₦airaland Forum

PureFace1:
I see many people complaining about the low value of naira against dollars but if naira value is low it will actually make Nigeria competitive in the International market and make us attractive for export.

Why is Japanese yen and Korean won not high against the dollar? It is also one of the things that China use to beat America in exportation they deliberately lower the value of their Yuan against dollar but not many Nigerians get it.

One of the reasons our exportation is increasing is because naira value is also low it make importing from Nigeria very cheap

No verbal gymnastics and creative accounting will ever be able to offer a logical reason to rejoice over the nose-dive of Nigeria's naira currency, which traded at the rate of one naira to one British pound sterling in 1976, yet now trades at the eye-watering rate of 2,000 naira to the same one British pound sterling.

By way of comparison, the 1980 exchange rate of the US dollar to the British pound sterling was in the region of $1.30c USD per UK pound sterling, which ironically is STILL the prevailing exchange rate between the US dollar and the British pound, 45 years later this year in 2025.

That stability of exchange rate between those two benchmark currencies over close to a half century, stands in contrast to the freefall plummet of the Nigerian naira's value to an infinitesimally small fraction of its late seventies one-to-one par with the UK pound.

In short, any landed property that one owns in Nigeria today in 2025, is only worth less than a thousandth of its value back in 1980, even when the normal appreciation over time of land values in Nigeria is taken into account . In layman's terms, a Nigerian man with one million naira in his bank account in 1980 could, if he so wished, have invested that money in the UK by purchasing a million-pound London flat or perhaps rural house with some acres of land. Today in 2025, a man with a million naira in his Nigerian bank account will not even be able to afford the round-trip airfare to London, talk less having anything left over to rent a hotel room for a night.

This anecdote illustrates how the REDUCED buying power of the Nigerian naira is not just a bad thing, but an unmitigated calamity unfolding before our eyes, and with no end in sight.

casualobserver:
Its not even that. Obasanjo has always promoted himself a a "Nigerian" he has always used the accidental fortune of being the one who accepted the surrender of Biafra (it was nothing to do with him) to promote himself as an apostle of one Nigeria. His success and trust has been based on having no sentiments towards or against any tribe. Its not in his twilight days that he will make such a statement.

the problem and the ammusing part of these people and their propaganda is they are not intelligent enough to think through a good propaganda...then again when you consider their audience I guess they dont have to.

Obasanjo does not make comments about tribe or tribal groups or leaders......never has!

It could be that Nnamdi Kanu's sit-at-home terror propagandists merely WISH they could enjoy the open support of elder statesmen like Obasanjo, so they just went ahead and fabricated a story to suit their bizarre fantasy.

casualobserver:
this is a lie. Obasanjo can never say this.

You are correct. Former Nigerian president Obasanjo would never voice support for terrorist instigator Nnamdi Kanu of the "Sit -At-Home" fame, who paid gunmen to shoot Igbo people dead if they were spotted defying his ILLEGAL house-arrest order that terrorized Igboland for way too long.

Secondly, Obasanjo would never support any human being that encourages his cult followers to lick his shoes. That shoe-licking fetish alone is the sign of a megalomaniac suffering from acute delusions of grandeur, who belongs in a nice cozy jail cell for the rest of his wasted life.

3exe3:
what businesses can be created from this

Ghana ended the prohibition of cannabis in 2023, and set forth the rules and regulations to govern the new industry. This YouTube video clip includes an excellent interview on the multiple uses of the hemp plant, with Mr. Nana K. Agyemang, who is the CEO of a hemp products company in Ghana. Mr. Agyemang also serves as an eloquent and informed spokesman on the medical and industrial cannabis industry that is already transforming Ghana's economy for the profoundly better.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCf8NXU0ivo

Starboytwo:
Quite an interesting read. I've always followed you and your quest for this system to work in Nigeria.

(Thinking aloud) How can a young man (layman) strategically place himself and gain massively in this system when and if rolled out. I hope you get where I'm drifting at??

Money no dey, work no dey, but we dey online and it's a blessing to have access to first hand info like this. Abi this game is exclusively for the big guns.

A newly emerging cannabis industry in Nigeria will create thousands of jobs in a few short months following the date when state-approved farms are permitted to commence agricultural operations of their dedicated marijuana plantations that will provide raw material by the ton for the multi-billion-dollar CBD oil refinement and export industries that will spring up nationwide.

