₦airaland Forum

Neyoor:
I guess u're not in ur right sense. How would you feel if your father was beaten to pulp for supporting a particular candidate.


Haba! Use ur brain if u've gotten one.

I once had a staff that was a mole, supplying information about our operations to a competitor. If you know what it means to have a Judas in your midst, you will not make such comments. The man is a fool. Must he publicly tear his card? Abi he thinks he and OBJ are on the same level?

Nonsense. He is lucky it was not Chidi Lloyd who did that to him.

First step: what products can be exported?
2nd step: where are the markets? Where do we source and where are the destination markets?
3rd step: what are the standard requirements?
4th step: export processes.

Let us have the discussion along these lines. Enough of complaints and talk about govt.

There are 51 markets that provide the gari sold in Kano urban markets. Of these 51, 13 of those markets are from Benue state: Adoka, Ayon, Gbegi, Gboko, Ihugh, Katsina Ala, Ojije, Onyangede, Tor Dunga, Udoi, Yeruwata (a major market) and Zaki Biam.

The other markets are from Edo, Kogi and Taraba states. Now take a map of Nigeria and check the distance of each of these states to Kano state. You want to tell me in all honesty, that after processing into gari, and transporting these goods sometimes for almost a whole day, the cost of gari per bag in Kano state will be cheaper than it is in the South West?

My brother, I seriously beg to differ. Please do some thorough survey and not rely on half baked information from anywhere.

sheyi86:
thanks 4 ur piece of advice, i really appreciate ur work on cumcumber. Actually i was into garri processing sm years bck but day in day out pple consume garri hw profitable this thing is? D way pple are presenting dis thing is as if it so profitable nw compare 2 veg production, dis very year i av made 8k frm amaranthus i didnt concentrate on it, i'm just doing it along with poultry work, 2day i ask a girl dat came frm kano state d price of garri overthere she said d garri is even cheaper than dis place, i ask her dat who re those supplying them and she said it is benue state dat is supplying them which is nt so far frm kano state. Now where are dis pple supplying their product and they re make million frm cassava product, are they d only 1 producing it.Sir hw many pple tackle u on cucumber stuff? Late last year my mum bought 2 pcs of cucumber @100 is dat nt reality of wot u av stated so far abt cucumber?i wl always respect for d fact u used 2 state bt sir try and go into cassava processing and c wot is going on.thanks

How far is Benue state from Kano state by road? Let us really see what you are made of.

Also, which market did the girl quote when she was telling you that "garri is even cheaper than this place"?

I remember driving along the Kubwa expressway one afternoon, blasting my car ac and listening to some music. The next thing I remember after what seemed like seconds was me nearly hitting the kerb after I had started to doze off on the steering. I had to wind down to allow the natural wind to hit me. Decided to enter Gwarinpa and eventually had a 10-minute nap in my vehicle before proceeding to Zuba where I was headed.

So yes, the Chinese guys did such a good job on that road that the risk of dozing off on that road is exceedingly high. Of course, the overspeeding and reckless overtaking is another factor. Drivers do not respect the lane markers, which is a shame.

Raiders:
I met this beautiful girl last year on a public bus and she decided to give me her number. She is 22 years and a final year student of a major university. We have been texting and calling back and forth for the past 2 months and she told me she is single. I have been trying to woo her to be my girlfriend for over 2 months but she insist on us just been friends and she don't want a relationship.

I really like this girl and would love to date. but I feel like maybe she don't want to date me so yesterday I told her we should end our friendship because if she feels that am not good enough to date her then we shouldnt remain friends. I really don't want to waste another month trying to win her heart and later find out that she end up with another guy.

My last 2 previous relationships too me less than 2 weeks to woo my previous girlfriends so I am kinda surprise that after 2 months of trying to win her over she still insist on not dating me. At first, I thought maybe she was playing hard to get but I think 2 months is long enough.

My questions to nairalanders is how long should a guy try to woo a girl before giving up and moving on?

The wife materials take time. I was on the project for two years.

WisdomFlakes:
With the way the economy has been tanking lately, I am still disturbed as to how anyone in their right mind would still come out and shout GEJ till whenever with a straight face.

Sentiments aside, things just can't continue like this. We need Change.

Another APC fool. Who laid the foundation for Nigeria importing fuel? Was it not your master?

menix:
Yes!! dont b fooled by looks cous i was fooled by one day b4 ysterday.

Their latest strategy is using their laps to d trick.

Guess u wondering ow possible?

D last i caught lasy yr was on a nice native clothing, if it was possible i could asked d driver to stop d car cous dis dude kept coughing lik som1 wiv a deadly cough not knowing as he coghed he wuld use his lap to rub my pocket in a backward stroke, after a while my phone was off my pocket buh Jah was on my side.

Ehen!! dat of this week d guy was adjusting back nd foward using his Lap to d magic, i looked at him nd was fooled by his looks.
Lo nd behold, i jst took 4 step after alightin frm d vehicle to check my nairaland update, omo i nearly search my boxers join...

