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You scared . . .

Haaa Akola,

woman dey come find you all the way from thread

You hottt o

Abi,

Let's start crying about how opposing teams never get penalties when playing against Man Utd.

Or Ronaldo is a diver. . .

Nateevs,
Take time o, na you wan sell am?

He makes errors a few times but he's a great defender. One of the best in the world.

Have you noticed the amount of mind games that Chelsea has resorted to lately. Almost everyone in the team is putting pressure on Wigan

Even Mikel Obi has joined the pack

However absurd it may see, the money is Roman's so . . . welcome Ramos but hope this does not increase ticket or merchandise fee

Well you wanted him,

If he can't break into Lyon's starting line up how does he expect to break into our first eleven?

They're other more reliable sources like Soccernet - though it's anti-Chelsea thanks to Tommy Smith and co.

Skysports, BBC Sports, Football365, Chelseafc official site etc . . .

I hope the Ballack deal is surely a rumour. It would be irresponsible to offer him a higher wage unless you want to see Lampard and Drogba leave.

He's already over paid.

Landis,

Why open a new thread when we were discussing this here?

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-131859.0.html#msg2224506

Thank God you are alive,

You would recover fully in time, rest assured.

Nice Spirit you have though, I would have been kicking everything around me and sulking terribly in your shoes.

Take Care . . .

Nateevs,
Oh well, another one bites the dust.

How many have we lost now? Anyway no one knows the mind of Roman, I think he's waiting until he sees a trophy before he backs Grants with needed funds.

I'm not in a hurry either. Even with Utd's buys see how well we have done. We can still get good players at the end of the season. My mind is on the UCL.

Nateevs,

I'm about to leave the office as we speak,

How bad is Carvalho?

Why wont this people let me leave the office sef before they start a match?

My point exactly. Thailand and other Rice exporting nations decided to cut down on exports in favor of local supply and consumption. Where are we going to buy that bulk quantity from? Who's going to sell to us?

For the 1.68% Agriculture Development Fund, I think this is a move in the right direction . . . theoretically. We need to encourage private participation and investment in agriculture. I think what I want to see is a firm policy, a road map, a clear plan. Not just talk. Let Nigerians now the gory details.
We can review milestones periodically to see if we are really on track.

The answer to the global crisis is simple - make your own food. We have the land for planting but we don't have the insecticides, fertilizers, mechanized farming equipments and technical know-how. I hope the program will put these into consideration.

Summary
There's a global food price increase with prices soaring to almost twice the value of the previous amount. This basically will hit harder on poor countries and countries that depend on imports for food supply. Nigeria is in the set of those two groups.

Currently we have Rice prices soaring at more than 100% in our local markets while we have a decrease in the supply of Rice due to the global crisis and how it affects global supply. Remember that even flour's price had increased some months back.

Govt's Response
Yar'adua proposed N80 billion intervention fund for the importation of Rice and 1.68 per cent of the federation account to be dedicated as agriculture development fund. Also I think our Federal Food Reserves was opened up to give out about 15 metric tonnes of grains to farmers.

My Take
Good reaction from the government but these are basically short and maybe medium term solutions. The plans are somewhat adhoc and haphazard pointing to the fact that we have no laid out structure or policy for our agriculture sector.

This is a shocking revelation considering that for 8 years of Obasanjo's regime (who is a farmer by the way) and a year of Yar'adua's (having agriculture in his 7 point agenda) we have no policy that can tackle the problem of our farms being unable to supply half of the basic food we consume.

I think we need to see a clear roadmap with well detailed and laid out plans with implementation timelines concerning our agriculture sector. The goal should be a self sufficient Nation with regards to basic agriculture products.

Brace yourself for a mandatory fasting exercise . . .

The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), reported that worldwide food costs rose almost 40 per cent in 2007 while grains spiked 42 per cent and dairy prices nearly 80 per cent. The World Bank said food prices are up by 83 per cent since 2005. As at December, it caused 37 countries to face food crisis and 20 to impose price control in response.

It also affected aid agencies like the UN's World Food Programme (WFP). Because of soaring food and energy costs, it sent an urgent appeal to donors on March 20 to help fill a $500 million resource gap for its work.

Since then, food prices increased another 20 per cent and show no signs of scaling down. For the world's poor, like the people of Haiti, things are worse, people can't afford food, they scratch by any way they can, but many don't make it and they are starving.

Though there is no protest on Nigeria’s streets today, the country is in the group that cannot feed itself and, therefore, relies on import of staple food, particularly rice to feed her citizens. The price of rice has increased by 80 per cent. The projected national demand for rice in the country is put at 4.64 million metric tons annually, while current rate of consumption is put at 2.3 metric tons. . .

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2008/may/05/national-05-05-2008-003.htm

Sequel to his meeting with stakeholders last Saturday at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja , Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Dr. Abba Sayyadi Ruma will today lead a search party to Lagos State with a view to verifying claims of certain companies that they have thousands of metric tonnes of rice in stock.

Consequently, the minister has also explained the circumstances that threw up the proposed N80 billion intervention funds by the Federal Government on the food situation in the country, saying it came into being as a result of the need for special intervention funds in the development of agricultural programmes. . .

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=110588

Guys why dont we take it easy here . . .

Tatoo,
It's ok now you're the man so walk away.

I'm out guys.

Laterz

You know me . . . always ON topic

I like being ON, you know, so when you turn me, turn me . . .

Anyway how are you today? Enjoying the weekend?

LadyT
Sharrap dia, I wasn't asking you.

I have never toasted any girl before in my . . . wait a minute. Hey I was going offtopic

I hope I'm not part of that number

ah ah Lady T, you know we cant fight on Nairaland na . . .

It was a honest mistake . . . I'll make it up to you

Oh babie, I'm sorry, did not know it was you
Peace?

LadyT:
All of you guys are mad I just hope we [/b]don't get banned.

Every topic we have [b]SLY derails it and goes totally off the point

Who's we?

Speak for yourself dear

So what are you doing online then?

The Sly
Don't mind Cadet, she knows perfectly well how much I know about her.
She's only posts from getting banned . . . again

Cadet
New and improved huh?

@desodgi:
The best thing I think you should do is delete this topic and hang yourself because its the end of the world. . .mumu

5 Stars for this one, wont have said it better myself.

Cadet:
This is Nairaland, i dnt take you people seriously, so any section without fighting and brawling is for me. am tired of all this morons going around wanting a fight with me am changed, I tell you! changed!

Aint we all dear, aint we all . . .
I don't know why peeps erroneously think I do online brawls and yet link me to people that have been banned a hundred times and are currently using recycled user IDs

How many IDs have you changed?

Cadet:
@somze
sharrap! go back to your boring sports section. Start cursing with your paddies

Sports section is passionate and analytical . . . whats your excuse?

Does this have anything to do with getting to the UCL final? I wonder . . .

I do not depend too much on tabloid but it seems the players now have more belief in Grant. Especially players like Drogba and perhaps Lampard who had strong ties with JM.

It's good news if it's true though.

The silly threads keep growing . . .

Motun_rayo
Name sounds familiar. Toyin you mind explaining?

Meanwhile is it me or do nairalanders enjoy the silliest threads?

I'm out of this jare . . .