A market survey by Peoples Gazette on Thursday showed that in three weeks, Nigerians now purchase a mudu of corn at N800
We must talk about feeding the nation. We must talk Agbado.
The controller disclosed that officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Kaduna state command had tested the seized substances.
Agbadi represents food on the table of the masses and an escape from the quotidian realm of hunger.
Some farmers in the South-East have decried the high cost of fertilisers, noting that they have resorted to other sources of manure for their crops.
Mr Keyamo said the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate’s ‘agbado’, ‘cassava’ talk “is an euphemism for food security.”
Nigeria has the economic potential to generate $427.3 million (N188 billion) from domestic value-addition to cassava and earn an additional $2.98 billion (N1.2 trillion).
The suspects were alleged to have strangled the cassava seller and buried his corpse in a shallow grave in the bush.
Godwin Emefiele says Nigeria imports over $580 million cassava by-products annually.
A top agriculture ministry official said that Nigeria was leading in spite of the low yield which is below 10 tonnes per hectare.
