The Board of Ekiti State Security Network (AMOTEKUN) announces the commencement of its recruitment exercises with effect from 08-07-2020.
Wednesday, 8 July 2020
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EKITI State Governor , Dr Kayode Fayemi , on Tuesday assured the National Youths Service Corps of his administration ’s readiness to collaborate with it to ensure it recorded remarkable success in the state.
WAEC releases guidelines for 2020 WASSCE
The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, had on Monday at a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID- 19 in Abuja announced that the 2020 WASSCE would hold between August 4 and September 5 , 2020.
The Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, appealed to state governments and corporate organisations for funds to provide personal protective equipment for officials who would conduct the examination.
He said, “ In conducting the examination, we have taken due cognisance of the various measures/protocols rolled out by the federal and state governments of Nigeria aimed at checking the spread of the pandemic. Schools must provide wash- hand buckets with running water, soaps , hand sanitizers and thermometer hand- gun to check the temperature of all concerned.
“ All examination functionaries , including the council ’s staff on distribution; supervisors , invigilators, inspectors, candidates and school officials will be required to wear face masks, wash and sanitize their hands daily and throughout the duration of the examination.”
“ Let me assure you and the general public that we shall adhere strictly to social/ physical distancing in the examination halls by making sure that candidates sit two metres apart. This means that many more classrooms will be used and many more supervisors and invigilators will be required to conduct the examinations.
“ This has certainly raised the supervision fee to be paid to supervisors as well as the provision of Personal Protective Equipment to staff, supervisors and other examination officials. No doubt, all these measures have financial implications, which were not contemplated at the time of drawing up the budget for the conduct of the examination.”
Areghan added that the final international timetable had been sent to all the WAEC zonal and branch offices for onward dispatch to schools , federal and state ministries of education. (Punch)
Ekiti Govt partners with CBN to empower 1,000 cassava farmers
Speaking on Tuesday at the launching of the programme in Ado-Ekiti, Gov Kayode Fayemi, represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr Folorunso Olabode, said that the cassava production value chain would speed up industrial development of the state.
Fayemi released over 6,000 hectares of land to the Cassava Growers Association in the state to ensure the smooth take off of the programme.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Fayemi stated that the state government had secured N1.9billion to prepare lands across various locations in the state.
According to the governor, this is to encourage farming for massive employment and availability of raw materials for agro-allied industries.
“The value chain in cassava is inestimable and have over 50 products.
“Cassava has graduated from the ordinary famous garri to high-grade starch, syrup, flakes, fufu paste, cassava bread, biofuel, in fact, it has transformed into a golden crop that can transform any economy.
“This administration has been rendering helps to farmers. It has encouraged the citing of cassava mill at Ipao-Ekiti, that is producing 350 metric tonnes of cassava daily.
“Dangote and Stallone Rice Mills are doing great in rice production. The production plants have been installed.
“About 1,500 hectares of land has also been prepared across the state to boost food production, with close to N2billion to be spent on land clearing to help the farmers.
“The government has facilitated about 6,000 bags of fertiliser that would be sold to farmers at subsidised rate.
“The fact that Ekiti is one of the five pilot states showed that our efforts were being noticed at the national level,” the governor said.
Fayemi said that Ekiti played a prominent role in the formation of the Western Nigeria Security Network codenamed Amotekun, to ward off destruction of farmlands by marauding herders and to discourage them from abandoning the farm, out of fear.
Also speaking, the CBN Branch Controller in Ekiti, Alhaji Ganiyu Atobatele, described agriculture as the largest employer of labour in the country, saying no effort must be spared to revamp the sector and return it as the mainstay of the nation’s economy.
The CBN official stated that the discovery of oil caused a major setback for the agriculture sector in Nigeria.
“Inability to meet our agriculture local demands has affected our foreign reserves and foreign exchange, causing free fall of our currency in the international market.
“Decreased production and increasing population forced the CBN to intervene to improve on a large scale farming, to give farmers access to funds and equipment at subsidised rate, for massive production.
“The CBN is protecting the cassava value chain. The MoU signed include land utilisation, which specified five hectares per farmer, for higher production and to increase annual revenue and generate raw materials for industrial development
“The apex bank will make credit available to farmers under five-star cassava project. The target is 30 metric tonnes per hectares and all activities will be mechanised.
“About 47,406 metric tonnes of cassava was produced in 2014 with bulk of it consumed.
“But with our intervention, it can be processed further to produce other products that will help the economy through employment generation, food security and foreign exchange earnings,” he said.
In his address, the National President of the Nigeria Cassava Growers Association, Pastor Segun Adewumi, said that 25 tractors and other mechanised equipment had been mobilised to Ekiti, to begin the scheme.
Adewumi commended the CBN Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele and the partnering bank, for keying into the dream for massive cassava production. NAN
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