Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief Audu Ogbeh, says that agriculture sector created six million jobs in the last two years. Chief Ogbeh said this while analysing the achievements of his ministry and the 2018 targets of the administration at a strategy retreat in Abuja, Nigeria's capital.
He made the point while reacting to reports that over four million jobs had been lost in over two years of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government. The minister explained that the six million jobs were created both on and off farms because of the huge increase in local rice production. According to Chief Ogbeh, Nigeria’s agriculture is heavily manual and to be able to reduce rice importation by 95 per cent, at least six million extra jobs have happened in the farm.
A National Symposium on Resolving the Risk in the Agricultural Value Chain is underway in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal Capital. The national symposium is on focusing attention to fix the bottlenecks in the nation’s agricultural value chain.
Sierra Leone’s 709 carat “Peace Diamond”, the 14th largest diamond in the world is set to go on the auction block on December 4 in New York City.
The announcement of the auction made by Martin Rapaport, Chairman of the Rapaport Group at a press conference Tuesday in New York City ends widespread speculations by Sierra Leoneans that the diamond was secretly sold by the government of Sierra Leone.
If Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product, GDP must grow, Nigeria must address the problem of nutrition in the country. This is the submission of the Country Manager of a Non-Governmental Organisation, HarvestPlus, Dr. Paul Ilona at a news briefing to herald the third edition of Nutritious Food Fair, NFF, in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
Africa's largest airline group, Ethiopian Airlines, has announced plans to bring its newest plane tagged the Big Brother to Abuja today. The B787-9 is part of its commitment to deliver exceptional level of service to the African market by operating the latest technologically advanced aircraft in the aviation market.
Passengers have enjoyed the unique on-board features of this latest technology aircraft such as on-board comfort, thanks to their unique features such as the biggest windows in the sky, high ceiling, less noise, distinctive lighting, and higher air humidity.
