Farmers and other actors in the agricultural sector at the Botanga Irrigation Scheme in the Kumbungu District of the Northern Region have been introduced to some improved rice varieties as part of ...

TUNDE OYEKOLA examines the unprecedented dry season flooding in three Kwara LGAs, where over 5,000 rice farmers lost more than 3,000 hectares of farmland worth N11.5bnAs Nigeria grapples with the ...

Nigeria’s rice production has hit the lowest level in four years as high production costs force farmers to reduce their ...

Oyebamiji Yusuf Opeyemi In the battle against climate change and its devastating impact on agriculture, researchers have ...

Ofada rice, cultivated in southwest Nigeria, is an unpolished ... WAB (West Africa Breeding) rice varieties are high-yielding and adapted to resist local pests and diseases.

On January 18, 2022, the CBN and the Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria (RIFAN) made headlines with the unveiling of rice pyramids in Abuja ...

In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with a report of how the cost of a 50kg bag of rice jumped from N2,500 in 2000 to over N100,000 24 years later.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved an up to 50 per cent increase in mobile phone tariffs. This is, however, far short of the 100 per cent hike telecommunications operators ...

UN Seeks $910 Million for Humanitarian Crisis in Nigeria's Northeast By Ope Adetayo ABUJA (Reuters) - The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis ...

Meet 'Madam Rice' wey be local rice miller for Nigeria. Her tori and journey of being a local rice miller dey ginger her and don make her popular for social media. She tok to BBC Pidgin about her ...

A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, who visited the markets on ... N100,000, respectively. Rice indicated a similar decrease in prices, as a 100kg bag was selling between N163,000 ...

A Nigerian man has said being married is a sweet status as it is highly enjoyable especially when one has a good partner The man made the statement after his wife served him food, and he was eating ...