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Kengloria:
200 Youths to be trained on TAENPROWIZ Fish Production Business System and Technology under ECOWAS/ Anambra State Partnership


Kenechukwu Ofomah
Awka


Two hundred youths in Anambra State are to be trained on the TAENPROWIZ Fish Production Business System and Technology under the second phase of the ECOWAS Commission and the Fisheries and Aquaculture Value Chain Business Development Partnership, otherwise known as the Taenprowiz Production System and Technology Partnership Center, Anambra State anchored by FABDA with legs at the Adazi-Nnukwu Fish Production Village Business franchise and the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam.

The initiative, which is in line with the youth employability program of the ECOWAS Commission and aligned to the Youth friendly environment created by the Anambra State government, aimed at bringing youths into the agricultural businesses, involves the West Africa Secretariat for Ecological and Organic Agriculture (WASEOA) in this second phase, to coordinate some training Centers including the Taenprowiz Production System and Technology Partnership Center, Anambra State, Nigeria.

It also aligns with the mandate of FABDA which is the state Agency overseeing the Fisheries and Aquaculture economy in Anambra State.
In line with Section 5 of FABDA Law, Anambra State through FABDA has set a target to achieve local production of a minimum of 51,000 metric tons of Table Fish per annum to actualize self-sufficiency in Table Fish production.

Addressing a cross-section of key youth leadership across Anambra state in one of the engagement and sensitisation meetings, at the TAENPROWIZ partnership centre in Awka, during a strategic meeting to get their buy-in into the initiative, the Managing Director and CEO of FABDA who is also the Training Co-ordinator, Mr. Emeka Iloghalu said the ECOWAS-sponsored youth training is coming at a time the State Government has put a high premium on human capital and economic development centered on the youths.
Iloghalu said under the 2nd batch of the initiative, the youths will be trained on improved production system for fish called the TAENPROWIZ Fish Production Business System and Technology, and how to apply the model to produce fish in a professional and precise way.

According to him, the granting of the second phase was as a result of the significant success recorded in the first phase.

On the expected outcomes from the ECOWAS partnership, the Training Co-ordinator who is also the FABDA boss said it is envisaged that the training Centre and the various sites will become better now than when the ECOWAS Commission support came, and that the youths will emerge from the training successfully trained and equipped with the new technical skills to professionally run Fish businesses.

“It is also expected that some of these youths will go into fish entrepreneurship, while some can work or manage fish establishments for third parties.

“The Commission is looking forward to using the initiative to increase the population of youths within the ECOWAS region who are engaged in the Agribusinesses. This is because the agricultural sector is a strategic sector that has the capacity to create wealth and employment, as well as contribute to solving the food security question in the region,” he said.

Iloghalu noted that before the ECOWAS youth training, the FABDA has been on its mandate to drive and industrialize the Fisheries and Aquaculture economy in Anambra, in line with some of its targets including to achieve 51 million kg of table fish production per annum.
According to him, that is why they are focused on training the youths on Table Fish Production business using the only business Solution for fish production currently, which is the TAENPROWIZ Fish Production Business System and Technology.

With this, he noted, “The state can do massive production of Table Fish at industrial level.
“And as we are doing that, the seed fish component of the value chain will follow it normally, as well as the brood stock production and the processed fish aspect.
“So, it is a strategic way and direction for strengthening the businesses along the fisheries and aquaculture value chain, starting from Anambra State, extending to Southeast, to Nigeria, ECOWAS and Africa at large.
“So, we may be at the nucleus and pilot stage, but we look forward to getting it strengthened and the techniques multiplied for greater results.”

Speaking at the event, the State Chairman of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, NYCN, Surveyor Ambassador Obi Emeka Chukwudi described agriculture as the way to go, adding that the fisheries and aquaculture area, with its value chain, can be leveraged to empower youths in the state to be self-reliant, as well as empower others.

