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Aboki

Destroying Age Old
Myths About The Yoruba
First published in my column, # TheAlternative , in today’s ThisDay.


There are many myths circulated by various ethnic nationalities about the Yoruba people of the Southwest, and a personal experience with a non-Yoruba provoked me to address some of these myths using historical facts. Please bear with me, this is a long read.

Myth one: Yorubas are betrayers
A lot of this angst, which has refused to fade away decades after the dramatis personae exited this world, is centred around a supposed betrayal of Emeka Ojukwu and the Igbos by the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo.
And sadly, this has now become an emotive issue, where fiction has been fed to many young people as fact.

The truth is that Chief Awolowo went on a peace meeting to Enugu, to try to persuade Igbo leaders to adopt a peaceful way out of the crisis that had unfolded in Nigeria after the January 15, 1966 coup and the July 29, 1966 counter coup.

Awolowo met with the leaders of the Eastern Region for two days between May 6-7, 1967. THERE IS A TRANSCRIPT OF THAT MEETING, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED WHEN BOTH AWOLOWO AND OJUKWU WERE ALIVE.

Please note that this transcript was taken from a tape recorded by then Colonel Ojukwu’s own recorder.

I encourage those who are still bitterly accusing Chief Awolowo, and by extension all Yorubas, of betrayal, to please read that transcript.

At the time Emeka Ojukwu wanted Chief Awolowo to follow his lead by announcing the secession of the Western Region after his own declaration of secession of the Southeast, there were tens of thousands of armed Northern troops all over the West. It does not take a genius to guess what would have happened if Awolowo had gone that route.

Moreover, unlike Ojukwu, Chief Awolowo had no control over any troops. He was also not the Governor of the Western Region (Adeyinka Adebayo was then the military Governor). As a result, he had no executive powers. Whatever powers he had were at best residual and persuasive.

Chief Awolowo had earlier called a meeting of Yoruba officers of the Nigerian army, and key officers of Yoruba stock refused to attend, with one of them sending a message to him that he was a Nigerian soldier, not a Yoruba soldier.

So given all of that, it was rather naive for anybody to have expected him to declare the secession of the Western Region from Nigeria.
It would have been like expecting Nnamdi Azikiwe to usurp Ojukwu’s powers as Governor of the Eastern Region, and announce the secession of Eastern Nigeria, and the creation of a new Biafran nation. The Ojukwu we know may have even arrested, and probably executed Zik if he had done that.

If the grudge against Chief Awolowo is founded on the £20 pounds payment to persons of Igbo origin, then I can understand it. But even that grudge is also not well founded. Because the £20 policy only affected those whose bank records could not be verified. I hazard a guess that if another person other than Awolowo was on that seat, the payment may have been £0.

But to hold a grudge against the Yorubas stemming from that Enugu meeting is in my view an injustice to a man who only went there to seek a way to avoid bloodletting.

In any case, have those who hold this view ever considered that the man, Emeka Ojukwu, for whom they hold this torch, after his return to Nigeria on May 18, 1982, joined the National Party of Nigeria, the very same party that was peopled, sponsored and supported by the very same people who prosecuted the Nigerian Civil War against him and Eastern Nigeria?

The NPN was a Northern Party that did not win a single state in Western, Midwestern (Bendel) and the Igbo states of Eastern Nigeria. The same people who founded the NPN were the very same people who advised and perhaps tele-guided Gowon.
In fact, the first National Leader of the NPN was Makaman Bida, a former member of the inner caucus of Ahmadu Bello’s Northern Peoples Congress.

This is the party that Ojukwu joined, contested for election into the Senate (and lost), and campaigned for during the 1983 Presidential election.

Taking all of this into consideration, there is no way the myth of Chief Awolowo, and all Yorubas being betrayers, can stand.

Myth two: Yorubas Are Cowards
The late Sani Abacha was the most brutal dictator in Nigeria’s history. I do not need to elaborate. His rule was a dark era in our history, and the nationwide spontaneous celebration of his death is enough shame on his memory and his family and survivors.
Having said that, Nigerians may want to recall that a certain Moshood Kashimawo Abiola stood up to the bully that was Abacha, and rightfully declared himself President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on June 11, 1994.
That took guts! That was not the act of a coward. It was a display of bravery.

Chief Abiola was arrested on June 23, 1994, and taken to Abuja. While there, he met with General Abacha, and told Abacha to his face that he was Abacha’s boss and Abacha should show him respect. That is more than guts. That is what is called Command Presence in the military. Audacity if you will.

On August 5, 1994, Chief Abiola was offered freedom, via a bail, with certain conditions, including that he “stay away from politics”. Abiola’s response was terse. It was given by his wife, Kudirat Abiola, who said "Chief Abiola is not interested.”

That is bravery to the point of self sacrifice. Bear in mind that this was a multimillionaire in US dollars, with access to private jets, and all the modern conveniences money could buy, yet he inconvenienced himself by refusing to betray his mandate.

And after Abacha died (I never call him General. It is an insult to call the world’s biggest political thief, who is still coughing up billions 23 years after his death, a General of the Nigerian Army), Chief Abiola refused to give up his mandate, and probably died because of his principled stand.

It is therefore ridiculous for anybody to call an ethnic nationality that produced such a personality cowards.

And this is not a recent phenomenon. Whereas the Fulani jihadist army completely defeated the Hausas, they could not defeat the Yorubas. A Yoruba regiment from present day Ibadan, and led by Balogun Oderinlo, routed the Fulani army and drove them out of Oshogbo in 1840, and eventually from Yoruba land. In the process, they captured four Fulani Generals.
The popular case of Ilorin was not a military defeat, it was a case of over ambition by a rogue Yoruba, Afonja. And it was isolated to the Ilorin area. I just hope history will not repeat itself in Lagos.

During the Nigerian Civil War, Murtala Mohammed was an unmitigated military disaster. The Biafrans defeated him soundly at Abagana and almost captured him. If not for the Yoruba led Third Marine Commando, Nigeria would not have defeated Biafra at the time she did.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that 'Abacha did not loot', you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenhagen.
He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.
He returned to face almost certain death.
What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.

Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.

The Yoruba are a very tactful and diplomatic people. These are attributes that some people mistake for cowardice, or sycophancy. They are a people who understand how to stoop to conquer.

This is what Scripture meant in 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty”. Wisdom, courtesy, diplomacy, and praise are all weapons. A weapon is anything you can use to achieve your strategic objective. It does not always have to be a physically offensive weapon.
Myth three: The Yoruba are Clannish, They Form Cliques Against Non Yoruba
The most metropolitan place in Nigeria is the Southwest. The reason being that no other ethnicity is as religiously tolerant and ethnically accommodating as the Yoruba.
And I am very glad that by sheer coincidence, former President Jonathan said as much last week. I had nothing to do with him saying it.
The most prosperous place for an Igbo man in Nigeria is not Nnewi or Onitsa. According to Robert Neuwirth, an American journalists and investigator, Igbos make $4 billion each year from Alaba International Market. There is nowhere else in Nigeria where they generate such a high turnover.

The richest Black man on planet Earth is Aliko Dangote, and his wealth largely comes from Lagos and the Southwest, where he has assets in excess of $4 billion.
The fact that other Nigerians can come to the Southwest and prosper there more than they prospered in their home regions speaks volumes of the accommodativeness of the Yoruba.

How many Igbo Alaba traders have been kidnapped, abducted or killed? But they are kidnapped, abducted and killed in the Southeast.
Terrorists, bandits and Boko Haram have never targeted Aliko Dangote in the Southwest. But in the North, both billionaire and almajiri are vulnerable.

People erroneously think that the Yoruba are clannish, because they maintain and retain their cultural values, when it clashes with other cultures.
So, in an office environment, a Yoruba person is likely to clique with Yoruba speakers. Notice I did not say they are likely to clique with Yorubas. I said they are likely to clique with Yoruba speakers. It is their culture they like. If you flow with their culture, they will also flow with you.

That is why the Yoruba have the highest number of elected non indigenes representing their states, than any other region.
There are natives of the Southeast and South South who won election to represent various Lagos constituencies in the House of Representatives. Oghene Egoh, Rita Orji and Tony Nwoolu are some of them.

Where else is that happening in Nigeria?
Yoruba-phobes should try to understand that the tendency of the Yoruba to retain their full culture within Nigeria and when they travel abroad is not clannishness. It is in their blood.
How do I know this? Because I am an avid traveler.

During the Transatlantic Slave Trade, slaves where taken from almost every Black African ethnic group. However, only the Yoruba slaves retained their culture on a large scale throughout the Americas (the Umbundo also retained some of their culture, but they are limited to Brazil).

In the Brazilian state of Bahia, they speak a patois of Portuguese and Yoruba. The state is 80% Black and they bare Yoruba names. As a matter of fact, after Nigeria, Brazil has the second largest population of people of Yoruba descent. Please fact check me. I deal in facts, not speculation.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, there are an estimated 50 million believers in the Santeria religion. It may shock you to note that Santeria is based on Yoruba traditional worship. In fact, the name for god in Santeria is Orisha, a Yoruba word. Eshu, Sango, and Ifa feature prominently in Santeria.

So, you can see how deep Yoruba culture is, to the extent that even centuries of slavery could not wipe it away.

Go to Jamaica and there are Yorubas there.
There were Hausa, Swahili, Bantu, Oromo, Igbo and other Black African slaves taken to the Americas. None have kept their cultural identity like the Yoruba slaves.

Listen to Rap music and compare it to Fuji and Juju. You notice the same trend. Boasting, women shaking their booties, rivals dissing their opponents. Before Tupac and Biggie dissed each other, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister and Ayinla Kollington had released their own diss tracks.

When you visit London, you may be confused if you think Yoruba is the only African language in existence.

A Yoruba man can enter a quiet bus and receive a phone call and speak in Yoruba, and won’t feel embarrassed. And I am not referring to a Johnny Just Come. I am referring to second generation Yorubas who were born and brought up in England,
I have been traveling the world from childhood, yet I have not encountered people doing that with much wider spoken African languages, such as Swahili and Hausa.

They may speak it privately in their homes abroad. but not publicly, and even if they do, it is not to the extent of the Yoruba.
It has gotten to the extent that the Metropolitan Police now recruit Yoruba speaking Constables, and Harrods now employ Yoruba speaking cashiers. Oh please do not just take my words at face value. Fact check me.

Go to Houston on a Sunday, you will see Yoruba people everywhere in their native wears, adire, plus abeti aja and eleti aja.
Here in California, other Africans now draw crowd to their parties by saying ‘the Nigerians will be there.’
This will annoy other tribes, including mine, however, when foreigners talk about how cool Nigerians are, they are usually referring to Yorubas.

Take it or leave it, but the Yoruba are the most progressive Black people on the face of planet Earth.

They produced the first Black African Nobel laureate for an academic category (Wole Soyinka), and the first Black African military ruler to have voluntarily handed over to a civilian President (Olusegun Obasanjo), and the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award (Sade Adu) as well as the first person born and bred in Africa to have won a Pulitzer Prize (Dele Olojede).

The reason why Yorubas are the biggest music stars of Nigerian origin is because they are unabashedly Yoruba. They do not try to sing or act like Westerners. They are very in-your-face with their Yoruba-ness. And when people like themselves to such a high degree, others tend to join them in liking them.

There are an estimated 15 Black billionaires on Planet Earth. Three of them are Yoruba. More than any ethnic nationality in Africa. It used to be four, but one of them slipped down the rankings.

US President, Joe Biden, named a Yoruba man, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury Secretary. This is the highest position to which a Black African has been appointed (not elected) in US history. Another Yoruba man, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, became the first person on Earth to successfully perform a surgery by taking out an unborn fetus from its mother’s womb and putting it back after the surgery.
77% of all Black doctors in America are of either African or Caribbean origin, and a very large percentage of these are Yoruba.
I commend the Edekiri people (the real name of the Yoruba). They are neither betrayers, or cowards or clannish people. They are omoluabi. They are oni te si iwaju.

shigishege:
he is not an impostor he is a Yoruba man. When you ibos want to insult Yoruba you will not see impostor then but once other tribe atarted insulting you then you will be shouting impostor everywhere. When your unknown gunmen killing you will be hailing them but one soldiers started firing them then you people will started shouting police are killing innocent men. Such a cleverly wicked and deceitful people.

if so , naa bmc him be.... Una secret don open

DoggoneDogg:
Nnamdi led several rallies across SE defying court orders, soldiers & security operatives.

