₦airaland Forum

lizpedra:
These is bad not really funny i don't know what we have in stock for OUR future generation

Nothing bro... Cos there isn't any future generation in the first place.

junketer:
Me thinks paul should be careful. He should remember that na person wey carry grass goat dey follow. Why i am worried for paul if psquare were ti split, i think peter will outshine him. Ladies love peter, most guys prefer peter to paul. All peter needs is a good song writer. Even now that paul sings most of the songs, peter still outshines him. Paul should b careful

You 100% spoke my mind bro, it pains me when people paint Peter as "ordinary dancer", that paul does all the singing. I started listening to psquare in 2006, if there was anything that attracted me to them since then till date, its because of their "breaking" and dancing step which i always likened with Usher. 70% of young folks love this duo for their dancing skills and swag not because they sing better than other naija artist. This alone depicts peter's immense contribution to the group.

I can bet it that peter will outshine paul in many ways, note that both sing very well, only that paul is a script writer, this i think cannot be a big issue for peter cos he can get a good song writer while he perfoms it couple with puting life into this song with his dancing skill which obviously paul lacks. If well noted, one will know that psquare songs with energetic dances hits more than emotional once. Eje ajo, shekinini, beautiful oyinye, bring it on and collabo come to mind among their latest. compare the first 2 to the last 3.

#Teampeter all the way!

