Ghana: Farmlands impacted as lack of rain stretches in Oti Region
Farmers in the Oti Region of Ghana are facing devastating losses due to an unrelenting dry spell that has left...
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Nigeria Govt withdraws plan to sell discounted rice to civil servants
The Federal Government of Nigeria has put on hold its plan to offer subsidized 50kg bags of rice to civil...
Inflation: Nigeria’s high food prices worsened in June, says NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics says that the prices of beans, tomatoes, Irish potatoes, garri, yam, and other food items...
Agricultural Boom: Niger State cultivates maize, rice, more on 250,000 hectares
Niger State, through its initiative Niger Foods, is making significant strides in agriculture by cultivating maize, rice, millet, soybeans, sorghum,...
How 12-year-old boy was kidnapped, used as ‘collateral’ for two bags of rice in Lagos
12-year old Junior Secondary School (JSS-2) student, (name withheld), who was allegedly used to buy two bags of rice by...
Ramadan: Yari to distribute 358 trucks of grains to cushion economic hardship in Zamfara
Sen. Abdulaziz Yari (Zamfara West) is set to distribute 358 trucks of assorted foodstuff to cushion the current economic hardship...
Rice, cement, palm oil top list as Nigeria’s apex bank lifts forex restriction on 43 items
Rice, cement, palm oil and other key items come to the fore as the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, lifted...
Yuletide: Tinubu’s wife donates over 2000 bags of rice to northern Christians
Oluremi, the wife of Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has donated food items to...
