#CODED-ish News: HERITAGE BANK DEMONSTRATES COMMITMENT TO AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA

Heritage Bank Limited has once again collaborated with the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide a N2bn long-term facility to Triton Aqua Africa Limited (TAAL) under the Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS).

The move was part of efforts to support and boost the real sector and unlock food and wealth creating potentials in the nation’s agriculture sector.

TAAL, also known as Triton Farm, accessed the CACS through the support of Heritage Bank to set up aquaculture businesses- nursery/hatchery for the production of fingerlings and brood stock in Ikeja; and earthen ponds for catfish and tilapia in Asejire, Iwo and Gambari towns in Oyo State.

The company said its strategy is to embrace backward integration through production of fish locally and reduce its importation of frozen fish, as well as assist small scale farms by producing quality breed fingerlings.

The Chairman, Triton Group, Ashvin Samtani, said the farm was fully integrated in aquaculture, poultry and crop production and is a platform to create employment for teeming youth.

Heritage Bank group head of agriculture finance, Olugbenga Awe, stated that the partnership between the bank and Triton Farm local production will conserve scarce foreign exchange and enhance food security.

Awe stressed that Heritage Bank’s support for small-scale enterprises is well known and most of these SMEs play in the agriculture sector.

According to him, the bank sees agriculture as one of its heritage that can empower individuals and communities in terms of creating wealth from the soil and through the entire value –chain using value addition and industrialisation.

“We are also focused on small holder farmers as we currently support thousands of farmers in Kaduna and Zamfara states in rice and soybeans production under the Anchor Borrowers Programme, he added."

The Minister of State for Agriculture, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, during a tour of Triton Farms, commended the company, stating that the CBN and Heritage Banks’ financial support to the company’s achievement is very fundamental as investment in food security is probably the most profitable venture anyone could think of.

By: Unknown On 4:26 AM

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#CODED-ish News: MTV Popular Show Actor, Valerie of "16 and Pregnant" Dies Of A Suspected OVERDOSE!! (DETAILS)

Valerie Fairman

According to MediaTakeOut.com, Valerie Fairman, who starred on the show’s second season in 2010, has passed away at the age of only 23. She leaves behind her daughter, Nevaeh, age 7.

While Valerie’s cause of death is unknown at this point, TMZ suspects that she overdosed on some type of narcotic.

Valerie has had a number of run-ins with the law – and she was arrested numerous times since her appearance on 16 and Pregnant, most notably in February 2015 on prostitution charges.

Valerie’s friends and family have been posting memorial messages on her social media pages. “Valerie you will forever be missed,” Valerie’s sister wrote. “I love you baby girl and I will always [love you].”

“RIP I’m gonna miss you Valerie Fairman aka my daughter,” a family friend, along with a picture of her with Valerie.

Her ex-boyfriend, David Pryce, also posted about Valerie’s death, hinting that it may have been drug-related. “I will always miss you Valerie and I want to tell anyone who is selling s**t to people to stop,” he wrote. “We have lost too many loved ones to what you are doing.

By: Unknown On 7:22 AM

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#CODED-ish News: SMEs Lauds Heritage Bank's Contribution To Their Successes

Contrary to the reports published by some online media and Sahara Reporters, that one of the most courageous banks in Africa, Heritage Bank is facing possible distress; the bank has ignored and regardless, stayed focused and true to its primary goal of making SMEs survive in the face of obvious economic hardship.

The bank's Managing Director/CEO, Ifie Sekibo has remained focused to his fundamental passion of sustaining the dreams of over 10,000 SMEs it had worked hard to help over its one year operations as a national bank.

The bank recently took a brave stride and acquired Enterprise Bank in a view to leveraging it's over 160 branches, to reach out to its fast growing customer base across the country.

In a recent interview with ThisDay, the bank's MD/CEO debunked all dusts raised by Sahara Reporters and some online media of being in a position of possible liquidity and urged it's customers to ignore any rumors making rounds about the bank's unquestionable stability.

By: Unknown On 7:03 AM

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#CODED-ish News: WHY MMM WILL BE BACK IN 2017

Alternative to general opinion that the popular online financial community known as MMM has crashed, I am of the opinion that the community is even stronger and getting ready to make her members her participate again after the ongoing upgrade of her operations are completed.

Here's my simple analysis that suggests the scheme will be back in 2017. These views are singularly mine and mine alone.

After carefully reading the first news posted in the personal offices of participants, I observed the strength and power of information misinterpretation. From what was disseminated, it was clear that frozen Mavros (as the community's currency is called) were only extended to 30days as against 14days; which was the usual norm.

These few analytically thought about reason(s) would suggest that MMM hasn't crashed as against general "Opinion"

1. The Ongoing MMM Guiders school 3days ago, continued it's normal activities of training ordinary participants to become Managers/Guiders whose sole responsibility is to maintain the smooth running of participant's activities. Now if MMM has crashed, there wouldn't have been a continuation if this career driven aspect of MMM

2. The continuous crediting of Mavros (MMM online currency) every Tuesdays and Thursdays hasn't stopped as the system's operations are still fully active as before. Therefore, if MMM had crashed, there wouldn't be any infrastructure to support this particular common activity.

3. The promise kept from antecedents. I'm referring to the news about MMM Zimbabwe that was reported to have crashed because it was put on pause mode, so as to RE-STRATEGISE on how to make the community sustainable over a long period. MMM kept her promise to the community in Zimbabwe and now you can attest to the fact that it came back STRONGER and better. I guess you haven't heard of any sour news from that country.

4. The dedication of top guiders in the community, who have been working relentlessly with the Russian programmers to fashion out ways to make the community better at handling participant's issues. It's obviously a normal practice in any organization to create room and time for maintenance and upgrades which could result in a necessary temporary suspension of general activities for a while.

5. The miracle MMM caused in the lives of participants, that made almost every Nigerian take charge of his/her destiny for the first time; and also helped to curb the menace caused by unintentional idleness.

It is important at this juncture to arguably emphasise that because of MMM, the Nigerian state was rescued from a ticking time bomb that was inevitably bound to explode in a shortest possible time.

Also, just to add that President Buhari would thank Sergey Mavrodi in silence for the role he played in cushioning the heightening tension, as a result of a dummy economy.

Since kept promises are MMM's strong areas. Expect a beautiful 2017 with undeniable beautiful prospects.

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The thoughts portrayed in this write-up, are solely of the writer's.

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By: Unknown On 7:35 AM

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