Crippling over 35 million farmers and crushing 20 years of progress 

Earlier this year, I sounded an alarm, warning that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ill-advised policy shift towards open border policies and food importation risked “Reversing Nigeria’s food security gains of the last 20 years.” Today, I must upgrade that warning to a national crisis alarm. The worst fears of Nigerian agricultural stakeholders are no longer […]

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