{"id":1257,"date":"2025-11-01T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:12:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:12:41","slug":"ifad-additional-financing-commissioner-assures-counterpart-funding-project-orientates-350-selected-trainees-signs-mou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/2025\/11\/01\/ifad-additional-financing-commissioner-assures-counterpart-funding-project-orientates-350-selected-trainees-signs-mou\/","title":{"rendered":"IFAD Additional Financing: Commissioner Assures Counterpart Funding, Project Orientates 350 Selected Trainees, Signs MOU"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/commissioner-1-1024x446.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1278\" style=\"width:790px;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/commissioner-1-1024x446.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/commissioner-1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/commissioner-1-768x334.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/commissioner-1-1536x669.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/commissioner-1-2048x892.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In line with Abia State government commitment to food security, job creation and sustainable income, the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr Cliff Agbaeze, has revealed government\u2019s resolve to the payment of state counterpart fund to Abia Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises, Niger Delta, LIFE-ND, a project sponsored by Federal Government, International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD and Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Agbaeze disclosed this on Tuesday, October 28, at the orientation ceremony organized in Umuahia, to educate the 350 selected incubatees, (trainees), including 47 incubators, (trainers), on ethical discipline and modern farming practices in the Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emphasizing government\u2019s commitment to counterpart fund, Agbaeze said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe first thing we did when I became a commissioner was to provide counterpart fund. We must provide our own counterpart fund. There was a freeze in the programme; it\u2019s coming up now. It\u2019s in process. You know the Excellency will always do things and do it well\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Revealing similar commitment to a sister project, Agbaeze said the Governor had paid the sum of <s>N<\/s>500m to catalyse an arrangement with the New Partnership for Africa\u2019s Development, NEPAD, and West African Union Development Agency, the flag-off being held \u201cfew weeks back.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated the government\u2019s paradigm shift from ancient agro practices to a modern method, insisting on empowering determined \u201carmy of well-trained youth\u201d to produce food in abundance for the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"867\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0000-867x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1260\" style=\"width:361px;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\" 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Officers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving details, Ohaechesi said the empowerment is a 3-year repayable loan through the Commodities\u2019 Apex Development Association, CADA, with a moratorium period of one year, noting that compliance to the payment would create opportunities for other beneficiaries in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0001-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1261\" style=\"width:360px;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0001-614x1024.jpg 614w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0001-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0001.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">                    Uchenna Rowland Onyeizu, Ph.D, CEnv<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">                   Abia LIFE-ND State Project Coordinator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing journalists, State Project Coordinator, Uchenna Rowland Onyeizu, Ph.D, CEnv, said the orientation was a major process before empowering any potential beneficiary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the process involves discipline of trainees at their various training centres, financial literacy, knowledge of training processes, modern practices in farming and the need for financial sustenance, adding that stipends are provided, even when the training centres are located in their communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He enjoined other selected communities to exercise patience, promising their inclusion in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0004-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1262\" style=\"width:600px;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0004-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0004-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0004-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0004.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">                                                       Godwin Chukwuekezie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">                                                       State Agribusiness Officer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">The State Agribusiness Officer, Godwin Chukwuekezie, said the orientation comprises selected successful trainees from six Local Government Areas, Ohafia, Bende, Umuahia South, Isialangwa South and Aba South, noting that a major exercise of signing Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, will be key for legal implications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"994\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0005-994x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1263\" style=\"width:389px;height:auto\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0005-994x1024.jpg 994w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0005-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0005-768x791.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0005.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 994px) 100vw, 994px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">                            Mr John Okechukwu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:12px\">                           Representing State Director NDDC, Dr. Anderson Uken<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abia LIFE-ND has recorded success stories of empowering 4,250, beneficiaries in Cassava, Poultry, oil palm and rice production and processing, including their various value chains and marketing in the last six years of the project implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/thecouragetimes.com\/inqxs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG-20251101-WA0003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1264\" loading=\"lazy\" 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