THE Governor of Osun State, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, has charged university graduates in Nigeria to shift attention from white collar jobs and embrace agriculture as a means of stemming the tide of unemployment.

Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode at the weekend expressed the readiness of his administration to upgrade the Songhai Model Farm in Avia-Igborosun, Badagry, with a pledge to transform the project and use it to boost the Agro Tourism and food security drive of the State Government.

IN the last ten years or there about, a group of activists have held the country to ransom instilling unnecessary fears in the minds of people as well as spreading unscientific facts about genetically modified organisms.

POTENTIAL beneficiaries of Federal Government’s Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) in Bauchi State have decried the slow pace of processing of their accounts by some banks involved in the programme.

Oladipo Williams is the Executive Vice President and co-founder of Haske and Williams. Haske and Williams is a company focusing on developing the Nigeria agricultural sector. In this interview, he spoke on some of the projects that Haske & Williams are developing in North East Nigeria and how it will transform the agricultural value chain.

In a bid to offer solutions to the problems facing the dairy sector in West Africa and develop a sustainable business model for the dairy industry in the sub-region, European and West African dairy farmers had a two-day multi-stakeholder roundtable conference to discuss new business models with the aim of creating employment and profit for the local dairy farmers in West Africa on Wednesday in Abuja.

THE Lagos State Government has, through the State Waterways Authority, LASWA, donated 25 life jackets to representatives of fishermen associations in the state as part of measures to boost safety on waterways during operation.

Those who came for the mega hydroponics training organised in Abuja by BIC Farms got more than they bargained for as the session afforded them a first-hand knowledge of the practicability of soil-less farming and were shown how to propagate the biggest discovery of modern agriculture. They were given male and female spurs of the […]

SLEY Group of Companies is changing lives. A holding company, its subsidiaries include Ksley Mega Vision, Ksley Mega Microfinance Bank and Ksley Mega Farms. Ksley Mega Lottery and Ksley Mega University are expected to commence operation soon.

THE National Agricultural Seeds Council, NASC, has disclosed plan to establish first Centre of Excellence for Seed Industry, CoESI, to boost research and production of various seeds for farmers in the country.