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 Politics › Re: Buhari Sends Atiku To SA To Lobby Zuma For Adesina.....premium Times.(PIX) by JuanDeDios: 3:21pm On May 03, 2015 |
nairaimporter:Please read this this thread. https://www.nairaland.com/2291656/what-achievements-akinwumi-adeshina-minister#33376243 |
| Politics › What Are The Achievements Of Akinwumi Adeshina As Minister Of Agriculture? by JuanDeDios(op): 2:28pm On May 03, 2015*. Modified: 8:35pm On May 03, 2015 |
I had this interesting exchange with the beautiful and brilliant lady MzJackBaueress last night. MzJackBaueress Cry me a lagoon Ngwakwe!JuanDeDios Adeshina wasn't the best performing minister of GEJ's. Far from itMzJackBaueress who was then?JuanDeDios Jonathan had only one good minister - Olusegun Aganga. There are no concrete achievements of Adeshina's to point to. He failed to address the fundamental problems of agriculture. Making noise all about and taking pictures with D'banj doesn't make you a good minister.MzJackBaueress You lie!JuanDeDios Hahahahahahaha______ I often hear “everybody” go on and on about Akinwumi Adeshina. So as someone who’s passionate about agriculture, I have opened this thread to educate myself on the young man’s achievements. Let me give some background to this to kick off the discussion: Rural subsistence agriculture: When I was a kid, there was this epidemic that used to sweep the village. Call it goat flu. Whenever it struck, 90-98% of the goats in the village would die. Thirty-something years on I still recall the despair in my grandmother’s face the night her favourite black goat succumbed and breathed its last. The epidemic lasted for weeks, maybe months, yet there was no single government person, from the state or local government, who visited the village to render advice or assistance. Today, thirty-something years later, where are we? Do these rural folks have any phone number they can call upon when this sort of epidemic is raging, killing their goats or chickens? No. Marketing of agric produce: Joko Oshikanlu, a leading cassava farmer, once narrated how Nigerian farmers were plunged into poverty in 2001 or 2002 (not sure of the exact year now) when the price of cassava crashed so badly that many of them left their tubers on the ground unharvested. Most Nigerians did not even notice – I guess they were just happy “garium” had become “sara”. But the following year we all paid the price because most cassava farmers did not plant and the price or garri went through the roof after Nigeria started to import garri from Benin republic! In serious countries, that is, countries with functional agricultural policies, you can tell how much your crops will sell for at the point of planting. This is achieved through the instrumentality of marketing boards and government guarantees. That is why I nearly flew in the air when I heard that APC ad about “just plant, government buys!” I hope they do it. Support systems for farming: In serious societies, if you move into a virgin land and are considering what to grow on it or what animals to keep on it, you will pick up soil samples and send it to a laboratory, usually run by the agric ministry but may also be owned by your local university or a private company. The lab will tell you all you need to know about the sand – type, water retention and humidity, temperature – and the type of crop(s) that will thrive on that soil as well as the fertiliser you should use. Or whether you can keep snails on it or use it for cows. What do we have in Nigeria after five years of Adeshina? Funding: Farmers still can’t get funds in Nigeria. Forget all the noise they make. Agriculture Data: Farmers need data for planning. I had expected Mr Adeshina to link up with the Federal Office of Statistics to work on this. Some progress has been made here but we are still far from the ideal. Seeds: Availability of quality seeds is still a huge problem in Nigeria. Mechanised farming: If you buy some expensive machinery for farming in Nigeria today, you are on your own if it breaks down because you will find no spare parts to buy. There ought to be a system in place to support this. No, I’m not talking about first world countries only. Some African countries poorer than Nigeria do have all the above. All I have heard concerning Adeshina is fertiliser this, fertiliser that. As if agriculture is all about maize planting. Countless rural farmers are still not getting the fertilisers anyway. Not that you can’t do agriculture without fertiliser. Fertilizer is just one component. Another achievement was the cassava bread launched with fanfare by the president. Who has seen it? I haven’t and I live in the city. I wonder if it’s village folks that have access to them. What else did the man do again? They say rice production has increased but in a country where government lies a lot I won’t be surprised if this is a figment of someone’s imagination. Whenever I go the markets in Lagos all I see is an array of imported rice. But I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this. Afterall, i am not saying Mr Adeshina has not made significant achievements in fertiliser and one or two other areas. I’m only saying he has failed to address the fundamental problems of the sector, of which I have highlighted a few basic ones. But maybe the rice is coming. It just hasn’t yet – let’s not lie about that. This morning I ate imported rice with soup made with imported turkey. Oh, someone said we should make CONSCIOUS effort to find and eat local rice. Maybe we should make economics compulsory subject. So what did Adeshina do again? Please state them, making your case intelligently. Use facts, not conjectures. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Sends Atiku To SA To Lobby Zuma For Adesina.....premium Times.(PIX) by JuanDeDios: 10:50pm On May 02, 2015 |
