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Over 75% of Lagos food supply from other states, says LASG
The state government is in the process of completing a central food system and logistics hub in the Epe area of the state, saying that the facilities, on completion, will help to push the state food value chain to N14 trillion worth of food market.
Lagos State Government has said that despite training over 100,000 farmers and fishermen in modern agriculture practices, over 75 per cent of the state’s food supply comes from other states.
The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture and Food Systems, Abiola Olusanya, said this yesterday, during the ongoing media briefing to mark the second year of the second term of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in office.
Olusanya, while giving an account of his ministry, said that the training of the farmers and fishermen in modern agricultural practices had significantly boosted productivity and improved livelihood in the last one year.
She said the ministry had continued to promote urban farming initiatives, including supporting farmers with various grants to boost agro entrepreneurship and the value chain in collaboration with the State Employment Trust Fund.
The commissioner said the ministry, through the agric innovation club, had engaged young minds and aspiring agripreneurs in agricultural innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, while providing grant of up to N100,000 million for 26 agro innovators.
Also, yesterday, Olusanya said that the state government is in the process of completing a central food system and logistics hub in the Epe area of the state, saying that the facilities, on completion, will help to push the state food value chain to a N14 trillion worth of food market.
Source: The Guardian
Social media activist, Martins Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, has been released from the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
His release was announced on Wednesday by former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore, via his X handle.
“Thanks to unrelenting efforts of all @thatverydarkman has been released from unjust detention at the @officialEFCC.
He is with his ebullient lawyer, @adeyanjudeji,” Sowore tweeted.
More details later…
The Chairman of Bariga Local Government Area of Lagos State, Kolade Alabi, on Wednesday, suddenly slumped at the All Progressives Congress stakeholders’ meeting held at the party’s Secretariat in Ikeja, the state capital.
Alabi, who is the state chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, was addressing party members when the sad incident happened.
Fortunately, he was subsequently revived and rushed away to the hospital in an ambulance for further treatment.
See photos below.
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Herbert Wigwe: Pilot Error Results in Crash
In its final report released on Wednesday, the NTSB said the accident occurred after the pilot continued flying under visual flight rules (VFR) into weather conditions that required instrument flight protocols.
The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has concluded that the helicopter crash which claimed the lives of former Access Holdings CEO, Herbert Wigwe, his wife, son, and three others in February 2024 was caused by pilot error stemming from spatial disorientation.
In its final report released on Wednesday, the NTSB said the accident occurred after the pilot continued flying under visual flight rules (VFR) into weather conditions that required instrument flight protocols.
“The pilot’s decision to continue the visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in the pilot’s spatial disorientation and loss of control,” was cited as the probable cause of the crash.
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