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  • World Bank offers to boost agriculture – Adesina

    World Bank offers to boost agriculture – Adesina

    The Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina, said on Friday the World Bank boosted agricultural development in Nigeria in the last two years by offering nearly N139.5 billion to the sector.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Adesina, said this while speaking at the ongoing All Nigerian Editors’ Conference in Asaba, Delta.

    He said that nearly N62 billion of the amount was specifically pumped into irrigation development.

    He also said the African Development Bank (ADB) had provided nearly N77.5 billion to support the development of infrastructure around the staple crop processing zones in the country.

    He said the International Fund for Agriculture Development had also provided additional N31 billion to support staple crop processing around the country.

    The minister added that the French Agency for Development for the construction of rural roads had provided another $200 million (about N31.2bn) to complement government’s market development efforts.

    He said since the advent of the reform programme in the agriculture sector, changes were recorded in commercial banks’ lending to farmers.

     

  • Ikuforiji congratulates Adesina

    Ikuforiji congratulates Adesina

    Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, has congratulated Mr. Femi Adesina, the deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Sun Newspaper on his election as the new President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors.

    In a statement by his Chief press Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Adebayo, Ikuforiji described the election of Adesina as” a thing of joy for me, my family, and all my fellow legislators, the entire management and staff here at the Lagos State House of Assembly”.

    He said, “It is indeed a welcome development that your election is coming at a time when your media organisation, The Sun Group of Newspapers is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

    “As the pioneer editor of The Sun ( daily), it is clear that your superb professional wherewithal, alongside other sound managers of The Sun newspapers in the last ten years , has indeed earned your media organisation the excellent image of a brand that is well respected nationwide today.”

    He prayed that the Almighty God endow Adesina with the required knowledge, wisdom and understanding to successfully take the Nigerian Guild of Editors to the next level.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • ANPP, ALGON mourn Adesina

    The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON), Oyo State branch, has described Alhaji Lam Adesina’s death as a great loss to the state and Nigeria.

    It said in a statement by its Chairman and Secretary, Messrs Yekeen Popoola and Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye that Nigerians would miss his astuteness and leadership qualities.

    According to the statement, “Lam Adesina’s death is a great loss not only to Oyo State but Nigeria. In his days as a pro-democracy activist, he stood for the truth, fought for the people and remained dogged to the end. As the Oyo State governor, he embarked on projects that improved the educational standard and well-being of the populace. Oyo State indigenes will miss Great Lam. We seek solace in the fact that he was fulfilled as a leader and that he lived for the masses.”

    The All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), Oyo State chapter, through its Chairman and Secretary, Alhaji Razaq Folorunso and Sola Osotoye, said in a statement that Lam Adesina’s name should be immortalised because of his contributions to the development of the state.

    The statement reads: “We receive the news of Alhaji Lam Adesina’s death with shock. He was a political giant. He was a political heavyweight with wisdom. Considering his immense contributions to the development of Oyo State, government should immortalise his name. May his soul rest in peace.”

     

  • Why Adesina shunned foreign hospital, by son

    Why Adesina shunned foreign hospital, by son

    Former Oyo State Governor Lam Adesina who died in Lagos on Sunday declined to be flown abroad because he preferred to be treated where common people are taken care of, his son said yesterday.

    Dapo Lam-Adesina, the politician son of the late Oyo State leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) spoke to our reporter in Ibadan.

    The Oyo State Commissioner for Youth and Sports, said it even took a while to convince his late father to be transferred to a Lagos hospital from the University College Hospital (UCH) in Ibadan where he was initially admitted.

    The late Adesina was believed to have suffered from diabetes.

    He said: “One of the things he emphasised was that he must not be taken abroad for treatment. He said he did not want to be treated outside Nigeria. He said he wanted to be treated where common Nigerians are treated. That was why we could not fly him abroad for treatment. He rejected the idea. We were forced to take him to St Nicholas Hospital in Lagos when there was strike at the UCH. It took us a long time to convince him that there was strike at UCH before he allowed us to take him to St Nicholas Hospital. All of the time, he would say that he wanted to be treated where ordinary people are treated. He would have loved to remain at the UCH or at the State Hospital, Adeoyo, Ibadan.

    He believed that there was nothing spectacular about him to warrant being taken for treatment abroad. That was why we could not fly him abroad because he said he was not going. Even if he would die, he said he would not go abroad.

    He never treated himself outside Nigeria, even when he was governor so that people would understand that there was no difference between him and other people.”

    He said his father believed so much in Nigeria and lived his life for the masses. He added that he believed in the possibility of change till the end.