Regardless of the education level of potential canna-industry employment applicants, be they chemical engineers tasked with designing CBD distillation refineries that will operate under sterile conditions, electricians and plumbers laying out automated irrigation and lighting systems, botanical geneticists, or newly trained farm workers engaged as staff for mechanized cultivation operations, Nigerians from all walks of life will very soon reap direct monetary benefits from the canna-industry opportunities that will proliferate over a short time frame.

One can only hope that the necessary legal infrastructure is debated, redrafted as needed and constitutionally approved for implementation in a reasonable span of time whereby Nigeria can secure its rightful prominent place as a pioneer in the field of indigenous medical cannabis product marketing on the world stage. The global multi-billion dollar cannabis industry now has a BIG player seated at the table, who is blessed with fertile agricultural landscapes extending to the horizon, brilliant 12-hour-duration Equatorial sunlight beaming down year-round through unpolluted skies, and a highly motivated youthful workforce all rearing to go as this new chapter of Nigerian innovation opens up.

sreamsense:
You made good point too! However, for me it is better not to start what will be difficult to stop later. NDLEA has already achieved reduction over the years of fighting. Once some people hear legalizing, they will not wait for the detail or what follows before they begin to cultivate illegal cannabis.

Some of these farmers will surely be evading arrest and will likely run illegal business of this nature for 10 years plus before some get arrested. It will also lead to increased bribery among NDLEA officer who will hide under such legal permit to cover cannabis illegal farmers.

Nigeria is bigger in population than some of these countries where such system work a bit, it will be difficult to contain in Nigeria. Some of these farmers will grow their farms in terrible terrain difficult for NDLEA to reach or reach regularly. Some illegal farmers will sell at cheaper price rate to farmer with permit to act as cover up.

Nigeria is sharp when it comes to this kind of abuse, it is better to sustain current fight than to try a system under assumption and taxes. Impact of damages maybe more than taxes and gains they are expecting from it. Current NDLEA may create problem for future successors that may not have zeal to do through monitoring which may grow some more hard drug addict merchants

The NDLEA currently contend with intercepting a far wider range of narcotics and illegal chemicals flooding Nigeria than ever in the past, so the reclassification of marijuana from a banned substance to a regulated industry will free up over-stretched law enforcement manpower to prosecute the war on Class A drugs having the potential to kill or trigger insanity on a single dose, such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, PCP, synthetic , laboratory-concocted "marijuana", and now, terrifyingly, the incapacitation and memory erasure drug Rohypnol.

Regardless of a newly granted legality status to medical marijuana, a parallel market operated by outlaws will forever exist just as a black market exists for foreign exchange currency purchases in Nigeria and other developing nations. The SIZE of that illegal cannabis market is, however, bound to diminish linearly over time the instant hitherto illegal cannabis farmers are offered a safe path to "amnesty" and legally approved enterprise status that is duly taxed by the government yet still massively profitable.

Granted that some renegade cannabis farmers would prefer to assume the risk of apprehension and jail under Nigeria's preexisting prohibition of cannabis, because the profit margin of selling cannabis as outright contraband is astronomically high. Those greedy weed farmers willing to risk jail by refusing to buy government permits will over time become a tiny fringe minority of die-hard jail-birds whose ranks will be further depleted each time NDLEA drones spot their illegal unlicensed farms.

His Excellency Bola Tinubu, Nigeria's currently elected Head of State, will in due course be acknowledged by historians as an innovative and courageous Nigerian leader whose long-sighted wisdom birthed an economic boom of epic proportions for Nigeria, unmatched by any natural resource blessing enjoyed by Nigeria since the discovery of crude petroleum oil in her territorial waters back in the late 1950s.

Finally, by legislatively strangulating the criminal investment incentive for black market cannabis trafficking in Nigeria, the current epidemic of chemical-infused toxic or even synthetic cannabis ravaging Nigeria's youth will abate as a consequence of cannabis farmers choosing the option to gain legality via the acquisition of a government-issued cultivation permit, as the existential option offering a greater peace of mind dividend, after years of playing high-stakes games of hide-and-seek with the NDLEA.

DeepSight:
I more than understand. Many people are shocked that functioning CEOs quietly smoke their weed in peace.

It's just the way Nigeria is so crazy that makes alot of people worried about it.

So many ridiculous variations of the stuff are produced by criminals with lethal effects.

