How Nigerian Mentality is Killing Nigerian Economy By Kabir Akintayo   “For every time we bring in a shipload of rice, we also bring in a shipload of unemployment, because you are transferring your wealth to sustain other economies. Importing toothpicks cost Nigeria $18 million, and...

FG To Generate N6bn From 20 silos’ Concession The Federal Government is to get about N6bn from the concession of 20 silos in different parts of the country to private sector operators. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, told State House correspondents in...

Rice Farmers Applaud Closure of Border The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) has commended the federal government’s decision to shut down a neighbouring country through which rice is smuggled on a large scale into Nigeria. Alhaji Aminu Goronyo, President Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN),...

The Director, Agricultural Business, Processing and Marketing, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Azeez Olumuyiwa, said India has approached Nigeria to supply it with $1billion (about N367 billion) worth of Pulse Beans. Olumuyiwa, made this known at a sensitisation workshop on agriculture held for officers...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has urged public officers to return to the farm for the nation to be liberated from the periodic cycle of boom inter-laced with busts and meltdowns. He made the call in Abuja at the public presentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration’s...

youths in Nigeria have reasons to smile as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo announced a plan by the Federal Government to employ 100,000 youths as extension workers, in a bid to provide support services to farmers. Osinbajo, who disclosed this in his address during the official...