GAZZUZZ:


Excellent observation.

The ripple effect of closing the border will create more jobs. Most of my staff are farmers I recruited from the north and trained then to become mechanics, most of the Okada riders in most cities are farmers from the north and middle belt, when the hear farming has become more rewarding they will go back to the farms.

All the govt needs to do is invest in technology that makes farming easier , and also a tax free environment for investors in agriculture.

With time food sufficiency will not be a problem.

Commentor:


Yes.

It depends on how hardworking the people are.

Nigerians should get to work.

sarrki:


You must sit down to properly learn and be grounded before thinking of standing to teach or perform with impact.

Techsunny:
Nigeria is a consuming country not a producing country.Why border is closed when food not sufficient to feed your people , Agriculture 6%, you re there yet , now u want inclement of VAT.

Theflint1:


You're asking if we must eat a major staple food?

Techsunny:
Really! But did u attend Js 1 nd jump to Ss 2 in school?.

sparko1:


You know sometime you should think with your head before you talk, that head is for thinking!

If you can't comprehend why the price of goods and farm product are on the rise, what statistic are you giving, you have no idea.

You lot just want to make money, damn the consequence on the nation! Let them open the body, let you export subsided crude oil to neighboring countries, its our money, its our oil, but you want the government to fix your road, you want infrastructural development, you complain all day about the worse thing that you see, you commend the white but forget most of the things you see over there is because they made some sacrifice, you don't care, we have oil why should we pay tax? Its like the government should sell the oil and send the money to your account.

No country can progress without sacrifice, if we don't start now, a time will come it will be too late, even benin republic will be rubbing shoulders with us in terms of development.

Commentor:


Faily faily always repeat class.

Techsunny:
Ha ha ha funny u, we sill have a long way to go, every thing has a season, it's not right time to take action on this issue.

GAZZUZZ:


Yes. Must we eat rice?

Daviddson:
It's unfortunate the price escalation this land border closure has brought, but sorry what do you mean by stone rice? A lot of Nigerians are very illiterate when it comes to Nigerian rice. They don't know that the only stony rice are those not milled by machines. Go to the market and see different Nigerian-made rice - 50KG bagged and totally stone-free like every other foreign rice.

sarrki:
So armed robbers should also tell there victims before hand

Smartwave:
some Nigeria youth need Sense. What is there in Benin republic?? Are Benin producing anything? If you need to import do so through Nigeria seaport. Why importing through another country, while you are still bringing it to Nigeria, and yet you still complaining about bad economy ??

Daviddson:
It's like asking why people should still be using torchlight phone in this era of ubiquitous smartphone revolution. It's the small scale farmers who have no access to rice mills that have chosen to thread their own rice using manual methods.

Commentor:


The right time would be when advanced countries wouldn't need land, the sun and rain eto cultivate rice.

Techsunny:
Ooops.....adding more hardship to common man, when u did not make such provision for him yet, is a good Idea?.

Commentor:


What is inclement?

Are you saying Nigeria was cursed to be a consuming country whilst Thailand was blessed to be a producer?

Commentor:


They gave rice loans starting 4 years ago.

Where were you?

sarrki:
The border closure is 100% ok for us to be able to think inward

The bbc pidgin news which I copied is an attest that we are doing well as a nation





https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/tori-49817208

allthingsgood:


Abeg rest. Your analogy makes no sense. If they are multi-national, then they are in those countries u speak as well. Besides, our sea and airports are open for business. U must not use land

Beremx:
Abeg go siddon!! As if the high cost of rice is not affecting you.

Nonsense and border closing.

Techsunny:
Loans on rice, funny, goverment should invest more on agriculture, they re giving loans to farmers ,Nigeria goverment lazy??. , in Thailand did goverment invest more in agriculture or private sectors? ?.

tot:
The irony of it is that the OP sarrki does not even live in Nigeria, so I don't know what gives him the moral right to talk when he's not feeling the impact.

I support the border closure but it should have been done AFTER adequate measures had been put in place but our non-thinking government as usual never brings out well thought out policies.

Commentor:


You don't know what you are saying.

Odingo1:
I thought that this border closure is against ECOWAS rule,I thought that in ecowas member countries there is free movement of goods and services within the member states.

So they have been deceiving theirselves all this while in ECOWAS.

sarrki:


So armed robbers should also tell there victims before hand