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MTN project in honour of Dr Pascal Dozie (Diamond Bank and MTN Chair)!
The road project is largely unfinished, we are still using only one lane of the express and large portions remain untarred.

Propaganda always fails in the factual information.

onuman:
This burial expenses in Igbo land is crippling people. Mortuaries are filled to the brim with dead bodies waiting for when relatives get money to meet up with the outrageous demands of several Igbo groups.

It's time the state governors met to abolish this backward tradition of making people bleed to bury their people.

Which Burial Expense in Igboland are you talking about? The OP spoke about his village in Imo State. You have left his village Left his state and now generalising about 7 states with Igbo speaking people, Isn't that outrightly stupiid.

Maybe a few villages in his area have listed demands for burial. At least 90% of Igbo people do not have a list of demands for burial.
In Igbo worldview, a burial is not a grieving occasion, rather a celebration of accomplishments. Especially if the person is well aged. It's left to you to host the burial according to your own means, nobody gives you any list of demands in most places. At most you buy palm wine for the grave diggers.

In Anambra demands flow in not outwards. If your mother inlaw dies, you are expected to go to her funeral with a cow gift. Which if you cannot afford you simply put some money in an envelope and put a cow rope on it to signify that you are mindful that she is worth a cow gift. All the families that your dead father or mother attended their own funeral will come for his or her own funeral with equivalent gifts to what your parents gave them. These gifts accumulate to cushion the cost of the funeral. Gift given at a funeral is seen as a debt to be repaid to your own children at your own death. In olden days these gifts are enough to fund the funeral. Today people choose themselves to go to extraordinary lengths to impress onlookers and build a reputation of being wealthy. Nobody forces you to host lavish events. Nobody will condemn you to host according to your means. But you must host people to announce the passing of your loved one,
1. So that their spirit rests in peace
2. So that spirits do not take their form and continue living as him or her somewhere else.

That funeral event is like a newspaper announcement to prevent dead loved ones spiritual identity being stolen and reperpertuated as living. This is the belief behind Igbo celebration of death. A spirit of a dead person who is did not get a funeral is expected to keep reappearing.

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cr7lomo:
Not just the village ...church is also involved in this extortion...not pentecostal ooo.. Catholic and Anglican... they will request for the tithe , the late person dint pay all thru their lifetime in their church. Even if u tell them the person paid tithe in another branch of the church, they wudnt accept it....the will request for levies the person dint pay , the donations the person dint donate...if u dont do it ,the church will not bury the person ...

Village and church demands gulps millions of naira ...some 5m some 7m depending on their demands ... the richer the person was, or if there is a rich member in the family , the more demands ... tgey will charge for meetings the late person failed to attend and also add the children fees that failed to attend meetings...

Liar, Catholic Church does not collect or recognize Tithe

ComeComing:
After writing jamb, jamb release result just two days later but you can only check through sms.. unfortunately, I couldn't check mine becos i no longer had access to the sim i used in registering it..

Even jamb no gree release result again.. they kept on posponding it.. at some point sef, my mama talk say I don chop jamb money say I no register am .. (I explain tire because no evidence )


Weeks later i vex, chat my guy for imsu tell am to register me post utme (because he told me that if I want to see my result, I should register for post utme.. that my score will show wen he's doing it) wen i no even sure say I reach IMSU cut-off mark of 160.

Anyway, I sent him my last card then (around 4k or so) and the next morning he sent me the registration slip and i saw my jamb score attached in the slip


.........

I wrote my jamb on April 17th (friday).. and on the exam day, na only option D I just dey tick throughout from maths, physics, English to chemistry.. o chim

Thank God o.. because I been wan tick C as per my favourite letter or even B.. but last jamb I ticked C nd scored 154 so i just lockup and selected D throughout.. no risk, no reward..

I no even read shimgbain before exam.. in fact, that lekki headmaster novel, i no read one sentence sef

To make it worse, sleep come they catch me for exam hall at some point until the bannie beside me come wake me

..at the end of the day, my gamble paid off.. .. now waiting for post utme exam next august.. I'll try and get the past questions paper before exams biko.. I need to read for that one.. anyway, insha allah we're scoring 200/200 🙌


Before I go,

My junior sister scored 161 abi 163.. she say computer off.. just imagine (she put nursing for Uniport and Rivers State Uni)

My ex scored 209 (she put nursing for FUTO).

