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Odio Investment Cooperative and Credit Society Limited has revealed plans to begin training for farmers and small-scale business owners on how to export their produce, adding that the farmers would be exposed to how to access credit facilities to boost their businesses. The company said that the training will be taking place in all the 774 local government areas of the country under the "Light Up Nigeria Project". The Chairman of Odio Investment Cooperative and Credit Society Limited, Prince Amezhinm Atuma, stated this at the official launching of the project in Degema, headquarters of Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. Atuma, who is also the Coordinator of "Light Up Nigeria Project 2023", also said that aside from the training, cottage industries will be set up and microloans will be made available to traders as well as small and medium-scale businesses. He emphasized that the project is a public-private partnership, PPP, initiative, with several government agencies such as SMEDAN, NEPC, NIPOST, as well as a partnership with some international organizations, adding that plans were on for collaboration with Rural Electrification Agency, REA, for power supply in rural communities through solar.

President Bola Tinubu and the Peoples Democratic Party governors on Tuesday intervened to stop the impeachment moves against Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The President conferred with the embattled governor and his predecessor, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, disclosed this shortly after the Nigeria Police Council met for the first time under the Tinubu administration. Both Wike and Fubara had attended the meeting which was held at the State House. However, photographs and videos capturing the moment were muffled by security operatives who threatened any media house that published them with eviction from the Presidential Villa. Some cameramen confided in The PUNCH that while others were asked not to take photographs and videos of the two men, those who had done so before the directive were asked not to publish them. This happened as the police arrested about 120 youths in Port Harcourt for protesting the moves to impeach the governor. Online videos showed the youth sitting on the ground at the premises of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Bureau in Port Harcourt. Our correspondent gathered that among those arrested was the state Chairman of the National Youth Council of Nigeria, Chijioke Ihunwo.