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dealslip:
Bros, that place was a beauty to behold in those years. Right unto Isolo road and some part of Layi Oyekanmi street. Then it was so silent and serene just like GRA. But now it looked like bombs exploded there.

That's Nigeria for you ma.

*Police/Youth Clash: Edo Govt. calls for calm, assures justice will be done*

Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has called for calm over the clash between some youths and mobile policemen at Upper Igun area, by 3rd East Circular Road Junction, in Oredo Local Government Area, Benin City, over the alleged killing of a man in the area on Tuesday.

In a statement in Benin City, by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Communications Strategy, Mr Crusoe Osagie, Governor Obaseki called for calm, urging aggrieved parties to “allow for justice to run its due course, as efforts are underway to ensure that those liable for the crime are brought to book.”

The governor condemned the fact that the incident degenerated into civil disturbance, noting that there were better ways to resolve the scuffle.

According to him, “The relevant security agencies are on the alert to quell further breakdown of law and order in the area. We also appeal to the people to be calm and cooperate with security agencies to bring in those responsible for the unrest.”

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dealslip:
there is a place in Mushin called Palm Avenue. In the 80s and early 90s. it was such a beauty to behold. It was lined with coconut trees all through. it stretched from Olorunsogo which is off Agege Motor road to Ladipo roundabout. I had my primary school around the area. when I visited palm avenue last year. I was shocked to the marrow. All the trees had been uprooted from the home front. They had been replaced by shops let out to building materials seller. Nigerians generally have issues in their mind not the leaders or the environment. it goes beyond just making people plant coconut trees. he will be shocked when militants come to demand money for planting trees and how the coconut oil of the state has been used to enrich other regions but the state. with Nigerians deal with mind first before building infrastructure.

hmm.

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#EndPoliceBrutality
#EndBribing

#Breaking

Crisis in some part of Benin (M.M way and Igun) as Police unjustly killed a young man over 100 naira, angry youths killed one police officer and set police vans ablaze over the death of the man whose wedding is Saturday this weekend.

Nigeria police force is a disgrace to our nation....

Most Nigerians have heard of "Mindset". Now anytime you talk about Nigerians, people will quickly reply, it is the mindset jare. But what they don't know is what type of mindset is the problem.

Most Nigerians have a Fixed Mindset. With this type of mindset people don't accept new ideas no matter how compelling the facts are. What you need is a Growth Mindset. Please go through the image below and see what type of mindset you have.

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I like spending time in Florida with my wife. Why?
because the place is clean, sunny with beautiful houses and streets. The street in the photo below is my favorite residence in Florida. I keep wondering why do our people live in dirt. Then I realized it. It is not just physical poverty but mental poverty.

In the Florida streets there are trees. Then I think why can't we plant palm trees all over the place in Nigeria and flood the world market with coconut oil and juice? They want it, so we give it to them.

Take Edo state state alone. If I was the Governor I will get each house in Edo State to plant 2 coconut trees in front of the house on a straight line or face a fine. Each coconut tree will produce 200 coconut per year. Even with 500,000 houses; see what will happen:

500,000 x 2 coconut trees = 1,000,000 coconut trees
200 coconut per tree per year = 200,000,000
Even at N50 per coconut = N10,000,000,000
That is 10 billion Naira. That is just for the homes. I will do the same for all government roads and double that number.

I would buy it from the people and bring it to a very large factory to make coconut oil, paste and other things to double this revenue yet again. When we are done we will have over N40 billion per year. This will create lots of jobs.

All that money will be used to fix all the roads every year one by one till all roads look like the one in Florida. This will create more jobs again. All paying for itself. Imagine a state with access to N40 billion just to fix roads yearly.

It is not hard to do.

You can make the following using Coconuts:

* Desiccated coconut.
• Coconut Butter, Coconut Cream, Coconut flour.
• Coconut Milk, Milk powder, Coconut Yogurt.
• Virgin Coconut Oil.
• Coconut vinegar.
• Coconut Coir, Coconut pith.
• Coconut wood.
• Coconut Oil.
• Tender Coconut water.
• Coconut Sugar, Coconut Syrup.

P.S
What is this thing with Nigeria and open gutters?

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SalamRushdie:
If only people can discern deeply they will see that Buhari is responsible for 80 percent of the rot Nigeria has become since independence, his style of leadership can only breed bloodshed , rituals, desperation driven crimes , desperation driven corruption and many more evils ...Buhari should never have been allowed to join the Army and today Nigeria would have been the pride of Africa for real... I have registered to vote..Have You? please do all your best to registered so you can join us your fellow Nigerians as we use our thumbs to push the devil out of Aso Rock and start our journey to healing and recovery....God Punish Buhari

Thank you bro.

