WASHINGTON has removed Nigeria from its list of religious violator nations that constantly engage in or tolerate systematic and egregious violations of religious freedoms against its citizens.
Up until now, Nigeria had been on the list of religious violators, mainly as a result of the activities of Fulani cattle herdsmen and...
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(1) Worldwide, about 80m hectares of irrigated lowland rice provide 75% of output
(2) Irrigated rice is grown in bunded fields or paddies, which are surrounded by a small embankment that keeps the water in. Our Niger Delta is tailor-made for this kind of rice production
(3) Rainfed lowland rice is grown in river...
NIGERIA'S information minister Alhaji Lai Mohammed has hit back at US claims that Nigeria is a hotbed of religious intolerance saying Washington's categorisation of the country as such was nothing more than a disagreement on the causes of recent violence.
Yesterday, the US added Nigeria to a blacklist of countries that...