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Politics › Re: Taiwo Akerele Resigns A Governor Obaseki’s Chief Of Staff by DeLaRue: 11:39am On Apr 25, 2020

lekki1444:
so obasekis chief of sstaff was a yoruba man. he sounds like a detribalised man

Some people from Akoko-Edo local government bear Yoruba names. It shares a border with Ondo State.

The forebears of those with Yoruba surnames were Yorubas and will have spoken the language, but many of the current generation can't speak Yoruba at all. The connection is mostly lost. They are Edo folks now.

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Crime › Re: Herdsmen And Their Cows Chased Out Of Ekiti By Amotekun (Video) by DeLaRue: 2:24pm On Apr 24, 2020

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Here we go again...comparing�.

Amotekun is a peace-promoting outfit �

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Crime › Re: Herdsmen And Their Cows Chased Out Of Ekiti By Amotekun (Video) by DeLaRue: 2:17pm On Apr 24, 2020*

Intetesting...I thought Amotekun had been dropped.

I don't think Ngeria Police will be happy to see these people have better guns than them.

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Phones › Re: Which Network Provider In Nigeria Has The Fastest Internet Connection? by DeLaRue: 2:12pm On Apr 24, 2020

Didn't use my glo sim for internet for a long time due to painful sluggishness.

Then earlier this year, MTN was fumbling, so decided to try my Glo, in hope.

No regrets since. Glo has been a shinning star in my area. Each time I try to use MTN now, it's painfully slow and unstable.

Glo is the star.

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Politics › Re: Lekki Deep Seaport Receives $221 Million China Harbour Equity Fund, Gets New CEO by DeLaRue: 12:08pm On Apr 03, 2020

AmTruth:
Good news.

Despite the present virus crisis.

Investments still pouring in!!!

Smh furiously.

Chinese now fully own and control a major port in Nigeria, and can continue to do so for hundreds of years to come.

With the way the Chinese are, trust me, within that port vicinity, Nigerians will be treated like foreigners.

Very bad.

Health › Re: Osun Records Six New Coronavirus Cases by DeLaRue: 7:42pm On Apr 02, 2020

I understand there is a large community of Osun indegenes resident in Ivory coast, hence a lot of travelling between Osun and Ivory Coast.

Infact, there are direct buses to and from Ivory Coast in Osun.

If returnees are testing positive to the virus in such relative large numbers the virus must be fairly prevalent in Ivory Coast. Yet, that country probably doesn't know it. Similar to what we have here.

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Business › Re: Exceptional Yoruba Business Woman In Igboland by DeLaRue: 6:48pm On Mar 12, 2020

I have a few Yoruba friends who are based in Port Harcourt, but only know of one relative based in the South East. I don't know a single other person there. Very odd.

This will sound controversial, but I suspect many older Yorubas believe (wrongly I think) that Igbos are 'difficult', and so many might baulk at the thought of living in the South East.

I think it's our (Yoruba's) loss by the way, because Yorubas have what it takes to compete and succeed there if they live there in large numbers and believe in themselves, just as many Igbos who move to the West do.

Politics › Re: Amotekun Comment: South-West Governors Back Tinubu by DeLaRue: 9:17am On Jan 23, 2020

What a masterful play by the man Tinubu. Up until his statement, many, including me, thought he would be in serious trouble whichever side he supports.

But with his statement, he struck a very delicate balance and came out with his leadership skills enhanced.

By saying he will discuss a revised modality with the Governors, he has also given the governors a soft landing.

The Governor that has taken the biggest dent to his national leadership reputation is Fayemi who released a statement saying Tinubu is 'entitled to his own opinion'. Those in Aso Rock are unlikely to forget.

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Education › Re: Tene John: NIJ Sacks Lecturer For Sexual Assault by DeLaRue: 9:03pm On Jan 21, 2020

The institution said it was unable to establish the credibility of the lady's allegation against the lecturer, yet it went ahead to relieve the latter of his employment.

Isn't that unlawful dismissal? The man might head to the industrial tribunal.

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Agriculture › Re: First 1 Acre Cucumber Farm In Ogun State Diary by DeLaRue: 11:53pm On Jan 19, 2020*

LoFarms:
I can’t say much to that. But what will work is using n nursery tray.

