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CFI, stakeholders unveil platform to boost agribusiness
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By Nimat Otori
An e-learning platform that would serve as an opportunity to leverage current technologies to educate farmers and agripreneurs across the value chains in the agricultural ecosystem has been launched in Lagos.
The platform is the brainchild of Corporate Farmers International (CFI) that partnered with the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers (CIS), Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture and Kebbi State.
Prince Ade-Ajayi, Co-Founder of CFI, during the unveiling event of the e-learning platform on Friday in Lagos, said CIS and CFI in 2019 signed a Memorandum of Understanding on certification of trainees from the CFI e-Learning Academy to enhance value in the agriculture sector.
Views: Visits 3 Donald Duke By Nimat Otori Former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has been indicted for the current problem of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as he was accused of foisting autocratic leadership style on the party. The former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, who made the accusation, said his predecessor, Liyel Imoke, destroyed all the elements of democracy which he and others laboured to build over the years. According to him, things started nose diving for the party during the era of Imoke as governor between 2007 – 2015. READ ALSOWhy Nigerian men no longer marry foreigners – Koko Kalango ‘‘However, post 2007, the party’s fortune started ebbing. An autocratic leadership style emerged, communication with its followers declined and emergence in the party was determined largely not by the party constitution or structures but by the whims of the state’s chief executive.
Former Governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, has been indicted for the current problem of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state as he was accused of foisting autocratic leadership style on the party.
The former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, who made the accusation, said his predecessor, Liyel Imoke, destroyed all the elements of democracy which he and others laboured to build over the years.
According to him, things started nose diving for the party during the era of Imoke as governor between 2007 – 2015.
‘‘However, post 2007, the party’s fortune started ebbing. An autocratic leadership style emerged, communication with its followers declined and emergence in the party was determined largely not by the party constitution or structures but by the whims of the state’s chief executive.
By Nimat Otori
Members of the National Agricultural Seeds Advocacy Group, NASAG, have called for a Plant Breeders Protection Law that will protect the rights of breeders in the country.
Speaking during a zoom conference on the seed sector of the agricultural industry recently, Celestine Okeke, a Lead partner, Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Economic Development Initiative, said in the absence of a law protecting the rights of breeders in Nigeria, “plant breeders both in the public and private sectors have remained non-committal towards investing in plant breeding as there is no guarantee that their rights will be recognized and respected.
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