The construction company handling a multi-million-dollar Tingo Foods Processing Factory, situated at the agricultural community of Onicha-Ugbo, Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, has moved to the site with the commencement of construction of the processing factory.
The foundation laying ceremony of the USD1.6 billion took place at Ishiekpe village Onicha-Ugbo, Aniocha North local government area of Delta State.
The occasion was graced by the crème de la crème of the society.
The Nigerian-born UK entrepreneur, the initiator of the project, Dozy Mmobuosi, was in attendance with other eminent persons in government and industry across Nigeria.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, the Monarch of Onicha-Ugbo host community, HRM Obi Chukwumalieze 1, President General of Onicha-Ugbo Patriotic Union, Barr. Peter Kogolo and other respected chiefs of the town were all at the event.
Mmobuosi is setting up the Tingo Foods, a food processing facility in Delta State, which is a subsidiary of Tingo International Holdings Incorporation.
Dozy Mmobuosi, noted that the project which costs USD1.6 billion would also save Africa from paying foreign exchange to import finished food products.
According to Mmobuosi, the factory would aid the export of made in Africa foods to the world enhance inter Africa trade via the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement and sell high quality and nutritious food products in Nigeria.
Mmobuosi, an iconic tech guru is making the massive investment as a way of giving back to his birth place, Delta. He has vowed to revolutionise the African Food Industry and create direct employment for the teeming youths in Nigeria, providing a significant boost to the Nigerian economy and contributing to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The SDGs aim to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peace and prosperity for all. The facility’s job creation and wealth creation will help support SDG 8, Decent Work and Economic Growth, and SDG 2, Zero Hunger.
In recent times, the African food processing industry has thrived in snail pace, with low productivity and poor usage of human capital.
Africa’s farmers and agribusinesses could create a trillion-dollar food market by 2030 if they can expand their access to more capital, electricity, better technology and irrigated land to grow high-value nutritious foods, and if African governments can work more closely with agribusinesses to feed the region’s fast-growing urban population, according to a new World Bank report launched recently.
According to the Growing Africa: Unlocking the Potential of Agribusiness report, Africa’s food systems, currently valued at US$313 billion a year from agriculture, could triple if governments and business leaders radically rethink their policies and support to agriculture, farmers, and agribusinesses, which together account for nearly 50 percent of Africa’s economic activity.
Due to a combination of population growth, rising incomes and urbanization, strong demand is driving global food and agricultural prices higher.
The factory is expected to begin operations in the next 18 to 24 months.
Mmobuosi noted that the facility is the first phase of a multi-billion-dollar investment that Tingo International Holdings plans to make in the African food industry.
The company would decongest the labour market with the creation of no fewer than 12,000 direct employments with the setting up of its food processing facility in Delta State.
The host community of Tingo foods, Onicha-Ugbo, is a town located within latitude 6˚18’N and 6˚22’N and longitude 6˚20’E and 6˚26’E in the northern boundary of Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria. It is situated on a highland about 40 km from Asaba on the Asaba-Benin Express Road connecting the West to the East of Nigeria. OnichaUgbo is bordered to the East by Issele-Uku and Idumuje-Unor, to the West by Igbodo and Obior, to the North by Idumuje-Ugboko and Ewohinmi and to the South by Ubulu-Uku.
Iconic Dozy Mmobuosi is close to buying English Football League club Sheffield United at a £90 million takeover.
According to The Times, the 43-year-old who co-founded Tingo Mobile, an Agri-Fintech company that aims at helping African farmers, will be subject to the EFL’s Owners’ and Directors’ Test.
Sheffield United have faced a great financial crisis but Mmobuosi who is valued at $7.6 billion can complete the acquisition of the club after making a larger deposit of the money.
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