My guy that we did jamb registration together in IMSU scored 183.

My mama brother daughter (pls no mind my English o 🙏🙏) scored 183.. she put law for Rivers state Uni


Sorry for the long read .. and pls hope say we don't have fbi here that will try to trace me with my score and school.. hmm


But please o.. can this score 208 get me admission in computer science in IMSU, because i need to pack comot this house nxt yr abeg?

Here is a Leader of the Future. After joining blood gangs they brand cult in INSU because he has no interest in learning, he will turn into a political Thug. Then become a Governor through Thuggery and start making policies by which sane people must abide, through ignorance and gangster sensibilities. Edo State is a perfect example of how it rolls.


6334 system is faulty. This person only needs a to year certificate to start earning an income via skills.

While I have reservations about the process of Givernment decisions without expert and community consultations in this administration. Your 6334 system is fundamentally flawed. That id why today you have millions of quarter backed would be managers and few blue collar workers i. A country that aims for industralization.

6334 plans to start chunning out blue collar workers at JSS3. Let's even forget the fact that their are zero provisions for specialised skills at secondary schools, how matured are kids at JSS3 for us to be looking at them to make career decisions.

Its diemphasization of high school and diploma means every body is heading to University after secondary school, otherwise you become an aberration. Graduate studies is meant to train designers and managers. If everybody is a designer or manager, who then will do the actual work?
If everybody is aspiring to be designers and managers because the system is skewed to look down on operators, fabricators technicians, then all your attempts at industrialization become stagnated. Even if designers make a good plan no one can produce it.


This is why so many graduates are unemployed. Many employed ones cannot accomplish the things they were employed to do. Take a typical Engineering class in any University. About 200 students per class in the minimum. The lecturer cannot teach them talkless of tracking their learning. They graduate and the reality for 90% of them is bike riding or keke. For 200 Engineers, there should be at least 4000 Lath operators, CNC machine operators, welders, foundry workers, Fitters , Electricians, heavy machine drivers, etc. ANY TECHNICIAN you see in Nigeria today, was trained in an informal setting either by work and learn or through apprenticeship. They cannot adapt to changes and new tasks outside of what they have experienced because they do not have good grounding. This is why your mechanic is still using guesswork and carburettors engine symptoms to diagnose your 2010 car with full range sensors, OBD ports and Electronic Ignition.

70 to 80% of secondary school leavers must be headed to blue collar careers not white collar office. Irrespective of your career choice, everybody should be getting roughly same remuneration for same level of experience and effort. A medical Doctor and an Electrician with 10 years experience should have roughly equal pay. A Teacher of 10 years and a 4 year Industry Trained and qualified Engineer in the Oil industry should have roughly equal pay. But how do you explain these to a president who thinks there is a fair exchange rate determined by the market, composed of other countries fighting for dominance and advantages.

Why the deceit?
What you have is obviously a boundary an embankment, like a retaining wall. Inside is packed with sand or gravel. More likely sand.

If that fake Engineer is actually a professional, the question he should be answering is
1. Is their a gravel bed before the concrete? What Size and thickness?
2. What is the strength of concrete used? C10, C20, C30, C40, C50. 3 feets of C10 concrete on a busy highway is as useless as sand pack.
3. Is there reinforcement bars to withstand longitudinal and lateral tension? Dave Umahi builds concrete roads mostly without rebars. Concrete as a material has good compressive strength and lack tensile strength so breaks apart under tension. So must be reinforced with steel rebars.

4. Are the expansion joints on the road. Everyday as the sun rises and sets temperatures of the concrete goes up in day and cools at night. Most materials including concrete expands and become longer with increase in temperature, but you do not detect this from merely looking at it. Without space for the concrete to expand and contract, it will buckle laterally and destroy itself with time. Am not sure Dave Umahi includes expansion joints in his concrete roads.