He extolled the strategic collaborations being explored by the FABDA to get youths in the state to embrace the opportunities in the fisheries area, assuring that the NYCN will mobilize its members across the communities of the state to participate in the training.
“In NYCN, we are ever-ready to partner with any group or organization with genuine intent to advance the cause of youths.

“With what the FABDA is doing with the ECOWAS commission and the TAENPROWIZ Technology, we are hopeful that in the near future, we will begin to have young people who would have excelled in the fisheries and aquaculture area, and will be willing to support others,” Obi enthused.

In their remarks, the President of the Youth Wing of the Anambra State Association of Town Unions, ASATU, Comrade Ken Okoli and the State youth leader of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Dr Tochukwu Obiadi expressed their solidarity with the initiative, saying that more needs to be done to get the youths adequately empowered.

Under the second phase of the training, the Taenprowiz Fish Production Business System and Technology is evolving to incorporate the Ecological Organic Aquaculture principles to extend to Agroecological production of crops from the nutrients rich Fish wastewater, thereby imbibing the practice of respecting the environment while pursuing food security via promoting food systems with Fish production and Aquaculture as the driver.

The training opportunity is for any youth between the ages of 18 and 35 at 4th of June 2025 and interested to become successful in professional, corporate or personal investments in the Fish business as entrepreneur, investor or worker in the Fish Production and Trading Business.

tunapawizzy:
This stats put to bed the argument about which region votes for only someone from their region

Interesting Observations-
In the South West, Tinubu had 2,279,407 votes, Obi had 849,423 votes, Atiku had 941,941 ---> To put it in relatable terms, if we consider other candidates as neglible(and yes their number shows they are), For every 100 votes in the South West, Tinubu had approximately 56 votes, Obi had 21 votes, Atiku had 23 votes
In the South East, Tinubu had 66,406 votes Obi had 2,021,788 votes Atiku had 91,198 votes ---> To put it in relatable terms, if we consider other candidates as neglible(and yes their number shows they are), For every 100 votes in the South East, Tinubu had approximately 3 votes, Obi had 93, Atiku had 4 votes

Let that sink in again Atiku+Tinubu = 7 over 100 in the SE, meanwhile Obi+Atiku = 44 over 100 in the SW

-93% of votes from the SE was cast for someone from the SE
-56% of votes from the SW was cast for someone from the SW

Now let us assume 250k votes out of the Obi votes from Lagos is from people from the SE(and that is even an exaggerated assumption) and those 250k people decided to go and cast their votes in the SE. that will increase Tinubus percentage in the SW to 60%(60 out of 100 votes), Obis percentage will reduce to 15%(15 out of 100 votes) BUT then that additional 250k will go to Obi in the SE which will further supports the fact that for the 2023 presidential election, SE was the master of Vote for your brother, vote for ur tribe

Look at the states that gave Atiku and Tinubu the least number of votes...Look at the last 6, you will find the 5 SE states there. How the SE decide to cast their vote is not my issue, The real issue is that you guys come online, open ur mouth anyhow without looking at data and say Yoruba people and SW region vote based on tribe and ethnicity.

A lot of Yorubas know Tinubu is crap, A lot of Yorubas are supporting, voted for and will still vote for Obi if he is on the ballot come 2027, but you guys online should stop letting your emotion get the better of you and start distorting facts that data can support.

haybhi1:
He's one of the top 3 in the UK, anytime anyday... that fella so good

naptu2:
Some British people have expressed anger at his tweet, saying that only people that accept British culture should be allowed to become British subjects.

Some Nigerians have proudly reiterated that he is Nigerian.

Some British people have also said that he has a right to choose where he is from.

Some Nigerians have also said that the only reason that he is proud of Nigeria is because he does not live in Nigeria.

Others have referenced a line from his 2017 hit, Hypycrisy.

