President Muhammadu Buhari
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said crude oil and gas exports would no longer be sufficient as the country’s major revenue earner.

He said time has therefore come for Nigerians to do more than pay mere lip service to agriculture.

According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the President spoke while granting audience to the Nigerian-born President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Dr. Kanayo Nwanze, inside the Presidential Villa, Abuja

“It’s time to go back to the land. We must face the reality that the petroleum we had depended on for so long will no longer suffice. We campaigned heavily on agriculture, and we are ready to assist as many as want to go into agricultural ventures,” Adesina quoted the President as saying.

Buhari also pledged that his administration would review the long bureaucratic process that Nigerian farmers had to go through to get assistance from the government.

He told the IFAD President that improvement of the productivity of farmers, dry season farming and creative ways to combat the shrinking of the Lake Chad would also receive his administration’s attention.



“There is so much to be done. We will try and articulate a programme and consult organisations like IFAD for advice,” the President said
Buhari added that foreign exchange would be conserved for machinery and other items needed for production, instead of using it to import things like toothpicks.

Nwanze congratulated Buhari on his victory in the general elections and assured him that IFAD was ready to assist Nigerian farmers to boost their activities

IFAD is an international organisation established in 1978 to address issues of agriculture and poverty alleviation.
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In the words of Gabriel Suswam no state can survive without igbos.
Those who think because igbos didn't vote buhari therefore buhari can do without igbos are simply thinking wishfully and wastefully.

If igbos leave nigeria, Nigeria would without fail crash

so Igbo's are now farmers

EroticAngelina:
so Igbo's are now farmers

Igbos alone can only provide the funds for Agricultural Development in nigeria either as world bank treasurer or IFAD President.
Nigeria must bow before igbos either way or nigeria is finished.

kettykin:


Igbos alone can only provide the funds for Agricultural Development in nigeria either as world bank treasurer or IFAD President.
Nigeria must bow before igbos either way or nigeria is finished.

hmmmm if u say so.

kettykin:


Igbos alone can only provide the funds for Agricultural Development in nigeria either as world bank treasurer or IFAD President.
Nigeria must bow before igbos either way or nigeria is finished.

bow? do you hear how foolishh you sound

Is dat so? Am proud to be a BIAFRA

The international bodies tends to recognize our potentials more than Nigeria. On merit, the Igbo's will take over every jobs in Nigeria.

There is scarcity of Igbo technocrats....but Igbo criminals are in abundance.

Thrrefore each time an Ibo person is mentioned in a government position it gives joy and reason for Ibos all over the world to rent air space and put up congratulatory messages. I hear back in village they even get aso ebi to celebrate the appointnent. They troop to Nairaland and open 200 posts to repeat and put us on notice that an Iboman has been appointed for a government job.

Ibo get problem no be small..

kettykin:
In the words of Gabriel Suswam no state can survive without igbos.
Those who think because igbos didn't vote buhari therefore buhari can do without igbos are simply thinking wishfully and wastefully.

If igbos leave nigeria, Nigeria would without fail crash

Are you saying that there is no Yoruba or Hausa man that knows more about agriculture than that Igbo man? Why do you like beating ur chests for no reason?

this is stupidity must you tag it igbo man, is he not a Nigerian what is wrong if mr president decide to consult a professional for way forward.