₦airaland Forum

African Traditional Religion has its Positive and Negative sides 🙏.

mactoni91:
GTBANK will be charging me almost 1500 per month for sms charges.

Very useless bank

I am about to dump GT Bank. I have stopped receiving money into my GT Bank account for close to 3 months now. I will allow the account to be closed by the bank itself. Shior 😲😬😡.

Traditional banks in Nigeria should watch it.

There are still a lot of natural seeds in circulation in Nigeria. It will take some time for GMO seeds to dominate the whole country. Cheers.

Mariangeles:
Who cares!?

We like our villages looking as natural as possible, with trees, birds, different kinds of creatures and all.
We want future generation to be able to see what soil looks like.

Na everything wey oyinbo do good pass.🙄

The best comment to me so far. Thanks for this comment, Sir/Ma.

Thanks, Sanwo Olu. I appreciate you, your Excellency. We need complete rehabilitation of secondary schools in Ikorodu with sports facilities such as these . Public schools in Ikorodu do not even have solid sports centers and football fields. Please, come to Ikorodu, Sir. Thanks.

Must everything be posted online?

Many teachers will be dumping schools after this term. They will move on to New schools to increase their salary or earnings. Vacancies are already appearing online. Na wa o.

Still on this matter of getting land for farming . The rains have started falling gradually. Please read the posts above and contact me. Time wasters will not be appreciated. If you have what I am looking for, please contact me. Cheers.

07049598500. ( Whatsapp only ).

Thanks.

The rainy season has commenced with the first rain yesterday. What are you going to plant in your compound this year? What sort of fruits do you like? Do you want your compound to be transformed into a garden of Eden? Full of exotic and native fruits? Please call me on 07049598500. I can help you realize and achieve your orchard dreams.

Whatsapp me on 07049598500. Thanks.

lovewins:
The solution to Nigerian basketball is so evident but folks are either not bold enough or too selfish to implement it.

First, if you mean bringing Ike Diogu back as a player then I disagree. He's past his prime and he's done his bit for the country. I don't mind his input as an administrator but being a former player doesn't necessarily mean you'll be a great administrator. The Olumide Oyedeji you mentioned is on the current NBBF board led by Kida. Kida himself and the previous President were also former players. Kanu Nwankwo currently runs Enyimba football club and it's one of the poorly run clubs in the NPFL today. JJ okocha was made Delta state FA chairman at some point but made no contribution to sports development in his state but was at least honourable enough to quit.

I said all of that to say Former players do not necessarily make great administrators. Basketball is a billion dollars sport and the Nigerian basketball ecosystem has the tendency to become that, it however requires the right people to navigate it. Unfortunately the current structure won't allow for this to take place.

If I were to suggest a solution I'll break them into short and long term solutions. The short term solution will be devoid our entire basketball structure of government interference and funding, find multiple capable administrators who are willing to do the leg work of running and independently raising funding for the NBBF. These folks will submit proposals like a pitch deck and the best of them wins it. To be clear, I'll prioritise Nigerian Americans who are in the business in the US for this.

Then I'll move the entire basketball operations to the US. Nigeria quite frankly isn't a basketball country yet and it doesn't make any sense to pretend that it is. I'll rather we move our entire operation to the US where the bulk of our talent is. The idea is to make administration closer to out talent pool. Sell them a vision and with the exploits these folks make it's easier not just to generate independent funding but also to use these success stories to gradually increase the Basketball fan base in Nigeria.

In the long run, I'll focus on purely developmental programs in Nigeria. Raise funding to run training camps to identify the best talents, and use your structure in America to get the best scholarships to high schools and colleges there. If the talent pool is large enough and the funding is there then run a structured league for those here

I am not saying Diogu should come back as a player but as an administrator. Your plan is good. However, we have industries and compsnies here in Nigeria that can sponsor DTigers. The NBBF needs to work harder in attracting sponsors. Like I said, We need to start organizing tournaments in Nigeria that will showcase foreign stars vs home based stars. Cheers.

Danielnino00:
Sweet talk...but this isn't the way to go about it..

When the qualifier starts, many of them won't be present... admittedly, that's understandable given the NBA's rule restricting players from participating in more than one international tournament in a year...
But we still need a decent amount of them to turn up ..