MzJackBaueress:Hahahahahahaha So this is your response to what I wrote. Well, I have heard a lot of people use this phrase, which by the way is common with fallacies, to describe Adeshina - "Everybody knows. . ." You, like them, didn't task your brain to try to lay a finger on his CONCRETE achievements. You didn't ask me what the fundamental problems with our agric are. I bet you don't even know anything about Aganga's humongous achievements. I guess it's easier to form opinion based on what "everybody" is saying and from seeing someone hugging cameras everywhere without making intelligent assessments for oneself. Goodnight. |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Sends Atiku To SA To Lobby Zuma For Adesina.....premium Times.(PIX) by JuanDeDios: 9:06pm On May 02, 2015 |
nairaimporter:They are NOT readily available. |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Sends Atiku To SA To Lobby Zuma For Adesina.....premium Times.(PIX) by JuanDeDios: 9:03pm On May 02, 2015 |
MzJackBaueress:Jonathan had only one good minister - Olusegun Aganga. There are no concrete achievements of Adeshina's to point to. He failed to address the fundamental problems of agriculture. Making noise all about and taking pictures with D'banj doesn't make you a good minister. |
| Politics › Re: Buhari Sends Atiku To SA To Lobby Zuma For Adesina.....premium Times.(PIX) by JuanDeDios: 7:34pm On May 02, 2015 |
MzJackBaueress:Adeshina wasn't the best performing minister of GEJ's. Far from it? |
| Crime › Re: Ijaw Youths, OPC Clash In Arepo Over Pipeline, Pregnant Woman, Others Killed by JuanDeDios: 4:23pm On May 01, 2015 |
tonychristopher:OPC had been systematically demobilised but Jonathan has brought them back because he wanted to win an election. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Pwc’s NNPC Audit Left Gas Sales Record Untouched by JuanDeDios(op): 11:31am On Apr 29, 2015 |
PwC’s NNPC audit left gas sales record untouched April 29, 2015 | Filed under: Exclusive,main story | Author: PATRICK ATUANYA & SOJI AKINYELE The recently released forensic audit of Nigeria’s state oil firm by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) which said the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) accused of corruption, should pay $1.48 billion to the government is so incomplete that it leaves room for a potentially much larger hole. The PwC audit of the NNPC failed to account for proceeds of gas sales, even though it was part of its scope of the engagement, as set out in the Terms of Reference. Business Day’s review of the terms of reference for PwC shows that it includes examining records of monthly crude oil and gas production in barrels/metric tonnes, and the average selling price of crude oil and gas on monthly basis. Other objectives of the audit per the engagement letter include looking at the schedule of buyers of crude oil and gas, showing detail of purchases (volume and value), foreign sales of crude oil and gas (USD) and mandates sent to CBN by NNPC to transfer crude oil and gas revenue to the Federation Account, among others. The audit firm PwC claimed it did not examine gas production records because: “the allegations on unremitted funds relate to revenues accruing from crude oil sales.” The Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NEITI) audit of the petroleum industry from 2009 to 2011 released in 2013 said there was a non-remittance of $4.84 billion dividend payments over a two-year period from the NigeriaLiquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) to the Federation Account. Nigeria exported some 19.6 million metric tons of LNG in 2012, the fourth-largest output worldwide, according to data compiled by research firm IHS. Qatar was first with 74.2 million metric tons, while Australia exported 19 million metric tons. Nigeria LNG Limited is jointly owned by the NNPC (49 percent), Shell (25.6 percent), TotalLNG Nigeria Ltd (15 percent) and Eni (10.4 percent). The NLNG Plant has a capacity of 22 million tons per annum of LNG and 4 million tons per annum of LPG. A 146 – page report by Nuhu Ribadu, the former head of the anti-corruption agency the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) covering the years 2002 to 2012, released last November, concluded that oil majors Shell, Total and Eni made bumper profits from undercutting Nigeria on gas prices. NLNG, had paid the country for gas at cut-down prices before exporting it to international markets, the report said. “The estimated cumulative of the deficit between value obtainable on the international market and what is currently being obtained from NLNG, over the 10 year period, amounts to approximately $29 billion,” the report said. Shell owes Nigeria’s government N137.57 billion ($874 million) for gas sold from its Bonga deep offshore field, the report said, while oil majors owed $58 million between them for gas flaring penalties. They were also not adhering to newer higher fines. The report also alleges NNPC had short-changed the Nigerian treasury of billions dollars over the last 10 years by selling crude oil and gas to itself below market rates. The PWC report