The International Labour Organisation (ILO), in partnership with the Ondo State Government and the Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria, recently launched a programme aimed at promoting health insurance enrolment among cocoa farmers, informal workers, and vulnerable households at risk of child labour. The initiative, under the ILO’s Global Accelerator Lab project, funded by the United States Department of Labour, is …

The last few weeks have been taken over by the controversy over President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his certificates. Did he or did he not attend school? If so, which schools, when, where and how? Did he or did he not have certificates? If so, what certificate, when and which school or schools? How did he attend school: As a …

Norfund – the Norwegian Investment Fund for developing countries — is set to invest $12 million in the agricultural sector. West Africa Regional Director, Naana Winful Fynn said more capital should be expected with the fear of Naira devaluation gone and complexities around multiple exchange rates resolved. She spoke yesterday during a virtual media parley in Lagos. Fynn said through …

An Ondo State High Court, sitting in Ore, in Odigbo Local Council Area of the state, on Wednesday, stopped the state government and a private company, Sao Agro-Allied Services Limited, from forcefully evicting over 10,000 farmers from its Oluwa Forest Reserve. It also stopped the state government and the firm from grading the farmers’ cocoa farms. The farmers had protested …