₦airaland Forum

hotmas911:
we wrapped up the clearing on Friday. a total of 105 acres have been cleared. by evening the total cost of clearing should be available so we know what it cost per acre. thanks

Still waiting to know the cost of clearing an Acre.

Thanks loads!!

I'm happy the South East is finally having some semblace of good governance.
It started with Enugu, Now Anambra is in. Lets say Imo too. Next and I'm hoping Abia will follow with Dr Alex Otti.

Funny how all the names listed are same as the one saharareporters listed as attendees to a PDP meeting called by Muazu.

jasper7:
Good, Good.

1. We expect a minimum of 5,000 big balls per acre. There might be others, but they won't be as big.

2. We are looking at twice a year.

3. participants are highly welcome in the farm o. very very welcome. we even encourage them to come to the farm.

Interesting. That means your 50% ROI estimates are bottomline conservative.

I'm postulating that Supersweet + Seedless watermelons would easily retail for btw 700- 1000 Naira. In which case I would be safe to assume a wholesale price point of btw 300-400 Naira per ball average.
Now, 5000 watermelons x (300-400 Naira)= 1.5 million-2 Million Naira.
That's an ROI of 600-800% minus distribution and marketing costs.

Ok. I know that's a bit too optimistic and just mere mathematics, but I hope you are not hoping to sell those Premuim Watermelons at the same price of regular watermelons.

I would call you up about participation this evening.
You've always been an inspiration.

jasper7:
Amen sir.... The seedless watermelon is amazing. very interesting and not available yet in Nigeria. so mine will be the first of its kind . you know me, I like to do my things special.

If the seeded varieties are selling 500 Naira per ball, then trust me if I say you can sell the seedless for double that price.
I'll love to be a part of this.

Just a few questions.

1) How many balls(just a rough estimate) are expected per acre. Or better still what is the expected yield per acre, either in balls or in Tonnes.

2)How many production rounds are expected in a year?

3)Can participants be a part of the farming process albeit irregularly for learning purposes?

hotice01:
Cheap&affordable virgin acres of land for sale in Benin City,Edo State.
#180k/plot.
Location is Ewuneka,after the bypass,just after Oluku.its easily accessible and fertile.
valid documents and papers available.
For inspection and enquiry pls call or whatsapp 07053331484.

180k for a plot of farm land is way too high now!!

I have seen 50k per acre in many areas. Bros 180k Plot Farmland
Farmland is usually discussed in Acres or Hectares.

I'm not trying to spoil market for you, but sincerely you'll hardly get anyone buying farmland at those prices except a total novice!

Liking this!!

Two questions:

1)How many percent purity??

2)Do you have Brown??

3)Any discounts for larger volumes?

4)How long does it take to process an order?


Have a pretty large order from Europe to fulfill on a continual basis. Let me have these answers. Thnx.

I would have loved to attend this!!

But it was fixed for my birthday which I have other engagements about!!

Why do people keep talking about AIT and never speak about The Nation, Punch and SaharaReporters?

That Umar Nasko guy is already the most popular incoming governor. I hope he performs excellently and stands a chance in 2019!

raumdeuter:
From Census figures from the mid 60's Ogbomosho has always been one of the most populous cities in Nigeria
I would provide sources soon

Pathetic now!!!

1966 & 1979 data?? Are you serious?

Are you not aware that economic dynamics change and as such city concentrations?

Haba! In that case Abuja's population should be reading like 3000 persons.

alaoeri:
Don't just base it on your own thought, check their square kilometers from a map & from the last census the population will clear your doubts, ogbomoso is way bigger & more populated than Ilorin.

Square Kilometer has nothing to do with city population.
Thats why population density is a compulsory composite of city data analytics.

Macelliot7:
TRASH
How can you be Comparing States with Cities?
Lagos is a State....
Ibadan, Portharcourt are cities. Then how come Lagos(state) ranked with (cities)
How did Ogbomosho made the list...
Hahaha Abuja ke, Onitsha alone is Populated than Abuja 50 times.

The article is trash.

However, Lagos is a city. A city is a geographical expression while a stae is an administrative expression. They are two entirely different parameters. To understand better, State,Region, Country are administrative. City, Village, Town, Continent---these are geographical expressions. So Lagos is a city and a state at the same time.

Once again, the article is trash.

The best way to measure city populations in this day and age in the absense of census include
1) Number of active phone lines
2) Google Maps
3) Transport Patterns

Ma Babee!!

Always on point!!

@ Poster.

Not right to put pictures of the deceased here without clarifying if family members have been adequately informed.

Imagine a family member of this person hearing of this incident for the first time through this medium and sighting these gory pictures.

Please lets be sensitive in whatever actions we take.


I advise you either take down the picture of blurr the face of the deceased.

The amount of gory pictures seen these days has desensitized many of the value the life carries. This should stop abeg.

Apparently, the crooner of that tweet doesn't know the meaning of undecideds.

Those kind of documentaries are usually targeted at the undecideds or the shakky- those neither here nor there.

