Boost For Farmers As NSIA Prepares To Take Over Nigeria Commodity Exchange   Farmers are in for a good time as National Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) moves to revitalise the Nigeria Commodity Exchange (NCX) in Abuja. NCX, formerly known as the Abuja Commodities and Securities Exchange, was...

UPMFB Grants N300m Loans To Farmers   The Umuchinemere Pro-credit Micro Finance Bank, Enugu (UPMFB) has disclosed that in the past three years, it has disbursed about N300 million to over 1000 micro, small and medium scale farmers in Enugu State, as credit facilities to encourage...

BOA Disburses N262bn to farmers Alhaji Kabir Adamu, Managing Director, Bank of Agriculture (BOA), says the bank has disbursed N262 billion to 140,000 farmers through Anchor Borrower Scheme in three years. Adamu, who disclosed this while speaking with the newsmen in Sokoto, said the disbursement was...

Farmers Get N55bn  CBN’s  Anchor borrowers programme The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says it has disbursed N55 billion to more than 250,000 farmers within two years of implementation of the  Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP). The Acting-Director, Corporate Communications Department, CBN, Isaac Okorafor confirmed the figure...

Farmers/ Herdsmen Clash: What Went Amiss in Benue? By Kabir Tsakuwa It is a truism about the media that it can make or mar. It can aid in promoting the right things at the right time and it can be used to create a disturbing scenario....

Osinbajo inaugurates N10bn farmer-to-finance fund Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated a N10 billion farmer-to-finance fund set up by the Association of Non-Bank Micro-Finance Institutions of Nigeria (ANMFIN). Inaugurating the fund in Abuja recently, Osinbajo said it would assist agribusinesses to access funds and reduce poverty...