₦airaland Forum

Brendaniel:
Oga, shut up, that was not what started the civil war, go and read your history and stop talking rubbish....

Lol...your judged yourself ignorant by disagreeing with an extension of your folly.

Brendaniel:
You can see part of the reason when we say that there is Jihad going on in Nigeria, that Jihad has been going on before independence, the same jihad caused the civil war, the same jihad may have claimed millions of lives in Nigeria, the same jihad brought Buhari and Tinubu to power, the same jihad has brought injustice, poverty, insecurity and so on, the same jihad fights those who speak against it, Like Malafia, Nnamdi Kanu and so on.

The bad part of it is those who are not even aware that they being used for the purpose of Jihad, Gowon, OBJ(during the war), TY Danjuma, most current southern politicians and political supporters especially from the south west, some of those that their eyes have been opened are regretting it while some are still living in denial......

Exactly. Fulani bandits killed sardauna and started that civil war but called themselves chinedu and chukwudi.

grandstar:
Mexico has banned the importation of hibiscus plants from from Nigeria. Do you know why? Poor quality.

In the olden days when the country was very reliant on agric exports for forex earnings, the commodity boards ensured that quality of the produce were of high quality.

That is just one reason.

Whether the way they were structured then is practical today is another matter.

I personally speaking am not a fan of food self-sufficiency. It sounds magnificent on paper but it is a nightmare in practice.

Yes, why should we import food we can grow here? We should be self sufficient in it. We should also export it.

The arguments sound tasty the reality is different.

Over the past decade or so, the federal government has pumped untold billions into making Nigeria self sufficient in rice.

One would say the progress has been impressive. But what if the government decides to lift the 'ban' on rice imports? The country will be flooded with cheap rice and national production would collapse. Why? Because the country lacks comparative advantage in rice production.

Nigeria should instead focus on food it has comparative advantage in and liberalize import of food.

The primary cause of hunger isn't a lack of food. It is a lack of money. I have always wondered how making food or rice more expensive than it should actually help the poor?

You keep over blowing this comparative advantage concept beyond limits as if it is all there is to guarantying food. As it stands today, Nigeria never had the comparative advantage of wheat production over Ukraine or Russia butghe war has made wheat so profitable to be cultivated in Nigeria. Wheat flout has more than doubled in prices and it will be foolish to not keep a focus on wheat cultivation because we are not the cheapest grower of wheat.

Yam is another interesting crop. We are world's number one producer but of recent have been threatened by Ghana, Côte D'voire and far away Japan because our output per hectare is laughable. We have the comparative advantage in yam productuon but aren't achieving 20% of our potential in yam cultivation.
Poor seedling, outdated manual heap methods, diseases, pests, and storage hell remain huge challenges still. Continuing in our outdated yam cultivation will likely keep us as world number one producer and still hungry.

grandstar:
Due to my free market leanings, I don't feel too good about this.

"Food security" usually entails the country achieves "self sufficiency" in food it has no comparative advantage in like rice. This will mean the citizenry pay more for rice than it otherwise should. Since the primary cause of hunger isn't a lack of food but a lack of money, higher food prices does not help the poor.

Rather government should focus on food the nation has comparative advantage in and liberalizes imports of the others.

If the attention given to rice over the past 10 years was applied to foods the nation has comparative advantage in, I won't be surprised if earnings from food exports touch $10bn. Shea butter alone can earn the country $2bn. Cashew over $1bn and the list goes on.

@underlined, you are a clown. Walahi.


Comparative advantage doesn't guaranty you will always be best serves with the alternative from outside. It only means the one outside is easier to produce compared to yours.

The hunger for money, power, and control on another level.

Ihateheadslamer:
You are jealous of the igbo people because they are gifted and talented people from the land of the rising sun

Yes sir. I obidiently concur.
My jealousy for Igbo's even destroyed the jealousy metre. The inventors made a terrible mistake by testing their invention on my jealousy for Igbos.

The problem is the poor is hard to define yet growing in number everyday due to swift and chaotic reforms

You mean those landlords in 2 by 2 selling manageable scraps?

Tell us about how they fly at night and do unspeakable things to have money too.

This palliative is like taking away the roof over a man and giving him launch money for a week.

It is a form of support oga and not salary.to do owambe with.

Very weak piece. The father has soiled that name forever.
Look at the disastrous performance he was busy defending for eight good years. He choose to maintain his expensive holidays abroad for his family over telling his boss the truth and a beneficiary is trying to do a Buhari for her benefactor.

Will anyone go hungry or fall sick without movies?

mrvitalis:
Yes including your landlord n oga

that so sophisticated of them then.

mrvitalis:
The propaganda to paint South East as unstable hit top Gear

by who?
You mean those chinedus and emekas in 2X2 using people's glory to collect from Ogbanje shrine and build houses will move houses back to SE?

onuman:
Let govt provide enabling environment like security and social infrastructures to enable us acquire equipments for manufacture of goods for export to earn foreign cash; not government officials in Nigeria depending solely on Cheap cash from crude oil.
Cheap cash from crude oil has ruined Nigeria.
The most rich countries in the world have no mineral resources.

Lol. Same way the richest persons didn't inherit wealth. They created it.

After 70 years of oil pumping.

How come the region with the least casualty got the highest attention?

nlfpmod:
Very good! Nice response. Let them look for another thing and do. The copy copy is becoming annoying.

we now hold the GWR for copy copy and lack of ingenuity. But you guys too gave them a voice. Always moving irrelevant things to front page for traffic.

DevilsEqual:
Wheres reverse pyschology here? How can i wail when the person i supported is in power and doing better than i initially thought

You guys should stop throwing around phrases you know nothing about, u could use ChatGBP or Google for clarification on whta "Reverse Psychology" means

As for the Naira, its just an option for now, as the years go by, there would be $ to Naira account direct medium of payment sanctioned by some international banks and cards. This option is a step forward already

Ignoramus forming knowledge.

DevilsEqual:
If this would strengthen the Naira, then so be it

BAT Govt promises to be as civilized as much as it wants to be original/Indigenous

Wailers in Expert Economics can come on board to analyze and wail more

The real wailer engaging reverse psychology to call others wailers.
Simple question: where will someone in diaspora get Naira to remit from? There lies the answer to your ignorance. Brainstorm a little and be cured.

Lol. That's equal to buying foreign currency. There is nothing like remittiom of Naira from diaspora.

Eighth years of Agbado and Cassava.

BATtle tested looters.

Everyone wants a piece of the N500B.

Civil servants want increase, leaders want it too. The masses want palliative, yet that money is a one time windfall and govt may have to borrow to pay salary if it must be paid out monthly as salary. Restructure or Nigeria breaks into 50 different countries.

Just close eye and buy seasoning cubes so it will last very well.

Multiply that by 3 because two-third the populace are depending on someone somewhere.

Can our northern brethren take an open stand on BH and the likes as Punch Newspaper just did?

I challenge them.

Putin will be happy now. The man who made bread costly.

Better late than never. Buhari was a plaque. The eleventh plaque i guess.

Election riggers largesse?

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