₦airaland Forum

By Ike Uchechukwu


A renowned farmer, Mr Peter Ojong who is the brain behind the king Grass specie introduced first in Cross River has asserted that the idea for bringing the grass to Nigeria was to solve the herders crises and empower farmers in the country .

Ojong who has lived in the Kingdom of Cambodia, South East Asia for 38 years further explained that he can use his passion for farming to liberate young people adding that he can produce 100 young millionaires in less than 1 year .

Briefing journalists on multiplier effect of the King Grass in livestock and agricultural value chain on Tuesday in Calabar , Ojong disclosed that the king grass was a source of livelihood that many Nigerians were still naive about but a huge FX spinner in Asia and major parts of Europe .

He explained that the wealth of experience he garnered in creating wealth through the King grass and other state of the arts technology was a permanent solution the challenges of herdsmen crises ,cattle rustling and the adjoining issues that comes with it .

The foremost farmer said the King grass when organically processed could properly take care of Goats , Pigs, Birds of all kind, Cow and fish in one environment no matter the weather .

His words :”The idea of the King grass cultivation came to me due to the problem in Nigeria with the herdsmen ,I decided to bring this idea into Nigeria to solve the problem of constant maiming and killings ,so that we can live like brothers and sisters within the communities in Nigeria.

“First, I wanted it to be in Cross River, so that Cross Riverians could benefit,and this time not only from oil and Cocoa, they could also use this grass to start generating revenue for themselves and invariably the state .

Since my grand father brought Cocoa to Cross River State, I decided to come on with mine, and my own idea is Grass cultivation. So that we could produce grass in large quantity from Cross River state,Nigeria and beyond.

“One football field can produce abou 50-tonnes within 45 days. This highbreed king Grass, when planted , from the planting to maturity stages takes 45 days after which you can start using it to feed animals and if organically processed can be used for fish feed ,and also used to feed all livestock’s .

This Period of 45 days, It grows to 11 feet, then if you cut it, in fifteen (15) days, It grows back to 7 feets, regarding feeding, this Grass I’d used to feed Cows, Goats , Fish, chicken birds. When you compound it, you could use it to feed them in so many ways and the grasses are all organic,no fertilizer, no chemical.

“When you cut the Grass, and grind it, or put it in silage, and with the silage packaging, it can last for one year without turning green,no preservatives needed ,you don’t add anything since it is purely organic.

Speaking further ,Ojong said a cattle needs to consume about 35kilogram per day adding that when they eat his grass to put on 0.39 kilograms of weight everyday and cattles don’t really need to move around .

“Every cattle consumes 35 kilograms per day. And with this Grass, the cattle’s don’t need to move, is just to confine them and put on 0.39 kilograms of weight everyday as they eat it.

“I brought it earlier this year so that the state government will handle it. So that we will be the first state in Nigeria to cultivate it but my main intention of doing that was so we could reduce the farmers-herders conflict.

“We have concluded plans with other state governments in Nigeria and there are so many other states who have already showed interest in investing in the grass cultivation massively.It can grow anywhere in Nigeria. All it needs is Water, in case of drought.it does not have a season, it grows all year round. And takes only 45 days to be ready for use.

“Nutritionally,your livestock’s don’t get sick anymore. I have practical evidences, I have Pigs, Goats, chicken birds, in my farm, they don’t get sick anymore. The grass contains Lactogen Glucose, and a host of vitamins and protein and fat.

“So with this we don’t need to fight ourselves, in the name of cattle grazing, because this innovation will boost ranching. With it, you can grow cattles anywhere in Nigeria. Just confine your Cattles and plant the Grass. And our soil type is very suitable for fast growth ,” he said.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/11/i-brought-king-grass-to-solve-nigeria-herders-crisis-empower-farmers-ojong/

jaxxy:
We don’t have the honesty to do that. We have the brains Bt we are too corrupt and greedy.