Of all the misdeeds perpetrated by Nigerian criminals who purport to sell cannabis, I am most infuriated by their penchant for spraying cannabis or even inert lawn grass trimmings, with deadly chemicals capable of inducing madness or of even killing unsuspecting users.

Sold under the names like "Colorado", "loud" and assorted other street monikers, those toxic laboratory-synthesized chemicals originating in China are highly addictive and capable of destroying lives very quickly. When in the fullness of time Nigerian adults are finally permitted to grow their own personal supply of safe organic cannabis at home without fear of prosecution, the criminal syndicates currently poisoning a generation of young Nigerians will be put out of business overnight.

DeepSight:
I understand. It's just that many people may not be as enlighten as you.

Naija na craze place.

Haha no be small ting my brother. All the same, if dangerous drug called alcohol that kills millions of its abusers worldwide can be freely sold in Nigeria in compliance with government regulations, and if an even more poisonous leaf called tobacco which has ZERO benefits to health, can also be freely sold in Nigeria, then it stands to reason that cannabis, whose therapeutic medical benefits could fill books, should also be legally available for responsible adults to use in the privacy of their own homes.

While this new law does NOT permit Nigerians to consume cannabis for recreational or medical purposes, there is a strong chance that over time, and with a successful rollout of this initial cannabis cultivation protocol in Nigeria, there could be a further relaxation of existing laws such that over-25 adults in Nigeria are eventually permitted to vaporize or smoke weed at their discretion and with no worries about getting arrested. That day is one that I dream of witnessing in the fullness of time.

DeepSight:
Uncle Jaks of life, you must calm down on this marijuana thing. Even the best pure ones have been known to run some people mad. One mans meat is another's mans poison.

Cannabis Oil for medication is good. However in a country like Nigeria the legalization of weed can never be regulated. You will simply find that many people have private farms which they claim to use for their personal consumption but really they will commercialise it. And it will be hard to prove.

If a person says a whole plantation of weed is for his personal consumption, how do you prove that he is not also giving it to his family and friends? That will be something that will be easily defeated in court.

Anyway the regulation is the problem. We just don't have strong institutions yet to effectively regulate.

Same way with guns. If guns were freely available in Nigeria for everyone to buy in a simple shop (not talking about Hunter's licenses) it may lead to far worse criminality. Already small arms and many containers of large arms are secretly moved around the country in large quantities. I don't think we have the capacity to regulate these things well yet. Perhaps in fifty or a hundred years.

Look, not a finger of mine has ever touched a gun in my life. And I am close to 50. I just fear and worry that being armed is probably more likely to get one killed than not being armed.

Anyway as always I salute your views. You are clearly an enlightened man.

Aside from three or four people who in 16 years I have not introduced myself to, you would also be one.

These are valid and relevant concerns that you have expressed, Barrister DeepSight, so some clarification is in order. Of all the constituent biological compounds found in cannabis, the two that are of primary interest from a law enforcement and mental health perspective are CBD, which is a sedative and pain killer with NO effect on mental function, and on the other hand THC, which is a stimulant that DOES affect the psychological state and reasoning faculties of users.

Now, from the few details thus far available from the NDLEA, Nigeria will, like Ghana, permit ONLY the cultivation of cannabis plants that yield CBD in copious amounts, while containing little or no THC. Such plants, in their raw form when dried out, will NEVER produce any perceivable mental or cognitive effect if smoked in any quantity. The best cannabis seed vendors do quote the CBD and THC levels of each strain of cannabis they sell, so it is a straightforward process to select only high-CBD varieties to grow out for the Nigerian CBD oil industry.

The expected challenges of ensuring that ONLY accredited cannabis growers are permitted to cultivate the lucrative cash crop, are greatly outweighed by the stupendous hard-currency fortunes that stand to be reaped all over Nigeria once this landmark legislation is passed. The analogy you have drawn between the risk of firearm ownership and the pitfalls of unregulated cannabis consumption is also apt because it highlights the importance of training with firearms, while also stressing the importance of a safe, closely monitored supply chain for cannabis.