showed that total gross revenues generated from FGN crude oil lifting’s was $69.34bn, however only $50.81 billion was remitted into the Federation accounts. Business Day’s findings when looking at the full report, shows that the balance of $18.53 billion consisting of NNPC operating and other costs, are open to potential abuse by the corporation, due to weak internal controls. An example of this is the $810 million (N160.3 billion) third party payments (including training course fees, estacode and consultancy fees, and other vendor payments), reported by NNPC for the audit period spanning January 2012 to July 2013. Another major area for potential obfuscation is the 46 percent of proceeds of domestic crude oil revenues for the review period which was spent on operations and subsidies. According to the report, while the NNPC reported and defrayed all costs incurred by its loss making subsidiaries, the profit making subsidiaries and dividends received were excluded from the data the corporation provided to PwC. This suggests that there are other sources of net revenues available to the corporation, not currently disclosed. “A proper estimate of the actual potential excess remittance/under-remittance can only be arrived at if all revenues and all costs of the Corporation and all its subsidiaries are accounted for in a consolidated position. A detailed review of this was beyond the scope of our mandate,” PwC said in the report. Source http://businessdayonline.com/2015/04/pwcs-nnpc-audit-left-gas-sales-record-untouched/#.VUCyGtJVhHx |
| Politics › Re: Buhari And Osinbajo Taking Breakfast Tea With N35 Milo (pics) by JuanDeDios: 10:24am On Apr 29, 2015 |
kettykin:This is an extremely foolish comment. How does not being wasteful lead to paupersiation? |
| Crime › Re: 4 Armed Robbers Who Crossed Into Nigeria From Ghana Killed By Ogun Police by JuanDeDios: 10:22am On Apr 29, 2015 |
See rifle! Must be 100 years old. 2 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Can Osinbajo Be A Good President? by JuanDeDios: 10:42pm On Apr 27, 2015 |
nuclearboy:Ha. Wetin Olumba do you naa? 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Obiano Donates Salary To Less Priviledge In Anambra by JuanDeDios: 6:57pm On Apr 27, 2015 |
Lucky Igbinedion used to do something similar during his term as Edo governor. 1 Like 1 Share |
| Business › Re: Top 10 Ways To Become Rich.. by JuanDeDios: 10:47pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
@op Great post. Please ignore those asking you to show them your wealth. Unfortunately Nairaland has a disproportionate number of pipsqueaks. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: South Africa Shuns Jonathan, Says "We Will Discuss With Buhari Next Month" by JuanDeDios: 10:09pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
froshie:Calling the assertion that a man like Jonathan taking a senseless action just before he leaves office is meant to remind everyone he still has power is crap reflects very poor thinking ability on your part. Is it not because he is "already leaving" that that is necessary? Where does a resolution of the legislature amount to automatic executive action? Were you in this country when this same president backed his ministers to stop answering summons of the national assembly? I assume that if you were the president in this instance and you're asked why you withdrew your ambassador you will throw up your hands in the air and say "Oh, the National Assembly asked for it, so I did it." |
| Crime › Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by JuanDeDios: 9:46pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks:Nobody deserves to be executed. Say no to the death penalty for anyone and for any crime. Nigerians aren't special. Besides, Nigeria has the death penalty, so we don't have the moral high ground on this. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: South Africa Shuns Jonathan, Says "We Will Discuss With Buhari Next Month" by JuanDeDios: 9:26pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
ohenhen1:No, it's not. Recalling your ambassador is done when a government takes a serious action you don't like. When your citizens are being attacked by street mobs, you ask the host government to protect them and ask your ambassador to do all they can to protect them. Now who's looking out for the Nigerians in SA? Who's our government's eyes and ears there? Abuja's action is emotional. I guess Jonathan wants to remind everybody he is still president. I agree with you on the anti-trust DSTV and all that that wahala. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: South Africa Shuns Jonathan, Says "We Will Discuss With Buhari Next Month" by JuanDeDios: 9:19pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
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| Politics › Re: Patience Jonathan’s Attitude Cost Us Defeat — PDP Chief by JuanDeDios: 2:22pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
“The strides made in the economic sphere, especially domestic rice promotion, calculated by the Jonathan administration to flip economic growth, and boost import substitution, also negatively alerted the West. The shift to China for our railway transformation, and recently, the migration to Russia for arms and ammunition to quelling the insurgency also signalled to the West that Jonathan had started constituting a self-reliant and dependent nation-state, a feat seen too tall by the US and their allies in the West.This is nonsense. 4 Likes |
