Teetee777:
Good day,
I was attacked and kidnapped by bandits on Abuja - Kaduna road on Thursday morning 10th, March 2022.
Fortunately, I escaped from them and my phone was with them. This is my new no 09048506152 to contact me till when I will retrieve my no back.
Thks

Teetee777:
I started my journey to Zamfara state on July 4, 2021, I boarded a night bus to Abuja from Ibadan.I entered abuja around pass 5am in the morning, from abuja i boarded a car going to Sokoto and i alighted at gusau, i entered cattle market straight because their market day is every Monday and Friday. i have been to different states with different market in northern state but zamfara was the worst state i have ever been to.

i went to zamfara state for sallah rams, reason i choose zamfara state was that it's very close to south west than taraba and Adamawa state because my journey to Adamawa state in last month, i bought some rams from mubi animal market with cheapest price but those animals suffered due to long distance, that's reason i choose zamfara state.

we were three in number, those two brothers were from osun state while i came from ibadan, we worked together as a team.

we used gusau animal market as our based for our animals for feeding and security, on my first day, i bought 12 rams because i intended to buy almost 100 rams. on the second day which was Tuesday, on getting to the market two of my rams was missing, we searched everywhere, i saw one, i didn't see the other one. we left to another market which was very close to Sokoto state, it was 2 hour journey from gusau to the market.

on getting to the market, we paid for transport and one of us lost almost 100k in the car, we searched everywhere but no where to be found, immediately we entered the market, i was terrified about population of fulanis in the market because in southern state we believed that the fulanis are the bandit.i stayed outside the market to monitored the environment because i feared for my life o, also 200k was stolen from the second brother. I spent 6 days in that state and my findings are as follows:

1. There are a lot of thieves in the state, that's reason when you buy cows in that state, you must collect the receipt and the seller must take a picture with cow and attach to the receipt

2. zamfara, kastina and Sokoto are not secured for business, I prefer going to Maiduguri than going to those states

3. on the day we decided to leave the state, after I loaded my rams into the truck, I discovered that 2 of my rams food has missed, I called one of the market management and I explained everything to him that they have stolen my rams food which per a bag was 7k, the guy reported it to seriki of the market, seriki called the police to arrest those boys in the market, fortunately, one of the boys revealed where the food was, to the guy I reported to.
The guy made one statement that I will never forget that, " did you expect these people to come back to zamfara state to buy market with their bad experience" the fact is that I will think twice before I go to zamfara for another business

When I got to Ibadan, I thanked God for saving my life when I heard that some people also travel from Ibadan to northern state (name withheld) after they bought all their rams, they were killed in the market and all their rams were taking away by bandit.

Sidney1990:
Is this the end of this thread?

OP are you no longer into grain business or you are just busy?

Teetee777:

Busy but I used to update the prices once in a week in my other thread.
Thks

Sidney1990:


Can I have the link to the other thread?

This price is more expensive Dan ours here in onitsha

Teetee777:

Adamawa has 4 types of bag:
A. Small bag for oloyin beans

B. Big big for oloyin, olootu, groundnut,paddy rice, it's 70kg to 75kg

C. 100kg bag for maize, soughum,soya beans etc, has no cover on top of the bag

D. 125kg bag for maize, soughum, soya beans etc, has a cover on top of a bag

Theophinio:


The 100kg without cover

How will you seal it after buying

And secondly please The truck that will convey your goods to the south. Are you going with the truck or you board another vehicle

That's where am not cleared about sir

Thank you

kaylenmccarty58:
op @Teetee777

any suggestions for us here:
foreigners, chinese, male, we brothers, going to work in Nigeria soon, is there any chance that we can run grain business in local market?
start up fund will be like 3.6MN naira to start. grain or other business, will locate a warehouse though.

Nnannapat:
@the OP, you are a good guy, all what you are writing here will go a long way to help anyone that wants to venture into grains business, I lived in the north for 14 years (from my teenage years) and speaks Hausa fluently,I am Igbo and business has taken me to virtually all the states in the north.

North East and Central are the food basket of the north, forget all the noise that the North west makes all the time, they only know politics while the main riches of the north is in the North East and North Central.
Taraba state is a hidden treasure for agro business, last year I was at Mutum biyu, Garba chede, Mayo kam, Mai hula, Bali, Mararaba, Takum, I even went as far as the fringes of the Mambilla mountains buying soya beans. Niger and Adamawa states are next on my list of criss crossing this year by God's grace, heavy agricultural business thrives in those states.