There is no reason to bat an eyelid.
After documentation. You ask them to pay, they refuse, you Nationalize portions if their companies here in Nigeria, and use it to pay. Simple.

No need for African Union and what not.
If they retaliate, you Nationalize more until its all gone, and becomes a historical lesson in humane considerations. Just remember to block target countries from repatriating funds out of Nigeria at least 6 months before the show begins.

So DSS is now a court and a judge, not only do they decide cases, they now also award compensation.

This country is for goats and cattle, God what did you send me to this hell hole for?

Govt. Officials do not even understand their limits and what the rule of law means.

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Because I is illegal and against Labour law to recruit without advertising. Companies have to account for their legal recruitment during audit. So they advertise to cover up.

Moreover, ever since Sanusi Lamindo Sanusi massively recruited Unqualified Fulanis into CBN without consequences, No federal ministry, University or parastatal is bothering with advertising any position. They do not bother about the breaking the labour law as no one holds them accountable.


We need a law that makes govt. Officials personally liable for breaking obvious laws.

I think a cowardly government sending touts to sack immigrants deserves a response. Its important the Nigerian Government send a message to South African Government expressing its clear obligation to sieze South African assets in Nigeria to compensate any Nigerian who suffers harm in what ever manner from this illegal Xenophobic uprising.

Imagine a nobody telling you they want you to close your shop and go, with ignoramus audacity.

Apart from MTN and multi choice, there are several others from Protea Hotel to SAB Miller Brewery. We just transfer the South African shares of these companies to the returning Nigerians, as an exchange for so called spaza shops. But leave the company to continue operating as a Nigerian entity. Let's see how they like it.

This is a simple known effect in Physics or nature known as a Faraday cage, after Micheal Faraday. Once you enclose any 3D space in metal with holes, No radio wave with wave length larger than the holes can penetrate into that space. That's why when you open the windows, reception improves. The roofing is probably aluminum that is very tight against pests. The floor has a lot of iron rods in a mesh. The walls are either reinforced, or metallic are strongly dispersed in the wall. Or the paint on the wall has dispersed metal. Like lead based marine paints.

Solution.
1. Look for where to create large opening. Like keeping the toilet windows permanently open.
2. Check if the windows are using metal mosquito net. Change a few to fabric mosquito net.
3. Buy external broadband routers
4. If metallic paint. Scrap one external wall and repaint with non metallic paint

grandstar:
I am thinking of going into farming.

How much would it cost to build a mud fence for a 10,000 sqm of land which is a hectare of farm land

I am trying to cut costs. I will use cement to plaster the walls eventually. Using cement bricks for fencing would be too expensive.

Instead of this do a rammed earth fence. It is costlier due to labour but way more durable and will be at least 3 times as thick so more materials. The problem with what you have in your photo is that it is trying to mimick cement block with a material that lacks the qualities in cement, so will wash away.

Also you can simply do an unrammed adobe wall with bamboo reinforcement. In my opinion it is superior to using clay to mimick cement.

HacheNoire:
Go get facts from ability analyst you can find.

Boots on the ground is Suicide!

You feel the US and Israel don’t know?

Didn’t you see what happened in the false rescue operation? They were fried!

You are just suffering from the Euphoria of War, its normal to over hail the underdog.

But you will be rather blind not to ask yourself why a core businessman, who came to power averse to war is suddenly starting military conflicts every where? Infact he is no longer talking if tariffs.

Tariff based rescue plans for US economy failed. Trump is taking the more traditional and time tested approach used by many of his predecessors, petro- Dollar and the Military Industrial Complex.

The war is not about Iran or its capabilities. The Iranian small cheap Saheed drones are well known having taken over the Russian Ukraine battle field in more sophisticated versions. The Iranian ballistic missiles are also well known ; so to say US was surprised by Iranian tactics with these two weapons is strongly suspect.

Rather, allowing Iran to pound the middle east especially with ballistic missiles while withdrawing from NATO, means that not just the middle east, but the whole of Europe is ramping up military spending. And where are they going to spend it? US missile defence systems, The Patriot Missile defence batteries and Lockheed Martins. Of course their are other Non public products in the market. Germany needs at least 5 years to develop any competitor, while Europe cannot buy anything from Russia as it will likely be a Greek gift.