Coward Igboho was not even present for his own rally. He is hiding behind innocent people.

How can the convener and face of an agitation be missing from it?? Cowardice!!

u be Fulani Coward ... Impostor....no Yoruba or Igbo should respond to dis

arkonpoint:
This is totally uncalled for. Playing the tribal card will get us nowhere fast.

the naa bmc. Or Fulani naa so Dem dey do.... Naa to create Igbo /Yoruba thread war

RenaissanceGuy:
You this Igbo boy, you're a perfect definition of a betrayer. You suddenly turned against Kanu calling him a coward immediately he was arrested whereas you'd been hailing him with every fiber of your being. Grow up.

naa aboki... He dey always dey talk like Igbo

[b][/b]Tribute To The Yoruba
by Reno Omokri

People often assume the Yoruba are so successful as an ethnic nationality due to their thirst for education, and how it has penetrated down even amongst their remotest rural communities. But study them. Their culture of respect opens doors for them that even education cannot open. Diplomacy gives them supremacy.

And their culture is often mistaken for what it is not by others who do not understand them as a people. What some people ignorantly call cowardice, or sycophancy, is stooping to conquer. It is both a military and diplomatic strategy.

This is what Scripture meant in 2 Corinthians 10:4 “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty”. Wisdom, courtesy, diplomacy, and praise are all weapons. A weapon is anything you can use to achieve your strategic objective. It does not always have to be a physically offensive weapon.

But are the Yorubas even cowards, as some people accuse them to be? Well, let us let the facts speak for themselves.

In the history of Nigeria, only two men have returned to Nigeria to face almost certain death even when they had the option of a very comfortable political asylum abroad. Both of them are Yoruba. In 1985, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida toppled the Buhari regime while Major General Tunde Idiagbon (mixed Yoruba/Fulani) was at Mecca yet Idiagbon returned.

In 1995, Olusegun Obasanjo (pure Owu Yoruba) was accused of planning a coup by the blood thirsty tyrant, Abacha (if you do not like that truthful description of Abacha or if you believe that 'Abacha did not loot', you can go and join him where he is) while he was away in Copenaghen.
He was informed by the then US Ambassador, Walter Carrington, that Abacha meant to arrest, try and execute him, and was offered political asylum in the United States.

He returned to face almost certain death.

What more example of bravery can there be than these two shining ones.

Furthermore, there is the apocryphal example of Colonel Francis Adekunle Fajuyi who chose to die with the then Head of State, Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, rather than abandon his guest, which he was at liberty to do.

In addition to the above, in my opinion, they are the least likely to maintain and retain their cultural values, when it clashes with other cultures.

I love how they retain their full culture when they travel abroad. It is a rarity amongst Africans. When you visit London, you may be confused if you think Yoruba is the only African language in existence.

A Yoruba man can enter a quiet bus and receive a phone call and speak in Yoruba, and won’t feel embarrassed. And I am not referring to a Johnny Just Come. I am referring to second generation Yorubas who were born and brought up in England,

I have been traveling the world from childhood, yet I have not encountered people doing that with much wider [/b]spoken African languages, such as Swahili and Hausa.

They may speak it privately in their homes abroad. but not publicly, and even if they do, it is not to the extent of the Yoruba.

It has gotten to the extent that the Metropolitan Police now recruit Yoruba speaking Constables, and Harrods now employ Yoruba speaking cashiers. Oh please do not just take my words at face value. Fact check me.

Go to Houston on a Sunday, you will see Yoruba people everywhere in their native wears, adire, plus abeti aja and eleti aja.

[b]Here in California, other Africans now draw crowd to their parties by saying ‘the Nigerians will be there.’

This will annoy other tribes, including mine, however, when foreigners talk about how cool Nigerians are, they are usually referring to Yorubas.

Take it or leave it, but the Yoruba are the most progressive Black people on the face of planet Earth.

They produced the first Black African Nobel laureate for an academic category (Wole Soyinka), and the first Black African military ruler to have voluntarily handed over to a civilian President (Olusegun Obasanjo), and the first Nigerian to win a Grammy Award (Sade Adu) as well as the first person born and bred in Africa to have won a Pulitzer Prize (Dele Olojede).

The reason why Yorubas are the biggest music stars of Nigerian origin is because they are unabashedly Yoruba. They do not try to sing or act like Westerners. They are very in-your-face with their Yoruba-ness. And when people like themselves to such a high degree, others tend to join them in liking them.

There are an estimated 15 Black billionaires on Planet Earth. Three of them are Yoruba. More than any ethnic nationality in Africa.

US President, Joe Biden, named a Yoruba man, Adewale Adeyemo, as deputy Treasury Secretary. This is the highest position to which a Black African has been appointed (not elected) in US history. Another Yoruba man, Dr. Oluyinka Olutoye, became the first person on Earth to successfully perform a surgery by taking out an unborn fetus from its mother’s womb and putting it back after the surgery.

77% of all Black doctors in America, and a very large percentage of these are Yoruba.

I commend the Edekiri people (the real name of the Yoruba). You guys are oni te si iwaju.

#TableShaker #RenosNuggets

Reno Omokri

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.

FlipModeSquade:
Let her go and win an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL FIRST..

Luckily..

One is around the corner..

We are all waiting..

U are not making sense at all.... Fbu want to go that way..nok what off falulat odukoya ?

GNature:
Gov Abiodun needs to fix Ogun’s roads and boost internally generated revenue. He needs some bright
minds to help in the IGR initiative.

Look at the IGR in Lagos from 1999 to the present date. Why not hire the people that worked
with Tinubu, Fashola as consultants?

