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Six fighter jets to arrive in August —Emefiele The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has disclosed that Nigeria will get 12 fighter planes from the United States o... The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has disclosed that Nigeria will get 12 fighter planes from the United States of America to help fight insecurity in Nigeria. He disclosed this while answering questions at the end of a two-day monetary policy committee meeting in Abuja on Tuesday. Emefiele, who lamented how the economy is being crippled by insecurity, stated that the arrival ...

Views: Visits 8 The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, has urged bandits and those living in the bushes to drop their arms and embrace the apex bank’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme. He made this remark when responding to questions at the Monetary Policy Committee Meeting held on Tuesday, May 25, The Cable reports . Now in its fifth year, the ABP is the CBN intervention programme for farmers aimed at boosting food production in the country. According to the CBN, APB which was launched by President Muhammadu Buhari on November 17, 2015, is “intended to create...

By Oluchi Chibuzor Agriculture plays a significant role in both the human and economic resources of a nation; it is seen as the backbone of a nation’s economy as it enables the provision of food and raw materials and generates employment opportunities for a very large proportion of the population. Based on its climatic and agroecological conditions, Nigeria possesses the potential to produce a wide variety of crops. The northern part is fertile for the production of cereals such as sorghum, maize, millet, cotton, cowpea and groundnut. In contrast to the Middle Belt and Southern part of the ...

The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, says claims that interventions in the agricultural sector, favours a particular section of the country are inaccurate. Emefiele spoke in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State while unveiling the 2020 wet season harvest aggregation and flag-off of the 2021 wet season input distribution in the South-West. The CBN chief explained that interventions in the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) were not only about rice production but had expanded to over 21 crops and evenly spread across Nigeria. Emefiele disclosed that more than N300 billion had been d...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 19 May 2021 The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, said on Tuesday that over N300bn had been disbursed to companies operating in southern part of Nigeria as part of its interventions in the agricultural sector. Emefiele said this while faulting claims in certain quarters suggesting that the bank’s targeted interventions in the sector were tilted in favour of a certain section of the country. He said companies and farmers across Lagos, Edo, Ondo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Bayelsa, Rivers, Cross River states were major beneficiaries of the bank...