In that song he rapped, "I'm a Nigerian Eagle".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF3y-HUxZTI?si=vWMfvVLiOAwj7fwK

naptu2:
Video of part of Skepta's performance at the 2025 Glastonbury Festival.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjXshN2A8OE?si=_VFfHhCzhnBEr3TR

Nemere2020:
https://dailynigerian.com/my-cfr-national-honours-award-by-col-abubakar-dangiwa-umar-rtd/

adenigga:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/06/29/exclusive-tinubus-saint-lucia-visit-decoy-secret-medical-consultation-sources-say

Akfrenzy:
They wanna survive 😆

Igbos and Yoruba were represented

treesun:
https://punchng.com/ex-footballer-four-others-arrested-for-drug-trafficking-in-lagos-kano/

treesun:
As Nigeria marked the 32nd anniversary of the annulled June 12, 1993 presidential election, last week, Olalekan Abiola, one of the children of the late business mogul and politician, Chief MKO Abiola, the widely acclaimed winner of the election, spoke to Sunday Vanguard during the anniversary at the family residence in Ikeja, Lagos on the impact of the incident on the family and on democracy in Nigeria.

He also shared his views on the best way to immortalize his father among other issues.

Excerpts:

It has been over 30 years since the annulment of the June 12, 1993 election and over 27 years since the demise of your parents. How has the journey been so far for the family?

Honestly, it’s been 27 years of trauma, especially with my mother’s assassination. I am saying this because she was all the way with us at home when my father was in detention at that time. She was not arrested, she was not detained by the military junta and she was not under house arrest.

One minute my mom was at home, in good health, and the next minute she had been shot. So that was more painful, more traumatic than the fate my father suffered.

In my dad’s case, he had been locked up for like four years before he died, so we had been used to not seeing him anymore.

Four years before he (MKO Abiola) died, he was already in detention but my late mom was the one that we could talk to and relate with. All the time, we were on the phone with her a couple of days before she died. We were expecting her to come and see us in the US when she was killed. That was more traumatic than my father’s own, but equally they were both painful, definitely.

“But now that my mother has been killed, we were hoping that my daddy will come back to us, so that we will be able to try to rebuild our lives”, but that never happened. So it happened that, basically, due to June 12th agitation we lost both parents. So it is both painful.

How has the family been able to navigate through all?
Well, we’re quite fortunate that our parents educated us. So we’re all educated. So we all can work and engage in some form of business activities. Both parents were equally well-off. Even though my father’s companies have been hijacked by my older brother, Kola, my mother still left quite enough for us to be able to survive with. I won’t say I cannot complain, because I know that I’m better off.

What about support from your late parents’ friends, and family members
It’s (support) been here and there. Initially, when this current democratic journey began in 1999, we got some level of support but a lot of failed promises from officials of government who would promise to help rebuild my late father’s business concerns. They, Federal Government till date promised to pay the debts that they are owing my father to the family. They never did it till the moment.

How much does the Federal Government owe your late father?
I’m not sure what the figure is but successive administrations, from former President Olusegun Obasanjo, kept promising to pay the debts. They will always promise to set up a committee to pay back the debts but none of them ever did. My father had many outstanding debts accruing to him in several ministries. Ministry of Communications; there is one that I know of in the Ministry of Education because his companies supplied books and the Ministry of Defense. So these are the three ministries where these monies were meant to be paid from.

The Obasanjo government said they had to set up a committee to go and do an audit but they never did before they left office. When (former President Goodluck) Jonathan became President, the first two years, it was almost impossible to get to him and by the time we were able to meet him, it was like election time was approaching. So, he said I should not worry, that once the election was over and he gets a second term, it is one of the first things that he would do but he never came back.

Then, Muhammed Buhari came, he too didn’t act but he gave us June 12 Democracy Day. And maybe, he thought that since he’s done that he felt he didn’t have to pay us. Now that President Bola Tinubu is there, hopefully he is going to do the audit and pay off the long outstanding debts.

Has he (Tinubu) promised the family?
He has not said anything about it yet.

