While doing research for a proposal, I was not shocked to see how our so called leaders are brazenly prospering off Nigerians blood, sweat and tears.

OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (OBASANJO FARM)

Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is not only a retired army officer, former head of state and politician, he is also a successful farmer. He owns Ota Farm, which is also called Obasanjo Farms. The large farm was formally opened on October 8, 1979, a week after Obasanjo handed over power to a civilian administration on October 1, 1979. At inception, the farm took off as Temperance Enterprises Limited (Farming Venture). It later became Obasanjo Farms Nigeria Limited.

Obasanjo Farms indeed took off in grand style, indication that Nigeria’s former president meant serious business. This probably accounts for the growth, expansion, sustainability and consolidation witnessed in the evolution of the farm, considering how it started and where it is now.

The farm took off with two layer houses containing 100, 000 birds each and five broiler houses of 12,000 each, in addition to two feed mills of three tons per hour each. The large farm, which has up to 7,000 workers started with four bulldozer operators. Today, Obasanjo makes up to N34million daily from Ota Farm, which has branches in Ibadan and Igbo-Ora, Oyo State. This is no small earning for the former president whose farm has played a significant role in the development of agriculture and food production.

Obasanjo also uses the farm complex at the Agbe L’ Oba House, Ota, the Ogun State headquarters of the farm, to hold political and diplomatic meetings.

ABDULSALAMI ABUBABAKAR (MAIZUBE FARMS)

What makes General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) significant today in Nigeria and beyond is not just his successful military career or the fact that he willingly handed over power to a democratically elected government in 1999 to usher in the Fourth Republic. He has a stake in the Nigerian agricultural sector, being the owner of Maizube Farms Limited, which is helping to cater for the food needs of many Nigerians today.

Maizube Farms Limited is located at Km 26, Minna-Bida Road, Minna, Niger State, where General Abubakar is from. The 500-hectare multi-product farm has both livestock and crop sections and today, it is proudly one of the stable sources of crop and animal products upon which Nigerians depend for food and other uses.

Just as General Abubakar gives appreciable time to his peacekeeping mission across the African continent, so also does he give a great deal of time and attention to his Maizube Farms

MURTALA NYAKO (SEBORE FARMS)

Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd), the executive governor of Adamawa State may be more popular from the political perspective to many, but he is one of the most successful Nigerian farmers today. Few know that he is the owner of Sebore Farms in Mayo-Belwa, Adamawa State.

Murtala Nyako was born at Mayo-Belwa, to Alhaji Hamman-Yero, a notable merchant and Hajiya Maryam Daso who was keen on Islamic studies and herbal medicine, on August 27, 1943.

Nyako was born a cattle owner, as his mother had been allocated some cows for her offspring before his birth. So he started what has snowballed into an integrated commercial farm today as a cattle farm. Even throughout his career, in the Navy and in politics, Nyako was never distracted from developing and expanding his coast in the agricultural sector, the result of which is his success story today.

He commenced a sustainable crossbreeding programme of his local cattle with exotic superior sires in 1990 with very satisfactory results. He also got involved in the production of horticultural crops and his first commercial export of muskmelons to Europe, using a chartered aircraft, took place in January 1990. Nyako owns the largest mango farm in Nigeria, leading to his being popularly known as Baba Mai Mangoro (BMM). Exotic mangoes from his mango orchard of 50, 000 trees were first exported to Europe in 1993. He is also presently involved in the modern production of dates, passion fruit and bananas, pasture development breeding of Boer goats and farming.

Nyako is the president of the Horticultural Crops Growers Association of Nigeria, the Practicing Farmers Association of Nigeria and the Apex Farmers Association of Nigeria. He is the patron of numerous farmers’ commodity associations in the country.

ABDULLAHI ADAMU (NAGARI INTEGRATED DAIRY FARM)

Nagari Integrated Dairy is one of the farms currently being operated in the country on a commercial level. It is reputed to be one of the largest single integrated dairy farms in Africa. It covers 1,200 hectares of land and has 7,000 Holstein cattle. In view of the quality of the products it churns out, the claim that it is among the top suppliers of high quality farm and dairy products in Africa is justified.

Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu, a former governor of Nasarawa State and now a senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the man behind Nagari Integrated Dairy Farm. Although his fame on the political scene has overshadowed his agricultural exploits, Abdullahi can be described as an accomplished farmer. The success story of Nagari Integrated Farm is the result of the enterprising nature of this farmer, lawyer, engineer, technocrat and consummate politician.

Over the years, Nagari Integrated Dairy has invested in research and development, and in state-of-the-art dairy farming technology. The company has developed its own proprietary dairy farming expertise and methodologies. This has made it a benchmark for the efficient production of high quality dairy products.

These crooks come from every party APC-PDP the one thing they have in common is screwing Nigerians with out lubricant

do some more research

you might realise that their owning farm is not purely down to their love for agro-business

Follow the money trail on yearly Government funds allocated for promoting agriculture and you might get nearer the truth

mikeansy:
do some more research

you might realise that their owning farm is not purely down to their love for agro-business

Follow the money trail on yearly Government funds allocated for promoting agriculture and you might get nearer the truth

you are very right!

These are the same people absorbing the largest percentage earmarked for agriculture sector by the government.

