Every Home A Garden: Lagos Women Joins Competition, Sets To Win N20m In Nationwide Farming Contest

The ‘Every Home a Garden’ National Competition under the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) Agriculture of the First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has kcked-off, as Lagos First Lady of Lagos State, Dr. Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu promised to support all 250 Lagos participants in the ongoing National Competition.

The competition according to First Lady of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, is set to have the winner bagging N20 million prize.

The First Lady of Lagos State, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, at the press conference and seminar organised for the selected Lagos participants at the State House, Ikeja recently stated the state would deploy all resources to ensure the winner emerges from Lagos.

Mrs. Sanwo-Olu disclosed that the participants were selected from a total of 1,052 applications after a thorough scrutiny.

She also expressed confidence that Lagos would emerge victorious among the competitors, saying, “We are being prepared like a boy scout for this competition, and we know we are going to emerge victorious.”

Every Home A Garden: Lagos Women Joins Competition, Sets To Win N20m In Nationwide Farming Contest

The competition “The “Every Home, A Garden” is basically aimed at promoting home farming at a crucial time when food prices are soaring across the country and beyond.

“Her Excellency, Distinguished Senator Oluremi Tinubu, CON, rightly believes that embracing home farming will bring much-needed relief to many Nigerians at this crucial time in the history of our nation.

“The “Every Home, A Garden” competition will culminate in December this year when the final winner from all 36 states of the country will be announced,” Lagos first lady said.

She said the seminar marked a significant milestone in the journey, as part of measures to ensure Lagos complies strictly with guidelines and have the winner of the competition emerge from the state.

“To ensure the integrity of our process, we required participants to provide their Lagos State Residents Registration Agency numbers.

This helped us verify that applicants who submit videos of their gardens to the Office of the First Lady of Nigeria through our Office are indeed residents of Lagos State,” she said.

She said, “It is worth noting that the level of interest expressed by applicants through the Google Form prepared by the Committee, reflects the strong interest of women in Lagos State in the “Every Home, A Garden” initiative, despite the challenge of limited land space.”

The first lady of Lagos said in addition to the ₦20 million star prize for the overall winner across the country, the Office of the First Lady of Lagos State will provide consolation prizes for each of the 200 first-time farmers and another 50 experienced participants already captured in the data bank.

She said, “is intended to encourage you all to continue with the spirit of home gardening and to inspire others to embrace this practice.”