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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by frog12: 11:05am On Mar 16
she was the coordinating minister of the economy, and na downhill we dey ever since.
the woman no fit do work. na steady paycheck work she dey look for.

i suspect you be the woman by the way you dey insult people grin grin grin

Mindlog:


She is not "duncer" than the womb that birthed you.

If you don't know the job descriptions and the qualifications needed to become the Director-General of World Trade Organization, don't even bother googling because the little, you have as a brain will certainly crash.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Acidosis(m): 11:21am On Mar 16
iLegendd:
Not that the food are not good. Every natural food is good, but during harvesting, they do everything in a hurry as if flood is coming and they don't look clean and presentable. If it's a bag of beans, they even add extra dust to make fill the bag so that they can make more profit.

I still don't understand how and why Nigerians have accepted stone filled beans and rice as a way of life. It's now a normal thing to buy dirt-filled beans and pick them before cooking. cheesy That's some level of institutional and cultural m ad ness.

The most dangerous ones are those selling "drinking garri" in open containers in public. Again, Nigerians have accepted this m adness as a way of life.

Human beings will go all out to buy properly covered St Louis sugar, properly packaged groundnuts, and bottled water, only to pour in garri taken from a "never-covered" public bowl.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by MichaelSokoto(m): 11:22am On Mar 16
Good!

Make dem pack all food com back make hungry no go finish pesin 4 here 4 nothing!

angry
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Mindlog: 11:46am On Mar 16
frog12:
she was the coordinating minister of the economy, and na downhill we dey ever since.
the woman no fit do work. na steady paycheck work she dey look for.

i suspect you be the woman by the way you dey insult people grin grin grin


I didn't insult you, just simply returning your energy.

Na she tell Buhari to print trillions of naira that majorly ended up in private pockets?

Has any woman in your lineage achieved what she has achieved, professionally?

Abi u think say to be DG of WTO is tied to the tribe you come from or the religion you profess.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by iLegendd(m): 11:52am On Mar 16
Acidosis:


I still don't understand how and why Nigerians have accepted stone filled beans and rice as a way of life. It's now a normal thing to buy dirt-filled beans and pick them before cooking. cheesy That's some level of institutional and cultural m ad ness.

The most dangerous ones are those selling "drinking garri" in open containers in public. Again, Nigerians have accepted this m adness as a way of life.

Human beings will go all out to buy properly covered St Louis sugar, properly packaged groundnuts, and bottled water, only to pour in garri taken from a "never-covered" public bowl.


The one that hurts me is when other customers use their left hand they usually use to clean their ass in the toilet to touch the garri I'm buying right before my eyes and I want to drink some whenever I'm lazy to cook.

Someone of them even wipe their nose, clean their hands on their clothes and go straight to touching garri they want to buy. I get angry with that, so I buy mostly from the main source — people that fry it.

A Nigerian feels like "dirty no dey kill African man," so touching people's food is nothing.

It's the women that always do this. They'll touch everything at the market, but will never buy if the price goes up by just 10 Naira. If you caution them, they'll finish you with badmouth.

This is probably why some rich men eat semo and the other pounded ones instead of garri every old, young, unhygienic, and dirty people have touched.

Some buyers self, when they're tasting the garri, they put their mouth in the basin so that the rest their moth could hold will fall inside the basin. cry

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by joseff14(m): 11:59am On Mar 16
magoo10:
Watch how they will insult her ,call her ipob and Obidient.
So far so good, it's only you that's close to doing that
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Acidosis(m): 12:10pm On Mar 16
iLegendd:
The one that hurts me is when other customers use their left hand they usually use to clean their ass in the toilet to touch the garri I'm buying right before my eyes and I want to drink some whenever I'm lazy to cook.

Someone of them even wipe their nose, clean their hands on their clothes and go straight to touching garri they want to buy. I get angry with that, so I buy mostly from the main source — people that fry it.

A Nigerian feels like "dirty no dey kill African man," so touching people's food is nothing.

It's the women that always do this. They'll touch everything at the market, but will never buy if the price goes up by just 10 Naira. If you caution them, they'll finish you with badmouth.

This is probably why some rich men eat semo and the other pounded ones instead of garri every old, young, unhygienic, and dirty people have touched.

Some buyers self, when they're tasting the garri, they put their mouth in the basin so that the rest their moth could hold will fall inside the basin. cry



You understand these people so well. grin grin LMAO! Very annoying country-people.

