₦airaland Forum

spyder880:
I can see Nsukka is developing with speed. Where can I hang a new housing estate in this emerging city?

I think I need to visit Nsukka in the weekend to see a possibility of taking position for the future.

Tigerkenn Homes Ltd, making sure you get the best of real estate deals.

I heard there is a layout for a new GRA around obimo and families that have land around the area are currently ready to sell. You can check that out.

Hopefully this is finally resolved........more revenue. Hope we get it right this time. The past government didn't give a damn

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/225686-reps-want-kogi-enugu-anambra-declared-oil-producing-states.html

Can u post Location of car?

Lala u go like sleep small first

So the state government of enugu state advertised for jobs in ESUTH Parklane and requested for 10000 naira from applicants including young graduates for housemanship and internship. It's a pity.

https://www.myjobmag.com/readjob/33758/jobs/fresh-job-recruitment-at-the-enugu-state-university-of-science-and-technology-esut-teaching-hospital

can it go for 1.9m

Toyota camry 2007-2011
Registered but clean with nothing to fix
Automatic transmission

MotorConnectz:
Model: Toyota Corolla
Year: 2009
Colour: Metallic
Interior: Fabric
Transmission: Automatic
Engine: i4 cylinders
Price: ₦2.2million (open for slight negotiations)

can it go for 1.7

Can it go for 2m? The interior seems fabric

Rear exterior pictures and front interior pix. Price too

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spyder880:
These are the proposed rules for the operation of a property investment partnership between Tigerkenn Homes Ltd and some members of the public desirous of investing money for the purpose of building homes for profit.

1. It is agreed that the management of Tigerkenn Homes Ltd will be involved in the purchase of lands, and the construction of residential and commercial buildings, shopping complexes, estates and any other forms of buildings, making decisions as appropriate and as agreed by MOST members of the group.

2. It is agreed that the funding for the purchase and construction of the houses, shops estates will be sourced from interested members of the public desirous of participation in the venture.

3. It is agreed that membership of this building partnership can only be granted in in written form to each member after he or she satisfies the requirements for participation in the building partnership.

4. Such requirements for participation must include the payment of some money to purchase at least one "share" , which term shall stand for a unit of ownership and a stake in the building business partnership.

5. It is also agreed that each "share" could only be purchased by the payment of N1,000,000.00 (One million naira only ).

6. Such deposit must be made to the company accounts of Tigerkenn Homes Ltd, and a receipt of acknowledgement obtained by the interested investor.

7. It is agreed that a person, group of people or corporate body can obtain more than one block of "share"

8. It is agreed that this partnership will be conducted in cycles, such cycles must start at the start of a named project, (for example, the construction of a named building or structure). The cycle shall expire at the sale of the named building or structure.

9. It is agreed that the proceeds from the sale of each investment shall be distributed to the contributing members of the investment group, in a ratio to the units of shares they own.

10. Tigerkenn Homes Ltd shall retain 15% of the profits and the rest distributed to share owners.

11. It is agreed that any member that wishes to withdraw from the partnership, or any investment cycle before the end of the cycle must have to forfeit his benefits at the end of that particular cycle. A member will also free to re enter the investment partnership any time he meets the re entry criteria as stipulated by the management of Tigerkenn Homes Ltd.

12. It is agreed that the management of Tigerkenn Homes Ltd will retain the details of each investor. Such details will include their full names, phone details and next of kin information.

13. In line with our company policy, the confidentiality of our clients and investor's details remains a top priority. We always safeguard all personal information belonging to all our clients and investors.


(Please note that these are the draft proposed rules, reviews and more suggestions are allowed before we print the agreements)

Looking forward to your comments.

Thanks.

