A young Nigerian woman, Ms. Esther Agbaje has made history in the United States by winning a seat in the state Assembly.

According to NAN, Ms. Esther has been elected into the Minnesota House of Representatives in Tuesday’s U.S. general elections.

She will represent District 59B in the 134-member House on the platform of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), an affiliate of the U.S. Democratic Party.

Esther, 35, won by a landslide, polling 17,396 votes or 74.7 percent of the total ballots cast.

Her closest rival, Alan Shilepsky of the Republican Party, secured 4,128 votes, representing 17.7 percent of the total.

Elections to the lower chamber of the state legislature hold every two years, and there are no term limits for the lawmakers.

The daughter of Nigerian immigrants, Agbaje was born in St. Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

Her father, Rev. John, an Episcopal Church priest, met her mother, Bunmi, a librarian, at the University of Minnesota where they were studying.

She graduated from George Washington University, Washington, D.C., with a degree in political science.

Esther holds a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, and also a law degree from Harvard University.

She currently works as an attorney in Minneapolis with a focus on general civil litigation and medical malpractice.

She once served at the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Affairs Officer, charged with managing the rule of law projects in the Middle East.

Her priorities as a lawmaker include affordable housing, environmental justice, police reform, public safety, and racial equality.

Angry students have protested at the Ogun State Institute of Technology following the death of a student, who died in a motorcycle accident.

The death of Malik Omoty, a student of Ogun State Institute of Technology (OGITECH), Igbesa has caused serious unrest in the area.

Angry students have staged a protest shutting down the institution.

It was gathered that the late student died at the institution’s clinic. The late student was an ND I Computer Engineering undergraduate.

He died after getting involved in a motorcycle accident on Monday.

It was gathered the accident occur in front of the institution owing to over speeding by the commercial motorcyclist.

Omoty, according to witnesses, was rushed to the school clinic but was not treated.

His friends were raising money for ambulance to take him to an hospital when he died in the clinic, it was learnt.

The development enraged students who blocked the entrance gate of the institution on Wednesday morning. They also sent lecturers and non-teaching staff packing from the school.

The protesting students also sent away the Dean of Students Affairs and rebuffed attempted by the Special Assistant to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Students Affairs, Hon Adeyemi Azeez to pacify them.

They insisted their colleague won’t have died if the clinic was properly equipped.

President of The Students Union Government (SUG) Comrade Eniola Ogunleye vowed school activities will be postponed till further notice in honour of the deceased.

The Federal Government is seeking the approval of the National Assembly for $1.2bn loan from Brazil to finance agriculture in 2021.

Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national planning, made this known while defending her ministry’s 2021 budget before the House of Representatives Committee on Finance in Abuja on Tuesday.

She revealed that the Federal Government forwarded an approval request to the National Assembly for the loan from the Brazilian government to address issues in the agriculture value chain as Nigeria.

The minister also said 100,000 hectares of land would be required in each state for food production, adding that link roads would be built in such locations to provide access for farmers to move farm produce to markets and reduce post-harvest losses.

Speaking in response to a question on diversification of the economy posed by Chairman of the committee, Mr James Faleke, the minister said;

“For borrowing to improve industry, we are before the parliament. I request for the approval for loan that we call the Green Imperative Programme which is for loan of $1.2bn from the Brazilian government.

“It is a programme that is addressing the whole of agricultural value chain from mechanisation, production, processing and selling. It is meant to lend to businessmen for tractors, plants at all levels,”