₦airaland Forum

YouAreNobody:
big lie. people who have tasted it says it tastes more like eating wood

Kalashnikov49:
The highlighted, answers your question. Where will he collect more? after giving tax breaks as you claim?

Kalashnikov49:
Taxing people to death is development?

Lagos that he used taxes to build.... is like DUBAI now abi?

You stay in that uselessly low budget OSUN, eating #200 food everyday and fvvcking dirty village girls...and you want to discuss economy with people that drive the economy in the cities? Call your relatives in all major cities especially that useless lagos..and tell them how they are managing.

Hunger is killing dem constantly...but you stay in that your brown roof pigsty and you are talking nonsense...spits

Kalashnikov49:
Did you elect Tinubu because of NIGER Coup?? cant he freaking work on the economy?
You are senseless. People in NIGER support the coupist and its foolish people like you will meddle in peoples business. Northern senators have told you NO!! That alone should tell you something if you have brains...spits

Kalashnikov49:
Go and wash your boxers.

How can you be paid by politicians to be a redundant disgrace?

foolish kids everywhere!!..Gosh!

Kalashnikov49:
All the ingredients for a coup are there for even the blind to see. Any coup in Nigeria NOW will be celebrated by the masses.

Tinubu is just a dundee.

slimfit1:
I've not seen the NASS conduct one with all the DSS and presidencies flaunting our constitution.

Eriokanmi:
Is that a gain or pain to Lagosians? I know of a man who used to work at idumota as blacksmith. He can't afford the daily fare anymore. The little he takes home daily isn't there anymore. How would he feed his family? You're truly an ika eniyan, according to your moniker.

walozanga:
Don't worry school will open soon and you are going to repeat primary 3

slimfit1:
Well , ÿwe don't have gallant soldiers or military men like they have in Niger to do checks and balances for us.

Redomi:
We call it pupuru in Ondo state

RevenuesBoost:
Exactly!👍

I also hear they call it Lafu

Acekidc4:
Ilorin will be collected back in the nearest future either through Diplomatic means or through War. Time shall tell.

successmatters:
Yes, but not from the way the people of the area are changing their business styles.

Osariemen12:
Talk is cheap. No one comes close to Cote d'Ivoire in cocoa and coffee production.

Through the collaborative efforts of stakeholders and the US government, as well as the resuscitation of commodity boards by Africa’s biggest economy, Nigeria is set to overtake Ivory Coast and Ghana in developing a sustainable cocoa supply chain, the country’s cocoa farmers association has said.

In light of this, the US Traceability and Resilience in Agriculture and Cocoa Ecosystems of Nigeria (TRACE) project implemented by Lutheran World Relief has approved of a $22 million five year development program.


The five year program covers; traceability, climate smart practices, inputs support to smallholder farmers, capacity building along the value chain and exports in collaboration with the Nigerian cocoa stakeholders.

Adeola Adegoke, national president, Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria said if the implementation of the TRACE project will help the country overtake the likes of Ivory Coast and Ghana on growing cocoa sustainably.

He called on the European Union to begin seeing Nigeria as a cocoa origin country taking the bull by the horn to address the challenges of cocoa sustainability as the TRACE project kick starts with the government readiness to resuscitate the Nigeria Cocoa Board.


“The cocoa commodity board was once noted for the growth of the industry and the driver of the commodity that gave the highest foreign exchange earnings to the federal government, especially when Nigeria was adjudged the best producer of flavor cocoa beans in West Africa with good aroma,” he said.

“This policy if well implemented will bring back the lost glory of the sector, when Nigeria was regarded as the second highest producer of cocoa in the 60’s and early 70’s with about 490,000 MTS,” he added.

Leading cocoa producers Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have been reported to be making significant progress in ending deforestation as they prepare for the potential introduction of strict new EU sustainability laws. The EU has proposed to completely ban unsustainable cocoa beans from entering the international markets, come 2025.
The two countries, Ivory Coast and Ghana, released reports in 2022, claiming they had reached new traceability milestones.

Côte d’Ivoire said it had mapped 3.2m hectares of cocoa farms while Ghana said it had mapped 72 percent of its total cocoa growing area via its national Cocoa Management System, both covering 515,762 farmers and 845,635 farms at the time.

