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The 36 State Governors have reeled out various intervention programmes and policies geared toward tackling lingering food crises and economic hardship

The Nigeria Governors Forum has said that the 36 state governors are implementing diverse strategies and measures aimed at resolving the ongoing economic challenges and food crises within their respective states.

The Senate said the Ways and Means approved by the 9th National Assembly plunged the nation into indebtedness and economic crisis.

The Senate said the Ways and Means approved by the 9th National Assembly plunged the nation into indebtedness and economic crisis.

There was a mild drama on Tuesday as the Senate resolved to revisit the N30 trillion Ways and Means it approved for the Federal Government under former

The Senate decided to suspend the consideration of the motion seeking the probe into the Anchor Borrowers Programme after a slight rowdiness that followed the moving of the motion.

The Federal Government, on Monday, said the 2024 dry season farming would create 5-10 million jobs across the country.

For example, the Anchor Borrowers Programme —parceled to give loan access to Nigerian farmers —was marred by Nigerian corruption, where farmers and non-farmers —in cahoots with some government officials —got these loans only to divert them, used to defray non-agric expenses; facilitating ornate lifestyles; taking new wives and going for all sorts of adventures in the name of religion. All, with no apparent intentions to pay back the loans. Are we not reaping what we sowed?

It is to create an agricultural sector as endowed as Nigeria with massive arable fertile land, water resources and agricultural labour

A judge of the Gombe State High Court, Justice Abdul Hamid, has ordered an accused, Rose Dogara Silas Gyar to pay N20,000 to avoid going to jail for three years after convicting her one-count charge bordering on N3million fraud.