Monday, January 2, 2012
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and &"Verngd Umitedsnid it has iDYCSI£d N2 billion Ioc:stablish. fEW faaory in lDgos. The
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is 10 help uprnd its proWc:tion and(R:lje fIl(R employmenl in
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The Hea:l. Slles and ,·.. Iarteting. Mr. Adekunle Curtis. in. dill with !he media during !he201 1Alunlll1 Kiddics Bnin Test F"mak ~Id in Lagos ~y saitJ that u.: oompany
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Bobo Invests N2bn on New Factory SIorits bJ Chinawr Mtgbolu lIo'OUld 5wtlClping ~ from !he new raelOr)' in 20 12. He also ~ thai the new fa&."1Of)' would gi\'e birth 10 other \-aOanlS and new brands of
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new faao.. ry in NO\o'tmb::r 20 11 and O\'a" 1001XJJ carv:m as against the initial target of ISO.ooo for 2011. Continuing. he pointod 001 that befae ending of 20 II . the sales would upsurge 10 250.000 canons from !he new facta}'. On the annual e'.'ClI. he said lhal the compcv!)' ""85 a:xnmil-
ted 10 giving bad.: 10 the sociecy by c:hoscn the education SICCfa" by smrting ..ilh l...agos State in order 10 empower and imJ*1 knowledge on the dUkbm !hal will ~ them ahead eX the challenges elwing their studies. ''lllc cssenocofthe project is 10 emphasise han!. work on the pan of the dtiIdren. We want 10 see how ""t: can enc:curnge chilo
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Bobo food drinks. CUrtis fwtha- explained that the company had sold OYO'" 10.
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dren in primary schools in lago5 10 put in tbdr best and embr-=e educ:Ption. We v.-lIflt 10
ronoibutc our qucu l(lwaJds
ensuring thai
Ihe ac:ademic
foundation of !he ~ is sound and solid. such that their future will be mhanoed,~ he
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Curtis. while ~plaining that it is the rompany's 0'0\11 way of ctllllibuting 10 I beuer Nigeria. posited that thecbal~ facing the ampany was the issue of ccpyrights. which the a:mpmy has been banling with lIS some c:ompanie:s came up ..ith names like BoBo in the maruL He. however, blamed the Qo\.'erT\fJlent ror giving them permission 10 produce whal other eslllblished brands like: Bobo Company is producing. "Some people cannot be innoo,-:llh'e and aeative. thaI is
why il is no! he lping them ~
ir govemmenl
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them 10 name their brands afIer !he established ones,they will go t.cIc 10 the drawing board and have something unique and Nigeria will be bener." Out of the 20 schools thai participated in !he final stage of the competilion, ) winners namely, Command Children School. Hamdallah G~p of Schools and InilOro Comprehensk'e Nun;ery and I'Mwy &hooI """"" ...... second and third ~y. The star prize winra get a Bobo branded school rus and N 100,(0) cash prize. the sc:o::xad prite winner gac a (ully equipped computer laboratory and N ISO'(xx) while the Ihlrd prize winner got a printer. p/1I)locopier ILnd N200'(xx) cash
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Lifemate Opens Mega Showroom in Ikeja ifemate Nigeria Limited, a leading and fllml'DSl fur· ninn-e company in Nigeria had opened a mega show· room al !he Ikr:ja City Mall.
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In a statemenl made avail· able 10 TIn SDAY. said the offla is situated beside: the Lagos SIDle Go\'011mtnl House Abusa. lkeja l...agos and intends giving its customers fantastic price slash in aU their
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"""'"' prodocu. According 10 the Deputy Managing Di~, Mr. Weir Wu . "the unbealable price slashes 10 be gi\'en is 10 com· · 11'lC11101'111e customer for their pa~~ during this yuleude ~.