Let's not forget that oil price is high. US is a net exporters of oil and gas products. Venezuela is in the pockets. Iranian oil is blocked, China has no choice but to buy oil from US directly or indirectly. If that is not enough or does not last long enough, military conflict in Nigeria will come on board, and Nigerian supply will also be netted ( which we are very happy and looking forward to).

Trump has no plans of putting boots on Iranian ground, because all these to him are just economic moves, not military.

Also if you read this about US economy, understand Trump is not worried about your usual economic metrics because US is the only country that can print as much money as it wants without any restriction, then pretend that are fixing physical policy and inflation. They are only controlling the amount of USD circulating within the US, mopping up when needed and printing more when lacking. That's why a millitary jet that costs millions in Russia cost 100 millions in US. The US Has no real operating cost, because citizen tax is just for show, they simply print the money they want and the rest of the world pays indirectly. If you understand this, then you can understand that the economy that Trump wants to revive is the return of US manufacturing. He could not do it with tariffs, so he is going for Millitary manufacturing first. A country that lacks manufacturing cannot defend itself or dominate the world.

If am not mistaken Wolbachia is the same bacteria carried by filaria worms that make them virtually unkillable while infecting a human.

Now Filaria worms are delivered through bites by deer fly (mutu mut), black fly etc, similar to how mosquitoes deliver plasmodium that cause malaria.

What happens when a tiny population of females escape the screening process. Then get into the environment and develop immunity to Wolbachia in successive generations. Then we have to maybe prepare to survive a Plasmodium Wolbachia super parasite.

Firstcitizen:
US collecting from Iran

They started a war with a foe they did not understand, with no exit strategy

You guys like writing nonsense. Iran is only showing all this drama because of trumps reluctance for boots on ground, otherwise, there is no comparison.

Trump is trying to boost US economy using war and oil. If he fully engages Iran, it will defeat his aim and bog down the US economy with human capital loss.

If a University is preventing a student handicapped by fees from leaving, it is sabotage, plain and simple. If a student is no longer capable of finance, the University as a responsible organisation should be aiding him or her to continue their education either via scholarshi loan or moving somewhere else.


While Official communication of transcripts is from institution to institution. Every student has a right to own and see the records in the transcript before it is sent out. And that's why the University must first Issue a student copy of transcripts on Termination of study. The only reason for institutional to institution transmission is to avoid tampering.

However, this authentication requirement can also be achieved by simply going to the public notary at your local court. And notarize a copy of your student copy transcript. Most responsible Universities will accept a notarized copy because the court official has certified it as an exact copy.

So next time you request for transcript, ask for students copy, it should be free cause you earned it via your school fees

What a relief.
Driving from 9th Mile to Enugu is a nightmare, you just can't tell where the next vehicle will pop out and be speed directly towards you. Trailers tippers and water tankers included.

Try to cross into or out of the express at ugwuaji, you will see multiple vehicles going in all kinds of unpredictable directions. Then, out of the blue, a truck speeding all the way from the New Kenyatta Building materials market.

In front of the market is a seperate kind of confusion mixed with Cement trailers and LNG tankers heading to abakiliki at full speed. Just imagine one mistake with one of those Yellow LNG tankers that alway speed like idiots.

This use to be a sane place where people still observed giving way to traffic on your left. now road lanes are just for fancy

Somebody should tell the stupid administrator that an office in which she is holding a meeting is automatically a ublic arena. She has no right to prevent recording or asking anyone not to use their phones.. Next time she should only invite her allies, and hold meetings in her bedroom

8[quote author=Goldforever post=139207276]⛽ Fuel Price Comparison (2026)
🇳🇬 Nigeria
About ₦1,210 – ₦1,360 per liter
Roughly $0.90 per liter �
GlobalPetrolPrices.com +1
👉 Prices are rising fast due to subsidy removal and market changes.
🇯🇵 Japan
About $1.05 per liter �
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👉 Fairly stable, but still influenced by global oil prices.

