₦airaland Forum

Brooke60:
I believe at one time or another we have all been guilty of making mistakes when we are first starting out. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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However, there are some mistakes that will keep us from growing and attracting our ideal client.
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Here are 3 common mistakes people make when starting a business:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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1. They start a business only because they see what others do and they think they can copy it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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3. They scale too quickly because of the "shiny object" syndrome.

I disagree
Copying other business strategies and improving on them will lead to greater success
Taking time to learn the business in details allows for little failure
Scaling after grasping the knowledge is not a bad idea

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True. But I have seen a lot get together

Overpopulation

OP, don't let me lie to you I cant hold myself for three to four months with no sex. I cant cheat on my wife, so what will you advice me to do?

In the state, it is the governor I.e cases where a governor prevented senators to go for a second term or fought with senators, states like ondo, Kogi, ogun, Kaduna etc.
At federal level it is the senators e.g Kaduna state senators prevented el rufai access to an IMF loan

Serious!

Nice. El Rufai is brilliant hope he doesn't spoil his reputation with careless statement

Thanks for this information

Btruth:
THE PROBLEM WITH US NORTHERNERS

BY NA-ALLAH MUHAMMED ZAGGA

The Yoruba Council of Elders is right that Nigeria's biggest security problems are concentrated in the North and these problems are draining the country's resources. Are the Boko Haram terrorists not Northerners, mainly from the Northeast? Is religious violence not concentrated in the North? Are Muslim fanatics that attack Churches and loot Igbo shops in the name peaceful protests not Northerners? Are these mobs that extra-judicially lynch non-Muslims for alleged blasphemy not Northerners? Do Yoruba Muslims take the laws into their own hands by lynching others for alleged blasphemy? Don't the Southwest have Muslims? Why are they not behaving violently in the name of religion? Why is religious extremism and violence concentrated in the North? Are the violent Fulani bandits not Northerners? If you argue that the violent herdsmen are foreigners, then why are foreigners claiming right to grazing land in Benue State by violent means, which led to introduction of anti grazing laws? Are the notorious ethnic militias that murder children and pregnant women not Northerners?

While the Niger Delta leaders have always played active roles in the achievement of peace by talking their youths out of violence, why have the Borno Elders, the ACF, the Northern Elders Forum and others failed to play any effective role in ending the violence that engulfs the North? These Northern groups are more active in terms of calling for the return of political power to the North and retaining power than in ending the violence for which the region become notorious.

In May 2014, when former President Jonathan offered amnesty to the Boko Haram terrorists, what efforts did these Northern leaders make to give the initiative a fillip? Virtually nothing. Instead, they were accusing Jonathan of being behind Boko Haram to "depopulate" the North for the so-called political advantage.

When the late President Umaru Musa Yar'adua offered amnesty to the Niger Delta militants, the leaders of oil producing region had proved their relevance and influence by persuading their youths out the violent agitations. Not only that, they also persuaded their boys to lay down their arms and they did and peace returned to the region. Instead of giving Jonathan's amnesty offer for Boko Haram a push, Northern leaders were living in denial about the reality of the terror group being a Northern problem, despite the fact that Kanuri boys dominate the membership of the gangs of mass murderers. In fact, some even ridiculously believed that it was a CAN agenda to destroy or eliminate Muslims, despite the fact that Boko Haram suicide bombers were targeting Churches almost every week or day. The so-called Borno Elders were busy playing politics with the issue while the monster was getting stronger and crueller.

The problem with us Northerners is that we don't want to acknowledge the reality of the problem on our hands. We always look for excuses to comfort ourselves, from religious fundamentalism, violent extremism and the menace of the herdsmen. Instead taking a stand against these evil realities.

If you say herdsmen are not Nigerians, why should foreigners claim a right to land in Benue State or anywhere else, and kill farmers that resist their encroachment? There are Fulanis in Mali, Chad, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Niger Republic and other parts of Africa. Why are not engaged in the massacre of the people in those places? If they are obeying the law elsewhere, why are they behaving with impunity in Nigeria?

We should not allow murderers to ruin our peace and peaceful coexistence because of ethnic, cultural, and linguistic affinity. Nobody will come from another place to solve these problems for us. It is our baby, we must deal with it, it is time for action. It is time Northerners spoke with one voice over these evils that have blighted the progress of Northern Nigeria, a region that ranks lowest on the ladder of the development index.

The secret to this is enforce, in any way, quality education

Meeting, shaking or whatever pls curb the violence in the country

Biodun556:
Lagos state alone consumes 600,000 cows perday.

