As the global food crisis continues to wreak havoc, the World Bank says it has scaled up its efforts to tackle rising food insecurity, particularly in Africa. According to the latest update released on Monday, the Bank has now made available $45…
By Moses Adeniyi The Lagos State Government, on Wednesday, brokered a strategic agro-trade partnership with its counterpart in northern Nigeria, Niger State towards enhancing food production and security. The agreement is coming amidst recent food crisis across the Country, with…
…As food shortage hits 5.7 million metric tonnes …Forecasts 32% rise in cost of rice by 2024 AFEX has raised alarm on a severefood crisis looming in Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria. At the unveiling of its 2023 Crop Production Report, AFEX highlighted…
The Spiritual Director of Canaanland Adoration Ministries, Rev. Fr. Magnus Ebere has raised concern over the impact of flooding on food security in Nigeria. In a statement on Thursday, Ebere, better known as Fr E- Dey Work, urged the authorities…
Agrarian activities are far becoming subject of critical concern in Nigeria, as the endeavour is far becoming endangered species, largely threatened by forces of insecurity. The scourge insecurity have come to render in shambles agricultural production in recent times, as…
Among other fabrics of the Nigerian entity affected by the scourge of insecurity, the economy has been hardly hit. The blows of the storm have seen sectors, as agriculture which owes central place to livelihood, subsumed to the waves of…
Food crisis in Nigeria has become a subject frowning vehemently at the Country. It is of no doubt that the Country now stands at a verge where scarcity of food has begun to create crises whose multiplier effects appear to…
Food crisis is now growing to assume a troubling national phenomenon in Nigeria. The acute scarcity of food and the attendant inflation in food prices have recently put before the Country, the need for special intervention to address the heightening…
The report of a farmer, Cordelia Utazi, who on Monday was allegedly hacked to death on her farm at Ugwujoro Nimbo, Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State, resonates the heightening of the phenomenon of the farmers/herders’ crisis. The long…
