₦airaland Forum

aresa:
ICT is a department run by other people within the ministry of communication.

ICT in Nigeria ia very larger and more dominant in sub Africa. We have more ICT entrepreneurs with great innovations than kenya many times over.

We larger online presence than any country in AFRICA.


We are doing better in ICT than the countries you are puting ahead of your own country regardless the age and looks of any minister.

Facebook founder recognised this and invested tens of millions of dollars in our ICT.

He spent several days in Nigeria but just one day in Kenya and he's back in Nigeria again for more ICT events and leadership meetings.

Our ICT is better so we have more competent people than they do in Kenya..

Thinking other people are better than you because of looks and what they wear is inferiority complex and lack of love and pride for your own country.


If you think kenya is better than your own country, why not just renounce your nigerian citizenship and move to kenya.

I work in Nairobi and still comfortable with my Nigerian passport. You think Nigeria deploy IT more than Kenya?.....Let us work with facts not sentiments!

Answer the following questions.

1. Can you in Nigeria receive International money transfer such as Moneygram, WesternUnion, Worldremit etc into your phone number that is not linked to any bank account?

2. Can you in Nigeria go to a nearby kiosk and top up your phone line with money and use a visa card that is exclusive to your phone number, go online and shop on Amazon, buy flight tickets, pay Skype subscription etc?

3. Can you go to a nearby shop on your street to go and cash money sent from anywhere in the world without visiting a bank?

4. Can you go to a nearby shop on your street with your ATM Card and use the Shop's POS to withdrawal money from your account or can also deposit money into your bank account or someone's own?

5. Can you use a Nokia 3310 to send money to the phone number of someone in the rural area and the person walks not less than 2 mins to cash the money?

6. Can someone anywhere in the world send you money straight to your phone number, then you go to a nearby shop to buy groceries and you pay the owner by sending the total amount to the shop's code?

7. Do you use your Glo, MTN, Airtel or Etisalat line to pay for services such as Uber Taxi, that is also in Nigeria?

8. Can farmers in Nigeria who owns greenhouses use a phone as basic as Nokia 3310 wherever he/she is in Nigeria to control the temperature of their greenhouses or schedule when crops will be watered?

9. Why do IT giants prefer their regional base in Nairobi as against Lagos or Abuja?

I am Patriotic but facts are sacred!

Willie2015:
Absolutely correct, it saves you a lot of money and the best.

lt saves so much and makes better sense, health-wise. There organic markets in Nairobi and for one to sell there, his or her farm must be certified organic. Sellers get better price for their produce.

olujaidi:
Tuition fees are negotiable?

Yes o.

bdavis:
373 if sterling (confirmed)
368 if diamond (purported, unconfirmed)
379.99 gtbank (confirmed)
380 stanbic (confirmed)
Keystone suspended (confirmed)

Thanks. The last time l used my Nigerian card it was charging N342, l angrily ceased using it not knowing it was galloping towards N400!

Willie2015:
Thanks for sharing this article. Just received my Mexican Marigold & Tithonia Diversifola seeds, hope it will perform wonders.

It seems you are pro-organic.

usbcable:
there is a certain minister of science and technology nah.
which I deem closer to what you seek

there is no minister of ICT as earlier posited by the OP

ICT is under him, going by his Ministry's website.

Bookiemart01:
Lol...
Please any idea of where to get fish smoking quill ?

No idea.

usbcable:
where did you infer that this is minister of ICT? that is if there is even one.

That is Adebaya Shittu, the Minister in charge of ICT.

"Joseph Mucheru MBS, is the current Kenyan Cabinet Secretary (Minister) in the Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology. He is a former Google Sub-Sahara Africa Lead based in the Google Nairobi office. He was Google's first Sub-Saharan Africa employee and was key to setting up of Google's presence in Africa from 2007"................The difference is clear!

bedford101:
bro leave them them go chop their payoneer. Why will I buy payoneer for 380/$ when my local ATM is in my wallet.

How much will it cost if you use your card?

Poorboy:
174

Make l laugh small!

Their eyes go clear now!

Poorboy:
Only 120 be oldest for benue?

What is the age of the oldest person in your state?

“A policeman stopped us at a checkpoint in Zaki Biam and ordered us out of the car on the grounds that our driver was fond of not greeting him"..the officer na confirm mad man!

"Relatives of the suspect appealed to the family of the baby to withdraw the case from the police station".....Dem no well!

Nice looking cake!

Kalusam:
Exactly! I am so pissed off sometimes when some people who are new entrant with no experience whatsoever are considering farming on 2 or sometimes 5 acres! Start small then scale when necessary, no be by how many acres o...Na by how much you fit manage!

Some are allergic to starting small!

Kalusam:
I know this guy, he is my mentor. 3 things I have learnt from him....1. He learnt from an experienced farmer and have since been learning from his own experiences. 2. He does farm on sizes he can manage despite his years of experiences, not doing 2 acres of this and 5 acres of that but 1/2 acre, 1/3 acre. 3. He uses irrigation technology effectively, making sure he harvests longer time than others! His picture on his farm sometimes last month. Source: Facebook

He focused on Capsicum and tomatoes within a space he could effectively manage thus earning him a $900 weekly sales.

They both contributed to humanity in their own way as their knowledge brought about advancement.

lanre2009:
Do yoυ нave any ιdea нow нe waѕ aвle тo conтrol peѕт/dιѕeaѕeѕ...

Though not stated in the article but l do know some that grow some other plants like Mexican marigold as it helps to check nematodes. aphids etc. as seen in the picture attached.

