 Moving on to business news, the Central Bank of Nigeria has set aside over 5.7 billion Naira to give us loans to 10,000 farmers to encourage dry-seizing wheat farming in Balchi state. The CBN Comptroller Balchi branch, Shaladu Idris, who disclosed this at the flag-off of the program at the NUJ Secretariat in Balchi on Thursday, said that 4,500 farmers had so far been empowered in the state. Idris said each farmer would be given 370,000 Naira cash, 6 bags of Urea, 4 bags of NPK fertilizer, pumping and spraying machines. He said the CBN had taken proactive steps in reaching out to the farmers through association so that those targeted would benefit. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.