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I withdrew the sale on my own accord, but I hereby repost the offer this day 4th Feb, 2016
Location: Awka, Anambra State.

the conspiracy theories about the Boko Haram uprising collapse when you consider the data painstakingly acquired by the Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service (Afri-Dev).

I was just going through the data the other day and my thinking was that our chickens are coming home to roost.
Nigeria has neglected education for so long and the grim statistics leave us no hiding place.

According to the data 52.4% of males in the Northeastern region of Nigeria have no formal Western education. This represents the highest level of illiteracy among men in the federation.

It is therefore not surprising that the Northeast is also the most insecure part of Nigeria.
46.9 % of the adult male population of the Northwestern region have no formal Western education. Again, the pattern is consistent as the Northwest is the second most insecure region of Nigeria.

But it is not until you begin to look at the trend on a state by state basis that you see even more clearly the connection between illiteracy and insecurity.

Yobe and Borno have the highest illiteracy levels in the country and the two states are precisely the states at the epicenter of insecurity in Nigeria.

A whopping 83.3% of boys over 6 and adult men in Yobe state have no formal Western education. The figure for Borno which is number two on the list is 63.6%.
The data from Afri-Dev is proof positive that the only sustainable way to fight insecurity in Nigeria is through education not guns and bombs.

Nowhere has this been more demonstrated than in Anambra state.
Before the election of Peter Obi as governor of Anambra state, the state was notorious as the kidnap capital of Nigeria. It also featured prominently when other violent crimes were mentioned. But most telling was the fact that the state was considered backward in boy child education.

Now let us pause for a while and note that most violent crimes are committed by males.
Now by 2013, according to the official results released by the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), Anambra state had the highest percentage of students who passed the examinations with a pas rate of 67.85%. This from a state that used to be at the bottom!
If you thought that was a fluke one time occurrence, then consider that the state bettered that performance in 2014, again emerging the number one state with a pass mark of 65.92%.

So, how did Peter Obi achieve the feat of turning an educationally backward state like Anambra to the front runner amongst the most educated states?

Careful study of the budgetary allocation of the Peter Obi administration will reveal the answer.
During his years as governor, Obi ensured that education had the highest sectoral allocation. He also ensured that capital allocation consistently dwarfed recurrent expenditure which meant he spent more money building schools, roads and hospitals than he did paying salaries.

For instance, in his last year as governor, Anambra’s budget was 140 billion Naira. 73% of that budget (100.29 billion Naira) was earmarked for capital expenditure, while only 27% (39.71 billion Naira) was earmarked for recurrent expenditure.
That year, as in subsequent years, Obi allocated the highest sectoral allocation to education (7.172 billion Naira).

The secret to Obi’s success in education is increased spending on Capital projects and reduced spending on recurrent expenditure as well as giving education the highest sectoral allocation.

It is worthy of note that those states that are poorer than Anambra and which actually suffer from high levels of insecurity budgeted more than the 7.172 billion Naira that Anambra budgeted on education for security!

For instance, in 2014, Ambassador Baba Jidda, the then Secretary to the Borno State Government revealed that Borno state had spent over 10 billion Naira on security!

The facts are clear that when spending on education increases, insecurity will reduce within a year or two. However, when spending on security increases, there is no data that shows that insecurity also reduces.
The facts are also clear that when education levels increase, crime and insecurity reduce. When education levels drop, crime and insecurity increase.

Another state which proves this is Kano. Kudos goes to the people of Kano and to their immediate past Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso.

What Kano achieved under Kwankwaso could qualify as a modern day miracle.
The state used to be one of the most educationally backward states in the country which in itself was a big cause for concern bearing in mind that Kano has the highest population of any state in Nigeria.

Faced with the startling reality before him, then governor Kwankwaso, through a number of agencies most notable of which is the Kano State Agency for Mass Education, set about to increase literacy levels to an ambitious 90%.
Kwankwaso instituted the policy of free education for all Kano indigenes up to tertiary levels and began to give education the highest sectoral allocation.

For instance, in 2014, he budgeted 21 billion Naira for education. The Kano state government also set up 8,074 adult literacy classes in 484 electoral wards in the 44 local government councils of the state. They made it easy for people to access education.
The end result of this proactive leadership is that literacy rates in Kano state have increased from 48.9 in 2010 (according to the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO) to over 60% in 2015.

