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Revealpanda:
Or I could have been born in Luxembourg, USA or Switzerland

Why always the bad place?

Indian and Chinese are doing well in Nigeria. Maybe it is not the country but the people because all Nigerians were born in the USA, and all Americans were born In Nigeria. I guess you will be saying i wish I was born in Nigeria.

Revealpanda:
Countries with president actively looking for solutions to problems.

I really hate Nigeria

Like why in God's name was I born here? 🤢

You could have been born in Sudan or Gaza

kettykin:
I strongly believe AU and ecowas are agents of colonization. They have been hijacked by enemies of Africa. The new AES can h4lp liberate west Africa countries from economic and military bondage. I see hand of China and Russia in this

You should study the history of Togo and the deceitful Gnassingbé Eyadéma and his sons Faure Gnassingbé, Kpatcha Gnassingbé, Gnékélé.

If you think that AU and ECOWAS are agent of colonisation, Togo is it leader.

lexy2014:
Yes...from farms.

1. which "products from Osun, Kwara and Ekiti states" are you referring to?

2. where will the perishable goods you mentioned come from?



3. how can ekiti state automatically "transform into a logistic hub" over night?

4 was there any demand for logistics from farmers osun, kwara and ekiti states?

5. Does ekiti state have farmers who are struggling to get their products to other states?

6. How much agricultural produce does ekiti produce?

7. Ilorin already has an airport. why will those Kwara state now depend on the airport in Ekiti state?

I wouldn't waste my time educating you when Google is your friend. A state should not wait for demand but create an enabling environment that encourages development and infrastructure that will support future demand

Vietnam's economic success is due to a series of reforms that opened the country to global trade and investment. These reforms, known as Doi Moi, began in 1986 and transformed Vietnam from one of the world's poorest countries to a lower-middle-income country.
Key factors in Vietnam's economic success.

Trade integration
Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007 and signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2018.

Foreign direct investment (FDI)
Vietnam adopted policies to encourage FDI, including allowing 100% foreign ownership of manufacturing firms.

Export processing zones (EPZs)
Vietnam established EPZs to offer tax incentives and duty exemptions to foreign firms.

Economic planning and free-market incentives
Doi Moi combined economic planning with free-market incentives to encourage private businesses.

Skilled workforce
Vietnam has a skilled workforce.

Results of Vietnam's economic success
By the late 1990s, poverty was nearly halved.
Vietnam's economy grew at an annual rate of more than 7 percent.
Vietnam has become a middle-income country.
The World Bank forecasts that Vietnam will have strong economic growth in the coming years.

lexy2014:
Yes...from farms.

which "products from Osun, Kwara and Ekiti states" are you referring to?

where will the perishable goods you mentioned come from?



how can ekiti state automatically "transform into a logistic hub" over night?

was there any demand for logistics from farmers osun, kwara and ekiti states?

Does ekiti state have farmers who are struggling to get their products to other states?

How much agricultural produce does ekiti produce?

Ilorin already has an airport. why will those Kwara state now depend on the airport in Ekiti state?

Who said Ekiti state would turn into a logistic hub overnight? You are asking silly questions.

The vision is to transform Ekiti state into a logistic hub, starting with the airport and road network to support integrated transportation. The distance from Ado Ekiti to Ibadan is 3 hr 43 min (191.3 km) via the A122 road network.

You don't wait for demand, and you create the environment for future needs by being the first to attract investors

Every state must start adding value to their people; the culture of FAAC and paying salaries is gone. Can a state attract investors to start manufacturing, agro-processing and farming in your state?

You build the infrastructure and then attract investors.

lexy2014:
It begs the question of where the agricultural products will come from

From farms ?

The state can now transform into a logistic hub to support products from Osun, Kwara and Ekiti states, using air, rail (proposed plan) and roads to move goods and services.

This is why Kenya can export flower and fruits to Europe

Cargo Handling at Eldoret International Airport
The Eldoret International Airport (EIA) has positioned itself as a regional cargo hub. The airport can accommodate medium-size haul planes such as Boeing B767 or Airbus 310. The existing structure can handle 1.5 million passengers, 62,000 tonnes of cargo and 36,000 aircrafts per year.

