Tapping into $200bn cocoa products market
Cocoa farming presents one of the best investment opportunities in agribusiness. The cocoa plant is a small, evergreen tree that grows exclusively in the deep tropical regions of the world. A cocoa tree usually matures and begins to bear fruit (pods) when it is about four or five years old. On the average, a single cocoa tree produces between 20 and 30 pods at a time. Each pod contains about 20 to 50 seeds, known as cocoa beans. These beans are the goldmine of the cocoa plant because they are processed into cocoa liquor, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, and chocolate.
Tension in Onitsha over forceful eviction of traders
An Onitsha-based businessman, Chief Ben Ezibe has written a protest letter to Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State and the Commissioner of Police, Anambra State over what he called “act of lawlessness/oppression and breach of peace” by people he described as hoodlums who claimed to be agents of Anambra State government.
Ekiti Iyaloja’s arrest: How market space was acquired – Facilitator
Former Director-General, Ekiti Enterprise and Economic Development Agency, EEEDA, under the administration of ex-governor, Kayode Fayemi, Seyi Aiyeleso, yesterday, disclosed that the controversial 3-hectare Eyitato Fabric Market situated on the premises of the Ekiti-Odua Enterprise Development Centre, EOEDC, was secured for the market women by Fayemi’s government in 2012.
Bukola Saraki: Demarche and prognosis
IT was indicative of the earth-shattering weight of the burden that he carried, that it took Bukola Saraki almost a week, to find the words to describe the plot that he hatched against his party in the early morning of June 9th, 2015. Some of my more observant friends back home in Ilorin, noticed that he wore the same blue cap for days in a row, which some assigned even mystical reasons.
Apapa gridlock: Lagos govt, fuel depots owners to expand tankers’ parking lot
LAGOS—Tank farm owners and other stakeholders in the downstream sector of the economy have expressed readiness to evolve a process, through partnership with Lagos State government for the speedy construction and expansion of the second phase of the petroleum tanker parking lot at Orile-Iganmu.
33-yr-old man arrested for raping lunatic
LAGOS—Policemen attached to Makinde Division in Lagos State have arrested a 33-year-old man, who allegedly raped a mentally-deranged lady at Oshodi area of the state.
