Nigeria: Why Nigeria Needs Programme for Youths in Agriculture

opinion

We are paying the huge price for the predominant focus on our oil-led economy to the abandonment of agriculture. Our population is too big to continue to depend on other nations for food importation.

We are now faced with tough challenges as a nation and we need to urgently take decisions to reposition our economy. Only recently, there was a global slump in oil fortune and Nigeria is significantly affected. We therefore need to think innovatively.

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