Did You Know…? Sesame Seeds Are Now Nigeria’s Largest Agricultural Exports

The NBS’s report says that exports of sesame seeds brought home ₦15.8 billion in the last three months of 2017; that’s more than 35% of what Nigeria earned from all its agriculture exports in that period. Other big internationally traded agricultural products included cocoa beans, frozen shrimps, flour and meals of soya beans and cashew nuts. However, only cocoa beans came close to matching the earnings from sesame seeds; they gave the country ₦14.5 billion.
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Did You Know Timi Dakolo is Half Ghanaian by Birth

The Bayelsa native was however raised by his grandmother and an aunt in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, who was responsible for his interest in music. He along with a few friends founded a music group The Purple Love and performed in and around Port Harcourt until 2005 when they gained admission into the University of Port Harcourt and the group was disbanded.
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Did You Know? Kano’s Dawanau Is West Africa’s Largest Grains Market.

But Dawanau, a market founded in 1985, has only been around for a fraction of the time that some of the more famous trading posts of Kano State have lasted. It isn’t in the thick of the modern buzz of metropolitan Kano either. Sitting almost nine miles North-West of the city centre, Dawanau looks at first site like a typical large Northern marketplace- and there are more than just a few of them.
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