{"id":61349,"date":"2025-02-16T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61349"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T10:03:46","slug":"fg-accelerates-agricultural-research-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/16\/fg-accelerates-agricultural-research-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Accelerates Agricultural Research Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to overhauling Nigeria&#8217;s agricultural research system through the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF).<\/p>\n<p>At a stakeholders&#8217; meeting in Abuja, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, praised NADF&#8217;s comprehensive assessment of 16 Agricultural Research Institutes and 17 Federal Colleges of Agriculture nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasized the necessity of continuous improvement in agricultural research, noting that the last major review occurred during President Shehu Shagari&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Secretary of NADF, Muhammed Ibrahim, highlighted the fund&#8217;s role in addressing financial challenges and enhancing the country&#8217;s agricultural potential.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting convened key stakeholders, including government officials and researchers, to align Nigeria&#8217;s agricultural research with national and global priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to overhauling Nigeria&#8217;s agricultural research system through the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF). At a stakeholders&#8217; meeting in Abuja, Minister of State for Agriculture and Food Security, Sen. Sabi Abdullahi, praised NADF&#8217;s comprehensive assessment of 16 Agricultural Research Institutes and 17 Federal Colleges of Agriculture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61351,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61349\/revisions\/61351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}