pulsa:
With the spate of attacks in the country, the increase in the prices of general commodities for the common man, the increase in percentage of people unemployed both skilled and unskilled, the reduction of forex earned due to reduction in oil prices.

Fellow Nigerians our country is in deep shiiit.

I pity us millenials and generation twitter and Facebook, for no one will suffer it more than us, no one shall feel the pains like us, for if in doubt let me ask you this
1). Who forms the bulk of the unemployed people roaming the streets ?.
2). Who are the ones constantly trying their luck in going overseas, and who fill the embassies of USA and other such developed countries day in day out?.
3). Who are the fools who fight for politicians who don't give a Bleep about us?.
4). Who fill the sport bets shops hoping to make a few millions with the few change they have got in their pockets?.
5). What is the minimum age required for you to be a governor or president?.
6). Who form the bulk of the fighting force of bokoharam, Niger delta militants, ipob, and even the military?,pardon me who are the ones who also die in all this conflicts.

And to the generation currently in power you have all failed us, you inherited a country with high hopes from your predecessors and you ruined it.
Sadly I know my generation of Nigerians will merely read this and run along off to twitter and facebook to engage in useless ethnic e-battles , and at best gracing this post with likes its does not need.

p.s- pardon all grammatical blunders and errors, for I am too pissed and enraged at the situation this country is in and the manner at which not one member of my generation is taking it serious, to bother reading through it to fix the errors.

Nasiruddeen:
The hate is getting deeper.
I keep saying this- hatred as devastated not only the hearts but the minds of some Nigerians. It has become so bad their minds are beginning to process images that don't tally with the feeds they get from their vision: how many places the heardmen attacked? After all their attacks are reprisals because they and their animals are been killed on daily basis and bias media is silent about it.
Here you have herdsmen either taking cattle for grazing or back from grazing from/to their confinement, posters now made it sound like it is taboo to find the cattle where they are.

What is there to gain from diminishing these people? Where is the doctrine of love that you always claim as Christians?? Haven't we been seeing such images in our cities since forever?? Why are you people making it sound like this is a new thing?? Haven't nomads been part and parcel of our society for decades??
Where are the AK47s some people have been trying hard to tell the world they always bear with themselves??

With our minds twisted so badly by hatred, imagine what people like the poster would say should something of a similar nature happen today.

You people should stop adding fuel to a fire that would consume you while the politicians who would gain some capital from all of these inflammable comments would disappear with their families to a distant safe house.

whirlwind7:
Here's a wet dream I have been experiencing lately....

Imagine that the country has been clearly delineated into the original six Geo-political zones, with each zone contributing the best of what it has been known for, prior to independence.

SW: region was the powerhouse for export produce such as rubber and cocoa. Just this region rivaled Ghana and Ivory Coast in cocoa production! Don't forget the gold and limestone deposits!
SE : region noted for palm oil and commerce. Folks from this enterprising region knows no limit when it comes to trading. Integration was never their problem. Add that to the coal deposits.
NC : held sway with food crops such as yams, tomatoes, onions, beans, groundnuts...you name them. Add that to iron, tin and other minerals!
NW: was noted for quality hides and skins (leather) and cattle
NE : Noted for cattle, hides and skins
SS : Fishery, rubber, oil palm produce.

We got oil, we got independence, and we all lost our senses! The Black Man mentality got us in a choke hold. For how long are we going to practice a system of government that hasn't lifted us out of this quagmire of over 50 years? Don't people get wiser anymore? Regionalism is the way to go.

Well, since the bulk of our political leaders have suddenly gone deaf and dumb over the issue of the rampaging herdsmen, we are not to eat any other food except beef. Fried meat for breakfast, barbecued beef for lunch, and go to bed chewing a strip of kilishi.

I am totally fed up with a country that doesn't know a true and immediate danger when it's around the corner. If any other people except the Fulanis were wrecking this havoc across the country, the northern oligarchs would have fully armed every almajiri to lay to waste the rest of us.
Somebody should tell Bubu that ranching doesn't require a genius. Even stark illiterates can score A+ when it comes to this very simple concept of animal husbandry.

kropotkin11:
Fulani's haave been nomads for hundreds of years. i doubt if they will accept ranching. This problem is something that needs serious looking into and not some lame pedestrian, poorly thought through idea such as ranching

whirlwind7:
Here's a wet dream I have been experiencing lately....

Imagine that the country has been clearly delineated into the original six Geo-political zones, with each zone contributing the best of what it has been known for, prior to independence.

