₦airaland Forum

mikolo80:
its easy to farm when you have access to $300,000 investment seed capital

http://www.tori.ng/news/33158/tomato-jos-meet-mira-metha-the-harvard-graduate-wh.html

My point is simple, are there not at least over 10,000 Nigerians with far more than that amount sitting in their bank accounts?... What about the big private businesses, state governments, private corporations, LGs, past and present political leaders etc, are we saying all Nigerians are poor an we can't get people who can raise a mere $300k to replicate what the woman is doing and thereby create more jobs for other Nigerians (who cant afford to raise that amount)?

emmykk:
she is not the ordinary kind of tomatoes farmer you see everydayooooo

nairalanders wise up to propangda just google her name,she raise capital worth millions to start her tin tomatoes company in jos like dangote tomatoes company in kano

make any people nor deceive us say we are lazy.i know our people here in nairaland will take her for a local farmer.

just like if i tell you that a certificateless man is president in 1africa country

tomatoes farmer get grade

The simple point is, dont we have at least 10,000 Nigerians who are richer than her?

Bollinger:
Look beyond what she has done. Think of the financial support she has/had to make it happen. That is the difference. Do you know how many millions would have to be invested to be able to do what she is doing? That is the difference between the west and Africa. The west provides opportunities to succeed anywhere in the world. Nigeria doesn't. Also, just so you know she will have to pay tax in Nigeria and the U.S. She will pay tax in America for her business in Nigeria because America created the opportunity for her to be able to go to harvard, graduate, and later source for funds to set up a business in Nigeria. Sounds weird right? Like i said, don't just look at the now. Assess all the factors. Nigerians need to start wrapping their heads around the concept of how successful countries do things.

This doesnt change or invalidate my earlier post. I see no reason why more Nigerians, including state and LGs, private enterprises, our multitude of rich men buying luxury cars and planes and yachts etc cant go into farming.

When I say more people should go into farming, I'm not automatically referring to only poor people.

The bowing out of a controversy-less police IG. The last controversy-less IG was MD Abubakar.

Pamelayoung:
B4 you crucify me nigerians are hypocrite cos it's a white woman it has become news worthy. Aren't there local farmers doing same? Some even needs to be aided on how to store these produce yet theirs voices are not being heard, others who can't afford to buy large hectares are not encouraged now a white woman shows up and they gladly sell or even gave her their lands 4 free mtcheeeeew! U knw wat am talking about stop pretending

There is absolutely no hypocrisy about this. Oh yes Nigeria has farmers doing this but we need thousands, if not millions of more people doing this. And yes, this is definitely news worthy because the person involved is a Harvard product, a non-Nigerian and a white woman; this is glaringly a different case so I see no reason why you regard this reportage as hypocrisy.

Regarding the ability of Nigerians buying large hectares, are you trying to suggest that we have absolutely no Nigerians who can buy large hectares? ... why is it that whenever the topic of 'Nigerians not involved in farming' is discussed, some people only begin to see it as an advise to poor unemployed graduates?

Besides the plethora of rich people in Nigeria who can equally afford these lands, the fact is that land for farming doesnt even necessarily need to be bought.

emmykk:
her husband have been in US 2 to 3 times she would have atleast go with him.so the president is afraid of the hallibuton case

Sometimes I just cant help but wonder how old some of you are. So because of a flimsy accusation, you expect her to just jump on the plane and start going to the US to satisfy what or who exactly?. .. Even if she is a mega fraudster and she goes to the US with her husband being the president, it is obvious some of you kids aren't aware she would be diplomatically insulated from any harassment.

Etinosajay:
Do you know the cost implication of commercial farming on 2 acres? Let alone 100 heactares of land?

Try and Google who this woman is. You will know she studied this at Harvard, and she has finance to run this thing.

Or you think she studied computer science at Harvard and came to Nigeria to farm tomato?