Now let us again pause and consider that although Boko Haram has been trying to make inroads into Kano state, they have never been able to gain a foot hold. This is pleasantly surprising when you consider that in previous decades, similar sects like Maitatsine had used Kano state as a launch pad for their nefarious activities.

What has changed between December 1980, when thousands were killed in Kano following an uprising by the Maitatsine sect and today? The change is that today, education levels in Kano are dramatically higher than they were in December 1980, thus, the conditions are not ripe for terrorism to flourish there.

What has happened in Kano and Anambra state proves white clearly that where there is the political will to improve education, education does improve.

Nigeria is currently spending 72% of our income paying salaries and other recurrent expenditure with little or nothing left for capital expenditure.

We are even at the point where we have to borrow to pay salaries because we prefer to use our wealth to fund an unsustainable fuel subsidy.
We keep on giving our people this fuel subsidy fish instead of teaching them how to fish through education.
If at all we must subsidize anything, shouldn’t it be education?

The people of the Northeast have been buying petrol at black market prices for decades. Of what use is fuel subsidy to them!
Right now they are not benefitting from fuel subsidy or education subsidy and the result is that they have become vulnerable to the most violent form of terrorism on planet earth and they are not alone. That terrorism is spreading fast and we cannot recruit soldiers fast enough to combat it.
When a nation wastes the minds of her youth by not providing them access to education, those youths will waste that nation.
If a nation does not invest her wealth educating her youth, that nation will invest that same wealth fighting insecurity amongst those same youth.

And when I say a nation, I do not just mean the nation state called Nigeria. I refer to all of us who have capacity including individuals and corporate bodies.
Right there in Borno, where poverty and illiteracy in Western education is most abysmal, are some of the most expensive houses and villas in Nigeria. Maiduguri probably has more oil multi millionaires per square mile than any other state capital with the possible exception of Lagos state.

What have these individuals done in their personal capacity to develop the educational capacity of children of the peasants around them?

I am not from the East, but I admire the custom of our brothers from that part of the country to take community development as a core duty of any individual that has the means.

They do not wait for government to build schools or roads or hospitals or even airports. Men of means within their community pool resources and build these facilities and in that way the community is made more prosperous. And the more prosperous the community is, the more secure the men of means within that community are.

I urge other communities across Nigeria to learn from this community spirit displayed by the South-easterners.
Let me give a modern day parable of how care for society benefits the person who cares.
A rich man was traveling in a convoy to his village. He had police escorts and they made his journey easier.

About an hour to his destination, he met some traffic and his police escorts maneuvered his convoy through the traffic.
He noticed that the traffic was caused by an accident involving two cars which blocked the road. He could have asked his police escorts to intervene, but he could not be bothered, after all they were ordinary people.

Soon, this rich man got to his village and entered his mansion and began to make himself feel at home. And then suddenly, he had a heart attack.

His wife quickly called a doctor to rush down to the village to attend to him. And then the family waited and waited and waited.
Eventually the man died. Ten minutes after he died, his doctor arrived. Enraged, the man’s family accosted him and asked why he had only just arrived.

‘Do you realize you could have saved my husband’s life if you had arrived just ten minutes earlier’ the man’s wife screamed.
The flustered doctor apologized and said ‘I would have arrived more than an hour ago but for some traffic I met on the way. The people told me that some police passed by and did not help them. If only the police had helped them I would have been here earlier’.

You see, by not helping less privileged people in need, the rich man ended up escalating an incident that led to his own death.
Almost 100% of Nigeria’s elite achieved the success they have today because leaders like Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Sir Ahmadu Bello and Nnamdi Azikiwe ensured that they benefited from free education. Yet, after climbing up the education ladder, we have removed the ladder that got us there instead of perpetuating it!

I call on our elite to show more concern to their places of origin. Help to educate the less privileged in your village or community.
If you can build a school, then build one beside your mansion. Do not just wait until Ramadan or Christmas to give out food to the poor. Give them education and they will learn how to feed themselves.

If you cannot build schools, then buy books for the children of the less privileged. If you cannot buy books, why not volunteer to teach in the local primary school in your village whenever you are home? You will ‘oppress’ the people more when you impart knowledge into their kids than you would with your latest SUV!

Yes, stomach infrastructure is necessary, but even more necessary is brain infrastructure. Why? Because education is key. A hungry man is hungry for one day but an uneducated man is hungry forever.
I just want to make common sense!

