SAUDI GROUP TO ESTABLISH MULTIMILLION DOLLAR AGRIC CITY IN KWARA NORTH

A Saudi Investment Company, Zain Al-abdin group is to set up an Agric City in Kwara State. The proposed Agric City, which is to be located along the River Niger in Kwara North will comprise a cluster of farms specializing in cultivation, processing and export of rice, maize and vegetables.

The Chairman of the investment group, Zain Al-Abdin Nafawi disclosed this when he and other members of the group visited the Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed last Friday at the Government House, Ilorin.

According to the Chairman, the Agric city will also contain facilities such as schools, hospitals, shops and other associated services.

Climate Change: FG raises alarm as River Niger drying up

THE Federal Government, yesterday, raised talarm over imminent drying up of River Niger due to climate change and dumping of industrial waste. 

The Auditor General of the Federation, AGoF, Mr. Samuel Tyonongo Ukura, raised the alarm during a meeting with the Edo State Auditor-General and members of the Edo State Public Accounts Committee in his office in Abuja. Ukura, however, assured that Nigeria was in the process of conducting an environmental audit of the River Niger to determine its level of dryness.