₦airaland Forum

Nigerians are a very funny lot. Never willing to take responsibility for anything.

The years of bad decisions have come home to roost.

Kobojunkie:
I don't have time for this brand of bullsheet today abeg! Try again tomorrow or better still next season!

Call it bull seeet (apology to Cobhams Asuquo), or whatever you like. I do not have time for naysayers. If you like, come to my facility and let me show you what I did.

I have done my part and my family is the better for it. Wailers and zombies and those in the middle can do what they do best...wail, remain zombified, or do nothing.

Gerrard59:
It is DANGEROUS to ride bicycles in many cities in Nigeria. Let's be honest when we offer solutions. In many Nigerian cities, even pedestrians cannot walk comfortably on their paths, na bicycle riders go dey comfortable?

The farming you have done is wonderful. Unfortunately, farmers in Zamfara, Borno, and Benue would beg to disagree. Youths in Enugu cooperated to open a rice farm only for Fulani herdsmen to destroy everything. Sometimes, I wonder why Nigerians sound so heartless considering the number of times they are seen in churches and mosques. During the last months of Jonathan till the early years of Buhari's first tenure, MANY Nigerians invested in farming. There were threads upon threads of Nairalanders who invested up to 10 million in various areas of agri-business. Ten million naira in 2014-2017. What happened? Fulani herdsmen ransacked farms and slaughtered people across Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Edo, Ogun, Enugu etc. What did fellow Nigerians do? They kept mum.

For people who claim to be so religious and godly, many Nigerians tend to be so wicked, cruel and hypocritical.

Go back and ask how many of those farmers took up agric insurance, ever bothered to build a fence or invested in K-9 units. How can you have N10 million in 2014-2017 (equivalent to $20,000 at the worst Naira to USD exchange rate at the time) to invest in agriculture, and you cannot have 10% of that amount to invest in protection?

Just like owning a N20m car and you no fit buy tracker put. Yes I agree there was a lot devastation, but I can tell you that I also put up my farming infrastructure in the North where there are also Fulanis (they leased land right behind mine). I know how I handled their matter.

If you are not proactive about things in this life, life will just pass you by and the challenges of living and operating in Nigeria will swallow you.

Kobojunkie:
Yes, in fact, I am the one responsible for the piece that grazed the pages of many Nigerian pages today!

The print and electronic media do not determine my life and how I raise my family or how I go about my family's upkeep. All what I put up above took me 4 years to accomplish and we are happier for it. While people are complaining about high cost of food stuff, I have insulated my family from it.

If you decide to live your life via the media, the fear they will generate will paralyze you and the fear will spread to all around you.

Kobojunkie:
Yes, farming where the Fulani herders, bandits, and/or kidnappers will finish them off, abi? Some of you are everlastingly irredeemable!

Fear mongering.
You do not need more than half a plot of land to farm all a family needs for food. I have a section on my own farm where I produce tomatoes, pepper, plantain, oranges, coconut, pawpaw, ugu, water leaf and bitter leaf. My cassava I harvested from another location gave me 300kg of gari. Abakaliki rice I bought when it was still 38,000 a bag...we never finish am. Beans harvest is due in November. Corn we eat and also use some for our birds.

I have palm oil from another land where I have palm trees. Same land also gives me pineapples. I have goats, chickens. The only thing I buy is onions and condiments, many of which I bought in bulk for those with long expiry dates.

The problem is Nigerians do not think and do not make any effort at positive innovation. They just sit and complain and complain and complain. Even as fuel is expensive, how many have thought to save up to buy bicycles and use this as a made of transport just as is done in Tokyo and Utrecht?

Feeding a family is a conscious decision which should be made by EVERY MAN worth his salt.

God1000:
We are in trouble, The satanic policies of this government has compounded the already bad situation

You are the only one in trouble, given that you support terrorist organizations like Hezbollah. You attract what you love.

God1000:
Spewing garbage and bunkum as usual,

Typical answer of a Nigerian illiterate who does not know history and does not read.

Having failed to enforce the 2006 agreement on Hezbollah's end of the deal, UNIFIL has outlived its usefulness. They are now an active enabler of terrorist actions from Hezbollah.

tundegan:
Dangote don enter their head.

How will a private company open up to you about their pricing? Are you paying them for the service?

If you go to a restaurant and you are charged, they break down the pricing for you.
Same thing with if you go to a hotel, or you visit a hospital.

The retailers have a valid request in knowing how come they are to pay more for a product that is derived from a local currency supply and not from importation. Is it coming from the rise in crude oil prices seen recently? Is it coming from a total removal of any shortfall payments (subsidy) by NNPC?

They deserve an explanation. Dangote refinery is a B2B business.

He was poisoned in 2018.

