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CBN should put more effort on phone to phone payment method as long a phone can receive sms then it is good to go as it requires no internet. They should go and understudy Kenya's MPESA!

wisemany2k:
Confirm... I have some of the tracks in your list....

Thanks, got some of them on the site, so love Akunwata Ozoemena Nsugbe. Listening to them all streaming online on Radio Palmwine.

Hmm...women and make-ups, well that is what float their boats.

So Nigeroans have such so much stamina

Hmm...The wife should continue praying for him because she go follow chop from the money he would gather through this trek.

tk4rd:
If you create a counter thread with this, they won't push it to front page..

l need not. l have attended programs here in Nairobi where Kenyans who speak Swahili sang igbo hymns, even in Uganda where there was a program that had people come in from different parts of the world, you need to have heard them singing igbo songs very well.

iyomomo:
Oook i see, thanks For ur time

You are welcome.

Counter thread.............l have not been disappointed! But are men not more comfortable dating girls than women?

Any man who desires peace of mind. should reflect on Proverbs 31:30 Which reads thus 'Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.'

Another red flag!

Well, it is a matter of spirits, there are some men whose spirits attracts such women! Make l go sleep jare, early Morning Mass awaits me

wisemany2k:
I download mine from tubidy.com

Thanks l will check it out tomorrow as l have this list to download.


Morocco Maduka - Onwu Okeke Okpagu
Akunwata Ozoemena Nsugbe - Dibia Na Uka
Oliver De Coque - Nezie Onwe Gi Anya
The Bongo Brothers - Ashishi Uka
Akunwata Ozoemena Nsugbe - Onwa Onitsha
Oriental Brothers International - Onye Egbula Onye Agbata Obiya
Akunwata Ozoemena Nsugbe - Chief Dr. Oliver De Coque Tribute
Oliver De Coque - Nwa Bu Ife Ukwu
Akunwata Ozoemena Nsugbe - Chief Dr Nwadigwe Eze Dibia Of Ukwulu
Chimuanya Okere f. King Owigiri - AyaKata Bongo
Onyeka Owenu - Ochie Dike
Saro Wiwa - Obiageli
Morocco Maduka - No Condition Is Permanent-jerry maguard zicoline
Nwa Bu Onyinye Chukwu Gentleman Mike Ejeagha
Shama Melody - Ololo- sweetie mantain
Agbaso - Nne Wu Nne
Apama Boys - Ezigbo Enyim
Dialect - Omalicha
Morocco Maduka - Obi Nwanne
Sunny Bobo - Old Skool 2

Nice... also have watched something similar, It was done in lgbo by italians, Bia nuru akuko.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVM5m8lssPU

OLAMIMO12:
ooooohhhh ! pls when was this

When was what?

adelekeniola:
We need local route of agricultural supplies. Pls, help us get cheap, fast, easy way to get supplies.

We need local route of agricultural supplies. Pls, help us get cheap, fast, easy way to get supplies.

l can authoritatively tell you that there is no cheaper means as at today but bringing in things from Lagos to Nairobi through igbo traders network is N800 per kg which covers shipping and clearing at the airport, you just go to their shop here and pick your cargo but from Nairobi to Nigeria is a no go area in terms of cost unless you have someone who is flying to Nigeria.

Hmm...the harm has already be done but we still have an opportunity to tread the path towards sustainable development as the greatest resource Nigeria has as a Nation is Nigerians. When Political offices becomes less attractive, twisted minds would have no incentive to want to vie for positions.

We need smarter people in government, people who know we can empower a community with energy generated from the same waste they generate. Who knows that there is so much possibilities beyond oil, that we would earn more when policies are right, policies that would transform our huge population who have become wholesale consumers of what others produce, to become productive minds that generate wealth for themselves and their communities, also feeling a sense of accomplishment.

Our present leaders feel stealing public funds put under their trust is their entitlement. Stealing is not just only corruption, it robs one of the possibilities ahead.

According to the late highlife musician, Akunwata Ozoemena Nsugbe 'Witchcraft and Stealing are siblings'

Nice.

We are observing.

His family should prepare for his imminent demise. l feel no pity for him nor those that will caught tomorrow!

dechandel:
Why not do your own, so peeps will come and dance ada ada for you?

Marriage no dey my plan, so waiting to eat my sister's wedding rice!

dechandel:
Not really..
I know someone who knows them

Ok, me am looking forward to my sister's own, so l can dance Ada, Ada in my father's compound!

dechandel:
Ohhh..
Its alright then

lt seems you love the setting.

iyomomo:
Ok thanks for ur response.
Do u know if we can get it here in naija?
Or can it be ordered for cheaply from ur end

l am not conversant with what is obtainable in Nigeria. lt is readily available here but cost of sending things down to Nigeria is too expensive!

dechandel:
Hi
Do you by any chance know the couple in the pictures?