SW: region was the powerhouse for export produce such as rubber and cocoa. Just this region rivaled Ghana and Ivory Coast in cocoa production! Don't forget the gold and limestone deposits!
SE : region noted for palm oil and commerce. Folks from this enterprising region knows no limit when it comes to trading. Integration was never their problem. Add that to the coal deposits.
NC : held sway with food crops such as yams, tomatoes, onions, beans, groundnuts...you name them. Add that to iron, tin and other minerals!
NW: was noted for quality hides and skins (leather) and cattle
NE : Noted for cattle, hides and skins
SS : Fishery, rubber, oil palm produce.

We got oil, we got independence, and we all lost our senses! The Black Man mentality got us in a choke hold. For how long are we going to practice a system of government that hasn't lifted us out of this quagmire of over 50 years? Don't people get wiser anymore? Regionalism is the way to go.

Well, since the bulk of our political leaders have suddenly gone deaf and dumb over the issue of the rampaging herdsmen, we are not to eat any other food except beef. Fried meat for breakfast, barbecued beef for lunch, and go to bed chewing a strip of kilishi.

I am totally fed up with a country that doesn't know a true and immediate danger when it's around the corner. If any other people except the Fulanis were wrecking this havoc across the country, the northern oligarchs would have fully armed every almajiri to lay to waste the rest of us.
Somebody should tell Bubu that ranching doesn't require a genius. Even stark illiterates can score A+ when it comes to this very simple concept of animal husbandry.

EasternLeopard:


No to Nomadic lifestyle Yes to Ranches

manutdadex:
even our generation is too busy being stupid... Posts like dis wont grab their attention..just 8 likes? I weep!

Nasiruddeen:
The hate is getting deeper.
I keep saying this- hatred as devastated not only the hearts but the minds of some Nigerians. It has become so bad their minds are beginning to process images that don't tally with the feeds they get from their vision: how many places the heardmen attacked? After all their attacks are reprisals because they and their animals are been killed on daily basis and bias media is silent about it.
Here you have herdsmen either taking cattle for grazing or back from grazing from/to their confinement, posters now made it sound like it is taboo to find the cattle where they are.

What is there to gain from diminishing these people? Where is the doctrine of love that you always claim as Christians?? Haven't we been seeing such images in our cities since forever?? Why are you people making it sound like this is a new thing?? Haven't nomads been part and parcel of our society for decades??
Where are the AK47s some people have been trying hard to tell the world they always bear with themselves??

With our minds twisted so badly by hatred, imagine what people like the poster would say should something of a similar nature happen today.

You people should stop adding fuel to a fire that would consume you while the politicians who would gain some capital from all of these inflammable comments would disappear with their families to a distant safe house.

manutdadex:
even our generation is too busy being stupid... Posts like dis wont grab their attention..just 8 likes? I weep!

mmmustapha:
Nigeria is blessed with abundant natural resources and rich farmland. every region has its own commodity that's in great need by other regions. eg yoruba land produce colanut, palm oil, cassava and vegetables etc. while north produce tomatoes, sugarcane, millet, maize,cattles/goat/ram and vegetables etc. in the South West/South south they also food crops,vegetables and crude oil. what I want us to understand here is we cannot survive without each other. As wise man says :NO COMMUNITY IS SELF SUFFICIENT IN THE PRODUCTION OF AGRICULTURE AND FINISH PRODUCTS, COMMUNITIES MUST IN ENGAGE IN TRADING WITH ONE ANOTHER. we should not let our religious/regional/tribal sentiments divide us. when elephants engage in fight it's only the grass that suffer.

APChangeZombie:
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I laugh at the zombies who were telling me to go and drink my oyel.

Isnt it ironic that your giant "my ass" of Africa is on the brink of bankruptcy over that same oyel?

There was a time here on this platform where some "Tajus" , "Mulikats" and their "Adamu" ab0ki masters where telling us from the ND that our oyel was worthless and that we could not feed ourselves due to the environmental degradation of our land and water due to 50yrs of irresponsible oil exploration. They told me to go and drink my oyel!

One Taju told me that he wishes the oyel to crash to one dollar. I lolled! Why ? Because the change chanting zombie never knew that they were the ones more dependent on the oyel .

Now that oil is crashing and will continue to crash, and they are seeing the reality of an oil crash on their parasitic yeast economy I wonder if they still want to see the oyel crash.

Loooooooooooooooolz!

All your change nonsnese was based on feeding off the golden geese and as things stand you dont have a single clue on what to do next.

Isnt this pathetic to say the least?

I have been warning and advising you to go back to the farm but una refuse. If you had heeded my warning 5yrs ago you will be harvesting cocoa pods by now but NO una too sophisticated to farm again.

And to make matters worse off, economic analysts are predicting a 7 yrs low in oil prices.

7 yrs ! The schmitta began on september 23, 2015. For the next seven years you will go through severe famine all because you refused to remove your ingrate lazy parasitic eyes off my oyel.

Jonathan has gone with his goodluck.

God can never be at peace with a nation ruled by evil heartless bloodletting people who have spilled the blood of his children for power.

