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Makinde: We ve Made Good Progress with Developing Oyo

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Tomato farmers plan to engage 40 per cent of unemployed youths in the Southwest

By Chidinma Ewunonu-Aluko Ibadan, Feb. 9, 2021 Tomato Growers Association of Nigeria plans to employ about 40 per cent of youths in the southwest this year through expansion of farmlands. The Southwest President of the association, Mr Bamidele Ajani, made the declaration in Ibadan on Tuesday when he spoke with newsmen He said that members also planned to increase tomato production by 100 per cent with government’s assistance. Ajani said that the association had applied for funds at the CBN’s Anchor Borrowers Programme to achieve increased production of tomatoes. He charged the CBN to disburse loans to anchor borrower farmers early enough before the planting season ended.

Ikere Gorge Dam: Nigeria s abandoned hydropower, fish production facility

7 min read Ochochepo Isa cast his net upon the water. It was a late September morning and the second time that day he was fishing at the Ikere Gorge Dam in Iseyin in Oyo State. He looked forlorn. His catch had been poor, only 11 pieces of tilapia fish as of 2 p.m. “No fish in this river anymore,” shrugged the fisherman, an Idoma from Benue State in the north central region of Nigeria. How can a 565 million cubic metres reservoir, the biggest in Southwest Nigeria, run out of fish? Ikere Gorge Dam is one of the major dams constructed by the Ogun-Osun River Basin Development Authority to tap the water resources of the Ogun River basin.

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