₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
Importing is a job, but at the end, it has the effect of stifling industries at home (we lost our textile industry partly because of cheaper imports from abroad, for example).

Yeah, we all want cheap stuff, but at the end, we have to beware about the effects on jobs.

(This is a big issue in the USA. Americans want cheap stuff, so companies do most manufacturing abroad, where there is cheap labor and reimport the thing back to the US, meanwhile USA loses jobs because no one wants to make things in USA because labour is expensive).

At the end, however, there has to be more mechanized rice farming in Nigeria....so that we can have increased production and possibly lower prices.

It's a connundrum.

We live in a wicked country where you give farmers free seedlings, seeds, fertilizer, tools, equipment, CBN direct cash intervention and yet their produce selling price cannot compete at the international market. Yet we ban any competition by import ban just to spite us by seeing international price online but buying at outrageous local prices

nairalanda1:
While I agree with you that banning imports is not exactly the way to go, the fact is, overimportation is a big part of why we do not have jobs and why we have issues like banditry and other criminal issues.

No jobs, no work...crime rises.

At the end, people want to be paid for their work. If you were selling rice, would you sell a 50kg bag at N1000 so that you can help the poor? No you won't.

Are you saying importing and exporting is not a job?
So only farming creates employment!
Trade and investment is for what exactly?
Job elimination?
How many people has farming employed compared to trade?
The value chain created by importing is nothing compared to farming.

The same farming that bandits and herdsmen won't allow to thrive?

DeLaRue:
So, you know any country in the world where a bag of rice is currently N8k.

Please mention.

I don't know
Just allow Thailand rice to compete with local farmers rice in the market first and see wonders.

IconicR:
When there's competition among marketers the price will definitely go down

Forget that thing.
They are united
They have a union where our fate are decided. No competition in unionism

DeLaRue:
It is not as simple as that.

Before Nigeria started producing rice in large scale a few years ago, we were spending over $2 billion dollars a year importing rice.

If the last administration had not banned import and encouraged local production, we would probably be spending $3 - $3.5 billion now. And the amount would have continued to increase every year.

Now, we are able to produce a lot of rice, with tens of thousands of farmers gainfully employed and hundreds of billions invested by large corporations too.

Besides the above benefits, producing our own rice means we are less dependent on other countries and it improves our food security.

Now. do you prefer that we throw all these away, send $3.5 billion to Thailand to keep their own farmers employed (while ours lose their jobs) and also strengthen their economy while destroying our currency just so we can buy a bag of rice for may be N30, 000? If we go by experience, once the importers destroy local production with initial cheaper price, they will soon increase their price to the same N40k or more. What will you do then.

And every month the whole country will be monitoring the news to check whether the ship from Thailand is on its way to Apapa, or the country goes hungry.

Do you really prefer that?

Governing a country is far more complex than some of the simple solutions that we are so sure will work.

Let the local farmers export their rice to Thailand to earn forex in billions of dollars. That will keep them employed and richer. Allow poor Nigerians to breath by importing 8k bag of rice from Thailand. It is better to wait for 8k rice at Apapa than to buy 40k rice from Nigerian farmers

joseph032:
APC will do same. So you know, LP won in Rivers and Benue State, and so many reduction Vote in LP(Which is visible to the Blind because they have no party Structure/Governor to rig any State).

If Only Inec is neural and does the Right Things. And if Truly APC won 2/3 of the State and lost FCT (leaving other Court Case Issues)
Then there Should be a rerun between APC and (LP or PDP) according to the Constitution.

So you know INCE always account for a rerun in their budget

What is the purpose of this constitutional provisions?
Is it not for national spread?
29/37 and 16/37, which one carried a better spread of votes?
So if a candidate got 25% in 36 states without FCT yet got the highest number of total votes, he should be subjected to a rerun with a candidate with 25% in FCT alone?
What exactly is FCT then?
A federating unit not big enough to have a governor but a Minister

joseph032:
That's Why there is provision for a rerun.
At that point the Highest Wins.