Whatever problem we may have in Nigeria at this or any other time, this country is sustained by the fact that we are indeed a very special people. We have been described as the happiest people on earth, we have also described ourselves as resilient, gifted and determined, and in one report, Nigerians are said to have the strongest shock absorber against some of the deadliest diseases in the world. If anyone doubted this last point, well, recall that we won the battle over Ebola virus, and polio. The more you look at it, the more it seems as if there is something in the Nigerian DNA that defies defeat, that automatically deletes any virus that can result in system shut down, there is that X-factor in our affairs that rises when hope seems lost, and life seems tragic. Somehow, the Nigerian spirit regenerates, recreates and reinvents itself, turns failure into possibilities, pessimism into new expectations, and tomorrow into an anchor for renewal.
We are at such a crossroad, right now. But in the midst of the despair, the listlessness, the anxiety, the what-happened-to-us and what-the hell-is-going-on, you can’t miss the fact that the average Nigerian has not lost his bounce. The biggest tragedies that can hobble other nations happen here and we just shrug them off. Boko Haram alone has claimed thousands of lives. Hun hun. Herdsmen have killed men and women in their hundreds. Hun hun. More lives have been lost to vehicle accidents on our poorly made, badly maintained roads. Well, hun hun. Many fingers have been caught in the national cookie jar. Ha. What is this? Who dunnit? But, o ma se o. hun hun. The national leaky bucket has a thousand holes. Ha, no country can live with this? Still, hen hun hun. We voted and there were promises of a new spirit of the age. But that spirit is yet to manifest. So? Nothing good comes easy, therefore. No miracles in the new agenda. So, ni igba yen wa n ko? So, life goes on.
Whatever life throws at the average Nigerian, he protests, he complains, but he accommodates it. It is the reason why nobody will throw stones because power supply is at the worst level in years. It is the reason why workers who have not been paid for months after months will still see the same governor who is responsible for their misery, after collecting Federal money to help them, and has refused to deliver and they will still scream: “My Excellency, sir.” When workers go on strike, someone calls them together, says something nice, provides something nice and everything falls nicely in place. The late Chief MKO Abiola was quoted saying “eto ni gbogbo e”, that is anything in Nigeria can be arranged nicely. The June 12 debacle sadly could not be arranged nicely. It cost the chief of native wisdom and martyr of Nigerian democracy his life, but many lessons have been learnt. And one key lesson is that in this country, the people are determined to live no matter what. They can grumble as they wish about the public space but Nigerians are not ready to give up their will to live, their right to live and their understanding of how to live. And if you put your neck on the line on their behalf, you will be shocked that you will be the subject of memes and what’s app jokes. The people laugh at martyrs and heroes because they see no reason why anyone should commit suicide, defending Nigeria, when there is so much life to be enjoyed.
Nigeria is probably the global headquarters of enjoyment. The way the ordinary man has complained in recent times, about political change and the socio-cultural changes it has brought, you would think Nigerians are in serious trouble. But that is not the case. The foreign exchange market has gone into a crazy overdrive impoverishing the whole nation. Parents whose children are schooling abroad are afraid that they may no longer be able to pay fees. The manufacturing sector is abusing the Minister of Finance- what’s-that-her-name-again? and where-did-she-learn-finance- public-policy-and-economics, but I beg, look around, more businesses are actually springing up and all those foreign investors who are supposedly monitoring the Nigerian market are actually clinging to this market. Why do you think MTN wants to remain in Nigeria till death do them part? Why do you think all those foreign countries want President Buhari to visit? The banks have retrenched a lot of staff but the same banks have started recruiting again. In this country, what you see is not what you get. There is problem with foreign exchange but activities at the ports have not ceased. Wait till September, you’d be shocked the number of Nigerian children heading towards Europe, North America and other parts of Africa in pursuit of expensive, forex-backed education.
I beg, leave matter. And if you don’t want to leave it go to the nearest fuel station where many Nigerians are queuing up for fuel with power generating sets and jerry cans. The people are going through the hardship but they are laughing at their leaders. You think you can mess us up, na lie. If you people like, sell fuel for N150, we go survive. They stay in front of that fuel station and they review Nigeria’s history and lament the choices they have made, but their spirit remains strong. That is what makes them Nigerian. Go to the vendors’ stand. The crowd of poor people who cannot afford to buy a newspaper copy, have all the same listened to the news and the only place where they can compete as pundits is that roadside corner, where sometimes one drunken idiot loses control behind the wheels and sheds human blood, wasting those who have gathered not to buy any newspaper but to debate Nigeria. This special crowd knows it all. You don’t want to get involved with them. They will remind you that a Ph.D holder is actually a real idiot, and that nobody needs certificates of any type to be a Nigerian, and well they add too, that if you ever worked in government, then you are a confirmed idiot, and a professional trickster.
Nigerians are so inventive; they find every way of beating bad news, bad experience, or anything that tries to defeat them. Everyone says there is no money in town, they claim things have gone from bad to worse but the parties have not stopped. Go to any of the joints around Lagos, nothing has been spoiled. Isi ewu, nkwobi, asun, sawa, orisirisi, point and kill have all defied the forex market. Yes, the price of staple commodities has risen, but that has not stopped the people from throwing lavish wedding parties. Nor has it stopped anybody from marrying three times when one is enough: our people do traditional wedding – valid, they go to the registry: valid, they rush to church- valid: rather than marry once, they do it thrice all within a week. Nor has the austerity in town stopped anybody from burying the dead as if the more money is thrown at the grave, the likeliest the possibility of the dead suddenly becoming a Lazarus of the 21st century.
Is there poverty in town? You answer that question based on the evidence of your eyes. What I have seen is that Nigerians are still living as if there is too much money in the country. Take a look at the garments Nigerians wear every week. We certainly don’t look like electricity is a problem or that money is in short supply. Soon it will be another Ojude oba among the Ijebus, for example. You go and check them out. As a teacher at Ogun State University in those days, (I served later as member of the Governing Council), we used to go from one party to the other, guzzling free food and quaffing free drinks. Today, those lavish parties have not ceased. Nobody eats like that in Europe or North America. When you go to all the old joints, in Agarawu in Lagos or Tarmac, nothing has changed either. The music still flows, the swag is on. Elsewhere, new buildings are springing up; new cars are being “washed”, additional wives are being acquired. Leave matter, I beg. Nigeria will survive, and these same people who are complaining about change, you’d be shocked, they’d still vote for their stomachs in 2019.
And that is why Nigeria is one country that beats all the textbook theories. We are just something else. There is more in the social arena that defines who we are, than in the theoretical arena. The same people who are complaining that they have not seen change are actually hoping for more. They are not ready to adjust. They are not ready to make sacrifices. If they have an opportunity to be close to government in any way, they will jump at it. The corruption that we talk about is not just in government corridors, it is in society, but the one inside society is so difficult to trap because it is amorphous and inchoate in so many respects. Invariably, the snake feeds on itself: mobius strip.
What we are left with is the image of the people laughing at government and themselves. Have you taken time out to check what happens on social media? Anybody who ever ventured into governance is easy game. The people design caricatures and mock them. Nigeria produces more memes and graphics than any other country in Africa not necessarily because of the events that happen here but because of the people’s consciousness, and if I may add, private greed. In that other world, political change is ridiculed, poverty is deplored, GEJ is becoming a saint and PMB a villain, but the people are still having fun, and blaming Nigeria and the politicians. I tell you, the problem with Nigeria is not the politicians but the people themselves. We are very special people, but we don’t really know what we want, and because we are like that, we confuse the politicians and the nation. But for as long as we can wear those impressive attires and throw those parties and dance to old music and pay our private bills, we see no reason to care enough. Pity is: no country can ever move ahead if the people do not care enough. For us, life goes on, no matter what.
http://m.guardian.ng/opinion/why-nigerians-are-special/

Hate or love him, you cant change who jagaban is...