The Fulanis sells cow while Yorubas are the butchers and sellers of beef. There are hundreds of thousands of butchers and beefs sellers spread across major and local markets in Lagos and other parts of the region.

The major source of protain in Nigeria, especially in the South West are beef and milk which Fulanis are the major suppliers.

People castigates Fulanis by calling them different names but send their wives to market to buy beef, they go to buka and order assaulted meat but dont care where these are coming from.

If the Fulanis take their leave, the price of food will rice to more than hundred percent. There will be severe malnutrition and loss of job among butchers and beef sellers.

We must realise the economic importance of the Fulanis and other tribes in Nigeria. Larger percent of the food will consume in Nigeria especially in the South West comes from the North. Beans, rice, spices and other grains are supplied by the Northerners; the Hausas to be precise while the Fulanis supply the beef; our major source of protain.

We must learn how to separate criminals from genuine business men. We must not let politicians create fear and false alarm which does not go beyond their imagination and perception.

Isn't it funny that some people refer to cattle as a mere animal? Yet we consume millions of tonnes of milk and beef daily.

No country in the World take cattle business for granted because of its nutritional and economic value. If RUGA settlement is rejected, our governors should take up the challenge by establishing the likes in the states to stop importation of milk , create employment and tackle food shortages.

It's a shame that we are importing palm oil into the country, if Fulani Herdmen issue is not well addressed, we will start importing beef also.

Importation of palm oil shows how lazy we are in agriculture in the South. The Northerners are the one showing keen interest in farming and we must not toil with their potentials and stop generalising.

Lazy analysis!!!.
Although I do not support stigmatizing a particular ethnic group nonetheless I do not support violence. We don't depend on the cows they breed in the south, most cows we eat in the south is being transported from the north daily.
Most/all red oil we use in Nigeria is being produced in Nigeria the story is changing fast for groundnut and vegetable oil

MYHUBBY:
Op, if you don't want to be unfortunate, do not associate your stupidity with my state. you can't come from Ekiti and reason with your anus. acknowledging a politician, a Muslim fanatics and a tribalist for that matter



wake your brain up and stop this nonsense

The Ekitis took education serious in the past, but things have changed. A lot of okada riders with wonderful waec results shows their result is questionable.
The idea behind this epistle is to remove the superiority mindset over the notherners in this era of globalization.
One of my professors in the university told us that we are no more competing amongst ourselves(students) but against the world. You can see the Indians and Chinese taking over our meagre available jobs

Even if the south is more developed than the north Nigeria is still underdeveloped.

El Rufai is Wrong

By Babafemi Ojudu

I love reading my friend Mallam El Rufai, the governor of Kaduna State. You may not always agree with him. You may not like his style. Some even think he talks too much. But here is a man who is passionate about Nigeria, and about governance. He fears no foe and he says and do what he believes in.

I prefer him to the caterwauling princes who pretend to be concerned about advancing the cause of the people but are always thinking of the next election and the next appointment. These are those a friend of mine refers to as the “kids without the whiz”. They abound in our land, El Rufai is different.

Hence, when El Rufai talks we must pay heed. To this end, I’m worried about the the statement made recently by El Rufai about two Nigerias; one the backward North and second the developing south.

I think he got things wrong and he needs to be quickly corrected. It is very important to correct this assertion so that some non-discerning elements from the South will not start jumping up and dancing. They will not as profoundly delusional as the elephant, who was about to be made king of the jungle where the lion has set a trap with his chief adviser the tortoise on a throne set atop massive hole; a o merin jo ba!

It is a fallacy to say that the south is developing. Every part of Nigeria is at best yearning for development. At worst we have a profound reality, an uneven pace of development across states around which Nigeria has been divided since 1967.

See, it may be high time we stop analyzing Nigeria in the spectrum of North and South protectorates, because that regional divide ceased on January 1, 1914. Nigeria since 1967, has been a nation of states. Some state being lucky every now and then to be blessed with great administrators like Baba Jakande in Lagos or Chief Ajasin in Ondo, or Ahmed Tinubu and his golden team in Lagos in a more recent era.

What becomes obvious on deeper analysis, is that discounting for historical advantages secured between 1952 to 1966 with regional governments in place across Nigeria, what emerges is a nation deeply united in bad governance, poverty index and quality of outcomes.

We have one large underdeveloped country which calls for the attention of all of us be it North or South.

El Rufai assertions may be true some twenty to thirty years ago, with the advantages the South secured in pre-independence governance. I can write a book to put a lie to that assertion now based on the facts known to me.

