The Federal Government is committing N276 billion, secured as loans from commercial banks, to reach five million farmers this year, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has said.

BENIN—FORMER deputy governor to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun in the aborted Third Republic, Reverend Peter Obadan, yesterday advanced reasons why he dumped Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

BENIN – THE Ugbor Community Development Association, UCDA, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, has called for a thorough investigation to ascertain the circumstances under which its Youth Chairman, Mr. Sunday Idurobo, was allegedly murdered.

The Director of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Mr. Osten Olorunsola, has disclosed that the Federal Government would soon commence the bidding process for the award of marginal oil fields to interested Nigerian companies over the next few weeks.

YENAGOA- BAYELSA State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has warned cultists in the state to renounce membership or be prepared to spend 10 years behind bars.