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ijustdey:
http://punchng.com/niger-delta-buhari-osinbajo-meet-service-chiefs/

just watching Nigeria in 4D.......
Meanwhile, this is what happens when a bus driver mistakenly shout London instead of lagos

Codedrock:
Source: http://www.takemetonaija.com/2016/06/top-ten-richest-personalities-in.html

3 of d richest men and woman is from Ogun state.....
But why is d place like this..
picture below

Codedrock:
Source: http://www.takemetonaija.com/2016/06/top-ten-richest-personalities-in.html

oil billionaires.....
adenuga
otedola
adenuga....

Codedrock:
Source: http://www.takemetonaija.com/2016/06/top-ten-richest-personalities-in.html

Swesterners and north wealth are not evenly distributed.......

Adesiji77:
http://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/06/30/report-70-of-bankable-adults-keep-money-away-from-banks/

this information is for some fulks dat will come here to argue on d state with d highest number of banks creditors and debitors

Onijagidijagan:
I did not say all igbos are into illegal stuffs.....but most are. accept d truth and it shall set you free(quoting Bible)

you people with all your awards from USA cannot even change d brown roof houses in your area...
You ought to be ashamed of yourself...seriously....
Brown roof everywhere and owing salaries....

Omokunlex:
Nonsense! Russia should check him very well, He may be a drug pusher!
Mtcheew.

must you be stupid......brown roof representator

Adesiji77:
Ibadan—The Oyo State House of Assembly has approved the application of the state government to approach the Federal Government for a N14.16 billion bailout fund.

The approval came up at an emergency plenary session of the Assembly yesterday, presided over by the Speaker, Hon. Michael Adeyemo. The speaker opined that the bailout, which would be given by the Federal Government in addition to the  monthly allocation, was strictly meant for the payment of workers’ salary in the state.

Gov Ajimobi Adeyemo said the approval of the legislature was one of the conditions spelt out by the Federal Government to states facing severe financial difficulties. He said from the bailout fund totalling N14.16 billion, a sum of N1.39 billion would be paid monthly for the first three months, while N1.11 billion would be paid monthly in the subsequent nine months.

The speaker said the bailout fund would be paid back to the Federal Government by the state with nine per cent accrued over a period of one year. He said, however, that the Federal Government had given a year suspension before the commencement of the loan payment.

In his words: “Federal Government has restricted states from getting loan facilities  from commercial banks partly due to its high interest rates. The government then decided to provide the bailout in form of a loan. “The repayment will not start until after a year moratorium by which time, hopefully, the state would have become economically viable,” he noted.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/oyo-assembly-approves-n14-2bn-fg-bailout-salaries/

osun,ekiti,ondo and Oyo owing and can no longer pay salary,,what is happening to SWestern states

Adesiji77:
Ibadan—The Oyo State House of Assembly has approved the application of the state government to approach the Federal Government for a N14.16 billion bailout fund.

The approval came up at an emergency plenary session of the Assembly yesterday, presided over by the Speaker, Hon. Michael Adeyemo. The speaker opined that the bailout, which would be given by the Federal Government in addition to the  monthly allocation, was strictly meant for the payment of workers’ salary in the state.

Gov Ajimobi Adeyemo said the approval of the legislature was one of the conditions spelt out by the Federal Government to states facing severe financial difficulties. He said from the bailout fund totalling N14.16 billion, a sum of N1.39 billion would be paid monthly for the first three months, while N1.11 billion would be paid monthly in the subsequent nine months.

The speaker said the bailout fund would be paid back to the Federal Government by the state with nine per cent accrued over a period of one year. He said, however, that the Federal Government had given a year suspension before the commencement of the loan payment.

In his words: “Federal Government has restricted states from getting loan facilities  from commercial banks partly due to its high interest rates. The government then decided to provide the bailout in form of a loan. “The repayment will not start until after a year moratorium by which time, hopefully, the state would have become economically viable,” he noted.
Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/oyo-assembly-approves-n14-2bn-fg-bailout-salaries/

ekiti,ondo,osun,Oyo state owing and can no longer pay salary,what is happening to SWestern states....

Harbdulrasaq:
The residents of Emmanuel High Street in Ogudu, yesterday June 28, 2016 came out in numbers to protest an attempt by Lagos Government officials to commission a partially rehabilitated road, chanting that half-done road is not a well done job.



