Agricultural farming represents 44 percent of Ghana’s GDP, and recent decreases in rainfall have taken a toll on farming, as they have in other developing countries.

LAGOS — The Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN) has stated its position on what it called misrepresentations in the public domain, of the compensation paid to some media houses when their newspapers and circulation vans were impounded by security personnel between June 6 and 8, 2014.

Irked by Department of State Services (DSS) continued detention of Director of Radio Biafra and Leader, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the immediate-past National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), and senatorial candidate of APGA in the forthcoming re-run election in the Anambra Central Senatorial zone, Chief Victor Umeh, has blamed all the National Assembly members from the South-East geo-political zone for keeping silent.

Justice Ahmed Mohammed of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, withdrew from the trial of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

ABUJA — The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, yesterday, stated that Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company, KRPC, has commenced production of 3.2 million litres of petrol daily, from an initial production of 1.5 million litres recorded over the weekend.

Eleven former Presidents, Heads of State and former Vice Presidents/Chiefs of General Staff are to share N2.3 billion as entitlements in 2016.
This was contained in the summary of the proposed budget 2016 presented by President Muhammadu Buhari to the National Assembly on Tuesday.

As fuel scarcity bites harder across the nation, Christians in Jigawa State may not be able to travel to their various hometowns to celebrate Christmas with their families and beloved ones.

DELTA State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, said it has captured and repatriated 712 illegal immigrants in the state to their respective countries.

Lagos—Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State yesterday advocated the need for acknowledgement of the gallant and brave efforts of officers and men of the Nigerian Armed Forces both in protecting the territorial integrity of the nation and keeping the country united.

PORT HARCOURT—A foiled attempt to allegedly assassinate a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Rivers State, Mr. Chikordi Dike, has claimed the life of a police escort attached to him.