Corruption and greed is the human condition. The more human societies evolved, the more corrupt and greedy it became. The more advanced Western nations have in place mechanisms that control this condition better than Nigeria has managed. And Nations less advanced than Nigeria in Africa, if they are less corrupt and greedy, are so because they are nearer in psyche to primordial hunter gatherer societies. Essentially, if there are stages to human societal evolution, Western nations are higher along the curve, Nigeria is middle along the curve, and Ghana and Rwanda lower along the curve. At the bottom are hunter gatherer societies. The closest human societies came to honesty and sharing was at the hunter gatherer stage.

DUNDEEMASTER:
so Nigerians are now the ones trooping in to Ghana to hustle..see the level bubu has taken us to.. such is life

Blame yourselves that are always hyping every shithole place outside Nigeria thus brainwashing gullible Nigerians. And also Nigerians generally need to better grasp what is going on in the world. Nigerians need to widen their eyes to how treacherous their African neighbors are to them and what lies they help spread about them around the world. The other day, some Gambians were blaming the epidemic of robbery their people commit on African Americans, that are there to help them, on Nigerians. Also they were trying to pass off the girls and boys that Western tourists come to abuse in Gambia as Nigerian boys and girls and not Gambians. The Gambians, it seems are borrowing from Ghana, the successful Ghana trick of passing off their deviancy on Nigerians.

Later, these same scumbag Ghanaians and others will try to help South Africans justify their seasonal xenophobic killings of Africans from Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Angola and such under the Nigerians are criminals Crap.

Jesus, I hate Africans.

debaj10:
herdsmen are still killing farmers, you're talking of electricity wey we never see?

You're trying to brainwash the wrong individual; my great, great grand father owned trailers, motorized ferries and tug boats in Nigeria even before Nigeria gained independence and while many of you in your other African countries were still chucking spears at one another and picking fleas from between your asses. I know Nigeria more indepthly than most. Nigeria is not a primitive nation, ok.

Good, now we can cry, "our fintech" , "our state capital, "our mathematicians", "our Inoson", "our Proforce", "our Programmers", "our cultures for tourism" , "our farmers" and not just "OUR OIL!!!"

oh yes, "Our rich people with their investable wealth!" instead of allowing our crafty and sneaky neighbors that are invading Nigeria media spaces trying to make Nigerians hate and envy their wealthy people so that those wealthy people would be driven from Nigeria to go and invest with them.

OfficialGaGa:
Sacrifice update.....



some people wan live long with more money.


To be a Nigerian is part of a million ways to die...


meanwhile the main people "Behind" this building dey fly from Lag to Abj every week for Private jet..

their plane go so crash....

If they walked what difference would it make ?

Lurker4Long:

Heavy and massacre in Nigeria usage is broken English....

Nations at the Cop 26 conference ( https://ukcop26.org/ ) that have agreed to go fully Electric by the year 2040 , where is Nigeria? Even shell is diversifying from fossil fuel.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbJdrz_kHaU
3:12

Here’s a list of the nations that have joined the declaration:

Austria
Azerbaijan
Cambodia
Canada
Cape Verde
Chile
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Finland
Ghana
Kenya
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Paraguay
Poland
Rwanda
Slovenia
Sweden
Turkey
United Kingdom
Uruguay

https://electrek.co/2021/11/10/countries-automakers-agree-go-all-electric-by-2040-weak-new-goal-cop26/

Leverage2021:
refute him by bringing proof where a Boko Haram member has been sentenced to death in the north

In the Terrorist north army rather sentence a Christian soldier to death for killing precious Boko Haram members

I'd probably be right in thinking that had a soldier shot you dead and declared that he thought you were a Bokoharam terrorist (which is what Suspected implies) your ghost would want the soldier convicted and hanged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB6Nw4MKE2g


Key Points:

SpinLaunch, which is building an alternative method of launching spacecraft to orbit, last month conducted its first test flight of a prototype in New Mexico.

The company is developing a launch system that uses kinetic energy as its primary method to get off the ground – with a vacuum-sealed centrifuge spinning the rocket at several times the speed of sound before releasing.

SpinLaunch, a start-up that is building an alternative method of launching spacecraft to orbit, conducted last month a successful first test flight of a prototype in New Mexico.

The Long Beach, California-based company is developing a launch system that uses kinetic energy as its primary method to get off the ground – with a vacuum-sealed centrifuge spinning the rocket at several times the speed of sound before releasing.

