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Vision101:
You didn't talk about the character of the average Nigerian. Every government intention is manipulated and becomes tools of corruption. How can a people progress with this mind set? SureP, DRFRI, NDE, fuel subsidy etc. all good intentions but destroyed by the corruption mindset of average Nigerian. Nigeria needs total cleansing not only within the political class but character of the average Nigerian.

Hamachi:
Here’s grounded in facts & data

🔍 1. Security Crisis in Benue Is Rooted in Local, Not Foreign, Factors
Historical Context: The farmer-herder clashes in Benue date back decades and are driven primarily by climate change, land pressure, population growth, and weak security architecture—not foreign intervention.

According to the International Crisis Group (ICG) and Amnesty International, the violence is often triggered by competition over dwindling land and water resources, worsened by open grazing and desertification in the North. Nigeria’s own failure to implement a consistent grazing policy (like ranching) has deepened the crisis. In 2021, over 3,600 Nigerians were killed in farmer-herder conflicts. Most of these killings occurred in the Middle Belt and were intragroup disputes, not acts of foreign sabotage.
(Source: SBM Intelligence, 2021)

2. Food Supply Decline Not Exclusive to Benue
Nigeria's overall agricultural production has declined due to:

1. Insecurity (banditry in Zamfara, terrorism in Borno, kidnappings in Niger/Kaduna)

2. Flooding (2022 floods destroyed over 500,000 hectares of farmland nationwide)

3. Inflation and subsidy removal, not just events in Benue.
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reports that Nigeria’s agriculture GDP declined from 2.05% growth in Q1 2023 to -0.90% in Q2 2023, driven by broader national challenges. So it’s incorrect to isolate Benue as the singular domino threatening national food security.

3. GMO Introduction Is a Nigerian Policy Debate, Not a Western Imposition

Nigeria, through the National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA), approved the commercial release of GMOs like Bt Cotton (2018) and Bt Cowpea (Beans) (2019) after local trials by Nigerian scientists—not under duress from the West. Nigerian institutions such as IAR (Institute for Agricultural Research) and NABDA (National Biotechnology Development Agency) lead these efforts.
GMO cowpea was developed in Nigeria by Nigerians in collaboration with African and international researchers under the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF), not Western corporations.

4. Many African Countries Reject GMO, Yet Still Face Food Crisis
Countries like Tanzania, Zambia, and Ethiopia have banned GMOs, yet still struggle with food insecurity and inflation. GMO use does not correlate with increased Western control. In fact, nations like India, Brazil, and Argentina use GMOs extensively while maintaining strong food sovereignty.

5. The Real Threat Is Not GMO – It’s Policy Failure and Poor Governance

Nigeria’s food insecurity is driven by:

- Lack of storage infrastructure (over 40% of crops perish post-harvest)
- Poor rural roads and market access
- Limited credit to smallholder farmers
- Continued insecurity across food-producing zones

Nigeria invests less than 2% of its budget on agriculture, far below the Maputo Declaration target of 10% agreed by African Union members.

While suspicion toward foreign motives is understandable, the claim that the West is orchestrating the killings in Benue to introduce GMOs lacks evidence. It distracts from the true culprits: poor governance, climate pressures, and internal security failures. We don’t need fearmongering about GMOs—we need data-driven agriculture policies, investments in rural security, and support for local farming innovations.

Let’s blame the right problems—and solve them.

IyaTola:
How the West is Using Killings in Benue to Destroy Nigeria’s Food Supply and Introduce GMO

Deep in the heart of Nigeria lies Benue State, often referred to as the “Food Basket of the Nation.” From yam to cassava, rice to vegetables, Benue has long been the agricultural backbone of the country. But what if the relentless killings in this region weren’t just random acts of violence or farmer-herder clashes? What if they are part of a deliberate, international plot?

