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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read MorePresident 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…
Read Moreby 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,…
Read Moreby 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…
Read MoreThe 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.…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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 –…
Read MorePresident 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…
Read MorePresident 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read MoreA 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.…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby Kikiowo Ileowo Agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina The idea of importing phones from other countries is nothing short of exporting thousands of jobs and income to those economies, whereas, we…
Read Moreby 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…
Read Moreby 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…
Read MorePRESS 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…
Read Moreby 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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