Agriculture

Southwest inter-state trade on course to boost food security – Abiodun

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By Abimbola Wuraola Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun says Southern states have decided to promote inter-state and inter-region trade to foster food security and sufficiency. The governor also disclosed Ogun State has decided to establish Farmers’ Markets across the state to ensure Continue Reading

Agriculture

Harvest Rainwater for Dry Season Farming, Don Enjoins S/West Govs

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By Lanre Omotoso Governors of the Southwest states have been enjoined to create more dams to harvest rainwater that will be useful for irrigation farming during dry season. A lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Professor  Raphael Omolehin gave the advice on the need to safeguard rainwater that […]Continue Reading

Energy

Fuel: Long Queues Resurface in Southwest

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Politics

“South should produce next president” – Cleric

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The Chief Imam of Ogbomoso, Imam Toliah Ayilara has thrown his weight behind the call for zoning presidency to the southern part of the country ahead of the 2023 general election. The cleric stated this in an interaction with Radio Nigeria. The cleric who noted that power had remained in a region for too long […]Continue Reading

Economy

FG Empowers PWDs in South-West

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In a bid to address economic challenges among persons with disabilities, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has organized a 3-day capacity building and empowerment workshop on income-generating activities. The workshop, held in Ibadan for the Southwest zone, was designed to train persons with disabilities on various Continue Reading

News

‘We Still Collect 300 Naira As Monthly Pension’- Nigeria Union Of Pensioners, SouthWest Zone

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Nigeria Union of Pensioners, South West, says some of their members are still being paid three hundred nairas as monthly pensions.  The Pensioners made this known at the meeting of the southwest zone of the union held at Ibadan, the Oyo state capital.  Reading the communique of the meeting, the Oyo state secretary of the […]Continue Reading

Agriculture

Southwest Has What It Takes For Massive Rice Production – Stakeholders

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The ban on the importation of rice by the federal government is opening up ways for large scale production of rice in Ondo State. In an attempt worth describing as Back To Land, the Ondo State government and stakeholders in rice cultivation are beginning to explore mass rice production. Correspondent Oye Agunbiade in this report […]Continue Reading

Politics

Southwest is pivotal to political development of Nigeria – Gov. Wike

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesome Wike says the Southwest is pivotal to the political development of Nigeria, believing that peace would return to the PDP in the region. Governor Wike stated this while speaking with journalists at the Agodi Government House, Ibadan after a rescheduled meeting with some Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leaders in the Southwest. The […]Continue Reading

Economy

Protests Across Southwest Over Hike in Petrol, Electricity Tariff

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Nigerian tertiary students in Osun, Oyo and Ondo States have protested the recent hike in electricity tariff and petrol price in the country. The protest is organised by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone D. The students gathered in their hundreds at the different states capital. In Osogbo, hundreds of protesters converged at […]Continue Reading

Economy

COVID-19: Humanitarian Disaster Ministry Gives Palliatives to Southwest

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Federal Ministry of humanitarian, Disasters Management and Social Development, has donated six thousand bags of Rice to Oyo, Osun, Ondo and Ekiti states as part of Covid-19 economic stimulus package. The donation was as a result of a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Nigeria Customs Service to release 150 truckload of rice seized […]Continue Reading

Security

Operation Amotekun: The Pros and Cons

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Security agencies are created by the federal government to protect and defend the public against domestic threats. They are also established to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of Nigeria and to provide criminal justice services to both federal and state law enforcement agencies.  Despite the level of their efficiency, criminality still persists. This perhaps […]Continue Reading

Security

Insecurity: Community Policing is the Way Forward – IGP

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Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr. Mohammed Adamu has reiterated the force efforts at reducing criminality through community policing. Mr. Adamu stated this in Ibadan at the Southwest Geo-Political Zone Security Summit held in Ibadan. The IGP who is the convener of the summit, stressed that the police had succeeded in using community policing to stabilise […]Continue Reading