It will be nice if the contribution of tigerkenn homes Ltd from purchase of land to construction is valued in number of shares just like other prospective investors that will bring just money.
Then further explanation on the 15%

So my Samsung Galaxy tab S2 SM-T815 no follow abi the LTE feature on it is for fancy

yemmy009:
Tell her to stop using ciprotab get ampliclox beecham n flagyl to be used morning n night n she shouldn't drink cold thing or sugary things for now. She can go for ultra sound scan to confirm if d abortion is properly carried out. As for d malaria ciprotab works for both typhoid n malaria. But to be sincere with u when u know u are not financially bouyant u shouldn't have had sex without a condom. Prevention is better than cure. I pray she get well soon.

op follow the above at your peril.
ciprofloxacin for malaria? this is the peak of quackery.
op you just need a good gynecologist at this point. Help the young lady by taking her to a good hospital.
she probably has a septic abortion now from retained products that were not removed during the abortion.
An ultrasound scan and complete evacuation of there are still remnants with good antibiotics will help her.

FunkyMetahuman:
Number 7,

Rivers - port Harcourt
Cool FM [1] FM 95.9 (MHz ) Garden City FM 89.9 (MHz ) Family Love FM [2] FM 97.7 (MHz ) Nigeria Info FM 92.3 (MHz ) Wave 91.7 FM [3] FM 91.7 (MHz ) Radio Rivers FM 99.1 (MHz ) Ray Power FM 106.5 (MHz ) Rhythm FM FM 93.7 (MHz ) Treasure [4] FM 98.5 (MHz ) Today FM FM 95.1 (MHz ) Wazobia FM 94.1 (MHz ) Uniport Unique FM 88.5 (MHz )
And
Enugu - Enugu.
92.5 - Dream FM, Enugu 100.9 -Solid FM 91.1 -Lion FM, Nsukka 92.9 - Coal City FM (FRCN) 828 -Radio Nigeria 1 Enugu Enugu 98.7-Caritas University FM Radio 106.9-Gouni FM (Godfrey Okoye University) Radio, Enugu 106.5 - Stallion FM (Federal College of Education, Ehu-Amufu) 96.7 Voice FM, Nsukka (FRCN) 96.1-Sunrise FM, Enugu 94.5-Urban Radio, Enugu 106.5-ESUT RADIO, Enugu
tied Total - 12

there is raypower fm in Enugu too.

Fresia01:
Warris dis?? Asokoro number 10?? U didn't even add Wuse2 there is another area in Enugu dat is quite cool though I ve forgotten d name.. Jabi is a nice place..my friend stays there..buh me I dey manage myself inside village for here..money scarce so I cut my cloth according to my material. good morning nlanders

that should be zoo estate in Enugu.

13.2% children in Oyo State are
underweight
About 200,000 Osun children stunted due
to malnutrition


The United Nations Children’s Emergency
Fund (UNICEF) recently raised fresh
concerns over the prevalence and effect
of malnutrition in the South-west geo-
political zone of the country, stating
that 22 per cent of children under five
years in the zone have stunted growth.


The UNICEF Communication Specialist, Mr.
Geoffrey Njoku, gave the figure in an
opening remark at a media dialogue
organised by the UNICEF for select
journalists in some states of the
federation, adding that it was erroneous
to believe that malnutrition was
prevalent only in the North.



Quoting a 2013 survey, Njoku said studies
had shown that malnutrition was
prevalent among children of the rich
people of the South-west under the age
of five, saying malnutrition was a
national problem and harped finding
sharing responsibilities on investing in
simple cost interventions.


Njoku, who narrated his Owerri
hometown experience in the South
Eastern part, Imo State, revealed that
13 per cent of children born to rich
families also suffer malnutrition in the
geo-political zone.



A resource person from the Federal
Ministry of Health, Mrs. Ogunbumi
Omotayo, noted that “Nigeria has the
highest number of stunted children under
age five in sub-Saharan Africa and
second highest in the world with 37 per
cent of all children stunted, 18 per cent
wasting and 29 per cent underweight.”
She explained further that infant
mortality rate was 69/100 live births, and
children under five years have 128/1000
live births, while only 17 per cent were
exclusively breast fed.


Mrs. Ada Ezeogu, the UNICEF Nutrition
Specialist lamented that the Nigeria
Nutrition Indices (2013) disclosed that
only 17 per cent of Nigerians engage in
Exclusive Breast Feeding (EBF), which is
far below 50 per cent international
standard requirement.
Ezeogu affirmed that malnutrition was
not all about food but inadequate care,
knowledge, food insecurity, unsanitary
environment and other factors, which are
highly manifest in the six states of the
region.


