Nigeria’s Central Bank, over a decade ago, launched the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) with grand aspirations: to uplift smallholder farmers, boost agricultural output, and reduce reliance on food imports. Designed to link farmers with large-scale processors through access to finance and resources, the ABP promised to transform the nation’...
•Pat Utomi and Tinubu Political economist Prof Pat Utomi has criticised the federal government’s economic priorities, saying most national resources are being directed to non-productive sectors, especially the political class, instead of boosting production. Speaking on Channels Television last night, Utomi said the federal government’s focus ...
•Peter Obi The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has criticised former Anambra State governor and Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, over his comments on the federal government’s national honours policy. Obi had questioned the practice of awarding national honours to politicians, argu...
•Peter Obi The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has criticised the federal government’s practice of conferring national honours on politicians. Obi, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at the public presentation of The Chronicles of a Legend, a biography of business mogul and philanthropist, Gabriel Igbined...
•Corps Marshal Shehu Mohammed The federal government has approved the promotion of a total of 51 Corps Commanders (CC) and 49 Deputy Corps Commanders (DCC) in a landmark promotion exercise. This is contained in a statement by the Corps Public Education Officer (CPEO), Assistant Corps Marshal (ACM) Olusegun Ogungbemide, yesterday in Abuja. Ogun...
•Federal Executive Council meeting In a bid to curtail incessant industrial actions by trade unions, the federal government has approved the National Industrial Relations Policy, NIRP, 2025, to check strikes. This came as the government said that the contentious circular that precipitated the recent strike by health workers has been withdrawn,...
•Nnimmo Bassey An environmental activist, Dr. Nnimmo Bassey, has said that the federal government must urgently begin an audit of the rest of the Niger Delta environment and equally commence the clean up, which would require up to $150 billion a year until the mess is cleared in the region. Bassey, who spoke with our […]
•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The federal government yesterday announced a 50 per cent increase in scholarship grants to Nigerian students across all tertiary levels. It said the “landmark reform of Nigeria’s national scholarship programme —its most ambitious overhaul in more than a decade,” was aimed at easing the financial burden on s...
•A Fulani herdsman The federal government has revealed plans to establish cattle breeding centres across Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, as part of efforts to modernise livestock production and improve food security. In a post shared by the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on his official X (formerly Twitter)...
•Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has called for calm over the protests by some Ghanaians alleging that Nigerians are behind the crimes in the country. In a statement yesterday, NiDCOM Chairman/CEO, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, faulted what she described as ...
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