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Bank of Agriculture (BoA) has flagged off an egg production scheme in Abia State in a bid to boost the protein component of the school feeding programme, create sustainable poultry industry and increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, recently Kabir Muhammed Adamu, Managing Director of BoA, represented by Gabriel Okenwa, Executive Director, Partnership, Strategy and Corporate Services, Bank of Industry (BoI), said one million jobs would be created in the scheme and that over 50 million eggs would be produced daily. Adamu said the scheme will empower farmers and make them employers of labour which can lead to 1.6 million profit cash at hand and massive wealth creation. He said participants of the scheme are entitled to a loan of N4.3 million to be repaid in two and half years with a single-digit interest rate. He explained that Abia was chosen as one of the pilot states due to Governo...

Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State has appealed to the Federal Government to increase its allocation to federal universities of agriculture in the country. Ikpeazu who made the call while speaking at the eighth convocation and silver jubilee celebration of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), commended President Muhammadu Buhari for refocusing attention on agriculture as a way of assuring economic growth in Nigeria. Speaking on the government’s directive to federal tertiary institutions, including MOUAU, to revert to their core mandates, the governor noted that “As Abia citizens, our desire would have been for this university to continue to train our children in different areas of academics, irrespective of their inclinations. “This is because we do not have any other federal institution that can fill the gap except this great institution.” He added that the global challenges of survival faced by graduates of such institutions would re...