She identified overnutrition,
undernutrition and micronutrient
deficiency as the burdens of malnutrition
in the country, urging more emphasis on
the 1000 days from period of conception
to when the child attains two years.
The nutritionist, however, said the
South-west was noted for good
compliance with the six months on EBF,
but pointed out that it fails in the
complementary feeding that follows
immediately after the six months EBF.


Ezeogu emphasized that if the 50 percent EBf international standard was adhered to,
killer diseases in children will be reduced
by 50 per cent. She canvassed for policy,
coordination and partnership to promote
EBF in the region and nation at large.
Also, the Nutrition Officer, Ministry of
Health, Oyo State, Dr. Khadijah Alarape
revealed that 13.2 per cent of children in
the State were underweight, a
percentage she said was a significant
improvement from the previous 17.7 per
cent two years ago.



She said the national percentage of
underweight children in the country was
about 19.4 per cent, adding that, apart
from underweight, stunting among
children in the State was 20.5 per cent,
while wasting was 7.3 per cent, advised
Nigerian mothers to give their children
exclusive breast milk for six months,
while breastfeeding continues for the
first 1000 days of the infant’s life.
She called on mothers to give their babies
breast milk within the first 30 minutes of
life, an approach she said was very
important to the survival and health of
the child. “Women should not throw away
the first breast milk after childbirth.
Colostrum is rich in immunity and it has a
long way in helping the child’s survival,”
she added.



She said to improve further the
nutritional life of pregnant mothers and
infants, the state has embarked on a
number of interventions. “We have
nutritional development centres in Oyo
State where soya milk production has
been subsidised drastically for women to
give to their babies. This has been known
to help mitigate the impact of
malnutrition in the state and we have a
lot of testimonies on that.”
In the same vein, a nutrition specialist
with UNICEF, Mrs Ada Ezeogu, said
195,245 children below five years were
stunted in Osun state due to malnutrition
.



Urging the state government to pay
attention to early child care that would
cover children below three years in
addition to its school feeding programme
in the state, she said 21.8 per-cent of
children in Osun were stunted and that
the situation may improve if the early
child care was included in the school
feeding programme.
Mrs. Ezeogu, who spoke at the parley on
‘Good Nutrition, Invest More’, said the
figure stated was generated from
National Nutrition and Health Survey
2015.


She commended Osun State Governor, Mr
Rauf Aregbesola for the school feeding
programme in the state and urged him to
take proactive measures in addressing
the current situation, saying that the
current 21.8 per-cent malnutrition level
in the state was not acceptable.


She contended that over 50 per-cent of
infant death in the country occurred as a
result of malnutrition and called on
government and stakeholders to address
the situation and prevent avoidable
infant deaths.
http://www.medicalworldnigeria.com/2016/09/unicef-22-of-children-under-five-in-south-west-suffer-stunted-growth

PraiseGyps:
Me self wan know why o

The change begins with the long essays you are expected to finish within three hours during the professional exams while in medical school then subsequently becomes worse while trying to catch up with the dictations from the senior colleagues during ward rounds. though some already have bad writing by default.

rheether:
This shit can't happen in Enugu, obodo oyinbo anyi.

pure... nwa I di sharp. Enugu state obodo oyibo

Aroh48:
why must a doctor commits any mistake?

doctors don turn God na.
you never make mistake for your office before Abi.

it is the duty of the scrub nurse to count all the materials used for the surgery before closing the patient up to avoid this kind of situation. maybe the didn't use one. very poor practice in that case. still trying to figure out exactly what they mean by towel.

olive282:
Congrats dude..i luv ur song

an 042 babe sighted. hope you are good.

congrats Tobe. more grace

Niger's defence minister, Hassoumi
Messaoudou, told Radio France
International on Friday that
regional leaders needed to “rethink
Boko Haram” and called on regional
forces to defeat the group in
Nigeria.