🇪🇺 Europe (average)
About €1.78 per liter (~$1.90) �
fuel-prices.eu
👉 Some countries go above €2.30 per liter (very expensive).
⚖️ Simple Side-by-Side
Region
Price per Liter
Nigeria $0.90 Rising quickly
Japan $1.05 Moderate & stable
Europe $1.90 Very expensive

Please Rufia can you tell us the country where subsidy on fuel was removed and the fuel is cheaper than Nigeria? Let me tell you, some countries still subsidise yet their fuel proce are still more expensive. [/quote
Comparing fuel price in a third world country with zero infrastructure apart from roads to first eworld countries where prices are fixed to discourage car use, but encourage shared city buses, trains and even airlines. Are toy aware your can book a flight for just 30 Euros (N48,000) accross europe. Mean while internal flights in Emilokan Nigeria costs more than N150000 if you book 2 weeks ah

Parachoko:
Why are you not also showing us the Minimum Wage?

You should be fair by also putting the minimum wage alongside the price of fuel

And Nigeria didn't start in 1999.

Why are we not seeing how much it cost under Abdulsalam, Abacha, Shonekan, IBB, Buhari, Shagari, Obasanjo, Muritala etc

As if that makes the situation anymore palatable

Obasanjo
2005 Min Wage N7500, 50 liters N3750 = 50% of MinWage

Goodluck
2012 Min Wage N18000, 50 liters N4350 = 24.1% of MinWage

Buhari
2019 Min Wage N30000, 50 liters N11900 = 39% of MinWage

Disaster_ Emilokan
2026 Min Wage N70000, 50 liters N61350 = 87.6% of MinWage
This wicked man expects low income earners to spend 87.6% of their income on just 5 liters of fuel. Then pay his ever increasing and evolving tax,
Then au his exorbitant Electricity bill in band A or buy more 50liters of fuel for generator or just live in stone age without electricity

Then survive his currency devaluation and highly inflated consumer goods and food price

Drill their own well or borehole for water

Then provide their own security. Save at least 50 million for ransome to imported Fulani kidnappers

On top all this pay him N50 for every transaction they execute through their bank with their own hard earned and already taxed money.

Never dream or travelling outside Nigeria or even entering an airline for whatever reason.

Meanwhile, he maintained a lifestyle that no other Nigerian president has ever dreamed off. Drives a Beast to rival American President that prints dollars at will. Use's his nephew to keep acquiring more oil and gas assets. Uses National funds to build roads to connect his private estate project EkoAtlantic and much of Lekki, terming it as coastal High way. Uses national funds for expensive foreign medical treatment that the rest of us slaves can only dream off.
Wakes up from time to time to sniff and snuff out gibberish about the importance of idiots reforms.

How much more evil can you be, except you are following in the footsteps of your assumed ancestors as slave raiders.

nedu666:
Again. Eze in this context means king. That is why the holders do coronation, wears regalia, crown and has staff of office. Even in their house they have chairs constructed for kings

Again, a King is not made by regalia and coronation, and Chairs, and symbolic staff. Even traditional priest, Dibia, Eze Muo, Agbala and floor Chiefs have those.

A King is made by the territory he owns and power of the people he controls. A king cannot be defined without a territory. No Igbo leader of any form owns any territory.

Eze in any context does not mean King! It refers to Leadership, not Kingship

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Itsofficial:
Man knows himself this is from a popular Greek Philosopher. To my Igbo brothers why do you play into the hands of your enemies then turn around to say they hate us.

Before some of you will come for me I am not from Yoruba, Hausa/Fulani or neither am I from Igbo as a matter of fact my wife is Igbo and I was having this same discussion with her when the South Africa Igbo Kingship started.

If actually Igbos know themselves what on earth will Igbo man be thinking to consider becoming a King, Eze, president general or whatever you call it in Ghana, South Africa or even any African countries considering the hatred these countries have for Nigerians and amplified by the Yorubas and the funniest part is when these countries speak evil about Nigerians the Yorubas will try to distance themselves and pour more fuel by saying they are Igbos that is how they behave without knowing that what goes around comes around as long as you’re a Nigerian they hate you, a case in point is recently in Ghana the Ghanaians are telling the Yorubas descendants in Ghana that they are not Ghanaians after hundreds of years that they should go to Nigeria.