| Dating And Meet-up Zone › Re: I Want To Get Married by JuanDeDios: 9:34pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Kayoski:His choice of words may have betrayed his immaturity, but there isn't anything particularly wrong or egregious about looking for a spouse-c.um-business partner. People do it all the time in all societies. |
| Romance › Florida Man Tries To Kiss Cottonmouth Snake, Hospitalized After Bite by JuanDeDios(op): 8:45pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Florida Man Tries to Kiss Cottonmouth Snake, Hospitalized after Bite BY: Daniel Xu + POSTED: 4/22/15 One Florida man learned the hard way that water moccasins do not make the best kissing partners. According to Fox 13, 18-year-old Austin Hatfield of Wimauma was hospitalized last Saturday after being bitten by a cottonmouth while attempting to kiss it. Friends said that Hatfield had captured the snake from his girlfriend’s yard several days before and was keeping it in a pillowcase. Hatfield occasionally took the snake out to kiss it on the mouth, but on Saturday, the snake decided to end the relationship. “He took it out, put it on his chest and it was acting funny, and it jumped up and got him,” said Jason Belcher, who witnessed the attack. “He ripped it off his face, threw it on the ground and he started swelling up immediately. It was pretty frightening.” The 18-year-old was transported to Tampa General Hospital’s emergency room in critical condition, but doctors have since said that he is expected to recover. Although cottonmouth bites can be effectively treated with antivenom, the snake is still considered very dangerous and have been known to cause fatalities. Common symptoms of a cottonmouth bite include severe swelling, intense pain, and signs of shock due to the body’s reaction to the venom. Officials from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) said they are investigating the case and have euthanized the snake that is believed to have bitten Hatfield. According to FWC spokesperson Gary Morse, Hatfield could face charges for illegally capturing and keeping the cottonmouth without a permit. Cottonmouths, also known as mangrove rattlers or worm-tailed pitvipers, are considered dangerous animals and Morse said that those who come across them should keep their distance. http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/04/22/florida-man-tries-kiss-cottonmouth-snake-hospitalized-bite/
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| Politics › Re: Saraki And Akume Lose Out On Senate Presidency As North-east Get Slot by JuanDeDios: 8:12pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
PPAngel:Child. 3 Likes |
| Car Talk › Re: Tragedy As Container Fell On 2 Vehicles In Ikorodu,4 Killed,Others Injured(Pics by JuanDeDios: 2:07pm On Apr 25, 2015 |
Ozigbondu:That may be too expensive and difficult to enforce. Make a law banning UNLATCHED containers oin the road. It's simple enough to transport containers responsibly but we prefare to live irresponsibly in these climes. |
| Business › Re: 10 Wealth Secrets Of Aliko Dangote: A Must Read. by JuanDeDios: 4:24pm On Apr 24, 2015 |
emmykk:500k wasn't the cost of Mercedes 200 in 1977. If you meant to say 50k, it wasn't even up to that. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Godwin Emefiele Tells Buhari To Sell Off Nigeria's Oil Stakes by JuanDeDios: 1:23pm On Apr 24, 2015 |
CHESSBOARD:I don't think they're meant to be selling to foreign companies. The private equity companies to buy the divested equities should be Nigerian companies. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Open Letter To NIGERIA From A SOUTH AFRICAN by JuanDeDios: 11:06am On Apr 24, 2015 |
@ op Thandolwethu Where does one even start with your post? No Nigerian has been killed, but do you know how many have lost livelihoods and how many millions have been destroyed? You're whining about civilised protests - has any South African person or business been attacked in Nigeria? Suffice to say you don't seem to have a lot of sense. If you did you have known the benefits conferred on your country by these foreigners you hate so much and that immigration is controlled by government policy and crime by policing and not murderous gangs on the streets. |
| Politics › Re: U.S Government Wants Global Position For GEJ by JuanDeDios: 10:58am On Apr 24, 2015 |
But how many times does Biden call Jonathan? |
| Politics › Re: U.S Government Wants Global Position For GEJ by JuanDeDios: 10:58am On Apr 24, 2015 |
firstEVA:He he. No be small truth you talk. Anyway, they have systems in place over there to ensure one person can't mess things up. We don't have systems in Nigeria that's why fools and fanatics can ruin things by themselves. |
| Politics › Re: APC Again, Puts Zoning Structure On Hold by JuanDeDios: 9:04am On Apr 24, 2015 |
theV0ice:Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 1 Like |
| Health › Re: Could Your Soap Really Cause Erectile Dysfunction? by JuanDeDios: 11:01pm On Apr 23, 2015 |
Abeg, is there triclosan in dudu osun? |
| Romance › Re: Things Guys Do That Turns Me Off. by JuanDeDios: 8:23pm On Apr 23, 2015 |
onlyievera:Well, I was hoping you will argue some more. Brown guy sure took you to university. You should mail him a cheque. |
| Romance › Re: Ladies, Who Will You Choose Among These Husbands? by JuanDeDios: 3:18pm On Apr 23, 2015 |
MarvellousGod:What you typed made a ton of sense.  |
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