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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Enrty | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Are the relief measures on fuel hike adequate? Yes No Indifferent View results Why FG Banned Cocoa Powder-D/Gov. From Kingsley Nwezeh in Abuja, 11.05.2004 Chairman of the organisation and mobilisation sub-committee of the National Cocoa Development Committee  (NCDC) and Deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Chief Abiodun Aluko at the weekend in Abuja gave fresh insight on the rationale behind the recent ban on cocoa powder by the Federal Government. Speaking at a news conference in Abuja, Aluko said the ban was designed to create room for the local market in view of the low consumption level of the product in the country. He noted that cocoa when exported as beverage would yield more foreign exchange for the country as against raw exports while maintaining that the Federal Government had agreed to sponsor the use of cocoa beverages and other products at public functions, primary and secondary schools in a bid to encourage cocoa consumption. On the objectives/achievements of his committee, he noted that the committee was saddled with the responsibility of sensitising and mobilising cocoa farmers, setting up of a directory of cocoa farmers  and data bank as well as determining the quantity and quality of cocoa produced by each local government in the country and the level of exportation. The Deputy Governor listed the committee's achievements to include encouraging state governments to distribute cocoa seedlings free of charge to cocoa farmers which culminated in the distribution of 500,000 and 1,000,000 cocoa seedlings  to farmers by the Ekiti and Oyo State governments.   Fuel Crisis Grounds Airlines 11.05.2004 22:00 BPE Halts NITEL's N14bn Loan 11.05.2004 21:58 Plateau: Tension Mounts over Dariye's Fate 11.05.2004 21:58 Row Brews over Arafat's Burial Site, Successor 11.05.2004 21:56 Abacha Loot: Kaduna Judge Lambasts FG 11.05.2004 21:56 How We Are Repositioning-NIPOST 11.05.2004 21:54 'HIV/AIDS, Threat to Food Security' 11.05.2004 21:54 Students Join NAFDAC's Iodine Campaign 11.05.2004 21:53 Governors Don't Back Promises with Action -Atiku 11.05.2004 21:53 FG to Encourage Private School Investors 11.05.2004 21:51     REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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