I understand, but at some point they have to be moved from the trays to the field. My point, for those who are interested, is that, you are better off planting cucumber seeds directly in the field rather than in a nursery tray.

I also found that transplanted cucumber takes up to a week or more to recover and start growing again. That's an extra 7 days or more before your produce reaches the market.

Agriculture › Re: First 1 Acre Cucumber Farm In Ogun State Diary by DeLaRue: 11:39pm On Jan 19, 2020*

FarmTech:
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Pls, I want to know the price and volume so that I can compare it with Hallakat (emamectin benzoate and acetamiprid).

Actara also comes in small sachets. As the recommended dose is one sachet per 16 litre knapsack, it's quite convenient.

Note however that whiteflies for example are notorious for developing resistance to pesticides and that probably explains why there's no pesticide presently that is 100% effective against them. You just have to battle to keep any infestation to a manageable level and the best bet is to try and break their life cycle. As they tend to lay their legs in the soil beneath the plant,you should spray that area, in addition to spraying the plants.

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Agriculture › Re: Nursery Nylons and Grow bag for seedling and plants is available. by DeLaRue: 9:22pm On Jan 19, 2020

I need 5000 5in x 5in in white. Do you produce in white colour.

Agriculture › Re: First 1 Acre Cucumber Farm In Ogun State Diary by DeLaRue: 4:22pm On Jan 19, 2020

LoFarms:
I’m not seasoned in Cucmber farming but from little experience to avoid stories that touch, plant in nursery, cover the nursery with wired mesh, it’s more reliable than planting directly.

Transplanting will address the rat problem, but in my side by side experiment, I established that transplanted cucumber plants don't stand up to disease as well as cucumbers grown from seeds on the field.

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Career › Re: How I Was Wrongly Accused Of Rape And Got Sacked by DeLaRue: 12:20pm On Jan 18, 2020

Question to OP...

in that same scenario, if it was a man, and not a lady, would you have behaved in exactly the same way?

I bet you wouldn't have.

Yet you did it to a person of the opposite sex and are surprised that some people believe there is a sexual connotation to your behavior.

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Career › Re: How I Was Wrongly Accused Of Rape And Got Sacked by DeLaRue: 10:48am On Jan 18, 2020

HarunaWest:
If I have learnt one thing, it's that no matter the familiarity with your boss, you have to draw the line between work and play.
Imagine you asking for forgiveness and still having the effrontery to use abbreviation. Who does that?
That means the OP obviously has an inherent attitude problem. He has no regards for his boss and the lady has been looking for a chance to teach him a lesson.

I agree. It smacks of lack of professionalism. Op to his boss - 'good pm ma'. What does that mean. What's wrong with 'good afternoon'. Quite irritating grin

Career › Re: How I Was Wrongly Accused Of Rape And Got Sacked by DeLaRue: 10:35am On Jan 18, 2020

arukwe123:
my question is simple. What if he was not lying. What if he did not intend to rape her. You dont pass judgment by mere assumption. Many innocent people have been killed for this reason. How sure are you?

The biggest issue here is not whether he intended to rape or not. The biggest issue is the fact that he approached and touched a lady he barely knew inappropriately and in a way that might have frightened the lady and led her to believe she was in imminent danger of rape/sexual assault.

It is quite an unusual way to behave. Someone told you twice that they didn't need your help. Shortly afterwards, you walked towards them offering yet again to help, only this time raising your arm to a part of their body. Ofcourse the lady would have been frightened, and think the worst was about to happen. Remember, they were the only two people in the office.

Even if you give the Op the benefit of the doubt about his true intention, he displayed very poor judgement. And if you were his boss, and a lady, I think you'd be asking yourself whether you can be totally safe being alone with him in your office. His employer clearly lost trust in him, and rightly sacked him.

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Career › Re: How I Was Wrongly Accused Of Rape And Got Sacked by DeLaRue: 10:21am On Jan 18, 2020*

If faced with the exact scenario, I probably would have sacked you, or at the very least put you on suspension without pay.

You displayed a worrying lack of professionalism, disrespect to the lady, and a serious lapse of judgement by walking all the way to touch her shoulder, after she had told you she was ok. As a man, I would have been quite irritated if a woman I barely know touched me like that.

People should learn to respect other people's space and body.

