Food Security
Food security critical to national food nutrition, economic growth, poverty alleviation – FG
The Federal Government has underscored the crucial role of food security in ensuring Nigerians have access to nutritious foods, driving economic growth, reducing...
Food Security: Presidency inaugurates food coordination unit to harness resources, ideas.
The Presidency has inaugurated the Presidential Food Systems Coordination Unit (PFSCU) to tackle the country’s soaring commodity prices and general food insecurity. On...
Breaking: Relief as FG suspends tariffs, taxes on rice, other food items
The Federal Government has announced the suspension of duties, tariffs, and taxes for the importation of some food items through land and sea...
Food Security: FG secures €995 million deal to create agric mechanization hubs in 774 LGAs
The Federal Government has secured a deal worth €995 million with the Brazilian Government and the German Deutsch Bank Group to finance a...
Food security: The Bago challenge, By Dakuku Peterside
Against the run of play, Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger State ruffled feathers with his speech at the 2023 annual Leadership Newspaper...
Food security: Farmers to receive 15,000 irrigable hectares of land
In a bid to tackle rising food prices, the Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation has disclosed that 15,000 hectares of irrigable land...
Food insecurity: FG mobilises $500m to tackle hunger — Shettima
The Federal Government has mobilized half a billion dollars for innovative, profitable, equitable, and sustainable food systems transformation initiatives in Nigeria. This was...
Over 25m “hungry Nigerians” to get reprieve as Ukraine builds grain terminal in Lekki, Lagos
Less than 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu declared state of emergency on the nation’s food sector, Ukrainian Ministry of Agrarian Policy and...
Nigeria engages stakeholders on national pathways for food systems transformation
As part of the initiative to develop national pathways for food systems transformation, Nigerian Government has engaged with numerous stakeholders over the...
Food Inflation: Is Nigeria heading for hunger, food crisis?
Recently, walking around the local markets or grocery stores in the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) and other parts of the country,...