End time Boobs...

ok...

God bless your hustle dear, where do you get the seed you planted, i wanna plant mine by d end of this month on half acre, i need to buy a bucket paint seed.

God bless sen. abaribe for this motion, adoption and implementation is what we need now. It's time we embrace what we have and stop killing our economy with unfavorable balance of trade.

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UrennaNkoli:
Nah... I'm a sports lover and I just do it for the fun of it... Whether i get a win or not is none of my business so don't get me twisted. I'm a mathematician and physiologist so I put my knowledge of mathematics into this. It has fetched me over 400k on 3 different occasions. I don't even enjoy up to half of the money, majority goes to charity..

Good one, lemme take lecture from you na, seems you are quiet experienced.

@ jackbennie, Mheeeen, i really salute your strategy bro, i always jump pass this tread, but holy spirit told me to open it today. Slow and steady wins the race. i would love to add you to my whatsapp soccer group if you dont mind. Kindly add me with my number below.....thanks

Oya now....

upload picture of the seedlings here, the pods and tree. again how do you sell a kg of an improved seedlings?

Yeeeeeahhh, i have to officially register my presence on this educating tread. I can hardly believe that i red it from cover to cover (season 1&2). May God keep blessing you guys and enrich you in knowledge. Databoy (Lemme officially name u Dataprof, u aint a boy no more) and scantee man, i salute you guys.

I will be also be contributing the little i know on this tread, answering some questions i can in the absense of my the bosses while i keep learning in the process.

Less i forget, i work with a reknown and highly connected logistic companies in Lagos as contract sourcing,evaluation and assessment manager so i understand all what as been discussed so far. I also played a key role in filling documents for TIN,TCC (as a trained accountant), Company profile development, company letter head design.

so letz keep this rolling and make dis 2nd episode a success too.

adeyemik:
Is there hope for small scale farmers in this country? This question kept coming on and on, with no answer in sight. The government keep reiterating the need to diversify the economy; move away or reduce our reliance on oil revenue to something far more greater - Agriculture. Sincerely, the government desire to make agriculture a major revenue earner will be a mirage, if policies are not put in place to help the small scale farmers to grow to become a medium scale, and the medium to become a big or super scale farmer.

We delved into small scale farming recently. I and two guys (these two guys are currently doing their PHD programme in agriculture), we acquired a 3 acres land space (outright purchased) for this purpose, build a pen that would accommodate atleast 3500 birds and a farm house for the attendants. Started the poultry with over 3000 day old chicks with less than 2% mortalities recorded from October last year till date. We planted 1000 plantain suckers (bought from IITA) and 1000 yam ridges. Thanks to God and the expertise of all the people involved.

We desired an expansion especially for the birds, and estimated that with 5 Million Naira, we should be able to achieve our goals concerning the expansion. Everybody's saving has been expended on the current project and decided to approach a bank for a very short term facility. By short term facility, I mean paying back the principal and interest within 7 to 8 months. It was estimated with pay from their PPs plus my salary, we should be able to pay back 800k per month even at 20% interest rate.

We approached two of the banks - F bank and Z Bank for a 5M facility from the CBN agriculture loan or a personal loan (Loan to be collateralized), but couldn't get a positive response or result from either of them. Z Bank, told us that they target audience of the CBN loan are medium and big time farmers, having not less than 10000 birds, gave a lot of other excuses that are totally unacceptable. Secondly, Z Bank says that it can't has stopped given personal loan to people. As regards F Bank, we were told that they are awaiting the new management policies on loans qualification criterias, however, even if we meet all the pre-requisite qualifications, the fact that none of us have a six months operational bank account with the bank, we are not qualified for any loan.

If the quest of the government to make agriculture a major revenue earner for the nation is to see the light of the day, conscious steps must be taken to make small scale farmers access to loan facilities, else, there is no hope for young and small scale farmers got to survive and succeed in this country.

In our case, we have committed close 10 Million naira on the project without seeing or getting any return(s) at the moment. three people (2 attendants and a security man) are on our monthly pay and four other auxiliary guys that we call upon frequently to help in doing one thing or the other. Yet, to access facility that we help move the farm forward is been made unreachable and impossible for those without godfathers/mothers.

Which way for the young farmers, Nigeria?

