DAILY TRUST Thursday, February 17, 2011
BUSINESS
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Business Ekiti government presents N2m to NDE graduates
Lev from Cocoa export
From Doyin Adebu5uyi, Ado-Ekiti
By Sunday Willaims & Usman A. Bello
THE Ekiti State Government has disbursed N2 million to 50 graduates of community-based skills acquisition programme of the National Directorate of Employment (NDE) with a promise to employ over 20,000 people into the various sectors of the state economy between now and 2014. Each of the 50 beneficiaries received N40,OOO as loans which are expected to be paid back within three years with the governor charging them to make judicious use of the money. Governor Kayode Fayemi, who presented cheques covering the amount to the graduates, said the government had started registering unemployed graduates and schoolleavers since December across the state. The exercise was intended to give government a database that would smoothen the recruitment exercise.
hit 1,5m in 2010 THE Federal Produce Inspection Service unit of the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry said it generated $1, 502,807.07 revenue from cocoa export levy in 2010 compared to $1,257,784.80 in 2009. The Assistant Director, Federal Produce Inspection Service, Mr. Adetola John, disclosed this in Lagos at the weekend, according to a statement signed by the spokesperson
Lugbe residents want more banks By Mustapha Suleiman RESIDENTS ofLugbe, a suburb of the FCT have called for more banks in the area. A resident Gbenga Akinsola said the area with thousands of residents have only one bank and one functional Automated Teller Machine (ATM). He said that residents of the area stay for hours on queue before they can assess the only ATM serving the whole community. "As you can see we are so many on this queue now and more people are still coming. It is very bad that Lugbe, one of the most populated satellite towns in the PCT, can only
boast of a single bank and one functional ATM machine," he said. Another resident, Mrs. Ngozi Mba lamented that she has been disappointed on several occasions when the ATM failed to dispense money due to insufficient cash in it. "They used to be three ATMs, one inside the bank and the other two just outside it. But we learnt that they have been authorized not to allow customers make use ofany ATM outside the bank premises," she said. She appealed to those concerned to bring more banks to the area so as to give Lugbe residents easy access to banking operations.
of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Bolagi Kazeem. The Head of Procurement Unit of the ministry, Mrs. Adaobi Obioha and her team visited the Federal Produce Inspection Service, ljora-Olopa, Lagos. They were in Lagos to monitor the implementation of 2010 Capital Projects of Parastatalsl Agencies under the Ministry in the South West Zone. Adetola said that Cocoa beans export for 2009 and 2010 represented 71.39 per cent and 65.66 per cent
Hassan UNITED States of America (USA) has reiterated its support to boosting Nigeria agricultural sector and helping the nation to attain food security. Deputy Assistant administration of the United States Agency for intra development (USAID), Gregory Gottlieb said the US is ready and willing to support Nigeria in the area of coordinated policy responses at the federal, stat. and local government levels to enable it resume its state as a net exporter of agric commodities. SpealOng at the inaugural meetingoftheworkinggroup on food and security and agriculture ofthe Nigeria-US bi-national commission in Abuja on Tuesday, Gottlieb said "With Nigeria being a net agricultural exporter and its economic position, its farmers can not only feed Nigeria but could also feed
the rest of the world." While applauding Nigeria's potentials in agric sector, Gottlieb said US is pleased with N200 billion commercial agriculture credit scheme (CACS) saying they are looking forward to discussing ways of improving the impacts on the beneficiary. . He said their partnership with Nigeria is to improve quality and quantity of investments by linking farmers and agro-processors to the banks. "The US supports the CAADP process, as we recognize that a country-led strategy is critical to sustainability addreSSing the root causes of hunger and rural poverty. He added that women would be central in their efforts as National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) recognizes their contributions to the sector. According to him, "The NAIP recognizes that nearly half of rural women in Nigeria are subsistence farmers and improvement in that sector
can have dramatic effect on the health, education and welfare ofmillions ofNigeria women and their families~ Gottlieb further stated that NAIP aims at reducing post harvest losses by an average of 50 percent, reduce food importation by 50 percent by 2015 and increase number of irrigated land from 1 to 10 percent. He advised Nigerian government to construct more roads, pass legislation to encourage the rise of farm income and establish clear roles and responsibilities at all levels of government for the achievement of NAIP programme. In her remarks, permanent secretary offederal ministry of Agric. Mrs. Fatima B.A Bamidele acknowledged that Nigeria is yet to achieve the level of development in agriculture, adding that Nigeria hopes to tap from the wealth of knowledge of the US in agric sector and look forward to revamping the sector.
against 71.39 percent for 2009 was due to the springing up of cocoa crushing mills which have added value to the beans in the production of cocoa butter, cocoa cake, cocoa liquor and cocoa powder respectively," he said. He requested for the recruitment of more produce superintendents to enable the organization cover all her operational zones and also solicit for 15 percent of export levy collected in respect of shipped export commodities as her operational cost.
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