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Kebbi State Governor, Senator Abubakar Bagudu, has tasked Agricultural Research Institutes in the country to employ the best of Science to produce world class crop yields for Nigerian farmers.

Bagudu who was speaking in Birnin Kebbi when he received Professor Mohammed Faguji Ishiyaku, the Director of nearly century old Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) Zaria, Kaduna State said there was the urgent need for the Institutes to buckle up, so as to make Nigerian farmers produce adequate food for subsistence and exports.

The Northern State Governors’ Forum (NGF) under the leadership of Plateau State Governor, Simon Bako Lalung has met on Monday 13th April, 2020 to discuss the Impact of Covid-19 on their economies in the region.

Among the decisions taken at the meeting was the setting up of a 7-Man Committee chaired by Governor of Kebbi State Atiku Abubakar Bagudu to fashion out the way forward. Other members are Governors of Kaduna, Sokoto, Kwara, Nasarawa, Jigawa, Gombe and Nasarawa State.