I have traveled around this country North and South . I have seen things for myself . I am therefore not talking from the prism of someone who sits in Washington and the western capitals and come up with some fake indicators . I know and I can assert that the neglect of many years has come to haunt both the North and the South.

I am from the South West. That part which I know so well is living on past glory. Today education in the Southwest is growing in quantity and not quality. The products rather than portending hope for the future is largely lethal to the health of society. Just go to Facebook and see the quality of the grammar these products of neo-Southwest education propound daily on the platform. It truly will sadden everyone or anyone.

I come from Ekiti which is largely in conventional wisdom regarded as the bastion of education in the Southwest. The myth abroad is that every household can boast of one or two professors. While this may be true in the past, it unfortunately no longer ring true. Here is a state where a governor used to encourage “miracle examination centers” for students, with invigilators bribed to look away so that the students could cheat and top the league table of states.

This produces at the end of the day a high percentage of performance and rating for the state, that is subsequently celebrated by the Governor whose perfunctory attempt at caring is a careless head fake to excellence and perpetual ode to mediocrity!

Now the products of that appalling situation are out of school and are recruited into “yahoo yahoo” and “yahoo plus” as they are called. Parents are now known to look for money to buy laptop for their wards to engage in this despicable business of scam. What a country!

Contrast this with the thousands of students sent out on scholarship by northern governors to some of the good schools abroad yearly,a policy akin to that of China that has made major leap by learning or stealing from the accomplishments of western nations.
So southerners, let no one deceive you that you are developing. You’re living on past glory!

Leave education and go into food production. Or do I say agricultural production. Most of the food consumed in the South today are produced by the North. The youths down here are no longer encouraged to farm. Where there is some modicum of farming going on, it is done by the Igbiras of Kogi, the Igedes Of Benue State and the young farmers from Benin republic. Travel through Benue to any surrounding states you will encounter a gang of youths with cutlasses in hand and hoes hanging on their shoulders joyously heading to farm. Now we have Benue yam, oranges, mango, cashew etc.

Contrast this with a trip from Kabba and go through Ondo or Ekiti and head towards Lagos you will see villages all the way where young and able bodied men are playing table tennis and other sports at 11.00 am or filling pot holes while begging for money from travelers. This cannot be progress

The beef we consume, the tomatoes, the yam, the beans , the water melon, the goats for our pepper soup are grown or reared by peasant farmers and transported to the South for our dinner table.

The average southerner wants an office job, and there are not enough to go around! In vast areas of our land, young people roam the streets with half bottle filled up with codeine and hard drugs, when they grow despondent and dangerously educated.

In the past four years there has been a near revolution in the agricultural production and processing in the North. The landscape of Kebbi, Kano, Jigawa, Sokoto and many other northern states have been turned to huge plantations of wheat , rice, and sugar cane. This is being followed up with huge processing plants put in place by the private sector in collaboration with the Central Bank.

These programs were on willing state, willing partner basis. After all, the CBN Governor is Igbo and we cannot claim discrimination. Over three hundred billion has been disbursed through Anchor Borrower Program and NIRSAL was originally capitalized to the tune of $500 million to work with states that have leadership and capacity to engage.

Jigawa is going heavily into the red goat rearing with the goal of processing their hides for the consumption of the world animal skin market which has hitherto been dominated by Morocco. Cash trees are being planted by the forward looking governor of Jigawa who has seen that the market for both hard and soft wood in China is limitless. He got the idea when he attended a meeting where deforestation and illegal lumbering was discussed. Instead of digging in against loggers, he volunteered to plant more trees for collective prosperity!

In Kaduna where Governor El Rufai governs, the biggest animal feed plant in Africa was commissioned two years ago. Just imagine the spin-off effect on grain farmers across the North. In Healthcare, his state has been the largest recipient of aid from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as the Kaduna’s primary healthcare system is being transformed.

This is even as only a small glitch which will soon be resolved will ensure Kaduna state get the cheapest ever loan from World Bank to transform her schools. Of course, this is after the Governor bravely reformed the school system by sacking fake teachers and employing more real ones!

El Rufai knows the truth. He is too clever not to. I think he may be saying what he said to ginger his brother governors to do more for their people or at best humoring our people for political advantage. Least of course and very unlikely was that he sought to lure the South of the country to a false sense of accomplishment.

For four years the Buhari administration advertised her anchor borrower program in agriculture. Let us ask how many southern governors took advantage of this program? The ministry of agriculture under the same government came up with a cocoa farm renewal program. No enthusiasm was shown to it. Instead we had a fellow, whose best idea was to cultivate marijuana for export. Good luck.