But INEC was wrong and just too quick to make the Call at midnight.
May God Help Nigeria

Rerun!
If obi had 29/37 without FCT and tinubu got 16/37 with FCT, will you be here to advocate a rerun?

OredoPikin:
Like i said
You logic or common sense is not needed here
U must follow what is written

Obi did not wrote the constitution and he can't twist it to suit his abysmal score of 16/37 to upturn another candidate with 29/37.
Nigeria is not FCT but FCT IS A FEDERATING UNIT IN NIGERIA

joseph032:
The president is the Governor of FCT(like State) and Control all it Affairs.

That's Why the 1977 Constitution was Ammended, that Statement "And FCT" wasn't there.

Not like the People there are Special But at least,
Let thier Governor( The President) Get 25% That's the Only way the Law is fair on Them

so the man who got 25% in FCT without the required 25% in 24.67units (16/37) should be president instead of the man with 29/37?

OredoPikin:
Who won 29states?
Let me assumed u wanted to say he who got 25% in 29states
The law is the law
There is no logic to the interpretation.

If u like have all As in all subjects and fail English and maths, u will never be admitted by any Nigeria university
If u also like, have A+ in English and maths and F9 in the remaining subjects, u will never get admission to any school
You must have credit in English and maths, and 3 other subjects
Ur emotion or logic is not needed
It is what it is

Tinubu won 25% in 29 federating units out of 37 units otherwise known as 36 states and FCT

Newton2024:
You must have 25% in 2/3 of the states and FCT
Again, you must have 25% in 24states and the FCT before you can be declared a president

If you are a student of mathematics, english or philosophy, you would have understand this. The AND there is a disjunction. The two substatements are independent events.

Therefore, he who won 29 state should stepdown for he who won 15 states and the FCT?

seunmsg:
OP like the rest of the headless mob is nothing but a poorly educated illiterate. He’s like every other delusional Obidient who can read but can’t comprehend. Tinubu stated clearly and correctly that he scored 25% and above in 29 out of the 36 states and FCT of the federation.

If it was written exactly like the bolded, then you are free to call anyone against it an illierate.
Check what was written once again and compare with what you wrote then come back to judge correctly

Of what use exactly is this stress?
We all know the super eagles will not qualify or may qualify by calculator on the last day only to lose out at the group stage at the world cup.

Thank God for Nigeria
No electricity!
The few jobs we have here are somehow safe except for banks who can afford electricity by generator to power ATM machines

A waste of Time.i must say

Because Tinubu did not win Lagos and fct couple with the fact that rain fell at the close of hearing from atiku's lawyers , hence the atiku camp is expecting victory through the court.?

Hopium:
The real idiot is you who believe the government and science can't mislead you.

The idiot is you who couldn't provide a single proof as to why lab grown chickens are good for humans in a lifelong cycle, after 150+ posts under this topic.

You could be a scientist, throw Africans under the bus because they question the benefits and relevance of some concorted Frankenstein tissue, when nature is constantly providing the real deal, but one thing is clear: YOU AREN'T AS SMART AS YOU THINK

At best, you're MEH in thinking, exposure, and orientation.

Have a good day, Chief; until we meet again on one of your basic IQ posts.

Go and conduct a scientific research in the laboratory with all your literature review you've gotten from Google and analyse your data at 0.01 level of probability then come back to argue with a scientist.

That will be fair enough
Else, your idiotic posts remain idiotic.

Hopium:
They play! Scientist isonu.

FDA Approved in the mud. Aspartame has been used in many product for more than 10 years. Approved by the US government, but today WHO is raising alarm about being a carcinogen.

People, do all you can to educate yourself so that idiots like this guy won't misled you. There are a lot going on in the world that the ordinary mind can't comprehend. Sensitize yourself about healthy living or perish. I won't say more than that.