And to my Igbo brothers please we must not grandstand in everything anywhere you find yourself just live your life quietly make your money genuinely. If you know yourself you’ll understand envy exists the reason you live your life quietly.

Again, I will not be surprised if lessons are not learnt from my Igbo brothers with the Ghana and South Africa King/Eze incident because before the end of this year we might hear another Igbo man trying to be King or Eze in another African country.

Lastly, enough is enough let us stop this madness of becoming King or Eze outside Igbo land since people do not like it and it doesn’t add anything to any Igbo man or woman in that country. For me I don’t care if you answer the King of Igbo or Eze in my State Rivers or even in my village, but if others say no then stop and move ahead after all the primary purpose of you been in that country or state is for greener pasture to make money. However, if you disobey the already constituted authority or do not pay homage to the King of my land we go against you.

Mr Man, Eze is not a King.
If you want to live your life under the pillow like a coward. That's you business, you have no standing advising over 50 million Igbos to all behave like you, a cowards.

we are neither afraid of South Africans, nor Yorubas, nor Ghanaians. We did not fear the British talkless of disenfranchised groups in Africa. Freedom of Association is a globally recognised human right. South Africans or any other person should first isolate themselves from the rest of the civilised world, including UN, whose charter they are signatories to, before demanding that foreigners should not Associate with each other.
Eze Ndi Igbo is a leader of a cultural Association, it is not illegal in any country including Ghana and South Africa. Stop trying to intimidate an Igbo man, its a waste of your time.

tiger28:
EMPTY Noise EVERYWHERE!!!!

From India to South Africa to Ghana…… NOW I just heard that you guys have LANDED in MALTA.

Why ONLY YOU?

It's really non of your business.
If your own life is so worthless of your own attention and agenda, go hug a transformer.

tiger28:
“There is no doubt at all that there is a strand in contemporary Igbo behaviour that can offend; by its noisy exhibitionism and disregard for humility and quietness."

Chinua Achebe

When you choose to be offended by people living there own lives legally, who is to be blamed. We simply do not know you exist.

nedu666:
Eze means king. A king has a kingdom and subjects. Eze ndigbo outside South East has no kingdom and subjects. So they are fooling themselves. The appropriate title should be leader of lgbo Community abroad which must be agreed by all lgbos in that Community not one money miss road crowing himself king. So if there is a problem involving lgbos abroad, this So called eze will show up in full regalia, a crown and staff of office. What act of folly

Eze does not mean King. That is purely British mistranslation. There is no concept of King or Monarch in Igbo world view. A King owns land, and owns territory and the subjects. This does not exist anywhere in Igbo land, not even the Obi of Onitsha.

No Igwe, or Eze or Obi in Igboland owns the territory over which hus Community sprawls the way you have among Yorubas, Hausa or Benin. As such, in all technicality, Eze in Igboland means Leader, Elite, or a Feudal Lord. Not a King.

Even most Igbo people that reference or reverence an Eze , Igwe or Obi do not harbour any conception of a King, rather they simply flow along with the British mistranslation that Eze is a king. They have no intent or ambition of subjecting themselves and their properties to anybodies Royal aura.

This other term Igwe, is an aberration, invented to cover or force forgetting of the trauma of British enthroned warrant Chiefs. Igwe means sky. Warrant Chief's (criminals of their time) choose the name to perpertuate forcefully the non existent power that the Britsh fostered on them.

There would have still been an ongoing conflict of recognition for Igbo warrant Chiefs aka Igwe, if not that the independence ushered in democratic government with power vested in Governors, making warrant Chiefs irrelevant. Further Igbo communities formed town unions, with elected Town Union Presidents who worked parallel to any Igwe. Thirdly warrant Chiefs held sway for just about 50 years, before irrelevance. They were easy to forget or ignore. Igbos have no Kings, Eze is an elitist, strongman, Community leader. He fed himself, owned his own private property, and was balanced by similar Titled men in the same community. Most Igbo communities did not have just one Eze, they had several for different clans or subgroups in the community. Eze is so common, he is made and not born, such that British warrant Chiefs chose not to call themselves Eze except for a few. They rather chose Igwe, sky-high, and many are the community crisis in Igboland were Igwe's are trying to prove themselves to be powerful, or even fighting a loosing battle to pass their Igwe title to their sons.

