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Updated: Buhari pledges action against bandits’ threat to food security

Ihesiulo Grace 14 May 2021 0

*Begs Nigerians to show more understanding on insecurity President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration will use all available resources and manpower in dealing with bandits to ensure access to farms and food production in the coming growing season. The President, according to a

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Buhari pledges action against bandits’ threat to food security, appeals for more understanding

Ihesiulo Grace 13 May 2021 0

President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will use all available resources and manpower in dealing with bandits to ensure access to farms and food production in the coming growing season. The president stated this while speaking to newsmen at the State House shortly after observing the Eid prayer, marking the end of the month-long Ramadan […]

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Ortom distributes tractors to Benue farmers

Ihesiulo Grace 9 April 2020 0

Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, has distributed fifty units of tractors to Benue farmers with a charge to boost food production in the state. The governor who performed the ceremony on Thursday at the premises of Government House Makurdi explained that beneficiaries will pay 40% or N5.6 million while government will pay a subsidy of […]

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Self Sufficiency: Don’t expect support from food exporting countries – Minister

Ihesiulo Grace 13 November 2018 0

In view of the present administration’s policy on self sufficiency to promote the economy, the Federal Government has warned that the country should not expect support from any food exporting countries to ensure much food production. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, stated this in Dutse, Jigawa State on Monday during a […]

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FG to accelerate achievement of food, nutrition security – Lokpobiri

Ihesiulo Grace 21 March 2018 0

The Federal Government has laid emphasis on accelerating achievement of food and nutrition security in the country with a view to generate employment and create wealth through fishery. The Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri stated this on Tuesday during the stakeholder’s workshop on the World Fish Nigeria Research Program

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Dangote Foods rewards 77 distributors, pledges to make Nigeria self-sufficient in food production

Ihesiulo Grace 23 February 2018 0

Dangote Foods, comprising Dangote Flour Mills, Dangote Sugar Refinery and NASCON Allied Industries has rewarded a total of 77 customers who distinguished themselves in 2017. At the award night held at the Expo Centre of Eko Hotel Victoria Island Lagos on Wednesday night, 11 winners emerged from each of the geopolitical regions while the balance […]

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S/West farmers decry delay in Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme

Ihesiulo Grace 25 May 2017 0

Some farmers in the South-West part of the country on Tuesday decried the delay in starting of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) Anchor Borrowers Scheme in the region. The farmers told newsmen in Lagos that the inability of the scheme to begin in the zone was militating against food production. They said that their […]