Tag: Anchor Borrowers Programme

The report noted that significant discrepancies and gaps were observed in the management of the ABP programme across Nigeria

"The Committee of Governors ought to be the signatory to the ways and means account, but in the document we ...

The allegation of budget padding made by Bauchi Central senator, Abdul Ningi, led to a chain of events at the ...

The Senate decided to suspend the consideration of the motion seeking the probe into the Anchor Borrowers Programme after a ...

The CBN says only N503 billion or 52.39 of loans it disbursed under the Anchor Borrowers' Programme (ABP) had been ...

Mr Tinubu says under his administration, food shall be made more abundant yet less costly.

The ABP supported about 4.57 million smallholder farmers who cultivated over 6.02 million hectares of 21 commodities, the CBN said.

“We completed the Lagos-Ibadan expressway as well as the second Niger bridge, which was a mirage for more than three ...

Alongside insecurity, environmental degradation is forcibly displacing farmers, causing scarcity and consequent unprecedented food inflation.

The president launched 13 pyramids of rice paddy.

According to the CBN, the programme will benefit over 150,000 farmers and would be implemented in 15 states of the ...

Yinka Adesola is a large-scale vegetable farmer in Oyo State.

Mr Buhari said his administration has done well in the last one year.

Prior to the discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities in the 1970s, Nigeria, now the sixth, was the world’s ...

House of Representatives' Committee on Agriculture says unpaid loans crippling Anchor Borrowers Programme.

CBN says its intervention in agriculture and manufacturing is targeted at improving local production of rice, fish, sugar and wheat.

Rice is the most popular food staple in Nigeria with local demand in excess of seven million tonnes.

There are two newcomers on this year’s list.

The investigation shows that literacy, economic empowerment among the local population in the north would help deliver greater impacts in ...

The CBN governor was conferred with honorary degree by UNN on Friday.

The group said many rice farmers abandoned their crops during the 2018 season due to incessant kidnapping and attacks by ...

The two groups say Mr Buhari has changed the fortunes of the agriculture sector.

PREMIUM TIMES responds to the main grievances listed by RIFAN against report.

The loan is part of the CBN programme.

A professor noted that virtually every state in Nigeria can produce rice.