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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 secret, keeping information about it from even highly placed administrative staff of the House and the pr...

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 member of Nigerian State,” adding that the “crisis going on in the country and Bakassi Peninsula c...

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 commodities trading is revealing. The data indicates that in 2020, 9.3 billion commodity derivatives exchanged...

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 signs of significant productivity and income boosts from promoted commercial seeds and agrochemicals in ...