“It’s a radically different way to accelerate projectiles and launch vehicles to hypersonic speeds using a ground-based system,” SpinLaunch CEO Jonathan Yaney told CNBC. “This is about building a company and a space launch system that is going to enter into the commercial markets with a very high cadence and launch at the lowest cost in the industry.”

Founded in 2014 by Yaney, SpinLaunch’s successful test on Oct. 22 at Spaceport America in New Mexico marks a major milestone in the company’s progress. SpinLaunch has largely stayed quiet until now, which Yaney explained was due to the ambitions of the company.

“I find that the more audacious and crazy the project is, the better off you are just working on it – rather than being out there talking about it,” Yaney said. “We had to prove to ourselves that we could actually pull this off.”

SpinLaunch has raised $110 million to date, from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, Airbus Ventures, Catapult Ventures, Lauder Partners and McKinley Capital.


The SpinLaunch suborbital accelerator represents a one-third scale version, but – standing about 165 feet, “taller than the Statue of Liberty” – Yaney emphasized that it’s the size the company needs “to really prove the technology.”

The vacuum chamber holds a rotating arm, which Yaney said accelerates the projectile to high speed and then, “in less than a millisecond,” releases the vehicle for launch. The suborbital projectile is about 10 feet long, but “goes as fast as the orbital system needs, which is many thousands of miles an hour,” Yaney added.

“We can essentially validate our aerodynamic models for what our orbital launch vehicles are going to be like and it allows us to try out new technologies when it comes to release mechanisms,” Yaney said.

SpinLaunch’s first suborbital flight utilized about 20% of the accelerator’s full power capacity for the launch, and reached a test altitude “in the tens of thousands of feet,” according to Yaney.

While the first test flight vehicle did not have a rocket engine onboard, SpinLaunch plans to add that and other internal systems in later suborbital test flights. The company also plans to recover and reuse its vehicles, with Yaney noting the company recovered the first one “and it is absolutely flyable.”

The current SpinLaunch test schedule has the company conducting about 30 suborbital test flights over the next six to eight months from Spaceport America.

SpinLaunch is finalizing the design of its full-scale system, with Yaney saying that testing to date has eliminated about 90% of the system’s risk.

Traditional rockets use a large booster, typically with a number of engines, to lift off the ground. That means that most of the rocket’s mass at liftoff is fuel, with only a small percentage of its total mass available to carry payloads. SpinLaunch’s approach aims to flip the “rocket equation” on its head, Yaney said, which would be “dramatic” in reducing the size of the rocket, as well as its complexity and cost.

The SpinLaunch design for its orbital vehicle would be able to carry about 200 kilograms of payload to orbit, equivalent to a few small satellites.

The company is finalizing an agreement for the location of its first orbital launch system, with Yaney noting that it will not be at Spaceport America but rather at a “coastal location.”

“It’s a site that needs to be able to support dozens of launches per day,” Yaney said.

SpinLaunch declined to comment on its backlog of customer launch contracts, but the company signed a contract with the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit in 2019 for its first experimental orbital launches.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/spinlaunch-completes-first-test-flight-of-alternative-rocket.html

Nigerians need to work together across all level of antagonisms Nationwide to end this crises of killings. Whatever the causes, collective effort will go a long way towards ending or limiting it. How to reform or restructure policing need to play a prominent role.

You know, this driving up by men in pickup, 4-by-4's, et cetera, and opening fire on proprietors of villages and market spaces, is one of the characteristics of the Congo/CAR conflict....

Foreign powers picking away at Nigeria under cover of Nigerians blaming each other, see the story of the Brave Little Tailor.

Why is it that random guys on pickups drive into villages or markets and mow down people in the North and now in the East? In the North Nigerians point finger at bandits; in the East Nigerians point finger at unknown gunmen. In both situations Nigerians localize blame.

Sizzorkay:
yep. that's the thing, catch a few people, magnify the capabilities in the media, and that put the fear of god into those thinking of committing such offense.
where i live, the moment one person suggests doing something illegal, the other respond with "we might get caught ", even though they could commit the crime and get away with it.
same with making profit and not paying tax on it, people instantly get scared and pay it. it's all about having the apparatus and letting the people be aware of its effectiveness
they think twice.

