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(FILES) In this file photo taken on October 20, 2019 a public transport bus drives in a flooded Agege Motor Road, in the local Government Area of Mushin town, Lagos. – Severe climate impacts will unavoidably ravage nature and humankind by mid-century or sooner, according to the draft of a landmark report from the UN’s climate science advisory body obtained by AFP.Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, crippling health impacts from disease and heat, water shortages, migration from cities de...

Uchenna Rowland Onyeizu The National Project Coordinator of the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise in the Niger Delta region (LIFE-ND), Sani Abiodun, has said that agricultural production will hardly succeed in Nigeria without the collaboration and support of Agricultural Development Programmes (ADP). He spoke at Umuahia, Abia State capital, during the flag off of the state LIFE-ND policy engagement with Abia Agricultural Development Programmes (ADP) and other stakeholders on extension s...

The Federal Government, in collaboration with the Edo State Government and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has commenced training of 4,250 youths and women

Share Following The hullabaloo that followed the 100 billion naira bond approved by the Adamawa State House of Assembly this week, the Secretary to the government of Adamawa SSG, Mr. Bashair Ahamed has cleared the air on the need for the bond. The SSG said the bond is part of measures being put in place to improve Internally Generated Revenue (IGR). He stated that the Bond will be utilized through Agribusiness. Stressing that ” a bond is a fixed income instrument that provides funds for proje...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Journalists in Imo State have demanded for the immediate release of five newspaper vendors arrested by the police on Monday morning. The vendors whose names are yet to be disclosed were taken away by the state police for allegedly selling newspapers with IPOB stories. Reactions, however, have trailed the said arrest as men of the media had appealed to the state police and Imo government to release them because, according to them, it is a direct way of gagging the pr...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The Adamawa State House of Assembly on Monday approved a request by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri to take a N100 billion loan. The sheer size of the loan request immediately triggered heightened interest in the opposition circle, with a member of All Progressives Congress (APC) leading a verbal protest against it right on the floor of the House. The House itself had underlined the potential of the request to raise public uproar when it made the planned sitting a top secre...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Biafra Nations League, BNL, has told President Mohammadu Buhari to hoist Biafra flag in Aso Rock come May 30 Biafra memorial day. The group wants Buhari to recognize Biafra as a separate Republic and by so doing hoist the flag at the Presidential Villa. National Leader of BNL, Princewill Chimezie Richard gave the advice in a statement he made available to DAILY POST on Monday. The group said that “Biafra would be a great ally of Nigeria economically as a former me...

Vanguard News Commodities and Futures Trading as survival Option On By Sola Oni There is no argument that Covid-19 pandemic has altered ways of doing things at domestic and official level. Companies globally, have been exposed to higher risks and investors are more likely to hedge risk than in a normal period. This probably explains why investment in commodities trading  becomes more expedient.  Data from the portal of World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) on the growing clamour for commoditie...

The flaws and dire consequences of India’s Green Revolution should have warned policymakers of the likely disappointing results of GR in Africa.

Another false start sold with green revolution myths Reuters SINCE the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was launched in 2006, yields have barely risen, while rural poverty remains endemic, and would have increased more if not for out-migration. AGRA was started, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, to double yields and incomes for 30 million smallholder farm households while halving food insecurity by 2020. There are no sign...