November 27, 2023

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Nigeria - Training of licensed seed inspectors and seed companies in digitalization of BT-cowpea production

Nigeria - Training of seed companies production managers on the use of the Seed Tracker platform

August 14, 2023

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Nigeria - Food production receives boost with commissioning of seed testing lab equipment by the National Agricultural Seed Council (Vanguard News)

Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council confident that the IMAGE Project (Institutionalising Monitoring of Variety Adoption, using Genotyping) will boost seed quality (TYC News)

June 26, 2023

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National Seed Policy for Nigeria, 2022

June 16, 2023

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IITA–CGIAR and Nigeria’s National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC) sign a Memorandum of Understanding to support sustainable seed production and supply in Northeast Nigeria

May 22, 2023

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council empowers operators for better seed quality and output (TVC News)

December 12, 2022

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Nigeria - Seed legislation will enhance sector’s development, says the Director General, National Agricultural Seed Council (Blueprint)

November 18, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council says that some seed dealers are still selling unauthorised seeds to farmers despite the 2019 Seeds Act (Punching)

August 22, 2022

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New policy to invigorate Nigeria’s seed system (Leadership)

August 11, 2022

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Why Nigeria’s crop yields have remained lowest in Africa (Independent)

February 23, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council destroys imported vegetable seeds worth about N40 million for not complying with packaging rules and presentations of false information on the product (Nigerian Tribune)

January 24, 2022

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council warns farmers against buying fake seeds (Daily Trust)

November 29, 2021

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Nigeria currently supplies over 50 per cent of the quality seeds that are used in West Africa, says the Federal Government (Punch)

October 7, 2021

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Danforth Center and the National Agricultural Seed Council of Nigeria partner to ensure the delivery of high-quality seed to farmers

September 13, 2021

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Nigeria, National Agricultural Seeds Council - Call for expression of interest: Decentralized seed quality assurance

July 12, 2021

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Japan International Cooperation Agency donates seed inspection kits to Nigeria's National Agricultural Seeds Council

April 28, 2021

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Nigeria - Launch of the "Collaborative Seed Programme"

April 5, 2021

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council builds stakeholders’ capacity (Blueprinit)

March 31, 2021

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council charges stakeholders to abide by Seed Act 2019 (Vanguard)

February 25, 2021

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Nigeria, National Agricultural Seed Council - Call for expression of interest: Consultancy for the development of guidelines and regulations for plant variety protection in Nigeria

Nigeria, National Agricultural Seed Council - Call for expression of interest: Consultancy for the development of guidelines and regulations for private seed inspectors

February 8, 2021

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Consultancy for the development of unified Application Platform for the Protection of Seeds in Nigeria (APPSE) – NASC-PVP-2021-001-SDV

February 5, 2021

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Nigeria - First physical meeting and constitution of the national Executive steering committee of the “Institutionalizing Improved Crop Variety Adoption Monitoring using Genotyping” (IMAGE) project and first interaction with focal officers from partner institutions

January 6, 2021

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Nigeria - Stakeholders review and validation meeting on the Draft National Variety Descriptor for selected varieties of rice, maize and soybean

Nigeria - Capacity building on digital seed certification, electronic authentification and third party seed certification for seed certification officers

November 30, 2020

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seeds Council trains 38 third party seed agents in Kogi and Benue

November 13, 2020

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Nigeria - Training of Licensed Seed Inspectors under the (BASICS-II) Project Third Party Certification

November 2, 2020

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SeedConnect Africa, a series of online events - Building resilience in our seed system to achieve sustainable food systems

September 23, 2020

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Nigeria - National Agricultural Seed Council staff undergo training on the administration and control of the SEEDCODEX, an electronic verification and authentication system to enhance efficiency of the seed certification process