Our leaders don’t rub minds together well in the SW ( and Nigeria in general).


Ogun should be benefitting tremendously from its close proximity to Lagos.

Very nice idea...I hope they are seeing this

More.

Lagos State goment for south-west Nigeria, say tori wey dey fly upandan say dem don scata di Ikeja bus terminal na fake news.

Tok-tok pesin for di Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority, LAMATA, Kolawole Ojelabi tell BBC Pidgin say wetin dey happun inside di terminal no be dismantling but upgrading.

For March dis year, President Muhammadu Buhari come Lagos to commission di terminal wey Lagos goment bin say go change di face of public transportation for di state.

IKEJA BUS TERMINAL

Lagos , Nigeria obodo oyinbo..

New face of transportation in Lagos..




Oshodi Transport Interchange constructed by Planet Project


By AYOOLA OLAOLUWA



Planet Projects Limited (PPL), a transport development company in the country, is rapidly changing the face of transportation in Nigeria with its innovative approach to urban transport development and transport infrastructure delivery.

While the Oshodi Interchange project will go down in history as one of the biggest achievements in the company, the milestone recorded in public transport, most importantly, the delivery of functional transport infrastructure projects in Lagos that connect people and businesses to their destinations, has received accolades across the sector.

Before the arrival of Planet Projects, several efforts to connect the nooks and crannies of Lagos using public-private driven transport network schemes failed to achieve noticeable success. The experience of PPP in Lagos has been mixed.

According to Business Hallmark findings, while the Lekki-Epe Expressway awarded to Lekki Concession Company was able to hit the ground running, despite initial hiccups, other PPP arrangements such as the LAGBUS Transport scheme, as well as the concessioning of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway failed to achieve a significant result.

Checks revealed that LAGBUS currently has less than 50 operating buses in its fleet, down from 803 in 2012. Most of the buses are broken down and abandoned at different depots due to expensive and unsustainable contract maintenance policy.

However, since the birth of Planet Projects, there have been radical changes in the nation’s transportation sector. From Lagos to Rivers, Kogi, Delta and Ondo States, the firm has successfully executed landmark engineering projects. The company started operation with the provision of expertise in traffic engineering, urban renewal and infrastructure development across all transport modes including roads/bridges, Bus/BRT, rail, airports, water transport, traffic engineering designs, construction, as well as operations and management.

It later evolved from being a transport consulting company to a one-stop transport solutions company providing services across project identification, consulting, planning, designing, and execution.

Several years after, Planet Projects has emerged as one of the leading and fastest-growing construction companies in Nigeria, having successfully executed major engineering projects across the country. Its project portfolio is wide, ranging from roads, bridges, bus terminals, junction improvement works to traffic engineering schemes and more.

Some of the notable projects Planet Projects has executed include the Oshodi Transport Interchange, with three terminals; Ikeja Bus Terminal; Lokoja Mega Terminal; Omagwa Mega Bus Terminal; Ikeja Bus Depot; Lekki Junction Improvement Works; Alapere Dualised Road and Junction Improvement Works, Jakpa Junction Improvement Works; Enerhen Junction Improvement Works; Akure Urban Renewal Project; Lagos Strategic Transportation Master Plan (STMP) and the Lekki Ports Traffic Impact Assessment.

Others are the engineering design of corridor infrastructures for the Lagos BRT Lite; Traffic Impact Assessment for the Eko Atlantic City and the proposed Lekki Ports; Lekki Infrastructure Master Plan; Transport Master Plan for Lagos Metropolitan Area; Lagos Island Municipal Transport Service and feasibility studies and outline business case for the proposed Ibadan Circular Ring Road project.

They also include public transport infrastructure delivery covering Traffic System Management (TSM) measures; construction of dedicated bus lanes for Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects; Mega-Bus Terminals; bus depot, pedestrian bridges, bus shelters and Junction Improvement Works (JIW), for Lagos, Rivers, Ondo and Delta States and public transport infrastructure delivery covering Traffic System Management (TSM) measures, among others.

Oshodi Transport Interchange

Before the constructing of the Oshodi Transport Interchange, the transit city, which is arguably the busiest transport hub in Nigeria with over 5,600 buses loading per day, spreading across 13 different motor parks and over 200,000 passengers boarding per day, lacked essential transport infrastructural facilities, such as walkways and bus shelters. It was characterised by scattered intra and inter-city bus parks, on-street loading and unloading of passengers.

However, after signing a memorandum of understanding with the Lagos State government in 2016, Planet Projects designed and constructed the $70m Oshodi Transport Interchange, which was opened to the public after its commissioning in April 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Each of the three bus terminal, spanning 30,000 square metres, include standard facilities such as waiting areas, loading bays, ticketing stands, driver lounge, parking areas, rest rooms among others. The Interchange is made up of three multi-storey bus terminals with facilities such as waiting areas, loading bays, ticketing stands, drivers’ lounges, parking areas, conveniences, surveillance towers and CCTV gadgets.

Other features include accessible walkways, pedestrian bridges/skywalks which link the three terminals, shopping malls with street lighting and a dedicated security team on ground. The transport facility also incorporates a shopping mall and a hotel.

Omagwa Mega Bus Terminal

Before the construction of the Omagwa Mega Bus Terminal, bus parks in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were dispersed across major roads and had no considerations for passenger comfort, safety or security. They were largely unregulated with their activities spilling onto major roads and causing traffic congestion all around the Garden City.

However, in a quest to remove this traffic congestion and provide world-class transport infrastructure to ensure passenger comfort and safety, the state government, in conjunction with Planet Projects, conceived the Omagwa Mega Bus Terminals for development at the four nodes of the Port Harcourt City – Omagwa, Eleme, Oyigbo and Emouha.

Planet Projects, under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Contract, delivered the terminals at Omagwa and Eleme. Specific tasks conducted include transport and traffic studies, topographic surveys, geotechnical surveys, conceptual & detailed designs and construction of the Eleme and Omagwa Terminals. The projects were completed in 2009.