Also, he may be diabetic. Being a political office holder in elective position such as governor or president comes with a heavy toll. I remember once being in Bayelsa government house in a meeting with the council of traditional rulers and from 8pm to 1am, and Timipre Sylva was warming up for a meeting by 2am with representative of youth groups.

No sleep.

Xclusivegrin007:
Good day everyone, please I need someone to help me with anything to eat today please, you will never starve and may God replenish you. 11,zero,one,four,eight,one,seven,seven,six.... Kuda E.P.K
Nothing is too small please

What you need is to stop this online begging and look for the nearest paid task in your vicinity to do.

He has carried that criminal tendency of past CBN governors to Anambra State House.

That bill is indirectly trying to legitimize the actions of governors in the past: carving out a large percentage of LGA funds for unauthorized use. It should not be allowed to stand.

Obviously an ex-mercenary.

A complete idiot talking.

Okortor:
DSS? Why ? DSS are to prevent external forces from Invading the country and to provide intelligence reports. So what's their business with oil marketers?

That is the job of the NIA.

The DSS is meant for internal intelligence gathering and actionable security operations on matters that threaten to undermine the government.
High fuel prices that have cascaded to cause a disproportionate increase in cost of living to the extent of threatening basic survival can easily provoke uncontainable social unrest. It has happened in many countries. That is where the DSS comes in.

God1000:
Endangered species are meant to be preserved

The governor should have called the wildlife conservationists instead, we need to do away with this african mentality

The Hippo is not an endangered species. Besides, once an animal has killed a human, it will be put down. Everywhere in the world.

Yinabim:
Hello Everyone,

I am writing here for the first time, i don't know how to feel about this because i a very private person but since the death of my husband i had to wake up everyday to sadness. I never knew the extent of pain people feel when they lose their loved ones until now. I cant even concentrate on anything else and his family are making things difficult for themselves already.

I'm so young and with a 2 year old daughter, i just hope God help me scale through this storm. I'll come here to update this page as things unfold.

The story
My husband is a very kind man, he is way older than I am because he was a divorcee , ultimately he loved God and was very prayerful, I’ve known him for over seven years but we got married 4years ago and legalized the marriage in 2022.
He has 5 children plus my two years old makes 6, tbh my husband is a very wonderful man and I doubt if men like him still exist. He holds my hands in middle of the night praying for me and my baby, he loved me sincerely. He met me in 100level and waited till I finished school. Anyways after I had a baby he said he wanted me to go to Canada to further my studies. I didn’t want to go because I was thinking of how he would cope without me, he promised to come every quarter and assured me it was for the best.

I left Nigeria in 2023 (April) , his last visit was January 2024, he was preparing to come again in September, however, I got the news of his death July 17th 2024. My whole world came crashing. I didn’t believe it, why did God give me such a wonderful man only to take him away from me suddenly.

For clarity purpose, it’s important to state that he has six children including mine

First child (female) married and resides in Australia
My husband told me that her mother (woman A) had walked out of the marriage because he was poor, saying “she wouldn’t sit down with him in poverty” . They never had a legal marriage. So Woman A left to marry another man.


Woman B, legally married him had four children (two males and two females), I didn’t hear her side of the story and out of respect for her, I’ll just say irreconcilable differences, he decided he couldn’t move on with her and he divorced her. He however left her in their matrimonial house and left her with the water factory which she was running, although he didn’t hand over the documents


I am woman C.

I came home for the funeral, but before I could make it home , Woman A’s daughter has gotten home, gone to my matrimonial home and cleared all documents.

Please note that , no one ever lived with my husband and I in the house apart from my younger brother, Woman A daughter has also never visited the house.

My husband was into properties and he has two schools also (primary and secondary in different locations) .
Durning my stay in Nigeria, Woman A’s daughter (lady A) has conducted herself like a kind person , although I saw red flags but in my state of grief I didn’t think much about them, from Fighting for my husband’s phones , to taking away his SUV, changing security guards at the gate etc. I honestly didn’t see her as a greedy person.

I came back to Canada that same week, she already brought in some lawyers who will handle letter of Administration and help oversee estate matters. Myself and all the children were on the same page till lady A said she wanted to be the sole signatory to the schools account.

I disagreed and suggested that three of us (myself, Lady A and one of woman B children) should sign concurrently alongside on all transactions.

Lady A was so adamant about the signatory issue that she started to throw shades and subtle insults , I stood my ground and it took her lawyer’s intervention before she agreed. Since then I have become lady As enemy.

Guess what?
Lady A in recent development had instructed the security that no one should enter into my matrimonial home without her permission, I sent my brother there on two occasions and he was denied access, I can’t imagine seeking the permission of lady A who is in Australia in her husbands house before entering my own husbands house, a place she has never lived in or visited!! I don’t want this to lead to legal suits here and there, but these people are not so gentle and peaceful, I paid my dues in that house it was uncompleted when I married my husband and I contributed in my own way.
I am not greedy and I’m willing to meet everyone in middle but Nigerians are so terrible, she is in Australia and she knows no one can do these nonsense abroad but they take advantage of gentility.

