As Senate screens and confirms the appointment of the new Chairman of the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, Wednesday, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, have set agenda for the new boss, as Nigeria remains in the paws and jaws of endemic corruption
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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.
By Jimoh Babatunde & Gabriel Ewepu
The Central Bank of Nigeria has in recent years come up with different programmes to grow the country’s agriculture and ensre food security in the country. One of such programmes is the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme.
Under the programme, the CBN set aside N40 billion, out of the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) to be given to farmers at a single-digit interest rate of maximum nine percent per annum.
As part of the apex bank’s financing framework, the CBN has facilitated the funding of rice and maize farmers and processors through the Anchor Borrowers’ Programme, Commodity Association, Private/Prime Anchors, State Governments, Maize Aggregation Scheme (MAS), and the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS).
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AFAN sets up 7-man electoral c’ttee to conduct national elections March 2021
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By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja
The farmers’ apex body, All Farmers Association of Nigeria, AFAN, on Friday, disclosed of setting up 7-man electoral committee to conduct national elections in March 2021.
This was made known by AFAN’s National President, Arc Kabir Ibrahim, at a press conference after the National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting held in Abuja.
According to Ibrahim during the meeting they agreed to set up the electoral committee to conduct the national elections, which he said the committee is headed by its chairman who was former Chairman, AFAN, Nasarawa State, Mu’azu Ishaq, while the secretary is former Chairman, AFAN, Kogi State, Rabi Peace.