Enerhen Junction Improvement Works

Enerhen Junction is the bustling center of Warri, Delta State, and also the business and commercial hub of the city. Due to the volume of commercial activities at this junction, traffic congestion were common occurrences, typically taking about an hour to cross the junction. Enerhen Junction was notorious for congestion, high level of criminal activities, environmental problems, etc.

However, Planet Projects Limited subsequently developed the Junction Improvement concept, which basically optimised the junction by separating the various land-use activities –transport, commercial and pedestrian- and ensuring that all these activities could take place without any hindrances.

In providing engineering and construction services, PPL conducted traffic studies, capacity studies, topographic surveys, geotechnical surveys, conceptual and detailed designs and construction of the junction. The company also provided traffic signals, pedestrian crossings, bus lay-bys and shelters, junction channelisation, walkways, guard-rails and streetlights, totally transforming the junction.

The new Enerhen Junction which was completed in four months in 2013 has greatly improved traffic flow at Enerhen Junction since its completion.

Jakpa Junction Improvement Works

Jakpa Junction, formerly a roundabout, was a nightmare to commuters. This junction is the intersection of some of the busiest roads in Warri, Delta State, including Warri-Sapele Road, Petroleum Training Institute (PTI) and Jakpa Roads.

The junction is also adjacent to the very busy Effurun Market; hence, it is always congested with lots of commercial activities, street trading and on-street parking.

Planet Projects, then, deployed the Junction Improvement Works (JIWs) concept, which had basically transformed the roundabout into an optimised junction, thereby separating the various land-use activities –transport, commercial and pedestrian- and ensuring that all these activities could take place without any hindrances.

In providing engineering and construction services, the firm conducted traffic studies, capacity studies, topographic survey, geotechnical surveys, conceptual and detailed designs and construction of the junction.

This transformation has greatly improved traffic flow around the junction, with pedestrian activities completely separated from vehicular traffic, while there is increasing safety and security for all road users.

Akure Urban Renewal Project

The Oja-Oba area in Akure, Ondo State Capital, was previously characterised by chaotic traffic congestion, as a result of road-side street trading which usually spilled into the road with attendant traffic impediment. This street trading created much pedestrian–vehicular conflict worsening the congestion.

Planet Projects was commissioned to develop a solution to address the traffic problem and upgrade the environment. PPL conducted extensive traffic studies, developed and implemented a comprehensive solution that addressed the traffic and pedestrian problems of the area.

The solution includes the introduction of Bus/Taxi Lane, Pedestrian Guardrail, and comprehensive Traffic System Management (TSM) Measures, including Traffic Signal and upgrade of the Pedestrian Bridge.

The measure eliminated congestion while allowing economic activities to go on smoothly and unimpeded. The project also heralded improved road safety by eliminating the conflict between pedestrians crossing the busy carriageway and motorists, thereby transforming the Oja-Oba Area completely.

Lekki Junction Improvement Works

Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos has been characterised with severe traffic and gridlocks, with the situation leading to reduced productivity, socio-economic losses.

The expressway is the principal arterial road connecting the Lekki-Epe axis to the rest of Lagos (such as Victoria Island, Lagos Island, Proposed Lekki Deep Seaport, Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical Factory Complex, Proposed Lekki Airport to mention but a few.

These land-use activities around this ever-busy road which stretches across nine major roundabouts of 17.3km have been the major cause of the perennial traffic being experienced along the corridor.

Prior to construction, Planet Projects Limited had conducted traffic surveys and studies in order to arrive at the optimum junction models for each of the roundabouts. The firm conceptualised the remodelling of the junctions by carrying out comprehensive Junction Improvement Works (JIWs) through the removal of roundabouts to pave way for the new re-construction, extensive drainage works, walkways, guard-rails, concrete kerbs, asphalt overlay, concrete barriers, etc.

The junctions have been fully furnished with signalised traffic system management measure and signals.

After the intervention by the company, the journey time for the AM peak (Abraham Adesanya – Toll Gate) has drastically reduced from 78 minutes to about 35 minutes, a 55% decrease travel time, while the return journey (Toll Gate- Abraham Adesanya) also changes from 98 minutes to 38 minutes, translating into a 60% decrease in journey time.

After completion of work, the traffic situation in the axis has drastically improved with economists estimating that N87billion had been saved through the Junction Improvement Works (JIWs) intervention.

Ikeja Bus Terminal

Public Transport Operations within Ikeja axis of Lagos are known to be highly fragmented, informal and unregulated. These frustrating activities lead to the unending traffic congestion experienced by road users on a daily basis.

These transport issues reduce productivity, increase pollution, and affect economic growth, to mention a few.

Planet Projects conceived the idea of consolidating all public transport activities into a central location to reduce the effect of traffic congestion associated with illegal parks around Ikeja as part of the Lagos Bus Reform Initiative.

This was achieved through the development of Ikeja Bus Terminal, commissioned by President Buhari on March 29, 2018.

PPL also conceptualised, designed and constructed the terminal within four months. The bus terminal has transformed the landscape of Ikeja, while serving the transport needs of thousands of commuters daily. It has continued to generate more commendations from both local and foreign observers.

When fully operational, the terminal will cater for four million people across the state daily.

Lokoja Mega Terminal

Bus parks in Lokoja, Kogi State Capital, had no facilities for passenger comfort or convenience (waiting areas, loading bays, rest rooms before the construction of Lokoja Mega Terminal. This posed safety and security risks to the commuting public. The parks were an eyesore with their activities spilling onto adjoining roads and causing traffic congestion around Lokoja.

To provide world-class transport facilities for the good people of Kogi State and ensure that transport activities could be conducted in a safe and secure environment, Planet Projects Limited was engaged under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract to construct the Lokoja Mega Terminal.

The company provided Engineering and Construction services, including Feasibility Studies, Transport and Traffic Studies, Transportation Master Plan, Topographic Surveys, Geotechnical Surveys, Conceptual & Detailed Designs and Construction of the Terminals in nine months to deliver the 500 bus-capacity Lokoja Mega Terminal.

