LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Rice buyers should expect a crash in the commodity’s price to about N9,000 per 50kg bag in three weeks’ time as rice farmers record a bumper harvest. Farmers and millers of rice say they will soon flood the markets with the commodity and drastically cut the price following a bumper harvest. This…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Government has rejected the planned Reserved Urban Grazing Area (RUGA) initiative by the federal government aimed at settling herders in parts of the country. On the other hand, Nasarawa state government has giving full support to the scheme. While rejecting the Ruga initiative, Edo state said it has ”an…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government says it has started establishing settlements for herdsmen across the nation. Mohammadu Umar, permanent secretary in the ministry of agriculture and rural development, made this known in an interview with NAN in Abuja on Tuesday. He said the farm settlements when fully established would address the incessant clashes between…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWRANGERS)-Boko Haram has killed 44 soldiers and nine farmers in three days of attacks on some villages in Borno State, AFP has reported. According to the report, which quoted security sources, the Islamic State West Africa Province, a Boko Haram splinter group, killed at least 44 soldiers in attacks on three military…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Home Grown School Feeding Programme, one of the packages under the Federal Government’s Social Intervention Programme (SIP) has created wealth for over 250,000 farmers, cooks and others involved in the scheme. According to statistics made available during a joint press briefing on the progress of the Scheme, a total of N651million…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president on Thursday denied that government proposals to share out land to end a wave of violence over grazing rights amounted to “colonization” of fertile areas by his own ethnic group. Clashes between semi-nomadic herders, mostly of the Fulani ethnic group, and settled farmers in central states have killed around 100…