74-year-old Nigeria s Agric Minister, Nanono Secretly Marries 18-year-old Girl The minister only assigned three people and warned them against disclosing the details of the marriage to people, a family source, who preferred anonymity, said.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 08, 2021
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, has reportedly married an 18-year-old secondary school leaver.
The 74-year-old minister tied the knot with the young woman, identified simply as Rakiya, in a secret wedding held on Saturday, April 3, in Jere Town, Kaduna State.
It was gathered that only three minister representatives attended the ceremony and that the young bride has already settled in his Tamandu close residence in Kano.
AFAN alerts farmers over alleged fraudulent activities by group
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
The All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, weekend, alerted farmers over alleged fraudulent activities by a group called AFAN Caretaker Committee to extort them.
The alarm was raised in a statement signed by the National President, AFAN, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, saying that the group in question is illegal and allegedly led by one Faruk Rabiu Mudi.
According to the statement Mudi-led illegal AFAN Caretaker Committee filed a suit against Arc Kabir Ibrahim and his purportedly dissolved executives, at the National, State, and Ward level, before Justice Taiwo Taiwo In Court 9, Federal High Court, Abuja for being called fraudulent, but refused to allow the court give judgment on the case has continued their activities by opening an office, and also an account with one of the commercial banks, which they wrote to AFAN chapters asking their farmers to pay in money for farm inputs.
Governor Sule flags off fertilizer, inputs sale farmers in Nasarawa
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By David Odama
Over 200 dry season rice farmers in Nasarawa state have benefited from the Federal Government Agricultural farm inputs.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono disclosed this Tuesday at the launching of fertiliser sales and distribution of farm inputs to farmers for the 2021 dry season farming in Lafia that
Represented by Director, department of Federal Agriculture, Hajiya Karima Babangida, the minister said 200 bags of certified rice seed, 100 litres of insecticide, 1200 bags of NPK and urea fertilisers as well as 800 litres of soil amenders were to be distributed to the the rice farmers in the state.