₦airaland Forum

Corridon:
Unizik is still the best in Africa

So you're a Giant. Greetings.

ednut1:
how many chocolate do we consume The product is called a cashcrop for a reason

When we say chocolate, we do not refer only to chocolate bars. What is generally referred to as tea in Nigeria is actually chocolate drinks.
Recount the chocolate bars, the chocolate spread jars as well as the ones used in biscuits, then add it to the tea, and you'll be shocked how much chocolate we import.

FreeStuffsNG:
Because you have not done your own research, you have been misinformed by those blinded by hate. If our agriculture sector had not been revived, how would we have coped during and after Corona? The largest rice mill in west Africa is a partnership between Lagos and Kebbi state, is it that you have not heard of lake rice? The sesame that is now a gold mine happened during his tenure and local rice production today became a reality due to the hardwork of PMB , his agric minister and Emefiele. As bad as the naira redesign messed up the legacy of Emefiele, he helped the farmers Where people do fine, give them the credit. FTN cocoa just landed an fdi of $12m over the weekend. Please always go beyond the social media mostly full of negative and unpatriotic lazy folks

Please do your own research and not parrot propaganda also. Sesame seed export has always been viable, even more, before PMB came on board. It was just unreported. Unless you believe that Mungo Park "discovered" the Niger.

Secondly, look around you and tell me how many shops you have ever seen the Lake rice. Rice production grew because of the border closure (thanks to PMB) and the enterprising spirit of Nigerians, despite the terrible insecurity (knocks to PMB too). Individual little efforts aggregated to give us food, not the billions given to a few Nigerians by CBN.
When you talk about coping during Corona, it is clear you do not see that Nigerians really suffered during the lockdown. Stop reopening those wounds, please.

ednut1:
then the buyers abroad will go elsewhere. Their gain is in the value chain. Ask Ghana how far

Maybe we need to ignore them, and focus on the end users.

For instance, why export cocoa and import chocolate at a much higher cost?
If we insist that the cocoa be processed, we can focus then on exporting to buyers of chocolate. We could at least save up on the forex used in importing chocolate and in addition to the farmers create additional employment. These "buyers" have always exploited us anyway with unfair trade agreements anyway.

mariahAngel:
Outright banning has never helped Nigeria.

Sure, but then the present situation isn't helping too.

mariahAngel:
I read that back in the day, Nigeria was one of the world's biggest exporter of Cocoa, groundnuts, kolanut, bitter kola, etc.
Those were what made the Nigerian economy a very stable one, according to history.

So, what happened?
At what point did we get it wrong?
What can we do to make things right?

I believe if Nigeria will be better again, it will be majorly through agricultural exports.

Picture credit: Google

Nigeria needs to place a ban somehow on the export of raw Agricultural produce. To qualify for export, it must be made to undergo a certain amount of processing.

SangoOlukosoOba:
Quote where I stated that the minorities belief shouldn’t be respected?

You wrote:

I don’t know why people find it difficult to respect the religion of others when they find themselves in locations where they are minorities.

In the context of what happened in Sokoto, that is a flagrant disregard of the rights of religious minorities to hold views different from that of the majority.

SangoOlukosoOba:
Stop misquoting me. I was emphasizing on the need to respect people’s beliefs, same way I advocated that people’s sexual orientation should be respected.

I am not misquoting you. You are asking that the minorities' sexual orientation should be respected, but the minorities' religious beliefs should not be respected.

And somehow that sounds right and good to you?

SangoOlukosoOba:
People are working towards the legalization.

So they deserve to live while Atheists in the north deserve to die?

SangoOlukosoOba:
True! Because they failed to study their environment knowing fully well they are fanatics. Such won’t happen in Lagos, Abuja or Port Harcourt

Soon, we'll read news about a man beaten up for dressing like a woman, either in Abuja, Lagos or Port Harcourt. They don't know they are a minority in the whole of Nigeria?

SangoOlukosoOba:
Respecting people’s religion also applies to respecting people’s sexual orientation.

Your culture and values should be personal. It shouldn’t affect how others.

Fine. Some men will be charged to court in Sokoto under Sharia law soon for engaging in homosexual activities.

I don’t know why these LGBTQ find it difficult to respect the religion of others when they find themselves in locations where they are minorities.

So you advocate respect for religion in the north. But when it comes to LGBTQ, you would not give a damn about respect for culture and community values?

SangoOlukosoOba:
I don’t know why people find it difficult to respect the religion of others when they find themselves in locations where they are minorities.

Nigerians would go to UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Indian, China, and Saudi, and they will 100% comply with religious laws, but back on their continent, they will start claiming rights.

It even extends to law and order. They are more law abiding outside the continent than within.

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DMerciful:
That means you're not following the case. LP tendered evidences that the votes that INEC gave them in 21 states were not their votes but less. You expect th to make unnecessary arguments? They tendered evidences based on INEC own CTCs, its left for INEC to open defence next week and explain why they couldn't add the polling units results correctly.

You don't present witness to testify to support CTCs because they're INEC own CTCs.

