akingangan:
Use for Food and Agriculture

Advice to State Governors on Utilizing the 5 Billion Naira Government Palliative Fund:

State governors are advised to use the 5 Billion Naira government palliative fund towards purchasing food crops directly from local farmers. As part of this initiative, it is recommended that the governors implement a reciprocal arrangement whereby farmers are required to invest in fertilizers and animal feed exclusively from local suppliers all registered with the state government.

Furthermore, the acquired food crops should be made available for sale by the state government at significantly reduced and accessible prices to anyone that registers interest to buy but must be sold in rations. Additionally, a provision must be made for distributing complimentary food supplies to individuals with special needs and the elderly population.

Any money made by the state government should be put back into the scheme until the funds are exhausted.

This will provide the most basic need of people and invest in the local food and agriculture economy.

kettykin:
I share some line of thoughts with you , but Peter obi would have declared a state of emergency on the manufacturing and production sectors which would have reduced imports and save the forex

saintopus:
How much help have you given to a complete stranger before?
Well, for me I have not been blessed with the opportunity to have much money in my life, but grew up from a family blessed with much to eat. So I was not lacking in terms of food because my parents were farmers.

So I gave food stuffs most of the time to friends and strangers as well.

So giving means different things to different people.

So let me tell you a short experience how I gave a complete stranger some food.

Few years ago, my family traveled briefly so I was the only one at home. I decided to cook rice and stew. Just before the food was done, a complete stranger came and told me that he was stranded. He further stated that, he came all the way from Nasarawa to do menial jobs here in Port Harcourt, but the person who brought him could not provide the tools needed for him to start the cobbler job so he has been sleeping at the Mosque.

He asked me if I can help him with some food. So I quickly went into the kitchen and got him a plate of rice and stew. I could see the joy and happiness on his face.

After eating, I gave him water. He was grateful.

He left afterwards, I was happy to be of help to a complete stranger.

If I am to monetize the plate of rice perhaps it would not be anything above N400, but it could be quite much to a stranger in need.

Maybe that food could be worth several thousands at that moment.

So can you share your experiences how you have been of help to a complete stranger.

jmoore:

You can't sell your soul but you can sell your kidney.

22o62021:
I have not received any help

I haven't done much to strangers too

Brandiebird:


Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth

Nooneonline:


A stranger here on nairaland gave me 80k to start my YouTube career which is my major source of income at the moment. Wanted to thank him publicly but he said no. I now have over 16k subscribers and counting. GOD will keep you and your family wherever you are Mr.......

Esope6320:
Let me share my little experience here

It all started during the “No cash era” a woman who has her house opposite my room window gave birth to a new born baby, we don’t use to talk though she greeted me once , i was so happy when I heard she gave birth and I was thinking what little thing I can do to help the woman, I usually heard her sending her other kids to buy 50naira pampers across the street, on the 8 days I looked for cash and went to a store bought a big jumbo size of pampers I waited till night and went across my window to present the pampers to this woman, guess what happened
This woman denied ever knowing me, rejected the pampers and tagged me as a ritualist, damn I was so embarrassed.
I packed out of the environment few months later and vowed never to render anyone help again in my life.
The pampers is still sitting in my cabinet till tomorrow.

DissTroy:
I suppose "help" has to be defined. Nothing out of the ordinary of grandiose. Housing a stranded stranger for the night or buying a meal for some life-beaten bloke who accosts one on the road isn't out of the ordinary.

I can't count. It's part of being humane and expressing our humanity.

But I suppose we've become so indifferent as humans off the camera that these little acts of kindness which inherently make us human seem saintly.

Foodqueen:
Countless times.

Started when I was very little.

GboyegaD:
Yes, and I will share a few instances.

It was Fall of 2011, I met a guy who came to the church I was attending for the first time. After church, he said he wanted to know my place and visit my university since he was attending the other university in town. We got to my place, I cooked and while discussing, he opened up he was having accommodation issues and luckily, I was living in a one bedroom apartment so I told him he could move in.

Ten years later, I needed help and he came through for me. Although he also sold me a lemon but I would rather say I reaped the benefit of the good I did.

Another instance was in Fall 2012. I had worked at the International Welcoming Center in the Summer and part of my job duties was attending to calls and registering students for the Fall Orientation. Someone called and had a Ghanian accent so we discussed more and I promised introducing him to another Ghanian graduate student I knew on Campus. Unfortunately, I guess he banked on staying with the Ghanian student pending when he resolved his accommodation and that one had made no plans for him. The Ghanian guy picked him up from the airport and when he realized the new guy had no place to stay, he called me to come sort my mess since I introduced him to the new guy. I was lucky my flat mates were my roommates from Ife whom I facilitated their admission. I called and told them someone was going to be sharing my room and they had no issues with it.

About five years later, I read on the student thread about someone going to my university. I reached out to him and he said he wasn't having a place to stay. I called the guy I helped to ask if he could help and he was quick to.

Many more instances I cannot count. All I can say is allow your heart/God to lead you.

Landowner101:
Wow, the people happy wella, never have I seen a military takeover where the people are in support.

Nebes:
I've helped strangers but I'll talk about the help I received as a stranger.

During my Japa dream days I boldly boarded a vehicle heading to Togo not knowing I didn't have enough money to take me to my intended destination. A naija guy that alighted somewhere in Benin republic or Togo looked at me and decided to to give me all the remaining naira with him as he was not going to need them. Tears filled my eyes. That his money helped to take me as far as Ghana after conversion at Aflao border. The rest is history.

Help strangers if you can. You might be the stranger in need of help someday.

AllBlack:

We handle cases of people like you who walk about with such naive notion only to find themselves crying and seeking for who to track their assailants over their carelessness & sheer stupidity which could have been avoided in the first place. The more careless people like you, the more money for security professionals so please keep it up!

There is something called SAFETY & PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES. This ensures that the possibility of something negative happening is reduced (not totally eliminated). On the other hand the CARELESSNESS of bringing a stranger into your house greatly improves the possibility of negative occurrence like house mapping, rape, robbery and even death. You want to argue? Feel free.

You can be careless and ignore your personal if you wish, your choice.

AllBlack:
You let a stranger into your house for charity? That is how people get robbed. How una take dey trust people for this country?

socialjustice93:


Asari dokubo and his asawana boys have been the ones trying to destroy Igbo land but now hand don touch am he begin cry like the fat pig he is.

Crystallon:



You will be surprised to discover that the person behind such act is also a police officer. It's an insider's handiwork.