Japan has committed $3.5 million to strengthen Nigeria’s rice seed production system, providing equipment and technical support to the National Cereals Research Institute (NCRI) and its outstations. The intervention is designed to improve the quality and availability of rice seeds supplied to farmers across the country. But the interesting part of this intervention is that…
The Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, has called for more personnel to strengthen the agency’s enforcement activities as NAFDAC intensifies its crackdown on the production and sale of banned sachet alcohol and other small-volume alcoholic drinks. Speaking during a Channels Television interview, Adeyeye highlighted the…
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has launched a nationwide enforcement operation to remove banned alcoholic beverages packaged in sachets and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles smaller than 200ml from circulation, marking the full implementation of the Federal Government’s long-standing ban on the products. The operation is being carried out simultaneously…
Africa has become the world’s hungriest continent for the first time, overtaking Asia in the number of people experiencing hunger, according to the latest United Nations State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2026 report. The report estimates that 309 million people in Africa faced hunger in 2025, compared with 292 million…
