Category: Agriculture

The Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR), Zaria has developed a new cowpea variety that generate about N48 billion into country’s economy annually.

From Tuesday, 7 May 2019 containers and oil tankers would start moving goods from Apapa port in Lagos through the newly acquired railway wagons to Kaduna

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says investor-interest is on the rise in Nigeria based on the tracking of investment announcements which indicates a 37% increase from 2017 to 2018.

Nigeria has privitised its Bank of Agriculture (BoA) and wants farmers to prepare for the purchase of 40 per cent shares of the new financial institution.

Singapore-based Olam International on Tuesday said it will buy Nigeria’s Dangote Flour Mills for an enterprise value of 130 billion naira ($424.9 million).

The Federal Government yesterday kicked off a process to privatise the equity of Bank of Agriculture (BoA) with government agencies owning 40 per cent of the equity share of the bank and the private sector

The Director of Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research Lagos, Dr. Adekunle Oresegun, has disclosed that Nigeria spends about $1 billion annually on the importation of fish.

The Fourth Quarter 2018 GDP results released by the NBS show that the Muhammadu Buhari administration has put the Nigerian economy on firm, solid footing

The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says, it will test run the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge line early February with tracks in Abeokuta, Itori, Papalanto, Kajola, Ijoko

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will on Thursday launch a Nigeria-Brazil agriculture initiative at the Old Banquet, State House, in Abuja.