Not directly.

iyomomo:
Pls my dear brother what kind of polythene sheet was used in covering d green house? Wont it be hot inside? Do utthink it is accessible in naija or it ls a special kind?

lt is 200 micro greenhouse cover, remember it requires side netting that helps in controlling the atmosphere inside.

iyomomo:
Nice write up.
Pls oga Pavore I dropped u a msg on "green house farming thread". Pls respond .Thanks

l will check it now.

Ignatius Mulama scoops a handful of moist soil from a two-metre long container hanging under a rabbit cage and tests its texture.

From the soil composed of rabbit droppings and decomposing hay emerges some tiny creatures.

“They are red worms,” Mulama says as he walks to a yellow basin containing some dark viscous liquid placed below the two-metre container.

The liquid is known as worm juice, which Mulama says they use as topdressing manure and pesticide.

The worm juice is excreted by the red earthworms and is high in organic nutrients, according to the owner of the farm, Joseph Lentunyoi, who Mulama works for as a farm manager.

To make the juice, water is sprinkled in the container hosting worms and their excretion. It then drips forming the juice.

Lentunyoi uses the manure to grow his over 2,000 acacia, avocado and pawpaw seedlings that he sells at between Sh5 (N10.50) and Sh10 (N21).

“We dilute the juice with water and drip around the roots of vegetables or spray it on leaves. This has resulted into healthy and green foliage vegetables that include sukuma wiki (collard greens).”

Similarly, the farmer uses rabbit urine as fertiliser and pesticide.

“We collect the rabbit urine and mix with worm juice to make a strong pesticide that has kept our crops free of pests.”

While topdressing, a litre of rabbit urine mixed with worm juice is diluted with five litres of water before it is dripped at the base of the plants. When he began rearing the worms, Lentunyoi, 35, started with a pack that he bought at Sh500(N1,050) from a farmer in Nairobi. They have now multiplied to thousands.

The worms have helped the 35-year-old make his four-acre farm that also hosts poultry and six zebu cattle, productive.

The farmer, who does not use chemical fertilisers and pesticides, has also planted tifrosha plant to curb mole rats when they feed on the plant’s roots. Besides the tree nurseries, the farmer has also set up an aloe nursery from which he sells each seedling at Sh30(N63) .

“The organic manure has helped me turn this piece of land that had been degraded by nomadic pastoralism to a productive piece. I bought it at Sh700,000 (N1.47m) early last year,” says Lentunyoi of the farm located in semi-arid Segera in Laikipia North Constituency.

According to Mulama, who makes an average of Sh50,000 (N105,000)from his ventures a month, liquid manure can also be made from cow dung.

“You place fresh cow dung in a gunny bag and then immerse inside a container full of water and leave it to decompose for 14 days.”

“The result is a strong solution that can both be used as pesticide and manure. Although if you want a solution suitable only for liquid manure, let the dung decompose for seven days,” Mulama adds.

Rearing the worms is not a difficult task, says the farm manager.

“The worms mainly feed on chicken waste. Then one needs to improvise a container to hold them. Place dry grass or hay inside the container, then a net and finally animal manure or poultry droppings before you introduce your worms,” he explains, adding that water should be sprinkled in the container though care is needed not to make the environment dump.

Though only one-year-old, the farm is attracting many admirers, from school-going pupils who want to learn about trees to villagers who parade to buy vegetables for dinner.

Lentunyoi calls his farm Laikipia Permaculture Centre. Permaculture, also known as permanent agriculture, only utilises organic farming methods.

According to Lentunyoi, who studied organic agriculture at Uganda Martys University and did permaculture training at the Permaculture Research Institute in Australia, this method of cultivation is sustainable even in large-scale farming though it calls for patience.

Dr Richard Onwonga of University of Nairobi’s Department of Land Resource Management and Agricultural Technology says vermi-compost (manure from worms) is environmentally friendly, cheap and high in nutrients.

“Making use of earthworms to accelerate the breakdown of composts is quite effective. It is actually more superior than other composts because it has vermicasts (excretion of earthworms which has high nitrogen contents).”

Plants uptake of worm juice, according to Dr Onwonga, is high since it is already in liquid form.

“Basically, roots absorb manure or fertiliser once it is in liquid state. To avoid overdosing crops with the manure, a farmer needs an expert to analyse manure’s nutrient content so that he know what quantity to use.”

Their fans should answer.

Have you seen my beautiful baby?
Have you seen my tomato baby oh? (iyele)
Baby softly dey cool me temper ada
Baby na sugar sugar iyo..ooo


Everybody dey wait
Puta kene n’ogbo
Ife di mma amaka
Better soup na money kill am o
Adanwa ngwa pekem pekem ya
Ada ada (oyolima)
Ada ada iyo..ooo
Ada ada (adanwa)
Ada ada (chei asanwa)
Ada ada (hey ada)
Ada n’idi ora nma
Everybody dey wait
Puta kene n’ogbo
Ife di mma amaka
Better soup na money kill am o
Adanwa ngwa pekem pekem ya
Ada ada (hey adanwa)
Ada ada iyo…ooo
Ada no dey lack ada
Dem get am for everywhere
Ada no dey lack ada
Dey get am for up and down
Baby na tomato baby
Too fresh like morning wine
Ada welele yi
Iyooo ko ko ko

This happens to be a write-up l follow up here every Saturday, it is hilarious side of agriculture though one gets to learn lessons from it. l added conversions and explain somethings Nigerians may not understand. So read on.


