At least 12 killed in Nigeria attack over farmland

Gunmen appear in village in north

Abuja | Reuters — Gunmen have killed at least 12 people in an attack on a village in the northern Nigerian state of Plateau, residents and the state governor said on Wednesday, the latest deadly incident fuelled by growing pressure on land resources in the country. Violence between farmers and pastoralists has become increasingly common


An office of a 50-hectare rice farm is submerged in floodwater from the Benue river at Makurdi in central Nigeria on Oct. 1 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde)

Nigeria’s flooding spreads to Delta, upending lives, livelihoods

Over a million acres of farmland damaged, wrecked

Rivers State, Nigeria | Reuters — People wade through fast-flowing water, holding one another to avoid being swept away, balancing suitcases, clothing and food on their heads. The torrent was, until recently, the East-West Road in Nigeria’s Rivers state, the gateway to the nation’s oil and gas. Now parts of Rivers, along with large swathes

The United Nations’ General Assembly Hall in Manhattan. (BWZenith/iStock/Getty Images)

U.N. draws on emergency fund in bid to avert famines

United Nations | Reuters — United Nations aid chief Mark Lowcock said on Tuesday he would use US$100 million from the world body’s emergency fund to help seven countries try to avert famine fueled by conflict, spiraling economies, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Some $30 million will be spent in Yemen, $15 million each

Canada’s new and growing market: Nigeria

This African nation has a young and growing population, making it an ever more important buyer

The 2017 new crop missions’ Team Canada Wheat visited Canada’s top customers and provided them with technical data and support. Who are Canada’s top customers? Some of the answers, like Japan, will be no surprise to anyone, but many would not expect to see one of our newest top customers, Nigeria on the list. Fifteen


Farmer Ayuba Rasong stands outside of his destroyed home in Kaduna, Nigeria.

Farmers and herders clash in Nigeria

The often-overlooked religious and ethnic conflict has already killed 200

When 60-year-old Ladi Habila heard gunshots ring around her village in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Christmas Eve, she cast aside the meal she had been preparing, and ran for her life. Habila returned the next day to find her house razed to the ground, and the burnt body of her husband. “My children lost their

Aliko Dangote, president and chief executive officer of Dangote Group

Africa’s richest man targets Nigeria’s rice deficit

Aliko Dangote plans to produce a million tonnes of rice in four years

Nigeria enjoys a perfect rice-growing climate over a vast area yet it is the world’s second-biggest importer of the staple, often from countries in its warm, wet tropical latitude like top exporter Thailand. It’s one of those baffling Nigerian paradoxes, like the fact that it is Africa’s top oil producer yet suffers frequent fuel shortages;