I know many folks who immediately withdrew support for Buhari after watching the Buhari documentary. I also know a couple of folks who withdrew support for Jonathan after hearing the "how much did Nwobodo steal speech"?

So yes these documentaries and soundbites have immense impact on undecideds and undecideds are more than the decideds!!

I know where my bank is, doesn't mean I have money in my account.

This man eeeeh!!

At that age!!


Many people half his age would be panting helplessly like a lost dog if they try this!!

Lets support our military!!

The task of defeating Boko Haram is for all of us.

Lets do our best to support our military.



I recommend we start a campaign to show these guys that we have their back!!

Hmmm.

A lot of the likes were pay per click.

The finances have run out.

The adverts have waned.

As journalists are no longer getting fat brown envelopes, The newspaper articles have vanished.

It was all hype.

Something amazing about that picture actually shows the real economic spread of the country.

The spread of light in the south south and south east is very different from the rest of the country. The rest of the country is blacked out except Lagos, Abuja, Kano and Kaduna!! And small flashes in Ibadan and Ilorin.

The economy of these two regions are booming.............

Is it coincidental that the areas that support GEJ most happen to be the ones with the brightness? Interesting!!

obstead200:
hey bro!!, I have no personal issues with u.
why don't u view my comments (or attacks as u call them) as an opportunity for u to once more prove ur credibility for the benefit of some of ur future but very skeptical clients?

u see, money is not easy to make. I was brought up and also learnt from bitter experiences to look very closely before giving it out.

He has nothing to prove to you. He has dealt with lots of people here and his credibility is obvious. Plus he is not even trying to sell anything on this thread , so what the heck!! People like you just feed on envy. And it is obvious in your comments. You are probably wondering to yourself how such a young man is able to pull as much success in "little Ogbomosho" when you in "Almighty Lagos" is having a struggle.
Fact is the way we think affects the quantum of success we achieve. Skeptics and pessimists never succeed beyond average. And the simple reason is risk taking is usually the most important element of success.
Stay where you are and keep learning from your bitter experiences while Hotmas911 builds out the best Agri Centre in Africa".

I'm very interested in strawberries. Its interesting how young people are breaking conventional wisdom and boldly trying out new things!

If Buhari doesn't show up at Chatham House tommorow, then problem dey!!!

If he is sick, I pray for quick recovery.

Hope we dont have another "Saudi"situation on our hands!!

While I understand Amosun's point, I think its becoming scary and I'm actually afraid that Buhari might actually be very sick.

Nigerians have had a bad experience with Yar Adua in the past and would naturally not want a repeat in which case I also understand Fayose's position.

These things are so easy to solve. A video with Buhari addressing this issue would simply put his purported enemies to shame. For a man that has been seen on video everyday for the last two months to suddenly have no video recording despite purportedly meeting the likes of Blair calls for a lot of concern.

If he is unwell, I wish him quick recovery.

There is really no need for APC to be throwing out fake pictures. Getting sick is human. All humans get sick. There is no need to lie about it especially since Nigeria had a bad experience in the past!

Something is not right and these folks are not saying!!
Releasing pictures after pictures of old meetups as if to cover something pretty grave!!
Are we having another "Yar Adua in Saudi situation"?

A video responding to all these "Buhari is sick"allegations would solve all this nonsense.

I hope the man is well. And if he isn't , wish he recovers. This is just seriously beginning to look like another Yar Adua situation.

Useless American propaganda!!
Whatever success is being achieved is a result of weaponry recently supplied by the Russians!!

Pretty obvious from the way the news has been reported that the Americans have ulterior motives in Africa with Nigeria as their key target!!

lET ME GIVE YOU GUYS AN IDEA...... i'M COMING

[size=15pt]Nigeria's enterprising five-to-nine work ethic[/size]

By Nkem Ifejika

Nigeria has Africa's largest economy. It is mostly known for oil, but that wealth has not trickled down. As it joins the global economic top table, what kind of businesses and businesspeople are thriving in Africa's most populous nation?

"You're supposed to hold something," I was told. "Hold what?" I replied naively.

"A sample, you're supposed to hold a sample of what you're selling."

Amaka was wondering what a reporter holding a microphone was doing hanging around Onitsha's main market, neither buying nor selling. She looked at me with pity, as if to say, "if you don't even know about samples, you have a lot to learn."

I had been at the market for less than five minutes, and someone was already trying to get the measure of what my business was about.

There's plenty to learn about Nigeria in Onitsha, a city in Anambra state on the banks of the River Niger in the south-east of the country.

Something like three million people flock here every day, and some call it the biggest market in the world. They come from across the region, to buy everything from high-end mobile phones to low tech plastic containers.

What's your side hustle?
Everything is for sale, every price to be haggled, and everyone is involved. Take the market and replicate the buying and selling across millions of homes and offices across Nigeria.

Continue reading the main story
Six Routes to...

A Richer World
Listen to more about Nigeria's economy on Saturday 21 February at 08:30 GMT on the BBC World Service.