As the owner of multiple firearms who has over the years bagged galloping antelope and stampeding grasscutter herds, along with fast flying bush fowl and soaring ducks numbering into the hundreds, I am proud to say that I have never once placed another human life in danger while hunting, thanks to meticulous planning and a religious observance of gun safety at all times, all learned when I was aged 14, from a relative who was once in the army and also hunted for years after his honorable discharge from the armed forces.

sreamsense:
This will be counterproductive to Nigeria fight against such. It will end up rubbishing all efforts of NDLEA in this regards as most farmers with legal permit will still abuse the system.One Emeka will abuse the system by fronting legal farming permit to indulge in illegalities at the background. Illegal farming without permit will thrive and people with permit will pay them underground to grow llegal cannabis

You have made a very important observation regarding those who may try to flout the new laws by disobeying established cannabis cultivation guidelines. This scenario you anticipate is in fact being experienced in some of the countries where cannabis has been legalized, in that illegal farmers who cannot afford to purchase a government cultivation permit are often apprehended for trying to sell illegally grown weed into the legitimate supply chain.

The simple answer to such a predicament will of course be that the NDLEA can easily transition its emphasis from locating and destroying ALL cannabis farms on sight, to more of a monitoring role that entails visiting cannabis farms to inspect government-issued cultivation permits, while arresting for prosecution all cannabis farmers who cannot show evidence of having obtained a government permit.

Recently in Nigeria, some producers of counterfeit whiskey were identified and arrested, which illustrates that the sale of ALL consumables is already being regulated in Nigeria, establishing a template that can easily be adapted for the new cannabis industry, just as is currently applicable to alcohol sales.

razzydoo:
Sorry, no vex. 😅

When you see man pikin speaking in tongues, you can rest assured that only the highest qualify cannabis will meet the approval of such a man of taste. Speaking of taste, I cannot wait to apply for my cannabis cultivation permit in Nigeria, so that I can proceed to nurture some of the sweetest tasting marijuana strains known to the smoking world.

As a discerning connoisseur of gourmet cannabis varieties in good standing, I recommend above all varieties of cannabis that KALI MIST should be selected for cultivation. Of all the varieties of weed it has been my privilege to sample over the years, it is Kali Mist that I rate the very best of the pack due to its effect of making even the most introspective and withdrawn person come out of their shell and become extremely conversational, calm and amiable with ZERO nervousness that is experienced with other varieties of weed. A few buds of Kali Mist on hand to vaporize as needed is like having a psychologist on call to calm you down and ensure that you enjoy every breath of life that you take without sweating the details.

https://www.seriousseeds.com/cannabis-seeds/kali-mist

Finally we have a YouTube video covering this historic press conference of October 8th 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlcDHKduP4

When this news of impending cannabis legalization in Nigeria first broke a couple of days, it seemed too good to be true, which called for further monitoring of major Nigerian news outlets. Here are another two reports of this historic press conference published in the online versions of the Nigerian Tribune and the Vanguard.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/10/why-ndlea-approves-regulated-cannabis-oil-export-opposes-local-use-marwa/

https://guardian.ng/news/ndlea-backs-regulated-cannabis-oil-export-opposes-local-use-marwa/


So. while this news that Nigeria might be reconsidering its stand on cannabis legalization is worthy of celebration and praise, stoners in Nigeria would still be well advised not to jump the gun and begin planting their own weed supply because it is already clear that cannabis for personal recreational use will NOT be made legal in Nigeria.

It is the commercial production under license of cannabis from which therapeutic CBD oil can be extracted for lucrative export, that is set to be legalized after the National Assembly has completed its own task of drafting an acceptable legal framework for the establishment of state-licensed medical marijuana production farms and industries in Nigeria.

One can only hope that surveillance drones are standard equipment with Nigerian military formations based in hostile areas of the country. That eye in the sky is absolutely essential as a force multiplier in all military confrontations. The model for this kind of new warfare with drones playing a prominent role, is being demonstrated daily in the Ukraine / Russia war.

Meanwhile, Nigeria's National Assembly law makers are working in tandem with the NDLEA to craft legislation amendments that will regulate, tax, and define licensing prerequisites to streamline this historic new era of prosperity flowing from the multi-billion dollar canna-industry in Nigeria.

https://dailyobserver.ng/nigerias-national-assembly-moves-to-legalize-cannabis-for-medicinal-and-economic-purposes/

meobizy:
I just dey look you. ROFLMAO.

Haha no be small ting, my broda. I don carry this matter put for head. I no take am play at all.

dollypi:
Legal drugs that qualify for the bolded are many.

