This is an interesting time to live in, and I am happy to have been born in a time like this to witness an age of a great change in the country of my birth.

With what is presently happening in Nigeria, a kind of revolution is on the horizon. A new beginning of economic turnaround and devolution of power.

With what the Niger state governor has done, we are going to be eventually ushered in to a rebirth of the great country called Nigeria, food security is on the way. Perhaps, "operation farm the nation" should be declared from every corner of the country. There should be Aso Rock Farms too.

Has it not been said "Ise agbe, nise ile wa?" so, what have you done with it? What if you have abandoned the noble profession of your fathers? It's time to go back to it. It is time to truly restrategise on "stomach infrastructure". It is time to recall that we are humans and we live on food, not on social media.

Of course we have been educated, we have been trained, but then, our training has helped us to disdain the mother earth and the field but to love only the shining tiles and silvers, the polished woods that office tables are made of, and of the finely curved and structured city life.

So when we all abandon the production of food so much that what suppose not to be paid for becomes a premium priced item, in the end, money will fail and education will never give you the certificate to skip hunger. Now, it's time that farmers who are forgotten be remembered in our national life. My father in his lifetime was a farmer.

Many Nigerians on the Japa train to Canada and other places won't mind working in any Canadian orchard as semi-skilled labour, but to learn and farm catfish and live like king in Nigeria and subsequently become rich, live in lurch neighbourhood and frequent overseas while building greater business is not hungrying them.

As Japa has become the sing song of the comfort-seekers in "saner clime" where the people has taken time to lay solid plans for their own survival, it will eventually fail in the meantime and the people left behind will be forced to self re-invention.

The revolution that is coming is to make us the food basket of the west coast. I speak for my fathers.

To some extent, the sort of education we are being given, especially in the south west is faulty. Our fathers received free education and we got part of it in the last lap of the 20th century, but the question is, technical education and productivity was not made part and parcel of this form of education as it should. Children should be trained to appreciate and experiment with real life problem solving.

The essence of this is, they would have the inclinations to problem solving and not blaming trading. People who trades blames come out perfect in theory but will never touch their self-made problems with a long pole because someone else has to be blamed. Yet the problem that seems fatal is meant to be solved anyway, and in the process, what was not even envisage become an ancillary gift.

likewise, the present curriculum is lacking in enterprising development for the man child. Before this present system of education, our parents parents have their ways of training their children and wards in the family tradition whereby, a trade becomes transgenerational. But today's education has eradicated most of what it ought to take to the next level in various families.

There was no proper ingraining of self preservation culture as it used to be with "boys scout" or "karate" etc as part of non-curricular education any longer, all seems geared towards some clerical and administrative office work. Now we have the aftereffect that makes our youth run away at national challenges instead of tapping into the problem and solving it or making success through it.

Our problems are our own problems to be solved. It's in it that we have our experience. but when we run away from our problems, others take advantage and we remain perpetual ignoramus who run away when confused by the changing and charging tides. We leverage education the wrong way, because we speaks English.

If one of Nigeria's languages has been our lingua franca, we won't have put "running away" as the first solution to our national problems. And if our local languages has been made part of the important subject to move forward in life, most of the technologies would have been made available in the language of the masses in the villages.

"Japa" is Yoruba for run away. Please how does run away solve a problem you are running away from? Why is the word not from either Hausa or Igbo? Because like it or not, they were not as "exposed" to western education as the south westerners on a wholesale scale in the last century but made up for the deficit some ways and it's never a problem.

Now it's a problem if our language is the term of flight when it comes to fight or flight.

Tinubu supporters are very stupid and confused. So everyone should go and do farm work when over 20million Nigeria populace are already engaging in that and face with death from Fulani herdsmen.

Let's be clear Benue, nassarawa,plateau,ebonyi, in the absence of insecurity has the capacity to feed the whole nation but alas the clueless APC spread insecurity by importing terrorist herdsmen.

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Tinubu supporters are very stupid and confused. So everyone should go and do farm work when over 20million Nigeria populace are already engaging in that and face with death from Fulani herdsmen.

