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Tomato farmers contain pest, flood Mile 12 market with supplies.

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There are strong indications that farmers may have successfully contained the menace of Tuta Absoluta, the pest which ravaged tomato farms across the country in 2015 and 2016.

This is because lorry loads of tomato have been arriving at the Mile 12 market in Lagos, a major tomato market, on a daily basis, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

A visit to the Mile 12 Market in Lagos on Friday, indicated that over 30 articulated trucks, loaded with fresh tomatoes, were off-loading their consignments inside the market, while more than 10 trucks were waiting on the road.

Mr Femi Odusanya, a consultant to Mile 12 Arewa Perishable Foodstuff Market Association, told NAN that tomato farmers had been able to combat the menace of the pest, Tuta Absoluta.

“Tomato farmers did not find it funny when the pest invaded their farms between 2015 and 2016.

“What you are witnessing today is an indication that farmers have been successful in fighting Tuta Absoluta infestation of tomato farms in places like Kaduna, Jos, Kano, Katsina and Zaira.

“They have been able to achieve this feat, in combination with Federal Ministry of Agriculture and agriculture research institutes.

“There has been some synergy, education and training for farmers and tomato sellers in markets on how to deal with Tuta Absoluta; they also received training on Good Handling Practices (GHP) at tomato farms.

“At least, a 40kg. raft basket of tomatoes now sells for between N1,500 and N 3,500.

“This is unlike the same period in 2016 when the same 40kg. raft basket sold as high as N45,000 because of inadequate tomato supplies because of the Tuta Absoluta plague,’’ he said.

Odusanya said that farmers were now having bumper harvests, adding that tomato sales had consequently increased.

He said that the tomato farms of the association in Katsina had also flourished, thereby boosting tomato supplies and sales.

He said that the Mile 12 Market also was a centre for off-takers who procured over 900,000 tonnes of tomato for distribution to other states in the South West geopolitical zone and countries like Benin Republic, Togo and Ghana.

Odusanya recalled that at the peak of the crisis in March 2016, when a 40kg. raft basket cost around N47,000, the traders decided to alleviate the consumers’ plight by importing tomato from neigbouring countries.

He said that the traders adopted the strategy so as to augment the shortfall in tomato production in the country and force down prices.

NAN reports that tomato farmers in Kano State alone lost over N2 billion to Tuta Absoluta in 2016.

 

Source: NAN

I was trapped for nearly 2 hours, says man who boarded bus that plunged into river.

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One of the passengers of the bus which plunged into a river at Owode Elede around Mile 12 area of Lagos state, has revealed that rescue operations did not commence until about two hours after the accident happened.

Speaking with TheCable at Ajegunle police station, Owode Onirin, the victim, who simply identified himself as Nnamdi, said he felt the end had come.

Nnamdi said he boarded the ill-fated bus at Benin in Edo state, and that the journey was smooth until the incident at Owode Elede.

He explained that GUO Transport Service Co. LTD, owners of the bus, invited him to the station to write a statement on the accident.

“I joined the bus at a park in Benin last night. I heard it bus was coming from Aba,” he told TheCable.

“The journey was smooth. In fact some of us were even cracking jokes… The accident happened in the twinkle of an eye. We started crying for help, but no one came to us. After over one hour, I began to lose hope.

“Some of us were praying, some were just crying. I got confused and didn’t know what to do. It was when it almost got to two hours that some men came to rescue us. At that time, three people had died.”

PIC.4. LUXURY BUS PLUNGES INTO RIVER AT OWODE-ELEDE, IKORODU IN LAGOS

Nnamdi, who revealed that he is a trader on Lagos Island, lacked words to express his feelings after surviving the terrible experience.

“I just don’t know what to say. Where would I have been by now? It’s still like a dream,” he told TheCable.

The police officers at the counter declined to speak with TheCable, saying only the public relations officer (PPRO) of the force in the state, was authorised to comment on such issues.

Dolapo Badmos, spokesperson of the Lagos police command, has yet to respond to inquiries by TheCable. The response to a text message sent is still being awaited.

However, a woman, who said her husband was also involved in the accident, was also at the station.

She refused to speak at length and declined to have her pictures taken, just like Nnamdi.