You sound really invested in this cannabis thing.

For sure I'd love to be a legal and licensed cannabis farmer in Nigeria, and this aspiration will probably come to pass once the laws are amended to allow the legal cultivation of cannabis for export or local medical use.

I agree with you that there are so many other deadly drugs whose possession or trafficking are NOT adequately penalized in Nigeria. If I were made a dictator of Nigeria for one day, I would mandate 70 years in prison with hard labor for smoking or selling tobacco or cigarettes, while alcohol possession would be penalized with just one year jail, followed by ten years probation AND a fine of 500K naira.

Elliotwaveforec:
It's high time this happened! We can't continue burning and destroying foreign exchange earner like cannabis.

One hopes that all those who are languishing in jail for simple possession of cannabis, and especially those involved in growing cannabis, can be released and given the opportunity to become cannabis cultivation consultants (CCC). Once this medicinal plant has been removed from the dangerous drug list, those wrongly jailed for their involvement in its trade should be pardoned, released from jail, and rehabilitated where necessary.

Conversely, the applicable legal penalties should be increased for possession and sale of deadly Class A drugs like methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin, codeine, and even synthetic cannabis. The seller of any drug that is known to cause addiction, illness and death, should be jailed for life without the option of paying any fine.

If Nigerian law currently allows terrorists who have committed multiple murders to go scot free after they have "repented" for their multiple homicides, then there is no reason why that same spirit of forgiveness cannot be extended to non-violent weed smokers, growers and sellers.

3exe3:
i think religion might be a deterrent

Religious beliefs were certainly among the reasons that cannabis remained illegal in Nigeria for so long after the nation's independence in 1960, so it is a huge relief to see those old colonial laws banning such a medically beneficial plant, now being unceremoniously consigned to the dustbin of history where they have belonged for generations.

By the same token, I find it odd that cigarettes and alcohol which are both deadly poisons, remain perfectly legal to buy, sell, and consume throughout much of this world including Nigeria.

This proposed legalization of cannabis is a step in the right direction that will create thousands of new jobs and accrue vast fortunes in greenback dollars for Nigeria's economy, and her people.

helinues:
Based on my understanding about this proposal, I think it's targeted at exporting part not consumer use

Correct. Nigeria's impending legislative change to cannabis laws that has just been announced by NDLEA boss Marwa, is at first glance almost identical to the recent selective legalization of low-TCH / high-CBD hemp and cannabis plants in Ghana.

While Ghana still forbids the recreational use of marijuana, it now recognizes the huge economic potential of cultivating industrial hemp, or low THC strains of cannabis sativa, that are NOT psychoactive, for the end use of being processed via distillation into that medicinal liquid gold called CBD oil, for both export and medical applications within Nigeria.

3exe3:
how many cannabis plant will produce a litre of cbd oil

Having no direct experience in the process of CBD extraction, your important question led me to conduct some research online. The most informative website I have found thus far on the CBD extraction process is at the following link. The following quotation taken from the linked page below refers to industrial hemp and NOT to cannabis sativa or cannabis indica that are both selectively bred to contain high percentages of CBD, with LOW percentages of the psychoactive THC content that gives the weed "high" that is sought by most recreational cannabis users.

"On average, a decent grower can expect between 1500 to 2500 pounds of biomass per acre of hemp. Beginners can normally expect to get roughly a liter of 60% crude oil from 15 to 30 pounds weight of plant material."

https://www.newphaseblends.com/how-much-cbd-oil-can-one-plant-produce/

meobizy:
Our petroleum industry is surely older than fifty years old.

I doubt our country can produce industrial quantity cannabis. Let’s watch and see.

The equation variable than many forget to consider is the deluge of foreign investment dollars that will flow like a tidal wave into the Nigerian economy as investment venture capital to fund the construction of high-tech CBD oil distillation infrastructure comparable to that found in those industrialized nations where the CBD industry traces its origins.

In tropical Africa, solar power offers great promise as the primary energy source for the non-polluting CBD distillation process, but far more crucially, Nigeria's year round Equatorial weather and abundantly rich agricultural soil will translate into continuous year-round mega-yields of medicinal cannabis whose production will incur comparatively low energy bills associated with artificial lighting that would be optional in West Africa but mandatory in the northern-hemisphere nations spanning the EU to the USA.