What they seek with power they will never achieve but rather that same power they killed, slandered and blackmailed for will be their stage of disgrace!


Enjoy your next 7yrs famine and dont think it will end after 7yrs because if you dont repent it will continue for another 7yrs.

persius555:
If the masai tribe in kenya and the cowboys in texas accept ranching, who are the fulanis to reject them.
A solution is the immediate disarmament of all herdsmen in the country, proper registration of every one of them, their nomadic style of grazing should be abolished, the southern governors should encourage their agro-entrepeneurs to invest in animal grazing that is ranching based.
The fulanis herdsmen will be left with no choice but to equally embrace ranching.
For now, they feed on our farm produce and feed us their meat.
Who loses?

onegig:
We are so naive in this country that we cannot look ourselves in the eyes and tell truth and facts. More reasons we can never progress.

There is a simple solution to all these issues, the Grazing Reserve Bill but some people in some quaters in their haste to show their long held hatred are shouting themselves hoarse over such a simple solution and mounting silly obstructions to such noble idea. Ask them for the alternative solution to this and they do not have a single one.

First, the Desert is encroaching from the north at a fast rate than we can imagine and thus pushing most cattle herders further down south in search of pasture to feed their cows. In the process, they graze on people's farm and we are all witness to the dangerous dimension this has taken. We have to understand that most if not 99.9% of these cattle herders are stark illiterates and still live in the 17th century. They resort to violence once they are retributed for their wanton destruction of people's farmlands.
The issue of Cattle herders destroying farmlands is a long known issue for anyone that has stayed in the North prior to this moment and i guess it is just gaining prominence down south because of the mass movement being experienced.

We are in Catch 22 situation. In a single day, at least 1000 or more cows is slaugthered in Lagos alone and all these come from the work of these Cattle herders. They are an important part of the food chain and we all agree we need beef and also need these cattle herders who are in their thousands gainfully employed. Also we need to protect farms from the destructive fangs of these cattle herders. So how do you solve this?

Simple we have a very long belt of Rivers that runs from west to east. Create grazing reserves along that belt and cultivate irrigated round the year pasture and mini ranches like we have in 1st world countries.

First you have created a place where these herders can congregate and secondly you can track them and provide education for their kids all season long instead of the Normadic and haphazard kind of way we did it in the past which is not sustainable and ineffective. With these we can educate them for the future and further desensitize them from their violent ways.

Secondly you can enhance cattle breeding from there by using various scientist who can cross breed and get better clones of cows and produce and may even start exporting diary products and beef by using secondary businesses located along those belts thus creating more jobs and earning foreign exchange for the country.

Third, you can now save the farmers and farmlands by enforcing strict rules of no foraging and movement of cattle down south or anywhere by Cattle herders at least they have no excuse of no pasture again. With these we would be saving lives that are lost due to conflicts between cattle herders and farming communities and also accidents caused on our major highways by cows running through the roads unexpectedly.

But people who are naive and tribalistic won't allow common sense reign but would prefer the status quo. Fact is, except something drastic and holistic is done, more conflicts would arise as the movement down south is caused by nature as seen by acute shortage of rainfall, inadequate pasture and dessertification.

Prolly the only solution these shortsighted people want is a situation where we employ police officers to follow cattle herders around and monitor them as they move from town to town, preventing clashes or them stepping into people's farmlands which as we all know is not only stupid but unattainable. Or is it the resuscitation of local militia groups who are also illiterates that would only escalate the problems we want to resort to?

If anything, i am terribly disappointed that the Minister of Agric is not saying a word and someone who should be the champion of such important cause and enlightening against the bias carried by most people is amply silent and lost for words. There would always be opposition to new ideas and change but the duty of Government is to learn to allay the fears of the populace and use superior facts to counter the baseless assumptions held by some sections of the populace.

montezz:

mykl01:
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Nigerians are suspicious that you all want to turn them to turban wearing jan-jaweed/ talibans, hence their rejection of Grazing bill and you will not blame them. The utterances, actions and inaction of those in power has left a lot to be desired, thereby deepening the suspicion.
Next step in the line of action (when hunger opens their guts) is a massive retaliatory attack on the cow herders, the meat and the illicit funds from kidnapping and road block should be an incentive.
Desertification my nyash! Irrigation is practiced all over the core North, why can't they build ranches for these fools, irrigate the ranches and plant the imported Brazilian grasses? Something smells fishy Oga, there is obviously an agenda afoot.

onegig:


I would be done over if i did expect better from Nairaland. More like finding common sense amongst agberos in Oshodi.

Since your nose is very strong and can smell anything. Care to tell us the agenda please?

tansho:
All this will soon be history. The budget has been signed

ipledge5:
That guy above me,I hope you have something good to say,u denied of ftc




I dedicate this 2nd to Lanicky