Nigeria News Digest: Aug 29, 2025

Young entrepreneur Olasunkanmi Owoyemi is reshaping Nigeria’s cocoa trade through his Sunbeth agribusiness, aiming to modernize the industry, boost farmer incomes, and replace the historic silence of harvest seasons with a confident, sustainable agricultural future.

Farmers in Benue State have urged Governor Hyacinth Iormem Alia, Speaker Berger Alfred Emberga, and ALGON chairman Vitalis Terhile Neji to enforce the Anti‑Open Grazing Prohibition Law after fresh killings and farmland destruction by suspected Fulani herders armed with AK‑47s in Gwer West.

Analysts criticize General Musa’s silence on the farmer‑herder crisis, arguing that his statements enable narratives framing all North‑Central attacks as religious persecution while ignoring the underlying agrarian disputes that fuel reprisals in the region.

A sensitisation workshop in Abuja brought together Federal Ministry of Health officials and National Biotechnology Research staff, where Director Olubunmi Aribeana and Dr. Rose Gidado explained biotechnology, biosafety protocols and the role of genetically modified organisms in enhancing Nigeria’s food security without endangering consumers.