Nigeria is presently fourth in cocoa production behind Ivory Coast, Ghana and Indonesia with about 2.2 million MTS, 800,000 MTS and 739,483 MTS respectively, while Nigeria with 340,000 MTS and currently targeting 500,000 MTS by the year 2024.

“It accounts for 6.5 percent share of global production, after Ivory Coast, Ghana and Indonesia. Nigeria currently realises $700 million annually from the exports of cocoa beans and cannot afford to lose guard considering her huge investments in the cocoa industry that valued close to 500 billion naira,” Adegoke said.

Stakeholders have already begun taking numerous actions that are presently addressing some of the challenges militating against the sustainability of the sector like child labour menace, deforestation, traceability, application of unapproved or banned pesticide in cocoa farms, among others.

The global food price index ticked up in July after Russia reneged on the Black Sea grain deal that allows safe passage of ships carrying grain from Ukrainian ports, the UN Food Agency said.

The Index which tracks the monthly international prices of cereals, vegetable oil, dairy, meat, and sugar averaged 123.9 points in July, up 1.3 percent from June. The increase was driven by a rise in vegetable oil and rice prices.


“Vegetable Oil Price Index registered a 12.1 percent jump in July after seven months of consecutive declines,” the report said.

“Sunflower oil prices rebounded by 15 percent due to uncertainties sparked by Russia’s decision to pull out of the Black Sea Initiative on grain and fertilizer export,” it added.

The UN-brokered deal, together with a parallel accord between the UN and Russia, provided a lifeline for hundreds of millions worldwide facing hunger and spiralling food costs, including in countries such as Afghanistan and Ethiopia.

However, Russia pulled out of the deal on July 17, saying it will attack any ship leaving the black sea region.

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The cereal price index declined by 0.5 percent in June as coarse grain quotations due to increased seasonal supplies of maize from Brazil and Argentina declined by almost five percent and the potentially higher-than-expected production in the United States.

According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), wheat prices rose for the first time in nine months due to uncertainty over exports from Ukraine and continued dry conditions in North America.

“Meanwhile, rice prices increased by 2.8 percent in July and by almost 20 percent over the past year after India prohibited exports.

FAO warned that the move “raises substantial food security concerns for a large swathe of the world population, especially those that are most poor and who dedicate a larger share of their incomes to purchase food.”

The Sugar Price Index declined by nearly four percent, the result of good progress in Brazil’s sugarcane harvest, improved rains across most growing areas in India, and subdued demand from Indonesia and China, the world’s top importers.

There was also a 0.4 percent slide in the Dairy Price Index, which is more than 20 percent below the July 2022 value. Similarly, meat prices dropped 0.3 percent since June.

Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has vowed never to forgive anybody still enforcing the sit-at-home in the Southeast.

Kanu said those enforcing the sit-at-home are indirectly working against my release.

He lamented that the sit-at-home was hijacked by oppressors to render the Southeast desolate.

Kanu disclosed this during his routine meeting with his legal team-led by his Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor.

Tweeting, Ejimakor wrote: “Any person or group of persons using my name, the name of IPOB or ESN in fundraising without my direct and express authorization is committing a crime with my name and I will deal with such a person, regardless of his place of residence.

“The details of Economic Empowerment Day (EED) are very comprehensive and I will personally unveil such details once I am released.

“The idea of endless sit-at-home has been hijacked by our oppressors as a means of rendering our land desolate and forcing our people to migrate out of our lands. They have, through enforcing the sit-at-home in Southeast, gerrymandered Igboland to now exclude the Igbos in Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Kogi, Rivers, Edo, Delta and Benue.

“I will never forgive any person or group of persons still insisting on, and enforcing sit-at-Home. I take it that such a person is merely using my name to indirectly work against my release.”

Praxis758:
If his capital oil was true and profitable, he wouldn’t leave it for politics.

Living on borrowed life.

BossGerald:
Where is Asiri Dokubo the fat clown??

Righthussle:
The way I like this Taore guy. I wish he can be the leader of the whole Africa.

That aside, Niger cutting ties with France only to embrace Russia is like watching a rape victim run from one rapist's house to the house of another rapist for safety.