The Federal Government on Sunday said it was losing 9 billion dollars (N3.2 trillion) annually due to poor investment in agriculture before the present administration came to power.
Browsing: Heineken Lokpobiri
Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, on Friday in Abuja during the programme, said that the Federal Government had been fighting the issue of smuggling of agricultural commodities.
Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of State, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, says government is set to revitalise agriculture extension services in the country.
The Federal Government has appealed to states and local governments to invest at least five per cent of its budget to agriculture to achieve zero hunger by 2030.
The Bayelsa Government on Tuesday announced plans to offset two months outstanding salary and pension with N8 billion from the N24 billion Paris Club debts refund.
The minister had alleged that the Dickson led administration had incurred the N800 billion domestic and 216 million dollars external from 2012 till date in spite of getting over N1.2 trillion from the federation account for the same period.
The Federal Government has called for partnership with the People’s Republic of Bangladesh to develop flood resistant seed varieties to ensure food security in the country.
Dickson also expressed shock that the President has failed to take any drastic action against leaders of the All Progressives Congress and their allies who cause mayhem in the state despite making several reports and complaints to him and the security agencies.
This was disclosed by the Ministers of State for Agriculture, Heneiken Lokpobiri, and Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, after the Council’s meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja
The Governor had specifically accused the leader of the APC in Bayelsa State, Chief Timipre Silva, and the Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, as among those sponsoring violence in the State.
The Minister of sSate for Agriculture and Rural Development, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, said this at a meeting of the Joint Administrative Implementation Completion Review Committee in Abuja on Wednesday.
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Heineken Lokpobiri, raised the concern at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting in Abuja.
The Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, during a tour at Triton Farms, commended the firm, stating that the CBN and Heritage Banks’ financial support to the company’s achievement is very fundamental as investment in food security is probably the most profitable venture anyone could think of
Lokpobiri revealed that a lot of herdsmen are also killed whenever farmers clash with herdsmen, but casualty on the part of herdsmen are most of the time not reported
Dickson, who spoke with journalists on Saturday after his accreditation at Ward 2 in Toru Orua, his home town, decried the failure of the card readers provided by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the poll
The Bayelsa Solidarity Forum has therefore called on the National Assembly to replace him because of his questionable political antecedents both as a former senator and Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly
Following the poor performance of the Super Eagles at the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana, the Senate Sports Committee, of which Lokpobiri was chairman, issued a report which cast blame on maladministration and lack of cooperation from the Director General of the National Sports Commission, Dr. Amos Adamu
Yeri said it was an embarrassment to have such a man as minister representing the state on account of what he described as Lokpobiri’s alleged record of “destruction, violence and electoral hooliganism”