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1674309804335190016

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

Fortunately, WHO is also relying on reports from scientists against scientists.
Scientist stills remains your manipulator.
We get paid for what we do while we leave you to invest your time and money arguing for/against our efforts.

I hope it is clearer now who the real idiot it

Hopium:
femicyrus, hello sir! I just say make I hail you.

Olodo oshi. Going to a week now, we never see him brake light Dude said he's a scientist

Your rant won't change my status as a scientist because I earned it. Not honorary nor your Google version.
You said I am free to consume the meat so what has changed?
You are also free to continue in your primitive knowledge while hiding under google to form wake

How much is 1k?
The main problem is the 15k 3rd party insurance.
That is just a free money collected from car owners without any value added.
Government can tax the insurance company 5k on every 15k collected if they really want to tax

Hopium:
Being a scientist doesn't mean you're not an NPC. Ignoramus!!!

Scientist isonu too dey catch feelings.

The FDA also approved the mRNA vaccine causing the troubling spike of Myocarditis in young adults.

They also approved the gender affirming drugs and surgeries about to wave across the globe by force.

Who gets to benefits from all these?

They same organisation approves the junks leading the spikes in autoimmune diseases, autism, organ failures.

Who gets to benefits?

Netherlands is seizing their farmers' lands because of climate change, yet there is food insecurity ravaging the world. Bill Gates is buying up farmlands in the US, now the largest farm owner, he isn't using any for anything. Yet there's food insecurity.

Don't worry. Your kinds will soon be banned for cultivating organic foods and rearing animals for organic meats. Everything you eat will come from the lab and you will see nothing wrong it since you're too naive to see what's going on today.

Clown! Mf still thinks the systems of this world are established to favour him and not rigged to favour a few.

Don't mention me again abeg. No one is sealing your mouth from chowing GMOs.

At least they have a functional brain to establish a system to favor themselves.
What are you using your own for?
To condemn ?
To lament?
What is productive in that?
If not for this people, you will still think cancer is a spiritual attack in your primitive thinking.
But now, they created the internet they also gave you Google on it to get information
Then you turned back to condemn the same people who opened your eyes

Hopium:
Ogbeni, eat your GMO junk in peace, no one is holding you. They can only help smooth brains like you to early graves, while ripping you of all the sweat and inheritance you could possibly leave for your next generation. And if you live in Africa, where there's no solid health insurance policy, your own don be be that.

Lmaooo. See wetin a grown ass man dey puke on public forum. This one too will give birth and train them to be NPC like he is. Auzubillah minashaitan nirajeem! Stupid people shouldn't procreate, walahi!

There's a reason there's troubling rise of kidney failure, diabetes, cancer globally. Go figure, or eat your GMO junk in peace.

You've still not created any solution to all you mentioned apart from creating fear and trying to insult decenting views.
I am a scientist and I appreciate scientific discoveries
Try to create something tangible that the world can speak about and stop talking down on those who are using their brains productively to make life better for your generation

Africans love procreating without any vision for tomorrow.
You've just proved it again. Just sex nothing more!

what is your achievement so far in life that GMO wants to reap off?
We are talking about bioreactors but a slowpoke is lamenting about cancer and kidney failure.
It has been certified ok by US government yet all instrument used by your NAFDAC before certifying a product was shipped from the same US.
you now open your trash can to spew ignorance with a phone you knew nothing about how it works.
People like you are those condemning 5G network from a remote village

Hopium:
By 2030, WHO will declare global cancer emergency . Same with kidney and liver diseases. The smart ones have started investing in dialysis and cancer treatment centers.

If you love yourself, start learning about healthy eating; learn how your body works; why there's high rise of cancer, diabetes, kidney, heart, liver failure among 40s and above. One thing is sure, the media has been rigged to ensure you are misinformed. Your ignorance is a cashcow to the pharmaceutical and GMO industry.

