The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh has commended CHI Farms and Zoetis for the establishment of City Laboratory, an ultra-modern veterinary diagnostic centre, commissioned on Wednesday, in Ibadan, Oyo state. Ogbeh, who was represented at the commissioning ceremony by ministry’s Director and Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr. Olaniran Alabi, noted that the […]
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, has commended the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Bankers’ Committee on the latest directive to banks to provide loans at single digit interest rate to the agricultural and manufacturing sectors of the economy. The Special Adviser on Media to the Minister, Dr. Kayode […]
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday restated its determination to transform the nation’s agricultural sector to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and by so doing, reduce poverty and hunger, attain food security and improve nutrition in the country. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, gave this hint at the […]
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, receiving the symbolic honey touch from the Chairman of APIEXPO Africa 2018, Dr. (Mrs.) Dooshima Kwange, at the flag off ceremony for the National Sensitization of APIEXPO Africa 2018, held in Abuja on Thursday.
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Monday unveiled new measures targeted at curbing unbridled smuggling of prohibited foreign products, particularly rice, into the country as part of its sustained efforts to boost revenue and enable local manufacturing and processing companies optimise their operations. The measures include the deployment of drones, through collaboration with the Nigerian […]
The Federal Government on Monday said it was considering some measures, including temporary closure of a neighbouring country’s borders, to curb unbridled rice smuggling into Nigeria. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Chief Audu Ogbeh, disclosed this in Abuja while speaking with youths in a leadership clinic under the auspices of Guardians of the Nation […]
The Federal Government on Thursday unveiled plans to cede 30 percent of Bank of Agriculture’s (BOA’s) shares to farmers when the ongoing restructuring of the bank as recommended by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) is finalized. Under the proposed arrangement, the bank will have at least a branch in all the 774 local government […]