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Daddy Freeze Sounds Alarm on Looming Famine, Urges Return to Farming Amid Naira Depreciation

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Daddy Freeze Sounds Alarm on Looming Famine, Urges Return to Farming Amid Naira Depreciation

---- February 21, 2024 8:30 AM

Controversial Nigerian media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, has sounded a warning about the impending threat of famine in the country, attributing... Read More

How to make money from agriculture, farming in Nigeria 3 min read

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How to make money from agriculture, farming in Nigeria

Adepeju September 2, 2022 7:43 PM

One of the most lucrative jobs in the world is work in the Nigeria and the world is farming/agriculture. Agriculture/farming is not an odd job... Read More

End banditry, kidnapping before farming season – Northern governors urge Acting IGP 2 min read

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End banditry, kidnapping before farming season – Northern governors urge Acting IGP

--- April 10, 2021 3:24 PM

The Northern Governors Forum has urged Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba to pay attention to proactive measures in tackling crime in... Read More

Buhari Urges Agriculture Agencies to Include Youth to Bolster Economy

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Buhari Urges Agriculture Agencies to Include Youth to Bolster Economy

News Agency of Nigeria November 11, 2020 6:39 AM

  President Muhammadu Buhari has urged agencies involved in agriculture to include youth in driving modern methods of farming. The president stated this in Abuja... Read More

Insecurity constitutes greatest disservice to farmers – Atiku tells Buhari’s govt

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Insecurity constitutes greatest disservice to farmers – Atiku tells Buhari’s govt

--- June 29, 2020 12:11 PM

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government was doing a great disservice to farmers in Northern Nigeria by... Read More

Nigeria Risks Farming in 2021 – Poultry Farmers

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Nigeria Risks Farming in 2021 – Poultry Farmers

News Agency of Nigeria May 8, 2020 3:34 PM

The Poultry Association of Nigeria has said that the country is likely to experience a period of farming in 2021, as a result of the... Read More

CSO Urges Youths To Return To Farming To Boost Food Production

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CSO Urges Youths To Return To Farming To Boost Food Production

News Agency of Nigeria May 4, 2020 10:26 AM

A Civil Society Organisation (CSO) has urged government at all levels to create conducive environment for youths to massively return to farming in order to... Read More

Genevieve Nnaji features in Memoir film ‘Farming’; release date Oct. 11

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Genevieve Nnaji features in Memoir film ‘Farming’; release date Oct. 11

News Agency of Nigeria July 19, 2019 11:38 AM

‘Farming’, the acclaimed memoir film of Nigerian-British actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, featuring Nollywood Diva Genevieve Nnaji, is to hit Cinemas on October 11, its producers has... Read More

Ondo govt. commences forestry mapping, farm registration

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Ondo govt. commences forestry mapping, farm registration

News Agency of Nigeria June 1, 2019 4:48 PM

The Ondo State Government said it would commence forestry mapping and registration of farms in all government reserves across the state from June 3. This... Read More

Give us lands for farming to cater for ourselves – IDPs beg FG 2 min read

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Give us lands for farming to cater for ourselves – IDPs beg FG

News Agency of Nigeria May 26, 2019 11:30 PM

Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) at the Gwoza and Bama camp Durumi, Abuja, have appealed to the Federal Government to allocate farming lands to them to... Read More

Give us lands for farming to cater for ourselves, IDPs beg FG

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Give us lands for farming to cater for ourselves, IDPs beg FG

News Agency of Nigeria May 26, 2019 9:10 PM

Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) at the Gwoza and Bama camp Durumi, Abuja, have appealed to the Federal Government to allocate farming lands to them to... Read More

Climate Change: Only Nigerians are not Crying! – By Ayeni Faith Damilola

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Climate Change: Only Nigerians are not Crying! – By Ayeni Faith Damilola

Samuel Oduoye May 17, 2019 3:43 PM

Behind the faint smile of the latest Nigerian farmer is a deep needle pinch. Growers, in this part of the world, are going through a... Read More

Snail business is lucrativeness, improve value-chain: Farmer

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Snail business is lucrativeness, improve value-chain: Farmer

News Agency of Nigeria April 26, 2019 3:07 PM

A snail farmer, Mr Ukonu Ukonu, has described snail farming as a lucrative business that Nigerians should invest in, calling on government to improve the... Read More

Kidnappers Scaring Nigerians Away From Farming – Agric Minister 2 min read

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Kidnappers Scaring Nigerians Away From Farming – Agric Minister

--- April 22, 2019 7:37 AM

The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has disclosed that many Nigerians were afraid of going into farming because of the fear... Read More

12m Nigerians venture into farming in 2 years – Buhari 3 min read

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12m Nigerians venture into farming in 2 years – Buhari

News Agency of Nigeria November 21, 2018 6:55 PM 2

The agriculture sector has significantly reduce the rate of unemployment in the country as over 12 million Nigerians have ventured into rice production in the... Read More