Dont we have Nigerian rich enough to acquire these lands?.... That is exactly what I'm talking about, Nigeria isnt made up of only poor unemployed graduates who cant organise lands for farming.

Besides acquiring the land, there's also an option of hiring a massive expanse of land at a much cheaper rate.

HandOfChukwu:
I employ myself, I'm not a lazy, uneducated person. Allowing foreigners to own African land is never a good thing, ask our Zulu friends down south, they will tell you. If Nigerians are so sad and pathetic that they can't operate a simple tomato farm then we might as well be allow ourselves to be re-colonised.

This is purely paranoia and xenophobia taken too far... Didn't she pay for the land like any one else?... Why should lands not be sold to her at all because she's a non-Nigerian?

I suppose you also harbour the same feelings towards every single foreign owned business in Nigeria, from manufacturing to retail outlets to even oil companies?... Foreigners should not be allowed to own properties in Nigeria because something distasteful happened in Zulu land; very wonderful idea you have there!

Pamelayoung:
And so? Where is the one she has harvested probably exporting to her country, how has it made tomatoes available in the market? Hypocrites everywhere

What sort of reasoning is this?... Are you sure you know the meaning of the word 'hypocrite' which you just used now?.... How is it your business what she intends to use her tomatoes for?.... and how do you expect 1 tomato farmer to bridge the tomato supply gap in the entire country?..

JayJustus:
can't really blame people looking for white collar jobs...I remember late last year my dad and his friend went into maize and tomato farming ...when he went to the market to sell his products at a cheaper rate they refused to buy from him yeah cos the market cooperative were tribalistic...so my dad just abandoned it hoping till sometime later we get to see beyond being Igbo and yoruba

This very same tribalism exists in the white collar job sector; so that's not really a good enough reason.

landinfo:
Boy, did u read where it was written that "she owns severa acres of land" which cost Millions of Naira

Gshun:
bros, she had money to invest. unemployed person cant buy a plot of land, let alone an acre

You don't necessarily need to 'own' the land before you can farm on it. Also, I believe we have 'big men' who can actually afford to buy the land if they wanted to buy it outright.

HandOfChukwu:
Oyibos shouldn't be allowed to own land in Africa.

Even if it means feeding you, employing you and boosting our economy in general?

gare:
Why has she then refused to go to the US? If she not the person then she ought be afraid, i believe that was the file that the US gave to PMB when he traveled to the US

lol... It's been quite amusing since morning watching you wailers foam in the mouth like kids deprived of akara balls. You obviously feel the wife of the president is so jobless to start responding to daft allegations from a drunk kpomo-cutting governor?... and then you now think the wife of the president should leave whatever she's doing to fly to the US just to prove to confused emotional wrecks that she is not Aisha the 'daughter' of buhari?

Can someone please tell me why more Nigerians can't do this?.. Oh i forgot, we're all waiting for oil money from ND. And even when the ND oil money isn't forthcoming, we all have Buhari to blame.

The [b]daughter [/b]of Buhari named 'Aisha' must be found and prosecuted.

Of course, the daughter of Buhari named Aisha must be found and prosecuted.

Achuwa1:
so Lamorde has being brought in to do damage conntrol.
why doesnt Aisha buhari travel to the US if she is truly clean in diss

Lol... The kind of reasoning some of you guys churn out is amusing. Aisha Buhari is obviously so jobless that she should just board a plane and start flying to the US for what reason exactly?.. to prove to some directionless emotional wailers that she is not the 'daughter of Buhari' who was involved in some 419 scam?... You must really think so much about yourselves to assume your opinion matters.

LadyExcellency:
Like using my tax money for two weeks rest in London while Aisha hover across Nigerian airspace with presidential jet?

Tell us another thing or tell Aisha to clarify herself. The first family owes every Nigerian explanation, it is our right to know her involvement and/ or complicity in the scandal.