Let's be clear Benue, nassarawa,plateau,ebonyi, in the absence of insecurity has the capacity to feed the whole nation but alas the clueless APC spread insecurity by importing terrorist herdsmen.

Brother, Tinubu will come and go, if you and I did not have far-reaching solutions to our myriad problems, let God send angel Michael to save us.

Wait on God brother, don't use what He has already given you to solve your problems. Instead, use it to create more problems for yourself and ask God for "Angel Michael Pro-max."

Every government will fail, if not they ought to be in power perpetually. But the institutions that will help preserve the society at the atomic level must not fail.

The land for farming is already used for building houses.

Insecurity won't let people farm.

The revolution should start by solving security problems

Lastmessenger2:
Tinubu supporters are very stupid and confused. So everyone should go and do farm work when over 20million Nigeria populace are already engaging in that and face with death from Fulani herdsmen.

Let's be clear Benue, nassarawa,plateau,ebonyi, in the absence of insecurity has the capacity to feed the whole nation but alas the clueless APC spread insecurity by importing terrorist herdsmen.

Obi supporters are the most foolish people that ever exist. All they know how to do is wail,cry and laments like m*d people. No one is the reason for your poverty

Lastmessenger2:
Tinubu supporters are very stupid and confused. So everyone should go and do farm work when over 20million Nigeria populace are already engaging in that and face with death from Fulani herdsmen.

Let's be clear Benue, nassarawa,plateau,ebonyi, in the absence of insecurity has the capacity to feed the whole nation but alas the clueless APC spread insecurity by importing terrorist herdsmen.

don't mind these APC government supporters, always sounding smart even when they are clearly not smart, instead of telling their irresponsible and clueless government the truth, they prefer to be ass-licking the useless government, because of what use is any government that cannot protect the citizens from daily untimely deaths caused by insecurities, not by natural disaster ooo, but killings and kidnappings by privileged terrorists that could not be arrested and prosecuted.
Nigerians are not lazy, let the government tackle these national insecurities, so that the citizens will feel safe to go to farm, instead the APC government and their zombie supporters, keep pretending that all is well and that nothing is happening.
if they start killing government officials in their offices, how many of them will still be going to work, to meet untimely deaths, or farmers are not human beings that cherish their lives ?

You've no idea what you're on. When Nigeria experienced food shortages in the past, the government imported & subsidized, everyone went about their businesses, now I read on front page papers how government maybe forced to import if there are food shortages. The facts that there are no petrol Subsidy means it'll be easier for the government to import mass scaled metric tones of grains & sell at subsided rates. It's not the better choice but it's a short term solution to a long term issues

WantsandMore:
You've no idea what you're on. When Nigeria experienced food shortages in the past, the government imported & subsidized, everyone went about their businesses, now I read on front page papers how government maybe forced to import if there are food shortages. The facts that there are no petrol Subsidy means it'll be easier for the government to import mass scaled metric tones of grains & sell at subsided rates. It's not the better choice but it's a short term solution to a long term issues

That's the point I'm making boss,

There was no drought, the problem we are now facing is caused by poor social orientation and fiscal management. No food security and all that. We have good land and diverse vegetation as a country and we are blessed with hardworking citizens both to the north, east, west, south and central. But we are poor due to poor way of managing people and economic resources that we are blessed with.

If we can start from militant kidnapping as people and metamorphose to all other splinter of crime that now bedevil us as a country, imagine what we can do if we are committed to true change. Criminals does a lot of hard work to succeed with their crime, but people who want the best for their country believe the messiah should come down and do the job.

Crime prospered because criminals do not wait for the messiah to do the job, they do it anyway. so how do we intend that prosperity should prosper if we are not ready to do the work? Prosperity will turn to progressive failure. But by devolution of power, where FG starts to look to states to cushion the effect of shortage in one section if such arise, would mean a lot.

All Nigerian state should not fail together especially in food production. Now the question begging to be answered is, how has each state developed its own farming system? How has that been beneficial to farmers and people in the grassroot? what are the present shortcomings and what could be done to arrest the crumbling resources and its aftermath trends?

