Category: AGRICULTURE

Community Stakeholders, Others Call On Imo Govt, Security Agencies, To Come To Rescue Obvious tension is currently in Agwa town in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State as persons suspected to be herdsmen have killed one Emeka Nnorom, an okada rider. The incident, which happened last weekend followed a fresh invasion of the community by the suspects, who have occupied parts of the community. The herdsmen were said to have been operating in some parts of the clan, particularly Umuekpu Village since the past four years, destroying their crops…

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Cattles contesting with motorists on the road in Wuye, Abuja These are two different scenes in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city as captured by our camera man. He took one shot in a place called Wuye, and the other one in Asokoro both high-brow areas of Abuja. What else can we say? Cattles being led by a herder on a free way on Asokoro area of Abuja

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By Tony Adibe The Enugu State Agricultural Development Programme (ENADEP) in collaboration with Southfield International have registered and trained not less than 400 farmers from various agricultural value chains in the state. NewsBits reports that the occasion witnessed the registration of farmers in various value chains and the distribution of free organic agro products worth millions of Naira to three selected farmers from each of the eleven communities in Awgu Local Government Area. The Programme Manager of ENADEP, Dr Ogbonna Onyeisi made the disclosure during the flagg-off of the farmers’…

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By Tony Adibe The Enugu State Agricultural Development Programme (ENADEP) and the farmers associations in the state have planned measures to boost agricultural production in the state. The Programme Manager of ENADEP, Dr Ogbonna Onyeisi said this in an interactive session with the farmers at the ENADEP Headquarter, on Friday in Enugu. Dr Onyeisi said that it was important for ENEDEP to have cordial relationship with farmers in the state. He explained that such a cordial relations will help the farmers to speak with one voice in their advocacy for…

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By Tony Adibe The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, and Rural Development (FMARD), has begun the training of 50 Agric Extension workers on Extension tools, methodologies and selected Agricultural value chain in Enugu State. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar in his address during the opening ceremony of the 3-day training of Extension agents in Enugu, disclosed that the training was one of the ministries plans to address the drift in the Agricultural Extension system with an aim of pursuing the…

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Mohammed Musa Bello, Nigeria’s Minister of Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) who has been in office since 2015 must either be sleeping or does not know what he is doing. Last week (on Wednesday August 4, 2021), our correspondent who was heading to Asokoro, a high-brow area of Nigeria’s seat of power was confronted with heads of cattle being herded by about four Fulani herdsmen on the ever-busy Lord Lugard Road. This movement of cattle as usual caused serious traffic as residents and road users complained bitterly how a 21st century…

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Not less than 200 cows have been arrested in Adamawa State of Nigeria by the police for invading a farmland at Yolde-Pate in Yola South Local Government Area. The Adamawa police spokesman, Mr. Othman Abubakar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Yola that the incident occurred on Saturday. To avoid the mayhem, which is usually associated with this sort of occurrence, the police spokesperson however allayed all fears when he said that the police in collaboration with the district and village heads in the area and other vigilante…

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The administration of Lagos State Government currently led by Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has concluded plans to create additional 200,000 jobs in the state with the acquisition of 32 metric tonnes per hour rice mill. The development would also ensure adequate supply of the stable food in the state and beyond. To achieve this, the state government alsosaid that it had already partnered Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo States to ensure that adequate rice paddy “is supplied to the 32 metric tonnes per hour rice mill and boost rice production…

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Following the European Union’s 3-year ban on the importation of dry beans from Nigeria, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, said yesterday that it has become necessary for nationwide advocacy to stop further export sanctions and notifications on the country’s agro products from the EU. He said the advocacy on agricultural quality control and standardisation would run across the six geo-political zones of the country. The Minister who was represented by the Coordinating Director, Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service, Vincent Isegbe in Lagos at the commencement of…

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