Here's the theory:

Step 1: Destabilize the Food Basket
Over the past decade, Benue has witnessed escalating attacks on farmers and rural communities. Entire villages wiped out. Farmlands abandoned. Year after year, the attacks intensify—but strangely, no lasting solution is ever enforced. Why?

Sources suggest that these violent incursions may be orchestrated to systematically wipe out indigenous farming activity, making local food production impossible. If Benue cannot farm, Nigeria will starve—or at least experience severe food shortages.

Step 2: Create a Food Crisis
With Benue in chaos, food prices skyrocket across the nation. Yam becomes gold. Tomatoes become luxury. The masses cry out for relief. The government scrambles. Then—like a well-timed savior—the West steps in.

Western NGOs, biotech corporations, and donor agencies start offering “solutions”:

“We’ll donate seeds.”

“We have high-yield, pest-resistant crops.”

“Our GMO maize and rice can feed 10 times more.”

“We can help you rebuild your agriculture.”

But there's a catch: those seeds are genetically modified, and with them come strings attached.

Step 3: Hook Nigeria on GMOs
Accepting GMO seeds often means:

Dependency on foreign seed companies every planting season.

Loss of native seed sovereignty.

Introduction of patents, where farmers can be sued for saving seeds.

Erosion of local farming knowledge in favor of lab-created agriculture.

Soon, Nigeria becomes hooked on genetically modified food—just like much of the Global South.

Step 4: Control the Food, Control the Nation
If you control a nation’s food supply, you control its people, its policy, and its future. With Nigeria dependent on foreign biotech firms for seeds and food stability, the West gains unprecedented influence over the largest Black nation on earth.

Benue—once the proud heart of Nigeria’s food independence—is turned into a testing ground for lab crops.

Is it coincidence that Benue, of all places, continues to burn while the rest of the world pushes GMO agriculture on Africa? Or is there something deeper—a coordinated economic warfare disguised as humanitarian aid?

Stay woke. Follow the seeds. The truth is buried in the soil.

NetbizBoss:
Nigeria Police problem is psychological in nature. What do you expect people whose salary is not enough to build house while in active duty and who will be paid N1 million as gratuity and less than 35k as monthly pension after retirement to behave. Do you think they are doing police work or hustling?

Better you no enter their trap ooh.
Because they will use you hustle

grandstar:
Stop endorsing hubris. Macron's wife has two biological kids.

Saying she was born a man is stupid as she is quite old. If she transitioned, she would have transitioned probably in the last two or three decades. We are talking about a 72 year old woman. She has her age to defend her. The first transition surgery ever carried out was in 1972. The operation only started becoming popular in the 2000s.

Caitlyn Jenner is 75 years old. Everyone knows about when she transistioned. It made headline news. Most people of that era were in their 50s when the operation started becoming more common place, or went under the knife..

slimfit1:
Buhari won't be dead and Obasanjo won't know the day Obasanjo opens his mouth is the day I know what the truth is, apart from that it's all fake news.
Osinbajo won't be taking orders from a foreigner, so let us use our senses please. Don't let someone that was cargo alive back to Nigeria deceive you. He wasn't as smart as I thought to be captured in Kenya because of money or woman. Exposed your people with useless mouth.
Back to the story that guy can riot in that place for all I care.

happney65:
With the election of 2015,I knew what propaganda could do. The APC deployed high level propaganda and White washed Buhari,The coupist and Economic Dunce

My argument then was,How do you replace a nagging wife with a road side prostitue? Kuku leave the nagging wife alone till you get a better wife but not on any reason replace her with a road side prostitue.

Because the road side prostitue will sleep with your friends and neigbours

GEJ was the nagging wife.

Buhari was the road side prostitue.

May Buhari ROT in the deepest part of Hell

TruthU87:
Trump told Israel to stop it attack on Syria yesterday. Today israel dropped a bomb in Damascus.

When had Israel ever listened to them? US will still back them unquestioningly.

Whatever blackmail Mossad has on U.S. politicians must be extremely serious.