The residents, who had positioned themselves in the early hours of the morning at the bad spots of the road, claimed that the Lagos State government abandoned the uttermost deplorable part of the road.

http://www.newshelm.com/2016/06/photos-ogudu-residents-reject.html

Even d almighty lagos ,have this kind of roads

alade112:
Look at aw flatimeros are celebrating God thank you for making me yoruba. If i be Igbo i for don kill myself Olorun modupe si ibiti oda mi si..

don't worry,,,d militant will show you pepper...una never see something.......hahahahaha.......brown roof must fall

You don't need to be an Igbo to kill yourself...... d hunger strike of unpaid salary from four brown roof states will soon visit you

alade112:
Daz what you guys are known for. Celebrating any bad thing that happen to SW. If hausas dy suyalize una nw and fulanis dey attack una for SE person go dey pity your flat 7 shaped head

I think flat heads is far better than this

dainformant:
We need to treat others right now cos this world is a small place and no one knows what the future holds in store for us. Minister of Youth and Sports, Barrister Solomon Dalung was shockingly surprised after bumping into his secondary school classmate at Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos -earlier today.

Below is what the minister had to say after the encounter;

The surprise you got when you meet your secondary school class mate. I got it wow this afternoon at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Lagos. Life in itself is just a small cycle that turns round and brings old folks together again and again. Lesson: Treat whoever you meet today with human kindness,you wouldn't just know where next life will bring you both together again. God bless Nigeria.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2016/06/minister-of-youth-sports-runs-into-his.html

Always be good to who ever you come in contact with in life......because tomorrow talks to nobody

