Education
University To Partner CBN On Poultry Farming
The authorities of Rivers State University have expressed readiness to partner the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the development of poultry farming in order to boost agricultural production and promote food sufficiency in the country.
The Former Vice Chancellor of the University , Prof. Blessing Chimezie Didia gave this indication when he received a delegation of CBN staff from the Abuja headquarters who paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Port Harcourt, last Wednesday.
The Former VC who thanked the CBN team for their visit, added that the collaboration would help to improve the university- based poultry initiatives which he said, was initiated to boost meat production in the state and across the country.
He averred that his administration was already working out modalities that would meet the CBN specified collaboration standard.
Earlier in his speech, the Leader of the Delegation and Senior Manager, CBN, Abuja, Mrs. Juliet Azikiwe explained that the CBN team was at the institution to inspect the status of the University’s poultry farm in respect to its proposal for collaboration.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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