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  In its desire to boost agricultural output in the State IFAD/LIFE-ND, Ondo State Project Coordinating Office has held a WORKING SESSION for stakeholders on extension service delivery. During the session, the attendees were taught on how to adopt inclusive extension delivery system with a view to improving the capacity of the state public extension system. Officials of Agricultural Development Programmes(ADPs) FROM THE Department of Extension Services AND THE DIRECTORS OF AGRIC FROM THE 10 PROJECT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS were in attendance for the WORKING SESSION ON innovative delivery system. Addressing the Extension  stakeholders, the Programme Manager of ADP, Mr. Babasola Adeniyan stated that the workshop became necessary to ensure high quality extension delivery by the private sector, as well as initiate new approaches to be up-scaled by the private sector. He noted that Extension officers and all agricultural Departments are consistent with the current Federal Government policy on

  WILLIAMS OLUFUNMI (Bobo Check): The Quintessential Broadcast Journalist, Bows Out Of Public Service In Style. William's Olufunmi (Bob Check) drops the pen symbolizing performance of his last assignment in the public service.     By Sunday Ajibola The locale was the Conference Hall of the Nigeria Union of Union of Journalists (NUJ).  It was filled to capacity. The high and the low in the public service; men who reigned yesterday, old friends, contemporaries, subordinates, church leaders and members, family members and professional colleagues were on hand to grace the occasion. They had all converged to honour  Williams Olufunmi, a former newscaster and editor at Ondo State Radiovision Corporation (OSRC), ex-Press Secretary to a former Deputy Governor and a Director in the State Ministry of Information was retiring from the Civil Service after 35 years of meritorious service.  The ceremony offered an opportunity for everyone there to have a better picture of whom the deceptive seem