Could it be Africa’s decade?
From economists to development agencies to investors, the team of Afro-optimists is increasing. High…
Politics: Mindset and Nigerian reality (2)
Given the indications of some understanding, based on media reports early in January, between ACN and ANPP…
Lagos targets 10,000 jobs in agro value-chain business
Lagos State has set a target to create 10,000 jobs in the agro-business value chain, as it inaugurated two new…
World Bank, Cross River disburse N157m grants to 9…
The World Bank and the Cross River State government, through the Commercial Agriculture Development Project…
How Africa can feed the world – Adesina(2)
Weather insurance as an asset in Nigeria
If you take a look at the small holder farmers, they put everything…
LBS, GAIN hold gender-based workshop on food processing
Lagos Business School (LBS), in partnership with Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), will organise a…
City dwellers take to fish farming using mobile ponds
The use of mobile collapsible fish ponds is giving professionals, lay people, students, housewives living in…
Researchers discover drought tolerant maize genotypes
Researchers have identified maize parental lines and hybrids with high levels of drought tolerance among the…
SHI to build four $892m LNG carriers for Bonny Gas…
Samsung Heavy Industries, a South Korea ship building company, has entered into a shipbuilding contract with…
41% of Nigeria’s N2.3bn imports in 2012 originate from…
Out of a total of N5,624.9 billion worth of goods imported into the country in 2012, Asian countries accounted…
‘Our goal is to build local capacity, create employment…
Target objectives for NIMASA
Our goals are precisely drawn from our mandate anchored on the four-point…
How Nigeria fared in Q1 2013 (2)
SEC and the National Assembly
One has watched with keen interest and concern developments in the…