Six Routes to A Richer World, a co-production with US radio's Marketplace, is visiting six important places in the new global economy.

A Richer World 2015
Listen to the reports and documentaries
Every Nigerian is familiar with the concept of the side hustle - a business on the side. This is a country where everyone has a start-up in their front room, including my mother.

I'll never forget coming home from school to find the entire living and dining area stacked floor to ceiling with cartons of sunflower oil for sale.

It was my grandmother who'd taught my mum that if you were lucky enough to have a salaried job, that was just pocket money. The real money came from your five-to-nine, not the nine-to-five.

On the surface, Nigeria may not seem like a country that can teach the world much about how to do business.

Elections have been postponed because of the insurgency raging in the northeast. Corruption is still a huge problem. Government revenues depend on the oil and gas industry, which benefits the few.

market scene
For many Nigerians, the five-to-nine is more important than the nine-to-five
Motorcycle king
But in Onitsha and elsewhere while making Six Routes for the BBC, the people I met show that the Nigerian economy is finding other lubricants.

Innocent Chukwuma is a successful businessman. He owns five different manufacturing companies around the south-east, and is very optimistic about Nigeria's future.

Looking out over his sprawling complex just down the road in Enugu, it's easy to see why. The government gave him land to expand his business and now he's probably the largest private sector employer in Enugu state. 4,300 people work at the plastics plant we visited.

"In Africa today anyone who can invest in manufacturing - in a short time you'll make money as you want," says Innocent.

Innocent started small. He was a spare parts trader in his native Nnewi. He had graduated from turning his brother's spare parts side business to establishing his own import venture.

As the prices of motorcycles coming in from Japan increased in the 1980s, he noticed something about the way they were shipped.

They were coming in by barge in containers. And being a spare parts trader he recognized that a motorcycle is made up of individual parts.

And so, he thought, if he imported the motorcycle in pieces it would take up a lot less space in the shipping container. And he was right.

At the time importers could fit about 40 pre-assembled motorcycles in a single shipping container. But as individual parts, Innocent could fit more than 200 motorcycles in each container. He now had a significant advantage over his competitors - and could sell his motorcycles for much less.

Innocent as a bike merchant
Importing bikes unassembled gave Innocent a key price advantage
Labour costs
Another advantage he had over his competitors was the cost of labour in Nigeria being relatively cheap. A factory worker in Nigeria would earn around $500 a month.

He explains, "When I brought the first one I called the local people, and gave them some training, they assembled it perfectly and the price was cheaper."

Much cheaper in fact: "When they are selling for about 150,000 [naira] for one motorcycle, I sold my own for 80,000 ($400; £260)."

Innocent's bikes were nearly half the price of his competitors. He sold three containers' worth of motorcycles in about three months.

"So I went back and brought about 10 containers, and the 10 containers took me about one month to finish."

By the time he had the process down he was buying 200 containers.

But Innocent's advantage didn't last forever, and soon everyone was copying his strategy.

"The price crashed to 60,000 but when I saw that the price had come down and everybody was doing it - that's why I built this plastic plant."

Motorcycles were just the beginning for Innocent. He had another realization, that he could manufacture some of the motorcycle parts himself. Specifically the plastic parts.

warehouse
Innocent's business now makes a range of plastic goods
Power cuts
The Innoson Group now makes all kinds of products. His motorcycle business has expanded to cars and buses while his plastics plants now manufacture tables, chairs, water drums, plates, boxes for electricity meters, and much else.

He believes anyone can follow his lead in Africa, which he refers to as a virgin place for entrepreneurs. Innocent's optimism is infectious and it's easy to get swept up in the euphoria of success, but business in Nigeria is not easy.

Back in Onitsha market it's also a microcosm of the obstacles entrepreneurs face every day.

The day I was there the traders were protesting against a new levy. The trade association decided to charge for a CCTV system, which the traders said the state governor had given them for free. It's the sort of surprise cost that wrecks a business plan.

But corruption is not even the biggest problem in Nigeria. Other countries have thrived despite corruption, and Nigeria shouldn't be different.

The lights go out constantly and nobody bats an eyelid or feigns surprise, everyone just carries on.

factory
High energy costs are a limiting factor for many Nigerian businesses
'Credit tomorrow'
People make do with costly diesel generators, and that even applies to big factories.

For Innocent the high cost of energy is a necessary part of doing business in Nigeria. But it puts a real brake on what entrepreneurs can achieve.

The people I met are not put off by these obstacles. If you walk into some shops in Nigeria, there's a sign which reads: "No credit today, come back tomorrow."

If you keep waiting for the perfect conditions in which to do business, you'll be like the shopper who returns day after day, hoping that the shopkeeper might sell them goods on credit.

Listen to more about Nigeria's economy on Saturday 21 February at 08:30 GMT on the BBC World Service

For more on the BBC's A Richer World, go to www.bbc.com/richerworld - or join the discussion on Twitter using the hashtag #BBCRicherWorld


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