And this encapsulate what an honest society looks like. An honest society is one in which the state has in place mostly artificial mechanisms that forces "naturally" dishonest people to conform. As for who bells the cat, there are always enough honest people and mutual interests to act as guide and implementors until dishonest masses evolve to a level in which they begin to understand that dishonesty pays more in organized systems. This latter , bolded, exemplifies the situation of the Western nations Nigerians admire most and hold up as paragons of propriety.

After spending much of the past two years stuck in group video meetings, are the world’s office workers ready to take a big step further into the digital realm?

Microsoft this week outlined plans to introduce the 250m users of its Teams software to the more immersive virtual world known as the metaverse. Its move followed Facebook’s own vision for office meetings conducted in virtual reality, and came days after the social media company changed its name to Meta to reflect a broader corporate focus on virtual worlds.

Both companies said users would be able to create avatars, or animated cartoons of themselves, that would move freely between different virtual worlds. For workers, that means attending meetings, hanging out casually with colleagues or visiting “digital twins” of real-world offices and factories.

But important parts of this vision have yet to be spelled out, including the technical foundations that will make it possible and the terms on which the new metaverses will allow access to avatars that were created elsewhere.

As a first step, Microsoft said that in the first half of next year, users of Teams would be able to start appearing as avatars in the online meetings they already attend. To have one of the squares in a group video chat “filled up by a cartoon character that speaks to you is not going to feel that out of place”, predicted Jared Spataro, head of Teams.

The metaverse is here, and it’s not only transforming how we see the world but how we participate in it – from the factory floor to the meeting room. Take a look. pic.twitter.com/h5tsdYMXRD

— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) November 2, 2021
Facebook, by contrast, has vaulted straight to virtual reality, with an open beta of Horizon Workrooms, a free app designed to allow employees to work together in a virtual office via Oculus headsets. Users are represented by cartoonish avatar torsos with no legs, and spatial audio technology gives a heightened sense of presence — users hear from others around the room based on where they appear to be seated in the imaginary, shared space.

Microsoft’s more gradualist approach — and the fact that 250m people use Teams at least once a month, compared with the 7m paying users Facebook has for its existing workplace communications software — make it the more likely place for workers to experience the new metaverse technology, according to experts in the field. Mixing avatars and real faces in group meetings was a clever way to get people to start feeling comfortable interacting with cartoon versions of their colleagues, said Peter Barrett, a venture capitalist who has invested in augmented reality

But it is not clear that people will welcome the new forms of virtual work or find them fulfilling, he and others warn. Heaping more types of digital interaction on workers after the strains of the pandemic would not make up for what had been lost in human interaction, said Barrett. “Everyone has experienced the exhaustion of interaction with someone over Zoom. We want to be with other humans.”

Most users were also likely to find VR and AR headsets uncomfortable and intrusive for more than a short time, he said, meaning that the new virtual work experiences would “have to be extraordinary to overcome the burden of the equipment”.

Sarah Roberts, an associate professor at the University of California in Los Angeles, added that if today’s remote workers were drawn for large parts of their day into virtual versions of the offices they left behind, it would undo the sense of control many had gained over their working lives since the start of the coronavirus crisis.

“We seem to be on the receiving end of the replication of conference rooms and constant meetings” in a new, virtual form, she said. The reimposition of these staples of office life shows “a demand from managers to retain control over the working class and their activities”.

Despite the potential risks, and the hurdles they face in getting people to adopt new ways of working, the tech companies argue that employers will turn to metaverses as a way to foster collaboration at a time when only some of their staff have returned to the office.

For the tech companies building the new metaverses, meanwhile, being first to bring the technology to the office has another benefit: the chance to create the digital alter-egos that people are likely to carry with them in their wider working lives.

Moving between different metaverses would be like switching between websites on today’s internet, said Alex Kipman, technical fellow in charge of artificial intelligence and mixed reality at Microsoft — though unlike in today’s world, users will want to take a persistent digital identity, and other digital possessions, with them as they move around.

