Tinubu has declared an immediate State of Emergency on food insecurity to tackle the increase in food prices, his spokesperson has said. Presidential spokesperson Dele Alake said in a Thursday statement that Mr Tinubu is “not unmindful of…

President Bola Tinubu has declared an immediate State of Emergency on food insecurity to tackle the increase in the prices of food, his spokesperson has said. Presidential spokesperson Dele Alake said in a Thursday statement that Mr Tinubu is “not…

The Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Tedros Ghebreyesus, has expressed concern over imminent food insecurity in the Horn of Africa due to the climate crisis. Mr Ghebreyesus said this during an online news conference, saying that the climate…