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http://ift.tt/2saxMs3 Prof. Anthony Eneji, state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Calabar. AFP PHOTO / ISSOUF SANOGO The Cross River Government says that it has awarded N1.16 billion contract for the commencement of work on a model banana farm project in Akamkpa town of Akamkpa Local Government Area. Prof. Anthony Eneji, state Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Calabar. Eneji said that the contract was the first phase, adding that work would commence on a 100 hectares out of the 250 hectares of land allocated for the project in the state. He said that already, the contractor had been mobilised to sight for the first phase of the project. According him, the second phase will start in Boki Local Government Area. “The farm will grow different species of banana, and thereafter, turn the...

http://ift.tt/2sNalC4 Photo;AFP Portugese defender Pepe confirmed he has had offers from Premier League clubs after announcing he will leave Real Madrid when his contract expires this summer. Pepe, 34, has spent 10 years with the European champions, but has fallen down the pecking order under Zinedine Zidane this season as Madrid won a La Liga and Champions League double for the first time in 59 years. “What Madrid have done is spectacular, but there are things that I still don’t understand,” the Brazilian-born centre-back told Spanish radio station Cope. “I don’t know why I have disappeared from the team. “An era has come to an end and, from now, a new one will start, but Real Madrid’s way of doing things hasn’t been correct.” French giants Paris Saint-Germain and Italy’s Inter Milan have both been rumoured as Pepe’s possible next destination. However, he said England also remained a possibility having previously snubbed the option of a lucrative move to China to help h...