lalasticlala could this be true?

yazach:
Remain OBJ, IBB, JONATHAN, FFK, ALL IPOB MEMBERS, CAN MEMBERS THAT COLLECT MONEY FROM JONATHAN

Yeah, including PMB that collected bullet proof cars, and the grass cutter. Not to forget the chief driver (Ameachi), the Landlord of Lagos (Tinubu) and co. No looter of our common wealth should be left out.

Looks like the arrests are mostly of those trying to protect their communities.

Lol

Correct. Got me confused. CO₂ we exhale is everywhere.

TLisieux:
Good info.
Carbon monoxide is CO. CO2 is carbon dioxide.

Opinionated:


Carbon monoxide is not only a potentially dangerous gas. It’s also incredibly hard to detect as it is both odourless and colourless. Carbon monoxide alarms detect and alert you to the presence of the poisonous gas, and should be fitted in your home.

Never light a naked flame if you smell CO2

Ensure you refrain from lighting a match, cigarette lighter, or any other source of flame or spark whenever you smell or perceive carbon monoxide. If you do, you are at risk of burning down your home as a result of an explosion.

OP how do you smell or perceive a gas you defined as odourless and colourless?

rusher14:


There is nothing to understand.

We do not have a cough epidemic.

Should these manufacturers have witnessed a disproportionate increase in demand they should have cried out even if it was strictly for cough.

Anywhere else in the developed world and they might have their licences revoked.

Enough with your 3rd world reasoning.

Why struggle to reason with people who won't reason. The sales rep of Emzor was even quoted as saying he'll deliver the drugs straight from the oven. What does that mean? The investigators claimed they even got delivery of carton's of the product directly from the manufacturers. One other was quoted as advising the investigators to get a licensed Pharmacy to buy the drugs on their behalf and they will deliver what ever quantity they need. That means there is a regulation for the sales/supplies of these drugs and this particular manufacturer is trying to cover their tracks. So definitely they have a responsibility in the control/abuse of these drugs and they deliberately did otherwise for higher returns.

Some people just like to reason in one direction. Some support evil when they are beneficiaries. Perhaps he is loosing from the crackdown. If their hands are clean why are they uncooperative with the enforcement agencies?

Trouble where ever they go.

Who ever says Nigeria will not have peace, that is how they will fight among themselves and be scattered.

Same way you will read about your failure at the next polls on the pages of newspapers.

“Where a party admits the detention of another, the onus to prove that such detention is legal lies on it. In the instant case, no material evidence of fraud, irregular allocation of plots of land, among others is placed before this court.

“All other averments relating to fraudulent activities against the applicant remain largely in the realm of imagination of the respondent and unproved as there is no such document before the court. The result is that the respondent has not proven the allegation to warrant the court to decide otherwise.

“The detention of the applicant after the court ordered for his release on bail beyond 48 hours amounted to a constitutional infringement of his right to personal liberty and freedom of movement, as he was entitled to be released immediately. The altitude of the respondent to get a remand order against him was a deliberate attempt to disobey the order of this court. Justice Baba-Yusuf held.

Why detain someone without evidence with the hope that frustrating him and denying him of his freedom will make him admit crimes that you envisage? Why all these abuse of powers? Politics in Nigeria is a terrible thing.

It's about time. Instead of defending and denying the what can't be defended or denied.
Fish out the bad eggs among you if you are not party to it.

Lol

The list was incomplete self.

YouthsPC0:

You forgot the indictment of Kingibe (PRP, chair) in NIA aledged missing $44m belonging to NIA.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/02/06/how-i-stopped-kingibe-abba-kyari-rufai-abubakar-stealing-44m-former-acting-d-g-nia

The FG is making terrorism more rewarding and they are now competing for attention to receive more rewards.
More splinter groups may be coming forth to also compete for the rewards.

Good motivation. I bet a teacher from Kaduna will grasp this price next year.

I think every farmer and even more anyone and anything that eats food.
This is really scary.

What is Nigerian policy pertaining to GMOs? Does the appropriate agencies check/confirm foods and seeds that get into the country?

Hybrid Seeds Vs GMOs
In both open-pollinated and hybrid seeds, we have always been breeding crops that were genetically able to reproduce, like two types of stone fruit, or two varieties of squash, or two breeds of dog.

But today, with sophisticated and expensive lab techniques (like retroviruses and gene guns), we can now manipulate and combine the DNA of species that could never, ever breed in nature—like fish and tomatoes, Brazil nuts and soybeans, or bacteria and corn.

We can even genetically engineer cows to produce human breast milk!

Combining or splicing together genes from different organisms in the lab (without actually sexually breeding them) is known as recombinant DNA technology, and the resulting organism is said to be “genetically modified (GM or GMO),” “genetically engineered (GE),” or “transgenic.”

