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From Haruna Aliyu Usman, Birnin Kebbi The State Program Officer (SPO) of the Kebbi State International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Malam Bala Muhammad has said that the state field office in Birnin Kebbi has established 17 farmers’ field and business schools in the 10 IFAD focused local councils. According to him,
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From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja The Miyyeti Alla Cattle Breeders Association, Kogi State Chapter is to set up its own vigilante group that will work in synergy with the state security apparatus to rid the state of criminality. The Chairman of the association, Alhaji Wakili Damina, while briefing Newsmen in Lokoja on Saturday,
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COVID-19 pandemic has not only brought about health challenges to Nigeria and the rest of the world, but has in its wake visited untold economic and social problems. Prominent among the challenges is the risk of hunger pandemic, which is set to almost double acute hunger in Nigeria and some
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J A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ court has sentenced a 22-year-old herder, Bala Juli of Adadu Village in Nasarawa State, to a one year jail term in a correctional centre for openly grazing cows in Benue.The Magistrate, Mr Isaac Ajim, summarily tried and convicted the defendant after he pleaded guilty of
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From Vincent Nyinongu, Makurdi. Benue State Government has given two days concession, Thursdays and Fridays to civil servants of the state to allow them ample time to embark on massive agricultural activities as a way out of the current predicament occasioned by COVID-19. Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mrs. Ngunan
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From Vincent Nyinongu, Makurdi Stakeholders from the Benue South Senatorial District Wednesday rose from an expanded security meeting with a pledge to support sustained implementation of the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law. They also pledged to support the war against kidnapping, cultism, banditry and other crimes in the area. This
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The Federal Government will, on June 9, inaugurate the 200, 000 capacity yam storage facility for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Benue, the Presidency has said. The Presidency in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the inauguration was part of the federal government’s determination to support the
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From Joseph Amedu, Lokoja Small Scale Women Farmers Organisation in Nigeria (SWOFON) has appealed to Kogi State Government to review the 2020 budgetary allocation to the Agriculture sector to accommodate credit and loan facilities to farmers. Hajia Safiya Yahaya, Kogi Coordinator of SWOFON made the call during a press briefing
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By Danusa Ocholi, Abuja In its contribution towards making life tolerable in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, an international civil society organization , Solidaridad West Africa is using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform, , to increase access to agronomic and other production support information by farmers and communities that produce cocoa,
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By Mathew Dadiya, Abuja The Federal Government has raised about N500 billion (€995 million equivalent) to fund a leasing scheme for tractors and other agricultural machinery in the country. The deal was under the in-kind facility for agricultural mechanisation to develop agricultural mechanization, recently approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). The in-kind
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