'CO'wpea's Driving a Silent Revolution in Nigeria'
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he Inb:lTlaUOllal Ill5lirult or Trupio."lll '\piculnlJ'e (lIT"') has soo CO\II.pea produclion Ilnd process. inp. is l'rop!Uing: a silenl ~luliol1 1I1 Nigeria, ns incomes from tile crop lire implU'·ing rurnJ li":lihoods in the countty. In a Sla~me!ll issued 10 THISDAY by IIT.\. fam"ICrs and ~ in (su. a community in s.,..th-weslem Ntgeria. said proc~ing the prtMein·rich aup mto cakes ~I:uly koo",n is akara is alun 10 hitllng a goklmine. ''1l1e benefi ts a."'e many from frying of Bkura .llone I have been oble 10 afford :;ending my son to the uni\·cnilY. I bJih a house and oow oY.TI a car,~ said 1111 nkarn venoor. ~ln;. Olniya Olu"'mi She added that she had tried other busines..o;es h he pas! bJl the proce:ssi n~or CO" vpea grains to aklllll ~main::c the mosl \.!able. opion. She noIed thai l-.e t:miness has grown in !I.e last 5e\"t:n years and she cum:u!ly employs more th;m 20 peopk·. According to 1fT'\.. on a\·eraile. she gelS profil~ of betw~n NIXlO (US$ IO) .. nd N2000 CUSSI]) daily in a COUntry 1Io·~ about 50 peH:"em of the population duh'~ ( n less !lklfl USS2 per clay. this is I Io! of cash• .., h:J~"t: tried Olher rusinessc:s bJl this is ju ;1 the best," she reiler.ued. Another I:OW])!3 pnxessor, Olld Mrs. OIOlwlisola. said
she inhc:rited the bliiness from her mother- and !ai j thai aIler
Stories by Crusoe Osagie maJwglng the bJsiness in the las! 30 yean. sI"IC now owns the iamous Jyadunni Ak::un. pr0cessing enterprise thai uses about 100 kg of cowpea grains lIS raw material daily (or milking akaoI. IITA said inrome:s from the finn have helped Olorunisola 10 build IWO houses saymg the thild is a ).SKRy bJilding that is still under oonsrruction. 1hree of her ~n M\'e gradU81e.d from the uniVersity. thanks to inaJfT1e Iiool 1Ikasa:· lITA said.
UTA saki like Olul'lllkemi and Olorunisola. several odter processors ha\'e benefited (rom the processing of cov.')le:J in !he communilY maintaining that mOSI of tIlC houses will in Osu ha..-e &I least the foondation laid with incon-.e rrom uara. Thousands eX tra\"eUcn pass-ing through Osu town. locatcd bef,.un lIe-lfe and Ibha. stop cbily 10 buy the pofAlIar ·akana Osu' from the \-endors and eat. Consumers inlrrVicwed. said !I"IC proiein.rich crop rqIlenish· es lost energy arising from faugue Cllpc:~ during long journeys. " I look forward 10 eating akarn osu wl'lenevu I am tra\"cUing on !his roule.~ said, II tr.I\'eUer. r-,·Ir. Friday Adeshina. Elsewher'e in the nonhem pan of Nigeria - home 10 cow· pea puductioo.lhis leguminous crop has p!O'o'Cl 10 be a ~"erita· ble SOU~ of income for fann· ers and pnxessors. In Bomo. Kal!ina. Kaduna.
Kano SIlUeS and,. 11$ ril£ as Niger Republic. ~pe3 (amtm. who adopled impru\-ed CO\II.pea \'IlIielies management pnc1ices. ~ IlIl a\-ernge of 55 per cellI rise in their inco rnes. accordi ng to data from the Inlemalionallnsl:irule of Tropical AgricuJIW'C: (IITA). f-anners who use tr.Iditiona1 \-arietie:s earn aboul USS 25/ha. ",tule those who are growing !he Unpro't-m cowpea are get. ling USS39()..'ha. and additional USS 139. with proper ClOp mMagemenl proctices. Besides inoomes. inter.-mlions by UTA and partnm supported by the Tropical Legumes 11 project. Canadian Inlernational Development Agency. United Stales Agency for International Developmml, and the Sudan Savanna Task Fora: of !he Kano-Katsinaf>'landi (55 1F KKM) Pilot Learning Sile (PLS) of!he subSllharan Challenge Pn:lgramme, are helping farm· mr with i~'1OdtnoIogics 10 meel the increasing demand for the crop. Fanner Mohammed MuSl:lpha says ~ has bttn able (0 double C()wpca fields using the same pIC)( 0 land with impro\"Cd \"llrieties and agronomic practices, thanb to UTA inler.-entions. "BdtR, I used 10 get TWO bags of CO\\')le:J from this field but in 2009. I harvested five bags whidl "'~ nue: than double the injtiaJ amounC· says Muslapha . II f~ in Kunamawll village in Saf3llll Local Go\·emment Area of
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KAlsina Stale. ea.o.')le:J·s appcaIlO farmers has spinllcd in rttenl limes. making the crop a prominatl tool in fighling hunger and f'O\'Cft}' in Africa.
lITA Cowpea Breeder- and Tropical Legumes II Projecl Coordinalor. Dr Christian Falokun, said !he appc:aJ of the crop is growing no! jusl became of inr:omes 3MOcialed with il bul also due 10 the fact Ih31 il is droughl tolerant and suitable ror culu\'l!lioo in the arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. BUI the strides made by the crop I.fC not withoul chal· lenges. For instance, !he plllI1l still faces pe5lS 3nncks during every slage of its life cycle. Aphids ~tracI juice from cowpea 1ea\'C:5 and stems while the crop is still a seedling and also ~at1 the t'OYo'pea mosaic: VIJUS.