[quote author=dustydee post=46980967]Nigerians consume more than 5 million metric tons of rice every year, with a significant portion of its consumption needs sourced from imports. Rotimi Williams, an ambitious 36 year-old Nigerian entrepreneur and rice farmer, is on a quest to change that.
Williams, a former Journalist, is the owner of Kereksuk Rice Farm, the 2nd largest commercial rice farm in Nigeria by land size. His farm, which is situated in Nasarawa state in northern Nigeria, currently sits on 43,000 hectares and employs more than 100 indigenes of Nasarawa.
I recently caught up with the budding entrepreneur in Lagos, and had a brief chat with him where he recounted his journey and mused on how Nigeria can attain self-sufficiency in rice production in the near future.
What’s your educational and professional background?
I attended King’s College in Lagos. After attending secondary school at King’s College I proceeded to obtain my first degree at University of Aberdeen where I graduated with a degree in Economics. I also obtained a Master’s Degree in Economics from the same institution. My quest for more knowledge led me to enroll for yet another Master’s Degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London where I gained an MSc. in Finance and Development Studies.
Upon graduation, I landed a role as an analyst at the European Economics and Financial Centre in London. Afterwards, Euromoney Magazine- employed me where I covered the African space.
I would say that this is where my journey truly started.
Given your background as a journalist, what informed your decision to venture into rice farming?
While at Euromoney, I had the opportunity to travel around a few African countries. These trips exposed me to countries like Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia and Ghana. A common thread amongst the aforementioned nations is agriculture. Agriculture is at the very core of these countries and this got me thinking. After a few more trips, I decided to move back to Nigeria and sink my teeth into the agricultural space. Nigeria remains the largest economy in Africa from both a GDP perspective and also the strength of the size of our population.
Upon my arrival back in Nigeria, I got a job at a premier Bank where I was promised to sit on the agriculture desk – my hope was that I would gain enough knowledge of the Nigerian agricultural industry and develop myself from there.
Unfortunately, the agricultural desk at the Bank never quite achieved its set goals. I pushed hard for the Bank to adopt policies and gain inroads into the agricultural industry but my attempts were somewhat frustrated. I sincerely feel that the bank wasn’t quite ready to launch fully into the agricultural space.
As my frustration grew, I decided to quit banking and planned to go it alone into agriculture. Frankly, my decision led to a challenging sojourn as attempts to raise funding with my partner proved difficult. We started a Structured Trade and Commodity Finance company. After a while I started consulting for small agriculture companies seeking to raise capital both locally and internationally.
You currently own the second (2nd) largest rice farm in Nigeria with 45,000 hectares in Nasarawa, Nigeria. What’s the story behind your acquisition of such vast land, and what are some of the challenges you’ve encountered in farming in the volatile northern region?
Two years had past and we still had no funds, so I made an offer to the farm owner, that with a 50-50 split, I would develop the farm with both personal funds and external funding. He agreed and that’s how I became part owner of 17,296 hectares of farmland. Knowing that agriculture would become the integral area of focus in Nigeria, I was bullish and ramped up the land to 55,000 hectares. I later parted with my partner as a result of unaligned views and strategy. I maintained 45,000 hectares for myself and today we have started producing, with our quality paddy being sold to major milling companies in Nigeria. However, I must add the following, I often have people ask how I learned abut farming, as everyone thinks you need a special degree in agriculture to be a farmer, but I always tell them the truth, I learnt it all on Google. I downloaded every article I could find on rice production, consumed it and then practiced it in the fields.
Frankly, my experience working alongside indigenes of Nasarawa state has been exceptional. I have learnt over the years that if you approach people with respect even more so while one seeks to set up a business venture. Having a healthy sense of community makes all the difference in attaining one’s set objectives. I lean heavily on the wisdom and cultural approach of the indigenes to carry out farming on such a scale here in Nasarawa.
In the news today, there is a lot of talk about Farmers clashing with Fulani Herdsmen, but we think our approach has been successful. We created a scheme called the Farm Out Of Poverty initiative which I will talk about a bit more later. Under the FOOP, we are able to train approximately a hundred Fulani women in rice farming, at the same time, employing their men as our security and finally, feeding their castles from the rice straws after harvest. Today, we live in peace and all work towards the success of the farm.
What’s your fundamental objective in rice production?
In recent years there has been a concerted effort by the Federal Republic of Nigeria to adopt more wholesome agricultural reforms and policies. These initiatives are highly commendable as they seek to empower Nigerians to also engage and thrive in this industry. Quite frankly, with Nigeria’s swelling population we simply have to look inwards and increase our agricultural prowess as a nation. These initiatives have been further highlighted when we take a candid look at our importing structures. Nigeria imports a whole lot and the numbers reveal that this is not sustainable.
Kereksuk seeks to contribute its own quota to reduce the weight on our economy to keep importing rice – which is consumed in such high demand in our country.
Your farm, Kereksuk, is currently not running at optimization. Why is that?
Kereksuk’s land mass stands at 45,000 hectares; as such, we have been focusing on developing the land in phases – based on our modular plan we seek to reach full optimization by the year 2020. Our expansion plans require significant fund raising too – the scale of our planned operations would explain this.
So how much rice are you producing annually?
We’re currently doing 8,000 metric tons a year, but we are embarking on an expansion programme that’ll see us doubling our output next year.
Have you taken any steps to make your farm more environmentally friendly?
Kereksuk has taken a few initiatives to adopt environmentally friendly measures. For example, we apply organic fertilizers – fertilizers we gain quite seamlessly through our healthy relationship with the indigenes of this beautiful state. Furthermore, we feed straw from our rice to livestock and while I am not at liberty to divulge the details, we are actually working on a project that seeks to generate power from rice.
I see myself as a social entrepreneur – I appreciate engaging the collective through community involvement. This has actually inspired Kereksuk to set up a few initiatives.
Our pioneer initiative is the farm-out-of-poverty initiative. This strategic initiative targets secondary school children. The Nigerian secondary school system is evenly split into two halves – the Junior Secondary School (JSS) years and the Senior Secondary School (SSS) years. Each half lasts for three (3) years. We focus primarily on the Senior Secondary School years by selecting ten (10) students per SSS year to visit our farm.
While on the farm, the 30 students are exposed to the production and economics of rice farming. At the end of the year we set aside N50,000 ($160) per student per year. This accrues to N150,000 (approximately $500) at the end of the 3-year programme per student. We ensure that this sum is matched by a like-minded cooperative organization and the cumulative amount of N300,000 ($1,000) goes towards paying fees at the tertiary education stage.
This programme seeks to alleviate the burden of debt often associated with students and empowers the student through experience in a real-life work environment.
Kereksuk is confident that this initiative inspires and acts as an incentive to those at the lower education cadre to remain in school and aim for excellence in life.
The second phase of the FOOP involves the engagement of Fulani women in rice farming. This concept is unprecedented as there is a misconception that Fulani people are only
What reforms must government implement to ensure that Nigeria attains self-sufficient in rice production?
There is a lot of talk at the moment about rice production and self-sufficiency, but I believe that the Government needs to look at its approach closely. The aim of the government is not only to create jobs, but create wealth and at the same time boost production. However, I believe that for jobs to be created, the notion is quite straightforward, create a plan and make funds available, however, for such development to be sustainable and for wealth to be created, there is much work yet to be done. For example, in rice production, simply growing paddy and selling at market price would not create the necessary wealth for the farmer, without appropriate value addition such as milling. However, because the government lays much emphasis on integrated rice mills and par-boiled rice, these small farmers are already priced out. So for the newly created job to be truly attractive and sustainable, government needs to start thinking about the value additions by the same farmers to enable them grow their operations organically.