It took me years to recover from PTSD after a market woman tried selling/cutting a titus fish for me right after 'packing' her baby's poo with bare hands. I was like WTF! Omo. I love babies, but not to the extent of ingesting a toddler's poo. I sha have recovered; that was in 2010.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by descarado: 12:11pm On Mar 16
Acidosis:


I still don't understand how and why Nigerians have accepted stone filled beans and rice as a way of life. It's now a normal thing to buy dirt-filled beans and pick them before cooking. cheesy That's some level of institutional and cultural m ad ness.

The most dangerous ones are those selling "drinking garri" in open containers in public. Again, Nigerians have accepted this m adness as a way of life.

Human beings will go all out to buy properly covered St Louis sugar, properly packaged groundnuts, and bottled water, only to pour in garri taken from a "never-covered" public bowl.


I ws going somewhere in the North when I saw how they sundry elubo on the road. When I asked, I was told that's how they sun dry lots of dry things we use. On a tarred road.
Wonder why an average lifespan is not up to 70.
The major diseases we suffer from(like 80%) is from what we put in our mouth.

I posted a picture of very fresh jumbo tomatoes I bought here with price slash simply because the label said it has expired. One day expiry date. The tomatoes were so hard and fresh and the Nigerian in me packed loads of them. Was told after 2 days on the shelve, they will be binned.

What we need is reorientation, else nothing changes

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Acidosis(m): 12:21pm On Mar 16
descarado:

I ws going somewhere in the North when I saw how they sundry elubo on the road. When I asked, I was told that's how they sun dry lots of dry things we use. On a tarred road.
Wonder why an average lifespan is not up to 70.
The major diseases we suffer from(like 80%) is from what we put in our mouth.

I posted a picture of very fresh jumbo tomatoes I bought here with price slash simply because the label said it has expired. One day expiry date. The tomatoes were so hard and fresh and the Nigerian in me packed loads of them. Was told after 2 days on the shelve, they will be binned.

What we need is reorientation, else nothing changes


Are you serious?? cry cry We are really suffering in this country, omg!

We seriously need that reorientation. Growing up, I remember a time when we used to see environmental health workers in our neighborhood wearing white and brown uniforms. Some were usually posted to the market to inspect food items and such.

But, all of that is gone now. Public and environmental health is a serious issue that, if taken seriously, will not only improve our life expectancy rate but also create thousands of jobs and reduce the pressure on health infrastructure. But damn all that, we have people in government whose priorities never surpass palliatives for future vote buying.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by descarado: 12:24pm On Mar 16
Acidosis:



You understand these people so well. grin grin LMAO! Very annoying country-people.

It took me years to recover from PTSD after a market woman tried selling/cutting a titus fish for me right after 'packing' her baby's poo with her hands. I was like WTF! Omo. I love babies, but not to the extent of ingesting a toddler's poo. I sha have recovered; that was in 2010.
Haahaaaaa cheesy cheesy

When I was in Nigeria, I study the sellers and choose a customer or 2 for foodstuffs. Even the lady I buy bottled groundnut from takes care from frying my groundnut to packaging it. I go extra miles for what I put in my mouth cos I'm extremely picky. Not good but that's how I found myself.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by frog12: 12:31pm On Mar 16
you no know wetin she sell them to get the position. trump was against her. she maybe tell the americans she no go work hard for the developing world. has she been working hard for the developing world ever since? has she been working for anyone grin grin

to show you she is not smart: she only paid off our loans. that was not a smart idea. how much debt do we have since
tell me!


Mindlog:


I didn't insult you, just simply returning your energy.

Na she tell Buhari to print trillions of naira that majorly ended up in private pockets?

Has any woman in your lineage achieved what she has achieved, professionally?

Abi u think say to be DG of WTO is tied to the tribe you come from or the religion you profess.



Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by descarado: 12:35pm On Mar 16
Acidosis:



Are you serious?? cry cry We are really suffering in this country, omg!

We seriously need that reorientation. Growing up, I remember a time when we used to see environmental health workers in our neighborhood wearing white and brown uniforms. Some were usually posted to the market to inspect food items and such.

But, all of that is gone now. Public and environmental health is a serious issue that, if taken seriously, will not only improve our life expectancy rate but also create thousands of jobs and reduce the pressure on health infrastructure. But damn all that, we have people in government whose priorities never surpass palliatives for future vote buying.
True my brother. Vets visits abattoirs to do weekly inspections unannounced.

