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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has has lamented that Nigeria has not been fair to farmers in the country. Obasanjo complained of the inability of farmers to access sustainable funding from financial institutions,saying, the current double-digit interest rate given by banks is too prohibitive and cannot sustain any agric business. According to him, the researchers, financial institutions and government have all conspired to victimise those who are in the business of farming. He spoke in Lagos while delivering his keynote address at the Agribusiness Investors’ Network organised by the Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) in partnership with International Institute of Tropical…

Former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, on Sunday. escaped assassination attempt on his life when gunmen attacked his convoy, killing a policeman PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the incident occured when Okorocha’s convoy was heading for Enugu after dropping him off in Owerri, Imo capital, when the attackers opened fire at Ihube, along Okigwe-Enugu Expressway. The hoodlums were reportedly attacked the convoy when it was en route to Owerri, thought the former governor was heading back to Enugu. The former governor, who confirmed the incident on Sunday at Amaimo in the Ikeduru Local Government Area of the state, at…

Ms. Taiwo Ajayi has called out her ex-husband, Pastor Joseph Okpongete of the House on the Rock Church, citing domestic violence, financial abuse amongst others. She urged the Christian Body of Nigeria to intervene in the matter, and called him to order. The relationship coach narrated her ordeals in a series of posts titled “a cry for help !” on her Instagram page. She wrote, “Fellow Nigerians, my name is Taiwo Ajayi. I have been separated from the ex-husband for the past 4 years. I was married for 12 horrible years to Joseph Okpongete. ‘For those 12 years I suffered…

Immediate-past governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, shocked some Nigerians on Sunday when he claimed that he was poisoned ahead of his second term election at the campaign secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party in the State and experienced liver and kidney failure. The former governor said he was diagnosed of multiple organs failure in a hospital in Beirut, Lebanon. He recalled that on one fateful Sunday in December 2018 when he was due to attend the thanksgiving programme of his then Chief of Staff, Chief Emeka Woke, he was incapacitated to attend the event because, according to him,…

Aminat Gusanu No fewer than 71 million Nigerians are extremely poor individual, according to the World Poverty Clock’s latest data 2023. Tonye Cole, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress m, in Rivers State, quoted the data. The World Poverty Clock is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally Cole also added that the National Bureau of Statistics had categorised 133 million Nigerians as multidimensionally poor. He spoke on Saturday in Abuja, at the Nigeria Zero Hunger Symposium, organised by T200 Foundation to mark World Hunger Day and unveiling of Nigeria’s hunger report. Quoting the United Nations (UN),…

The World Bank has disclosed that Nigeria, India, and the Democratic Republic of Congo top the list of countries with the highest poverty and pollution exposure. The World Bank in a new report  titled, ‘Detox Development: Repurposing Environmentally Harmful Subsidies’, stated that trillions of dollars are wasted on subsidies for agriculture, fishing and fossil fuels that could be used to help address climate change. The Senior Managing Director of the World Bank, Axel van Trotsenburg, in a statement announcing the report,said, “People say that there isn’t money for climate but there is – it’s just in the wrong places. “If…

The longest serving Rivers traditional ruler, Professor TJT Princewill, Amachree the XI and Amanyanabo of the Kalabari Kingdom is dead. Son of the deceased, Prince Tonye Princewill, confirmed the death of the famous traditional ruler in Rivers State in Port Harcourt on Saturday. Princewill said his father died peacefully. He said the Buguma Council of Chiefs and the Kalabari Council of Chiefs had been formally briefed about the death of his father in accordance with the Kalabari tradition. Princewill, a former governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress in Rivers State said the formal announcement of the traditional ruler’s demise…

The Zamfara State Police Command has said that it has returned all vehicles it seized from a former governor of the state, Bello Matawalle. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Yazid Abubakar, confirmed the development on Saturday via telephone conversation. Abubakar said the vehicles were returned in compliance with the order of a Federal High Court sitting in Gusau. The court, presided by Justice Aminu Bappah-Aliyu, on June 15, ordered all security agencies that removed the vehicles from Matawalle’s houses in Gusau and Maradun to return them within 48 hours. Security operatives removed the vehicles from the two houses…

Some stranded pilgrims for 2023 Hajj exercise on Saturday, protested to the corporate headquarters of Arik Air in Lagos over the development. PLATFORM TIMES gathered that the intending pilgrims belonging to tour operators were stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and other parts of the country. It was further gathered that the Saudi Arabia-bound pilgrims performing the Hajj exercise with licensed operators under the umbrella of the Association of Hajj and Umrah Operators of Nigeria (AHUON) have been sleeping at the airport for days awaiting their airlift. There has been rowdiness at the airport as the agitated…

The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised the alarm over the alleged plot to frustrate the ongoing investigation of the suspended governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. The secret service sais there were plots to compromise its fold for the purpose of using disloyal staff to tarnish the image of its leadership. Spokesman of the secret police, Peter Afunanya, said this in a statement, on Saturday. He said some “subversive elements” had concluded arrangements According to Afunanya, such groups intend to gather at different locations in the nation’s capital and Lagos next week by carrying placards, depicting…