Oba Adeyemi made the disclosure during a thanksgiving service on Sunday at St Mary’s Catholic Church, Oyo to mark his 47th year on the throne
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Abidoye said Nigerian politicians and the electorate should display political and spiritual maturity in conducting their campaigns for elective public offices by being peaceful always.
However, Kwara State under the able leadership of Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has brought certain levels of intervention to the people of the state through the medium and small enterprise funding windows where entrepreneurs, small traders are made to access funds either under associations, groups or cooperatives to trade in their small businesses. But one critical angle took by the administration to change the economic environment of the state and create employment opportunity for the teeming youths, is driving agriculture. Agriculture is, therefore, one area that the administration has taken seriously as a means of creating jobs, the state has commenced a programme called the Off-Taker Demand Driven Agricultural Scheme (ODDA) which has engaged youths across the state in farming. It was designed to begin to make youths move away from the so-called white caller jobs. The government in turn invested in land clearing, agricultural inputs, credit facilities, fertilizers, seedlings and land for farming. Also, road infrastructure is provided to enable the transportation of agricultural produce to urban centres. The essence of ODDA scheme, nevertheless, is to guide participants from what they are producing to the ultimate consumer of their products and allow them to see the value chain that goes on in any typical production process. Interestingly, many youths in the state have keyed into the agricultural scheme thereby accessing funds meant for the scheme under the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS) that the Federal Government made available through Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The sum of One billion naira was provided to the state by the Federal Government through CBN to fund the programme which gave birth to the ODDA initiative of the state government. About 800 farmers, including youths and farmers in the state have benefitted so far from the first stream. The scheme is expected to be upscaled this year while the state government will also benefit from another agricultural programme initiated by the Federal Government called the Anchor Borrowers Scheme which is another funding window by the Central Bank of Nigeria to raise another generation of farmers.
An Executive Commissioner of the NCC, Chief Sunday Dare, has also justified this by saying that it will lead to consolidation of the industry as it did in India. But I don’t quite understand what Dare means by consolidation.
According to the Head, Press and Public Relations, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Josiah Emerole, Okorogu was sentenced by a Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital.
In her first match at Rod Laver Arena since losing last year’s final to her sister, Serena, Venus Williams lost her opener to Belinda Bencic 6-3, 7-5.
In the same vein, the governorship and state Houses of Assembly campaigns will start from December 1 and ends on February 28, 2019. This is in line with the earlier dates set for the Presidential and National Assembly elections slated for February 16, 2019 and the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly elections slated for March 2, 2019.
The statement said: “MOSOP is worried that this trend appear to be a replication of the civil crises engineered by the government of General Sani Abacha which eventually led to the hanging of our leaders in 1995.
They were said to have stormed the station after policemen, who were intent on arresting a fleeing suspected cyber fraudster, pursued him into a football pitch.
He added: “Who knows? If you’re that big and that muscley, there’s something wrong. I have heard the word, I have looked at him and I have seen. He has been very close with Klitschko… he has been a reigning champion for a long time. So I don’t know… it may be true, or maybe not.
The fleeing suspect was said to be part of a six-man gang that collected an Automated Teller Machine card from an 18-year-old boy at the Gowon Estate area of the metropolis, after he withdrew N10,000 for his elder brother.
Magistrate Hassan Mohammed ordered that Garkuwa Daji, Abdulazeez Idris and Ibrahim Idris should be remanded in prison custody until February 15, when the case would be mentioned.
The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Moses Yamu, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Makurdi.
Francis’ plane left Rome airport shortly before 9 am (0800 GMT) and is due to land in Chile’s capital Santiago after a 15-hour and 25-minute flight.
The rally would also hold in New Jersey, Atlanta, Houston and across other major U.S. cities.
Police said emergency services were called at 8:30 am (0030 GMT) to a report that three people were injured inside a hotel room near Victoria Harbour.
Dr Mike Ike-Ene, General-Secretary of the union, spoke on the directive in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.
The season-long sponsorship deal which is part of the airlines’ support to the newly-promoted Imo-based team’s 2018 league campaign, will see the airline get shirt sleeve branding and lots of other branding opportunities with the club.
The Committee of Diaspora Chairmen of the party made the call after a meeting held on Skype.
He said some members of the association were allegedly attacked in some match venues during the Match Day 1 fixtures of the NPFL.