A friend of mine visited a government agent in charge of this last week. What he told him was depressing. “Why are your government so disinterested in this program that would have been of benefit to your people?”, was the question he raised that requires answers from our governors.

Travel around the South and see the army of youths who are unemployed. Yes there are similar army in the North as well but the values even in their deprivation is different. Northern unemployment numbers are also seasonal according to NIBSS, rising in the dry season due to lack of irrigable lands. That is not even going to last forever, as various programs to revive the River Basins are ongoing and the employment number up North will stabilize.

I have journeyed around the country with people of power. Wherever we have been we have been mobbed by this youths. While the Northern variants of it shout “Sai Baba”, the South variants shout, “give us the money”. Their eyes are bloodshot , their teeth discolored and reeking of the smell of drugs , enough to get you high. Their sense of entitlement is legendary. When you try to pacify them by offering them the change in your pocket they throw it back at you saying “ this is not our money “. Before you know it they are throwing rocks at your convoy. This was my experience as we travelled around the Southwest during the last election. I was ashamed.

Yet our governors live in affluence, appointing several assistants with no defined or productive functions. All they are after is making money from government. This for me is not an indicator of development. We have too many gods rather than governors. This may not be pleasant to some of my friends who are governors. My apologies. I am saying this because it time we must say the truth to ourselves. It is kidnapping and banditry we are seeing now. If we don’t take actions rebellion may knock on the door.

Young men and women who should be employed after half baked Education are unemployable. Even after massive cheating schemes, Southwest states still continue to underperform in standardized tests done in Nigeria. At last count, Abia and Anambra led in 2018 while Oyo, Osun and Ogun were below National Average. Add to the fact that the gap in education is inevitably closing. While in 1990, the North had 14 universities, the South had 27. Today that number is 58 and 102 respectively. This is a 414% versus a 370% improvement. Slowly but surely.

In poverty ranking, while the impact of a more diversified economy is felt in lower poverty rates, the Southwest especially continue to house the highest numbers of the urban poor who continue to depend on welfare from remittances to stay afloat. Poverty better measured in the number of people living their best life will reveal a very different measure I suppose.

In the ease of doing business category that measures current governance, Kaduna was the leader, followed by Enugu while Southwestern states lagged behind at last 10 position with Oyo and Osun struggling for last position with Nasarawa. It is horrible. It is bad. Our Governors are now Demi-gods. They will rather do business with themselves, the Lebanese, than with Nigerians, and have infused the system with frustrated businessmen who rather take their monies elsewhere.

Truth is, a fair comparison will reveal that we are jostling for position among laggards. Let our governors, both in the North and the South, come up and reassess themselves and govern in the true sense of the word. The accoutrements of power is so much than the responsibility. They should begin to do away with the meretricious and opt for the things that will uplift their people. They should not abandon their role to the omnibus Federal Government .

Nigeria as a whole cries for development not a part as expostulated by my dear friend Governor El Rufai. The devil is in the details. We must rise up and demand good governance across board.

Senator Babafemi Ojudu is the former Special Adviser Political Matters to the President , and aide to His Excellency, Vice President

StrikeBack:
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Lol
That is disrespectful

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I bought your seed but the yield was low.
After doing all the necessary things

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Asiri abo, Illaro through Owode

There is nothing special there.
Have been there

Can't I find a 100cm spacing

How much are your connectors, punch, main hose and main hose caps?
These I need in pieces cos my farm is less than 1 acre

MONIKERREVEALER:
stop conflating the issues here young man!

the op never mentioned hating moslems. what he said is that he is not comfortable with the wearing of hijabs by moslem students to schools!

we all know how hijab wearing suicide bombers operate in the north blowing up markets, mosques, weddings and what have you. most southerners do not want to have hijab wearing pupils and students schooling in the same environment with our kids!!!

why can't you "pious" moslems just divide the shiithole so that we "kaffirs" can leave you guys alone in peace to practice your religion to the fullest!!!

anyways, the international interventionist invaders are soon coming to the shiithole to tear zoogeria to pieces and we, the great easterners, are SOO gone from the shiithole ASAP, AMEN!!!

I know the tone the op used and I know yours too.
Unfortunately these are public schools open to the citizenry or inhabitant of Edo state, if a tag is to be given it has to be given to everybody. They are not second class citizens and they have the same right as you.
Again, these madness started from south-west because they are largely the drivers of Pentecostal churches in Nigeria. The tolerance of Pentecostal churches towards other religions is different from the orthodox churches i.e burning of shrines, destruction of idols, islam etc.
Yes, some places with large percentage of population of Muslims are also not tolerant of other religions.