Don't forget to add Real Oil Mills at Odukpani calabar been own by Ladoja of Oyo state and managed by his imbecilic cocaine sniffing first son Muyiwa

Admiral'a not sold in Nigeria...some cattle owners are natural investors

op u try sha 4 ur research

owning a farm in 9ja and a hotel in south africa which one better pass?

If all these corrupt polithievians invest their loot in 9ja, believe me, no one for dey complain and na indians for dey our toilets

mikeansy:
do some more research

you might realise that their owning farm is not purely down to their love for agro-business

Follow the money trail on yearly Government funds allocated for promoting agriculture and you might get nearer the truth

I have not read yet where OBJ talks about sponsoring the coup in which Muritala Mohammad was assassinated, and executing dozens of people to cover up or the
massacre of Tiv civilians in Zaki Biam Benue State.

I did hear he spoke about his program In the late 1970s Olusegun Obasanjo embarked upon "Operation Feed the Nation." His civilian successor, President Shehu Shagari, continued the program as the "Green Revolution." . The World Bank loans equaled over $1.5 billion.

In terms of contribution to the national GDP, agriculture was a leading sector in the 1950s
and 1960s, accounting for 63 percent of the GDP in the period 1960 to 1964 with the share of food imports in the
country’s total import low during the period, to about 9.6 percent (Aigbokhan, 2001).
However, there was a sharp decline in the share of the sectors contribution to national GDP from the 1970s reducing
from 54percent in 1969 to 33percent in 1974 which was also the period that marked the watershed in Nigerian economic
history through the 1973/74 crude oil price stocks (Aigbokhan, 2001).

The military regimes of Murtala and Obasanjo benefited from oil revenues that increased 350 percent between 1973 and 1974, when oil prices skyrocketed, to 1979, when the military stepped down. Increased revenues permitted government spending for infrastructure and improvements on a large scale; critics thought it was poorly planned and concentrated too much in urban areas.

Comparing the contribution of agriculture:

Crude oil to National GDP between 1981-2003, Balogun (2001) and Aigbokhan, (2001) found that agricultural exports
accounted for 86 percent of the total export in the 1955 to 1959 period, it declined to 26percent in the period 1970 to
1974.

The contribution according to the scholars decreased further to 5.7percent in the period 1975 to 1979; 2.7percent in
1980-1984; 5.6percent in 1985 to 1989 and nose-diving to the lowest in 1990- 1994 accounting for only 1.8percent
before increasing back to 8.6 percent in the period 1994 to 1998.

KAYCEEJUNIOR:
Don't forget to add Real Oil Mills at Odukpani calabar been own by Ladoja of Oyo state and managed by his imbecilic cocaine sniffing first son Muyiwa

Gotta look into that thanks for the heads up

hushmail:
op u try sha 4 ur research

owning a farm in 9ja and a hotel in south africa which one better pass?

If all these corrupt polithievians invest their loot in 9ja, believe me, no one for dey complain and na indians for dey our toilets

At least that is all I can be happy about, this is the one they let us know about so many they have shares and chairs, plus how much do we pay OBJ every year as a salary?

When Dr. Michael Okpara became the Eastern Region’s first Premier and declared
his ‘agricultural revolution’ that state wealth creation through
the establishment of large-scale state run plantations became an
explicit objective (ENDC, 1962).
(McHenry, 1985). During the height of the ENDC in 1966,
its landholdings exceeded 60,000 ha; more than 80% of this area
located in what is now CRS (Committee on the Management and
Financing of Cross River State Estates, 1990). It was also during
this early post-Independence period that foreign investors were
again able to acquire land, which saw the establishment of large
new private plantations by Dunlop (rubber), UAC (oil palm), the
Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) (oil palm), and
the Danish Nigeria Agricultural Company (DANAC) (banana) (UAC,
1956; DANAC, 1957; ENDC, 1962).

Since the north has land mass for their feudal lords to hae hectares for farming let them allow us to dividre

The statement credited to the President of Nigeria Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo through one of the news media that the president’s farm makes an average of $250,000 a day calls for investigation. I hope all the workers are being paid well. With a lucrative investment that yields over 57 billion annual revenue, one will want to assume that this company is actively playing it’s social responsibilities in Ota community right?

donmalcolm21:
Since the north has land mass for their feudal lords to hae hectares for farming let them allow us to dividre

If only Northern leaders really gave a goats arse about the the citizens in the North Boko Harem would not exist. They chase power instead of development

Favoritism from time immemorial




Not really surprise abt it


Not only farm but in other important sphere of Nigeria economy

i only pity the young farmers, sme of them cant even get loans to start somethn

WHATEVER,


So long as he has a visible business going on in nigeria, I am OK with that, imagine if all the politician have visible business that can employ up yo 7000 nigerians , I don't think the unemployment rate will be this high.

tspun:
WHATEVER,


So long as he has a visible business going on in nigeria, I am OK with that, imagine if all the politician have visible business that can employ up yo 7000 nigerians , I don't think the unemployment rate will be this high.

SO money ment to help other farmers grow went to his pocket and its whatever?

missdebs:
i only pity the young farmers, sme of them cant even get loans to start somethn

That is my whole point. How could they divert funds that would have change the lives of 100's maybe 1000's but only the elite are so greedy, too much is not even enough!