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President Muhammadu Buhari recently launched the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) initiated Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), expressing high hopes that the scheme would lift thousands of minor farmers out of poverty and create millions of employments for jobless Nigerians. The President, though frowned at the huge sums of money spent by Nigeria on the importation […]

Mufutau holds a Doctorate Degree in Horticulture with emphasis on Post-harvest Pathology from Writtle College University of Essex, England. He is a Consultant Post-harvest Horticulturist, and has been studying and teaching the preservation, disease control of fruits and vegetables for 40 years. He is a one-time Lagos State Commissioner for Agricultural Coop and Rural Development; […]

Nigeria loses about N127bn to cybercrime annually, the Minister of Communications, Mr. Adebayo Shittu, has said. Shittu, who said this at the opening of the 2016 National Conference of the Nigerian Computer Society in Abuja, also disclosed that over $32bn had been invested in the Information and Communications Technology sector in the last 15 years. […]

Nigeria’s economy, the biggest in Africa, is likely to contract by 1.8 per cent this year, the International Monetary Fund has said. The Washington-based lender cut its 2016 growth forecast for Nigeria from 2.3 per cent projected in April, according to its World Economic Outlook update released yesterday. The projection for next year was reduced to […]Read More

Waziri Adio, ES NEITI The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI), Mr. Waziri Adio has said that there was no reason for Nigeria to have 110 million people living in poverty. “With the kind of money Nigeria made from oil in the past decades, there is no reason it should have 110 million […]

As part of the measures put in place by the FCT Administration to provide massive employment for the residents and enhance economic activities in the Federal Capital Territory, the FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello is working on various options to fast track the take off of the Abuja Technology Village. The FCT Minister made […]

The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says plans are underway to set up an energy renewable plant that will use agro products to generate energy. Its Group General Manager in charge of Renewable Energy Division, Mr Rabiu Suleiman, stated this during a courtesy call on Governor Samuel Ortom at the Government House in Makurdi. Suleiman […]

Stakeholders in the oil and gas industry have said that incentives for private refineries in the country will go a long way to boosting Nigeria’s economy. The stakeholders made this assertion during a public hearing, on a bill to provide for the licensing, regulation and incentives for petroleum refineries in Nigeria in Abuja. The stakeholders […]

A family of five in Katsina State are currently in Police custody for allegedly feeding a day-old baby to a dog as meal. It is not exactly clear when the crime was committed, but according to a report on the Punch, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016, the incident happened at Saika village in Batsari Local […]

Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, has sued the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, for alleging that she was one of those indicted for involvement in the Halliburton multi-million dollar scandal. A Nigerian online medium, Premium Times, reported on Wednesday night, July 20, 2016, that Mrs. Buhari had dragged Fayose to court for maligning […]

Fayose To Face Legal Action Wife of Nigeria’s President, Aisha Buhari has sued Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State for claiming that she was involved in the Halliburton corruption scandal. Fayose had in June said Mrs. Buhari was the “Aisha Buhari” named in a U.S. court document, alleged to have been involved in a bribery […]Read More

By Ed Butler BBC News, Malawi  In some remote southern regions of Malawi, it’s traditional for girls to be made to have sex with a paid sex worker known as a “hyena” once they reach puberty. The act is not seen by village elders as rape, but as a form of ritual “cleansing”. However, as […]Read More