Facilities at the terminal include Terminal Building, Food Court, ATM Gallery, Loading Bays, Security Posts, Gate Houses, Drivers’ Lounge, Rest-rooms, Mechanical Workshop, Generator/Power House, and a lot more.

The terminal provides world-class transportation services to the residents and visitors to Lokoja, who would be able to conduct their transportation activities in a safe and secure environment with purpose-built infrastructure. The Terminal was completed in 2015.

In recognition of its efforts in advancing the frontiers of public transport in Africa, the company has received several awards. One of such awards includes the Africa Integrated Mobility Award at the 60th Congress of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP), held in Geneva, Switzerland.

UITP is the international network for public transport authorities and operators, policy decision-makers, scientific institutes and the public transport supply and service industry and global advocate of sustainable mobility and promoter of innovations in the sector.

Speaking on the milestones so far attained by the company, its Managing Director, Abiodun Otunola, said PPL’s ability to develop functional transport solutions was inspired by the need to create lasting solutions to public transport challenges in Nigeria and Africa.

“Our ability to critically analyse these transport problems and offer holistic, innovative, tailor-made and integrated Public Transport solutions distinguishes us in the emerging public transport sector in Africa.

“These challenges include congestion problems arising from lack of efficient public transport system, poor traffic enforcement regime, fragmented, unreliable and poor-quality bus service, unpredictable fare regime, indiscriminate parking, lack of pedestrian walkways and haphazard project execution”, Otunola said.

He also revealed that Nigerians spend between 30 and 70 per cent of their income on transport with negative consequences on disposable income, purchasing power and aggregate demand in the economy.

While pledging PPL’s readiness to work with governments at all levels to deliver comfortable, efficient and affordable transport systems to the citizenry, Otunola admonished them to pay more attention to public transport in view of its strategic importance to the economic wellbeing of the people.

Alots of foreign investors are trooping into the south west Nigeria.....

maxell:
God bless Yorubaland.

Amen....May God bless everyone of us..

52 Weeks of Building Our Future Together" is a documentation, or perhaps a compendium, of what we have been able to achieve within the first year of our Administration. Though it is not yet Uhuru, we are proud of the legacy projects that we can showcase as pointers to our determination to make Ogun State a better, mutually prosperous place for investors, foreigners, Nigerians and autochthonous citizens of the State.



We consider this mandate a divine trust, hence our constant ascription to the goodness of God, everything that we have done in this Administration. The events leading to my emergence as the standard-bearer of the All Progressives Party (APC), victory at the polls and ultimate victory at the courts are a testament to the many battles we had to fight, and indicative of this divine odyssey. We hold it a sacred duty to keep our part of the tripartite agreement - God, the people and us - sacrosanct.



Looking back one year as the captain of this ship, I can see the hands of God in all our collaborations, inclusiveness, peoplecentredness and collectivism. These characteristics are reflected in every appointment, project and decision we have made. Because the people are the other edge of this tripartite covenant, all policies are strategic and our programmes are deliberately pro-masses to achieve measurable results.



To underscore the fact that Ogun State was headed for a leadership paradigm shift, even during electioneering, we promised: "To give Ogun State focused and qualitative governance and to create the enabling environment for a public-private sector partnership, which is fundamental to the creation of enduring economic development and individual prosperity of the people of Ogun". The establishment of the Economic Transition Committee of eminent Ogun professionals, technocrats, political players (including those against whom I contested), as well as other stakeholders and the Work Group set up to develop a Blueprint and an Implementation Roadmap were all geared towards ensuring that our Government hit the ground running from the very day we were inaugurated.



As you will see on these pages, we have documented - preand post-inauguration, activities done in consonance with our strategic "enablers" - good governance, security, information and communication technology (ICT), infrastructure and welfare, as well as tangible outcomes from our identified strategic pillars such as agriculture, education, health, environment and infrastructure. At the heart of these enablers and pillars is etched an investment drive which is absolutely reasonable, considering Ogun's strategic location, proximity to Lagos, abundance of human and natural resources and a political leadership dedicated to collective wellbeing and shared prosperity through a Public-Private Sector Partnership.



Beyond physical, psychological and formal security initiatives, Ogun State under our watch is powered by the dictum and initiatives encapsulated under the acronym I-S-E-Y-A:



I -Infrastructure

S - Social Welfare and Wellbeing

E - Education

Y - Youth Development

A - Agriculture and Food Security

List of celebrities from ogun State

WESTERN NIGERIA...

Hakeem Kae-Kazim

Hollywood actor. He was born on October 1, 1962, in Lagos State to Nigerian parents from Abeokuta, Ogun State.

He has featured in several hit movies such as Hotel Rwandan, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End and many TV series: 24, Lost, Law & Order, Criminal Minds amongst others.


WALE

US Rapper Wale, real name Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, was born to Nigerian parents both from Yoruba tribe, Ogun State, but grew up in the USA.


Reuben Abati
Reuben Abati was born November 7, 1965 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. He was the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity
to former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria.

Reuben Abati studied Theater Arts at the University of Calabar, where he graduated with first class honors and won the Vice-Chancellor’s prize for the best overall graduating student.
Wale, aside being one of the top rappers in the US, has also become popular in Nigeria.

He has done collaborations with singers like Wizkid in ‘Nobody But You’, Olamide in ‘Make Us Proud’. The Maybach Music superstar, Wale, visited his motherland in December 2013.