I posted a thread regarding a Kenyan farmer who use it in his capsicum farm.

https://www.nairaland.com/2735594/marigold-all-use-stop-pests#43772032

lanre2009:
Aмazιng reѕυlтѕ...and нe acнeιeved all тнιѕ wιтнoυт υѕιng greenнoυѕeѕ.

Open field.

horlakunle25:
exactly dat place wey u knw na!!!...hope u are nt affected??

Nah, Agege has never been my zone.

"The foreign exchange has seen changes within this period more than ever, in both official under the CBN and in the private markets; Banks and Bureau de change. The dollar has moved from N196 and N230 to about N282 and N413 respectively. With our near total dependence on imported goods, the translation in the rise in their prices is obvious"........Sighs.

Wishing all applicants the best of luck.

Which part of Agege is that?

Nice one. Strawberries will do well along the Anaku-Omasi Agu route (avoiding the swampy areas)

Looking so bad.

As a young boy, Bernard Sila had a dream of becoming either a lawyer to fight for the rights of the less fortunate or a farmer to feed not only residents of dry areas of Ukambani, but also entire country and beyond.

At the time, Sila, now 23, was in Standard Five at Mwiki Primary School in Githurai, Nairobi. Every time he visited his rural home of Kisikioni in Tala, Machakos County, he would get stories of locals suffering and starving due to lack of enough food, largely caused by drought. Yet in agriculture lessons, their teacher often said farming can be practised even in dry areas using irrigation. “I kept wondering why locals in my area, which is synonymous with drought, were not farming, yet it was possible with irrigation.

I resolved I would have to do it,” Sila says. And today, he makes at least Sh40,000 ($400) a week from tomato farming and Sh50,000 ($500) from capsicum. After failing to score the pass mark to study law in his 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination, Sila says the only passion he had left was farming. “After missing the chance to study law, I was not ready to miss on agriculture because those were the two choices in my life,” he tells Smart Harvest.

In 2014, Sila settled in the village to venture into farming. His immediate challenge was lack of practical skills in farming. To him, primary and high school agriculture lessons were just theory and could not help him. Unfortunately, there wasn’t any agricultural college or institute around to learn from. Just then, his aunt ventured into capsicum farming. That was great news to Sila and he immediately moved in briefly with his aunt to learn some skills.

“I learned everything practically at my aunt’s place. She was knowledgeable about capsicum farming and her crops were doing well and highly productive, even though they were just 500 stems,” he says. He says the greatest time came when his aunt told him to manage her farm. After four months of managing his aunt’s farm, he left to start his own, having been inspired to do capsicum. At this point, his second challenge was where to get money to buy seedlings. Luckily, through a friend, Sila received free 300 tomato seedlings from Amiran Kenya Limited. He says the company was giving farmers free tomato seedlings to do planting trials in the area and he was one of the beneficiaries.

Initially, his mind was on capsicum, but after receiving tomato seedlings, Sila resolved to plant capsicum and tomatoes at the same time. His family assisted him with Sh10,000,($100) which he used to buy 1,500 Goliath F1 seedlings of capsicum from a French agricultural company, Technisem.

With that, Sila embarked on his farming journey. He started during the rainy season, so he had no problem with water. But the challenge came when rain disappeared for almost a month and his young plants started withering. Sila says he started drawing water from a dam over 3km away and ferried it to his farm using cattle. Watering half an acre of capsicum and half of tomatoes was hectic. After irrigating his farm using buckets for sometime, he asked his uncle, also a farmer, for old pipes that were lying idle. “My uncle gave me old pipes, which l used to transfer water from a makeshift tank on a raised hill to the entire farm,” he says.

The old pipes were, however, leaking and would waste a lot of water. But when he started harvesting, there was ready market and hundreds of residents bought capsicum and tomatoes from him. After saving some money, Sila took loans from relatives amounting to Sh100,000($1,000) and invested in water. He bought new pipes and connected to a village borehole built in 2006 by then Water Minister Charity Ngilu. The borehole is 1km away from Sila’s farm. He still uses the water to irrigation his tomato and capsicum farms. He laments that the water is very costly.

“They charge me Sh100 ($1)per unit and my farm uses a lot of water, especially during dry seasons,” he says. He harvests twice a week and every time gets 500kg of capsicum, totalling to one tonne in a week. Sila says when it rains the production is higher, to about 1.3 tonnes per week and he has to harvest three times a week. He says the area being dry, many people do not engage in farming and they flock to his farm to buy the produce. Sila makes huge sales in Tala, Kangundo and Ruiru towns.

On average, he sells 1kg of capsicum at Sh40 (N168). But at times prices go up to Sh50,(N210) or Sh60 (N252). Therefore, in a week one tonne fetches him up to Sh 40,000 ($400). For tomatoes, he makes at least Sh50,000 ($500) a week.

Fedayeen02:
gbam. You sabi am wella. I learnt mary is in the university now under the guidance of Abike Dabiri

She should be around 23 or 24 by bow.

Fedayeen02:
Frank Olize was the best

Frank Olize and Yinka Craig were a combo. The Story of baby Mary really brought Abike Dabiri to national limelight.

Globalhustler:
this could be true. It could be what happen when some shady rich men share hajj scholarship to many ppl. They are using then to transport their package

True, those barons exploit this.

“My sponsor offered to foot my expenses to Saudi on pilgrimage. I was excited until I was asked to take drugs along"....E don happen!