“We thought they were reduced to
making suicide attacks,” he said.
“Now they have rebuilt their
military forces. We are dealing with
an army.”
Messaoudou spoke after Boko Haram
militants attacked a village in Niger
while a delegation of ministers
were visiting, killing seven
gendarmes and wounding 12 in a gun
battle.


The attack happened on Thursday in
a village in the region of Diffa that
hosts refugees and internally
displaced people who have been
forced from their home by the
Islamist insurgents, officials said.
The ministers were unharmed.


Neighbouring Chad has sent troops
to help Niger in a planned
counterattack against Boko Haram
after the militants seized the
southern Niger town of Bosso in an
attack that killed 26 soldiers.


Niger’s government has called on
former colonial power France,
which already has 3,500 troops
spread across five countries in
West Africa, to strengthen military
operations against the Nigeria-
based Boko Haram and other
militants.
http://www.thebreakingtimes.com/flash-boko-haran-armym-now-has-an-army-defence-minister/

President Muhammadu Buhari, the man who
made history as the first leader to oust a
sitting Nigerian president via democratic
means, has seen what it means to lead a
peculiar nation.
In his own little way, the president of
Africa’s biggest economy, who rode to
power on the wings of change, has
transformed the face of business in
Nigeria.

Here are five ways Buhari has changed
doing business in Nigeria:


WORLD BANK’S BITTERSWEET INDEX
In Buhari’s one year in office, the World
Bank has released just one “ease of doing
business” report, and it’s bittersweet.
Its sweet in the sense that Nigeria took a
leap of change from 170 to 169, moving
one spot up the ease doing business
ladder.
Though Nigeria overtook one country on
the ladder, it actually became harder to do
business in Nigeria. The ease of doing
business index fell from 47.33 in 2015 to
44.69 in 2016 .
The world bank stated epileptic power
supply and lack of clear rules and
enforcement as the major reasons why
Nigeria lost some points in its ease of
doing business.
The bank said power “is a core sector for
the generation of national wealth and
employment in Nigeria, but faced with an
electricity sector hampered by poorly
utilized generation capacity, high
transmission losses and frequent outages,
companies turn to self-provision of
electricity”.
“This raises their production costs,
reducing their competitiveness and thus
their demand for labour. The erratic and
inadequate power supply in Nigeria has
often been cited as the main reason
forcing multinationals to relocate
production lines to other countries.”
The president and Vice President Yemi
Osinbajo have promised to deliver 7,000
megawatts of electricity before the end of
2016. Nigeria is keeping hope alive.


RIDING THE SYSTEM OF CORRUPTION; NO
MORE TAX EVASION
As a general who fought for Nigeria during
the civil war, Buhari promised that he
would not just be remembered as one who
fought the war, but a patriot who fought
corruption to its knees.
Speaking in India, in October, 2015, Buhari
said: “I want to be remembered by
Nigerians as a genuine patriot who not
only fought the civil war but also fought
corruption to standstill”.
The battle against corruption has recorded
some feat, as the business environment
now knows that things have taken a new
dimension.
In the past, tax waivers were the order
of the day. Saratu Umar was fired as the
executive secretary of the Nigerian
Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC)
on the suspicion that she leaked
information on the granting of
questionable tax waivers estimated to be
worth $20 billion.
The senate, during the past week,
revealed that Nigeria lost N106 billion to
import duty waivers in 2015 alone . That
has begun to change as the president
remains strict on revenue generation via
duties and taxes.
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS)
has never been more active. FIRS led by
Babatunde Fowler has taken the tax
enforcement to the doors of the high and
mighty. Evasion is becoming history.


WIN-WIN TAX INCENTIVES
Bright ideas have seen the light of the
day in the past 12 months. Every bright
business environment encourages
incentives, and Nigeria under Buhari has
found a good way to do that.
According to Babatunde Fashola, minister
of works, power and housing, private
companies can fix public facilities and get
tax incentives (tax remission) in return.
“Council approved Memo for Dangote
subsidiary to fund and build Obajana-Kabba
road using cement, in exchange for tax
incentives,” Fashola said at a federal
executive council meeting.
“This is not a Dangote-only issue. There’s
an existing tax policy that states that any
individual or investments in publicly-owned
infrastructure is entitled to make claims
on remission of income tax obligations.
“It is like a credit advance to the
government, the road or infrastructure
ultimately belongs to the government.”
Private companies can now fix government
road, and get tax incentives. That’s good
business for the people, the government,
and the private sector. Win-win!


THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE QUAGMIRE
President Buhari will not be the one who
will kill the naira. Resolved! But he may be
the president who would distort economic
activities in the private sector.
Since Buhari came into office, the naira
has gone from about N218 to the dollar to
N350 on the average, but the official price
has remained at 197 to the dollar. With
dwindling oil prices and plunging reserves,
there has been a lot of pressure on the
naira, pushing it to new lows. A yuan-
deal signed in China was meant to ease the
pressure on the naira, but the deal, as
we understand, is still incubating its way
to reality.
Getting foreign exchange for importation
of goods at competitive prices has become
increasingly difficult, as the Central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN) is focused on growing
local industries.
After 11 months of maintaining a
seemingly rigid forex policy, the CBN
monetary policy committee (MPC) has
agreed to employ a flexible exchange rate
system, with little or no details on the
policy.
The current forex policy has seen a
number of companies leave the country,
while some others are coming in.


BUHARI’S INFLATION?
Inflation is here with us. With 12 months
in office, businesses under Buhari and the
masses have had to deal rising inflation.
Of the 12 months spent so far, inflation
has risen every month but one, moving
from nine percent in May, 2015 to 13.7
percent in April. A bag of rice which sold
for about N9,000 in May 2015 has gone up
to over N15,000 in May 2016.
Buhari’s second year starts in a few
hours. The question remains’ Will the
president stem inflation or make Nigerians
sleep in their country and wake up in
Zimbabwe?
https://www.thecable.ng/business-5-ways-buhari-has-changed-doing-business-in-nigeria-in-1-year

destino24:
Ok, so in freshman year, we were supposed to get the new biometric ID card, and we were to provide our Blood Group among other informations.

Na so I go one reputable hospital here in Enugu for Medical Test. They took my blood and told me to come back the next day for the result. Came back the next day for result and was told I was O+.

Fast forward, 5 years later in 500 level. I had a little medical issue and I had to run a couple of tests of which blood grouping was part of. Surprisingly, my Blood Group had "Changed" to A+. I had to run the test at 2 other different Labs, all came up with A+.

Meanwhile, on my School ID Card, it says O+.

Imagine a situation, maybe an accident, of which i might require a blood transfusion, and then they take a look at the ID Card, and conclude my GRP was O+.

Na so person go just take die

transfusion with o positive wouldn't have killed you anyway. they are called universal donors

superstar1:
Congratulations.

More power to your bombing.

Unfortunately PMB only needs to increase VAT to 10% and Stamp Duty to N100 and he will shore up his revenue.

PMB should declare state of emergency in Bayelsa and Delta with immediate effect and automatic alacrity , remove the Governors and let the Military Administrator of the 2 states be Buratai. This is bordering on economic sabotage, a treasonable felony offence. Hence, the SOE.

If they want to make the country ungovernable for you, make their homes uninhabitable for them too by turning their homes/communities to hell for them.

e-warrior.
oya go declare am.

President Muhammadu Buhari came to power
promising Nigerians "change". Novelist and
writer Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani gives five
examples of what has changed in Nigeria
since 29 May 2015 when he was sworn in.


1. Are we safer?
Those of us who travel regularly in
Nigeria's north-east had become used to
what should be a 15-minute journey turning
into an hour-long ordeal.
You had to stop dozens of times at
roadblocks and disembark, while heavily
armed soldiers inspected your vehicle for
traces of the Islamist militant group, Boko
Haram.
Today, the number of checkpoints has fallen
significantly - even on the road to Chibok -
thanks to enhanced confidence in the
security of the entire region.
The army has regained swathes of territory
that the Islamist militants had occupied as
part of their so-called caliphate.
Boko Haram has been considerably
weakened, resigned to attacking soft
targets using suicide bombers.
Thousands of women and girls kidnapped by
the group have also been rescued, including
one of the 219 schoolgirls from Chibok
abducted in April 2014.
But while there is progress in the north-
east, trouble in the Niger Delta, the
country's oil-producing region, is
resurfacing.
Recent attacks on oil facilities have caused
a drop in production and helped push up the
global price of crude oil.
On patrol with Nigerian soldiers