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, also known as Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas was born on October 25, 1900, in Abeokuta, Ogun State of Nigeria. Her father was a son of a Nigerian slave
who returned from Sierra Leone, and traced his ancestral history back to Abeokuta in what is today known as Ogun State, Nigeria.
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Ogun state manufacturing Dean of Nigeria...
These are manufacturing companies in abeokuta alone

Manufacturing and Production in Ogun State, Nigeria (34)
Appliances and EquipmentAppliances and Equipment (2)
Automobile and TyresAutomobile and Tyres (0)
BatteriesBatteries (0)
Building MaterialsBuilding Materials (2)
Chemicals and PharmaceuticalsChemicals and Pharmaceuticals (5)
ConglomeratesConglomerates (0)
Engineering and ConstructionEngineering and Construction (0)
Foam, Mattresses, BeddingsFoam, Mattresses, Beddings (1)
Furniture and Capentry WorkFurniture and Capentry Work (1)
Gases, Domestic and IndustrialGases, Domestic and Industrial (0)
Industrial Powder MettalurgyIndustrial Powder Mettalurgy (1)
Marine, Outboard Motors, BoatsMarine, Outboard Motors, Boats (0)
Metal FoundriesMetal Foundries (0)
Metals, Packaging, CapsMetals, Packaging, Caps (1)
Motorcycles, BicyclesMotorcycles, Bicycles (1)
PaintsPaints (3)
Paper IndustryPaper Industry (0)
Paper, StationeryPaper, Stationery (1)
PlasticsPlastics (13)
Pure Water / Yoghurt ManufacturePure Water / Yoghurt Manufacture (0)
Shoe CobblerShoe Cobbler (0)
Steel Mills, StockistsSteel Mills, Stockists (2)
Textiles and MaterialsTextiles and Materials (1)
Upholstery WorksUpholstery Works (1)
Phoenix Steel Mills Ltd
Sub-category: Steel Mills, Stockists

More about ogun state'

LITTLE DETAILS ABOUT OGUN STATE


Ogun State is a state in southwestern Nigeria. Created in February 1976 from the former Western State, Ogun State borders Lagos State to the south, Oyo State and Osun State to the north, Ondo State, and the Republic of Benin to the west. Abeokuta is both Ogun State's capital and most populous city; other important cities in the state include Ijebu Ode, the former royal capital of the Ijebu Kingdom, and Sagamu, Nigeria's leading kola nut grower.[3] Ogun State had a total population of 3,751,140 residents as of 2006.[4]

Ogun State
State
A view of Gbagura mosque in Abeokuta, Ogun State-Nigeria.jpg
Nickname(s): Gateway State
Location of Ogun State in Nigeria
Location of Ogun State in Nigeria
Coordinates: 7°00′N 3°35′E
Country
Nigeria
Date created
3 February 1976
Capital
Abeokuta
Government
• Governor
Dapo Abiodun (APC)
• Deputy Governor
Noimot Salako-Oyedele
• Senators
Tolu Odebiyi
Ibikunle Amosun
Lekan Mustapha
• Legislature
Ogun State House of Assembly
Area
• Total
16,980.55 km2 (6,556.23 sq mi)
Area rank
24th of 36
Population (2006 census)
• Total
3,751,140
• Rank
16 of 36
• Density
220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Demonym(s)
Ogun
GDP
• Year
2007
• Total
$10.47 billion[1]
• Per capita
$2,740[1]
Time zone
UTC+01 (WAT)
postal code
110001
ISO 3166 code
NG-OG
HDI (2018)
0.662[2]
medium · 2nd of 37
Nicknamed the "Gateway to Nigeria", the state is notable for having a high concentration of industrial estates and being a major manufacturing hub in Nigeria. Major factories in Ogun include the Dangote Cement factory in Ibese,[5] Nestle,[6] Lafarge Cement factory in Ewekoro, Memmcol in Orimerunmu,[7] Coleman Cables in Sagamu and Arepo,[8] Procter & Gamble in Agbara,[9] amongst others.

Ogun State is predominantly Yoruba,[10] with the Yoruba language serving as the lingua franca of the state. Ogun State is noted for being the almost exclusive site of Ofada rice production.

film3four:
This is a market jetty that moves people from up land to the rural riverhine areas. Lagos jetty is mainly for conveying of passengers but the ones in Rivers state is for moving of agricultural products

OK BABA

LAGOS. Western state...


The Lagos State waterways Authority (LASWA) has improved the water transportation system through the construction of ferry terminals & ultra modern system that makes traveling by road a choice alternative.

Lagos State Waterways is charged with the responsibility for coordinating and managing reforms necessary for the long term growth and development of water transportation in Lagos State, including the granting of ferry licenses and concessions for the operations of ferry routes and terminals to the private sector.


(1)ikorodu ferry (2) mainland ferry (3) ikoyi and 4 Victoria island's ferry

We lead others follow

Dis man really fall my hand oooo..I thought am going to see something better than what we have in Lagos....




Dis is how a proudly jetty looks like...


The Lagos State waterways Authority (LASWA) has improved the water transportation system through the construction of ferry terminals & ultra modern system that makes traveling by road a choice alternative.

Lagos State Waterways is charged with the responsibility for coordinating and managing reforms necessary for the long term growth and development of water transportation in Lagos State, including the granting of ferry licenses and concessions for the operations of ferry routes and terminals to the private sector.

Rubbish...dis one want to spoil Nigeria emage

Let's talk about ogun's state development

I hope u will not cry over dis pictures..LAGOS FOR SHOW.....WESTERN CITY ...LAGOS..

Ibadanpikin:
Lagos no man's land

make I spoil ur mind with dis pictures small ..... One of the western state of Nigeria....

Ibadanpikin:
Lagos no man's land

I thank GOD is not part of dot republic.... �������

walefresh3:
This is another ogbonge news from Western report center BADAGRY MEGAPORT....

Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone Project, Lagos
The Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone project, proposed to be constructed at Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria, will be Africa's biggest and most advanced sea port when it starts operations in 2018.

Project Type

Integrated port and industrial free-zone

Location

Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria

Start of Construction

Early 2016

Start of Operations

2018

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The Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone is expected to start operations in 2018.

The Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone project, proposed to be constructed at Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria, will be Africa’s biggest and most advanced sea port when it starts operations in 2018.

The new port is expected to have an annual throughput capacity of 1.8 million TEU.

The project is being developed through a public-private partnership (PPP) overseen by the federal government, federal Ministry of Transport, federal Ministry of Trade and Investment and Lagos state government.

It is also being overseen by a private consortium of APM Terminals, Orlean Invest, Oando, Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) and Macquarie.

The proposal for the project was announced in 2012. Feasibility studies have been completed and construction works are scheduled to start in early 2016. The project will be implemented in four phases, with the overall project cost estimated to range between $2bn and $3bn.