DenreleDave:
Nigerians are just to stupid in the name of party and opposition.


Boko Haram bandit and the like are the works of big northern politicians......

If Boko Haram kills people, they shout govt, if govt kills Boko Haram they still shout govt...

I can tell you that the Nigeria airforce has probably not done any mistake to have targeted civilian or if they have, maybe a little but the. Majority of people killed are terrorist or those assisting them with their evil works...


Army should ignore their fake cry and continue k killing them

By this your post, that means you will not mind if your life and that of your loved ones are approximately decimated by Nigerian Army or airforce as part of collateral damage, in indiscriminate targeting of terrorists in public facility such as a market. Please respond, and may God and nature hear your response, as you treat other peoples life with disdain.

Vixlot:
https://dailynigerian.com/buratai-justifies-jilli-airstrikes-insists-market-was-terrorists-base/

Attack on civilian infrastructure with no military value is a war crime, according to international law, not even Nigerian law. People from this region should create an online Web page, cataloging the Attack, it's impact, and the people responsible, including there supporters like Burutai.

When chips are down they will be running up and down. Telling lies about how the documentation was done by screw driver seller, but nothing will help them.

Soludo and Land grabbing trend.

TheBizGenius:
@ politically correct.
Heheheh. In real life, this is one quality I lack, either for good or bad.

People leaving farms in the 90s
I was already out of school by then. The reason for this was that everyone wanted white collar jobs and migration to urban areas. It was not an agricultural issue.

"Only excess is to be stored is quite incorrect" and "Anything that will not be immediately consumed must be stored".
These statements contradict each other. Storage is based on an excess in the market while hoarding happens if the market is still in need.

There is nothing like hoarding in a free market, it is a consequence of failure of governance in the agricultural sector.
I am a business person. I rarely expect government to do things for anyone.

Arable land does not translate to food security
I meant, if this momentum of going back to the farm is sustained, then, there would be food security.

And thank you for your polite and brilliant reply.

Thank you for your well toned and regulated response. However

1. People left for white collar jobs because farming was no longer giving enough returns for a reasonable standard of living. Eventually, farming became a side hustle. My own parents, were in the city but once leased cheap govt. Land and tried farming once, the losses were so much they did not return. My father who was leasing govt. land, even had huge swat of ancestral land in his village, which he preferred to lease out to people for tokens than farm or even mechanize himself, because the returns were not worth the effort. Profitability in agric is a very recent development.

2. Storage and food processing facilities are indispensable if your bumper harvest is not to go to waste. "Excess" in agric products is a difficult term to establish because demand for food is graduated over time, but production is limited to a short seasonal burst. Someone has to do the time distribution.

3. There are things we must share as a society. And that means they must be funded by government, because they are not usually profitable especially at the onset. Roads, Transport networks, gas networks, power grids, security forces, food storage network of silos, communication networks. Most of these has huge capital outlays, and have no economical alternatives. Ignoring the failure of government to provide and manage these is the ultimate self- un-development, irrespective of how comfortable you can afford to make your own house. It affects your children, wives, workers, business partners and affiliates. And your own projects. You cannot escape the effect of these lacking.

TheBizGenius:
GerogeI

Nice write up. I truly commend your reasoning.

Please let me also try to address the issues you put forth, with my small level.

1. Food security
Nigeria has enough land to feed itself. Really. Whoever tells you otherwise is a liar. The challenge is the people to farm.

2. Hoarding
There are hoarders and middle men. My own sister in law makes more profits on each bag of sold garri, from Ilorin to resell in Lagos, than the cassava farmers and all the women making the garri.

Remove people like her and you get a stable system/process flow in place.

