•Tinubu’s Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila The Chief of Staff to the President, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, met behind closed doors with the National Security Adviser, NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and some ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, over food security and protests in some states. The meeting, which began at about 05:30...
•Prof Mojisola Adeyeye National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has lamented the negative response often accompany Nigeria’s food and agricultural products that exported to European Union (EU) and other countries of the world. It said Nigeria loses billions of naira annually in foreign trade that could have benefit...
•Doyin Okupe The leadership of the Labour Party has described the former Director General of its Presidential Campaign Council, Dr. Doyin Okupe, as a political opportunist whose foray into politics revolves around personal benefits. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, said this in a statement, in Abuja, today. He spoke in r...
The entrance to the Lagos State House of Assembly was barricaded by protesters who are members and traders under the aegis of the Orilowo Perishable Food Market Association for ignoring her petition. The protest, led by the Centre for Human and Socio-Economic Rights (CHSR), in collaboration with civil society stakeholders, demanded immediate a...
An enterpreneur, Ms Abimbola Adeyemi has called on the Tinubu-led federal government to declare a state of emergency in agriculture to address the increasing prices of food items. Adeyemi, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Crown Fit Cocktails and More, said it was regrettable that Nigeria despite being blessed with vast arable land and [&h...
•School feeding programme in Osun Parents and residents of Osogbo were thrown into panic as 18 pupils from St. James Primary School B, Owo-Ope, were hospitalised due to food poisoning linked to the government’s free school feeding programme. It was gathered that pupils of the school developed complications after eating rice and egg prepared fo...
According to the Cadre Harmonise, about 26 million Nigerians in Borno, Sokoto and Zamfara states including the FCT are expected to be in a food crisis between June and August 2024. Cadre Harmonise is a report put together by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organisation [&hellip...