Cargo Facilities
EIA has two cargo facilities with a capacity to handle 1.2 million tonnes of cargo annually, and a cold storage capacity of 250 metric tonnes. The cargo facilities are Signon Freight Limited and CanKen International.
https://www.kaa.go.ke/cargo-at-eldoret-international/?v=a2e1f137298d

Cargo types handled at Zimbabwean airports
Special cargo: Includes dangerous goods, live animals, pharmaceuticals, perishable cargo, and time and temperature sensitive products
General cargo: Includes retail goods, consumer goods, dry goods, hardware, and textiles
Livestock: Some airports have facilities for handling livestock

Cj4charles:
How many people fly via airplane in Ekiti?? It is not a must that every state in Nigeria should have an airport

Olodo

Read before you write Ekiti State "Agro-Allied International Cargo" Airport,

Cargo airports are used to transport perishable goods by air transport to local and international markets. Nigeria education has destroyed the ability of Gen Z's critical thinking ability

kettykin:
The same people who fought against subsidy removal have now woken up to realistically understand that Goodluck Jonathan economic team led by Ngozi Okonjo iweala was farsighted and right in their decision to remove subsidy 12 years ago.

Why didn't GEJ back his economic team led by Ngozi Okonjo Iweala as Tinubu has backed his economic team?

Notice how Tinubu has supported Oyedele tax reform despite vociferous opposition from the Northern elites.

Leadership is about having a plan and vision; Tinubu has many flaws, such as a bloated government, lack of transparency and recurring expenditures. However, the tax reform policy and removal of subsidies are some of his successes.

Ojuntana:
Where did you get the figure of $10bn borrowing annually for subsidy from? Add to that $18bn annually for forex? Are you sure? Where is Nigeria able to borrow $28bn annually from? I expect you're the lender not so?

Nigeria's lack of financial muscle is due to the corruption of the elites not the unproductivity of the average Nigerian. A study by Chatham House in 2019 found that $582bn has been lost to corruption and mismanagement of Nigeria since indpendence. If that amount alone was saved in a Sovereing Wealth Fund like other resource rich nations do, at 10% returns per annum will easily yield $50bn for us.

Having fewer offspring is not a cure for economic and social malaise. The reason why most Western countries became immigration friendly is due to declining birth rates. It also affects productivity and economic growth in the long run when you have a massive ageing population. You need to put your population to work. That's what countries like China and India are doing not whining about them.

Subsidies was a sure way Nigerians elites exploited the subsidy program and increased corruption. The country imported 77 million barrels when the real number was less than 35 million. The gap between the exchange rate of N450 and N850 benefitted the well connected elites that were virtually printing money.

Nigeria's NNPC spent $10 billion on fuel subsidy in 2022
By Camillus Eboh
January 20, 20236:26 PM GMTUpdated 2 years ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/nigerias-nnpc-spent-10-billion-fuel-subsidy-2022-2023-01-20/

Like oil, the exchange rate was also being subsidized by the government, with an estimated $1.5 billion spent monthly by the CBN to ‘defend’ the currency against the unquenchable demand for the dollar by the country’s import-dependent economy.

https://nairametrics.com/2024/06/17/nigeria-was-spending-1-5-billion-monthly-to-defend-the-naira-before-tinubus-fx-reforms-presidency/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CLike%20oil%2C%20the%20exchange%20rate,the%20country's%20import%2Ddependent%20economy.

Nigeria lost N13tn to forex subsidy in three years — World Bank

Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

October 22, 2024
https://businessday.ng/business-economy/article/nigeria-lost-n13tn-to-forex-subsidy-in-three-years-world-bank/

Olaide1295:

Learn to make your point without insulting others. You don’t have a monopoly over insults.
Now, give an example of a developed economy that subsidises consumption on imported goods

Irony1:
Oga subsidies can be in any form. It could be agricultural subsidies or Energy subsidies. it is up to the government to decide where to subsidize based on the pain points of the citizens. Show me which imported goods apart from petrol that we subsidize? The real kicker is the subsidy can be handled and worked upon well to make corruption difficult.

Oga stop ranting and answer the above question; please provide a list of countries that subsidise consumption over production or borrow (acquire debt) to subsidise a product they can produce.

Nigeria now spends $15 billion per annum paying the interest on debts acquired by the previous governments $10 billion by GEJ and $41 billion by Buhari. How do you expect the government to continue funding fuel subsidies, FX control and debt repayments?

Tolu2024:
Hypocrite
When GEJ wanted to remove the subsidy apc fought against it .

