The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Food Security, Yejide Ogundipe, says the era of paying lip service towards supporting women farmers in the country is over. Speaking at an event commemorating the 2024 International Women’s Day organised by…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the reappointment of the Director-General of the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), Vincent Isegbe, to serve in the same capacity for another five-year term in office. The president expects that the Director-General will build on…

The bid by the Tinubu administration to ensure food security through the transformation of agricultural productivity in the country has received a major boost with a consortium of mid-sized agriculture companies pledging to support millions of farmers across different value…

President Bola Tinubu, on Friday, commissioned GB Foods Tomato Processing Company in Gafara village of Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State. Mr Tinubu, while inaugurating the company, reiterated the commitment of his administration to providing a conducive environment for…

Worried by the level of food insecurity in the country, particularly in Ekiti State, Governor Abiodun Oyebanji, has set up an eight-man committee on food security. The committee, which is headed by the Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Security, Ebenezer…

The Kwara State Government on Wednesday supported 2,019 indigent farmers with agricultural asset items in the third phase of the Kwara Fadama CARES intervention. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the items received by farmers at the ceremony…

The Enugu state Governor, Peter Mbah, has said that since assuming office, the administration’s investment drive has begun lifting poor citizens out of poverty. This was as the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) praised the governor for his vision…

The Ekiti state government has destroyed a 20-hectare Indian hemp plantation within the Ise Forest Reserves. The plantation was set on fire by officers of the state Forestry Task Force. The government said it is fully committed to combating illegalities…

This is the second part of this report. Read the first part here. Abayomi Isinleye, chairman of the farmers’ association at the Oluwa forest reserve, put the losses incurred from the destruction of the cocoa plantations at N500 million or…

“I’m a happy man today,” Rotimi Akeredolu, then governor of Ondo State, south-west Nigeria, told investors on 10 June 2021, when he launched the Red Gold Project, an oil palm development initiative. “I call on investors to come. This is…

The Kano State Government through its Agro-Pastoral Development Project, (KSADP) has awarded contracts worth N3.96 billion for the construction of 60 Milk Collection Centers across the state. The contract is funded by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Lives…

One single thread links Umo Eno, self-styled pastor governor of Akwa Ibom State, his predecessor, Emmanuel Udom and Felix Houphouet-Boigny. It is the religious bigotry and senselessness behind the Akwa Ibom International Worship Centre and the Basilica of Our Lady…

Laraba Maidara could not hide her happiness after she saw a bumper harvest for the first time, five years after she started rice farming. Mrs Maidara from Kura Local Government Area of Kano State attributed the success to skills acquired,…

On Thursday, the Niger State Governor, Mohammed Bago, and his Gombe State counterpart, Inuwa Yahaya, separately met with President Bola Tinubu to discuss how they can collaborate with the federal government to achieve food security in the country. Mr Tinubu…

The bus driver huffed and puffed for the umpteenth time, frustrated by the huge craters on every section of the road. It was in the first week of October and the rains had just stopped. The Iyana Church-Olodo Road that…