Only boxers? U for search your blokos join naaa....

Call it by its name: TABLE SOCCER. AN AWESOME GAME!

Created huge bonding between friends, siblings, classmates. The competitions in primary and secondary school were awesome.

He was forming company chairman. He had N200k inside his pocket. Simply find the man something and you will be allowed in as a Chairman, he could not. Let him see firsthand the legacy that Buhari and Idiagbon introduced into Nigeria, because it was that era that heralded men in uniform beating up civilians.

I have once entered the national assembly via the villa gate. My approach to the SSS guys on duty was what allowed me to gain entrance. Bring yourself down and you will be exalted. Even the bible said it.

But go exalting yourself forming company chairman. You will be cut to size.

From the little I know about equipment leasing, the cost of diesel and the operator are different from the hiring of the bulldozer. Payloader is just used to transport the bulldozer so the charge is for to-and-fro movement. Then the remoteness of the area where the bulldozer will work determines the cost of hiring. So it will be cheaper to use it in town than it will be to clear land in a remote area.

I may be wrong and this is not my field of expertise. But I have a few friends in the business and I picked this from their phone conversations and negotiations with clients.

A light rail project from Keffi all the way to Mabushi will solve that problem. There is no road that can be constructed there that will ever solve the issue of traffic on that road. That road was once a single lane road. The road was dualized, a flyover was constructed to bypass the Mogadishu barracks, even two extra lanes on each side were constructed from AYA to a little bit after the barracks. What has helped? The population keeps expanding.

The only solution is to reduce the vehicular density on that road. Do a light rail, recover some of the money by tolling the road for private and commercial vehicles at the rush hour, and you will automatically see people using the rail to go to work and back.

I would rather engage with cerebral minds than bandy words with those from the Ice Age (not even stone age).

Buying USD: 221
Selling USD: 219

At Sheraton Abuja today.

sheyi86:
@farmtech forget,legsup and stagger are just article writter, which market are they supplying,hw are they parkaging their product dat others do nt do, this is practical farmer's threard nt just an article, show me d set of pple dat are really making it frm cassava nt cocoa o.

At least Jethro2 is a lot more articulate when presenting her own side of the coin. You; you no just get one sense for your head. What is your own contribution to this thread? What is your story?

Adminisher:
This is serious FAILURE by Jonathan. It is going to bite him HARD. Let us remember that we had foreign exchange reserves of $45bn and ECA of $22bb that was further helped by $115/barrel oil price that should have.improved. exchange rate to N70 to.the dollar. Every other OPEC country also built up reserves and developed petrochemical industry.
Jonathan did not. At N200 to the dollar most companies will soon laying off workers. All the empty half educated youths praising Jonathan will curse him soon. Shey Buhari is the one you fear now?.You are afraid of Fulani general? Soon you will beg him.

Is Jonathan the one who is starting all the importation threads on Nairaland? Or you do not know that this sudden import from China craze is hurting the local currency?

noblefarm:
Oga stagger u open a thread here abt farming season 2015 and for some days now no update there. pls sir we need ur help there and I will like to see u personal if possible or ur number lemme call u for some updates, my number 08077774003. thanks

Did you read in that thread where I said I will have an update NEXT WEEK?

olushowunm:
I av been doing great....... We are pushing to even process our cassava.... Me and some farmers...

What product will you be processing the cassava into? I can assist with some market information for your state.

kayce911:
I got an interview invitation last Friday with one newly established company around Airport road, Rukpoku, Port Harcourt(name withheld). I was over-qualified, and I answered their questions perfectly, but what shocked me was when the interviewer asked me what church i attended.

I proudly answered "Catholic". His facial expression changed and he said "whoever doesn't pay tithe can hinder the growth of a company."

He even tried backing his statement with biblical quotations.I was very shocked so I can't even remember all the crap he said.

I brought this here to tell Nairalanders what religion has turned our people into.

Will a native doctor employ a church usher into his business?

45million naira can build this in Lokogoma estate Abuja. Who did the valuation?

jethro2:
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Leave that your Saki and travel a bit so u get exposed. Your world view is highly myopic.

I am really concerned with the preservation of the top soil. I am presently in a similar quagmire. How do we clear land with bulldozer without destroying the top soil? Are there specific precautions that must be taken?

jethro2:
Thank you so much sir.
As much as i tried to avoid lesgupnigeria and stagger thread, post or comments, the two always want to force it down my throat to accept their unproven theory.
But like you advice sir. henceforth i remain mute to whatever they ve got to write.
Let the wise be warned.
Thank you sir

Must you be personal in your attacks? Last I checked there were more than 6,130 views on this thread. There are others who are being helped by the engagement here, being challenged to go and find out things for themselves. If Jethro2 is stuck with idea A, there are people who want to get try idea B. If Stagger has idea C, there are those who want to stick with idea A or idea B. You present your case, I present mine, another person presents his or hers, and the rest who want to learn something here will pick what they want and move on.