ZombiePUNISHER:
A man whose wife and daughter despise in public because of his incompetence....

This man is a certified terrorist

The Daughter didn't despise her.

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INTRODUCTION
Eggplant (Solanum melongena), or aubergine, is a species of nightshade, grown for its edible fruit. Eggplant is the common name in North America, Australia and New Zealand, but British English uses the French word aubergine. It is known in South Asia and South Africa as brinjal.
There are around 770 varieties of eggplant that can be found in tropical and sub-tropical areas around the world. People cultivate eggplant as a source of food. Other than that, eggplant can be cultivated as ornamental plant.
INTRESTING FACTS ABOUT EGGPLANT
1. Eggplant has spiny stem that can grow from 16 to 57 inches in height.
2. Eggplant develops large green, deeply lobed leaves.
3. Eggplant produces star-shaped, white or purple flowers. 4. They contain both types of reproductive organs (pistil and stamens) and can perform self-pollination.
5.Fruit of eggplant belongs to the group of berries. The most popular types of eggplant are oval shaped and covered with smooth, glossy, purple colored skin. Flesh is whitish or creamy colored and has spongy texture.
Some varieties of eggplant produce white, lavender, green or red-striped fruit that can be elongated, rounded or pea-shaped.
Size of the eggplant (fruit) depends on the variety. It ranges from 1.2 to 12 inches in length.
Eggplant contains numerous miniature seed. They have bitter taste due to high content of nicotine (substance that belongs to the group of alkaloids).
Eggplant contains the highest level of nicotine compared to other edible plants. Luckily, consumption of eggplant does not produce harmful effect on the human health (20 pounds of eggplant contains same amount of nicotine as one cigarette).
HEALTH BENEFITS OF EGGPLANT
1. Eggplant is also good for weight loss, managing diabetes, reducing stress, protecting infants from birth defects, and even preventing cancer.
2. The wonderful health benefits of eggplants are primarily derived from their vitamin, mineral, and nutrient content.
3. Eggplants are a rich source of vitamin C, vitamin K, vitamin B6, thiamine, niacin, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, dietary fiber, folic acid, potassium, and manganese. They also contain almost no cholesterol or saturated fat.

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This will go in a long way in securing your FarmFrom Herdsmen rather thanEngaging Them in Fight nor Fencing your Farm.
Note: This is not a hate Speech But to help Farmerswho are helpless.
After the rains some stubborn Fulani herdsmen will begin to parade their cows on people's farm provoking tribal clashes.
We don't need to fight them, we can put them off our farm if we plant some plants at the boundary of the farm and surroundings.
1. Jathropha plants,naturaly animals don't like the smell of this plant.
2. Senna alata plant also put animal off.
3. Castor plant is very poisonous to animal,God is wonderful. Animals can smell all poisonous plants.
With the little rain we expect,let's get one out of these plants to secure our farm from those intruders.
You can get victory without a battle if you are prepare for peace, thanks.
Help a farmer, help Nigeria.
Kindly Share This Post After Reading and your comments Will be appreciated.
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Top 5 Agriculture Business Ideas for Aspiring Entrepreneurs in Nigeria
Agribusiness is the business of agricultural production. The term was coined in 1957 by Goldberg and Davis. It includes agrichemicals, breeding, crop production (farming and contract farming), distribution, farm machinery, processing, and seed supply, as well as marketing and retail sales.
1. Fresh vegetables business: Some commonly consumed fruits & vegetables in Nigeria in their standard and local names include:
Fluted Pumpkin (Ugwu), Jute Leaf (Ewedu), Cucumber, Green Okra, Cabbage, Tomatoes etc.
Read On How You Could Start Vegetable Farming in Nigeria

2. Catfish Farming: Catfish farming business in Nigeria is a very profitable business to venture into. In order to ensure adequate growth of your catfishes, two things are essential: A pond with the right depth and width to ensure adequate comfort and growth for your fishes; often, the deeper a pond, the better.
Read More On How To Start Catfish Farming

3. Snail Farming: Heliciculture, also known as heliculture, commonly known as snail farming, is the process of raising land snails specifically for human use, either to use their flesh as edible escargot, or more recently, to obtain snail slime for use in cosmetics, or snail eggs for human consumption as a type of caviar.
How To Start Snail Farming

4. Cassava Farming: In Nigeria, cassava production is well-developed as an organized agricultural crop. It has well-established multiplication and processing techniques for food products and cattle feed. There are more than 40 cassava varieties in use. Cassava is processed in many processing centres and fabricating enterprises set up in the country.
How To Start Cassava Farming in Nigeria

5. Flower Business: Flower is used for decoration. You can start a flower business in a nursery, and then you sell to house owners and hotel owners. You may charge an extra cost to the buyer to help transplant the flower from the nursery to a permanent soil.
You have any other ideas? Drop it in the comment section please

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Some Ladies and pride ehn?