I've been preaching reorientation since here. As for us, nothing to be done again but our children.
Right from the cradle.
Sreaming and shouting at them, we call that training but it's the genesis of low self esteem we all have.
Low self esteem produced the Nigeria we have now.
We have the culture of taking and not giving.
Anytime we give, we expect that we wil be rewarded.
Children here are thought the act of giving back to humanity and society.
They take out if their savings and donate in school, donate used wears, toys, books, even school uniforms. Before age 10, they already know what it means to give. That's how they grow up with that in mind. We call small children who demands for money before they can run an errand for us street smart. Tomorrow, you think they will leave public coffers alone.
It's well.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Acidosis(m): 12:36pm On Mar 16
descarado:

Haahaaaaa cheesy cheesy

When I was in Nigeria, I study the sellers and choose a customer or 2 for foodstuffs. Even the lady I buy bottled groundnut from takes care from frying my groundnut to packaging it. I go extra miles for what I put in my mouth cos I'm extremely picky. Not good but that's how I found myself.

cheesy cheesy

Ah, in Nigeria, one needs to be extremely picky, very necessary. Some things are unavoidable, but many others are avoidable.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by iLegendd(m): 12:41pm On Mar 16
Acidosis:



You understand these people so well. grin grin LMAO! Very annoying country-people.

It took me years to recover from PTSD after a market woman tried selling/cutting a titus fish for me right after 'packing' her baby's poo with bare hands. I was like WTF! Omo. I love babies, but not to the extent of ingesting a toddler's poo. I sha have recovered; that was in 2010.

Damn! Nigerians have the feeling that whatever they like or do, everyone likes or does it. They even feel everyone must love their children since they're children and whatever the child does is right in everyone's eyes.

Everyone that does Yahoo feels like everyone does it. The girls into pros feel every girl is into it secretly.

So, it's just that mentality of "everyone does it" that makes them do these dirty things thinking it's nothing new and it's good for everyone.

People that sell suya, bolê, even garri, etc. are supposed to be wearing gloves. Anything we eat without boiling or washing, the seller is supposed to wear glove and change the gloves regularly, Nigerians no send.

Modified:

If I want to spoil market for this garri people, I'll start a garri business and like those Nigerians who herbal medicine do, I'll record an audio from the text below and it will play in my speaker at the market.

Before you know it, I'll take all their customers and they'll be forced to wear glove and repackage if they want to sell. Everyone customer wants to buy from a hygienic and well-packaged seller.

See text below.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Acidosis(m): 12:43pm On Mar 16
descarado:

True my brother. Vets visits abattoirs to do weekly inspections unannounced.

I've been preaching reorientation since here. As for us, nothing to be done again but our children.
Right from the cradle.
Sreaming and shouting at them, we call that training but it's the genesis of low self esteem we all have.
Low self esteem produced the Nigeria we have now.
We have the culture of taking and not giving.
Anytime we give, we expect that we wil be rewarded.
Children here are thought the act of giving back to humanity and society.
They take out if their savings and donate in school, donate used wears, toys, books, even school uniforms. Before age 10, they already know what it means to give. That's how they grow up with that in mind. We call small children who demands for money before they can run an errand for us street smart. Tomorrow, you think they will leave public coffers alone.
It's well.

Well said

I don't know how we got here. Many will blame it on poverty. But poverty shouldn't strip us of our humanity. I hope we all get it right someday, though.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by magoo10(m): 1:05pm On Mar 16
joseff14:

So far so good, it's only you that's close to doing that
I am not an agbado supporter ,you know
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Samesame247: 1:19pm On Mar 16
I think it is good we write to international bodies that Nigeria is hungry and needs her food. We can't be hungry and export foodstuffs; Garri go cost gan.

Let us be food sufficient and the health status of our food improved before exporting food remaining for the common man
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by 249morohundiya: 1:21pm On Mar 16
Noted.Nigeria progress will start when Nigerians (Leaders & Followers) see humanity as priority of existence.Noted.Nigeria progress will start when Nigerians (Leaders & Followers) see humanity as priority of existence....
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Chizy12345: 1:33pm On Mar 16
madam you're an enemy of this country. nothing good can never come out from your side. your character is very bad. green snake on green grass

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Tonididdyx: 2:11pm On Mar 16
We too love cutting corners angry
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by onumadu: 2:35pm On Mar 16
She said for example, “Nigeria accounts for over a third of Japan’s sesame imports – but health and safety inspections during the past few years have found instances where pesticide residue levels were nearly double the maximum residue limits permissible from 2019 to 2021.