Falana, Sowore and many others opposed the removal of oil subsidies despite a lengthy debate and discussions that included the brilliant Sanusi and Iwealla, who argued for the removal of fuel subsidies and the likes of NLC, Falana, Sowere, Oshimole, and Senator Ben Murray-Bruce that supported keeping fuel subsidies.

GEJ was a weak president who couldn't back his ministers and backed down because he was more interested in being re-elected in 2015. We lost an opportunity to get the country on track.

Ojuntana:
First of all, it is deeply concerning the change in rhetoric that occurs when the teeth of otherwise intelligent and resourceful professional are set on corn. The kind of gibberish that starts to flow is a sign that the corn being offered on a platter is indeed of the fermented stock. It intoxicates the gobbler with a resultant effect that's comparable with that of the famed 40 year whiskey.

That said, I find it insulting to Nigerians and their hardwork and intelligence when people make this silly narratives of fake life or window-dressed realities. This is more so when the people who make these kind of condescending statements are those who have benefited maximally from the society and have not ploughed back what can be said to be commensurate with what they've accrued for themselves from the proverbial cake.

Imagine a situation where a man who after enjoying the benefits of the high office of governor, and while leaving office makes a law that enables him to continue to enjoy the perks of that same office perpetually as if he were still an occupant.

Not only that, choice properties are allocated to him by him. He then turns around to accuse others of living a fake life.

Ditto this particular case as well. A man who was called to rewrite tax laws which will ensure more money goes to the political elites to fund their excesses and lifestyle both in and out of office turns round to accuse others of window dressing their realities.

I make bold to say Nigerians are among the most deprived yet hopeful and hardworking on the surface of the earth.

The average Nigerian has no social infrastructure or welfare system to fall back on in time of crisis save for a strong family structure.

The average Nigerian farmer works with the least of tools. Yet he's been asked to produce crops to feed the populace and export as well.

The average mechanic works with the basic of tools.
Yet he's expected to drive innovation in technology.

Same for the average carpenter bricklayer, tailor etc. No program to empower such hardworking Nigerians exist.

Rather, they are dumped on the lowest rung of the ladder and left alone to climb or drown while getting talked down on if they ask for a reprieve.

The UK spends 25% of its budget on social welfare and infrastructure. In countries like Saudi which are oil producing like Nigeria, home ownership is a right.

Shall we speak of countries like Norway where unemployment benefits sometimes exceed employment income for the citizens.

Nigerian leaders and elites are among the most corrupt and wasteful in the world. Yet, they hardly take responsibility for how the country has turned out on their watch. They are a bunch of greedy taskmasters who believe in being unquestionable and unquestioned.

One day na one day sha

The UK has a productive economy with an annual budget of $700 billion for a population of 67 million.

Nigeria cannot even feed people, resulting in food imports.

The country's budget of $30 billion for 220 million is shocking. Yet, you want the government to continue borrowing from Eurobond at 8% to fund fuel imports of over $10 billion annually and protect the Naira by spending $1.5 per month.

Nigeria must face the reality that 25 years of democracy have failed due to consecutive governments' failure to outline an industrial strategy. Removing Fuel Subsidies and FX is the right decision; now, Nigeria must leverage its oil and gas resources to build a petrochemical and energy industry and increase food production.

The average Nigerian has no social infrastructure or welfare system to fall back on in time of crisis save for a strong family structure.

The average Nigerian can start having fewer offspring, which places a strain on the social infrastructure, educating their children and using the street to protest instead of being priasing as corrupt politicians.

Jagaban2012:
Tell me one Ibo current governor who married outside of their state, and I will campaign for Charles Chinedu Rhodes Vivour.

They are trying to emulate the Fulani who use their daughters to dominate the ruling class of Yoruba. in Kwara and Hausa states.

[quote author=ogugwa1992 post=133807069]

“In Yoruba culture, it is the grandfather if alive, who names the child. That’s why my own father, Justice Akinwumi Rhodes Vivour, named my son Gbadebo”

GRV’s father, Olawale Rhodes-Vivour speaks up in an exclusive Interview. pic.twitter.com/45GzBqXWIZ

— @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) January 20, 2025

is Gbadebo against the use of Yoruba in Lagos schools?

Usefulsense:
Finally, I am now a permanent resident in Australia.

Australian citizenship loading....

Read how I came to Australia in December 2023 at the age of 48.

https://www.nairaland.com/8045088/finally-migrated-australia-age-48

13 months after, my family became permanent resident. It can only be God.