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Agriculture › Re: Fear Of Cow Blood Is The No-stress Cow Deterrent For Farmers by DeLaRue: 10:33pm On Jan 17, 2020

I once told my Hausa security man to allow a herd of cow graze in a part of the farm that was not cultivated at the time. He refused vigorously - he said Oga, these people (ie the herdsmen) are wicked (his word).

His contention was that if you give them any room, they might return in the dead of the night to graze the cultivated parts. He said they are heartless.

A few months later, a herd of cows graze through my entire maize plants overnight. The scale of the destruction was shocking. My new security man slept through it all grin

Despite all that, and to the consternation of my farm workers, if I'm around when cows encroach, I still try to allow them graze in parts of the farm that are not cultivated.

To me it just seems churlish to deny hungry cows feed on grass that I have no immediate need for. And I think a lot of people will be willing to accommodate the herdmens if they too would cooperate and keep within agreed boundaries. But they often don't.

Politics › Re: Amotekun: Group Gives Tinubu 24 Hours To Reveal Position by DeLaRue: 4:21pm On Jan 17, 2020

...or else what.

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Politics › Re: South Leaders To Malami: Why Is Amotekun Illegal & Hisbah Legal? by DeLaRue: 8:21am On Jan 15, 2020

J111333:
Everyone knows that if this amotekun issue is an Igbo thing, Yorubas would've mocked and abandoned them but since it's their thing, they have suddenly remembered there's a word like Southerners.

The deceit and pretence must stop this year.

I agree. The online rush to condemn & mock everything relating to the SE by online commenters is an act of self-harm for the SW. I can only assume those who engage in it are naive youths who can't see the big picture.

For the most part, the response of people from other regions, including the SE, towards Amotekun has surprisingly been positive with many urging Governors in their regions to follow suit.

However, had the SE been the first to launch such a programme, I suspect that throngs of youths (they must be) particularly from my side will have rushed online to condemn it as 'dead on arrival.'

The SW and SE will not agree on everything, and indeed people from the SE also instigate and engage in online attacks on the SW.

However, I think the time has come for mature heads to come into the fray to see that the entire South cooperate more & bicker less.

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Agriculture › Re: Using Pvc Pipes For Drip Irrigation by DeLaRue: 9:59pm On Jan 13, 2020

2.6 litres per day per cucumber plant? That's just a little under 2 large bottles of Eva water. If you feel that's the absolute minimum you need to give your plants, I guess that's ok.

My cucumber plants get around 1.2 litre per day, and yield has been quite good.

Also, you expect to irrigate for up to 8hrs per day? We are not in America na. Have you considered the cost?

We irrigate for about 10 mins at a time, 3 times a day. Our irrigation tape's maximum output is 4 LPH. Although yours is only 2 LPH, it's still surprising that you plan to run it for 8 hours per day! For a commoditised produce like cucumber? You dey try o.

Agriculture › Re: Using Pvc Pipes For Drip Irrigation by DeLaRue: 10:43pm On Jan 11, 2020

Sorry we use layflat main, not PVC. I sometimes get confused by which is which.

Agriculture › Re: Using Pvc Pipes For Drip Irrigation by DeLaRue: 10:27pm On Jan 11, 2020

PharoahIII:
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@ Now from my findings drilling boreholes will be prohibitively expensive as its depth will have to be in excess of 300ft in order to get to a confined aquifer...now the issue is getting a submersible pump that will even have a flow rate of 20000litres/hr at a dynamic head of 100m will cost even more than 1.2 million (for the pump alone) and such powerful pumps will have a power rating in excess of 6HP so we are looking at at least a 9kva gen and above, so I dont think drilling a borehole is viable.

Again, some of your figures just seem way above what a 1 or 2 hectare drip irrigation set up should cost. You claim your borehole needs to be up to 100m deep. Is that because you wrongly assumed you would need 130000 litres per day? Also, most boreholes, even at 100m deep, will not yield that much water on a daily basis.
My borehole is 'only' about 45m deep, though I agree that every location is different.

And although I was advised that the output from the borehole would be average, so far we have been pumping about 10000 litres per day, everyday since early Nov., with no problems. The borehole pump cost around 50k I think and we've not had a single problem with it - may be that's just down to luck. Yes, we spend about 5k per week on petrol, but I don't understand why you should need N1.2 million pump, even if solar. I suspect your figures are so high because you over estimate your water/irrigation needs.