Pastoralist-Farmers Conflicts and the Search for Peaceful Resolution

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Pastoralist-Farmers Conflicts and the Search for Peaceful Resolution

News Agency of Nigeria January 11, 2018 3:23 PM

  Introduction Pastoralists-farmers’ conflicts in Nigeria have grown, spread and intensified over the past decade and today poses a threat to national survival. Thousands of... Read More

Synergos Builds Centre In Benue State, To Begin Exportation Of Yams

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Synergos Builds Centre In Benue State, To Begin Exportation Of Yams

Ronke October 3, 2017 3:19 PM

Synergos Nigeria is building a yam conditioning centre at Yandev in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. The Deputy Field Manager of Synergos, Mr... Read More

Kano govt. approves N344m for procurement of 100 tractors‎ 2 min read

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Kano govt. approves N344m for procurement of 100 tractors‎

News Agency of Nigeria July 20, 2017 8:32 PM

The Kano State Government has approved N344 million for the purchase of 100 tractors in order to boost agricultural production in the state. ‎ The... Read More

Delta, World Bank, EU empower 250 youths on tomatoes farming 2 min read

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Delta, World Bank, EU empower 250 youths on tomatoes farming

News Agency of Nigeria July 3, 2017 9:00 PM

The State Employment and Expenditure For Results Project (SEEFOR), an intervention project of the World Bank and European Union (EU), in collaboration with Songhai Delta... Read More

Corps members to access soft loan for 2017 farming season-DG 1 min read

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Corps members to access soft loan for 2017 farming season-DG

News Agency of Nigeria April 27, 2017 6:15 PM

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.- Gen. Suleiman Kazaure, said on Thursday that arrangements were being made to enable corps members interested in... Read More

Bauchi State Govt. approves N70m to train 1,000 women in agricultural trades 1 min read

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Bauchi State Govt. approves N70m to train 1,000 women in agricultural trades

News Agency of Nigeria April 21, 2017 1:36 PM

The Bauchi State Commission For Youth and Women Rehabilitation and Development said it had approved N70 million for the training of 1,000 youths and women... Read More

Dry season farming: FG spends over N9.5 bn on inputs 2 min read

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Dry season farming: FG spends over N9.5 bn on inputs

News Agency of Nigeria April 17, 2017 10:56 AM

The Federal Government spent more than N9.5 billion for the distribution of farm inputs to farmers during the dry season farming, an official of the... Read More

AEPB begins public awareness campaign on unlawful farming in FCT 1 min read

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AEPB begins public awareness campaign on unlawful farming in FCT

News Agency of Nigeria April 8, 2017 3:29 AM

The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) says that it has started a public awareness campaign on farming in unlawful places in the Federal Capital Territory... Read More

Agric Sector Can Generate over 40 Million Jobs With Quality Seeds- Dogara 3 min read

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Agric Sector Can Generate over 40 Million Jobs With Quality Seeds- Dogara

News Agency of Nigeria March 27, 2017 3:58 PM

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, has called for development, production and distribution of quality seeds to farmers in Nigeria in order... Read More

Edo farmers laud NDDC for donating N14m equipment 1 min read

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Edo farmers laud NDDC for donating N14m equipment

News Agency of Nigeria November 27, 2016 3:04 PM

The All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Edo chapter, has lauded the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for donating farm equipment worth N14 million to... Read More

Jigawa Govt. procures N3m fingerlings to boost fisheries’ production 1 min read

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Jigawa Govt. procures N3m fingerlings to boost fisheries’ production

News Agency of Nigeria November 18, 2016 2:55 PM

The Jigawa Government said it had spent over N3 million on the procurement of 150, 000 fingerlings to accelerate fisheries production in the state. The... Read More

Tonto Dike’s husband goes into farming, acquires 280 plots of land 1 min read

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Tonto Dike’s husband goes into farming, acquires 280 plots of land

News Agency of Nigeria November 2, 2016 7:09 AM

Tonto Dike’s husband, Dr Oladunni Churchill, has acquired 280 plots of land to be used to start a mechanized farming project. This project, which is... Read More

Bill to regulate farming activities passes second reading 1 min read

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Bill to regulate farming activities passes second reading

News Agency of Nigeria October 25, 2016 7:06 PM

A Bill to regulate the agricultural sector passed second reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The Bill, titled “Nigeria Agricultural Associations Bill, 2016,... Read More

First Lady Of Benue State Urges Women To Engage In Farming 2 min read

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First Lady Of Benue State Urges Women To Engage In Farming

Onome Agesse October 16, 2016 12:23 AM

The wife of Benue state governor, Mrs Eunice Ortom, on Saturday urged more women in the state to engage in farming to enhance their livelihood... Read More

Aregbesola wants govt. to ban export of primary farm produce 1 min read

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Aregbesola wants govt. to ban export of primary farm produce

News Agency of Nigeria August 7, 2016 5:07 PM

Gov. Rauf Aregbesola of Osun has called for a ban on the export of primary farm produce as part of strategies to ensure food sufficiency... Read More