Publication: Daily Trust Nigera

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Agriculture is the way forward Wada

Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State, in this interview with journalists on his return from South Africa, said there will be no going back on his agricultural transformation agenda in spite of initial challenges. He speaks on the benefits of the trip to ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Agriculture, South Africa, Nigeria, Steel, Fallout

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Ogun allocates 3,290 hectares of land to 45 investors

Ogun State government has allocated a total of 3,290 hectares of land for 45 investors with interest in agriculture in the last one year.Commissioner for Agriculture Mrs Ronke Sokefun said the move was part of the present administration determination ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Allotment, Agriculture

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Nutrients

‘Our problem with GES’

As the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development gets set for the distribution of fertilizer and other inputs in this year’s Growth Enhancement Support Scheme (GES), farmers in Bassa a settlement along Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport road are yet to ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Nutrients, Fertilizer, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Agriculture, Urea

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Olusegun Obasanjo

Obasanjo shares cassava bread with African leaders

The inclusion of cassava flour in bread has received continental attention in Tanzania with the Goodwill Ambassador for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), former Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo and the President of the United ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Olusegun Obasanjo, Stocks, Tanzania, Flour

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Danfodiyo varsity, Enterprise Brazil Nigeria sign MoU on agric devt

Written by Rakiya A. Muhammad, Sokoto.Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto, UDUS has signed a Memorandum of understanding with Enterprise Brazil Nigeria Company Limited to boost agriculture in Sokoto state. ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Enterprise, Sokoto, Nigeria, Brazil

First reported 6 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 1 reports

Food Security: FG reassures Nigerians, says agric now priority business

The Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, on Tuesday reassured Nigerians of President Goodluck Jonathan administration’s commitment to national food security, just as he remarked that agriculture is now a priority business in the country.In ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Food Security, Agriculture, Iseyin

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Save the Children

Students: 60% don’t eat before school

As many as six out of 10 students in junior secondary school in Gwagwalada, an area council of Abuja, miss breakfast every morning, a hunger survey by students has revealed.The group Child Rights Advocacy (CRA) put out questionnaires to test the frequency, ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Save the Children, Education, Susan Grant, Nutrition

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Court discontinues students’ case against Osun govt.

An Osun State High Court yesterday discontinued a case instituted by some students against the State Government and lecturers of the state owned tertiary institutions.The students took their lecturers and Osun State government to courtas a result of the ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Discontinuance, Industrial Action, Affidavit, Barrister

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

GES: Agric Ministry targets 5 million farmers

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development hopes to register up to five million farmers with subsidized fertilizer and seeds through the Growth Enhancement Support scheme (GES), minister of agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, has said.The minister, ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Federal, Iseyin, Agriculture, Fertilizer

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 reports

Shaken, Jonathan shoes up to tackle crises

President Goodluck Jonathan finally grew up to the reality that the nation was at war when in pronouncing so, he imposed martial law in the North East States of Borno, Bauchi, and Adamawa. It was no longer a monotonous lamentation in the born-with-no-shoes ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, State of Emergency, Bauchi, Terrorists

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

FG’s gas project to attract $16bn

Written by Mohammed Shosanya, LagosThe federal government has said that its gas infrastructure development would attract investment outlay of over $16billion within the next four years.Group Executive Director, Gas and Power of the Nigerian National Petroleum ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Lagos (Nigeria), Petrochemical, Fertilizer

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 3 reports

Reps. endorse Emergency Rule, amend clauses

In an extraordinary closed door session the House of Representatives after about five hours deliberation endorsed the proclamation of a State of Emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States, as requested by the constitution.The House of Representatives ... [Published Daily Trust Nigera - May 21 2013]

Entities: emergency, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, State of Emergency

Quotes

"Some of you are guarding places that are so dangerous and volatile. Do we now say that the guards who are there should fold arms when criminals attacked?"

NSCDC boss advocates for fire arms for PGCs [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 17 hours ago]

"There is no doubt that, on completion, this project will boost the morale, productivity, security and welfare of beneficiaries."

Jonathan lays Para-Military Housing Scheme foundation [Published Daily Trust Nigera - 17 hours ago]

` "`Besides having access to justice, it will help in the decongesting of prisons."

Legal Aid Council keys into transformation agenda [Published Daily Trust Nigera - May 21 2013]

In comments presented by the ministry’s permanent secretary Godknows Igali, Nebo said, "if we have appropriate funding in the next one year we will be able to double our transmission capacity."

FG targets $500m loan for power [Published Daily Trust Nigera - May 21 2013]

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