Lagos Partners NCF On Botanical Park

The Lagos State Centre for Rural Development (CERUD), is seeking collaboration with the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF), to ensure that the state’s Rural Botanical Park at Igbodu in Epe is self-sustaining after commissioning.

Special Adviser to the Governor on Rural Development, Mr. Babatunde Hunpe, disclosed this while on a courtesy visit to the NCF headquarters in Lekki, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, recently.

He said the collaboration being sought was in the development of a fauna unit at the park which would make the Agro Diversity Model an integrated agriculture-based development model.

Hunpe stated that the collaboration will also sustain the activities at the park, fashioned in line with the Songhai Integrated Farm Project in Porto Novo, Republic of Benin.

Executive Director of the Foundation, Prof. Emmanuel Obot, represented by Mr. Adetayo Okunlola, stated that the NCF will be willing to extend its expertise towards the centre and collaborate with government in its area of specialisation.