Special Reports/Investigations

A new market survey by PREMIUM TIMES shows prices of staples have risen over 100 per cent in at least...

Dry season farmers in Jigawa depend on fuel-powered water pumps to wet their farmlands. However, the fuel crisis forced many...

Cocoa thrives in the rich forest soil left behind from illegal logging, stripping Côte d’Ivoire’s economy and environment.

Officials have refused to explain why a road widely used by farmers has not been fixed after a lawmaker nominated...

The fall was led by a significant downturn in vegetable oil and cereal, according to details highlighted in the Food...

Nigeria was once the world's largest palm oil producer but today, it produces too little it imports.

As communities get greedy, the government fails to enforce regulations to ensure those they licensed and illegal miners do not...

Crop farmers in Ga'ate community of Nasarawa state are dishing out key responses and strategies that are helping to prevent...

Stopping mercury and cyanide use is vital, but so is preserving the country’s soil, rivers and trees.

Land-linked countries are responsible for maritime safety and development along Africa’s many rivers and lakes.

"This life is not fair that it is poor people like me who are being kidnapped," a farmer says.

Is the expanding presence of Russia’s private military company a legitimate cause for African concern?

Some of the victims are still counting their losses but news of clashes between farmers and cattle herders are becoming...

Over 100 residents of Tse-Poor, an agrarian rural community in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, are still licking their wounds,...

To prevent infections on newly propagated plants, one farmer rubs fluids from aloe vera plants on the exposed surface of...

Recurring attacks have displaced about a fourth of farmers in the North-central state since 2018, the farmers' body said, leading...

"I started raising capital in my university days as a student. I was working and saving but I never knew...

"When you take away farming from a village man, what else do you leave him with? All we know is...

Emmanuel Ade, an agriculture expert, advised both government and rich individuals to buy and store foodstuff, now that farmers had...

Many Nigerian communities still operate the traditional and family inheritance system of land ownership that gives preference to male children.

Farming, the commonest means of livelihood in these impacted areas, remains a difficult, nearly impossible enterprise due to the sustained...

Namoi Yusuf of Nasarawa State says the government needs to act fast to save small-scale farmers from hunger amid growing...

Bolanle Titilola says she lost about N15 million and could not recover it.

While farmers are jubilant over the irrigation project, cattle herders say it has blocked their cattles routes.