https://blogs-images.forbes.com/mfonobongnsehe/files/2016/06/DSC_5041-1200x1805.jpg


http://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2016/06/27/meet-the-36-year-old-entrepreneur-who-owns-nigerias-2nd-largest-rice-farm/#78ba921171fd

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Really encouraging.....
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Movic1:
2016 images of Google earth pictures of Ibadan.

I think Di's one should be well defined and viewed..... sorry oh .,I just think I can help you...I hope I am not offending

henryanna36:
Ekiti Youths Declare Support for Fayose, Condemn FG's Rascality

Youths in Ekiti State under different groups gathered today in support of Governor Ayodele Fayose.

The youths in their thousands frowned at the APC led FG's rascality, flagrant disrespect of rule of law and disobedience to the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Source: http://www.trezzyblog.com/2016/06/ekiti-students-in-solidarity-march-for.html

Brown roof representing...........

PentiumPro:
Abeg l, stop spraying my body with dirty and smelly saliva

sorry oh....I don't know you can be bittered like this....charcoal calling pot black.....
Next time don't start what you can not finish....sorry oh!!!!!!!!!!!!

PentiumPro:
I know you are pained looking at the pics and seeing my comment, but let me remind you again the slaves that traveled all the way from Enugu to go and take the handshake from their Abokii god

and servant that are busy pleading with their master for appointment......una never see something........
servants that are been beaten up in Lagos by their master......
servants that are rejected by their fellow southerners because of saboteur lifestyle...
abeg I no call name oh!!!!!!!!!!!!

PentiumPro:
Slaves !

servant

specialadviser5:
flat head are just....

masquerade face are just....

DaBullIT:
They messed up their hometowns

Now they are trying to mess up Lagos



Name checkers association , with pleasure i announce to you that Nna na Dem again

ekiti boy claiming lagos.... receive sense

Pelon:
Their is this girl I am dating and we have been at it for weeks now she text me today and asked if I love her and I told her I do and she told me that their is this guy she was dating before she met me and she doesn't trust him that's why she decided to give me a chance and also that she love me and doesn't want me to get hurt if I eventually find out,and she also asked if I am okay with it...Pls guys advice me

you are own your own

Yorubanews:
[size=18pt]Ogun State Will Soon Be To Lagos[/size]

http://www.citypeopleproperty.com/2015/11/ogun-state-will-soon-be-to-lagos-what-new-jersey-is-to-new-york-gov-ibikunle-amosun/

ekiti man always claiming Lagos.....I am back from recess.....
I hope you know that d pictures below are also OGUN state
1)Abeokuta from d top of olumo rock
2)Abeokuta
3)ijabu ode
4)sagamu

Yorubanews:
[size=18pt]Ogun State Will Soon Be To Lagos[/size]

http://www.citypeopleproperty.com/2015/11/ogun-state-will-soon-be-to-lagos-what-new-jersey-is-to-new-york-gov-ibikunle-amosun/

you again...........I am back for you...
ekiti man claiming Lagos....
I hope you know that the pictures below are also OGUN
1)Abeokuta from olumo rock
2)Abeokuta
3)ijabu ode
4)sagamu

tdayof:
Oyo coming out 7th and someone will come here and shout brown roof city while his or her state can afford less than this mega state.

please concentrate on d topic and don't raise useless issues please

FanYogo1:
Look at this foolish raga muffin, are you saying he SE cities don't have brown roof? Why do you lots lie as if we Yorubas don't do NYSC in Iboland? Is Akwa the only city in Iboland?

As usual, they use the same location wey no get urban planning

Enugu

hahahahaha.....DAT is just a video DAT can not be attested on where it is been shot....
minus lagos ,no SW state have a city wat you guys have are slums of brown road.....not just a place but everywhere where....like I said,I can show you 1000 pics of SW brown roof cities