• Senator Ben Murray Bruce is the Senator representing Bayelsa East in the National Assembly and is Chairman of the Silverbird Group
www.thisdaylive.com/articles/we-need-more-brain-infrastructure-/214493/

kollysnut:
thanks chief.....

Mine is on sell 900k

fnk:
If it is raining, won't the wind be blowing rain on your birds, I think that your roofing should have come a bit down to mitigate that, Just thinking.

Your are right, I plan to combat that with tarpauline. Tks for the words

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Had to relocate to another nearby villa dis yr while the court cases go on on the former 4 plots above.

Below my newly constructed broiler pen. 25 by 60ft by11ft, with farm house.
Elders in d house, hope am on wright course? Planned that it will take 1000 birds at full capacity. Thank you all for the valuable information I hv garnered here.

Gidigidi3:
Just planning:
1) Move back to villa from Abuja, that is the best option I have now.
2) Raise some loan (money matters!!!)
3) Start small


Have always thought of starting big and it has remained a dream but with what I have read here, am gonna start from my uncle's uncompleted building. I will be back to villa by end of this week.

Of course I will major in broilers because I know that it is the money spinner or doubler if you like. I have these concepts I call INTEGRATED FARMING AND MARKETING or INTEGRATED FM. I will be discussing them on this thread and see reactions to help me or anyone who buys into it to fine tune the ideas.

Hello guys, my INTEGRATED FM are not written down anywhere but they are ideas I have thought through and developed with my naija local intelligence since the first time I developed interest in poultry farming(broiler) and as well observed others who have ventured into it.

Having experienced failure twice in other areas of life and being penniless at this stage in life, I shall rise from the dust and journey along this line to stability and prosperity. Goodnight guys.

Thanks to all who hv kept this thread alive, it has been two yrs since I posted this but am still in prep stage. That is vicissitudes of life for me. For my brothers in the east, always cross check and investigate properly before paying for land. Below is my would be poultry farm experience at Mgbakwu near Awka, last year.

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134. (1) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have be been duly elected, where, there being only two candidates for the election -

(a) he has the majority of votes cast at the election; and

(b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

134. (2) A candidate for an election to the office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected where, there being more than two candidates for the election-

(a) he has the highest number of votes cast at the election;

and
(b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

(3) In a default of a candidate duly elected in accordance with subsection (2) of this section their shall be a second election in accordance with subsection (4) of this section at which the only candidate shall be -

(a) the candidate who scored the highest number of votes at any election held in accordance with the said subsection (2) of this section; and

(b) one among the remaining candidates who has a majority of votes in the highest number of States, so however that where there are more than one candidate with majority of votes in the highest number of States, the candidate among them with the highest total of votes cast at the election shall be the second candidate for the election.

(4) In default of a candidate duly elected under the foregoing subsections, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall within seven days of the result of the election held under the said subsections, arrange for an election between the two candidates and a candidate at such election shall be deemed elected to the office of President if -

(a) he has a majority of votes cast at the election; and

(b) he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja

(5) In default of a candidate duly elected under subsection (4) of this section, the Independent National Electoral Commission shall, within seven days of the result of the election held under the aforesaid subsection (4), arrange for another election between the two candidates to which the subsection relates and a candidate at such election shall be deemed to have been duly elected to the office of President, if he has a majority of the votes cast at the election

It's been great, congrats to all nairalanders, registered and guests alike. And to Seun, I nominate you for national awards.

You are the Lord the God of Heaven and earth, is their anything too hard for you? No.

Dj get well soon, He shall heal you so that you become a testimony to nairalanders this new year.

jjman2322:
When do you want to start the clustered farming operation?

Hello sir, am interested in leasing ur undeveloped lands in anambra for farming. I live at awka nd ready to start my poultry farm. The birds droppings will serve as manure for vegetable farming such as cucumber, it will be an integrated farming. Hoping to hear from you, 09099075424

Rainbow over Anambra North

KelvinGraphics:
RE-AMMENDED!!
Please the weblink on the other design aint working. so it has been modified into Nairaland weblink and the ailment was changed to CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE which i believe is more catchy.
Please check new attached image below.
Thanks

BTW. Good morning my brotherz and sisterz

CC:
Idowuogbo
Yerilistik
Peace2all
Kendraloops
Bugativeron
Joelenesleek
Jbluv55
Colossus2
BABYosisi