SangoOlukosoOba:
You don’t know what you up against! Write that statement in your diary.

Me? Up against what?

Wrong adversary, Monsieur. You're up against BAT. You just don't know it yet 🤣🤣🤣

SangoOlukosoOba:
Damn!

A short and deep statement!

IBB’s brilliance has always been top notch. Just look at how he killed it all in a statement.

Hate to break it to you.

But in a few months time, you will be out here cussing BAT out because he refused to give you that which you desire - revocation of the anti-gay law. He would not even touch it with a stick.

So while we Nigerians are trying to find a way forward for our country, you should just park one side, please. Only patriots are required for this our journey, not foreign interests...

You can never succeed in turning the Igbo against each other.

You tried turning Nigerians against PO, you failed woefully, even in your own Lagos.

Go and rest nah, please.

I liked DIG Alkali Baba.

He showed willingness to sanitize the NPF.

franchasofficia:
Ogundipe tried to assume power by virtue of seniority but Northern Mutineer soldiers refused to take orders from him nor from Lagos Governor Mobolaji Johnson, so they started a negotiation to find solution to the political/military crises and that led to Ikeja Negotiation where Murtala Mohammed then made their demand to secede North known.


Ogundipe telephoned Ojukwu who was then Eastern Nigeria's Governor to hear his own view, Ojukwu told him on phone to grant them their request.



Of course Ogundipe didn't had the constitutional power to grant such but he was the organizer of the Ikeja negotiation which the Northern Mutineers did honored his invite alongside Gowon, topranking Northern civil servants, Judges, etc, British High Commissioner, etc

Continue your good work, please. Some mofos intend to revise and rewrite history to suit their dark desires for hatred and genocide. Stand up to them. Furnish everyone with the truth. Ride on. You're most appreciated.

Fact.

Where are the paid propagandists on NL?

Please explain to us in simple terms how this law will create any jobs. How any sort of enterpreneurial pursuit will result from it.

We are listening.

Lol.

First of all, you're free to throw insults. It just won't get to me. Thanks for the forewarning, anyway.

Secondly, Tinubu has always claimed he is an Awoist, and he is the one I referred to as an apostle of Awolowo. Not you. Who dash you sef?

To the main issue.

You say that because the education was free, you got less than what you should, as you had to share?
That's a load of crap if there ever was one.

On the flip side, i.e. assuming but not conceding that it happens, wouldn't it be the others that got less education because they had to share with you?

And now that you know about that, instead of demanding increased funding so that the students get more, you want to shut down the flow? Apart from security, education and healthcare, what the heck does government actually owe every citizen?

You believe those with money should pay to get education and you still went ahead to set up a GoFundMe for your old school? Why not have the current students pay for the whiteboard if they want it? That need you identified is a gap you know within yourself that government should fill. However, you know they won't. Yet you do not leave it for the students. You try to get the "community" to do that. Because you know that the responsibility is not the students' nor their parents'. You know.

Private schools will always exist for those that want far above what the public system offers. So for people like you, by all means. Pay and get full value without "sharing".

Funny enough, there are some things we really should not argue. If the government goes ahead to make education a rich people's affair, fine. We'll still come round full circle. Afterall, noone needs to tell the NE governors to educate their people .

So long.

Edit: It appears you were referring to the use of NYSC members, while I thought you were writing of the student loan bill.

budaatum:
Don't make me insult you. Who made who apostle? And you have the gall to tell me to "look beyond partisan politics" when look at partisan politics is exactly what you've done here if you ask me.

That your so called "free education" was not so free for those who paid for it. Before Jakande, an Apostle of Awolowo spent money decades ago for free education, "rats talk jo!" Then free education, and a lot of kids in my neighbourhood could go to school to learn to read instead of talking crap. But for me the cost was hugh as I got less education than I otherwise might have gotten, as I now had to share so others could have some. I lost my maths teacher who went off to head some other school, and I lost my English teacher and a few others too, as my school was split into 4 to accommodate 2 more secondary schools and a primary school, and if it were food, it was like I now had to share my full plate of food with 4 other people, but at least I now wouldn't be surrounded by idiots, so I did not mind the cost to myself, after all, groundwork had to be laid. But times are different now. The groundwork has been laid, and people now understand the value of education, so why should it continue to be free now that we have more people needing it, and need money to invest in it to improve its standard? Do you not think everyone who can afford it should not be able to buy themself a full plate of food that they do not have to share with others, as in, get a high quality education not ravaged by strikes and handouts and lecturers who are low paid and prey on their students instead of doing an excellent job teaching them?

Ignorance is costly indeed, but Government can not fund the high quality education and healthcare that we need today to make us valuable assets to ourselves and our country, and anything they provide for free or even cheap would not be the highest quality and standard that we deserve because there's far too many of us to share it amongst, and there's no way Nigerians would be willing to pay the tax that would be required to pay for it. And when we pay for it we'd have more money to invest in it and might even start selling it at higher rates to Europeans who will come to buy it from us like they used to, which would benefit us even more.