With that question positively answered, all states of the federation will survive if they choose to close their inland boarders against one another. But if not, each states food security apparatus will be exposed and it can be improved upon as we address the problem of the day. meanwhile, the government of the day don't have to take all the credit for food production. Where are the farmers children, what has education done to them? They've become scattered to the four winds.

Here's the whole essence of a capitalist economy. If it were a communist economy, we can blame it all one the president and his cabinets. So, we are part of the problem if we are not seeing the initiative, and acknowledging it and taking the initiative to build a collective "food refinery" for the country. We are part of the solution if we are trying our bit to take advantage of the shortage to create surplus and help the people at profits.

Farm is the first industry.

Now if we aggregate the unemployed youths of the country together, and we separate the ones willing to go back to the farm from the lot, and we empower them with seedlings and livestock to start, and we have them to acres of fertile lands with necessary tools, many blessings will spring forth in the following years. Food will be cancelled out of our national problems.

That has been done times without number anyway, but it has to be the most important ministry after power. Agriculture ought to be given the most important place in every government of the day. if Nigeria excel in that area to start with, agricultural produce from the country will go far and that will definitely tell on our forex as well. We should get it right at something.

Now, we must have it at the back of our minds as youths that crying over national problem like our fathers in those, who normally wait for the Military Head of States to "read the budget" may not work in our own time. We are born enterpreneurs as long as we can work our time for money. We must be ready to build a farm settlement and own orchards of wealth.

Afonjaas go and do your revolution on empty stomach and stop disturbing us (SE and SS).

absoluteSuccess:


That's the point I'm making boss,

There was no drought, the problem we are now facing is caused by poor social orientation and fiscal management. No food security and all that. We have good land and diverse vegetation as a country and we are blessed with hardworking citizens both to the north, east, west, south and central. But we are poor due to poor way of managing people and economic resources that we are blessed with.

If we can start from militant kidnapping as people and metamorphose to all other splinter of crime that now bedevil us as a country, imagine what we can do if we are committed to true change. Criminals does a lot of hard work to succeed with their crime, but people who want the best for their country believe the messiah should come down and do the job.

Crime prospered because criminals do not wait for the messiah to do the job, they do it anyway. so how do we intend that prosperity should prosper if we are not ready to do the work? Prosperity will turn to progressive failure. But by devolution of power, where FG starts to look to states to cushion the effect of shortage in one section if such arise, would mean a lot.

All Nigerian state should not fail together especially in food production. Now the question begging to be answered is, how has each state developed its own farming system? How has that been beneficial to farmers and people in the grassroot? what are the present shortcomings and what could be done to arrest the crumbling resources and its aftermath trends?

With that question positively answered, all states of the federation will survive if they choose to close their inland boarders against one another. But if not, each states food security apparatus will be exposed and it can be improved upon as we address the problem of the day. meanwhile, the government of the day don't have to take all the credit for food production. Where are the farmers children, what has education done to them? They've become scattered to the four winds.

Here's the whole essence of a capitalist economy. If it were a communist economy, we can blame it all one the president and his cabinets. So, we are part of the problem if we are not seeing the initiative, and acknowledging it and taking the initiative to build a collective "food refinery" for the country. We are part of the solution if we are trying our bit to take advantage of the shortage to create surplus and help the people at profits.

Farm is the first industry.

Are you saying we should carry guns and go fight away the Fulani herdsmen away from the farms?

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Tinubu didn’t cause any problem, these are all the effects of Buhari damages, thank God for tinubu proactiveness

Brendaniel:


Are you saying we should carry guns and go fight away the Fulani herdsmen away from the farms?

Wherever there is strength, there is weakness, wherever there is opportunity, there is threat.

SWOT

When you are ready, they will flee from you.

Taaa Nigeria won't even smell any revolution



Try revolution and you'll be fiddled out like a rat


What nigeria needs is dictatorship, just a benevolent dictator that'll flush out everything capitalism

Tinubu will be disgraced out of office.