Never even mind export ... these criminally insane (totally out of control) use of pesticides and other dangerous chemicals in agriculture, in Nigeria, will ensure that Nigerians will be dying from cancers of all kinds and other health problems for years to come.
When we lament when elections are rigged in Nigeria, it is a matter of life and death, but you still see people supporting evil.
When the right people (those who are actually voted by the people) are in charge, these types of things would be reduced to barest minimums.
May God save those Nigerians who never voted for nor supported evil regardless of tribe.

But, perhaps the best way to survive these things is to GROW AND EAT YOUR OWN FOOD.
A word is enough for the wise.
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Love800(m): 2:38pm On Mar 16
What is elubo?
descarado:

I ws going somewhere in the North when I saw how they sundry elubo on the road. When I asked, I was told that's how they sun dry lots of dry things we use. On a tarred road.
Wonder why an average lifespan is not up to 70.
The major diseases we suffer from(like 80%) is from what we put in our mouth.

I posted a picture of very fresh jumbo tomatoes I bought here with price slash simply because the label said it has expired. One day expiry date. The tomatoes were so hard and fresh and the Nigerian in me packed loads of them. Was told after 2 days on the shelve, they will be binned.

What we need is reorientation, else nothing changes

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Gboss247(m): 4:36pm On Mar 16
Samesame247:
I think it is good we write to international bodies that Nigeria is hungry and needs her food. We can't be hungry and export foodstuffs; Garri go cost gan.

Let us be food sufficient and the health status of our food improved before exporting food remaining for the common man
Is Nigeria suffering from food insufficiency of high prices of food due to CBN naira devaluation?
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Gerrard59(m): 4:43pm On Mar 16
Deeprooted:



Most of our agencies are just there for budgetary allocations and nothing else to offer.

When last did the Nigerian Export Promotion Council organise workshop to train farmers on how to package their produce for international market?

We as a country need a change of value system.

The standard Organization of Nigeria does nothing other than salaries and getting allocations!

This shows you don't keep abreast with the activities of the NEPC. The NEPC is one of the active federal parastatals and is largely administration neutral.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Gboss247(m): 4:45pm On Mar 16
Racoon:
Not good for Nigeria. We are not yet self sufficient in food production as there is still a high prevalence of food insecurity and inflation.
Is Nigeria suffering from food insufficiency or high prices due to the CBN printing trillions of naira into circulation?
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by McStoic(m): 6:05pm On Mar 16
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Yankee101: 7:09pm On Mar 16
The quest to cut corners will always bite you in the back

You can’t compete without true quality control

The first step is ban certain imports to stimulate local consumption of local production, then standardize, then capture African markets then the world
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Broveens42(m): 7:32pm On Mar 16
Give us our own country and we will show the world the beauty of African civilization

Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by descarado: 7:44pm On Mar 16
Love800:
What is elubo?
Elubo, alibo is maize flour.
Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by eldoradoxx: 9:15pm On Mar 16
The degree of renal) kidney failure and other health challenges confronting Nigerians today stems from poor handling of agricultural products, most of what people eat in Nigeria cannot pass any quality and safety test. It is either filled with dangerous and cancernogenic chemicals or that it contains high quantity of pesticides that make them unfit for human beings, yet people are eating and damaging their organs.

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Re: Nigeria’s Agric Exports Facing Rejections Overseas – WTO DG, Okonjo Iweala by Konquest: 1:28pm On Mar 19
AmazingGenius:

https://punchng.com/nigerias-agric-exports-facing-rejections-overseas-wto-dg/
STDF 845

The Director-General, WTO, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, disclosed this in Abuja at the launch of seven trade support programmes initiated by the WTO-ITC to boost the development of Nigeria’s trade and industry standards.

The initiatives namely the Standards Trade Development Facility, Digital Trade Initiative support, Women Exporters Entrepreneurship support, National Trade Portal and cotton development initiative aim to provide technical support to strengthen food safety, animal and plant health capacity in developing countries, address challenges of e-commerce digital trade divide and establish a world-class technology centre for all trade-related data and information in Nigeria.

She said, “We are launching today with STDF, ITC, and the NEPC, a project to help with international safety and quality certification for sesame and cowpeas or black-eyed peas. The agriculture sector in Nigeria has the potential to be a major driver of export diversification and job creation – but too much of this potential remains unrealized, due to a variety of barriers. In fact, Nigeria has not only lost out in agricultural export markets, it is a net food importer spending about billions a year on goods, many of which we can also produce here. Some of Nigeria’s unrealised potential has to do with trade-related problems on the supply side – and that is what this project is seeking to rectify.”

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