I never mentioned that the op hated Muslims but I guessed you figured it out from his message. And again Edo state does not have problem with Muslims, please dont start that madness in Edo

Donmedra:
I hate when I see any of them wearing their hijabs, I thought western education is haram to Muslims? So why disobey your Mohammed?.

In my opinion, Muslims in Edo state should be given a tag to identify them if they want to school in my state

I doubt if you're from Edo state cos Edo has very large percentage of Muslims moreover religion is not an issue in Edo.
I guess you attend some of these new Pentecostal churches, their level of tolerance and ignorance of islam is very bad

waali:
The Igalas dominates Adankolo and Ganaja area.

I think the area around Barracks is dominated by the Ebiras. If I may ask, are you calling the Nupes Bassange (Bassa)? The Bassa people are mixed with the Hausas living in Kabawa and that old market side.

The thing is, you really can't tell. Bassa people are seen as Hausas too because they speak the language.

As we were told. The Hausas currently living in Lokoja are descendants of exiled kings who opposed the Europeans directives during the colonial rule.

Yeah the bassa are seen as hausas.

schoolboij:
Is lokoja contiguous to igala land?

I think Ganaja is an igala land, am not too sure. If yes then Ganaja shares boundary with lokoja

ChristianNorth:
Igala Kingdom was founded in the 7th century, so what makes them yoruboid? A son can never give birth to his father nah.

Yoruboid is different from being yoruba. Yoruboid is about their language tones.
Just like if nupe and gwari people speak you will think it is the same language.
If igala and yoruba people speaks you will notice there are similarities

waali:
Your research is faulty to me. Federal University Lokoja have had only one past VC and the man is from Katsina. The current is from Plateau. Can you name other places aside Felele? Kabawa, Adankolo, Ganaja, Zangon Daji, Lokongoma and the Lokoja itself are not Yoruba names. Mount Pati is coined from the Bassange. The rivers don't sound Yoruba.

Except if I missed something, The Bassange were the settlers the white met.

Talking about the Fulokoja profs. It is expected. They are the most schooled. I still doubt your statistics about the general staffing sha.

Don't do research on FB, do research on Google or better still come over to Lokoja and see for yourself.

Yeah, this is what I observed when I was in lokoja. Felele area is dominated by yorubas. I was told that is where the oworo land stopped.
But other areas is mixed with different ethnic group.
As usual in every big towns/cities there are sabo areas dominated by hausas and their presence is well felt.
From Ganaja junction to Ganaja is dominated by igalas
I have not been to any where dominated by ebira, nupes in lokoja
If the yorubas will have to lay claim to lokoja it will only end in felele.
From kabba-obajana-felele in lokoja are homes to oworos and okuns

N.B
Some oworos claim they are not yorubas

The rate at which Ibadan, Kano and Enugu were developing was thwarted by introduction of unitary government. Despite this, I will say only few cities in south can compete with Ibadan economically and it only behind Kano and Kaduna in the north

lordkush:
northerners weaponise over population. with the aim of attaining political dominion.


But na themselves them dey do. bokoharam hasn't even started with them yet. soon even the elites won't be able to stay in that north.


bokoharam will never enter the better South. ( the 2 geopolitical zones without Islam)



soooooooo. let them kill themselves. besides I use them as cheap labour y should i complain

S/S has 5-10% proud muslims
SW has 50-55% proud Muslims

Lagos is the best city in South and it has close to 55% Muslims.

Oil rich Warri has up to 15% Muslims

Define your better south?

People should not drag minority tribes into yoruba vs igbo cold war!.

Minority tribes are the real tribes holding Nigeria together
Taraba loves visitors

Truth be told, the minority tribes are not as tribal as the majority- hausa, igbo and yoruba.
But they still hold little grudges against the majority due to their overbearing influence.

Dont drag taraba people into your tribal bigotry. Taraba people does not love igbo more than yoruba neither do they love yoruba more than igbo

Excaperx:
80% of Edo people prefer Igbo people to Yoruba's

80%? Lol
You mean Edo?.
Let start with the oba, did he pay visit to any king in ibo land?
What of the yoruboid part of edo?
Afemai region having Muslims feels more at home with egbira, hausas and yoruba than ibos.

I notice that the hatred btw ibos and yorubas are only limited to those in cities.

Villagers in both tribes doesn't care