The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Sunday that it spent $250 million dollars on health, education and improving the lives of the poor in Nigeria in 2016. Mairo Mandara, its Country Representative, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. She said that the foundation does not estimate…
The Bayelsa State Government has warned against the politicization of the Government’s decision to designate the Bayelsa palm as a grazing site for Fulani herdsmen and their cattle. Reacting to reports in the media, the Special Adviser to the Bayelsa State Governor on Security Matters, Chief (Dr.) Boma Spero-Jack noted that, the security implications of…
AGENCY REPORT Rice is a big deal in Nigeria. People love eating it. So the BBC’s Ijeoma Ndukwe asks: why don’t they grow more of it instead of importing so much? A long line of customers queue along a glass divide separating them from a rice food station at an eatery in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial…
