₦airaland Forum

Afamed:
And from the thread , is the drone only meant to be deployed to the SS or SW? Or the present border closure is limited to the SS and SW alone?

There are still more foreign rice in the core northern markets than the whole south west as I'm typing.

PerfectlyPerfect:
I'll be surprised if it's not a hobbyist drone.
When you hear that our government bought a drone for monitoring, it's always a hobbyist drone like the DJI Phantom and not real drone monitoring drones

Real drone monitoring drones. lmao

Born2Breed:
There are still more foreign rice in the core northern markets than the whole south west as I'm typing.

Which of the core northern markets?

But why have we not been using drones to monitor kidnappers that pack road travellers into the bush?

Chukwurah003:
I am never surprised when I see comments such as this from Atiku supporters since they only understand how to steal.

" You heard".....Wetin you nu de hear? AMEBO no 1

nony43:
Buhari's so called border closure is funny. Goods and people from Cameroon, Benin & Niger can't ENTER or LEAVE Nigeria, yet herdsmen and their cattle have unimpeded access into Nigeria. Maybe they are spirits?

if you don't have anything sensible to comment why don't u just kept mute and allow the sensibles one's to take ur place.

Elfaris:
Real drone monitoring drones. lmao

calm down, it was an error. corrected it tough

Isinweke:
OUR BORDER WITH NIGER REPUBLIC

Old pictures...

So we get drone to deploy t
N bokoharam is busy killing Nigerian soldiers without trace issokay

nony43:
Buhari's so called border closure is funny. Goods and people from Cameroon, Benin & Niger can't ENTER or LEAVE Nigeria, yet herdsmen and their cattle have unimpeded access into Nigeria. Maybe they are spirits?

Are u Mad
How often did u hear about herdsmen again.Children of hate

backnbeta:
It's alright...what of the Northeast border? I thought they closed all land borders till i heard on the news that they left only that one...but I guess it's a special one left open for the special peeps

Are u mad
Dont u hear he later closed Everything ni.
Children on hate
Biafrans and stupidity. U ppl are program for Hate

Tomiwa69:
Are u mad Dont u hear he later closed Everything ni. Children on hate Biafrans and stupidity. U ppl are program for Hate

Think like Davido, he is not a hateful tribalist like you.

All these border closing shit won't affect people that much expecially in the wider areas of the North. No country and control 100% of their borders, not even the Almighty USA. So they shouldn't waste taxpayers money on shitty drones.

why this drones cant be use to monitor boko harams movement why why it simple to use and cost effective

Starboytwo:
Omo he be like say this thing no be play play...

I dey tell u

Praktikals:
Buhari means well for the country. May the good lord be his strength and shield (Amen)

Amen

Sijo01:
Anything that will stop the massive inflow of illegal immigrants is highly welcome.

And the devil could not approve drones to monitor Boko Haram movements.

Spits kelebe on Buhari and his followers head.

Am sure they will go to konga and jumia to buy drones

9jaRealist:
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Abegi, let’s get one thing clear that many comments on this matter seemingly fail to fully grasp...
THE ONLY THING THAT’S HAPPENED IS THAT SOME LAND BORDERS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. THERE ARE NO NEW IMPORT BANS!

What this means is that you can still import tomatoes, rice and everything you want to...
But instead of small traders importing these, it will now be the MONOPOLY of rent-seekers who can afford to ship these items!

Meanwhile, let’s address the underlying structural issues that this cosmetic border closing does absolutely NOTHING to resolve, and why NIGERIA has some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production and why we still rely on imports for even some of the products that we produce in relative abundance. Let’s start, for example, with tomatoes (since it’s what has kick-started this discourse). Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer (and among the world’s leading producers) of tomatoes, but we lose at least 40% of our harvests (some estimates put our losses as high as 60+%) before it gets to market on account of a lack of storage and preservation infrastructure and terrible roads and poor logistics. Closing the border does NOTHING to resolve this. It merely results in POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices since without the Benin Republic imports, there’ll now be FEWER tomatoes in the market.

