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Cocoa production in Nigeria, the world’s fourth-largest grower, will increase 28 percent for the main harvest that starts next month, the country’s industry association said.

Output for the October to January harvest will rise to 320,000 metric tons from 250,000 tons a year earlier, Robo Adhuze, a spokesman for the Cocoa Association of Nigeria, said yesterday in Akure, in the western part of the country. Nigeria also has a smaller crop that runs from March to June that usually adds another 35,000 tons, Adhuze said, according to Bloomberg

Nigeria is helping farmers to grow more beans and last year distributed seeds that are resistant to diseases such as Black pod to boost crop prospects by 2015. Demand will probably outpace supply for a second year in the 12 months starting next month as production falls in West Africa, the main growing region, and consumption increases.

“Black pod disease was witnessed all over, but the impact on production was minimal owing to pest control,” Adhuze said.

Ivory Coast is the biggest grower, followed by Ghana and Indonesia, according to the London-based International Cocoa Organization. Cocoa prices in London climbed 17 percent this year.

Gbawe: Sad bunch of people. When the President you all support clannishly is corruption and mediocrity personified, with not much genuine achievements to his name, why will you mumus not be here dancing azonto? Clever Nairalanders and Lagosians will get the 'gist' because I do not have to point out the obvious to them that GEJ fans, always 'thick' by nature, can never discern.

danikik7: Nigeria is defficient in space technology /exploration. Alll these project is based on buying, construction and installation from Japan.At the end Nigeria is being feed with third class information like Surrey in UK does.My candid opinion is that ,it should be put on hold until we have bright boys from our tertiary institutions in conjunction with well articulate Profs in the field to build and propergate the agency to our test.For now all I see are more fat-cats that will bleed the nation in the name of we shall soon get there with nothing to show for it. They can commense if the Agency has the capacity to buld at least 70-80% of its satellite and deploy them into orbit without foreign aid.

awodman: I think same too...maybe the funding issue is yet to be fully sorted out

kingoflag: I mean----pardon me if Im wrong cus I dont watch much soccer--- I dont remember seeing any of the Nigerian players with the name "Goodluck Jonathan" on the back of his jersey. Is this the same Jonathan guy that brought Facebook to Nigeria? Are we talking the same person?

Prof Corruption: Is this a joke?

Prof Corruption: Privatization is now being listed as an achievement!

Tolexander: no!
Na your daughter i dey wait for.
How will you feel being my father inlaw?


these people are just marrying themselves.
When will they start marrying us so that we can have a taste of this national cake?

awodman: Bro..do you know the status of work on the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge line?...have actual physical construction started...

emmatok: Fake news coming from NANS.
Pity Nigerians even when they are in Darkness, they will claim to having 24/7 electricity.
Psychos.

Gbawe: You don't get it do you? The honest truth is that I hardly read what you, insincere9gerian and all other hardened sycophantic fans of GEJ write. My opinion is that there is nothing at all intelligent in your rant worth reading let alone responding to. If I don't read your garbage why would I be interested in countering it?

Do any of you shameless tw1ts think I even have any regards for you guys let alone be interested in responding seriously to anything you losers post here?

Symphony007: wow. Taharqa. Congratulations on your appiontment as the new commisiioner of police in rivers. Because apparently, you know more about rivers state police command orders than even the spokesperson who clearly state in the article that at no time did they order policemen to block the gates of the government house. But here you are telling us that otherwise. You are just too much.

Gbawe: Frustrated mumu. 'Period' pain worrying you? You are a lousy creature to begin with but 'time of the month' issues must render you a real pain. Abeg go and recover somewhere and leave others be. Loser.

Symphony007: which job? Given to them by who? When their commisioner has already denied them. Did you read the article at all? Who gave them the directive to stop the elected governour of rivers state from entering brick house?

Gbawe: We all know Lamido is sure of himself because GEJ is a highly unsophisticated President political stakeholders have all worked out. GEJ can only flex muscle against Southerners like Amaechi and Sylva. Lamido knows he is on solid ground playing 'brave man' against 'lame Duck' GEJ.

Symphony007: Then name the men of the force who carried out that action without permission and discipline them accordingly or this statement is just hogwash.

If truly this policemen acted on their own then i'm not surprised. It's the consequences of seeing their boss embarrase the governor on a daily basis, also the free hand thy've been given. one day headlines will read "policeman slaps gov. Ameachi"

Mr Aboki: I hope you realize that the Police has no right to barr the Governor from going anywhere he pleases..


They can only advice him...

gramci: you must have realized that President GEJ supporters don't indulge in whining. Your masters look for trouble then send out e-urchins like yourself to whine online while they soak their pillows with tears whenever President GEJ responds.

take dat: I do not dispute the fact that the information would have been brought to his attention, but it would be categorized as 'unofficial'. The last I checked, freedom of movement still exists in the constitution. My argument still remains that, if the police had gone through the 'official' process of informing him ahead as the chief security officer of the state or his security aides, that would have trounced Amaechi's sympathy moves.

take dat: Brainless m0ron. If the Police had informed him ahead, they would have said so while stating the reason the road was barricaded and why the Governor wasn't allowed access. They was no reference to any prior communication between both parties in the statement released by the police.

"When contacted on the matter, the state Police
Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs. Angela Angela Agabe (DSP), said she had aware of the incident. She explained that the police had to barricade Forces Avenue because the New PDP secretariat was opened there by the Abubakar Baraje PDP faction. The new secretariat is located on the same road."

“The governor has other routes to get to the
Government House. So I don’t see how this should be an issue,” Agabe said.
http://ynaija.com/politico/police-bar-amaechi-from-entering-govt-house/

Desric: So what's your point exactly my friend?

wheel barrow: I'm a Proud APC supporter!!

If d tin pain you wella, makee you go drink goat piss