Okechukwu Nnodim

Oil marketers are still apprehensive and are not opening their filling stations for business, causing queues for Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, in many cities nationwide.

The Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, and other relevant stakeholders has entered into partnership to implement the Nigeria Farmers Soil Health Card Scheme.

The National Emergency Management Agency has said that 27 states have been impacted by floods, with a total of 227,494 persons affected and 32,837 houses damaged.

The Permanent Secretary of the the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr Temitope Fashedemi, has inaugurated a technical working group on farmers’ data capturing to identify and develop modalities to achieve a seamless database for farmers nationwide.

The World Food Programme and the Economic Community of West African States have provided multi-purpose cash and nutritious food worth $1m to cushion the effect of food crisis and malnutrition challenges in North-West Nigeria.

The Federal Government has declared that any facility that uses or produces batteries and violates the battery control regulations in Nigeria is going to pay N2m as a fine, adding that its officials risk a six-month jail term.

A total of 63 power transmission towers were destroyed by vandals between January and August this year, the latest industry data from the Federal Ministry of Power has revealed.

About 42.3 million litres of imported petrol, are expected in the country next week, oil marketers stated on Friday.

The Federal Government through the National Sugar Development Council has revealed that the out-grower scheme under the Nigeria Sugar Master Plan pays about 535 farmers across the country over N1bn annually.

Power generation rose to a high of 3,624.34 megawatts on Thursday following the restoration of the national grid by engineers of the Transmission Company of Nigeria after the grid collapsed the preceding day.