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November 5, 2019
The Senate has said that it would support AtlanticAfrica Gulf of Guinea Fisheries AAGF, a Greek Consortium on improved fishproduction and processing in the country.
This is in a bid to diversify the economy.
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo Agege said thiswhen the group visited him at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.
The project is to kick start from the Niger Deltageopolitical zone to spread to other geopolitical zones in the country.
The University of Patras, Greece will train 2, 500persons for a start, build state of the art processing plant in Nigeria as wellas trollers that could go as far as 200 nautical miles where canoes cannotreach.
Omo-Agege, who was delighted with the initiativesaid that the senate would give the consortium the needed support becauseaccording to him, it fitted into President Muhammadu Buhari’s agenda of liftingover 100 million people out of poverty.
Earlier, Ita Enang, Senior Special Assistant onNiger Delta Affairs to the President said that his office was working on oilalternative economy and economic diversification in the Niger Delta and theeconomy of Nigeria.