Lagos SAT Calls for Greater Collaboration to Upgrade Healthcare Facilities - NaijaAgroNet

For the total well-being of community dwellers in accessing adequate healthcare facilities is a joint responsibility for all stakeholders, the State Tuberculosis Coordinator and ATM Lead, Ifelunwa Aipoh, acknowledged the challenges of inadequate consumables facing local health centers, particularly at the Igbo-Olomu Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), during a recent advocacy visit to the paramount ruler of Igbo-Olomu, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Also speaking, Patrick Akpan, coordinator of the Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria (NEPWHAN), and Bunmi Tejumola, representing the Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN), expressed appreciation to the traditional ruler for his support and urged him to sustain his commitment to initiatives promoting the health and well-being of his subjects.

AFAN chieftain appeals to FG for easy access to credit facilities

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Nigerian farmers have appealed to the Federal Government to make access to credit facilities for their members easy by relaxing stringent rules, reports NaijaAgroNet.

Making this appeal in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) and monitored by NaijaAgroNet, the former Delta Chairman, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), Mr Jerry Ossai, urged government at all levels to end all rules that serve as obstacles to enable farmers access credit facilities to boost food production.

Ossai noted that although funds were available to provide lending facilities to farmers in Nigeria, but the conditions were too stringent for rural farmers to benefit, adding that access to farm inputs like high yielding seedlings, fertilizers, herbicides among others has made investment in agriculture especially farming very difficult.

“Loans are there to be obtained but the conditions are too stringent for rural farmers to access. Liberal terms to cooperative groups may help to address the challenge of funds and access to input may be tied to repayment with harvest,” he said.

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