Since Desmond Bane has announced his interest to represent Nigeria at the 2028 Olympics, the NBBF should encourage him and use him as a bait to get Big companies to sponsor DTigers and ensure 100% welfare and appearance fees for any NBA star that signs up to play in the Olympics qualifiers for Nigeria. Dangote Industries, BUA foods will back DTigers if the NBBF reaches out to them.

lovewins:
Not saying that's the way o, just explaining the situation of things. I'll rather these guys play regularly but it just won't happen. They have too much to lose with injuries and all to prioritise it.

I however see a situation where they can commit to the Olympics qualifiers though. If they really want to see it through I think it's possible to see them play the qualifiers.

The NBBF should bring back Ike Diogu, Shane Lawal and Olumide Oyedeji to talk about the way forward for DTigers. Something happened that made many of the NBA players to stop taking the NBBF seriously. We need a new and very good Coach for Dtigers. I am thinking of a Coach that has seen some success in at least the G League in the USA. We had a decent team at the 2019 Men's FIBA World Cup and the team did not even have a lot of NBA players. So, what happened ?

I am still in the business of planting fruits for clients. I can turn your compound into a modern garden of Eden . Do you love fruits? Please talk to me. I can source for any fruit seedlings for you and also plant them for you in your compound or on your farm. Call/Whatsapp me on 07049598500. Thanks.

This is very interesting. I am impressed.

tommy589:
It is when you get involved to know farming is not for newbies,except you are ready to retire and leave close to your farmland. Farm hands are waiting like hyenas to extort new farmers.
I got involved in farming out of interest. For the 3 years i was into food cultivation I did not recoup 10% of my investment. Rather than succumb to the ridiculous pricing after harvest, I chose to bring my harvest out and give it to my people in the city.
My next plan is to try cash crop when I am ready again

What crops did you cultivate ? Thanks.

If you still have rabbit waste and poo for sale in Ikorodu, please let me know. Thanks. I need rabbit faeces for Agriculture purposes. Thanks. Whatsapp me on 07049598500. Thanks.

Mr Tolu.

I need land for farming in Imota and Agbowa especially. If you have an acre for lease or you have a fenced plot of land for lease for farming, please let me know. Thanks. I am only interested in plots of land and acres of land for leasing purposes. Thanks.

07049597500 ( Whatsapp only ).

Thanks.

I am still looking for land for farming in the Ikorodu area: Imota, Agbowa, Salabo, Isiu, Aleke town etc. If you have a fenced unused plot of land, please get in touch with me. Even if you have a structure on the land and you have uncultivated space in front and at the back of the building and the building is at foundation level, I can still use the space to plant my crop. Contact me on 07049598500. Whatsapp only. Thanks .

Tolu.

TheSuperNerd:
I caught some of the game thanks to the link dropped here before it went off due to copyright restrictions and wow, Uche is quite the talent. At times when Uche had to guard that heavily big Iowa Center, I felt my heart beating for her... hoping that she does not get injured or something but she handled herself well. She is a big girl and really really worth the hype.

Izoje will add a lot of firepower to DTigress. Her type comes once in a generation. The NBBF has to tidy things up concerning her desire to play for Nigeria. I don't want to hear that Japan has approached her to play for the Japanese women. All eyes are on her now. Cheers.

FashionStyleGla:
Omo mothers are smart o... My mother has been nagging me about an issue for 4 years and I dey brush her advice off. Omo my eye don open.... I dey run like she say make I run because she see my future

Bro/Sis, mothers are smart. It is because of my mum's pressure on me that I am a property owner today. I was battling the immigration service of a European nation in court over getting papers and my mother back in Nigeria called me and said she knows a land available somewhere and that I should start thinking beyond Europe and should build the property. I was sending money to her and she build a big edifice for me complete with a well/borehole and fenced the place round. Why won't I die for such a mother I have? I did not return to Nigeria in shame. She has given several advice since then though I did not honor all of them but I can see her wisdom all along. I want to follow through with all her advice this year. Mum has always been spot on even with issues concerning my in laws. Hmn.

Nice one, Hakimi. Besides, it is always good to listen to your MOTHER. My mother gave me some good advice 5 years ago. She wanted me to use a property she assisted me to build ( I was having immigration problems abroad and she told me to start building a property in Nigeria ) to start a tutorial or school business. I refused to listen to her and took a job as a teacher. I have been a teacher in private schools since 2021. Now I can see the wisdom in her advice I have realized that I can do better as a Tutorial center owner or run private lessons in the building and make more money. I simply realized that I am intelligent enough to teach students on my own than being employed as a teacher. Mother's advice is GOLD. Take heed to what your mum says .