I am not moneyed. This is a fact I have accepted to live with, perhaps for the rest of my life. Each day, I struggle to make an extra shilling. I struggle even harder not to lose any money.

In the ongoing craze to have a side hustle, I thought of utilising my rural home land, which my ageing father had passed to me by word of mouth as inheritance.

When we were growing up, we used to plant a lot of sukuma wiki (collard green) and cabbages on the land. A lot of market women at the local trading centre kept on coming for the vegetables and all I can remember was my father insisting he would not go a cent lower, they either buy or leave.

Living in the city, the craze of agribusiness caught up with me. My bank has this multi-coloured poster on soft agribusiness loans and in it is a young man holding many notes of Sh1,000 (N2,100) with his mouth wide open screaming, “All this from my half acre, Sweet Money… Try farming today! Come for our agribusiness Vijanaa loan!”

Interestingly, the poster doesn’t say where this man does his farming or whatever he grows.

Without thinking twice, I sought Sh200,000 (N420,000) loan. I am not dumb to pump all the money on one crop. I allocated Sh100,000 (N210,000) for rice on the three acres and Sh70,000 (N147,000) for tomatoes. I can’t tell how I spent Sh30,000 (N62,000) only that I still have the suit I bought for my official functions.

The loan was attached to my small salary not worth mentioning here. My projections were that I would earn about Sh18,000 (N37,800) every month. After repaying Sh10,000 (N21,000) , things started to fall apart.

I realised my income projections were figments of my mind. For the first six months, Muchiri, my farm boy’s phone number became more frequent than my girlfriend’s.

I developed an automatic response to his calls. Instead of saying hi, I would shout back, “What again?”

Every Friday, it would either be money for pesticide or seedlings. You can’t dillydally when you are told some funny insects have invaded your favourite tomato farm.

The first Mpesa message (the message you get money when you receive money in your phone and you cash it from thousands of Money Agents around) bearing the proceeds from my venture screamed Sh9,500 (N19,950) The second was Sh6,400 (N13,440) and it came when I was very broke on a Saturday afternoon.

I remember the last one because my balance was Sh00.00 for about a week. So when Sh3,300 (N6,930)flew in, I was elated. However, the accompanying message from the farm boy was ominous, “We need to prepare for another season as all tomatoes are over”.

What? Only Sh19,200 (N40,320)from Sh70,000 (N147,000)investment? Let me not even talk about my rice farm. I activated my intelligence-gathering skills. A source told me my farmhand, Muchiri, was busy patronising Florida Bar & Restaurant every Saturday and Sunday.

He also regularly visited Kamuka Agrovet where we buy our inputs, walking in with a green paper bag (nylon bag) which he never came out with.

I expanded my intelligence gathering network and met Wanjau, a shamba boy (farm boy) working for my neighbour. He offered freely, “You are paying Muchiri a lot. He is bragging he will get married next year. His two pregnant girls want to move into your farm”.

The shocking but juicy story startled me as I learned Muchiri had impregnated two Form Three (SS2) girls at a local school.

So when the other day my sister Muthoni Wathika implored that I partner with her in a farming project, I rejected the bait without blinking.

But my persistent sister was on my neck. She gave me an example of Wanjiku and her younger brother Gituro from Mwea.

“They agreed to hire employees who are not their relatives or who do not hail from their area,” Wathika pressed on. “Family members take things casually; they will never make money for you.”

“We will avoid planting “delicate” crops that require a lot of daily attention.”

One thing caught my ear, though. “We have to do market research on what we want to grow” she said as a matter of fact. “Many aspiring farmers jump into things they do not understand,” she added.

The talk encouraged me as once again I pictured myself as a successful telephone farmer. I have been thinking seriously of what to farm, but the right crop or the animal have eluded me. May be Wathika has better ideas.

Meanwhile, the desire to receive those Mpesa messages every Saturday – but this time they must always be in five digits – is killing me.

I know I am still repaying my loan even as my farm lies idle and Muchiri still waits to prey on me. I am not sure when I will go into farming, but for it to happen, Muchiri must go.

ziqqz:
dat is why her belle will be doing press up in America loooong before "Labor Day"

ziqqz:
Una try
Express USA citizenship for dat pikin
When my wife sef wan born na so her belle go dey do press up to go born my pikin for USA
God forbid make I sentence my child to everlasting suffer wit dis useless hopeless Nigeria citizenship passport

What if during the flight she goes into labour unexpectedly amd the flight is forced to land in Addis Ababa for her to give birth, na Ethiopian citizenship be dat nau!