Tag: agriculture

Opinion: Hurray! At last, mass housing is here!!

by Olusola Daniel Undeniably, the 2014 budget presents a ray of hope for the Nigerian people. It is a budget that is building the foundation for a robust economy that…

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YNaija reviews the performance of federal ministries in 2013 (Vol 1)

by Mark Amaza It is common knowledge that the Nigerian government is a very large one, with 28 ministries and parastatals, agencies and commissions that altogether total about 500. There…

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Stop peddling lies, Nigeria does not have 100million destitutes – Presidency tells World Bank

by Isi Esene The Presidency is clearly not amused by claims allegedly made by the World Bank Country Director, Marie-Francois Marie-Nelly on the number of destitutes in the country. In…

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SNAPSHOT: 2face Idibia joins others to demand increased funding for agriculture

by Oge Okonkwo It is a season of giving back for our Nigerian celebrities. From Funke Akindele to Sasha P campaigning for different causes and now our very own king…

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IBB reportedly drops presidential ambition

by Akan Ido Former president of Nigeria, Ibrahim Babangida has announced that his days of seeking votes in presidential elections are over. Babangida said this in Sokoto yesterday while inaugurating…

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BREAKING: Pres. Jonathan sacks education, foreign affairs ministers, and 7 others

President Goodluck Jonathan has reshuffled his cabinet, dropping nine ministers. The ministers affected are Ruqayat Rufai (Education); Zainab Kunchi (Power, [state]); Buka Tijani (Agriculture [state]), Shamsudeen Usman (National Planning; Ita Okon (Science…

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Lanre Olagunju: Let’s forget about aid and focus on building entepreneurs

by Lanre Olagunju                                   Entrepreneurs are world changers, basically because their input to a large extent goes far beyond creating jobs and paying wages. At the point of solving problems,…

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Opinion: Memo to incoming youth minister

by Murtala Adogi Mohammed Working together with youth both online and offline is very important for any minister of youth development that want to succeed. Therefore, the new Youth Minister will…

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40,000MW: APC reveals 31-page manifesto

The All Progressives Congress on Wednesday in Abuja  unfolded a seven-point  cardinal programme that would ensure that electricity generation hit 40,000 megawatts within four to eight years of its leadership.…

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Ife Adebayo: Secondary education – Another important need for Nigerians (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Oil will not make Nigeria great, agriculture will not make Nigeria great, tourism will not make Nigeria great – Nigeria will only become great when we harness…

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Ife Adebayo: Nigeria’s untapped wealth (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo   If a good number of Nigerians are trained in a particular sector they can become an army and make good gains for the sector. Nigeria is a wealthy…

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Gbenga Olorunpomi: Oranmiyan Movement – The people’s revolution that has come to stay (Y! Politico)

by Gbenga Olorunpomi Sadly, no government, no matter how good, exists without detractors and Osun state has more than its fair share. However, it is comical that the loudest of…

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Modupe Adefeso-Olateju: In the beginning was the philosophy of education – Part 4 (Y! Policy Hub)

by Modupe Adefeso-Olateju Looking ahead: expedient next steps In the three previous articles in this series, the history, features and context of the Nigerian philosophy of education were re-examined.  Whilst…

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Tola Sunmonu: Agiculture – Gov’t effort is good but a comprehensive solution is needed (Y! Policy Hub)

by Tola Sunmonu If you are going to try and tackle the issue of finance, create the necessary systems that allow farmers to make decisions about how they want to…

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Water resources minister, Sarah Ochekpe: Nasir el-Rufai is lying about water

by Sarah Reng Ochekpe As if such distortion was not enough,  El Rufai chose to ridicule himself and bring to question his intellectual capacity, even before the Nigerian children who…

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Nasir El-Rufai: Hunger in the midst of plenty

by Nasir El-Rufai  What exactly is the problem with past and current governments that the issue of food security – the adequate production and availability of food within the country…

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Feyi Fawehinmi: Why institutions matter: A story about rice

by Feyi Fawehinmi  This is why we also must be suspicious of ‘young’ people who are currently running about declaring themselves as change agents and demanding to be loved. It’s…

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Opinion: Bringing back growth to the Nigerian economy (1)

by Tunji Andrews With the main Nigerian production forte being without doubt, agriculture, I believe we should use the agricultural sector as our case study; and its success model could…

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Tola Sunmonu: Don’t get it twisted, farming is a long thing (Y! Policy Hub)

by Tola Sunmonu We need researchers, I challenge a young person to spend months if not years obsessed with their research on pest resistant high yielding seeds that rival those…

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Opinion: ‘The Green Revolution’ and the realities of today’s youth

by Wale Bakare Oil became the new Agriculture of my generation. Owning an oil block was more worthy than tilling the land. As far back as the early 80s –…

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Going green: Jonathan hosts Eminent Persons Group on Agric. in Geneva (PHOTOS)

  President Goodluck Jonathan addressing the inaugural meeting of presidential eminent persons group on Agriculture in Geneva on Tuesday by Isi Esene President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday hosted the first meeting…

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Press Release: Agriculture will create 3.5m new jobs by 2015 – President Jonathan

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan said Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland that his Administration has embarked on bold policy and institutional reforms aimed at adding 20 million metric ones of food to…

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Phones-for-farmers: “I will not be distracted” – Agric minister vows to pursue policy

by Isi Esene The minister of Agriculture, Akinwunmi Adesina, has insisted that there is no going back on the proposed purchase of cellphones for farmers in a bid to enhance…

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Thanks, but no thanks: We need funds not phones, farmers tell FG

A Nigerian farmer Farmers across the country have criticised the plan by the Federal Government to distribute mobile phones to 10 million farmers. They described it as a misplaced priority.…

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Sokoto governor wins ‘Thug governor of the year’… in last week’s news with a pinch of salt

by Stanley Azuakola Farmers can simply log on to Facebook and update their status and profile pictures: "I just planted the cocoyam," "This cassava would be perfect for presidential cassava…

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Dele Momodu: The president and his ten million farmers

by Dele Momodu Let’s take them one by one. Why is it assumed that of all problems facing Nigerian farmers, the most acute is treatable by merely buy mobile phones…

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Opinion: Mobile phone farming, the Goodluck Jonathan miracle

by Abubakar S. Usman A local farmer Sadly, none of these is of concern to the government. What they are rather interested in are shot cuts that eventually leads to…

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‘It’s not true’ – Agric minister denies N60 billion will be spent on phones for farmers

PRESS STATEMENT: 60 BILLION NAIRA TO BE SPENT ON CELLPHONES FOR FARMERS NOT TRUE. My attention has been drawn to the issue of 60 Billion Naira to be spent on…

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Food for all: Jigawa earmarks N4.4bn capital investment in Agriculture

by Vincent Ehiabhi The Jigawa State Government proposed N4.4 billion as capital investment in agriculture in the 2013 Appropriation Bill submitted to the state's House of Assembly by the Governor,…

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