Well done, and congrats,I wish you and your family many more success

Okpokpo09:
This is a sign that Nigerian government will never make this country a better place. That money can be used to build a better company here and employ more graduates and undergraduate. Next will be government paying for flight fees to people going to Mecca etc. Nigeria is a failed state

GetSenseNow:
It's a good idea, what he did. These people will school abroad, some will continue working abroad while others will come back. The ones who remain will be repatriating funds while the ones who come back will improve their state. This is what China did to get to the level they're currently at

What Okpokpo9 just said is beyond your comprehension.

The fact that you are interested in repatriating funds from the UK instead of local industrialisation is shocking. The entire remittance from Nigerians is less than $25 billion less than the potential income of Dangote Refinery and petrochemical company; I imagine if Nigerians had 10 Dangote instead of 1 million Nigeria remitting peanuts.

Stop reasoning like a slave

ada9ja:
I pray the outcome is positive. Nice move

Nothing positive will come from spending government funds to send Nigerians to study abroad. Invest that fund in local industry to benefit all Ebonyi people

blackboy:
This is a good reply. Nigerian media and fake news. Lazy journalism. I can now imagine all the loot linked to Abacha maybe there is more to it or just using his name .

Kola Aluko is her boyfriend, and he made his money through her support.

PressMyButton:
Tinubu needs to be studied as a course, he is very unpredictable so much so, his enemies cannot predict his next moves. All these Governors, rather than learn from Jagaban, they're busy fighting their predecessors.
Show me any projects of Buhari that Tinubu has abandoned?, none. He's going to complete everything and also build his own projects, that's how to build legacy and write your name in gold. Past Presidents have come and cancel projects of their predecessors to score cheap political points. This very project must be completed, we have already obtained loans for it and work is ongoing, it would be foolish to stop it. It is also very important to send a message to the Junta in Nigeria republic that Nigeria is not having any beef with the country. Niger is our little brother, if we use one hand to smack them on the butt, we use the other hand to draw them closer.

What is the status of the Ibadan to Abuja and kaduna to Kano SGR

Bookmaster:
The major problem facing this country is CORRUPTION. This ten-letter word is in every nook and cranny of Nigeria.

The Nigerian government have been working against Nigerians. The attorney general have been involved in all corruption in Nigeria from the Shell/ENI corruption to the Ajaokuta $500 million payout by AGF malami

However, Buhari previously wrote to Lateef Fagbemi , the AGF, in January 2024 denying granting Abubakar Malami, the former AGF, the authority to enter into a $200 million settlement agreement with Sunrise.



The mambilla saga


Obasanjo challenged his former minister of power, Olu Agunloye, to tell Nigerians where he derived the authority to award the contract to Sunrise in 2003.

“When I was president, no minister had the power to approve more than N25 million without express presidential consent. It was impossible for Agunloye to commit my government to a $6 billion project without my permission and I did not give him any permission,” Obasanjo told TheCable.



Agunloye defends himself

However, Agunloye rejected the former president’s accounts on the project, alleging that the Nigerian government was using him as a scapegoat to escape sanction for abandoning contractual agreements on the project.

Agunloye insisted that the contract for the project was duly awarded in 2003 by the Obasanjo’s administration on a Build, Operate, and Transfer basis.

But Buhari’s administration was said to have communicated the decision to cancel the agreement to the promoter of Sunrise Power, Mr. Leno Adesanya, and Mambilla Power in April 2020.

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The Federal High Court in Abuja presided over Justice Inyang Ekwo had stopped the EFCC from prosecuting Adesanya.

Justice Ekwo, in a judgment, also gave an order of mandatory injunction compelling the EFCC to remove Adesanya’s name and photograph from its wanted list.

However, an Appeal Court sitting in Abuja had stayed the execution of the judgment.

Agunloye is currently being prosecuted by the EFCC on seven counts of charges bordering on official corruption and fraudulent award of the $6 billion Mambilla Power Project contract.

Buhari: I refused to approve settlement

Buhari, on his part, denied authorising the settlementagreement of 2020.

“While I understood that my ministers of justice, power and water resources were approached by Sunrise and were engaging with various stakeholders that were involved in the project to resolve the issues blocking the project’s implementation, at no time did I specifically instruct them to enter into and conclude any settlement agreement with Sunrise Power and Transmission Company Limited,” he wrote to Fagbemi.