Do you feel betrayed by his (MKO’s) travails in the hands of his military junta’s friends considering their closeness?
I think that the main issue with my father is that he was ahead of his time in so many ways. I am saying so because, today, if anybody wins election in Nigeria, no matter the tribe, that person is going to be sworn-in. The worst thing they will tell you is to go to court. Once you get to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court declares you the winner, nobody can stop your swearing-in. So my father was ahead of his time, you know.

You see him more as a pathfinder
Yes, he was a pathfinder of some sorts because he was the first Yoruba man to win an election to be annulled in Nigeria. In the past, they didn’t need to annul elections which southerners contested but did not win, but MKO won and he presented some sort of challenge to the status quo who never believed that he was going to break all the barriers that had been placed before him.

This was a Yoruba man who, though was a Muslim with a Muslim running mate, was still voted for massively by Christians. He was a Yoruba man who defeated a Hausa-Fulani man in his home state of Kano. This happened because, MKO had spent so much time cultivating relationships the country.

And when he came out to run, he had support from everywhere. So I think that he was a victim of his own success. He was the first Yoruba man to win an election and he was liked by everybody. Yoruba only win an election in a free and fair contest in the country. They didn’t believe that. They were shocked. So he broke the jinx.

What are the lessons learnt from your late father
I think the most important thing I learnt from him is to hold on to our religion, Islam. I say this because this was what my father did that made people love him. All he did were based on Islam, which teaches us as Muslims to be charitable. My father never drank alcohol. He never went partying. He was not a party freak neither was he a gambler. The only thing you could say about my father that was kind of negative was that he had a lot of women but a lot of these women were those that came to him to give themselves to him willingly. Some of them came with children and said their husbands had abandoned them.

They usually begged him for shelter, school fees and even with food. They used to come and line up in front of this house every month to collect their allowances. My father would get some of them apartments or a house. Then they began to call themselves Mrs. Abiola, even though many of them were not. They would change their children’s names to Abiola and that was why my father wrote in his will that DNA test had to be done for all those who claimed to be his children.

About 120 children came forward to say they were MKO’s children but only 54 of them passed the DNA test at the end of the day (meaning 66 failed). So it was these women who were the ones coming to him and not him going around looking for them. When my father was alive back then, we saw women outside the house everyday.

About 10 to 15 different women, with different shapes and complexion, would come to see him for one thing or the other everyday. I think the main lesson I learnt from my dad was holding fast to religion.

So he was very religious…
He was very religious. And he raised us to be very religious. He raised us to pray five times a day and engage in charity which we call Sadaka in Islam. He used to say “I am not carrying this money anywhere. So let me just help people”. And he believed that the more he helped people, the more Allah helped him. Look at how he won the June 12, 1993 election, Allah helped him and even now. The man has been dead for 27 years, yet Nigerians are still bringing his memory back to life as if he died two weeks ago.

Does that really give you any kind of joy?
Of course yes! I am really happy for him. Because how many Nigerians do something or how many people did something meaningful in life and after they have died, people are still remembering what they did? It is incredible. So I am happy for him.

Your view on efforts by governments at the Federal and Ogun State levels to immortalise him

It means that every year Nigerians will have to remember the struggles of those who brought about the current democracy that everyone in the country is enjoying now for which my father and my mother paid the supreme price. So, that is really important for me as their son who is personally feeling the impact of their struggle which have helped us collectively.

Another thing I want them to do is that they should acknowledge that he was actually an elected president that the people of Nigeria freely and fairly voted for to lead them. To properly immortalize him, I am calling on government to consider giving him the honour of putting his picture in the Presidential Villa among the pictures of past Nigerian presidents who served the country in the past.

This is even more so if people like former Head of State Sani Abacha or General Babangida who were never elected by the people but came into power through military coups have their pictures there as former Heads of State. When you even consider the fact that Chief Shonekan who was even an interim head of state is enjoying the same privilege, then the question would now be, why not MKO who was elected by Nigerians should not have his picture displayed in Aso Rock? Another appeal that I am making to the government is that all the allowances and benefits that should have accrued to him as the president of the country be paid to the family in full like the entitlements that are being paid to former leaders should also be awarded to his family as a form of compensation.

