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AS the world continues to embrace technology as the driver of human development, one sector that has been earmarked for transformation in Nigeria is the agricultural sector as stakeholders across public sector and private establishments have already begun taking steps to the effect.
At an interactive session which brought together key players in the agricultural sector, public and private experts expressed the need for synergy of efforts in ensuring that agriculture in the country achieves its potentials that the advancement of technology promises.
One private outfit that appears to be positioning itself as a figure in using technology to drive agricultural businesses is a leading agri-tech company, Voriancorelli, with its online aggregating platform for stakeholders in the agro business.
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Adeshola Oyetunde, the CEO of Rainbow Agrotech based in Ilero, Oyo State, has made exploits in the agricultural sector; from veterinary consultation, land tilling, livestock, processing of farm produce to building a multipurpose agro centre. In this interview with YEJIDE GBENGA-OGUNDARE, he talks about government support, agrotech business, form of agricultural services and food security among other issues.
AS an expert, what is the agrotech business about?
Agrotech like we do in our company provides high quality agricultural services to people. It helps the government to solve challenges associated with food insecurity not only in Nigeria but all over the world. What this connotes in simple term is that we are into farming and some of the areas we operate as an agrotech are livestock production, processing of livestock such as catfish, beef, chicken just to mention a few, we are also into irrigation farming as well as agricultural consultancy services to those who may n
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A distraught mother, Deborah Okezie, posted a video on facebook recently of her terrified and frail-looking son and narrated how the 11-year-old boy was sodomised and molested by his seniors at Deeper Life High School, Uyo in Akwa Ibom State. Going by the account of the woman, her child was allegedly moved by the school’s principal from a hostel where other junior students stayed to another one filled with senior students because he was bedwetting. He was allegedly harassed and molested in the hostel where he reportedly suffered broken anus: the senior students habitually inserted their fingers and toes in the victim’s anus. The young boy’s travails also included starvation and battery as he was allegedly frequently denied food and beaten up by the senior students who also allegedly threatened to kill him if he narrated his horrendous experience to anyone.
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IN the past few weeks, a group of people from Owerri zone have continued to make embarrassing statements not only to Owerri zone but to the two other zones of Orlu and Okigwe. There is a saying in Igbo land “Okenye anayi ano na ulo eghu amuoo na obu.” As a proud and patriotic son of Igbo land, whose achievements and contributions towards the development of the land, Nigeria and humanity is widely acknowledged. As the Ahaejiagamba of Igbo land, a title conferred on me by the seven states of Igbo land Imo, Abia, Rivers, Ebonyi, Enugu, Delta and Anambra. As the chairman of Council of Elders of Ohanaeze Ndigbo worldwide and as a patriot who has been honoured by Imo people as Grand Commander of Imo State, an honour which enlists my name in the Hall of Fame of Imo State, I am constrained to make the following comments.
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The introductory part of this piece started last week, in defining the concept of Justice, in the midst of lawyers and other stakeholders, during the Annual Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Ibadan Branch.
Coined from its ordinary meaning which is the layer of solid rock below the soil, the Word ‘Bedrock’, according to the Oxford Advanced dictionary, means the fundamental principles and ideals on which something is based. Flowing therefrom, this paper shall conclude that the pursuit of justice lies at the very heart of democracy. In that the tenets of democracy dictate that though the majority would have their way, the minorities must always have their say.