I only defended myself- Aondoaka

When TheCable first reported that Aondoaaka had agreed to testify against Nigeria, he described the report as “fake news”, insisting he only defended himself because of the “unfounded allegations against me in certain paragraphs 165 and 166” of the country’s statement of defence and counterclaim before the tribunal.

However, he was silent on how he got the details of Nigeria’s claims, given that arbitration filings are strictly confidential and are not to be made available to a third party.

Aondoakaa’s witness statement was a direct response to Nigeria’s brief of argument as he quoted extensively from it — a clear indication that he had access to it.

Also, Aondoakaa was silent on who invited him to make a witness statement if he was indeed not a witness for any party in the arbitration and, therefore, had no right of audience.

But TheCable confirmed that Aondoakaa was listed as a witness by Sunrise Power, which is relying on his witness statement in its brief of argument.

NSK4U:
Before I opened the thread, I knew the region that would elevate such illiterate to where he is. Over there, thuggery and hooliganism is viewed as the only means to assume office. How can a sane person want to share a country with people like that? And not that they don't have learned folks but their penchant to collect 'congo' of rice and vote in empty brains into seats of power questions their formal education... And if you ask him now, he would readily tell you he's an awoist without even knowing the political party Awo belonged when he was alive....... God forbid this kind of thing from my region please.

The man is a member of PO former party PDP

loganx:
We are lost in our identiy as a race.

Why speak english? Is english our mother tongue?
Why is there no provision for us to speak or write in our native language and interpretations done to whoever cannot understand.

In the entire world, to the best of my understanding, nations speak their mother tongue, except africa who adopts their colonialist lingual.

What does that say about Africa as a race, especially black africans?

Look at us here, laughing at him.

Meanwhile, we fight among ourselves internally about who is superior between Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, yet we speak a foreign language and tag one another as inferior if you fall short of speaking english.

Nigeria has 500 languages. Which language should he be using? I bet his presentation would be worse if it was in Pidgin English or Yoruba.

pongwa:
foolish bloggers with defeatist mentality. Is he an English man? Why make a fuss about his inability to speak English?

You are the fool.

If the man claimed he had a national diploma delivered in English, yet he could not present a simple bill in plain English, who would you think was the fool?

Nigeria democracy is riddled with fraudelent law makers that cheated at school and college. Most lack the critical and lateral thinking skills to make rational decisions.

https://orderpaper.ng/voter/candidate?id=ADIGUN-ABASS-ADEKUNLE-3481

Softmirror:
The bolded is the single reason why Nigerians kicked against Jonathan when he wanted to remove subsidy.

GEJ was a coward; he should have removed field subsidies in 2012 and invested in refineries and electricity plant,

planetx:
Is this a result of ignorance, poverty, greed or just low Iq, is the definition of insanity not doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome.

All of the above. Nigerians are breeding stupid people with low IQs due to poor nutrition, education and health care. Foolish people can never learn.

24kmagik:
People de die for this country sha.

Loaded tankers should never move in the day.

Or better still, government should start constructing separate roads for them

The people rush to the tanker to collect free oil. If Nigerians refuse to learn, then they will die, poverty is not an excuse to be stupid.

Telecom companies must provide electricity and import expensive technology to operate their services. Nigerian telecom fees are some of the lowest in the world.

The issue is Nigeria's very low purchasing power.

TimeManager:
Who was the Government in power in Nigeria when she was a 16 year old girl?. Those were the leaders she was referring to.


-Kiss the truth!

All Nigerian governments have been bad and destroyed lives. This is 2025 yet the country has 13000 MW

Deathisreal2024:
At least,
Adjustment as been done,and I can see it favours Lagos,
We move

How does the NGF propose a revised formula of 50 per cent based on equality, 30 per cent on derivation, and 20 per cent based on population favour Lagos.

I wouldn't be surprised if Lagos state goes to court and removes the sharing formal to get 100% derivation

Biggeststar01:
I wrote this in my free time. Pardon my English I’m still a student apropos the language.

“The core foundation of a successful project, like a country, is unity. Unity is a corollary of trust. Trust of the people in the government and vice-versa, trust in institutions and policies, trust in the modus operandi and also the modus vivendi of cultural and political organizations etc. In trust, there is a higher chance of productive alliance and collective goal setting. Trust is a corollary of reliability, or in some milieux, it could be a product of sense of belonging.