God bless you OP, this is very ridiculous, we are preaching but dont practicing in nigeria. I approached Skyebank for the said CBN MSMEDF loan but the response i got was that, the loan is only meant for agricultural value chain services, but not crop and livestock producer. I hope our Government wakes up and understand the potential of MSME than they currently do.

waste of MB

Moyanbe:
Getting land is quite the harder part of agricultural venture but nevertheless I will try to help if I can get a contact of people that lease their land for agricultural purpose here in ogun state, around abeokuta environment but I won't be involve in negotiations...

God bless you a million times bro, i was the one that called few minutes back.

Good

Asapcymg:
I once saw a beutiful lady living off campus,she is still studying Law 200L althought am graduate waiting to be mobilised A16, her charming smile made me to fall in love with her, I met her on her way from school so I drove her home by the way am able to got her contact and she showed me her place, she happy felt when ever she saw me we gist a lot, but as soon as I left when I call on phone she will not pick untill I went back to her room to remained her she will keep on saying her phone is charging. I'm the shy type I cant tell that I love her directly also time is not by my side, she is perfect curve,moderately tall,white. Please help me because I want to marry her very soon.

Awaiting NYSC? I pray you don't get posted to School.
Maybe she has problem understanding your gbagaun on phone, hence the reason for not picking...................just saying

PentiumPro:
That is the nonsense story your forefather sold to you.
Ipob thug

Chilling with ma bottle of Origin........ this babe they make me feel good walahi....... abeg give am back to back, let the nigga go home as ask for history.

GreatSE:
This is very very pathetic for somebody who is from Osun state seeing Lagos as his enclave.... Logos belong to every Nigerian for now, when we take our oil that refinery will go into moribund.

Pathetic indeed, guy you havnt escape this illusion of "Our oyel"............... oya take am now. If lagos belongs to everybody, Biafran agitators wudnt try this hard. I am patiently waiting for a time when Hausa and yorubas can claim porthacourts and Enugu as no man's land. SMH

jam04:
It amazes me how some people hoard public informations as if it makes their lives better.

For small scale businesses and start up it is 500,000 and repayment is within a year at 9% interest rate max

For medium scale businesses maximum loan is 50 million with a 3 years repayment plan.

Collateral those not necessarily mean landed properties. It could be equipment( farm equipment) or machinery

Jams baba, u are too much my bro, God bless you 1,505,291 times. I guess I will enquire at a nearby first bank, I have land to use as collateral though I havnt done the survey title. Farming ti take over!

feminineA:
we are in needs of Moringa seeds in large quantities. payment at pick up or delivery( bank draft, cheques n transfers)

Due to our terrible experience we don't issue bank guarantee. LPO will be raised for delivery.

No broker should contact me pls

No broker of broker should contact me.( Coz they are time wasters)


call or whatsapp 08096602523

I might need to call you soon. how many metric tons of seed do you think can be harvested from a 3 acres moringa farm? (Not sure if you have the experience though). I will be having my first harvest in few months. will attach a picture when I go to farm.

jam04:
See people hoarding information as if the disbursed fund belongs to them. If you share info how you got yours will that make the bank withdraw the loan they gave you?

For those interested, approach first bank in your area. They are more receptive and have agric desk, also make sure you have a collateral or a guarantor in place. Diamond bank accepts guarantor in place of a collateral.
skyee bank accepts collateral

Hope this helps

God bless you bro, you spoke my mind. Pls what is the duration for using the loan (12, 24 or 36 months)? and what is the maximum this scheme lend to agroprenuers?

Aqudo:
@Ogbongenet, this is not how to pass info across. Tell us your price, location.
don't you have single head suckers? It seems people prefer the single bunch to 2/3 heads cos their fingers are not as big as the single head.

Confirm................. Oya OP, come and explain yourself

hello OP, I own a 4 acres of moringa farm, that's about 2 hecters, kindly find my contact below

arbitrage:
I can be your partner for China, USA, UK and Canada. What are you importing for clients?

Thanks man, can you please mail me privately with your phone or text me on my line below, I will call you asap, then we can talk. Other people with key interest are still welcome.

Hello nairalanders, pls I would love to know if anyone know how to source for a foreign business partners especially in countries like china, USA and India. My organisation is a Maritime Logistics company and due to demand by our multinational clients, its is expedient that we have business partners atleast in those countries so as to ensure efficient procurement and shipping of our clients logistics. Pls contact me (my line in my signature) if you wanna be a partner in any of those countries. Kindly drop me a reply if you have an idea on out to source if any pls. Thanks.

simplibaba:
Are u serious? Am also april 14th

Birthmate, oya chop elbow, connect wid me asap bro.