Well I'm sorry, she's not going to respond to you, there's no way she can respond to any and every single frivolous distraction thrown at her by over 50 million enemies. If you so desperately need a response, several people here have posted credible links to several reports which prove that the culprit arrested and investigated in the US, who claims to be Buhari's daughter, has no semblance with the Buhari's residing in Aso Rock. Thanks!

aloeman15:
The scandal is old news. It's also old news that we nigerians don't know left from right.
Even after quoting us court documents and supposedly providing links that WE ALL CAN VERIFY, some of us are warning the governor?!
Instead of us to demand that the presidency must comment on the allegations, while warning the fg to investigate thoroughly and to ensure it doesn't break the law where a sitting gov is concerned-
Whether we like him or not.
My pipul. Wen we go wise na?

It has since been clarified that the culprit (who claims to be Buhari's daughter by the way) is not in anyway related to Buhari. THe Buhari name used by the culprit was just a catchy name used to hoodwink unsuspecting magas and mugus just as is common in most 419 scams where the conman uses the name of a notable figure; there are several reports to this effect and this issue has since been thrashed and trashed.

So if in your wildest dreams, you expect Buhari to start responding to every frivolous baseless allegations which can easily be disproved by an SS1 teenager, then you must be a very heavy sleeper.

360frolic:
http://www.newshelm.com/2016/06/photo-amazing-transformation-of.html

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3866824_c_png8254a4657f68510fb01fac469b5a9b42

On the contrary, it is criminals (not Nigerians) who are living in constant fear.

LadyExcellency:
Why not allow Aisha and the Buharis to defend themselves. Mr Amibo, are the accused dead?

Sycophancy is a disease.


Gosh

...and you think the Buharis don't have anything better to do with their lives than to come and start responding to some frivolous allegations from a drunkard Fayose?... An allegation which can be evidentially disproved even by an SS1 student?... You guys must really feel so good about yourselves and feel your every allegation deserves a response. Fayose would be so so ignored that he would begin to doubt his very own existence

Abeymills:
Mr n mrs integrity d saint d god of zombies are so perfect n holy they have stolen a dime from d govt b4 they are now above the law fayose look unto God our creator he will surely fight 4u

Which God exactly are you talking about here?... The God that detests people bearing false witness or another bronze god somewhere?

Do you really think Fayose doesn't know what he said is a lie which is only meant to simply agitate and excite the multitude of dull people we have in Nigeria?

Where is Delta state in all these?

Chigold101:
where will the shame come from?
Jonathan did a lot at Anambra state with Mr Peter Obi.
If you have been to Bridge head Onitsha before 2012 you will appreciate GEJ.
Coming into Onitsha from Asaba before 2012 used to be like someone moving from where humans live to a thick dirty bush.

Government is a continum therefore GMB should complete what the person that handed over to started.

A major point of correction, Mr Peter Obi is the one who fixed the Onitsha bridge head road (even though it was a federal road); Mr Peter Obi is the one who restored sanity to Onitsha and not Jonathan.

http://thenationonlineng.net/obi-shuts-onitsha-bridge-head-markets/

That Mr Peter Obi did this during the reign of GEJ does not necessarily mean GEJ has any hand in it. As a matter of fact, the N43.8 billion being refunded to Anambra state recently by the current FG is part of the funds spent by Mr Peter Obi to fix those federal roads. So if we must be honest with ourselves, if Peter Obi fixed federal roads with state funds and he was refunded by Buhari, then we can as well say Buhari fixed the Onitsha bridge head road and several others.

Kindly tell me if I'm wrong with the above; I know this would be very painful to admit for most GEJ lovers/Buhari haters

Oksman:
You got me pants down brother, thanks for the update.

You welcome bro... I just wanted to point out that all Nigerian leaders are the same, tyrants!! even though some flex the muscles more than others while some others smile (harmlessly) when they do theirs. And yeah, they all do have the rights and legal backing to do most of these things. But at the end, we are humans, so we typically see/hear only what we want to see/hear.