Now, let’s look at rice. It may surprise some to learn that Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer of rice, having overtaken Egypt in 2017 or thereabouts, but we are still short of meeting local market demand from entirely domestic production (either because our population keeps growing or our taste keeps changing, not surprisingly in tandem with increased urbanization). Accordingly, without importation, we merely replicate the situation with tomatoes - that is, POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices because without supplementing local production with imports, we are left with FEWER rice in the same local market. Meanwhile, we have to HONESTLY ask ourselves how rice produced on the other side of the world (often with relatively more expensive labor) and then shipped halfway across the globe still manages to cost SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER than locally-produced rice (stone and all).

REALITY (and as my moniker indicates, I’m a hard-nosed realist) is closing land borders does absolutely NOTHING to redress why we have some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production, not only in respect of rice but with many other products. Our farmers still rely on mostly poor seedlings and poor farming methods, and thus we have probably the LOWEST yield per hectare in most of the developing world. In addition, we are lacking in irrigation infrastructure, and thus not only are we still compelled to rely on the somewhat unpredictable fortunes of “the rains” but are also stuck with seasonal farming instead of year-round farming (which is why we are Africa’s largest producer of maize, and among the world’s leading producers but PARADOXICALLY also one of the world’s leading importers of maize - because for more than half of the calendar year, we neither plant nor harvest corn). Of course, already discussed the issue of poor/non-available storage facilities as well as poor roads and other transportation/logistic infrastructure, that constrains getting products to the market TIMELY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY.

Accordingly, if this government was really serious about sound economic policy and development, it would help farmers with improved seedlings for better yields, with irrigation infrastructure to drive year-round farming, proper storage facilities including cold storage for perishables (such as these tomatoes), much better road transportation and logistics infrastructure, necessary market and pricing intelligence/information, in addition of course to better agricultural financing and insurance, among others. Even if some misguided policy makers in Abuja erroneously believe that the border closure is an optimal means to encourage local production (not sure why, but the cluelessness and incompetence in Abuja can never be overestimated), there would still be a LAG TIME for local producers to cultivate, harvest and mill (in the case of rice) their products before even getting to market, so why a SUDDEN closure which simply results in FEWER products in the market.

Sadly, Nigeria has become like the proverbial farmer whose farm is on fire and instead of fighting the fire, he busies himself with chasing bush rats fleeing said fire. Thus, instead of addressing structural issues that impede local production and productivity, we merely place an additional layer of effective ‘taxation’ (an Incompetence Tax, if you will) on POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY by DECREASING the quantity (perhaps even quality) of goods available to them and thus invariably condemn them to HIGHER PRICES for fewer goods (and choices). So, let’s be clear about this - the closure of the land borders is an ill-advised resort to cheap cosmetic POPULISM (in derogation of sound economic policy) that bedazzles the gullible but which does absolutely NOTHING to address/redress our structural issues! After, Mr. Buhari drives even more Nigerians quicker into POVERTY, we’ll still be at Square One!
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Copy heaven and earth from Google nothing will happen the boarder is CLOSED.

nony43:
Buhari's so called border closure is funny. Goods and people from Cameroon, Benin & Niger can't ENTER or LEAVE Nigeria, yet herdsmen and their cattle have unimpeded access into Nigeria. Maybe they are spirits?

Maybe you should stop saying what you heard others saying and talk based on facts only

Prophetmoshood:
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Tomiwa69:
Are u mad
Dont u hear he later closed Everything ni.
Children on hate
Biafrans and stupidity. U ppl are program for Hate

You made me laugh...but that doesn't cure your madness

step in d right direction

9jaRealist:
>
Abegi, let’s get one thing clear that many comments on this matter seemingly fail to fully grasp...
THE ONLY THING THAT’S HAPPENED IS THAT SOME LAND BORDERS HAVE BEEN CLOSED. THERE ARE NO NEW IMPORT BANS!

What this means is that you can still import tomatoes, rice and everything you want to...
But instead of small traders importing these, it will now be the MONOPOLY of rent-seekers who can afford to ship these items!

