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Tinubu mandates NADF to champion $70m tractor deal

President Bola Tinubu has instructed the National Agricultural Development Fund (NADF), to champion the deployment of 10,000 John Deere tractors across Nigeria, valued at $70 million.
NADF Executive Secretary, Mohammed Ibrahim, who disclosed this at a contract signing with AGCOMS International Trading Limited, yesterday in Abuja, said the investment would boost food production.
Ibrahim disclosed that the deployment would commence with a first tranch of 2,000 units in the first quarter of this year and would scale up to 10,000 in the next five years.
He said: “The National Agricultural Development Fund, NADF, as we have mentioned earlier, has been mandated to implement one of the four mechanization programmes of the Federal Government of Nigeria, led by His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who in his aspiration to see that Nigeria transits from a monolithic economy and see that agriculture becomes what it is.
“We have various mechanization programmes, so the NADF is implementing one.The one we are implementing is the John Deere 2, 000 tractors.
“This entails everything, the normal contract terms and conditions of this implementation of this programme. The plan, henceforth, as we mentioned, we got the conveyance of the Federal Executive Council in October 2024 and we have taken three months to go on a very robust, intensive negotiation with John Deere.
“We have also had a stakeholder engagement hosted by a mechanization international partner, Haifa, where we invited various mechanization stakeholders, understood where the main points are, where the successes are, and where the learnings should be.
“This will now drive us to conclude on the implementation programme. The John Deere tractors hopefully will be delivered before the wet season.”
Aside signing a pact with the Nigerian Ports Authority, (NPA), he disclosed that 2000 tractor would arrive tye country before the wet farming season.
“We have also gone in to get into another MoU with the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, who would hopefully provide the John Deere AGCOMS International Trading Limited, who have signed the contract with, a space within the ports or close to the ports where they would set up their assembly plant, and then hopefully have these tractors delivered to the various parts of this country as will be contained in the implementation programme.
Also, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Abubakar Kyari, commended NADF for the milestone achieved by the contract signing with AGCOMS International Trading Limited, a company which is the sub-dealers of John Deere Tractors.
Kyari assured Nigerians that the Federal Executive Council would back up the contract deal, stressing that the mechanisation effort in the agricultural sector, would attract to agribusiness investors.
On his part, Country Director, AGCOMS International Trading Limited, Engr Okoli Chijioke, said: “On the 1st of October, 2024, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu mentioned that there is an assembly plant attached to the John Deere Tractors acquisition, and that is actually a fact and it is something that would actually not just only help the assembly of these 2,000 tractors but also give our own youths the opportunity to understand the technology behind what we are trying to assemble.
“Bringing in any piece of equipment you want, whether you like it or not, until you have a plan for continuity with respect to product support and that whole aim is defeated.
“So the assembly plant plays a very crucial role because the people that will be opportune to go through the process with us will have the opportunity of having first-hand visibility on what it takes to put it together.
“So we can be rest assured that this unit can confidently give us years, possibly decades of actual work on the field. So the total procurement value is about $70 million, and that is the value to get it down to the collection center in Abuja and Lagos for the first two years.”
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Police arrest suspected kidnapper after collecting ransom in Delta

A police patrol team and vigilante group from Ibusa Division have arrested a suspected kidnapper, Abdulahi Isah, after he allegedly collected ransom from his victim.
The suspect, who is cooling his heels in police custody, was arrested in the Ibusa bush on 12/3/2025.
Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, confirmed the report in a statement sent to our correspondent in Warri.
The police spokesperson said, “On 12/3/2025, at about 1100 hours, an indigene of Ibusa (name withheld) reported at Ibusa Police Station that his friend’s wife was kidnapped on 7/3/2025 and a ransom was paid. He stated that he was the one who delivered the ransom and other food items to the kidnappers.”
According to SP Edafe, “Acting on useful information provided by the said man, the DPO of Ibusa Police Station swiftly mobilized the patrol team of Ibusa Division alongside vigilantes and stormed the bush, where the suspect, Abdulahi Isah, was arrested.”
He added, “The suspect is in custody, and the investigation is ongoing.
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Raye: Sowore, lawyers accompany NYSC corper as officials summon her over comment against Tinubu

Omoyele Sowore and other activists, including lawyers, accompanied the Lagos-based National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, member, Ushie Uguamaye, also known as Raye, to the office of her Local Government Inspector, LGI, who summoned her over a viral video.
Gatekeeper recalls that Raye recently went viral for criticizing President Bola Tinubu’s government.
In a video posted on her TikTok account #talktoraye over the weekend, Raye voiced her frustration over Nigeria’s deteriorating economic situation, blaming President Tinubu for the hardship.
The corps member also described the president as a “terrible leader.”
In another video clip that went viral on social media, the corps member was heard claiming that she was being threatened by officials of the NYSC.
Following her public outbursts, Raye was summoned to appear in the office of her Local Government Inspector (LGI) for questioning on Monday.
Raye, who secured the backing of several political bigwigs, was accompanied to the office on Monday by Sowore and some legal practitioners.
In an update on his official X handle, Sowore claimed that the NYSC officials failed to show up.
He wrote, “We arrived at the Eti-Osa LGI offices of the @officialnyscng with youth corper, Ushie Rita Uguamaye, in Lagos. She was scheduled to appear before the LGI today, and we escorted her to their offices with attorneys.
@mrfestusogun, @yinka_oyesomi, and @justiceojienoh, but the LGI official had absconded, failing to show up throughout our stay.”
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Jandor Dumps PDP Ship, Rejoins APC

Abdul-Azeez Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has returned to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
At a press briefing in Lagos on Monday, Jandor said his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is a “reflection of his unwavering commitment to the development of Lagos”.
Jandor was the governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos in the 2023 general election.
Jandor was a member of the APC before defecting to the PDP to run for governorship. It would be recalled that Jandor met with President Tinubu last week in a close door meeting.
The 47-year-old politician accused PDP national leadership of letting him down on the eve of the election, maintaining that he would have won but for a false claim of alliance that made PDP supporters in Lagos vote for another candidate.
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