June 2025

Unlocking Nigeria’s Future: How Supporting Youth in Agriculture Could Generate ₦60 Trillion Annually A recent political economy analysis by ActionAid Nigeria has uncovered a staggering opportunity for national growth: Nigeria could be losing up to ₦60 trillion every year due to insufficient support for youth involvement in the agriculture sector. This revelation was shared by Mr. Azubike Nwokoye, Food and […]

Nigeria’s Silent Struggle: How Climate Change Is Drying Up Farms and Futures in the North In the quiet, rural village of Kwalkwalawa in Sokoto State, northwestern Nigeria, 62-year-old Umaru Muazu surveys his parched farmland. After more than two decades of growing millet and maize, what’s left is a cracked field and a murky puddle—the remnants of a once-reliable river. “I

Oando Foundation (OF), an independent charity organisation established by Oando Plc (Nigeria’s leading energy company), to support the Federal Government in achieving its Universal Basic Education (UBE) goal, has disclosed that it has earmarked over N1 billion to execute its 2025 Foundational Learning Improvement Programme (LEARNOVATE-FLIP) projects in various Nigerian schools across the country in

Almost four decades after Nigeria dispensed with a cocoa-industry regulatory board in 1986, a new executive bill is working its way to the legislature to create a replacement. By the time it was scrapped, the cocoa marketing board, which fixed prices and regulated other industry practices, was so hated by farmers that it was seen