The woman said officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA) had taken her husband to a hospital, but that she had not seen him.

She said she rushed to the office of the transportation company at Iddo in Lagos Mainland, when she heard about the accident, but was asked to come to the station.

The bus, with registration number Anambra GDD 386 YE, was parked around the station as of the time this report was filed.

According to LASEMA, three people died, while 23 sustained injuries in the accident.

TheCable learnt that the accident caused gridlock on the every-busy Ikorodu road in the early hours of Friday.

Three Die As Passenger Bus Plunges Into River In Lagos.

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Three people have been reported dead as a luxury bus plunged into Majidun River in Mile 12 area of Lagos in the early hours of Friday.

The bus was said to have been travelling from the eastern part of Nigeria.

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Onlookers at the accident scene as Emergency officials attempt to rescue victims

Officials of the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA), and Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA), as well as other agencies made the confirmation as they brought out three dead bodies from the river.

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Emergency officials attempting to rescue victims

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Cancellation of monthly sanitation in Lagos to boost productivity – Traders

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Traders at Mile 12 produce market in Lagos on Thursday lauded the cancellation of monthly environmental sanitation exercise by the state government, saying it would boost economic activities.

 

Femi Odusanya, spokesperson, Mile 12 Traders Association, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos.

 

The Lagos State Government announced the cancellation on Wednesday, saying “it was no longer appropriate to restrict movement of people for three hours in a mega city like Lagos’’.

 

Odusanya said: “The government’s decision was quite thoughtful. It has become unnecessary restraining people’s movement for three hours in this economic recession.

 

“Most people bringing goods from the North wait at the expressways till sanitation ends but now our goods will get to the market early with reduced waste.

“With this new development, traders will have more time to promote their businesses and contribute to the economic growth of the country.”

 

He, however, noted that the cancellation placed huge responsibility on the traders to intensify and maintain a clean and healthy environment while pursuing economic gain.

 

He said: “We have to increase our efforts in cleaning and waste disposal at the Thursday weekly market sanitation to ensure that our market is hygienic and safe for trading activities.”

 

Similarly, Eke Ubiji, Executive Secretary, National Association of Small and Medium Enterprise noted that the decision would create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive.

 

Ubiji said: “Environmental sanitation is an integral part of societal governance; citizens should observe it without compulsion and restriction that will hinder economic activities.”

Buhari Quick To Condemn Côte d’Ivoire Attack, Mute On Agatu, Mile 12- Fayose

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The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has again attacked President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of focusing on issues pertaining to other countries, rather than dealing with the problems facing the Nigeria.

He urged the president to pay more attention to security and economic issues affecting Nigeria, describing his condemnation of Sunday’s terrorist attack on the Grand Bassam Resort in Cote D’Ivoire as “hypocritical and demonstration of insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians”.

“If President Buhari could afford to pick his phone and call the Ivorian president, Alassane Ouattara, immediately after the attack, Nigerians must ask the President why he kept mute for days over the Fulani herdsmen massacre of over 300 Agatu people of Benue State, the Mile 12 Lagos killings and wanton destruction of properties among others,” Mr. Fayose said on Tuesday in a statement signed by his Special Assistant of Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka.

He noted that it was strange that President Buhari was more concerned with the killing of 16 people in Cote D’Ivoire than the Fulani herdsmen’s murder of over 300 citizens of Nigeria.

Mr. Fayose said it was alarming that even when former Senate President, David Mark, was attacked by the Fulani herdsmen last Saturday when he went on inspection of the eight communities destroyed by the Fulani herdsmen, there was no reaction from the president condemning the terror attack.

“From all indications, our president has abandoned governance. The only thing going on in the minds of those running the affairs of this country in Abuja is how to entrench themselves in power by crushing anyone perceived as capable of hindering them,” said Mr. Fayose.

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Four Feared Dead At Mile 12 Violence

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Violence Thursday morning erupted at Agiliti area, near popular Mile 12 market in Lagos. Although details were sketchy at press time, unconfirmed reports said atleast four persons were killed in the fracas between factions of okada riders in the area.

Eye witnesses also said that security operatives are battling to quell the violence, just as the Lagos State government has shut the market and vowed to deal with miscreants in the area.

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