And any debt the Federal Government owes him should also be paid to the family. That is I think the least that the family can ask the government to do. The government should do something to make sure that MKO’s legacy is carried out in accordance to the Nigerian law. The Nigerian government should help make sure that his will is implemented according to the Nigerian law.

What is the plan to bring family members together?
Brother Kola ordinarily ought to be the leader for all the children of the late MKO. He should be the leader of all the children. But what he is doing right now? He is the leader of his mother’s children. So Kola has not been able to bring us all together, he has been unable to do so for whatever reason to step into the role. He seems to only care about his own mother’s kids. The issue is that Brother Kola has not shown proper leadership in bringing other children together.

Your opinion on impacts of June 12 struggle on the country’s democracy
I am happy that this has been the longest span in terms of our democratic attempts. As a country, we have celebrated 26 years of unbroken democratic rule which had never happened before. In the past, the longest span had been five years. Again, unlike what had obtained in the past, nobody is going to dominate the others like we used to have.

No tribe is dominating any other tribe. Next time the presidency comes to the South, it should go to the South-East because they have not gotten it yet. So the next one now we are going to support hopefully somebody from the South-East. There is more equity in the system now than what it used to be.
Source: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/06/66-abiolas-children-failed-dna-test/

Ibehchizzy:
Yoruba women no dey sit down one place for house
Fff

ednut1:
till date all DNAs done in Nigeria the samples are sent abroad for processing. White man didn’t stop Nigerians from building their own dna testing facility.

dominique:
He held on tight to religion yet he entertained all shapes and sizes of women and having several illegitimate children with them. Is that a characteristic of someone that held tightly to religion?

GloriousGbola:
Good lord

This f--king man

He was my neighbour in festac 23 Rd

He is doing preacher in the UK while he literally abandoned his two sons back in Nigeria (his wife is dead) and left them to run wild.

I am fairly sure one son is doing yahoo

The other whenever I come across him is always looking haggard and far older than his years.

That man spent years doing absolutely NOTHING but sitting around in his house, then he suddenly vanished. So this is what he has been up to

A very very unpleasant fellow in real life.

femzy12:
Do you think of millions of dollars when you see maggots? Yes, maggots, those ugly looking insect that may make you want to vomit.
Few entrepreneurs in Africa are tapping into this multi-million-dollar idea. This article will show why it’s a multi-million-dollar idea and how you can get trained in maggot farming.
Maggots or larva metamorphose from flies. The fly of this larva are from black soldier fly. The Black soldier fly (BSF) is a harmless fly and does not transmit disease unlike the house fly.
The high cost of animal feed is a major challenge for farmers. Research has shown that maggot meal of black soldier fly can be an excellent replacement for fishmeal or soybeans meal which are the main ingredient in animal feed. Maggot meal can be blended with other feed ingredient and use to feed fish, poultry birds, pigs, guinea fowl and other animals.


Apart from its good taste, maggots are very nutritious and rich in proteins, a vital element in every animal feed. Proteins are important because they are a critical component in developing muscles in these animals which eventually become the meat that we humans eat.

How is maggot/larva meal from black soldier fly (BSF) produced? Female flies lays about 500 eggs close to a suitable feed source and the eggs develops into larvae (i.e. maggots).The larva grows while feeding voraciously on any agricultural bye product. The larva is harvested after few days, dried and sold as an affordable, protein rich larva meal for farmers of fish, poultry and pig.

There is no way an insect producer can meet up with the high demand of maggots. A 25kg bag of poultry feed cost N3800 or more. Think of producing 10 to 15 bags for a start, even if you sell as low as N2300 per bag knowing that your cost of production is low, you are heading to becoming a millionaire gradually in little time.

There are few businesses producing maggot meal in Africa; the most popular one is Agriprotein in South Africa.