Badagry port location and purpose
"The new port is expected to have an annual throughput capacity of 1.8 million TEU."
The proposed site is located 55km west of Apapa and the port of Lagos, along the 55km long Lagos-Badagry Expressway, that is being upgraded from a four-lane to a ten-lane expressway.


The new port will primarily ease pressure on the existing port of Lagos, which handles approximately 85% of the country’s non-oil throughput.

It will further alleviate the country’s ports, which are on the verge of exceeding their cargo handling capacities, and address the country’s annual container traffic, which is expected to grow to ten million TEU by 2030

we lead others follow.....EKO FOR SHOW

This is another ogbonge news from Western report center BADAGRY MEGAPORT....

Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone Project, Lagos
The Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone project, proposed to be constructed at Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria, will be Africa's biggest and most advanced sea port when it starts operations in 2018.

Project Type

Integrated port and industrial free-zone

Location

Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria

Start of Construction

Early 2016

Start of Operations

2018

Expand



The Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone is expected to start operations in 2018.

The Badagry MegaPort and Free Zone project, proposed to be constructed at Badagry, Lagos State, Nigeria, will be Africa’s biggest and most advanced sea port when it starts operations in 2018.

The new port is expected to have an annual throughput capacity of 1.8 million TEU.

The project is being developed through a public-private partnership (PPP) overseen by the federal government, federal Ministry of Transport, federal Ministry of Trade and Investment and Lagos state government.

It is also being overseen by a private consortium of APM Terminals, Orlean Invest, Oando, Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) and Macquarie.

The proposal for the project was announced in 2012. Feasibility studies have been completed and construction works are scheduled to start in early 2016. The project will be implemented in four phases, with the overall project cost estimated to range between $2bn and $3bn.

Badagry port location and purpose
"The new port is expected to have an annual throughput capacity of 1.8 million TEU."
The proposed site is located 55km west of Apapa and the port of Lagos, along the 55km long Lagos-Badagry Expressway, that is being upgraded from a four-lane to a ten-lane expressway.


The new port will primarily ease pressure on the existing port of Lagos, which handles approximately 85% of the country’s non-oil throughput.

It will further alleviate the country’s ports, which are on the verge of exceeding their cargo handling capacities, and address the country’s annual container traffic, which is expected to grow to ten million TEU by 2030

SANWO-OLU LAUNCHES $20 MILLION ‘LAGOS CARES’ PROGRAMME FOR YOUTHS, WOMAN,

L-R: Commissioner for Finance, Dr. Rabiu Olowo; Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat; Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu; his Special Adviser on SDGs & Lagos Global, Mrs. Solape Hammond and Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Mr. Sam Egube, during the launch of Lagos Cares (a World Bank supported initiative) and the State’s Human Capital Development Core Working Group, at Lagos House, Alausa, Ikeja, on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
MSMEs,Farmers among Top Beneficiaries of Economic Stimulus Programme

Project Funded Through World Bank Facility
Lagos State Government has rolled out a $20 million Coronavirus (COVID-19) Action Recovery and Economic Stimulus (Lagos CARES) Programme to support livelihood for poor and vulnerable households and to expand food security services in the State.

At the State House, Alausa, on Wednesday, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu launched the social intervention project that is focused on offering safety net to residents whose means of livelihood had been disrupted by the impacts of COVID-19 and also to building resilience of the State.

The programme, which will be implemented for 24 months, is being funded through $750 million facility secured from the World Bank by the Federal Government for Nigeria-CARES project. Other states also benefited from the stimulus programme.

Lagos CARES will directly support 20,843 households and indirectly support 125,058 individuals within the State.

The programme encompasses three key result areas, including increasing cash transfers and livelihood support to poor and vulnerable households; increasing food security and safe functioning of food supply chains for poor households, and facilitating the recovery of Micro and Small Enterprises (MSMEs), while strengthening institutional support for coordination and delivery.

Sanwo-Olu said the programme was designed to be inclusive and packaged to specifically impact women and the youth. Its implementation, the Governor said, cuts across relevant ministries, including Sustainable Development Goals and Investment (SDG&I), Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA), Finance, Wealth Creation, and Agriculture.

He said: “Today marks another milestone in our effort to combat the negative impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on our households, livelihood, food security and businesses. The CARES project is an integral part of the national approach, adopted to alleviate the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic, and enhance the wellbeing of our people.

“The Lagos CARES Programme will be implemented between 2021 and 2023, and will provide economic relief and recovery support to identified vulnerable persons. During the 24 months, the programme will directly support vulnerable households and indirectly support 125,058 individuals. There will also be interventions in 69 markets, while a minimum of 2,512 MSMEs will be supported.”

To effectively implement the programme, Sanwo-Olu set up the State’s CARES Steering Committee (SCSC), co-headed by the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Sam Egube, and Special Adviser on Sustainable Development Goals and Investment, Mrs. Solape Hammond.

Other members of the steering committee comprises cabinet members and policy heads, who will oversee the programme and provide policy guidance.

The Governor also inaugurated the State’s CARES Coordinating Unit (SCCU) that will work directly with the delivery platforms of the three result areas for result monitoring and coordination.

Sanwo-Olu expressed his confidence in the ability of the members committees, who, he said, had been part of the main drivers of the Government’s agenda for a Greater Lagos.

He said: “I would like to remind the committee members not to lose sight of the T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda of the State Government as they work on the three result areas. This administration will continue to collaborate with people of goodwill in the public and private sectors, multilateral and donor partners as we deliver good governance to our people.”

Egube said the project would address loss of jobs and threat to food supply chain occasioned by the spread of the pandemic. He said the programme would leverage existing World Bank’s operations anchored on community-based approach and multi-sector interventions.

On her part, Mrs. Hammond said the State would be implementing 10 Disbursement-Linked Indicators (DLIs) out of 11 across three results areas for impact.

The programme, she said, will benefit 4,652 farmers towards driving up agricultural inputs and services, adding that 5,460 farmers would be engaged in agricultural assets for production and mitigation of food loss and waste.

The Special Adviser said there would be provision of well-targeted conditional grants to co-finance loans for eligible 1,132 MSMEs