₦airaland Forum

Typing:
You are still panicking. Fear is written all over your post

JuanDeDios:
When Buhari closed the borders, government supporters and many farmers and many Nigerians went to town jubilating, telling us that the country will soon be overflowing with locally produced food. But where are we today? Our food problem got worse. Why? Because insecurity is still up there and federal roads and rural roads are still terrible and police still extort truck drivers.

Now, Tinubu is favouring massive exports, again without having adequately address the fundamentals and the agric sector is about to take hit.

JuanDeDios:
As long as imports are also allowed, where is the problem?

Restrictions are a good practice when you have an emergency. If there is a war, or the government has declared a famine, government can restrict the export of certain food items, it can even fix prices. Anything outside of that, you're just running a controlled economy, which never creates wealth. Market economics. SS2.

JuanDeDios:
This is the only part I want to respond to. SS2 economics - that's your answer. Do you know why the West is so rich compared to the rest of the world? Open markets. Why China is far richer than India? Same reason.

You're fine with imports (because it can help make food affordable for our people, a sentiment I share), but you have a problem with exports (which will earn forex for our farmers to expand the agric sector and produce more food, creating employment and guaranteeing food security). This thinking, which reflects a very poor understanding of market economics, is why many countries are poor.

JuanDeDios:
No, sir. Not a single one has been done. At least, not on a sustained basis. Currently, we're importing food massively (3) because we recently had a food crisis and the government is already thinking about the election in two years time. Ok, so let's say 4 has been done (but note that without addressing 1 and 2, massive imports will only kill and bury our agric sector).

But 1? Really?

2? FG subsidized fertilizer during the Jonathan era, but not so much anymore. Pesticides and machinery? Not. Ok, a few states are doing something, but even there only a few LGs are covered mostly. I farm, and I can assure you that nobody has ever subsidized anything for me. Not to the tune of N1. My friends too.

3? No way. They treat farmers and traders in Kebbi like criminals for exporting rice through the Niger border. They call them "unpatriotic" and all sorts of names and seize their trucks. EFCC, DSS, police - they all hunt farmers and traders like common criminals for the crime of exporting food! It's the say way Customs are always hunting and seizing rice at the Cotonou border (as if rice is plutonium) when our people are hungry and need food.

anonimi:
Were your idols ignorant of those problems when they promised to change things for better?

What have they changed for better since 2015? Just one single thing o?

Instead of changing things for better they made everything worse and turned us into a beggarly people.

JuanDeDios:
The issue of funds diversion if the fault of the government, not farmers. You can blame Emefiele and his cronies, not farmers. At least, not genuine farmers. The EFCC and the Police should do their jobs. Border closure was a bad idea, and I said so at the time. Just as what's going on now (massive imports) are a bad idea. Here's what government ought to do:
1. Fix the problems of the agric sector - insecurity, roads, police extortion, etc. This will reduce farm input cost.
2. Consider subsiding farm input - fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, machinery, etc. (Other countries do this, that's why their farmers are able to export cheaply and put our farmers out of business).
3. Allow export, so that farmers can earn forex (this encourages more farming and guarantees food security in the long term).
4. Allow imports, so that farmers can't hike prices and take advantage of the Nigerian consumer (this protects the little guy and keeps the farmer happy since he can still make profit because his input cost isn't too high).

The step government is taking now (allow imports without addressing agric sector problems) will make farming unprofitable. That will discourage farming and put us almost entirely at the mercy imports/importers. The long-term economic consequences won't be pretty. Forget the crashing prices of rice - that's temporary.

anonimi:
If you are not the real joke, then why is the country in need of rescue after a decade of APC change that ebilokan made possible by making his expired soldier into messiah instead of shege master

Qadaffi2idiamin:
Do you agree Nigeria is a state of chaos and needs their intervention??

Sit tight, it's gonna be an interesting ride ahead.

Typing:
Kamaru why are you panicking about the great North? Tinibu and his Yoruba supporters are panicking already. When the show never even syart

chopnaira:
https://x.com/YeleSowore/status/1926954198974779780?t=6rXU_51rA-LbWyJ86Cadiw&s=19[/quote]Soludo said this in 2022. Not new. i except Sowore to be attacked rabidly as he's not from the South East.

Agbegbaorogboye:
Is the refinery running smoothly now that "winners" are in power
Shalaye is not necessary just straight answer

Agbegbaorogboye:
Is it running smoothly now when the "winners" are in power with all their lies and propaganda?

https://www.nairaland.com/8435466/port-harcourt-refinery-didnt-produce

Port Harcourt Refinery loading today.

2: @MobilePunch how far? Stop misleading Nigerians. @MKKyari @nnpclimited @NNPCUnderKyari @gsbabatunde pic.twitter.com/lxYjwbBZhq

— Woye (@woye1) December 21, 2024

Agbegbaorogboye:
Image123 your expertise is needed here

Warrri Refinery: again @MobilePunch lied as usual.

2: Same thing they did for Port Harcourt refinery last year.

3: go and verify as @BabajideOtitoju don do his own oooo @nnpclimited pic.twitter.com/SgFNIyqpE0

— Woye (@woye1) April 30, 2025

Port Harcourt Refinery loading today.

2: @MobilePunch how far? Stop misleading Nigerians. @MKKyari @nnpclimited @NNPCUnderKyari @gsbabatunde pic.twitter.com/lxYjwbBZhq

— Woye (@woye1) December 21, 2024

naptu2:
FIRS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jo9SXITFsU?si=IreLawOqkPkrNKS2

EmptyGarden:
I had genuinely forgotten about our VP. Man has been relegated to the background…. He should engage the services of influencers to boost and restore his image.

Freebills12:
[color=#000099][/color]

You don't know what is going on in Benue politics. He will leave. They will deny the ticket. The governor is in serious battle with SGF. Almost all the party members are with the SGF.