As the place where many people were likely to create their personal avatars, Facebook could use these new digital identities to track personal data as users moved through other metaverses, said Tom Wheeler, former chair of the US Federal Communications Commission and a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“What’s significant is that my avatar will be constantly creating the asset of the 21st century — digital information,” Wheeler said. “And will that data be interoperable? That’s not how the internet works today.”

The technical foundations for how the metaverses will be linked have yet to be laid, and though most of the companies involved pay lip service to building interoperable worlds, it is not clear how open these will be.

To navigate between the metaverses would require the equivalent of internet browsers in today’s online world, said Kipman. Microsoft has created the first of these, known as Mesh — a move that Kipman predicted would be followed by companies such as Facebook as they aim to stitch together a wider set of virtual experiences. But the common technology standards to make these work have yet to be devised.

If standards are eventually agreed, it is also an open question as to how far companies will go in adopting them or in making their digital realms truly open to others.

Facebook, for one, had a history of severely limiting what third party developers could do on its services, said Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Institute for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Granting access to avatars from elsewhere might come to be seen as a minimum level of openness, but it would represent “a very limited form of interoperability”, he added.

Women always women bearing the brunt of disastrous men Jut seeing these images and it is as if i was there in person witnessing the horror. i can almost hear the echoes: the heavy breathing, branches snapping beneath thudding footfalls, the hay, hay, hays, the sharp cries, the guttural tones of a type of man born demonic and incapable of humanity. They're the type - often unproductive at all else in life save the inflicting of their unfortunate existence on others. You'll find him often active and inspired at the forefront of destruction. He'll be running after these women, with his machete whistling as it cuts through the air, breathing fire and he'll be enfolded in an odd and unreasonable type of unconscionably rage. Women would be screaming, children would be doted here and there, exposed to the hellish unfolding acts. And nature would do what nature always does when humanity acts shamefully, it would withdraw and be silent. In that silence the noise of butchery would be keen in the ears of the children, some of them those of the women on distant grounds partially hidden by vegetation, spindly limbs flailing helpless up at mankind raining blows down on them.

ConqueredWest:
Nigeria is already a failed state

Biafra Oduduwa etc are the future hope of the black race

Lol, not if those nations are going to be populated by the type of people that advocate for them here on Niaraand - a more shortsighted, small minded, unimaginative, backward, primitive, jealous and blood thirsty set of individuals you'll not find this side of when Africans sold each other to Europeans for mirrors because they had no vision .

Without Nigeria Africans are mere squatters on land useful to the rest of the world and no different from polar bears in Antarctic being carved up by the rest of the world excluding black folks squabbling in Africa. Actually, polar bears are deemed more useful to Antarctic than blacks currently are to the prime real estate that is Africa.

A Nigerian Vloger used to finding faults in Everything Nigeria, including the usual finger pointing at corruption at Nigeria airports and overblown negative comparison of Nigeria airports with the glorious honesty found at Airports everywhere not Nigeria but she had nothing to say for herself when her suitcase containing her expensive camera where stolen by Mauritius Airport officials.

googlepikins:
Nairaland e don do Na , how many times una wan post am

Bet if he had lost, you wouldn't complain, however many times it was posted on Nairaland, accompanied by insults and mockery of Nigerians.

Malawian:
Blackman will not sit together on a table and discuss partitioning of their country the way white men sat in Berlin. They must fight and kill one another like savages. I am very ashamed of the black man's thinking facilities.

Or better still black men will never build anything in unity with his fellow black men but always want to pull things down often out of jealousy. They do often sit down to discuss but always about division, back biting, which inevitably deteriorates into constituent of former discordant cause that brought about the meeting in the first instant. The black man is only fucused and purposeful when led by the none black races.

Mark this down, Nigeria fails, Black Africans are finished.

For me, the park isn't a great one or even a good one, when compared to images of what parks are or could become , but it fills me with optimism since it hints at an awakening in us of other aspects of nation building neglected by the poisoning of our social lives, our real lives, by political partisanship.

salbis:
A very wise decision i must say.

Let me add please:

Please, explain why you believe so?

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

once again Nigerians prove to be unique people.

