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Buhari Reveals Plans After Leaving Office in 2023

13Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Buhari Reveals Plans After Leaving Office in 2023

President Muhammadu Buhari has said he plans to go back to his cows and rekindle his passion for farming when he leaves office in 2023. Buhari in an interview with Arise TV said he retained a farm and have some cattle that will keep him occupied after his presidency. He said "I have never abandoned my farm, and I still have many cattle. When I leave, I will go to my farm daily and try to keep myself busy. “Between now and then, I will try to keep on convincing Nigerians that I mean very well. I will make sure that they see identifiable problems. We have situated the economy in fighting them, and we will continue to anchor it." Read Also: Bandits Attack Baptist Church in Kaduna, Kill Two, Scores Abducted – CAN "Visibly, we made progress in the North-East. We made progress in ...

Open Grazing Ban Has Come to Stay – Gov Ortom

13Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, News, Nigeria, Security

Open Grazing Ban Has Come to Stay – Gov Ortom

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said that the onslaught against citizens of his state by herdsmen will not compel his government to repeal the Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law. He added that his administration will rather amend the law to increase the penalties against offenders rather than be cowed into suspending the law. Ortom disclosed this on Saturday while giving his mid-term scorecard as part of activities marking this year’s Democracy Day at the Banquet Hall of the Government House in Makurdi. He said, “This law has come to stay and no amount of intimidation can make us repeal it. Instead, we will soon amend the law in order to increase the penalties against offenders.” Ortom lamented the humanitarian situation caused by continued attacks ...

Govs Can’t Ban Open Grazing – Miyetti Allah

7Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Govs Can’t Ban Open Grazing – Miyetti Allah

The Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, a factional unit for herdsmen in Nigeria, has opposed the ban imposed on open grazing of cattle by South-West governors. Their position is, however, in contrast to that of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, which at a meeting with some governors in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on January 25, aligned with the position of the governors. Among the governors that attended the Akure meeting were the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Governors Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State, Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa State, Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State and Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State. MACBAN was led to the meeting by its chairman, Alhaji Muhammadu Kiruwa, among other attendees. Asides from the Sou...

We Can’t be Forced Out of South-West – Miyetti Allah

14Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, News, Nigeria, Security

We Can’t be Forced Out of South-West – Miyetti Allah

Herdsmen operating under the auspices of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore have say they cannot be evicted from the South-West, citing their rights as guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution to live and operate wherever they deem fit. The group promised to avenge the alleged attacks on and loss of herdsmen and their cattle, noting it would never put up with any act of injustice on herders. These were disclosed by the National Secretary of Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, Mr Alhassan Saleh, in an interview with Sunday PUNCH against a backdrop of the eviction notices issued to criminal herdsmen by some South-West groups and personalities. Saleh condemned the quit notice given to herders to vacate any part of the country and that even if there were criminals among them, it was the function of the ...

10Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, Legislature, News, Nigeria

Ban Open Grazing, Senator Tells Buhari

Tolulope Odebiyi, a member of the Nigerian Senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sign an executive order to ban open grazing by herdsmen in the country. The senator who represents the Ogun West Senatorial district on Wednesday while regretting the invasion of killer herdsmen into the country from neighbouring countries asked Buhari to take immediate action. Odebiyi said, “It is an indictment on our leadership that people are coming into Nigeria to rape, maim and kill our people. It is upsetting and we must rise up to this occasion. I rise that the President need to speak and calm the nation. “The President can sign an Executive Order banning open grazing. There are actions that he can take immediately but nothing is being done.” The South-West region has been in the ey...

Fayemi Calls on Youths to Embrace Agribusiness

10Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Agriculture, News, Nigeria, Youths

Fayemi Calls on Youths to Embrace Agribusiness

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has disclosed that his administration had put in place machinery to contribute the state’s quota to national development by attracting $200 million investment in the agriculture sector. He said the ventures, when fully operational, will provide jobs for more than 500,000 Ekiti people directly and indirectly, adding that these were parts of efforts to transform the state from being a civil servant economy to an agric-based industrialised economy. Dr. Fayemi spoke at an interactive session with Ekiti youths with the theme: “Ekiti youths, let’s talk: Engaging youths in agribusiness”, at Adetiloye Hall, Ado-Ekiti.Fayemi, who presented a paper and sat through one of the sessions, also cut his birthday cake with young entrepreneurs. The event was equally ...

If You Burn Factories, Release Prisoners, it is Anti-investment – Buhari

30Oct

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

News, Nigeria

If You Burn Factories, Release Prisoners, it is Anti-investment – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has identified the agricultural sector as an upswing in the country which could be harnessed for economic growth. Buhari who disclosed this in a meeting held last week with all former heads of state to discuss the state of the nation after the shooting of #EndSARS protesters at Lekki Toll Gate area of Lagos regretted that the protest which started as a peaceful and legitimate demand for an end to police brutality in the country was hijacked by hoodlums. The hijack sabotaged the goal of the demonstrations. According to a statement by Presidential aide on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, the President while thanking the former leaders for commending the steps taken by his administration to address the protests said he regretted that the demonstrations degen...

Government Will not Pay a Kobo of Foreign Reserves to Import Food or Fertilizer Says President Buhari

11Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, Economy, Finance, News, Nigeria

Government Will not Pay a Kobo of Foreign Reserves to Import Food or Fertilizer Says President Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has instructed the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to make forex inaccessible for people seeking to import food items and fertilizer. The President said this at the meeting of the National Food Security Council at the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Thursday. It restates the earlier directive on forex given by Buhari in August 2019. President Buhari asked private businesses determined to import food items to use their money to compete with local farmers, noting that government will not provide forex for such purposes in a bid to promote local production. He said, “I am restating it that nobody importing food or fertilizer should be given foreign exchange from the Central Bank. We will not pay a kobo of our foreign reserves to import food or fertilizer. ...

Inauguration Speech by Dr Akinwumi Adesina on His Election for a Second 5-Year Tenure

1Sep

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Africa, African Development, Agriculture, Finance, News, Nigeria, Press Statement

Inauguration Speech by Dr Akinwumi Adesina on His Election for a Second 5-Year Tenure

PROTOCOLS Your Excellency, President Alassane Ouattara, President of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire Your Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Governments Excellencies former Heads of State and Governments Chairperson of the African Union Commission The Former Commonwealth Secretary General Honorable Niale Kaba, the outgoing Chairperson of the Bureau of Governors of the African Development Bank Group and Minister of National Planning of Côte d’Ivoire— Madam “Quiet Force” or “Force tranquille” The new Chairperson of the Bureau of the Board of Governors, Honorable Ken Ofori Ata, Minister of Finance of Ghana Governors of the African Development Bank, from 81 capitals around the world ...

Nigerian Farmers to Get $1.1 Billion Loan Intervention from CBN

19Jun

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Agriculture, Covid-19, Economy, Finance, Nigeria

Nigerian Farmers to Get $1.1 Billion Loan Intervention from CBN

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said it plans to empower farmers with N432 billion ($1.1 billion) intervention loan to upscale food production during the planting season. The apex bank said through its Twitter handle on Thursday that about one million farmers will be given loan to cultivate more than one million hectares of land to ensure adequate food supply as the economic effects of covid-19 unravels. The West African nation has been pushing for more investment in the agricultural sector as a drift from reliance on crude, which accounts for estimated 90% of the countries revenues. The CBN projects increased production of cash crops such as cotton, rice, tomato, cassava, cocoa and maize for self-reliance cum revenue generation through export.