In short, Nigeria's location just 6-degrees of latitude north of the Equator, means that daylight hours are consistently 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime, year round, without the wide seasonal variation of daylight hours seen in Europe and North America's Summer and Winter solstices. That consistent 12 hour day and night cycle in West Africa and other Equatorial nations makes possible the cultivation of THREE annual crops in contrast to just ONE growing season that is possible for outdoor cannabis cultivation in the northern hemisphere's temperate climate nations.

Before anyone asks the question of what exactly CBD oil does for our health, here is a complete listing of 55 health benefits of this liquid gold called CBD oil, whose ONLY source is the cannabis plant.

https://dailycbd.com/en/cbd-oil-benefits/

helinues:
Have they started the mass production?

With the green light now given by our man Buba Marawa to end the prohibition of cannabis in Nigeria, the next step is going to be a legislative amendment that Nigerian lawmakers will fine tune and formalize, whereby the licensing and regulatory framework for Nigeria's new multi-BILLION dollar cannabis CBD oil industry will be documented for implementation.

With the amiable NDLEA boss Marwa now on board with a brave plan to revitalize the Nigerian economy via the highly lucrative cannabis industry, it will take a few months before the colonial-era cannabis prohibition laws of the uninformed past can finally be flushed down into the septic tank of history.

Look at the math accounting of the staggering wealth that CBD oil can start to generate for Nigeria within one year, and every year thereafter. Take this raw price per liter comparison between Bonny Light crude oil that is the current mainstay of Nigeria's economy, and CBD cannabis oil.

The current price of Nigeria's Bonny Light crude oil stands at $78 USD per statutory oil barrel that is defined as 159 liters.

The website that lists current crude oil prices is here : https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/4189

The price per liter of Bonny Light Crude oil is therefore $78 (per barrel) divided by 159 liters ( per barrel) = 49 cents USD per liter


That other far more valuable oil called CBD oil, that comes from the cannabis plant, sells for between $200 and $1,000 USD per liter according to this authoritative website on the subject.

https://whatiswaterwebsite.com/how-much-is-a-liter-of-cbd-distillate/

Now, comparing Nigeria's Bonny Light crude oil that sells for 49 cents (half a UD dollar) per liter, and the CHEAPEST price for CBD oil which is $200, it is thus evident that CBD oil sells at 400 times the price per liter than the price of crude petroleum oil, with that ratio rising far higher if the more expensive prices of CBD oil are used for this comparative price analysis.

Nigeria is on a sure footing right now to experience an economic BOOM the likes of which have never been seen in living history, thanks to the profound wisdom, pragmatism, foresight and strategic planning of the current Nigerian president, His Excellency Bola Tinubu, and his sagacious NDLEA head honcho, Retired General Buba Marwa. A new glorious dawn has broken in Nigeria, whose impact will transform lives, along with the whole trajectory of Nigeria's destiny that today looks more promising than ever.

JAMO4REAL1:
Late Ondo Gov Aketi talk about this then, thank God EhinOgbe boys go happy now it call for celeb

Yes indeed, that late Ondo State governor visited Thailand to see how cannabis was generating billions of dollars as an industry producing the raw material for life-saving medications that Thailand exports worldwide while accruing massive profits and tax revenue.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Vwkgwtq5I

Godfullsam:
Sowore has been calling for this long time ago.

Nigeria will make lots of $$$$s from CBD exports.

Though this policy has to be strictly regulated before people begin to abuse it on a larger scale.

The expectation that cannabis will be abused by people who never touched it previously, when it is legalized, is NOT supported by any scientific facts.

Cigarettes, tobacco snuff and alcohol are all legal to buy in Nigeria, yet the number of cigarette smokers or drunkards that one encounters in Nigeria is far smaller than is seen in many other parts of the world like the UK and France, for example, where tobacco addiction is a major threat that even claims school children as addicts. Likewise, the fact that alcohol has always been legal to buy, use and sell in Nigeria has NOT resulted in the mass abuse of alcohol in Nigeria. In my small social circle of Nigerian friends, I don't know of any drunkards or cigarette smokers at all, by way of example.

No sir, the recreational use of cannabis will not change in any perceptible way once growing this medicinal plant is legalized. Those who loved getting high on weed will continue to do so, but they will NOT be joined by others who are inspired by the legalization of cannabis to start using it for the first time.

