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1 week ago | 
allafrica.com | Gabriel Ewepu
·Prayer sessions orderedFederal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, yesterday, clarified that the internal circular of the Human Resource Management Department on prayer sessions was to address recent untimely and successive death of management staff of the Ministry.
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2 weeks ago | 
allafrica.com | Gabriel Ewepu
Abuja — ...our major roads abandoned, schemed out of railway projectsNORTHERN elders under the auspices of Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Wednesday, declared and told the Tinubu-led administration that it is unacceptable to exclude Northern Nigeria from infrastructural development.
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3 weeks ago | 
allafrica.com | Gabriel Ewepu
Abuja — ...EU pledges full support to unlock dairy industry's potentialAs Nigeria marked the 2025 World Milk Day, the Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Maiha, revealed that the country spends over $1.5 billion annually on dairy imports due to a significant gap between local production and demand.
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2 months ago | 
nigeriaworld.com | Yinka Kolawole |Gabriel Ewepu
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As CSOs demand urgent actions
• All the signs of poverty, economic failures are present — CISLAC
• How Nigeria can avoid the poverty crises — NACCIMA
• Govt should address key drivers of poverty — Muda Yusuf
The World Bank’s verdict on Nigeria’s poverty level has attracted widespread outcry, with some interest groups demanding urgent action to avoid a poverty-induced economic meltdown.
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2 months ago | 
allafrica.com | Gabriel Ewepu
As the death toll from the Lassa Fever outbreak continues to increase across the country, Sandra Victor-Gwafan, co-founder, CEO of DeBranch Farmers and public health expert, urged farmers and store owners to avoid drying grains on the ground and regularly clean the grain stores to get rid of rats.
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2 months ago | 
allafrica.com | Gabriel Ewepu
Abuja — THE Federal Government, yesterday, commended Japan for a 12 billion Japanese Yen loan to boost food production through the National Agricultural Growth Scheme and Agro-Pocket, NAGS-AP. In a statement by Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Senator Abubakar Kyari, lauded Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA, for the intervention.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Gabriel Ewepu
By Gabriel EwepuAs hunger persists due to Nigeria’s lingering economic hardship, Vice President Kashim Shettima urged the private sector to upscale investments in the country’s food system on Friday.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Peter Duru |Gabriel Ewepu
By Peter Duru & Gabriel EwepuMakurdi— Abductors of the female students of Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi, JoSTUM, have demanded N40 million ransom to have them released. A friend of one of the victims, who spoke on condition of anonymity, disclosed, yesterday, that “the kidnappers have started contacting the families of the girls for money.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
newsheadlines.com.ng | Nkiruka Nnorom |Gabriel Ewepu |Emmanuel Elebeke
•Say it will stoke inflation, hurt economy•Advocate entrepreneurship devpt., investment in vocational skillsBy Nkiruka Nnorom; Gabriel Ewepu & Emmanuel ElebekeOn the backdrop of the inflationary pressure ravaging the economy, experts in the financial sector have said that the plan by the federal government to disburse cash palliatives to vulnerable families across the country is ill-informed and capable of stoking further inflation.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
allafrica.com | Gabriel Ewepu
A FORMER Deputy Governor of Imo State, Prof Placid Njoku, who doubles as a member of the Presidential Committee on Livestock Reforms, PCLR, has tasked the new Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Mukhtar, to take pragmatic actions and make policies to galvanize the sector.
