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By Musa Baba Adamu
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has advised the federal government to deploy the Natural Resources Development Fund to support enterprises within the agriculture and solid minerals sector, as a way of diversifying the nation’s economy. Lawan made the call in his concluding remark after the upper chamber considered a bill during plenary seeking to develop tea and coffee growth, production and marketing in Nigeria. According to the Senate President, “the Natural Resources Development Fund is supposed to support such enterprises in diversifying the economy through the real sectors such as agriculture, solid mineral development and so on.