A well-established maggot farm in Nigeria is training and mentoring entrepreneurs interested in starting a maggot farm .Do you want to be trained or learn all the skills needed to start and grow a black soldier fly maggot farming business? Trainings include both online and offline/practical classes. Kindly send a mail to daily.fresh.farms @gmail.com or send a Whatsapp message to +2348037696147 for more details on this. Thank you.

nikaShow:
This is my explanation of the profits in fish farming

How much does it cost to raise 1000 Catfish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiOXkqdb4LA[/url]

Aroyjunior:
Bro,with my experience so far I have never improvised before but I learnt there are ways to make formulation on your own,but the deal is when making formulation and there is a error in the formulation everything goes back to the fish.

And casualty in fish farming can be so disastrous.

So I always go for direct purchase of fish feeds.

id4sho:
The machine for making fish feed is expensive from china, most especially for fingerling feeds(very tiny). In all of this, I rather invest in fish feed manufacturing than farming. It's very profitable.

I tell you this, manufacturing anything is the bomb(no loud am)👌📌💯. People will work(buyers) for you.

Jonjam269:
Your D-lords are languishing in prisons all over the world.

If Tinubu weren’t a democrat like you claim, you and your echo chamber of keyboard warriors would probably be writing from a prison cell by now. But he’s a true democrat—he fought for the return of democracy while your self-proclaimed messiah was busy smiling at the same military rulers. You’re just another bitter, loud wailer—irrelevant, inconsequential, and always beating your empty chest with nothing to show.

iwaeda:
https://x.com/omonlakiki/status/1938604069691511112?t=kot1e8p_KmM8HQwG7mye4A&s=19[/quote]With the exception of a few brilliant posts right from page 1 of this thread, there's way too much shallow thinking and herd mentality going on here with the jumping to infantile conclusions based off of a random post by the supposed spokesperson of Atiku Abubakar (the member of the minority Fulani political hegemony who have held Hausaland and Nigeria down intermittent for years, and who was indicted by the United States Congress for the insidious Halliburton Bribery Scandal in which the U.S. Congressman William Jefferson was jailed for).

Are the main actors complaining about their own agreement here? Similaye already told these people to STOP creating problems for him with their careless talks ["drinking Panadol Extra"] at a Rivers State church program in May 2025. Let them be, STOP reacting impulsively based on unverified stories, and online posts, and let peace return to Rivers State. There's absolutely NO way Similaye would allow anyone to railroad him into doing what he doesn't want at this point in time. Period.

DamnnNiggarr:
Peter Obi commends former APC National Leader, Dr. Ganduje, for prioritizing his health and urged other leaders who are unable to perform to capacity due to health-related issues to take a cue from the former APC boss's exemplary action.


Peter Obi

nairametrics:
Buying shares in a company is one of the many ways which people carry out investments. Shares by default represent the value of equity contributed to a company for the purpose of carrying out business. Also, after business has been carried out, shares represent the unit of distribution of the company profits. Holding the shares to a company simply means you are part of the members/owners of the company based on the quantity of shares that you own.

You can be a shareholder by:

Subscribing to the company’s memorandum of association at incorporation.

When an existing shareholder transfers his shares to you (share transfer)

When you receive them through bequeathal after the death of an existing shareholder(transmission)

By allotment through a public offer or private placement.

The most important thing you need to understand as a shareholder is that shares issued are a company’s way of raising funds. If a company therefore has an authorized share capital of N1,000,000 to run its business, they can only issue shares worth N1,000,000. So a company with a share capital of N1,000,000 who wants to issue its shares and wants the value of its shares to be N20 per share will only be able to issues 50,000 shares. Perhaps the interesting part is that shares which you voluntarily pick up from a company actually stand as a debt which you owe the company. So in the instance where you pick up 5000 shares values at N20 each, you’re indebted to that company to the sum of N100,000.00. You will be required to pay that amount of money so the company can use it to conduct business.

Owning shares also entitles you to the following among other things;

READ MORE: https://nairametrics.com/the-rights-of-a-shareholder-in-a-company/