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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has urged rice farmers to increase their production to meet with the needs of Nigerians. The Governor made the call today at Akwukwu-Igbo during a town hall meeting with people of Oshimili North local government area of Delta State. According to the Governor, there are indications that the Federal Government will ban the importation of rice and rice farmers should boost their production to meet with the needs of the people and also, benefit from likely incentives from the Federal Government when such happens. Governor Okowa who particularly commended the people of Illah for their commitment towards the production of rice, asserted, “we are taking the growing of rice very serious because, the Federal Government may ban the importation of rice and existing farmers will benefit from Federal Government’s assistance.” “We are also, encouraging our farmers to benefit from the Central Bank of Nigeria anchor borrowers pr...

http://ift.tt/2oPZA4H (FILES) This file photo taken on August 13, 2010 shows a restored canon at a Union position along Cemetery Ridge pointing toward the battlefield at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. US President Donald Trump took a fresh shot at his predecessor Barack Obama and suggested the US Civil War could have been avoided, in a series of media interviews broadcast on May 1, 2017. Trump told the Sirius XM POTUS radio channel that his president hero, the "swashbuckler" Andrew Jackson, could have avoided the Civil War had he not died a decade-and-a-half before. / AFP PHOTO / Tim SLOAN US President Donald Trump took a fresh shot at his predecessor Barack Obama and suggested the US Civil War could have been avoided, in a series of media interviews broadcast Monday. Trump told the Sirius XM POTUS radio channel that his president hero, the “swashbuckler” Andrew Jackson, could have avoided the Civil War had he not died a decade-and-a-ha...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Dennis Agbo ENUGU-‎ DEPUTY President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweramadu has said that he joined politics to address the issue of marginalisation of his people. Ekweremadu said he discovered early that no matter how endowed one is, there is a limit to what he or she can do for his people as an individual. He said that at a point, the Government must necessarily come in to address some infrastructural deficit in an area. Ekweremadu made the statements, weekend, while addressing leaders of Udi North forum that paid him a solidarity visit. The Deputy Senate President recalled that the first water project that he attracted as a Senator was sited at Nze in Udi North as a way of remedying some of the difficulties faced by people in the area, adding that he has addressed most of the challenges in the area without being prompted by the people. He said “I joined Politics to address the issue of marginalization by influencing government policies which wil...