•Adeola Adegoke The Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria has expressed concerns over the lack of funding for the cocoa industry. In an open letter signed and released by the Director General, Cocoa Roundtable Initiative and National President, Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria, Adeola Adegoke today, the farmers appealed to President Bola Ti...
•Tinubu and terrorists Just hours after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Governor Babagana Zulum assured Nigerians of improved security during speeches marking the nation’s 64th Independence Day, suspected Boko Haram militants kidnapped around 15 farmers in Ngoshe, a community in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State. Due to poor communica...
•Bandits Residents of Kuchi, an agrarian community in Munya Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, continue to suffer as 148 farmers remain in captivity fifty-three days after a devastating bandit raid on May 24, 2024. The bandits, numbering over 100, abducted the farmers, including pregnant women and children, and have since demanded ran...
•Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa Cocoa farmers in the Oluwa Forest Reserve in eight settlements, in the Odigbo council area of Ondo State, have protested against the sales of 2,000 hectares of their farmland to a private company by the Ondo State Government. The over 10,000 farmers and tenants of the state government in the Government Fores [&hellip...
•Farm workers The federal government has approved a new withholding tax regime, which exempts farmers and small businesses. This is as it introduced key changes to the previous tax regime such as reduction of rates for businesses with low margins and measures to curb evasion. In a post via X today, Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of […]
Angry youths of Angwan Rukuba in the Nabor Gwong community popularly known as Eto Baba of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State went berserk today, destroying and burning the properties of a farmer resident in the area for the alleged killing of his employee. An eyewitness in the community told our correspondent that […]
•Bandits No fewer than 165 farmers have lost their lives to attacks by bandits, who have hindered access to farms across the country, findings have shown. Farmers in Benue, Sokoto, Niger, Plateau, and other states, in separate interviews with our correspondents yesterday, lamented that they did not only lose crops to the rampaging bandits but ...
Many Nigerians are still feeling the negative impact of fuel subsidy removal despite assurances by the federal government that the decision was made for the good of the country. Dry season farmers who use fuel-powered water pumps to irrigate their farmlands are among poor Nigerians who bear the brunt of the fuel subsidy removal, reports [&hell...
•Sokoto Governor Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto State governor, Ahmad Aliyu, has decried the spate of insecurity, stating that it was unbecoming for farmers to seek permission before accessing their farms. Aliyu stated this yesterday in Abuja, when he paid a courtesy call on the Ministers of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari and Abdullahi Sabi...
No fewer than 13 farmers have been killed while several others are missing as suspected Boko Haram insurgents reportedly attacked rice farmers on their farms in Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State yesterday evening. It was gathered that the insurgents stormed rice fields and rounded up the farmers who were harvesting their farm produce [...
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