On that very unfree note, my old students association is raising money to install electronic whiteboards in all the classes because we are fully aware that government can not fund buying them for us and return our school to the highest standard it was before we had to share. So please, here's the gofundme https://gofund.me/8cdbd9d6. Even just ₦10, if anyone can. buda will even be ever so grateful if so referenced or even if you just comment, if you can, moreso if you buy the £75 ticket and attend the fundraising even in October. Thanks very much in advance.

It is shocking how an apostle of Awolowo is laying groundworks for a system in which government would abdicate their role in funding education, and the followers of Awolowo are rejoicing!!!

Student loans would be a great idea for postgraduate studies, please. But the government cannot afford to leave our education, the future of the country to market forces.

Please and please, if we need anything at this point in our history, it is for our government to fund education and healthcare.

If not for free education by Awo, the SW would be grappling with the same security woes the North is facing now. It was the money spent decades ago that they're benefiting from today.

And we have a responsibility to pay it forward. Education is expensive but ignorance is costlier, yes. But that's not a good reason to leave it the students to borrow and find their way...

Please, on this issue, we need to look beyond partisan politics.

budaatum:
I should not have to be paid peanuts because of rurals! I got loan to pay back for the skills I bought that they are paying me peanuts for!

It's because of this cheap NYSC labour that Nigeria wages are derisorily low. We are worth lots more than what they currently pay which is why Nigeria is rural to UK that is stealing our doctors and nurses and teachers by paying them more.

Rural schools will just have to hire skilled teachers and doctors and nurses and so forth at the appropriate rate instead of using unskilled and underpaid labour that they recycle every year! Just as you would not tell the brewer or baker or butcher to charge less in rurals, so too must you not expect me to sell my skills for less because of rurals.

I am very aware that my task of convincing you or anyone else that you are worth more and deserve a living wage is going to be an uphill struggle. This my aluta continuatas.

Repeat this too and see if something terrible might happen:

"With a Peter Obi Presidency, Nigeria will progress"

helinues:
Someone said the Obidients can never repeat this lines that something terrible might happen to them, I told him that was a lie.

Here is the lines, let's see if any Obidients would proof me right.

Better Nigeria ahead with Tinubu's presidency

1, 2, 3 set go

I strongly believe that there are two core investments a government must do for citizens - Education and Healthcare.

Any shenanigans that gives the government freedom to abandon these two should be resisted.

You supported PMB for 8 years, PMB who served as PTDF chairman under Abacha, and has seized every available opportunity to extol Abacha as a non-corrupt individual

You moved ahead to worship someone indicted for moving funds for drug runners during the same period. Someone that forfeited as much as $460000 to the US government.

You then turn around and point fingers at a person that decongested ports under Abacha, did his job satisfactorily, without any remuneration, without any political benefits attached, and returned to his business, an honest businessman.

How much lower can you go in your hypocrisy?

Behind your smoking, drinking and womanizing facade is a very articulate mind there...

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar

Emefiele is gonna come out strong out strong. He is gonna weather the storm and beard the lion

Look at Nigerians
Celebrating the Arrest of a man way he intentions na to reduce vote buying and corruption

Statistics show that N2.72 trillion out of the $3.26 trillion currency in circulation as of June 2022 was outside the vaults of commercial banks across the country...imagine that na about almost 85 percent

So with the introduction of that new naira note policy corruption would have been tackled as the exercise will bring the hoarded currency into the banking system
The new naira note was supposed to circulate to every nook and cranny of the country but greedy politicians like them tinubu connived and conspired with some bank managers to keep the money to themselves not only that some greedy Nigerians make the whole thing worse for us


We are doomed in this part of the Africa

N3TRAL:
God Forbid. I don't hate the Igbos.

Liar!!!

One would think he wore an oversized suit to cover up his emaciated frame. Going by his recent pictures circulating on SM, there might be cause for worry.

Whatever it is, get well soon, Wike. We need you alive to see another person deliver good governance like we expected you to.

From the first time his profile was posted on NL, declaring an interest in buying an English club, it all reeked of scam.

Just like the PMB's cash transfer scam and rice pyramids, PYO's Tradermoni and Farmermoni, and the upcoming BAT cash transfer as part of subsidy palliatives, we can smell it from afar off - SCAM and DECEPTION.

But what can we do? They are promoted and backed by APC.

He stole Peter Obi's mandate for sure. How can someone who didn't get even up to 10% of votes in SE, SS, lost Lagos, Rivers, FCT, Kaduna and Kano win the election, if not broad daylight rigging?

donphilopus:
Whose mandate was stolen? Is it the Peter Obi who was getting less than 5k votes when Tinubu and Atiku were getting hundreds of thousands of votes in the core north? You think getting 95% of the votes cast in the southeast wins you a Presidential election in Nigeria? Lol

BTW, are you aware that the total valid votes in Kano and Sokoto States alone dwarf that of the entire southeast? Are you also aware that Peter Obi didn't get up to 35k votes in these two states while Tinubu secured more than 800k votes? So when next you're crooning "mandate stealer", take it to Instagram where most people are more concerned about big front and back.