2. Where's my money?
In the months preceding last year's
elections, the popular chant on the streets
was "Sai Buhari, Sai Buhari", which means
"Only Buhari" in Hausa - the most widely-
spoken language in the north where the
president originates.
"Sai Buhari" became an almost magical
greeting, capable of earning you a discount
from the sweaty chap pushing a
wheelbarrow of tiger nuts or sugar cane.
It could even elicit a smile followed by
permission to move along, from the
miscellaneous airport officials who usually
ensure that your passage through Nigerian
customs and immigration is fraught with
agonising delays.
A year later, the chant has changed to
"Buhariya", which roughly translates to
"Buhari's way" or "Buhari's time".
The slogan is now used to explain every
unpleasant evidence of Nigeria's troubled
economy and a time of austerity.


Q: "A basket of tomatoes has gone up from
3,000 naira ($15) to 18,000 naira?"

A: It's "Buhariya!"

Q: "How come the naira is plummeting
against the dollar on the black market?"

A: It's "Buhariya!"


3. Where's our money?
This time last year, friendship with Sambo
Dasuki, the former national security
adviser, could have altered your economic
circumstances forever.
He would have been besieged with invitation
cards to be the chief guest at various
events.
When he entered a room, almost everyone
would stand in respect.
Today, he sits in an Abuja jail, awaiting trial
for the alleged mismanagement of billions
of dollars meant for the war against Boko
Haram - charges he denies.
Several other big men, previous
untouchables, such as former service chiefs,
top politicians and government officials,
are also sitting in jail awaiting corruption
trials, or out on bail.
And, if you're looking for a second-hand
luxury car to buy, now may be the time.
A number of people formerly linked to the
government are desperate for cash and
selling off their fleets.
It would seem as though the leaking taps
that gushed dollars to be spent carelessly
have stopped flowing since President Buhari
came to power.
Buhari's battle to clean up the oil industry


4. Where are the women?
Ensuring women's participation at all levels
in political, economic and public life is one
of the targets of the UN's sustainable
development goals (SDGs).
But oly six out of Mr Buhari's cabinet of
37 are women, a meagre 16% and way down
on the previous administration's 31%.

Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani:
"The president's wife, Aisha... appears as
the stereotypical good African wife."
The president's wife, Aisha, is also the most
silent first lady Nigeria has had in decades,
barely seen or heard - except maybe when
she is visiting unkempt children in a
refugee camp or donating food items to
victims of Boko Haram.
She appears as the
stereotypical good African wife.
Her invisibility is suspicious when you
consider that President Buhari, during his
election campaign, said he would abolish the
office of the first lady - but then
retracted the suggestion when challenged
by feminist voters.


5. What are we wearing?
In Abuja the government in power
influences the style of dress throughout
the administration.
Staff of the government, friends of the
government and aspiring friends of the
government all aim to dress like the person
at the top.

Northerners ruled Nigeria for most of the
country's first three decades after
independence from the UK in 1960.
Over time, their traditional outfits,
babarigas (flowing gowns) and kaftans,
became firmly entrenched - even when a
non-northerner was elected in 1999.
Olusegun Obasanjo is an ethnic Yoruba from
the south but throughout his eight-year
presidential tenure, he mostly wore
babarigas.
Cartoons depicting a typical Nigerian "big
man" will usually feature him dressed in
the flowing robes, his potbelly distorting
the layers of cloth.

All this changed in 2011, with the election
of Goodluck Jonathan.
He was Nigeria's first president from one
of the country's smaller ethnic groups, and
also the first from the oil-producing Niger
Delta, in the south.
Mr Jonathan preferred the long shirt and
trouser outfit that is traditional among his
Ijaw community.
Suddenly, the babariga was nowhere to be
seen.
Government offices and hotel lobbies began
to feature an inordinate number of men
dressed in the presidential style of the
time.

