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Which governor in northern Nigeria is going to come up with an audacious neem production plant that will create 50,000 jobs?
Ayo Akinfe (1) Popularly known as dogonyaro, neem is widely grown across northern Nigeria where it is put to several uses. It is time to tap into this potential goldmine (2) Nigeria is the world’s second largest neem producer behind India...
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Buhari rules out amnesty for bandits and insurgents saying that must pay for their crimes
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has broken his silence on the ongoing epidemic of kidnappings and banditry across the country revealing that his government will not offer any amnesty to bandits and insurgents terrorising the nation. In what...
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Nasarawa State to open first grazing reserve under NLTP plan after receiving Dutch funding
FEDERAL government officials have begun negotiations with Nasarawa State with a view to opening Nigeria's first mega grazing reserve under the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) having received €400,000 for the project from the...
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Rochas suffers setback as Owerri high court orders interim forfeiture of his properties
FORMER Imo State governor Senator Rochas Okorocha suffered a major setback in his ongoing battle with the incumbent administration after an Owerri high court ordered the temporary confiscation of several of his properties. In what has...
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Nigeria's insecurity situation gets worse as 300 schoolgirls are abducted in Zamfara State
NIGERIA'S growing insecurity crisis got significantly worse yesterday after 300 female students of Government Secondary School Jangebe in Zamfara State were abducted by armed bandits. In what is now becoming a vogue, armed hoodlums,...
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Our National Assembly needs to pass a Nigerian Security Bill 2021 to end this spiralling cycle of violence
Ayo Akinfe (1) Disarmament centres will be established in every one of Nigeria’s 774 local government areas where illegal weapons will be handed in without any prosecution (2) As from April 1 2021, it...
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Federal government plans to open 30 grazing reserves under National Livestock Transformation Plan
FEDERAL government officials have drawn up plans to create 30 grazing reserves across the country under the National Livestock Transformation Plan (NLTP) in attempt to address the ongoing Fulani herdsmen crisis currently afflicting the...
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Sheikh Gumi says bandits are no different from Niger Delta militants so should be called criminals
ISLAMIC cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi who has recently been involved in negotiations with armed bandits across northwest Nigeria has warned journalists to stop referring to them as criminals saying they are not different from the Niger Delta...
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