Oksman:
I want Nigerians to allow the president to defend himself, his government froze fayose's account on allegation of corruption. The question begging for answers here is, does efcc have such power to do so? if true how come this is the first time they are invoking such in over 15yrs of it's existence? furthermore, why is this government footdragging in opening the halliburton bribery case to put to rest all those involved in this scandal? In as much as i object to fayose's approach, you cant take candy from a baby and expect the baby not to cry.

YES - the EFCC has the absolute right to freeze any account they deem to be harbouring fraudulent funds

Secondly, this is not the first time EFCC is freezing an account in over 15 years; even under the amiable GEJ who never bothered to fight corruption, the epileptic EFCC then froze the account of Admiral Murtala Nyako the governor of Adamawa. They also went ahead to freeze the bank accounts of the entire state, this happened when GEJ was trying to boot out Nyako for his hard opposition and guess what?.. Nyako was eventually removed by the smiling amiable tyrant GEJ (as you guys like to label PMB lately).
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/163236-efcc-froze-adamawas-account.html

I hope this answers your question?.. and by the way, you should already know Buhari too well that he is not in the business of responding to frivolous allegations from drunkards like Fayose.

Oshokomole

Sometimes I can't help but wonder the difference between this man's reasoning prowess and that of the vulcaniser who lived at the end of my street. This guy is a governor and one would have expected him to reason better, na wa oo!

Meanwhile, Buhari's daughter named Aisha must be arrested.

ofeoil:
Complete no brainer.


As it stands today every project inspected by Fashola are GEJ project.


We are waiting for Fashola project. GEJ promised to commission these projects in his second tenure and embark on more.


Till date not one project from Buhari and Fashola for South East and South South.


Even the GEJ project was sabotaged.

Government is a continuum, most GEJ projects were a continuation of what he inherited. When it involves a transition of power from one party to a different party, continuity is usually a problem because the new government usually wants to start new projects which they can call their own project and this usually leads to a multitude of abandoned projects across the landscape. The main reason behind this retrogressive trend is the pathetic mentality of claiming that projects are GEJ projects; probably you expect the new government to abandon the projects and start new ones before you appreciate that the government is working.

Thank God we now for once, have a reasonable government which doesn't exhibit this pathetic Nigerian mentality; Fashola has made it clear that his priority is to complete old incomplete and abandoned projects before he starts thinking of any new ones... Now while the hundreds of old abandoned projects are being completed, feel free to tell yourself that the government isn't working, obviously in your own wisdom, a working government is one which abandons old projects and starts new ones.

FemiFimile:
Obiano should be careful. Fashola dont like igbos.

He has already rubbish the Enugu Airport that GEJ nearly completed by refusing to complete the design.

Sadly, he will play politics with all eastern projects, delivering substandard infrastructure. Sad but true.

What is Fashola's (ministry of Works') business with Enugu airport design?

You are obviously spreading another fable you heard from a propagandists and it's a pity that only ignoramuses can believe this trash.

Would be nice if buhari for once, shifts from his stance and balances these appointments across the zones to quench the needless ethnic disaffection which has characterised his administration and which keeps causing a needless distraction to Nigeria's unity and progress.

NavierStokes:
I just came across this post sometime ago, in our discussion on the currency controls.
This seems like a stitch that wasn't done in time, almost like the government and cbn came late to the party.

Bravo!... this total devaluation seems to be the way forward seeing as no other approach was working. Hopefully it will totally bridge the forex scarcity gap someway somehow.

tbaba1234:
Nigeria's naira was quoted at 253 against the U.S. dollar as a new interbank market opened on Monday but no trades were yet to be agreed, dealers said.

Nigeria's central bank said last week it would scrap its fixed exchange system which has seen the currency pegged at 197 to the U.S. dollar for the past 16 months. (Reporting by Chijioke Ohuocha; Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

http://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-currency-quote-idUSL8N19C13U?feedType=RSS&feedName=usDollarRpt

Hmmm