Meanwhile, let’s address the underlying structural issues that this cosmetic border closing does absolutely NOTHING to resolve, and why NIGERIA has some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production and why we still rely on imports for even some of the products that we produce in relative abundance. Let’s start, for example, with tomatoes (since it’s what has kick-started this discourse). Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer (and among the world’s leading producers) of tomatoes, but we lose at least 40% of our harvests (some estimates put our losses as high as 60+%) before it gets to market on account of a lack of storage and preservation infrastructure and terrible roads and poor logistics. Closing the border does NOTHING to resolve this. It merely results in POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices since without the Benin Republic imports, there’ll now be FEWER tomatoes in the market.

Now, let’s look at rice. It may surprise some to learn that Nigeria is actually Africa’s leading producer of rice, having overtaken Egypt in 2017 or thereabouts, but we are still short of meeting local market demand from entirely domestic production (either because our population keeps growing or our taste keeps changing, not surprisingly in tandem with increased urbanization). Accordingly, without importation, we merely replicate the situation with tomatoes - that is, POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY having to pay HIGHER prices because without supplementing local production with imports, we are left with FEWER rice in the same local market. Meanwhile, we have to HONESTLY ask ourselves how rice produced on the other side of the world (often with relatively more expensive labor) and then shipped halfway across the globe still manages to cost SIGNIFICANTLY LOWER than locally-produced rice (stone and all).

REALITY (and as my moniker indicates, I’m a hard-nosed realist) is closing land borders does absolutely NOTHING to redress why we have some of the world’s HIGHEST costs of production, not only in respect of rice but with many other products. Our farmers still rely on mostly poor seedlings and poor farming methods, and thus we have probably the LOWEST yield per hectare in most of the developing world. In addition, we are lacking in irrigation infrastructure, and thus not only are we still compelled to rely on the somewhat unpredictable fortunes of “the rains” but are also stuck with seasonal farming instead of year-round farming (which is why we are Africa’s largest producer of maize, and among the world’s leading producers but PARADOXICALLY also one of the world’s leading importers of maize - because for more than half of the calendar year, we neither plant nor harvest corn). Of course, already discussed the issue of poor/non-available storage facilities as well as poor roads and other transportation/logistic infrastructure, that constrains getting products to the market TIMELY AND COST-EFFECTIVELY.

Accordingly, if this government was really serious about sound economic policy and development, it would help farmers with improved seedlings for better yields, with irrigation infrastructure to drive year-round farming, proper storage facilities including cold storage for perishables (such as these tomatoes), much better road transportation and logistics infrastructure, necessary market and pricing intelligence/information, in addition of course to better agricultural financing and insurance, among others. Even if some misguided policy makers in Abuja erroneously believe that the border closure is an optimal means to encourage local production (not sure why, but the cluelessness and incompetence in Abuja can never be overestimated), there would still be a LAG TIME for local producers to cultivate, harvest and mill (in the case of rice) their products before even getting to market, so why a SUDDEN closure which simply results in FEWER products in the market.

Sadly, Nigeria has become like the proverbial farmer whose farm is on fire and instead of fighting the fire, he busies himself with chasing bush rats fleeing said fire. Thus, instead of addressing structural issues that impede local production and productivity, we merely place an additional layer of effective ‘taxation’ (an Incompetence Tax, if you will) on POOR NIGERIAN CONSUMERS IN THE WORLD’S CAPITAL OF EXTREME POVERTY by DECREASING the quantity (perhaps even quality) of goods available to them and thus invariably condemn them to HIGHER PRICES for fewer goods (and choices). So, let’s be clear about this - the closure of the land borders is an ill-advised resort to cheap cosmetic POPULISM (in derogation of sound economic policy) that bedazzles the gullible but which does absolutely NOTHING to address/redress our structural issues! After, Mr. Buhari drives even more Nigerians quicker into POVERTY, we’ll still be at Square One!
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What an elaborate and yet, simple analysis.

It's been long I see anyone ditch out free knowledge to people on this forum like you just did. You gave me a glimpse of the old nairaland I knew, unlike now, when the whole space is been occupied by semi- illiterates who argue without facts to back up their claims.

You have done your part, but let's also pray that those zombies and buharideens will have time to read and comprehend the analysis you've made.

Thumbs up bro, you took me all the way back to AEC201 class.
Proud Agriculturist.

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