Minister of State for Youth Development, Ayodele Olawande, said the '1 LGA, 1 Product' initiative is aimed at advancing the most dominant economic activity in each local government area to create jobs and sustainable livelihood, especially for economically active youth at the grassroots.


The Minister stated this on Friday when he paid a working visit to one of the biggest fish markets in Nigeria situated in Ilaje, Ondo State.


Received by the Founder/Managing Director of OjajaMoore, Ambassador Orioye Benedict Gbayisemore, who is also the founder of the market, the Minister appraised the huge potential of the market and applauded the founder for his foresight.


Olawande, who could not hide his excitement with the level of economic activities going on in the market and the number of youth engaged, said he was proud that his vision to reduce youth unemployment, especially at the grassroots, is already taking root in Ondo State.


"I'm proud this is happening in Ondo. I believe, firmly, that we cannot address unemployment by simply driving interventions in the urban centers alone, which in most cases benefit only the educated formal youth. I believe we must do our utmost to carry the informal youth in our local communities along by factoring them into all our job creation plans," Olawande said.


He added, "Almost all our local government areas have one outstanding product or economic mainstay. We must harness the peculiar and comparative economic activity in each local government area to create jobs, which is the thinking behind the '1 LGA, 1 Product' initiative."


The Minister, thereafter, assured of his commitment to facilitating the required support and collaborations that would improve the productive capacity of Ilaje Fish market and enable it to fully take advantage of the surging protein demand in Nigeria and across Africa.

AngelGabbyShara:



*Olawande visits Ilaje Fish Market, says '1 LGA, 1 Product' 'll harness the comparative advantage in local communities for job creation*

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turmacs:
Look a their black useless faces. Bunch of selfish idiots and pretenders are all I see.

CyberHolarex:
Fishery can be another source of income for Nigeria. But they don't know how to harness it for revenue.

Developed countries will take their ship to African waters to harvest schools of fishes and take back to their country, packaged it and sell back to us in cans, and containers.

But we only depend on crude oil for survivability. What a shame!

turmacs:
Look a their black useless faces. Bunch of selfish idiots and pretenders are all I see. After over 6 decades of independence, you people are still living like cavemen while some serious countries that gained independence after you are now first and second world countries, having the same or even lower GDP with a population that is nothing compared to what you people have. Bunch of idiots. Just look at their disgusting faces. Look at the nonsense that they are still discussing in the 21st century. May those useless and dead gods you people claim to serve strike anyone of you that will compare your dirty, black, animalistic and primitive selves to South Africa or call yourselves "Giant of Africa" again, because the last time I checked, South Africa is the only country in this God forsaken Continent that is not a third world country. We have a higher population than them, we have a higher GDP than them but just look at how you people are still fooling yourselves in the 21st century.

mrvitalis:

So u mean government should tax fishermen?

How exactly would Nigeria earn revenue from fishing please

CyberHolarex:


If government will not earn why are they suddenly there?

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