Some even went as far as the fedora hats
and walking sticks that go with the outfit.
Eventually, the style gained its own special
nickname - "resource control" - in
reference to the fact that most people who
wore it seemed to be the ones controlling
Nigeria's oil resources.
Indeed, it seemed to be the preferred
outfit of many of Nigeria's newest
millionaires.


Not any more. Within a year of Mr Buhari,
"resource control" outfits have almost
completely vanished from view. The
babariga is back.
Beyond these five areas, there are many
more profound changes that Nigerians are
expecting from our government, but those
will take time.


The structure of corruption and
mismanagement which previous governments
left behind must first be dismantled before
a new foundation of progress can be laid.
And President Buhari is no modern-day
Hercules.
Cleaning Nigeria's equivalent of the
fantastically filthy Augean stables of
Greek myth is certainly not a one-year job.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36384237?SThisFB

The streets of the eastern Spanish town of Bunol turn red and gooey every year on the last Wednesday of August, as tens of thousands of people gather to celebrate La Tomatina . It's not an event that has caused much of a stir on social media outside the country, but in the past few days Nigerians have been been distracting themselves from their own tomato crop crisis by making good-humoured jabs aimed at the European festival.

The topic of tomatoes - a staple of the Nigerian diet - is currently not a laughing matter outside the digital realm in Nigeria. A state of emergency has been declared in the tomato sector in Kaduna state, in the north of the country and farmers are said to have lost up to 80% of their tomato crop.

The culprit is a moth called Tuta Absoluta. The agriculture commissioner in Kaduna state said the price of a punnet has risen from $1.20USD to more than $40 . Some reports said that in three local government areas, about 200 farmers lost 1 billion naira ($5.1 million) worth of their tomatoes. Nigeria's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, told local media that his office had commissioned experts to look at the issue as "ordinary pesticides cannot tackle the disease because the tomato moth multiplies so fast." The situation is so bad that it was dubbed 'Tomato Ebola' and the term trended on Twitter for hours on Wednesday. But what's all this got to do with Spain and La Tomatina?

Well, if you've not heard of the festival, tens of thousands of people from all over the world gather in Spain to take part in an enormous tomato fight. Some estimates say that more than 100 tonnes of tomatoes are thrown during the event. And this has not been lost on Nigerian social media. One Nigerian news site even posted an article entitled "Five tomato photos that will make Nigerians cry" which featured shots of revellers mucking about in the red gold at La Tomatina.

But what does Bunol think of this reaction? The town's mayor told BBC Trending that the festival "should not be blamed" for Nigeria's tomato crop crisis and that he is "open to (see) how we can help, but the problem is very big and we are very small." Rafa Pérez Gil told us that he was aware that Nigerians had taken to Twitter and Instagram recently to lament (albeit in a very tongue-in-cheek manner) the waste of tomatoes in La Tomatina, but he wanted to assure them that most of the tomatoes used in the August food fight were past their sell-by-date and on the verge of rotting.

"Their problem would exist whether our festival happened or not," the mayor said. He added that he would be open to talking about the issue with Nigerians but was unsure what they as a town could do about it. He conceded that food wastage was an issue that merited a wider discussion. "If you look at the garbage bins in Spain, there is more waste thrown away every day than tomatoes used at La Tomatina." We are not certain whether this information will comfort Nigerians or make more of them see red. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-36381553

Oliviaxx:
Oh Lord; if his time has reached...please take him.we wont even complain.
#dontevendarequoteme

happy birthday. Don't wish someone dead on your birthday. Enjoy your day

IamPatriotic:
Why are the wailers having a field day with this article? because it doesn't in anyway indicts the government of Buhari, but only exposes the hypocrisy of all of the bringbackourgirls campaigners as the chibok girls were the only victims of the bokoharam insurgency

the Nigerian army has made a lot of false claims of late.
remind me who our gcfr is.

oloriooko:
The NA has turned political and embarrassing itself in the name of fulfilling PMB pro election pronise

The international community has even taken note of the above