Nigerian singer Omawumi finds new love.

Nigerian singer Omawumi who was the runner up in the Nigerian Idol competetion many years ago has found a new love! And her new love is AGRICULTURE. Omawumi has ventured into Agriculture saying that she was born into a home of farmers.

She is currently working on ONE.org’s theme song project ‘Cocoa na Chocolate’, the singer said she joined the campaign for agriculture to be revived in Africa because it used to be the continent’s source of income before the discovery of oil.

She said “I have always been into agriculture; my father has a 25-hectare land in Ubeji, in the outskirts of Warri. While I grew up, I used to go to the farm and we used to process cassava. I can make garri; I mean uprooting the cassava, the whole process of extraction and frying it. I can do it effortlessly same thing with fufu and tapioca. I am actively involved in agriculture because I grew in the farm.

“Everything we use is actually from agriculture especially most of the make-up women use. I am a part of the project because I believe we need to be actively involved in agriculture, especially the youths. They see agriculture as something that is ‘uncool’ meanwhile it could create employment for a lot of them. I wonder why someone would rather go to a supermarket to buy chicken at a price you could use to buy some chicks, rare them and after a while, you have lots of chicken for your consumption,” she said.

She confirmed that also that she is working on her new album.

**Very good project indeed, well done Omawumi. Agriculture maintains life.