Yesterday, the Ministry of Agriculture invited tenders from millers and traders to import 17,383 metric tonnes of wheat flour for the year from Egypt and Mauritius. This is far less than the 52,149 metric tonnes recommended in the legal notice

Availability of good infrastructure- roads, power, water, housing, telephones- and stability, not tax incentives or free land, are the most crucial factors that attract investors.

The hospitalisation of 116 girls after consuming beans sprayed with harmful pesticides at a secondary school in northern Nigeria's Gombe State on 18 April has raised concerns about how dry foods are stored all around the country.