Livestock

The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has not approved any drug or vaccine for the treatment of COVID-19.

NAFDAC: Abuse of antibiotics can lead to death

November 28, 2021

Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, the Minister of Environment, at World Press Conference in Abuja, said the measures were to avert further outbreak and spread of the epidemic in many states of the federation.

Food security: Minister seeks priority for sorghum

November 26, 2021

Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, the Acting Director, Directorate of Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Brigadier-General Bernard Onyeuko, said troops battled insurgents in over 18 locations in Borno State.

DHQ: 996 Boko Haram terrorists surrender as troops kill 258 in North-East, North-West in two weeks

November 25, 2021

Nigerian government launches national egg production scheme in Kogi

November 23, 2021

Ogun farmers to benefit from $500 million World Bank lifeline

November 21, 2021

ICRC: 15, 000 livestock to be vaccinated in Nasarawa

November 19, 2021

A Somali boy gives water to his goats.

UN: Somalia faces ‘rapidly worsening’ drought

November 19, 2021

Gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs Rukayyat Odedoyin.

Bandits attack Zamfara community, kill nine, rustle livestock

November 13, 2021

Gunmen in the early hours of Friday stormed Birshin Fulani, a suburb of Bauchi metropolis, and kidnapped a nursing mother of three children, Mrs Rukayyat Odedoyin.

Bandits kill village head, nine others in Zamfara

November 12, 2021

A parched expanse of land is pictured in an area of Timbuktu, northern Mali, May 29, 2021. Picture taken May 29, 2021. Birom Seck-ICRC-Handout via REUTERS

Malian villagers battle advancing sands after lake dries

November 4, 2021

Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, the Acting Director, Directorate of Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Brigadier-General Bernard Onyeuko, said troops battled insurgents in over 18 locations in Borno State.

DHQ: 70 bandits eliminated in two weeks

October 28, 2021

The State Commissioner for Agriculture, Ms Abisola Olusanya, said this on Sunday in Lagos.

Lagos acquires 750 hectares farmland for feedlots

October 23, 2021

South Sudanese refugees try to repair their hut in flood waters at a refugee camp which was inundated after heavy rain near in al-Qanaa in southern Sudan. [Ashraf Shazly-AFP]

U.N. blames worst South Sudan floods since 1962 on climate change

October 19, 2021

The Minister of Environment, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, has said the reason 47 million Nigerians still practice open defecation is because access to sanitary facilities have remained a mirage to a vast majority of its citizenry.

Minister: Agriculture to contribute 50% to GDP in the next 10 years

October 14, 2021

Speaking at a media briefing in Abuja, the Acting Director, Directorate of Defence Media Operations (DDMO), Brigadier-General Bernard Onyeuko, said troops battled insurgents in over 18 locations in Borno State.

DHQ: Over 13,000 terrorists, families surrender to Nigerian troops

October 14, 2021