GMO corn developed by Monsanto, for example, includes genetic material from the bacterium Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis), which kills European corn borers by punching holes in their gut lining. This means that every single cell of the GMO corn plant contains the DNA of a bacteria that damages the digestive tract of whatever eats it. And because it is engineered into every cell of the corn plant, it doesn’t wash off.

Though biotech companies swore that Bt always breaks down during digestion, Bt has been found in the gut lining and bloodstream of humans.

RoundUp-Ready crops are plants that have had their DNA manipulated with bacterial genes to withstand heavy, repeated applications of the herbicide RoundUp, also called glyphosate.

While Monsanto swore that glyphosate (Round-up) was safe to eat and couldn’t get into ground water supplies, it is now listed as a probable carcinogen, and found in the waterways and groundwater in every country where it is sprayed, often at levels higher than allowed in drinking water.

Glyphosate can also be found in the urine and blood of people worldwide, and is implicated in the epidemic of birth defects in Argentina.

While, like all technologies, there is potential for recombinant DNA technology to do good (GMO papaya or GMO insulin, for example), the vast majority of GMO crops have been created solely to prop up corporate-controlled, industrial agriculture, force farmers to buy patented seed year after year, and promote dependence upon toxic chemicals like glyphosate (RoundUp).

Whatever you believe, don’t believe for one second that transgenic GM crops are anything like other forms of seed breeding. Genetically modified foods have no precedent in nature. Only GMO crops cross the species barrier, making them the biggest ecological experiment ever conducted on the planet.

A Brief History of GMOs
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Between 1997 and 1999, genetically-modified (GM) ingredients suddenly appeared in about two-thirds of all U.S. processed foods. This change to our food supply was fueled by a single Supreme Court ruling. It allowed, for the first time, the patenting of life forms for commercial profit. Since then, thousands of applications for experimental GM organisms have been filed with the U.S. Patent Office alone, and many more abroad.

The first commercially grown genetically modified whole food crop was the Flavr Savr tomato, which was made more resistant to rotting by Californian company Calgene (later bought by Monsanto). The tomatoes were released into the market in 1994 without any special labeling.

Later GM crops included insect resistant Bt cotton and herbicide-tolerant Roundup Ready soybeans, both of which were commercially available in 1996.

Between 1995 and 2005, the total surface area of land cultivated with GMOs had increased by a factor of 50, from 17,000 km² (4.2 million acres) to 900,000 km² (222 million acres), of which 55 percent were planted in Brazil, mostly on land that had been tropical rainforest.

By 2006, 89% of all U.S. soybeans, 83% of cotton, and 61% of corn were genetically modified varieties. Today in 2013, U.S. farmers can barely even find non-GMO corn, soy or cotton seed anymore, unless they buy certified organic seed.

For crops like corn, canola and alfalfa, wind can easily carry the pollen from GMO varieties quite far to contaminate non-GMO and even organically grown varieties on neighboring farms. And there is no mandatory labeling of GM content in seed.

It is estimated that over 85% of all the food on supermarket shelves contains GMO ingredients.


Monsanto’s Dirty Little Secret
In 2005, Monsanto grabbed 40% of the U.S. seed market and 20% of the global seed market when it bought out Seminis, making them the largest seed company in the world. This purchase gave them control over the genetics for 55% of the lettuce on U.S. supermarket shelves, 75% of the tomatoes, and 85% of the peppers, with strong holdings in beans, cucumbers, squash, melons, broccoli, cabbage, spinach and peas!

One of the main reasons that Monsanto and other biotech companies have bought up so many seed companies is to use the germplasm (DNA) of those non-GMO varieties in their future GMO products.

You see, the dirty little secret of the GMO industry is that most of the traits that they brag about trying to create (like drought tolerance, greater nutrition, etc.) are actually the product of traditional breeding.

By buying up all the seed companies, Monsanto can literally steal the work done by thousands of gardeners and farmers over generations to produce quality hybrid varieties with beneficial growing traits. Then they can slip a “Round-Up Ready” or other proprietary gene into it and call it their “own”, and sell it with patent restrictions.

This is not a company any gardener would want to support.

Why GMOs Are Unsustainable
Most seeds are created through guided natural reproduction, while GMOs are the product of species-crossing methods used to create untested organisms that would never occur in nature.


Like open pollinated seeds, many GM seed varieties can be saved and expected to produce uniform offspring the following season. But GM seed cannot be saved because all GMO seeds are patented. It is actually illegal to save GMO seed.
You see, GMOs are so expensive to produce (thousands of times more expensive than hybrids or other publicly bred seeds), without patents, biotech companies couldn’t make their money back, much less hold the world hostage to their product monopoly.

Subsistence farmers in developing countries, just like during the Green Revolution, are even worse off—now more dependent than ever on having to purchase seeds year after year—and the chemicals that go with them. That is, if the effort hasn’t already impoverished them off their land in the process.

