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CROP FARMING: Delta flags off 2020/2021 YAGEP orientation workshop On By Festus Ahon, Asaba Delta State Job and Wealth Creation Bureau, has flagged off the 2020/2021 Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme, YAGEP, cycle with an orientation workshop for 158 crop farmers. Addressing the beneficiaries, the Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer of the State, Prof Eric Eboh, Tuesday, said YAGEP was aimed at creating jobs and wealth by training, establishing and supporting youths to become agricultural entrepreneurs who would be gainfully self-employed and employers of labour. He explained that...

Vanguard News Empowerment: Delta begins training of 1,000 STEP beneficiaries On By Festus Ahon, ASABA IN pursuance of its commitment to training Delta youths into becoming Entrepreneurs, Business Owners, Job and Wealth Creators, the State Government has engaged 1,000 unemployed youths in its 2020/2021 Skills Training and Entrepreneurship Programme, STEP and Youth Agricultural Entrepreneurs Programme, YAGEP. Speaking during the Orientation and Personal Effectiveness Training, OPET held for enrollees into STEP in Asaba, the Chief Job and Wealth Creation Officer of the Delta State Job and Wealt...

He stated that the project was one of the efforts of government geared towards diversification of the state’s economy. “You will recall that during our electioneering campaign in our first tenure, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa came out with an acronym SMART Agenda in which includes Agricultural reforms and accelerated industrialisation. “Government after governments had continued to preach diversification without doing much in that direction. “The development of the Agro-Industrial Park is a step towards diversification of the state’s economy beyond oil revenues. “Because we have a compa...

Asaba International Airport: Build-up to concession, issues, benefits On BY CHRIS ALIGBE Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021 is a day that will not escape a chapter in the history of Aviation in Nigeria and a reference, even if obliquely, in Africa. It was the day the Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa presided over the signing of the Concession Agreement of the Asaba International Airport.  The Airport is the first Brownfield Airport in Nigeria and indeed Africa. The Concession model adopted is new and first of its kind which has not been used anywhere globally.  This is why it will be ...

By Ifeanyi Olannye Asaba, Jan. 12, 2021 Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa has injected N8 billion sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria into the Agro-Industrial Park project in Aboh-Ogwashi in Aniocha South Local Government Area. Mr Charles Aniagwu, the state Commissioner for Information, said this on Tuesday during an inspection tour of the project. He added that the project partners were also coming in with their resources to fund and develop the park. According to him, the agro-industrial park will be a catalyst for economic transformation in the state as it is a strong commitment of Okowa’s admini...