Nigeria, July 13 -- Nigerian music star, Innocent Idibia aka 2baba, on Monday formally unveiled Innobia Cooperatives Organisation (Innobia Allied Ltd), his agro-allied business concern.

The singer's manager, Efe Omorogbe, who revealed this on Monday, said the business is headquartered in Nigeria and will have branches in Israel and the United Kingdom.

During a live chat with the chief executive of Nigerian Stock Exchange, Oscar Onyema, at the virtual ringing of the gong to close the market on Monday, 2Baba stated that the initiative was born out of the desire to key into the government policy of diversification of the economy through agriculture and its ancillary businesses.

"We want to create jobs for our youths and empower our women ...