The Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, on Saturday 8 April 2023, commissioned the NAERLS Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Center (SAEDC). The Minister was accompanied by the Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Kabir Bala and other members of the University management. The Commissioning event was part
NIGERIA is to host the 6th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week, tagged Abuja 2023. The Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW) is a continental event that brings together AEAS providers and other value chain actors across Africa and globally to deliberate on selected strategic and topical themes on AEAS for sustainable development in Africa. Beyond thematic debates,
The Institute has inaugurated a Committee on ICT, to be headed by Professor Christogonus Daudu (picture insert). At the inauguration ceremony held on Monday 13 March 2022 at the Institute Boardroom, the Executive Director, Professor Emmanuel Ikani, stressed the need for the Committee to produce a blueprint for accelerating the institutional ICT infrastructures and gateways.
The Institute Finance Officer, Barr (Dr) Hadiza Kabir, has just been promoted to the rank of Deputy Bursar by the Senate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The promotion is with effect from 1st October 2022. May this promotion usher in greater achievements and laurels to her and her family, as well as to all members
The Institute paid a courtesy call to the Kaduna Zonal Office of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) on Tuesday 7 February 2023. The call was mainly to interact with the management on improving the existing collaboration between the two agencies on agricultural broadcasts in the country. The NAERLS team was led by the Assistant
The Report of Survey carried out by the Institute on the 2022 Flood Damage to Agricultural Production in Nigeria has shown that the flood destroyed about N700 billion worth of investment in the agricultural sector. The Executive Summary of the report was presented to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development on Thursday 2 February
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, has called for collective efforts to educate Nigerians on how to mitigate flooding. He was saying this at the presentation of the Executive Summary of Report of the Assessment of 2022 Flood in Nigeria: Implication on Agriculture in his office in Abuja on 2 February
The Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, has just commissioned a new Ultramodern Conference Hall for the Institute. The commissioning event was held on Tuesday 29 November 2022 at the Institute premises. Present were Professor Emmanuel Ikani and other members of NAERLS management; invited dignitaries within and outside the University, as well as Programme
The Vice Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Professor Kabir Bala has renewed the appointment of Professor Emmanuel Ikani as the Director of NAERLS. This was conveyed to him recently in a letter dated November 2022, renewing the appointment for the next 2 years. Professor Ikani was appointed in November 2020 as Director of the Institute
The AGRA KADUNA CONSORTIUM Project organized zonal field days on Saturday 10th September 2022 in four locations across the state. The field day in Basawa community-Sabongari local government area was attended by the Kaduna state commissioner for Agriculture, Husaini Ibrahim, who was represented by the Director, Agric services, Yau Kasim; the G.M. Kaduna Agricultural Development Agency,