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FIo\o;er thrips fClSlon il during nowering. pod borers auack its pads durin! pod growth. and brochid weevils anack the post-han~ted seeds. 1lle pllll1lS are also anac:ked by diseases caused by fungi. bac· leria. and viruses. Panlsilic weeds . Striga and Alecua • choke !he plan!"s grtMth III all stages and nemalodes pm-'eIIt !he roots £rom absorbing nutrients and 1Io"3lef from the soil. Yield gap ~mains a huge chaliengc. Unleashing the full potentia} of cowpea will mJU~ gmllff allenUon 10 the crop both in new scientifIC discovnies and im'eSlmefUS.
He also advised CUSlO!TleB 10 celebnlle this season in a memo orable way with inno'..woo (or ~ceJlence with value·added furniture products.
According to him. "Liremate furniture is your one·stop-sItop for all yotlTC()mplele household furniture . We offer romrortable lh'ing room furniture such as leather sorllS. fabric sofas. cofrec tables. glass tables. modem dining sets and accessories". Wu also s~ thai bedroom furniture .such as aquisite bed, w.udrobcs. night stand. dresser and mintn. lighting fil· lings include hanging lighl, modem chromed chandelier. aaylic pendanl light. table lamps and reading lamps are all a\'llilable. for all customer for purchase. ''1l1e sanitlLly ~ include deluxe glass basm. shower room with pcro.ver shcr.1.w. simple bmh tub. compulerised steam box and Jacuzzi with J fantastic price slash in al l these unique products this yuldidc: season:' he said.
Procter and Gamble Unveils New Product rocter and Gamble. one of the ....'Orid·s leading manuof quality puI. UCIS. has intruducr;d 3 new anuboctmaJ soap 10 reiterate its fighl agail1Sl germs and bacteria in the country. AI the formal launch or Safeguard and the Champions or health .school programme, the company's Managing Director, Manoj Kumar. said the inuoduc:tion or Safeguaru in Nigeria apands Pnx:!er and Ganlble existing educational
embarked on lhe has Champions of Health Schools Programme initiaLi\'e aimed at educating and promoUfi!!: pr0per hand washing cultu~ amongst children as a measure to curbing !he transmission or infection of trIIn5minabie dise3SeS.~ she said. lbe Assisllll1l ~tor, Lagos State Health Education Office . Mrs. Omowunmi Geo!ge, representing the Lagos Stale Commissioner for Health al the launch. greatly C()mmended Procter and Gamble
He the Safeguard Champion of Health school programmeajms 10 touch O\'era million children in Nigeria ~g Ihna the programrne ailJl5 10 reach childml arnJS:5 the nation with infonnation on how 10 guard againsl pre· \"t:Iltable diseases IiU; dianhea and pneumonia thmugh hand
for promoting the hand-lIo"BSbing culture and in effed good hypene pr.tetia:s. She noted the iniliative is in line with the §laIC go'o-emmenfs health policy on promoting and enco'lnging healthy and hrgienic: practices nmongst !he citiunry. The OeJ?Uty Dim=lor Lagos SlDte Mirustty of Edocation, Mr. Abiodun Babarunde, who rqxesenled !he Commissioner for Education. also commended the Safeguard Champions of Health school programme as I step in the righl dmtion. He added that by promoting proper hand. washing culture through !he health~. P&'G and Safeguard are re·iter· ating and ~ing children 10 inallcale the nghl hygiene values from an early aae.
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The Company·s Associate Mmeung Dira:lor. Mrs.
Ehinomen Ojemen, also stated thai
Safeguard
effectively
te'tnO\'C:5 millions of germs from
the skin's surface unlikr ordi-
nary soaps and pre'otttlS the regro'>\1h of skin germs for up 10 12 hours aIio" washing with its unique formulatioo . "JI is in this lighl thai Saf~uard and the African Medical Association (AR- IA)