Nobody is forcing anything down your throat. You are just childish by making personal attacks. I told you before: stop thinking with your hormones. Save that for your husband at home not here.

I went to a primary school when Agric Science was taught practically and every student had 3 farm ridge allocated to them as far back as 1980/1981. I had a Professor of Agric as my neighbour as at 1984. Planted a variety of foodstuff including plantain, oil palm, pineapple, etc. Even maize and beans. I have fried gari in my backyard with my two hands, white and yellow. Attended a few agric seminars. I am even scheduled to attend a Food Safety seminar in University of Ghent from September to December 21st, strictly for agro processors.

I am investing in building sustainable agribusiness using modern methods. Those who want to be stuck with the ideas of the ice age can go ahead. Those who want to move with the rest of the world can do so.

I have seen situations where banks have declared billions in profit and some others have made loss in the same country. So does it mean banking business is profitable? Yes it is, because some make profit. Does it mean bank business is unprofitable? It can be, because some make loss.

The difference between profit and loss is the business model. There is an entire value chain when it comes to cassava. If a component of the chain is not right, everything will turn out wrong. It is the responsibility of business owners to make it work. I have once run a business that made losses for three years. We sat down as a management team, and changed the business model and we have been making profit ever since; even expanded internationally.

We could have said the business was not a good one and closed shop permanently. But I had seen foreign companies doing the same business and making money, and some Nigerian companies also doing the same business and making money. So why not mine?

For me, no processing, no cassava business for me.

rareman:
Hello sir, I truly enjoyed your posts on that cassava thread, you are more practical, and straight to point hence my decision to follow you. Though my following you was born out of my quest to know who this stager is then I stumbled on this thread.
Please I want to know if the window is still open for this ewallet thank you. You are more of a book!

By next week I will have that information.

ADONRI:
Well it is clear you are not here for a positive contribution to this thread or maybe you are hoarding information so that you can be consulted to get your 20% ROI, I am a follower of Jethro2 thread because of its free and helpful content which is to teach people what you know so they can learn from it and be inspired to imitate or emulate your success.

No businessman will give away his trade secrets. I would rather urge you to conduct your own independent research as well. I know how many times I have spoken to the guys at the cassava division of IITA asking for certain information which they were hoarding, only for me to get even better information from elsewhere.

The fact we have established is that cassava processing pays more than selling raw tubers. That should be the direction we are headed, not trying to find out how Legsupnigeria is making money from selling his raw tubers. I don't know how he does it and personally I am not bothered about it because the market space is huge for other processed products of cassava. I do not know why so many of you here are just fixated on selling raw tubers and finding out how one person is doing it when the general consensus is that you stand to make more money processing cassava than selling raw tubers.

Personally I am already looking for a place to setup my processing factory. I have drawn up a three year plan which will see me sourcing tubers 100% in year 1 while developing my farm, then using 60% external cassava and 40% my own cassava in year 2, and finally using my own cassava 90% by year three. I am not projecting to make any profit in the first two years because I will reinvest my returns in year 1 and 2 on capacity building.

I am trying to decide on my market. I will be doing gari and cassava flour. But my market is what I am deciding on, because that will determine where I setup my factory and farm. I want to be close to the railway system being built currently. People need to be thinking along this line as well.

That game was played at Nnamdi Azikiwe stadium against Algeria. We won 2-0 with goals by Ademola Adesina and Henry Nwosu to qualify for Seoul '88 Olympic games with a 2-1 goals aggregate.

Under the GES ewallet scheme, farmers get access to subsidized inputs and seeds which they pay for using the mobile money facility from their phones courtesy of the Cellulant platform.

Now there is a registration window which opens just before the farming season. This is at ward level so you are supposed to register in the ward closest to your farm. After registration, you will get a text informing you to go to a collection centre to pick your inputs.

Now the news all over town is that it has eliminated the fertilizer cartels and the corruption in the system. The rumours are that the corruption has simply metamorphosed and changed format. I won't say more.

Like I said, this is a practical fact finding, do-it-yourself mission to ascertain the true state of affairs. Stay tuned.

jasper7:
6tons per hectare? that's interesting.

The 2 varieties were announced last year. So I want to do some fact finding for myself to see if it was just propaganda or if it is for real.

Pavore9:
And some people are here encouraging others to go into "mini importation" when they should be envagilizing on exporting.

My brother the thing tire me o. Nigerians and their thirst for imported goods is part of what is driving this madness.

Next stage of my inquiry is two-fold:

a) Land lease from river basin authority covering my intended usage state.
b) Registration in GES e-wallet scheme for 2015.

After this, I will pay a visit to a maize demonstration farm to see if the new maize seedlings touted to deliver up to 6tons per hectare are actually in use and delivering according to specs.