Yes sir indeed, pellow kwantiri-mans, you heard it here first. The head of Nigeria's drug enforcement agency, our man Buba Marwa, has issued directives that will ultimately legalize a regulated and taxed cannabis market for the purpose of producing non-psychoactive CBD oil for the export market. In layman's terms, it will soon be possible for Nigerian entrepreneurial farmers to apply for a government permit to cultivate cannabis for the production of CBD oil that will revolutionize the export market revenue that accrues to Nigeria and her citizens.

This unexpected development will one day be regarded by historians as a major turning point in the fortunes of Nigeria that will be comparable to the day crude oil was discovered under the waters of the Niger Delta half a century ago.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigeria-eyes-40-billion-global-cannabis-oil-market-as-ndlea-okays-regulated-exports/

Well, my pellow kwantiri-mans, I am elated, delighted and downright ecstatic to share some Earth-shaking good news about Nigeria's sudden and totally unexpected CHANGE of policy about cannabis, as de4scribed in this article below, in which Nigeria's drug czar, the Always Mighty Buba Marwa of the Keke Marwa fame, has FINALLY and at long last, recognized the enormous economic potential of CBD oil that is extracted from the cannabis plant. In short, it will soon be LEGAL to grow cannabis with a government permit, in Nigeria.

https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigeria-eyes-40-billion-global-cannabis-oil-market-as-ndlea-okays-regulated-exports/

Now, Nigeria is poised to join South Africa, Lesotho, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ghana and Uganda by hopping aboard the multi-BILLION-dollar cannabis oil market train to prosperity. This means that the absolute prohibition of cannabis growing and industrial processing is about to give way to an era of unprecedented economic buoyancy in which Nigeria's God-given tropical climate and rich agricultural soils will soon begin to generate far MORE national cannabis wealth income than could have been envisioned by even the most optimistic projections.

A new era of phenomenal growth in the agricultural sector of Nigeria is about to kick off under the presidency of His Excellency Bola Tinubu, the man of the hour, whose wisdom will transform the great nation of Nigeria beyond our wildest expectations. The best is yet to come, y'all, the best is yet to come.

GabrielYulaw:
No noise. Nothing.
Because the West supports this and pays African governments to do this.

It was horrifying to see those fragile and easily sunk migrant boats being rammed by Tunisian patrol boats to make them sink with all aboard. The terror and disbelief of the people crammed into those tiny boats was captured on the phones used to film the high seas genocide, which were held by those in the boats, many of who subsequently drowned and vanished beneath the waves.

Also seeing the Tunisian patrol boat crews using long sticks to knock people into the water so they would die, was astonishing to behold. Finally, for those who were captured at sea, watching them being transported on buses to go and die of exposure and dehydration after being dropped off in the desert, was as jarring as the eyewitness accounts of any wartime atrocity in which human beings are systematically herded off to meet their deaths.

The following video clip that was published by Al Jazeera News YouTube two days ago on October 5th 2025, opens a window to the systematic genocide of black West African citizens who find themselves trapped in the North African nation of Tunisia, where their only viable option of escape is to board flimsy boats and take to the Mediterranean Sea in a usually doomed bid to reach the shores of Europe.

Once aboard those rickety boats at sea, the final, unspeakable nightmare unfolds for thousands of those would-be immigrants because the Tunisian Coast Guard chases those small boats, and sinks them for the deliberate purpose of killing all aboard, to prevent them from setting foot in Europe.

One can only imagine the thoughts that would go through the mind of any migrant, when it becomes apparent that the Tunisian patrol boats approaching them are on a mission to kill them all at sea, while viciously clubbing any of the migrants who try to board the Tunisian patrol boats that are used to ram the immigrant rafts so as to sink them with all souls who are on board.

This video clip is extremely difficult to watch, because it shows a national government committing mass murder at sea, but also transporting immigrants into the burning African desert where they are left miles from any water source, to die in their THOUSANDS of thirst and exposure. This ongoing genocide receives very little mainstream media coverage, and for this reason was hard to believe as a true, factual account of events that are occurring even as these words are being typed. Here is the video clip of the North African nation where many West African immigrants go to die - Tunisia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLb5Mq-cyOoe

MonthlySalary:
She should have just faced her fears instead of running. She could have used a knife to fend off the armed thieves.
I'd rather die fighting than die running

I have done it once and i survived

Surely you have heard the phrase " Don't bring a knife to a gunfight"