SIXFEETUNDER:
Taaa Nigeria won't even smell any revolution



Try revolution and you'll be fiddled out like a rat


What nigeria needs is dictatorship, just a benevolent dictator that'll flush out everything capitalism

Its not a political system that's our problem bro, don't wait for an angel. Continue to improve on the quality of life of the people and get as many people as possible to be gainfully productive.

If all systems are working, would you care what political system is being used? Would Russians desire America's capitalism? Would Americans desire Russian Socialism?

What really works is people's commitment to statehood and quality of life of the citizenry. It's unimportant to go back to the past and become another pawn in the hands of others for our common fate.

Where is the revolution coming from, nonsense. revolution, revolution if you are from the w better go and join your people in skull mining that's what you people know how to do best but if you are from the east my stay strong get something doing no matter how small last last we will be fine

Emmabyte:
Where is the revolution coming from, nonsense. revolution, revolution if you are from the w better go and join your people in skull mining that's what you people know how to do best but if you are from the east my stay strong get something doing no matter how small last last we will be fine

This is where the revolution is coming from.

https://www.nairaland.com/7996644/theft-farm-produce-spreads-across

If you won't use your God given brain to stop thinking catastrophe and start thinking solutions, you will not be saved in the "little world" you are striving to stuff yourself in to feel save.

In fact you will be stranded where you hated most. You will see their face day by day.

Optional09:
PDP revolution sponsored by OBi Ozwor

Tinubu didn’t cause any problem, these are all the effects of Buhari damages, thank God for tinubu proactiveness

mumu

Na Buhari remove subsidy?

absoluteSuccess:


Wherever there is strength, there is weakness, wherever there is opportunity, there is threat.

SWOT

When you are ready, they will flee from you.

So what have you done about them on your own path?

Brendaniel:


So what have you done about them on your own path?

Brother, we have strength, weakness, opportunity and threat.

I am not Nigerian Army or Police, I am not the law enforcement apparatus of the federal republic. But their menace is also a good one. Herder-farmer clashes has always been, and if you don't design a way to address them by building indigenous ranches through a kind of education that allow you a farm settlement as a community, you will always have the menace.

Go back to history of ancient Rome, who were actually the people who destroyed the ancient powerful Rome? The Vandals. Every age have their own vandals and its your duty to deal decisively with such or else they will overwhelm you through their vandalism. Now when you say Fulani herdsmen, the Miyetti Allah will answer you, but when you say farmers, who will answer?

So, you must know how to separate the people from the problem. You have vandals parading as "Fulani herdsmen" today. Then this makes the old style cattle herding a social and security risk and must be checked. But since that is a way of life of some people, and their culture in extension, understanding must be reached that it should not infringe on exactly the same thing (the way of life) in other culture for peace to reign.

Otherwise, when they say "Fulani Herdsmen" and Miyetti Allah answers, then Agbekoya Secretary General should respond to them in the language that the two organisation could easily understand. Thanks to my own family background as farmers, my Dad don't do much of farming, he host them and they work at his farm and get paid. They were not servitude, all that my dad bought their services and host them as friends and a community, they however have a gild of farmers Egbe Aaro.

Way back in Yoruba history, the great Egba folks were dispersed by unrest in their hinterland homeland, then they have to move. Arriving at the fringe of Dahomey, a stronger power to the west to build a kingdom does not go down well with the kingdom, Egba has to be decimated, Dahomey thought. Likewise, the almighty Oyo was interested in endless tribute for her monarchs.

Lisabi, a leader of the farmers' gild of the Egba in those days requested that he want his own group farmwork (aaro) to be paid back with warfare with people who has become the tormentors of the little city state. The brave men went to work. At the end, they were able to silence their strongest enemies and made peace treaties with their closest foes. At last, the city state survived as Abeokuta.

This piece of hindsight says it all. If you are not organised, those that are will always wage war against you and always have their ways until they dispossess you of your God-given heritage. To the glory of God I'm a Muslim by birth, if you declare Jihad on me, I declare it back at you, none of us wrote the Quran and by that, Allah should be pleased.

absoluteSuccess:


Brother, we have strength, weakness, opportunity and threat.