Welldone kelvingraphics!!! Good morning to you all, keep the good work up.

chaircover:
Calling on Volunteers to work with babyosisi on Team B

Team B will be responsible for all travel arrangements for DJ

This will include
1. Finding a good hospital in India
2. Arraging admsission
3. Collating test results & medical records
4. Finding out the cost
5. Working with the family to find a donor & keeping them imformed of descsions.
6. Arranging passports for DJ & Donor and DJ's brother
7. Arranging visas
8. Arranging flights
9. Keeping in touch with DJ when he is undergoing treatment in India
10. Liasing with the hospital all throughout.
11. Reporting back to the house on progress.

Thank you all.

Attn @chaircover, there are documents u have that babyosisi has been requesting. Do make them available to her so that she can email the indians and be able to arrive at estimated cost.
Cc babyosisi

Thank u all for your efforts, God is with us and dj shall declare his goodness in the land of the living.

chaircover:
Good Morning

@young doctor since you are online, can you confirm which tests were carried out on DJ at the Eruwa hopspital. From what I have read here, he was only seen to yesterday, so I dont think that that many tests would have been run on him

If this is the case, then we need to look at moving him to a specialist dialysis unit ASAP. Any good hospital will also not solely rely on another hospitals tests anyway and they will still carry out their own tests.

we have talked enough and its now to take action. Every minute wasted is very crucial in this mans life

Today we must do the following . .

1. Get 3 teams together

Team A to deal with the Dialysis and Nigerian hospitals
Team B to deal with the process of flying him out of Nigeria
Team C to deal with fundraising

Team A & B needs a qualified doctor at least and several dedicated people who are prepared to do the leg work.
It will be better if Team A members are lagos based since its likely that DJ will be moved back to Lagos.
Each team needs a team leader and the leader will be responsible for regular updates.

2. Move DJ from Eruwa to a specialist hopspital

Team A to call St Nicholas/Reddington/Kidney unit advertised on the top of the page/Bowen Hospital and any other hospital mentioned here or reccomended and to speak to them and find out the following info

a. Do they do dialiysis?
b. Do they have beds?
c. The cost of each dialysis
d. Do they have an ambulance to pick DJ from Eruwa to their unit?
e. Are they able to assist in visa procurement/advise on how to get DJ out of the country for medical treatment

Once the team is created, I am happy to send a total of N5000 credit if any of the team members require some credit to ensure that these phone calls are made today ASAP. PM me your phone number and I will send credit directly to your phone.

If the chosen hopspital does not have an ambulance, then the team is to find out the cost and how DJ can be transported to the chosen specialist hospital

Please can these teams be set up this morning; certainly team A needs to be set up ASAP.

Team C will work with Team A and B to understand how much is required in total, how much is available now and how much is still required.

I nominate cramjones, busybody2, Gboliwe & Idowuogbo to be on Team C . . .as we need to get the ball rolling ASAP.
I nominate jaybee3 to cordinate the "project" as a whole.
I nominate babyosisi to be on team B
I nominate ifyalways, naijadeyhia & caracta to be on team A

Sorry guys for not asking you first before nominating you and please any other nairalander is free to join any of these teams as we need as many hands on desk as possible.

The expectation is that DJ starts his dialysis today.

Thank you everyone for all your support in all kinds of ways. He sees all, and by His Grace we will have a big testimony concerning our brother.

And please no more arguments! it distracts and too many posts means that people miss important information due to the sheer number of posts. We all mean well. Please lets help this young man by focussing on him and him alone. Thank you.

SECONDED
I nominate @chaircover to be on team C
I nominate eruwa sqaud to be on team A

naijadeyhia:
I said what I said because knowing women and their emotional disposition she may be coming from a dark place with Primus and I cannot begin to ask her to make public why she hates Primus (because her tone suggests that) so I asked for a private email. from her. I know nothing about Primus even though when I called their front desk was very nice and cooperative. Must we air everyones dirty laundry openly?

A few of us who know the details of the OPs case went private in order to protect the OP and keep him upbeat because he is the one who knows where the shoe is pinching. Everybody here wanta details and more details but they forget we are dealing with people.Some of whom have faces already here like the OP. He may have friends in his area who are also on NL but appear as guests and before u can say JACK they go back with all sorts of gists. Some may even be alluding HIV because of the OPs emaciated state. I speak from experience. So please lets be calm. We are all working together on one common goal. Babyosisi has been awesome and just like her we all need to put ourselves together in a time of chaos and not loose control. We shall overcome.

