The Challenge: improving farm productivity Nigeria has 78.5 million ha of cultivable land, but only 33 million ha are currently used for agriculture. Crop yields across the nation have remained relatively stagnant over the past 50 years when compared with yield gains in Asia. Why isn’t Nigeria fulfilling its farming potential?

DELTA State Government has listed 17 projects to be financed through the first tranche of the N50 billion bond under its N100 billion bond issuance programme.

ABUJA-The Federal Government, weekend, expressed its readiness to cooperate with any group or firm that could contribute meaningfully to the cause of providing quality equipment and training for the Nigeria Police Force.

ABUJA-Sequel to several complaints by Nigerians of extortion by soldiers manning check points across the country, authorities of the Nigerian Army have set machinery in motion to arrest culprits as well as bribe givers.

ABUJA-The House of Representatives has said it will review the legal and regulatory framework for the nationalisation of banks in the country in order to protect shareholders’ investment in such banks in the future.

The 2nd prize presentation in the on-going N1 billion reward scheme embarked upon by telecommunications company, MTN Nigeria, will hold in the ancient city of Ibadan on Thursday, 13th October, 2011.

As sale of new devices with integrated mobile broadband connectivity is stimulated by new devices from Etisalat’s latest 3.75G Easyblaze, MTN’sFastlink, Starcomms Izap, Glo’s 3G and Swift network modems make major inroads into the mass market, even as more aggressive tariffs from mobile operators take pre-eminence, what growth opportunity is there for the business community.? Asks Princewill Ekwujuru.

ABUJA-THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, said Sunday that attempts by Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, to blackmail the party have failed.

Since the nation’s independence in 1960, agriculture had been the mainstay of the nation’s economy, providing the largest chunk of foreign exchange inflow into the country. Moreover, it contributed about 63 per cent to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), according to official statistics.

The Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Nwogu, has been urged to intervene and request Abia State Government to withdraw the sack notices served on non-indigenes on its payroll.