Finally, have you considered whether you have the capacity (labour, on-field experience, management & marketing experience) to farm 1 hectare of cucumber at a time. Can your market absorb that many cucumbers each harvest? In my case, my 1 hectare is divided into 6 sections & we plant on a rolling basis but rarely more than 2 - 3 sections at a time.

Agriculture › Re: Using Pvc Pipes For Drip Irrigation by DeLaRue: 9:56pm On Jan 11, 2020

PharoahIII:
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@ Now I know that the water requirement for vegetables is 1-1.5 acre-inch per week, which is roughly 65m3 of water daily per hectare.

65,000 litres for 1 hectare of cucumber per day? You shouldn't need up to that per day if you're going to use drip. We embarked on our first dry season cucumber farming in Nov and I reckon we currently use about 10, 000 litres for about 7500 plants per day through drip and we water 3 times a day during fruiting.

We use regular drip tapes with PVC main all set up on about 1 hectare, though we don't plant all 1 hectare at the same time. We pump water from a borehole into 3 interconnected 5000 litre tanks (15000 litres) and then from the tanks a network of PVC main lines channel water to the different sections of the farm through drip tapes laid on ridges. It's been working excellently so far.

Foreign Affairs › Re: Why France Kidnapped West Africa’s Eco Currency by DeLaRue: 3:59pm On Dec 28, 2019*

Countries like the UK and France are middle-ranking world powers will little tangible influence anywhere other than in some sparsely populated island-countries in the Caribbean & Polynesia, and a few junkies countries in West Africa.

These countries now have very little influence in Nigeria. By share size of population & economy, Nigeria is a hefty country that a country like France can't push around.

The way people are still afraid of, or rather looking up to these 2 failing countries as if this is 1920 is ridiculous.

Outside of the US, and to a lesser extent China, there is no country in the world that can push Nigeria around. It's all about the economy now, not military. Nigeria can do serious economic harm to both the UK and France. That's where Nigeria's leverage is.

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Family › Re: My Friend's Wife Keeps Disturbing Me For Money by DeLaRue: 11:21am On Dec 28, 2019

Twoclans:
She knows 99% of men will want something in return when they gift a lady with things.

Statistics...damn statistics.

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Family › Re: My Friend's Wife Keeps Disturbing Me For Money by DeLaRue: 11:05am On Dec 28, 2019*

StrikeBack:
Just give her cash anonymously but with complete deniability

"anonymously," = "secretly." Why on earth would you go through all that scheming when dealing with someone else's wife.

When the first request came from the friend's wife, Op should have asked his own wife, assuming he had one, to help send the money to his friend's wife. I bet you, that would've been an awkward experience for the friend's wife and prob put a stop to subsequent requests.

Once the opposite sex knows his or her communication with you is not private, exclusive, and confidential, normalcy tends to be restored.

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Agriculture › Re: High Demand And Low Supply Of Cucumber at Mile 12 International Market by DeLaRue: 4:16pm On Dec 07, 2019*

We shifted focus to cucumber early November. Sold our first havest 2 days ago for 5k.

In my area, February is when vegetable prices are at their highest. We think cucumber will surpass 6k by then.

Politics › Re: Sanwo-Olu Flags Off Victoria Island-Oniru 1.8KM Road Network – Photos by DeLaRue: 3:46pm On Dec 04, 2019

AutoReportNG:
Did you bother to read the post? The road will be constructed by Access Bank, LASG is not paying for this, its Access Bank Social Responsibility.

Before you criticize, read first biko

Nothing to do with access bank social responsibility.

Access bank is providing funding to the private company that is partnering with Lagos state to build the road.

It's either Lagos State will will repay the cost or the cost will be recovered through tolling.

There's no free lunch anywhere.

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Celebrities › Re: Davido Reveals The Face Of His Son On N150M Customized Diamond Necklace by DeLaRue: 11:11am On Dec 03, 2019*

I hope someone is advising this guy that, unlike gold, diamond tend to have a relatively poor resale value. Especially highly customised types.

Beyond adorning people's bodies diamonds have few other uses, and there is over production of diamonds in the world.

A highly customised diamond costing N10m today may not be worth more than N2-3m in a few years.

Anyway, if he has enough money for the future, he may never need to sell.

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