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I saw this set of sofas along the road in Benin City a while back. I stopped to admire and buy them. I really liked the design and the needlework. I was impressed.

A young man came out and politely told me that the sofas were imported. I told him I wanted local made and not imported. Then he started confessing that they made them at the back of the house right there. I asked him to take me to the workshop. He took me to the back of the house to see his workshop. But yes, these sofas were really produced there. But the boys lacked so much confidence in themselves.

Looking at how well made they were, I wondered how far they could go if they were encouraged to take these skills to the next level. They could be making parachutes for export.

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These men are Hausa and Fulani men who are hunters (not the herdsmen). The are all northerners. They are at my farm having fun. Every few months they will come in group of at least 20 of them with dogs and hunting gears to hunt and use my farm as base. It was really fun. They don't come anymore because the guys Lai Mohammed calls the foreigners have driven them away as well. Those so called foreigners have AK47.

This was before Buhari came. There was no big agenda then. These men are the good guys. Some people think southerners hate northerners. But as you can see, there are lots of northerners in my farm. These are the peace loving types. Not killing herdsmen. Trouble starts when someone is trying to kill the other. Without a dogmatic and myopic leaders Nigerians can really live together.

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Epositive:
ukuro o zoza, Ma check site awu ona very soon. Hope there's room for comments?

adayi ayin ahi comment.
avo sir

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This is a problem I have been struggling with for sometimes now. One farm is in Nigeria and the other is in Costa Rica planting the same crop. The one in Nigeria has many people working on it with very poor result. The commissioner of something even commissioned it.

While the one in Costa Rica has few people working on it and was never commissioned. They have 55,000 pineapples per hectare and the one in Nigeria has about 10,000 per hectare. you can see the difference yourself.

However, the guy in Costa Rica is not using magic, not praying and it is not rocket science. The technology is in Nigeria and the manual is all over the place on Google. My question is, giving the land, the money, the water, the seedling and the know how, Why can't people reproduce the same result in Nigeria?

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Epositive:
Yahaya Bello is a big mistake that needs to be rectified. Even we the ebiras are not proud of him


Adieza, Agriculturist Uwa Vi Ni?

yes adayi, ukuro yo?

whirlwind7:
Adieza....
You are just a kid. You should be in your 20s, so its understandable your future is well ahead of you. I like this topic you created, believe me.
Unlike most people who are chiding you here, I am making this post to share something with you. I won't claim I have seen it all, or know it all, or what not. The cattle colony idea itself is a good one. It would have minimized the frequent clashes between farmers and herdsmen, if it doesn't totally stop it.
But, apart from the fact that THIS IS NIGERIA, where nothing goes the way its supposed to, the more important factor you should consider is, who are these cattle colonies going to be created for. The people behind the idea, and the people who are going to occupy the colony. The "colonialists", if you will.

These two questions doesn't require much thoughts. The people behind it and the people who wants it have a provenance and a reputation that precedes them, and is, to put it mildly, horrific.
They already have something in the semblance of a colony in Southern Kaduna. Ask the indigenes how that " colony" came to be....and you will be cured of any delusions you might have that this call for colonies is altruistic. Deal with these folks at your own detriment. That is guaranteed. This is a subtle jihad. Nothing on earth can convince me otherwise.

I rarely reply to comments on nairaland due to insult sir, Actually I am grateful for the commendation, I am an agric blogger, I have written then negative aspect and this is the positive aspect sir.
It is necessary I do this.

