The Minister of State for Environment, Mrs. Sharon Ikeazor, has condemned the bush burning practice in Nigeria as it contributes to climate change. According to her, climate change results in excessive heat, drought, rising sea levels, and unhealthy climate conditions. Ikeazor spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on the sidelines of […]

Agro-processing, Productivity Enhancement, and Livelihood Support (APPEALS) project, in collaboration with Institute of Agricultural Research (IAR), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, has introduced four varieties of improved rice seed to farmers in Kano state. The APPEALS project Coordinator in Kano state, Alhaji Hassan Ibrahim, disclosed this on Saturday during farmers’ field day on variety screening […]

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja The Nigeria Farmers Group and Cooperative Society, NFGCS, Saturday, disclosed that the visit by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, to the cooperative’ Farm City at Ga’ate in Kokona Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, has brought about pressure from customers who have place tremendous demand on them, because of endorsement […]

President Muhammadu Buhari has commended Nigerian farmers as they have been “saving us billions of dollars yearly which would have been spent on food importation.’’ Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s spokesman in a statement in Abuja on Saturday, said the President made his feelings known in a special video message on the occasion of the […]

Alhaji Mohammed Nanono, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Rural Development, says he is working with the National Assembly on a bill to prohibit the killing and exportation of donkeys or its derivatives. Nanono said such legislation would prevent donkeys from extinction. Nanono said this at the Global inauguration of “Under the Skin” the impact of […]