Food Crisis: Cleric, others advocate investment in agricultural development
The General Superintendent of Holy Spirit Mission (Happy Family Church), Bishop Charles Ighele, has called on Nigerian leaders, influential citizens, and religious organizations to invest significantly in agricultural development to address the country's food crisis and achieve food security.
Coronavirus presents impending food crisis in 2021, Agribusiness expert warns
By Adeola Badru – Ibadan An agribusiness expert and founder of Farmkonnect, a foremost multi-dimensional agric firm in Nigeria, Mr. Oluwole Azeez, has warned that the global Coronavirus pandemic may trigger a “looming food crisis,” if urgent and drastic measures are not taken. He added that the country might be hit by food scarcity that will be difficult […]
Will herdsmen plunge Nigeria into food crisis?
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye ONE of the most worrisome developments in today’s Nigeria is what appears like a firm resolve by the Muhammadu Buhari administration to continue circulating the very distressing impression that it does not know how to solve the endless aggression being unleashed in different parts of the country by herdsmen who move and […]
How Africa risks reeling from a health crisis to a food crisis
In Nigeria’s Benue state, the food basket of the country, Mercy Yialase sits in front of her idle rice mill. Demand is high across the nation, but she already has mounds of paddy rice that are going nowhere amid the COVID-19 lockdown. “I can’t mill because the marketers are not coming,” Yialase said, referring to […]
COVID-19: Food crisis looms, agro-business investors need to synergise — Group
By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Following the outbreak of Coronavirus, COVID-19, in the country, a group called Agric Bureau, Thursday, called for synergy of agro-business investors to synergise in order to avoid looming food supply crises. Speaking on the need for agribusiness stakeholders to develop and implement strategies that will keep the food supply chain […]
Oil operations: Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers communities bemoan food crisis
EIGHTY- six riverine communities across Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers states have raised alarm over looming food crisis due to alleged operational lawlessness of an Indian oil firm in Kwale area of Delta State.
