The United States Soybean Export Council (USSEC) in collaboration with stakeholders in Nigeria’s agronomy and poultry industry and the Nigerian Government hosted a nutrition and food security forum themed: “Nigeria Now”. In a statement, the U.S. Consulate said the forum was to explore partnership strategies that would help increase access to healthy and nutritional food. USSEC is a non-profit U.S. trade group representing U.S. soybean producers, processors, commodity shippers, merchandisers, allied agribusinesses and agricultural organisations. The group’s main goal is building preference, improving the value, and enabling market access for the use of U.S. Soy for human consumption, aquaculture and…
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Niger state governor and Chairman North Central States Governors’ Forum (NCSGF), Abubakar Sani-Bello has lauded the individual and collective efforts of citizens and founding fathers of the state who have made various but exceptional contributions towards the growth and development of the state. The state, created by the Military regime of Murtala Ramat Mohammed in February of 1976, has historically evolved through different stages of growth propelled by the various contributions of previous administrations. In a statement by the Chief Press Secretary, Mary Noel-Berje on Friday, the governor expressed the need to, not only consolidate on the legacies of those…
The Vision FM Media Services Ltd has called on the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to review the suspension of its its program, “Idon Mikiya” broadcast on Vision FM and Farin Wata TV. The NBC had suspended the programmes for six months and imposed N5,000,000 fine in a letter dated 28th January, 2022. However, the chairman of Vision FM, Umar Musa in a letter to the Director General of the NBC, noted that “Idon Mikiya” programme was done in the interest of justice in country. According to the letter, “The suspension and fine orders are undeserving and unwarranted having regards to…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is an interventionist agency created for the development of the oil producing region of the country. Well, it is meant to be an interventionist agency, but one thing is crystal clear. Despite hundreds of billions of naira invested over 20 years, the true intervention has been in the pockets of some select people, rather than on the region, and the lives of the people in general. There’s one thing President Muhammadu Buhari hates with a passion. Grand larceny. Expropriation and purloining. Once it’s confirmed that you are filching from the public purse, you can…
Amb. Joseph Sacko, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (ARBE) on Thursday stressed the need for building resilient food systems in Africa in the post Coronavirus (COVID-19) era. Sacko said this at the virtual inaugural briefing within the framework of the ongoing 35th Ordinary Session of the AU-Summit, which started from February 2 to 3, in in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She explained that ARBE comprises two directorates namely: the Directorate for Agriculture and Rural Development, as well as Directorate of Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment in the department of the AU. According to her, the directorates…
Nigerian government says the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) had tracked 2,000 projects worth over N300 billion, between 2019 and 2021, through its Constituency and Executive Projects Tracking Initiative. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed disclosed this, in Abuja, while briefing the media on the giant strides of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration in the anti-corruption fight. Mohammed said during the same period, 326 contractors, who abandoned projects across the six geo-political zones, were forced by the Commission to return to site, to complete projects worth N32.183 billion. He said that the ICPC’s Assets Tracing, Recovery and Management…
The current democratic transition in West Africa started in the early 1990s. At the formal level, it led to the establishment of constitutional rule and the operation re-establishment of a multi-party systems. The problem is that democratic transition requires a more profound socio-political transformation that allows freely elected rulers and the majority of the civil population to impose their supremacy over ruling oligarchies of the military or civilian ethno-regional cabals that had been in power for decades. The did not happen in most of our countries. The end goal which was to have been the development of a democratic political…
By Lizzy Carr, Bauchi The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has described misinformation about COVID-19 vaccine as hindrance to vaccine uptake. The Coordinator, Public Education on COVID-19 Vaccine Project at CITAD, Hamza Ibrahim stated this on Thursday at a press conference to share key hindrances to COVID-19 vaccination exercise identified in six states of the project implementation. CITAD with support from MacArthur Foundation is implementing a “Public Education on COVID-19 Vaccine” in six states of the north that include Bauchi, Borno, Kaduna, Kogi, Kano and Plateau. “The project is aimed at creating awareness around COVID-19 vaccine with a…
The Nigerian government has announced that it discovered 96 sponsors of Boko Haram terrorists and the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP). The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed who made the disclosure during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday, said the “Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU), in 2020-2021, revealed 96 financiers of terrorism in Nigeria,” while 424 associates and supporters of the financiers were also uncovered. He added that 123 companies and 33 Bureau de Change were linked to terrorists in addition to 26 suspected bandits/kidnappers and seven co-conspirators who have now been identified. “The analysis…
A number of persons on Thursday sustained various degrees of injuries as protest over the use of Hijab thickened in Oyun Baptist High School, Ijagbo, in Oyun local government area of Kwara. A man in his early 20s was seen being rushed to a nearby hospital after he was reportedly shot at. The use of Hijab had generated controversy in some missionary schools in the state over the past few months. The state government had on January 25, restated its policy and directed management of schools in the state to allow the use of Hijab by willing Muslims without forcing…