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It is unfortunate to see many Nigerians go to bed hungry, suffering of starvation and malnutrition. We constantly complain of lack of good paying jobs and no money to spend and take care of our immediate needs. In effort to get jobs, we sell themselves into slavery in the hands of Chinese and Lebanese right in their own country all in the name of working in a factory. While in reality, we are sitting on a goldmine known as cassava farming and production!
Cassava grows very well in most parts of West Africa like Ghana, Senegal, Benin Republic, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The Brazilians are also know for cassava farming which they use for Tapioca production.
The industrial processing of cassava in Nigeria holds much potential for successful investment. The crop is increasingly attracting attention of serious business people. And processing businesses are slowly starting to spring-up all over the country. You also know how useful cassava is to Nigerians in general in terms of consumption. Cassava forms the major part of our daily food. Almost no family can survive a whole year without cassava related food.
Cassava can be processed into a number of products such as starch, flour, chips, ethanol and glucose syrup, and bread to name a few. These products are all in high demand locally and also have significant export possibilities. These therefore, place a lot of raw cash in the hands of anyone who goes into cassava farming right now.
As a smart person, you should be thinking about how to take advantage of the government support for agriculture and the increased budget to create wealth for yourself. This is because
cassava production surely provides opportunity for investors . If you are ready, here are what you need to start your own cassava farming in Nigeria.
1. Select Site For Your Cassava Farming
For Cassava plantation, it is important to choose an accessible well-drained fertile soil. You can take sample of the soil where you want to start your cassava farming to the IITA to help determine whether the soil is suitable for high yield cassava variety.
While most forest lands within the South West are known to be very fertile for cassava farming, it is important to further verify in other to be sure of your investment.
2. Decide On Cassava Varieties
For good cassava production, the following varieties are recommended for their high yield and processing quality: TMS 30572, NR 8082, NR8083, TMS 4(2) 1425, TMS 81/00110, TMS 92/0326. An additional 10 varieties are in the process of being released. Check from the cassava production specialists in Ibadan
3. Land Preparation And Planting
A total herbicide – Round up (a glyphosate) should be applied to the land where you want to plant your cassava at the rate of 4–5 l/ha 10 days before land preparation. For cost effectiveness and optimum plant population of your cassava , mechanization and planting on ridges are recommended.
LIMING
It is recommended that 5 (50 kg) bags of agricultural lime be applied /ha during land preparation.
Planting and planting material
1. Cassava Planting starts in April and can be extended to October.
2. The quantity of cassava recommended for 1 ha is 60 bundles of cassava stem.
3. Cassava Stem cuttings 25 cm long should be planted at a spacing of 1 m x 1 m.
4. Maintain 100% cassava planting rate by replacing dead or nonviable stems.
Post-planting weed control
Where a total herbicide was not used before land preparation for cassava plantation, it is recommended that a selective pre-emergence herbicide be applied within three days after planting. Five liters of Primextra is recommended /ha.
4. Types Of Fertilizer To Use
The following fertilizers and their rate/ha are recommended
• NPK 15:15:15–12 (50 kg) bags
• NPK 20:10:10–9 (50 kg) bags
• NPK 12:12:17–15 (50 kg) bags
Apply fertilizer at 8 weeks after planting your cassava. Apply fertilizer in a ring, 6 cm wide and 10 cm from the plant or broadcast with care around the cassava plant, making sure the fertilizer does not touch the cassava stem or leaves.
Yield
Cassava Yield of 25 t/ha and above can be obtained with good agronomic practices and management.
Therefore, every step must be taken seriously in the process of planting your cassava.
NOTE
To reduce cost of production and attain high yields, it is recommended that land preparation be fully
mechanized. A power tiller can be used if the total land area under cultivation is not more than 250ha
Cassava Production Like This Will Make You Millions of Naira
Production cost for one hectare of cassava
Land preparation ……………………………………………………… N10,000.00
Cassava cuttings (60 bundles @ N300/bundle) ………………N18,000.00
Planting (4 person at N1000/pd) …………………………………..N4,000.00
Pre-emergence herbicides (5 liters at N1000/l) ………………..N5,000.00
Fertilizer (20:10:10, 9 bags at N2500/bag) ……………………..N22,000.00
Insecticides (2 liters at N1000/l) ……………………………………N3,000.00
Application of herbicide ……………………………………………….N3,000.00
Application of insecticide ………………………………………………N 3,000.00
Application of fertilizer (4 persons at N1,000/pd) ……………..N4,000.00
One weeding (10 person at N1,000/pd) …. ……………………..N10,000.00
Harvesting (15 person at N1,500/pd). …………………………….N17,500.00
Total ……………………………………………………………………….. N100,000.00
Farm Labor Wage Rates Vary By Location.
Note: Fixed capital investments are not included. Such capital investments include knapsack or boom sprayers, tractors or power tillers, stem cutters, planters, and harvesters. With planters and harvesters, manual labor use can be minimised.

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Gov. Bello Hosts Kogites to Cattle Colony Debate Via Agricultural Summit

The Government of Kogi State is starting off her engagement with Kogi State indigenes on the proposed Cattle Colony which has generated much heat in the past week. The Governor who would be present tomorrow, 26th of January, 2017, at Lokoja Township stadium, is to host the necessary stakeholders along with the Commissioner for Agriculture, Kehinde Oloruntoba for an Agricultural Summit and Cattle Colony debate.

The general public is invited for clarification on the policy which would give everyone directly or indirectly involved to lend their opinions on the policy for inclusive decision making. The Agricultural Summits holds concurrently with the Cattle Colony debate with the Governor to take questions and suggestions on the policy.

Venue: Lokoja Township Stadium, Kogi State.
Time: 10am
Theme: Moving Agriculture To The Next Level
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