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Yemisi Izuora The Croplife Nigeria, has warned that the federal government’s aspiration to achieve food security may be jeopardized following escalating roadblocks erected by government agencies at the country’s entry points which has affected effective supply and distribution of biopesticides to support food production. The group warns that pests has always remained one major threat looming over agriculture industry potentially ruining a harvest and that farmers are obliged to take action against pests. Speaking on the looming threat, president of Croplife Nigeria, Mahmood Tauhid while addressing the media in Lagos Thursday said government agencies operating at the seaports have…
Source: Bloomberg He and other customs agents who help clear goods coming into Africa’s biggest economy from its smaller neighbor Benin say the long lines of trucks loaded with rice that used to jam the crossing have dwindled. The slowdown is a result of import restrictions and tighter border policing as President Muhammadu Buhari seeks to diversify the oil-dependent economy by boosting agriculture, especially rice production. Two years ago, Buhari set 2018 as a target to end Nigeria’s status as the world’s second-largest importer of the grain after China and become self-sufficient. He’s since overseen investments of almost $1 billion…
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Spanish police have rescued 39 Nigerian girls and women from a notorious sex trafficking ring who kept them in squalid cave-like houses and forced them into prostitution after threatening them with black magic, Europol announced on Thursday. The operation, carried out with British and Nigerian law enforcement agencies, led to the arrests of 89 people including a well-known Nigerian DJ, according to a Europol statement. It said the Nigerian crime ring was linked to the Eiye Confraternity – a network that Spanish police have previously compared to the mafioso in Chicago in the 1930s. The victims,…
By Admin Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayodele Fayose has described the Dapchi Girls abduction saga as another clear evidence of failure of President Muhammadu Buhari, declaring that “the President cannot take credit for his own failure.” The governor said there was no basis for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to applaud the President’s “claim of bringing back home those innocent Dapchi Girls that ought not to have been abducted in the first place if not for the government’s laxity.” The governor who addressed the press in his office on Thursday, said; “the abduction and return of the girls took place…
By Bishop Emmanuel Ade BadejoCatholic Bishop of Oyo The over 100 Dapchi girls kidnapped by Boko Haram have been returned to great rejoicing from every coast. There is however more than a touch of lament and sadness for five of the girls who died during captivity. May God rest their souls in perfect peace and console all who are thus bereaved. Amen. Even as we all rejoice at the release of the Dapchi girls, it must be admitted that the continuing loss of lives in Nigeria and the uncertain footwork of the APC government in securing the lives and property…
Yemisi Izuora The Nigerian Senate has confirmed the appointment of Mrs Aisha Ahmad and Mr. Edward Adamu as substantive Deputy Governors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) along with three members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The confirmed members of the MPC include Professor Adeola Festus Adenikinju, Dr. Aliyu Rafindadi Sanusi and Dr. Robert Chikwendu Asogwa. Meanwhile, the nomination of Dr Asheikh Maidugu was turned down on the ground that his present position as “a regular civil servant ladened with bureaucracy and red-tapism may not be independent in his judgment on each crucial decision of the MPC that…
cover Yemisi Izuora President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said he was committed to the freedom of the only Dapchi schoolgirl still in captivity as when all the110 schoolgirls were in Boko Haram terrorists’ den. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said this in a statement. Shehu said the Buhari administration would not relent in efforts to bring Leah Sharibu safely back home to her parents as it has done for the other girls. Leah was reportedly held back by the terrorists over her decision not to convert from Christianity to Islam. The statement…
By Admin THE Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has faulted the claim by the Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Mr. Bill Gates, that the government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, does not reflect people’s needs. El-Rufai, in an interview with State House correspondents at the end of a special session of the National Economic Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja “It is not correct to say that the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan does not give primacy to human capital, it is not correct. “The plan has enough provision for human capital, it is a Federal Government’s…
By Admin There was confusion on Thursday in some parts of Narayi, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State after some irate youths set ablaze a church and a police outpost. The youths, it was learnt, set ablaze a branch of the Celestial Church of God as well as a police outpost in Narayi, while protesting the death of a mason, Friday Sylvester, who was working for the pastor of the church, Babatunde Shittu. The youth, it was learnt, accused Shittu of having a hand in Sylvester’s death. Livid with anger, they descended on the church and razed it while…
