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August 19, 2019 No Responses

Nigeria Faults Report On Food Importation Policy

The Presidency has described as untrue the Financial Times report suggesting that Nigeria has placed restrictions on importation of agricultural products into the country. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the article with the headline; ”Muhammadu Buhari sparks dismay...

June 18, 2019 No Responses

ICC Nigeria, Gates Foundation Implore FG On Food Security

The Chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce Nigeria, who is also the Regional Coordinator of the global body for Sub-Saharan Africa, Babatunde Savage, has declared that the Federal Government of Nigeria and every other stakeholder need to devise a...

January 30, 2019 No Responses

Dufil Prima Foods Acquires 17,954 Hectares Of Land In Edo

Dufil Prima Foods has acquired 17,954 hectares of land in Edo State to operate an oil palm plantation. The plantation, according to the management of Dufil Prima Foods, will serve as the company’s source of raw materials for its products...

December 10, 2018 No Responses

Nigeria Lauds $21b Savings On Food Import

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has commended Nigerians for curbing excessive taste for foreign products. According to the President, the new development, he said, has positioned the country for food self-sufficiency and resulted in saving over $21 bill...

November 1, 2018 No Responses

Nteranya Sanginga: IITA Is Addressing Food Security In Africa

Research outputs by Africa Food Prize winner, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), and its national partners are helping farmers to come out of poverty, creating jobs and demonstrating the possibility of having a prosperous African conti...

October 15, 2018 No Responses

Malnutrition In Nigeria: Political Will Needed To Reverse Trend, Drop Of N450b In GDP

Efforts to address malnutrition in Nigeria require both collective and political will, a coalition of nutrition advocates led by HarvestPlus have said. At a gathering in Lagos to announce the 2018 Nutritious Food Fair, the Country Manager for HarvestPlus, Mr.....

February 9, 2018 No Responses

Osinbajo inaugurates N4.1b Nestlé factory in Ogun

The Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday urged multinational companies to domicile their factories in Nigeria as he inaugurated Nestlé Nigeria Plc’s N4.1 billion Milo-Ready-to-Drink (RTD) factory at Agbara in Ogun. Osinbajo said that they should take ...

August 14, 2017 No Responses

School feeding programme in Anambra, Enugu, Ogun, Kaduna, others gulp N6.2billion

Not less than 14 states now benefit from the school feeding programme set up by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. A statement issued by the spokesperson to Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande, explained that the Presidency is no...

June 27, 2017 No Responses

‘How to tackle unemployment in Africa through Agriculture’

Developing creative messages/methods that would attract young people to agriculture could help Africa to attract youth to agriculture and end the rising unemployment in the continent, Deputy Director General, Partnership for Delivery, International Institute o...

June 18, 2017 No Responses

Ministry seeks second license for Agric Bank, targets 40m customers

By Moses Ebosele (ebosele@hotmail.com) – The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) has concluded plans to secure second licence for Bank of Agric from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as part of measures to provide adequate....

June 18, 2017 No Responses

Amazon to buy Whole Foods for $13.7b

(BBC) Online retail giant Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a $13.7bn (£10.7bn) deal that marks its biggest push into traditional retailing yet. Amazon, which has long eyed the grocery business, will buy the upmarket supermarket for $42 a share....

April 9, 2017 No Responses

NPA boss in Maiduguri, donates 2,100 bags of beans, 2,540 bags of rice, others to IDPs

By Moses Ebosele – The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, on Saturday in Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital defied the anxiety generated by the early morning twin bomb blasts to pay scheduled...

April 5, 2017 No Responses

FG to boost agriculture with $4.5b Chinese loan

Inline with the resolve of the Federal Government to diversify the economy especially through agriculture, President Muhammadu Buhari has authorised the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to work out technic...

February 2, 2017 No Responses

FG constitutes task force on food prices

The Federal Governmrnt has constituted a Presidential Task Force to urgently consider measures that would ensure a steady flow of produce to the market and reverse recent price increases. Giving the directive on Wednesday at the Federal Executive Council meeti...