I am not Nigerian Army or Police, I am not the law enforcement apparatus of the federal republic. But their menace is also a good one. Herder-farmer clashes has always been, and if you don't design a way to address them by building indigenous ranches through a kind of education that allow you a farm settlement as a community, you will always have the menace.

Go back to history of ancient Rome, who were actually the people who destroyed the ancient powerful Rome? The Vandals. Every age have their own vandals and its your duty to deal decisively with such or else they will overwhelm you through their vandalism. Now when you say Fulani herdsmen, the Miyetti Allah will answer you, but when you say farmers, who will answer?

So, you must know how to separate the people from the problem. You have vandals parading as "Fulani herdsmen" today. Then this makes the old style cattle herding a social and security risk and must be checked. But since that is a way of life of some people, and their culture in extension, understanding must be reached that it should not infringe on exactly the same thing (the way of life) in other culture for peace to reign.

Otherwise, when they say "Fulani Herdsmen" and Miyetti Allah answers, then Agbekoya Secretary General should respond to them in the language that the two organisation could easily understand. Thanks to my own family background as farmers, my Dad don't do much of farming, he host them and they work at his farm and get paid. They were not servitude, all that my dad bought their services and host them as friends and a community, they however have a gild of farmers Egbe Aaro.

Way back in Yoruba history, the great Egba folks were dispersed by unrest in their hinterland homeland, then they have to move. Arriving at the fringe of Dahomey, a stronger power to the west to build a kingdom does not go down well with the kingdom, Egba has to be decimated, Dahomey thought. Likewise, the almighty Oyo was interested in endless tribute for her monarchs.

Lisabi, a leader of the farmers' gild of the Egba in those days requested that he want his own group farmwork (aaro) to be paid back with warfare with people who has become the tormentors of the little city state. The brave men went to work. At the end, they were able to silence their strongest enemies and made peace treaties with their closest foes. At last, the city state survived as Abeokuta.

This piece of hindsight says it all. If you are not organised, those that are will always wage war against you and always have their ways until they dispossess you of your God-given heritage. To the glory of God I'm a Muslim by birth, if you declare Jihad on me, I declare it back at you, none of us wrote the Quran and by that, Allah should be pleased.

So you are advising Nigerians to fight the Fulani herdsmen?

Brendaniel:


So you are advising Nigerians to fight the Fulani herdsmen?

I know that's what you will come to, I am telling you a statement of fact from history. You are not affected in all the plight of the people who has been afflicted in this issues, who knows if you are one of the "Fulani herdsmen" looking for sympathy?

In my post, I've offered you input that will ensure security of life and properties. If vandals come from foreign lands in the name of "Fulani", offer yourself to be killed so you don't offend anybody. If that doesn't solves the problem, offer your own solution sir.

Let the farmers have associations that will protect their best interest from vandal cloaked in different names that has ethnic colourations and religious subtlety.

absoluteSuccess:


I know that's what you will come to, I am telling you a statement of fact from history. You are not affected in all the plight of the people who has been afflicted in this issues, who knows if you are one of the "Fulani herdsmen" looking for sympathy?

In my post, I've offered you input that will ensure security of life and properties. If vandals come from foreign lands in the name of "Fulani", offer yourself to be killed so you don't offend anybody. If that doesn't solves the problem, offer your own solution sir.

Let the farmers have associations that will protect their best interest from vandal cloaked in different names that has ethnic colourations and religious subtlety.

So farmers should form association to fight the Fulani herdsmen?

Brendaniel:


So farmers should form association to fight the Fulani herdsmen?

The military made a lot of progress with Joint Military and Hunters against the onslaught of the boko Haram against Borno.

Suggest a solution.

oluztx:
Afonjaas go and do your revolution on empty stomach and stop disturbing us (SE and SS).

You guys sef

Everything must be tribalized. that's another cold war without end.

absoluteSuccess:


The military made a lot of progress with Joint Military and Hunters against the onslaught of the boko Haram against Borno.

Suggest a solution.