3. People going back to the farm and producing excess.
This is what would solve the issue (1) you highlighted.

4. Food to be in storage currently being sold.
This is how it used to be. It's the excess that should be in storage. It doesn't make sense to store what is not enough normally.

5. Fewer people will go into farming next year and thereafter.
This would never happen in Nigeria. Farming is mad lucrative. The value chain is being disrupted by rent seekers in the mode of middle men and hoarders.

6. Farming sector will die.
Now, I laugh.

You are trying to be politically correct.
People leaving farms is a reality Nigeria has lived before. At a time in the 90s Govt. was directly begging civil servants to farm. In the early 2000 rice production went down to almost zero, we were all eating imported rice at cost.

I hope you understand that even with green houses, all food production are seasonal. There must be a storage system to make the food item available at later time of the year. So your assertion that only excess is to be stored is quite incorrect. Anything that will not be immediately consumed must be stored.

Again, there is nothing like hoarding in a free market. If you hoard food when their is no demand for it, it will spoil and cause you loss. If you do not lower your prices at time of low demand, you will eat your grains yourself.

What you are trying to brand hoarding is actually the consequence if failure of governance in the agricultural sector. There are no industrial level food storage facilities in Nigeria. All you have are subsistence level ware houses operated by individuals. What your sister is doing is like generating power for a street of 10 houses because the power grid collapsed completely, and there is no way to evacuate power from a mega plant in calabar to Abuja. She will definitely make good profit cause demand outstrip supply. Its the same problem we have as a country in everything, food, water, power. Jobs. An inability to establish and operate any infrastructure coherently like reasoning beings.

So the high prices are not from hoarding, but consequences of replacing industrial level infrastructure with substance level makeshift alternatives. You loose economies of scale.

When last did you buy water? Ideally pipe bone water should cost you less than N2000 per house hold per month, but we are all buying tanker loads for close to N50k every month. Are tanker drivers hoarding water? No, the government has made the infrastructure for water non existent.

Having arable land does not translate to food security. Infact, most of the countries in the world that have hunger and poverty problems have the most arable land. They lack the mind and technology to produce from them. Food security means that as a sovereign country you can independently feed your people sustainably especially on short notice.

I did not know a lot of Nigerians are this poorly educated.

It's called food security. That's why some countries will even buy from farmers and destroy in other to assure of next years production.

1. There is nothing like food hoarding in a free market. The market is unregulated, so people who store food must lower prices if they donot see enough buyers otherwise they make losses from spoilt food. Those people who buy and store food are providing a service, that ensures the food is available in off harvest season. They have one year to sell off what they stored, so demand determines prices, not hoarding.

2. The current sustained harsh economy since the last 3 years of Tinubu, has forced a lot of people back to the farm as last resort. That's one half of the reason why you are having an increased harvest forcing down prices. People are currently harvesting cassava with no buyers in the villages, and its a big problem.

3. In a desperate move to try an cushion the ill thougth polices of subsidy removal, electric power cost hike, currency devaluation and now increasing tax burden, the fire brigade approach of encouraging food imports was adopted by this government. An indirect food subsidy. In the last two years, this has caused massive losses to those who normally store foods for off harvest season consumption. Most are not storing anything this time. Meaning that production that should go into storage, are currently on sale, hence prices are crashing!

What does this mean?

1. Yes you are buying food cheap now, you will buy them way more costlier than usual later in the year, even with the Govt. Imports as the supply will be way less than last year's due to no storage.

2. You will buy food even costlier in next years harvest, as less people will bother farming with the losses and wastage they incured this year.

3. In the medium term, you will become dependent on imported food as most farmers will pull out of the farming sector. Your food will become more dollar dependent, and every little change of exchange rate will impact your feeding.


Note; The increased food produce has nothing to do with any deliberate action of this government of posturing. Rather, it is a direct human response to hardship. So the government has no plans or infrastructure to absorb and preserve the excess production, now that they have killed off the middlemen who usually provide less than ideal, informal but highly essential storage.

This is a classical case of dumping in Economics, except that its not being done by a foreign government, but by your own government for political expediency, but will kill off your farming sector in the medium term.