Interesting . People are doing things Agriculture wise in Nigeria. Hmn.

callmetade:
Senegal should return the cup and medals. Period

Why should the Senegalese return the Cup and medals? Morocco lost that final to Senegal . Period . Is Morocco truly an African country? Are they not arabs who overran a black African territory and made the land their home thousands of years ago? Moroccans have black minority tribes among them who are true natives of the land. Ditto for Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt.

mightiersa:
Well, from the person's comment, it is easy to deduced that most grassed and weeds edible to rabbits will not be available during dry season.

if you stay with the story, my story will get there - where i will explicitly talk about feed, diseases, management and marketing.

Tridax weed is available during the dry season. It is all around my place at the moment.

lovewins:
Correct. USA is not in play at all. She's not even a permanent resident talk less more a citizen and unlikely to be one in time for her to be considered for team USA.

The other country in contention really is Japan and even they are unlikely as she has no parental connection to them. There's a Nigerian who is currently on the Japanese national team "Monica Okoye" but that's possible because she was born there, grew up there and had a Japanese mum. Izoje has none of this.

We can discover more talented youngsters between the ages of 12 to 17 in Nigeria through secondary school basketball leagues and send them on to the USA to play collegiate basketball and subsequently play in the WNBA and NBA and leagues in Europe. This will create a pipeline of talent for DTigers and DTigress. I am talking of permanent secondary school basketball leagues not once a year basketball tournaments like the one run by Nestle and Milo.

PDPGuy:
I’ve heard (not sure of the accuracy) that Izoje has been in contact with the NBBF and Wakama; and the reason she couldn’t join up with the WWCQT team was because of the NCAA tournament

Thanks for the head up. I read a ton of articles about Uche Izoje last night. She is really good. She will be a pillar of strength for DTigress in future tournaments. We have lots of gifted female teenagers in Nigeria who have not been able to harness their skills because we don't have basketball leagues in our secondary schools. We need to have up to ten different basketball leagues for secondary school students in Nigeria. I run a children's book club ( An NGO ) in Lagos, Nigeria and it is growing gradually. I am thinking of running a basketball league for secondary schools ( Both public and private ) in the Local Government I live in. Still working on a document concerning this Project. We need to emulate the USA and Canada by creating pipelines of talent production and nurturing in Nigerian basketball. Cheers.

PDPGuy:
Blessing Ejiofor is easily replaced by Uche Izoje, who is having a breakout season in her NCAA conference

Won't USA Basketball snatch Izoje from Nigeria when she blossoms into a major talent ? It seems the American basketball authorities always develops an interest in American players with Nigerian roots when they become very good and are likely to don Nigerian colours .

decatalyst:
Nice thread.

Could you share step by step guide?

Rabbit type, Feed type, Feeding pattern, drugs, what to avoid, what do look out for, likely diseases.

Adding pictures to your post will make it more interesting and engaging.

I grew up in a home where we bred rabbits. We bred rabbits in my dad's house at Oke Ira, Ogba from 1989 to around 2012. So I know so much about breeding rabbits. Rabbits eat a variety of things. They eat elephant grass, tridax weed, this plant that grows about with a yellow flower, plantain leaves ( when you are not able to go out to cut grass for them ) , yam peels, potato peels, pawpaw, guava, plantain peels etc. They also eat mash and pellets etc. The list of rabbit food is endless. Just do your research. Fresh clean water is needed for the rabbits daily.

TheSuperNerd:
We letting the Germans back in. Lead q3 by 1 but losing by 3 across the board.

We need a couple of special players to start beating the Western European teams at the Olympics and FIBA World Cup. European teams are very technical. I pray we win this contest against Germany. We need to bring in 2 special players into this DTigress squad to go past the quarter finals in Berlin come September.

PDPGuy:
Who do you guys think will be dropped from the roster for the September World Cup?

I am not advocating for anyone to be dropped but since Ogoke has retired now, we should see a much younger and better player take her place in the squad. Blessing Ejiofor's position is not guaranteed. Elizabeth Balogun has to step up her game seriously. Coach Rena should scout for better players for the team and blend them in before September 2026. Cheers.