The president should ban open grazing, then instruct all illegal bush settlements that are not indigenous to be closed, The FG should set up a hot line and do sensitization across communities to report immediately any suspicious movement in their communities for swift response.

The national assembly should pass into law death by firing squad for kidnapping for money ransom and all execution must be televised on national TV

Same for the military, any saboteur caught sabotaging the effort for kidnappers or Islamic terrorists will be executed on live TV even if he is a general, same goes for politicians, traditional rulers and so on.

do this for a year and watch security improve very fast in Nigeria

Brendaniel:


The president should ban open grazing, then instruct all illegal bush settlements that are not indigenous to be closed, The FG should set up a hot line and do sensitization across communities to report immediately any suspicious movement in their communities for swift response.

The national assembly should pass into law death by firing squad for kidnapping for money ransom and all execution must be televised on national TV

Same for the military, any saboteur caught sabotaging the effort for kidnappers or Islamic terrorists will be executed on live TV even if he is a general, same goes for politicians, traditional rulers and so on.

do this for a year and watch security improve very fast in Nigeria

LOL, but that will brew a direct crisis between the presidency and a culture that has been coming a long way, namely 'open grazing'. Most of the people around the corridors of power, especially from the North stacks their wealth away in livestock and cattle.

It won't be possible banning open grazing so easily, and it would be funny if the president should make a law and it eventually fails or create more problems. Recall when the late Lam Adeshina banned open grazing in Oyo state?

The kidnappers probably were following the old herders' routes that runs through the country and if you are not in that profession aforetimes, how do you best track them through their hideouts to make them answer to their crimes? So, the law will only work when one is caught, like the risk of running a "profitable business" (much better than herding cattle) in people that can be ransomed with instant cash.

You can weigh the crime and the incentive vis a vis the punishment. It's a difficult crime to fight. Now kidnapping is quite different from the ones killing farmers. So, both has to be tackled differently after their core incentives are studied and understood.

absoluteSuccess:


LOL, but that will be a direct crisis between the presidency and a culture that has been coming a long way, open grazing. Most of the people around the corridors of power stacks their wealth away in livestock and cattle, it won't be possible banning open grazing so easily, and it would be funny if the president should make a law and it eventually fails or create more problems.

Recall when the late Lam Adeshina banned open grazing in Oyo state?

The kidnappers probably were following the old herders routes that runs through the country and if you are mot in that profession aforetimes, how do you best track them through their hideout to make them answer to their crimes? So, the law will only work when one is caught, like the risk of running a "profitable business" much better than herding cattle but people that can be ransomed with instant cash.

You can weigh the crime and the incentive vis a vis the punishment. It's a difficult crime to fight. Now kidnapping is quite different from the ones killing farmers. So, both has to be tackled differently after their core incentives are studied and understood.

Then Nigeria is not ready to solve it.....

Brendaniel:


Then Nigeria is not ready to solve it.....

Hmm, the same President cannot remove "subsidy" and still do this. Open grazing is another traditional agricultural practice, its not the overarching problem. Killing farmers and kidnapping by the practitioners is.

If you ban open grazing and it works, what about people who hides and open fire on travellers? that's no longer open grazing but a new lease of life by people once armed for farmer killing gone rouge. It's a new crime form.

absoluteSuccess:


Hmm, the same President cannot remove "subsidy" and still do this. Open grazing is another traditional agricultural practice, its not the overarching problem. Killing farmers and kidnapping by the practitioners is.

If you ban open grazing and it works, what about people who hides and open fire on travellers? that's no longer open grazing but a new lease of life by people once armed for farmer killing gone rouge. It's a new crime form.

If you read my article you will notice I tackled the problem from various angles, the ones in the bush who see not herdmen must have a settlement, and indigenes sometimes see these people.

Policing is a continuous job done by everybody, any suspicious movement in the bushes should be reported immediately, I talked about saboteurs too....

The idea is to make kidnapping not look lucrative and make it look very difficult to do, if you give the kidnappers the impression that too many eyes are policing them, they will hardly feel comfortable doing it.


I don't care if your culture is grazing, it has to end, if they are not ready to embrace modern cattle rearing then they can return back to the desert....