NIRSAL Aims At N135bn Revenue For Farmers
The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing for Agriculture Lending has unveiled plans to assist farmers generate gross revenue of N135bn this year through the Anchor Borrowers Programme of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The Managing Director, NIRSAL, Mr. Aliyu Abdulhameed,...
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....
