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Three winners have emerged from African Development Bank’s (AfDB’s) Farming is cool art contest, carting away cash prizes of N1 million, N500,000 and N250,000 for first, second and third places respectively. They are Ezra Anthony, Precious Nnenna Enyinwa and Vivien Okoro. Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, AfDB President, presented the prizes to the winners while Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who represented President Muhammadu Buhari, opened the new office complex. Twenty contestants aged 10 to 16 years took part in the contest. It was part of AfDB’s goal to see a shift in agriculture on the continent, hoping to feed itself and eradicate malnutrition by 2025. At the inauguration of its complex at Abuja, AfDB inspired secondary school pupils with the Farming is cool contest to launch African economic outlook for 2018, as well as to share the high 5. Ebrima Faal, Senior Director, Nigeria Country Department, AfDB, said the contest was organised to sow a seed of awareness on ...

African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched the Junior Art Contest in Nigeria to promote the potential of agriculture to secondary school children as part of its ‘Farming is Cool’ initiative. The aim is to engender a generational shift in agriculture on the continent and ensure that Africa is able to feed itself and eradicate malnutrition by 2025. Mr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of AfDB, will present prizes to the three winners from the month-long contest at the commissioning of the Nigeria office building. The winners will receive partial scholarships of one million Naira, half a million Naira and N250,000 as first, second and third place prizes, respectively. “The art competition was conducted to sow a seed of awareness in young minds of the significance and potential of agriculture in the development of a nation’s economy. The Farming is Cool campaign strives to flip the script on farming as a last resort by emphasizing and promoting it as a viable wealth-creation o...