Madam,
You are here on Nairaland whining while your adversary is already doing things with her lawyers.
Where is your own lawyer?

If you want to claim what is rightfully yours, you must mentally prepared for a long and hard-fought spiritual and legal battle.
Reading what you wrote, you seem timid and afraid. Such attitude is not what is required to step into the lion's den to collect your inheritance.

You must be bold. Get a good lawyer and encumber all the properties and assets first.
Then start the legal process proper, and enter into warfare prayers.

Every family has a strong man. To be the strong man or strong woman, you must unseat the ruling strongman.

Make sure the account is well balanced......Chai!
That one's brain is full of Azul.

Mikespecialone:
The one in black life don see shege

He looks so skinny...like he has not a decent meal in days.

flyinnizam:
some pastors dey enjoy sha.. the new oil well business.

You are free to start your own church.

When your village native doctor asks for goat or cow to do cleansing, won't you buy it sharply?

Well, Okoroemeka has proven he has years of experience because he predicted the spacing issue.

DFPS:
I'm interested in purchasing your entire maize stock and making immediate payment. Currently, I'm buying dried maize, and I assure prompt payment upon delivery.

Please note that I'm a direct buyer, not an agent. My location and warehouse are based in Ilorin, Kwara State. 08062910669

My current buying price is ₦490,000 per tonne.

This fellow must be living on the moon. Maize that is N750,000 per ton. You can go and buy from the bandits. Maybe they will sell to you at that price.

chopnaira:
SE region people overwhelmed the program thereby making it unsustainable. Lagos can't be subsidizing people from different states where they have useless governors that are looting funds.

The program should be made better by allowing only indigenous Omo Ekos to benefit from the program. Letters of Indigenes from Obas should be presented before sale.

Where have you ever seen an Igbo man begging bread?

Why don't you partner with the government by donating N1m to the project? Then bring 19 of your friends to bring N1m each, making a total of N20m?

That can sort out food for one distribution point.

BUT NO!

It is to come here and be ranting!

Not knowing how to cook is not a sufficient reason not to marry a woman, as long as she is teachable and willing to learn.
Then get her to assist your mum a few times and most mothers I know will willingly teach their daughters-in-law. It also promotes bonding.
Cooking can be taught in as little as three months.

I think Malam Ribadu needs to video himself actually driving these routes alone in his car without any security apparatus.

No be by mouth.

blackman007:
I also want to go into poultry farming, but I’ll love to start with 20 birds just to test the waters, how much should I budget for this??

Agrited DOC: half carton (25 chicks) @ 1,350 each: 33,750
Brooding meds: (1 pkt each of coccidiostat, glucose, antibiotics and multivitamin): 8,500
Feed for 6 weeks: 4.2kg X 25 = 105kg. Divide by number of kg per bag (which is 25kg), and you have roughly 4 bags (N97,500)
a) New hope feed for 2 weeks: One bag at N27,000.
b) Topfeed (proline): 3 bags @ 23,500: 70,500. You can augment with 1 or 2 mudus of Ultima if not enough.
Wood shavings for litter: 1 bag @ 1,500.

I assume you already have drinkers and feeders. If you don't, then
- Chick feeder (2 nos) = 2,200 each = 4,400, then adult feeders (metallic) @ 700 each x 3 nos = 2,100. Total of N6,500
- 3 drinkers @ 1,000 each: total of N3,000
- Charcoal for heating: half bag: 4,500
- Charcoal pots: 3,500 X 2 = 7,000

Lysol insecticide for foot disinfection: 3,000 for 1 litre


TOTAL COST: N123,000

Selling price assuming 20% mortality (5 dead out of 25): = 20 nos @ 8,000 - 10,000 = N160,000 - N200,000
Profit: N40,000

Based on your lessons and outcomes, you can scale up. I assume you already have a place to keep them.

Now the man is really angry.

ObosiLandlord:
He might do better than Tinubu is doing.

It is not "might". He will do better. He has a compassionate heart.

CommonSense1967:
Ok

Anyone with an ounce of common sense already know that the whole exercise was to make sure that Tinubu will.lose the election.
The sad part is that pandora pathological liar Obi and Athie fkwu supported this whole charade even though it plunged the country into a complete state of chaos.
The same fools that supported that supported that chaos will now come online and claim that the govt doesn't care about the masses. The question is did they care when people actually died simply because this policy.

You are a pathological liar!

But he partook of the loot.
So what is to say he does not know what happened to the rest?
How are we even sure he took N3k only?

People no dey fear God again. Anyway, he lucky he came back from Golgotha alive. The thieves beside Jesus did not have such an opportunity, even though one of them eventually made it to paradise after confession and repentance.

Na now wey Russia don dey release their main weapons of mass destruction.