This does not need much explanation as it is the status quo in almost every successful homogeneous economic and industrial power house we know of. By and large, we observe how socially homogenous countries grow faster and more efficaciously as opposed to larger, more diverse countries. Now, saying that socioculturally heterogeneous countries are doomed to fail due to their preponderant cultural disparities, would be making a false causation fallacy.

That said, history has records of countries that owe their socioeconomic success to the critical avant-garde decisions in policy making that were unanimous and weren’t thwarted by ethno-based or religiously centered objections. That gets us to our next derivative, likemindedness, in this case, political likemindedness. Likemindedness is an offshoot of cultural homogeneity or shared experience. People who share a tradition and cultural behavior as well as people who have had to experience similar events in the past will probably be more likeminded especially apropos events that are related or similar to what they had experienced together, which is hardly the case with people who barely have anything in common.

That leaves us to our last element, History. History connects the dots. It is what determines the likelihood of future alliances or yet, future conflicts between regions. It doesn’t take much critical thinking to become cognizant of the fact that a country made up of different historically belligerent tribes and cliques that don’t tolerate each other, will hardly ever want to put aside their tribal interests and identities, and work together to benefit the collective interest of the country that is sure to benefit every unit.

This phenomenon is prevalent in both educated and uneducated societies and is not merely a product of lack of exposure or a lack of education on tolerance and respect for differing cultures. It’s simply human nature. Something we evolved with, a quasi tacit manner of behavior and perception of the world and the people in it.

As humans, we all have the proclivity to attach our identities to our tribe, race, religion, country, etc. We also tend to prefer our in-group over the out-groups. We especially don’t like rival out-groups because we find them threatening to our communities’ safe space, especially when we’re being compelled to share the same geopolitical region as the outsiders. This spawns a myriad of obstacles to developing the country.

You can’t force people to work together, especially when they have no reason to trust each other, let alone sacrifice their inherent identities, and replace them with artificial identities.

This keeps constituent sections of the country in a brutal stalemate, where no one wants to be the first to sacrifice their individual clans’ interests for the benefit of the nation. Sure, there are solutions to these problems that don’t involve separating into individual sovereign states, but many will not voluntarily participate in these solutions because it will involve putting aside their tribal identities and embracing a more nationalistic identity, which might even be considered quixotic both a priori and a posteriori.”

-Biggeststar.

Learn how to use paragraphs; I tried to restructure your lengthy article, which is interesting.

Topman7:
You are wrong. It's not an either/or issue.

To achieve large-scale industrial farming, we need to do many things, and we are gradually doing it.

Here's a quick AI rundown of what's needed:

- Infrastructure Investment: Build roads, irrigation systems, and storage facilities.

- Policy Reform: Simplify land acquisition processes and create consistent agricultural policies.

- Access to Financing: Expand credit options through agricultural banks or cooperatives.

- Mechanization Drive: Subsidize machinery and promote local manufacturing of equipment.

- Climate Adaptation: Encourage sustainable farming practices and introduce climate-resilient crops.

- Education and Training: Provide agricultural training programs, especially for youth.

- Value Chain Support: Foster agro-industries to improve processing, packaging, and market access.

Chief,

I am right. small scale farmer cannot deal with the shocks and impact of economic instability, insecurity and climate change. Industrail scale farming has some of the items that you outline in your aI list.


- Infrastructure Investment: Build roads, irrigation systems, and storage facilities.

Nigeria has roads and rail; they must be repaired and maintained instead of building new roads like the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.
Nigeria's irrigation dams and systems have been neglected due to poor maintenance, mismanagement, and policy discontinuity. This has led to floods, environmental damage, and food insecurity.

- Policy Reform: Simplify land acquisition processes and create consistent agricultural policies. The policies are in place the problem is Implementation and management.

- Access to Financing: Expand credit options through agricultural banks or cooperatives. Finance is available, but the corrupt civil servants always mismanage and steal the funds

- Mechanization Drive: Subsidize machinery and promote local equipment manufacturing. Nigeria has non-working steal plants, Aluminium plants and chemical plants

- Climate Adaptation: Encourage sustainable farming practices and introduce climate-resilient crops. We require large-scale farming that integrates R& D, fertiliser, and mechanization. Small-scale farming cannot feed 240 million people.

We are suffering from food shortage because the small scale farmers are now in IDP camps yet Dangote Farm, Olam are still operating.