I recall when south Africans lined up to vote following the end of Apartheid. The BBC, CNN and other major news agencies captured the essence of the rights of disenfranchised people around the world to vote in the ques that built up over night throughout South Africa. Men, women and youths slept on Super market forecourts, in bags, tattered bed sheet tents, open grounds and, the next morning, they stood and formed long lines, some of which seemed to stretch around township streets and fade into the desert behind shimmering heat haze.

Foreign pundits, dignitaries, world leaders and miscellaneous commentators in News studios internationally discussed in awed tones how such sights justified the elevated status of Democracy among political philosophies. They agreed that Democracy was so rare in the third world, that presented with opportunity, as the South Africans had, citizens grabbed the chance to vote with every fiber of their being. Many Western world leaders hoped that their citizens would be motivated by South Africans - and the respect third world people generally have for Democracy and the rights of the vote - to turn out in grater numbers during elections.

But in Nigeria, the military is all but forcing people to go out and vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGl8bRiOEYU

Scottz:
I don’t get all these kind of news
A lot of people died so please as you channel your energy to find out about a particular individual that died, kindly do the same to other victims like the laborers.

Why would dozens of people die and then because one of them is probably in the spotlight, you make it look like the person is any better than the other victims. So it’s like saying oh she shouldn’t have died because she was to wed she was the PA to the owner of the building hence, her death is not supposed to happen. What about the other victims the poor ones the laborers looking for what to eat why can’t you find out how many children they’ve left behind, how poor they are, etc


Rip to the dead it’s such a sad one but when things like this occur stop singling out certain individuals and telling us their status before they died. It makes no sense.
God go protect us Amen

Her relatives and close friends have the right to place a special emphasis on remembering and honoring her life through the means they have chosen, including posting something about her on Social media, you shouldn't have implied that they are selfish or uncaring about other victims of the building collapse.

When certain soldiers killed in NE action are posted on nairaland, majority of readers here assume, correctly I'm sure, that relatives or and closest associates of the soldier are responsible for somehow getting the message online, no one assumes the memories of the other soldiers that most likely died along with him or her are somehow being dishonored or belittled.

Since you're passionate about democratizing the remembrance of the victims of this building collapse, instead of criticizing the action taken by others - which somehow hints at you making an underhand comment about the attitudes of the Nigeria society - why don't you make the effort of collecting and collating the names (maybe pictures too) of as many of the victims as possible and then open a thread on Nairaland dedicated to them and the unnamed ones.

Oga Whelm 15, if you’d told me what you believe corruption is, I might have asked you what you believe causes corruption. And if you’d continued to humour me by answering, I might have been able to make you rethink whether corruption is at all Nigeria’s problem. This is since the generally agreed upon explanation for the causes of corruption essentially describes the nature of the majority of humanity. From this you may as well conclude that Nigeria is suffering from Humanity. Looked at from this perspective you may begin to see that the minority of us that complain of corruption, site it as the problem, are frustrated by it, want to tackle it in current preconceived way, are wrong.

Whyem15:
It's the same thing, it starts with corruption that weakens government and strengthens non state actors and before you know what's happening, the non-state actors will start acting or attempting to act as authorities in territories they have a bit of strength in.

What is corruption?

Whyem15:
Organized crime

You mean like in Mexico or are you playing with the idea of so-called corruption in Nigeria as a sort of organized rubbery of Nigerians, leaving Nigeria like a crime scene.

What force is attacking Nigeria ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhJae9JKqmQ



Watch from 24:53

EV's are less complicated than internal combustion vehicles.

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Sometimes it is as if Nigerians use the word Corruption as an excuse to be lazy and avoid the ground work of organizations necessary for society to function a best as it can while foreigners use corruption on Nigerians as a slur. There is nothing that happens in Nigeria that wouldn't happen anywhere else in the world, even the Vatican city, if those places rely on human honesty not to bend the rules, cheat, steal or kill instead of putting in place every measure they can against humankind self-interested nature.

The CCTV in banks in the USA, China, Tokyo and Madrid is as much to monitor the very security guards employed by the banks as it is to monitor or watch out for external infiltration.

Incidentally, I've never met or known an honest Englishman but I've known honest Nigerians.