BREAKING NEWS: The Federal Government is to procure 10 million telephone handsets worth about N60 billion from China and the US for free distribution to rural farmers across the country.

Questions:
•Are they buying blackberry porsche for these farmers?
•Are they going to preload the Presidents number in all the phones? As the reason for the purchase is because they want the farmers to have direct contact with the Government.
•Who did the calculation and came up with 10million farmers? Was Obasanjo counted as well?
•Even @ N50,000 per phone....how does it come up to N60billion?
•If they're buying the phones in bulk,doesn't it attract a large volume of discount?
•Did the farmers complain that their problem is a mobile phone?

Possible facts:
•Maybe Obama will distribute the phones himself.
•Maybe the phones have inbuilt shovel and fertilizer in them.
•Maybe the phones have inbuilt tractors.

Dem don start this year again! Last year was subsidy, this year is phone!

Calebsky: BREAKING NEWS: The Federal Government is to procure 10 million telephone handsets worth about N60 billion from China and the US for free distribution to rural farmers across the country.

Questions:
•Are they buying blackberry porsche for these farmers?
•Are they going to preload the Presidents number in all the phones? As the reason for the purchase is because they want the farmers to have direct contact with the Government.
•Who did the calculation and came up with 10million farmers? Was Obasanjo counted as well?
•Even @ N50,000 per phone....how does it come up to N60billion?
•If they're buying the phones in bulk,doesn't it attract a large volume of discount?
•Did the farmers complain that their problem is a mobile phone?

Possible facts:
•Maybe Obama will distribute the phones himself.
•Maybe the phones have inbuilt shovel and fertilizer in them.
•Maybe the phones have inbuilt tractors.

Dem don start this year again! Last year was subsidy, this year is phone!

Fraudulent stupid unnecessary initiative. It shows our leaders are bereft of ideas or have ran out of ideas.
Tamumo eeeeehhhh!

*speechless*

My maths skills are rusty these days. But at an average cost of 6, 000 naira per unit. 10 million units should translate to 60, 000, 000, 000 (60 billion) naira.
But do we really have 10million farmers in nigeria?

The govt has to clarify this report. But I doubt if the govt will be spending such amount on mobile phones. It is simply outrageous. The mobile phones is to be distributed by the ministry of communication technology and the TOTAL annual budget of that ministry is not even up to N30billion. Where then will the ministry get N60billion for mobile phones alone? This report is most likely false

hancock: My maths skills are rusty these days. But at an average cost of 6, 000 naira per unit. 10 million units should translate to 60, 000, 000, 000 (60 billion) naira.
But do we really have 10million farmers in nigeria?

Do we even have a database of farmers in Nigeria?

No it's not possible. please tell me our govt hasn't started this year on the same clueless note.

*As a Nigerian Farmer*


2013,My year of Harvest of Phones.

that amount is enough to build a phone factory in nigeria thats if the phone is even necessary, see how your leaders think? thats if they even think at all. thats the fresh air you voted for and i believe you guys deserve what you are getting, those that voted GEJ not PDP? is phone the major problem of our farmers? My God. Pls Beef come and make some sense out of this for us to understand the rationale behind it, or its just PDP, 'share the money'

Bribe for 10million votes in 2015. PDP is thinking ahead. But I doubt that the phones will still be relevant by then.
MO

What else can I say than to

Just so you all know, I AM A FARMER O , all my 3 babes are Farmers sef, even my uncle's lil child of 5months wants to be a farmer so i guess i'll also collect in advance for her