Biotech companies are so rabid about protecting their patents that many U.S. farmers have been sued by Monsanto when GMO crops were found illegally planted on their fields.

Unfortunately, many of these farmers did not intentionally plant the patented seed; rather, the GMO pollen drifted onto their property via wind or insects, and contaminated their non-GMO crops. This didn’t stop Monsanto from winning their cases against them though, and shutting those farmers down.

Pollen contamination has also affected U.S. wheat and alfalfa exports, and crops that farmers did not know were contaminated have been turned away by countries that do not allow GMOs in their food. This has cost farmers a pretty penny, for sure!

Lastly, and perhaps most gravely of all, because of pollen drift and genetic contamination, we are starting to permanently lose food biodiversity. Control over seeds and the very ability to produce food at all continues to concentrate even further into the hands of just a few multinational corporations.

Notice a theme here?

Every time big chemical companies get involved in agriculture, none of their efforts are to grow food in a healthy, natural or sustainable way. Everything they create is meant to destroy regional food systems and local self-reliance, and foster dependence on expensive technologies, purchased seeds, and more use of chemicals and drugs.

With GM techniques, we can grow rice that contains pharmaceutical drugs in every cell of the plant, we can grow soy and corn that can survive gallons of toxic chemicals dumped on it, and we can force cows to produce twice as much milk as they were ever meant to, requiring widespread use of antibiotics to deal with udder infections.

Sadly, as if we learned nothing from history at all, Bill Gates wants to export patented GMO seeds to Africa as the next big Green Revolution—this time to supposedly lift African subsistence farmers out of poverty.


Why We Are All Guinea Pigs for GMOs
So far, mostly commodity crops with GM traits—such as Canola, corn, soy, cotton, alfalfa and sugar beets—have been approved by the USDA for use, primarily in processed foods and animal feeds. The exceptions are rBGH-treated milk, and GMO papaya, zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, some sweet corn, and one variety of apple, which are available—without labels—at your grocery store.

It is estimated that over 85% of all the food on supermarket shelves contains GMO ingredients.

The trouble is that nobody knows how these unnatural, new organisms will behave over the long run. The seed companies that develop these varieties claim intellectual property rights so that only they can create and sell the variety. In most cases, biotech companies refuse to allow independent scientists to obtain and study their GM seeds.

And the USDA doesn’t test them either before approval; they rely solely on the self-testing done by the biotech companies themselves.

Nevertheless, many independent scientists worldwide are studying GMO crops, and the mounting evidence against many GMO crops (especially the ones requiring the use of glyphosate) is looking grim.

From the development of allergies, tumors and reproductive disorders in lab animals, livestock and possibly humans, to the destruction of beneficial soil organisms and good soil structure that make it possible to grow food; from the creation of Superweeds and Superpests, to the dozens of peer-reviewed studies proving the toxic effects of RoundUp (glyphosate) on human health, most GMO crops are looking far worse for ecological and human health than we ever imagined.

So, if anyone ever tries to convince you that hybrid seeds and GMOs are the same thing, or that genetic modification technology is “just another” form of seed breeding, you will know the truth: Most seeds are created through guided natural reproduction, while GMOs are the product of high-tech, species-crossing methods used to create untested organisms that would never occur in nature.

While it is possible to use genetic engineering technology in the public interest (with the precautionary principle applied), the majority of GMO crops available today were created by chemical and pharmaceutical companies to create profit and dependency at the expense of people and planet.

https://www.smallfootprintfamily.com/hybrid-seeds-vs-gmos

benzion72:
Mushroom market is in exhaustible, why only few producer are into it.

If well packaged super market, private individual, mama put, are all buyers,

Open market display also attract buyers.

Mushroom cultivation is not a get rich quick business you will have to put in the work get paper, saw dust bag filling, sterilization and inoculation and a waiting period, frutiing and sales

Can you provide rough idea on the pricing of mushrooms? If I start producing mushrooms, what is the rate at which I should expect to be selling?

Modified:
Also how long does it last after harvest (shelf-life).

I wish we can always live and let others live too. The habit of spiting someone else trying to prove we know better does not necessarily help. And with that attitude one tends to be hasty and draw wrong conclusions. It can be very painful. Unfortunately I see a lot of that on this forum. Some of the attackers have never shared any knowledge, but they are quick to judge and condemn others efforts.

If you suspect information dished out is wrong why don't you ask questions that draws the writers attention to what could possibly be wrong with his information. That way if you misunderstood the writer you wouldn't have ruffled someone's feathers. Courtesy begets courtesy.

Poundsland:
I need seeds for beef tomatoes please.

Hey, did you get the big beef tomato seeds?

