Agro Hub Nigeria

There is an Igbo proverb that says, ‘a man needs to consider the size of his anus before swallowing udala seed’. Prior to the discovery of oil in Nigeria, unemployment was not a major macroeconomic threat to the Country as anyone who was agile had no reason to be idle . Food was sufficient and youths were gainfully employed. After the oil boom comes an era plagued with decline in Agriculture's share of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), as everyone abandoned farming in order to benefit from the national cake. However, while Nigeria as a Nation was busy relishing the crude oil largess, she failed to take into cognizance the end results and ripple effects of oil on the other sectors of the economy. This was the Genesis of unemployment in Nigeria. The National Bureau of Statistics recently reported that 58.3 percent of Nigerians in the labour force, aged 15‐24 were either unemployed or underemployed in the second quarter of 2016, compared to 56.1 percent in the first quarter. Similarly, o

FADAMA has made  plans to send 855 Lagos youths to South Africa for training to get skills in agri-business. The body is collaborating with the National Image Company, the organiser of the on-going Agro-Business youth training and empowerment programme in which over 5700 youths had so far been trained in Lagos State. According to the Lagos State Project Coordinator for FADAMA, Mr. Ajijola Folusho, 15 trained youths who are interested in farming would be selected from each of the 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas, LCDAs of Lagos for further training in South Africa and be empowered upon return to Nigeria. Folusho said in a statement that the screening process began last Monday and would be concluded on Friday at the Lagos State FADAMA Coordination Office, Lagos State Agricultural Development Authority Complex, Agege, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. He said the selected participants would be sponsored under the World Bank assisted projects and urged unemployed you