
By Bisade Ojoye
Senator Tolu Odebiyi, representing Ogun West Senatorial District in the National Assembly has facilitated the training of over 450 men, women and youths in various agricultural value chain.
This project, according to a Press statement signed by his Media office made available to us is part of the lawmaker’s effort towards improving standard of living of the people of the district and bringing positive change to the economy of economy of Ogun West in particular and the Nigerian nation in general.
According to the release, the five -day programme
which includes provision of fixed assets to the participants has been structured to train people from selected across the five(5) Local Governments in Ogun West.
The information also stated that, at the end of the programme beneficiaries would have been thoroughly trained on their choices of agricultural value chain enterprises and be provided a start-up capital.
The training and empowerment programme executed by the Centre for Management Development (CMD) commmenced on the 29th of August through 2nd September at Yewa(Egbado) college Ilaro, Yewa South, Ogun State.