Sixty fruit trees went into the ground for shade in Minna

Twenty orange trees, 20 mango trees, and 20 palms are in the ground at the community the Leprosy Mission Nigeria serves in Minna. Punch reported the planting on November 3, 2026. Project officer Habila Diko, whose name the paper also spelled Dikko, presented the trees and tied them to the mission's climate-smart farming and livelihood work. Solomon Bityong, a project partner, asked other Nigerians to plant as well.

Community leader Bello Umar said the trees would be tended and kept. Hauwa Usman, an older resident, said people had been walking out to farmland to sit in the shade when the heat was strong, and that trees in the compounds would let them rest closer to home. The count is these 60 trees. It is not a claim about how the wider city is planted.