Most are on salaries. Some simply depend on a % of the profits.
Mind you, some of the CEOs are not owners.

OkutaNla:


Eh.. Soyinka is one. He won the Nobel prize.

Thought Soyinka is a traditionalist.

Are these people not tired of killing?
What do they really want so dearly in Benue?

Nice rabbits.

What and what do you feed your rabbits?

How do you say see massive ring without any pics?
You should be reported for breaking rule 8.

Restructuring in Rivers State.

Interesting.

EternalTruths:



Who is feeding you with horse poo.?

You think all of us are mumus you can lie easily to.?

If you are not responsible enough for mature conversation don't quote me. If you have counter opinion, share without insults. I didn't call you mumu that you have ascribed to yourself.

scaramenga:
Pepper spray N2500
Taser gun N5000

Stay safe ladiez

Bros in a traffic jam? Haba are you advising them to go on a suicide mission?

ezenwajosh:


There's a reason history was removed from Nigeria education system

And the reason actually worked

Many has started asking questions and identifying with their cousins

I won't take anything away from me if a part of Akwa Ibom choose to identify as igbos or not

JUST THAT THE TRUTH MUST BE SPOKEN

Some who spoke ill of ipob and Nnamdi kanu started seeing his reasons after what happened in BENUE

Well your writeup has made me search online about the Aro-Ibibio people. The only thing I can find is how the Aro came to unsettle the Ibibios who were the original settlers. Also so a bit of intermarriage but those settlements are now mostly in Abia State. Now perhaps there are some Aro people in Akwa Ibom state, if they wish to join Biafra, that is fine. If they do exist, I doubt they will be up to 1%. The majority of Akwa Ibom will not like to be part of Biafra. Most old people in Akwa Ibom have only nasty experiences to share with regards to Igbo dominance during the Eastern region era.

ezenwajosh:

24) let's also remember that we have Aros in ibibio , izuogu, arochukwu ARONDIZUOGU,aro isiokpo,aro opobo,aro ibibio,aro okiruka.
In Nigeria today, Igboland is roughly made up of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu, Imo, and major parts of Delta and Rivers states.
Small parts of Akwa Ibom , Benue, Cross River, Edo, and Kogi State,
make up the rest of Igboland.

So because there is a small fraction of Igbo (If truly there is) in Akwa Ibom (b/c Igbo can't be in Ibibio), then the whole of Akwa Ibom should be cooped into Biafra?
Are you from one of those minority Igbo tribes you claim to be in Akwa Ibom? Cos I've never heard of an Akwa Ibom person that wants to be part of Biafra. Instead I know of many who actually dislike Igbos (I'm not one anyway). I actually share some ideologies with some Igbos pertaining to the Nigerian nation but it will be a nightmare to wake up to be part of Biafra.

ezenwajosh:

Ohaofia man call plate(usany) an Ibibio man also call it the same.
Ohaofia man call chair (okpokoro) an Ibibio man also call it the same.
An Ohaofia man also bearing the same names alike lyang,ukpabi,Eni,Ebin,okon which an Ibibio man also Bear.
In ohaozara ebonyi state at umunuka village their is a market called lbom.
In okpoto ishielu east LGA of ebonyi state there also a village called Labassa lbom.
So an Ibibio or Efik man is also an lgbo man
CHIBUIKE AMAECHI,WIKE,PAT UTOMI, OKONJI IWELA,COR ACHUZIE, TONTO DIKE , IFEANYI OKOWA, HAS SAID IT IN AN OPEN VIDEO INTERVIEW THAT THE ARE IGBOS .
BUT ALSO REMEMBER THAT VICE PRESIDENT OF OHANEZE NDI IGBO GENERAL IS FROM IKWERE RIVER'S STATE AND SECRETARY IS FROM ANIOMA DELTA STATE.

Ibibio call plate "Usan", not "Usany". Chair is called "Ifim" or "Mkpo Itie", not "Okpokoro" which actually means "Table" in Ibibio. This would confirm that you are not from Akwa Ibom, or at least not Ibibio.

While I'm aware of Akwa Ibom names like Inyang (not Iyang), Okon, Eno (not Eni), and Ukpabi sounds familiar. I've never heard of names like Ebin and Eni. There could actually be some borrowing of words and names since we are neighbours for years. I don't see how a few similar sounding words or similarly named items translates to Ibibios being Igbos.

"Perhaps the Igbos are the ones that are Ibibios". However within Akwa Ibom, there are some minority tribes with distinct languages that an Ibibibo man does not understand unless he learns and the other tribes do not understand Ibibio unless they learn it. They are proud of their identity, just like the Ibibios are proud of their identities. No one wants to change their identity for any reason and I won't want to loose my identity to be tagged Igbo. I actually feel insulted by that and I think this tendency will only earn you guys hatred. Why not leave it.