Since the start of the industrial revolution, our food quality went downhill. There are people who eat nothing but processed food 365 days a year. Obesity is now a pandemic. We have people eating processed, poisonous floor and sugar in the name of junks. Ignorant folks gulping soda drinks on the daily (fun fact: your soda drinks contain 50% glucose and 50% fructose. Fructose unlike glucose can't be utilized by any part of your body except your liver. Do you see the problem? You probably don't ).

Lab grown chicken, lab grown meat, lab grown fish and ponmo coming soon. They will make the media tell you these are perfect and good alternative to organic meat to reverse global warming. CANCER!

You will spend money on GMO foods and still spend a ton on cancer treatment. You are getting f*cked two times and will make the cabals rich in the process. Wealth transfer from the fo*lish majority to the smart, dubious few.

Every easy life is not cancer!

This is not a GMO or use of inorganic compounds to produce meat.

This people are thinking of how life will be much easy and better.
You did nothing but condemning their efforts
They are still the ones looking for cure for cancer while you do nothing but type condemnation with phone and data they produced for you to also make your life better.

labake1:
Obi and Obidients should have accepted defeat long time ago.

Why fight a worthless battle?

Tinubu for President everyday!!!!

Obi should have known when Atiku gave up the case.

Long live Jagaban
Emi lo kan
Awa lo kan
Oti kan wa

Please allow lawyers to eat

Ofunaofu:
Hope you aware that 4th became 1st in Imo state.

Nigeria no be imo

A sentence without China can never proceed out of the mouth of Obi.

He deserves the title of obi of china

3rd claiming 1st !
Obi and his dents
With dementia
Hallucinating entry
Into aso rock
From tribunal

Zxcvbnmghtr:
It went down and so low a few days ago. It will continue to fluctuate, high and low that's the meaning of floating which is a good thing. It will start to gradually decline once Tinubu revitalizes all productive sectors for exports. Couple with the fact that Tinubu's government is working towards creating an enabling environment for foreign investors of which so far the likes of Bill Gate and others have shown interest. So far so good.

You can remove export from your narration or you should name one commodity produced in Nigeria that can compete with price and quality anywhere in the world apart from crude oil.

Is it your poor quality rice at 35k while world class rice is selling for 8k across the world

twilliamx:
We need to make sacrifices to boost our local output, our country needs every money we can generate. What we need is a bridge between the millers and the consumers directly. Believe me Nigerian rice is cheap it's the same factor that affects transportation in December even though there is no scarcity that is the same factor that is affecting rice. Just a bunch of greedy ass people that don't give a Bleep about anyone else but themselves. They have set up a mafia type control over the supply chain. Even the current foreign rice is just rebagged Nigerian rice.(fact) We the people are our own problem

your post it s the more reason the ban on rice should be lifted. Let the bunch of greedy ass people compete with their expensive rice against N8000 bag of rice imported legally

Raskimonojendor:
People in developed countries mostly rely on used cars too. New cars are expensive everywhere in the world.

Aslong as the vehicles being imported via the borders are made to pay the Nigerian custom duties and taxes, nothing wrong with importing them from a neighbouring country.

Prices of cars will definitely fall as there will be more competition amongst sellers.

Na lie.
tax, duties and bribe at the entry point will make the vehicles expensive after crossing.

He will surely get a rejoinder from white garment church

Before subsidy, we can't be consuming more that 13 million liters but now @ N500 per liter, it would have reduced to 1.7 million liters

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar

Only two people from the South south and south east made tinubu's list out of the 19 appointments
Only one ogala from enugu
And one Major General Undiandeye from Cross River..imagine two giant region combined..

Tinubu is a disaster
If you are a true Nigerian and you don't see anything wrong here then am sorry you will never live to see the Progress of Nigeria
That ogalla is yet to be confirmed from my computer if he is really from enugu...it is showing me kogi state

O boy...so na only Undiandeye from Cross River na tinubu see...so na only one he pick..

Tinubu is a disaster waiting to happen

Check the names of sacked service chiefs
How many came from outside the north?
You voted for tribalism yet the man gave you 1 slot and you are here wailing