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  By Tawfiq Muhammad Abba In her tattered garments, the old woman shrieks out of excruciating  pains alone. Without even an iota of mercy, her progenies are malevolent to her in all aspects as there is neither honesty, nor good followership or rather citizenship in a substantial number of them. Some of them have become vicious bandits, terrorists, kidnappers,  some are suffering from the deleterious sickness of kleptocracy; looting from her treasury solely to attain their insatiable desire for materialism and of affluence. These beastly pernicious whims and delights are bred into the dear hearts of her younger children as they too set their minds with the view to following the aberrant footsteps of their elders having no sincere affection and compassion for the senile mother by indulgence in the follies of the elders! Albeit the kind-hearted ones amidst the children come to salvage her, kissing her forehead with intensive love, the vicious ones and their vi...

By T.H Mayo COVID-19 pandemic came with a lot of challenges the world over, and it is believed that Africa will bear the consequences, among the challenges anticipated is economic and food production. It is against this background that the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN)   partners the Federal Ministry of water resources to enhance rice farming towards making Nigeria sufficient enough in food production, processing and export to the rest of the world.                                                                       Sadiq Daware                                                          National Treasurer RIFAN

Habu DanWaire The world is now worried on coronavirus pandemic, everywhere COVID-19 has dominated airwaves number of infected person or death is what is making headlines in the media   The world is full of activities, even though there are lockdowns and shutdowns to curtail the spread of the virus the world over. As of the time of filling in this report, there are over 853,200 cases with over 41,887 deaths in more than 150 countries of the world. That will affect the global economy. Nigeria is one country that is diversifying its economy, with much emphasis on agriculture. With a lot of commitments and policies the country has promoted agricultural activities and hails its achievements. Of recent World Bank has released a report on global agricultural performances, Nigeria was ranked 7th in Africa, that too many the country has a lot of catch up to make. The report tagged Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) ranked Nigeria seventh behind Ghana and South Afri...

By Habu DanWaire   Many countries have shut down a lot of business enterprises for the fear of coronavirus By implication productions have stopped, buying and selling suspended, human movement restricted.World superpowers have already taken measures to provide their citizens with the necessary needs to caution the effects of the pandemic The Nigeria centre for disease control has been up and doing to update the citizenry on the pandemic so also the minister of health.   Thousands of lives lost and still counting, Africa has its share especially Nigeria, the virus is on the ground and the control. with a population of nearly 200 million, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country. Nigeria depends largely on oil for its revenue, shutting down economic activities by the superpowers is signalling danders to the country for the following reasons.   That export of products to other countries will be suspended, so also imports. the question is how is the c...

By Habu DanWaire (pics from google) Of recent the world celebrated international women’s day. The day was celebrated with the theme ‘ I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights.   On the days like these challenges and prospects are discussed to champion the cause of women. The year 2020 celebration is 25 th in the series highlighted a lot of challenges facing women socially, economically and politically. One area that stakeholders agreed that will make a difference in improving the lives of women, is Agriculture. In the field of agriculture, women constitute 60 to 80 per cent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries but don’t enjoy the fruit of their labour. According to the federal ministry of agriculture and rural development, women account for 75 per cent of the farming population in Nigeria, but formal and traditional rules hindered their possibilities to benefit more on the sector. (graphics from SOFA Team and Cheryl Doss) Women in...

By T.H Mayo (Pics from Google) In November 2017 president Buhari announced that illegal importation of food is considered a threat to national security. By this pronouncement, all land borders were closed and local production of rice was encouraging through loans to farmers and the provision of farming inputs and dry season farmers were given the necessary attention. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Nigeria is Africa's leading rice consumer and one of its largest rice producers.   It describes rice as an essential cash crop for Nigeria, with small scale farmers accounting for 80% of production but just 20% of consumption. In one report produced by Bloomberg on Nigeria’s rice consumption and production says domestic demand for rice rose by 4% to hit 6.7 m tonnes during the 2017/2018 season. After many reports show that Nigeria imported 2.6 m tonnes of rice in 2017 along, the government of the country decided to curb rice importation and de...