Goodmorning all.

House members are requesting for new bank account . What did ur team agree on?
As regards moving him to a dialysis center first, waz the plan? cc @wali

delightful1:
Please keep calm sir. babyosisi already gave updates, please check the previous page.

@ delightful1 ur team is needed again to get to eruwa and inform them that they will move to dialysis center(st. Nicholas) and as well get the documents @babyosisi is requesting. My suggestion though, Goodmorning to you all.

Benz4pimp:
This is what kills everything,I problem was brought to the floor of the house openly,donations,support,prayers where made openly,all of a sudden no one understands anything anymore!!!suddenly nairaland is on what's app,email and pm!!!things do not work that way!!!where is the transparency?

There were doctors in the house who analyze the result from eruwa and few of us asked them to come up with way forward. Because patients report shouldnt be here, the went on wassap. See dia report up there nd please understand.

naijadeyhia:
Hello people we have been deliberating outside this thread on a way forward and I think we have arrived at a decision.

1) we need to find out how much is available from the initial donations made

2) He needs to be placed on dialysis for now in a good medical facility

3) Passports need to be gotten if the OP does not have any yet (this will be found out). 1 for the OP and one for who would accompany him

4) Cost of flight and medicals in total

5) All calls to the OP must stop as only marcjane and caracta can speak to him or his family member

6) Enquiries have already started per a reputable hospital outside Nigeria to move him to

7) A fresh account set up which we can monitor. If TEHN cannot handle it then we look for another option. donated funds will go here for now until the preparations for flying out is completed then the money can be released to the family.

8 ) Finally we need to push the first donation session behind us and start afresh in ernest. This mountain is not insurmountable. in fact it looks more like a plain when we join hands to achieve this. Selflesness and love is the key. what is money compared to life? Seun as the owner of NL ur help and generosity is being appealed to at this point. STICKY THIS THREAD TO THE NUMBER 1 SPOT ON THE FRONT PAGE. If this is the only contribution you can make God will bless you real good. Our resolve cannot and will not be broken. Jehovah must take this glory and we the blessing. Long live NL, Long live the members!

@olu4life please dont get upset and take a look at this again.

naijadeyhia:
babayosisi I am waiting for your email.
caracta I already sent you an email response

we nees to conference on whatsapp preferably.

Gboliwe, babayosisi, caracta, chaircover,

Topic is "quick way forward per emergency"

I support this discussion as a way of going forward.
I suggest you also discuss how best to manage funds and accountability to the house.

babyosisi:
I have not seen the op
I have not examined him. Or seen his test results
He told us in the beginning he could not pee pee
We also heard he was short of breath
The doctor at LUTH questioned chronic liver failure or ascites from malignancy
And now this doctor is talking of transplant
So I am still working out of that LUTH differential diagnosis.
IMHO,this is an emergency situation

Am sorry to @caracta et al for my outbust. Obviously emotion got out of control.

At this stage, @wali,@babyosisi,@naijadeyhia, nd @caracta are brainstorming. I think we are making progress. I appreciate you and all in the house for ur efforts.

Caracta:
No, they are not gods. Neither am I.

Like a said, another team (perhaps a better one) can make another round of trip.

When have you started taking the decisions alone. Please dont play God here. U wont even let the doctors in the house @babyosisi @wali brainstorm and come up with better medical decision. DONT LET ME REMIND THE HOUSE WHAT U DID AT THE BEGINING OF DJ's SOS

Caracta:
Yes. I have also made some calls. We have to move him to UCH. The doctor said his kidney is badly affected. The good news is that the fluid has been drained so his stomach is flat now. The doctor mentioned he can relieve the symptoms. But I suggest we move him to UCH.

Can anybody see the reason why we are not making progress as country? WE DONT LIKE LISTENNING TO THE TRUTH INITIALLY. Two professionals @babyosisi, @naijadeyhia, were here shouting about what they deduced from the report dj posted, which means PLAN D. The leaders of this thread @caracta, @gboliwe et al never acknowledge dia views. And now where are we heading?
Please somebody promised to help with passport arrangement some days earlier. Are you still around?
....following from a distance until.....