The Rector of the Kwara Polytechnic, Dr Abdul Jimoh-Muhammed, has called on tertiary institutions in the country to invest in commercial farming on their campuses. Jimoh-Muhammed, who made the call in Ilorin on Saturday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, said tertiary institutions should prioritise food production and not restrict themselves to academic research alone. It was …

The Federal Government has announced the suspension of duties, tariffs, and taxes on some essential food items imported through land and sea borders. The Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, made this known during a press briefing at the National Press Centre, Abuja on Monday. Kyari disclosed that the listed food items, which include maize, wheat, husked brown …

The Federal Government has provided 600 bags of rice and 200 bags of maize to the Muslim community in the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Alhaji Rabiu Mohammed, the chairman of the FCT chapter of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), confirmed this while handing over the food items to the leadership of the Committee of FCT Imams …

Minister of Science and Technology, Uche Nnaji, has said the new maize variety, ‘Tela maize’, will save the country over $268 million it loses to fall armyworm annually. Nnaji noted Nigeria will save foreign exchange by importing over 400,000 metric tonnes of maize yearly. The minister who spoke in Abuja yesterday during a visit to the demonstration site of Tela maize said, …