The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, to immediately toe the path of honour and resign for "portraying Nigeria as a lying nation" and bringing the country to "international opprobrium by deliberately falsifying claims relating to Nigeria’s relationship with Thailand".The party said the whole world was shocked when Wattana Kuwongse, ambassador of Thailand to Nigeria, [...]
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About 1,500 rice farmers in Daura, Katsina state, have received various farming implements under the phase 11 of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) anchor borrowers scheme.Nura Baure, chairman, Daura chapter of the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN), disclosed this during the distribution of farming implements to registered farmers on Thursday.Daura is the hometown of President Muhammadu Buhari.According to [...]
Wattana Kunwongse, ambassador of Thailand to Nigeria, has denied the claim of Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, that rice mills are collapsing in the Asian country.On Friday, Ogbeh had claimed that Thailand said President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy on local rice sufficiency was responsible for the collapse of seven of its mills."Just like two weeks ago, the ambassador of Thailand came [...]
Kebbi can deliver 50 percent of Nigeria’s rice requirements with continuous support of the federal government’s anchor borrowers Pprogramme, according to Garba Dandiga, state commissioner for agriculture.Dandiga disclosed this while conducting a team of journalists on an inspection of the 50 km by 20 km FADAMA rice plantation in Suru.He said 16 local government areas were in serious rice production [...]
Sylvester Ngwuta, a justice of the supreme court, says the monies which operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) found in his residence were proceeds of his palm oil and rice business.Ngwuta's home was raided by DSS operatives in October 2016.The DSS said it recovered the sums of N35,358,000; $319,596; £25,915; and €280.The justice is standing a 13-count charge [...]
Rice farmers have appealed to the federal government to maintain the ban on rice importation, saying this would boost local production.Jamilu Ibrahim, chairman of rice farmers in Daura, Katsina state, said this in an interview with NAN on Monday.He said maintaining the ban would protect farmers and boost local rice consumption in the country.He said the farmers would increase their production capacity [...]
The Kogi state chapter of the National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) says the donation of over 1,000 bags of rice to the state civil servants is an insult. Responding to the action of the senate, Oladele Nihi, the council chairman, described the move as a political stunt.He asked the lawmakers not to play politics with the civil servants.The group wondered why the [...]
Aminu Goronyo, national president, Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria, says in the next few months, a 50kg bag of rice will be sold at the rate of N6000.Goronyo made this statement on Wednesday on the sidelines of a meeting between rice farmers, processors and Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, at the ministry's headquarters in Abuja.He attributed the anticipated crash in [...]
The federal government of Nigeria has donated 5,000 metric tons of rice to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).According to WFP, this will help feed nearly half-a-million internally displaced people in the conflict-ravaged northeast of the country, where the threat of famine endures.WFP added that it had already begun moving the first batch of donated rice – and expects [...]
Jude Nwankwo, the acting programme manager of agricultural development programme (ADP), Anambra, says plans are underway to commence export of rice from the state in 2018.Nwankwo disclosed this in an interview with NAN on Sunday in Awka."By the grace of God, Anambra will commence rice export after our harvest this year," he said.He assured that the state will produce more [...]
Abubakar Bagudu, Kebbi state governor, has condemned the continuous importation of rice into the country, describing it as the importation of poison.Bagudu is the chairman, presidential task force on rice and wheat production.He told journalists on Sunday in Birnin-Kebbi that the imported rice, auctioned by different countries, was no longer good for human consumption.The chairman, who expressed regret over citizens’ [...]
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says farmers who accessed under its anchor borrowers’ programme (ABP) have commenced repayment of the multi-billion naira loan taken.Details of the loan disbursement and repayment obtained from the apex bank indicate that as at March 31, 2017 a total sum of N33.34 billion had been released through 12 participating finance institutions (PFIs) in respect of [...]
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), says Aliko Dangote, may become the largest exporter of rice in the world by 2021.Speaking at the Mo Ibrahim Forum in Morocco over the weekend, Adesina said Africa must focus on agriculture to drive growth and create jobs on the continent."I remember when I was minister of Agriculture in Nigeria. Aliko [...]
Rice sellers in Alaba Rago market in the Ojo local government area of Lagos state are currently panicking over the raid of a rice garage in Sango Ota, Ogun state, by operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS).Bags of rice and kegs of groundnut oil were seized by the customs officials who stormed the market on Tuesday night.But speaking with [...]
Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the bank will have created about one million direct and indirect agriculture processing jobs via its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) by 2021.Speaking in Jibia, Katsina state, at the formal flag-off of the rice dry season farming, Emefiele said Nigeria’s food import bill was exceptionally high and that rice and wheat [...]
Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, says rice farmers in Ebonyi state are still in the business of harvesting by hand and with sickle.Speaking at the ongoing African Economic Conference in Abuja, Ogbeh said government would intensify support for local farmers, and sustain plans by Akinwumi Adesina, former minister of agriculture, to help local farmers via e-Wallet."There's a need to intensify support, [...]
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