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garetz:
So far, the impeachment testimony has been a major bust for Democrats. All Dems have been able to show is that they have Trump-hating bureaucrats, who think they are in charge of foreign policy and that the President is there to do their bidding. Not looking good

Trump must be a demi god of sorts. All the bureaucracrats hate him, the FBI hate him, most of his political appointees hate him, the state department hate him, the press hate him, in fact close to 60% of Americans hate him. The only people that love him are his Nazi, white supremacist, evangelical and white male, blue collar rural dwellers and of course Putin. I honestly don't know where to put Nigerians worshippers living in Nigeria.

Anduku:
Summary of Taylor's testimony,

Taylor never met President Trump or talked to his Chief of Staff about any quid pro quo

Zelensky never mentioned anything about any quid pro quo to him.

His testimony is all hearsay of what other people said

And this guy is supposed to be the Democrats star witness

He did not need to meet Trump. All the over 200 US ambassadors do not need to meet Trump. They carry out US foreign policies without day to day interruptions from the president.

President zelensky asked him why the aid was being held up by Trump. He could not answer and no one told him why.

Yes his testimony is mainly hearsay, because he was not involved in the new Ukraine policy as directed by Gulianni. He was left out of the loop.
Afterall, all the people he said he heard are alive, and not one has denied. They would be called to deny or collaborate his hearsay.

Taylor said he is not anybody's witness, he was simply called to testify before the US house as required by law.

Blackfriday:
geezzz.....where do you get your facts from.... Most loved POTUS... His approval rating goes down day by day, even by polls done by Fox.

DNC have ran a major on the RNC since the mid term elections.... gaining entrance in very hot RED states..... Flipped the house...lost the popular vote and will still lose the popular vote next election (though I still think he has chances of winning, still via the college vote) and u say most popular.

Trump have US foreign policy on reck...no body, have almost obliterated all of there strong European Allies.... His work on job creation is certainly good but he doesn't have the persona to be a POTUS.

Bone that thing. Obamas job creation record in the last 3 years was better than Trump's First 3 years. Trump and fox news only have better records in propaganda.

Trump’s job growth falls short of Obama’s last three years

The Labor Department’s revised job count lowered the April 2018 to March 2019 by 501,000. Assuming that the almost 42,000 per month lower number is spread evenly across the 12 months, Trump’s 2018 total of 2.303 million jobs falls short of Obama’s 2014 to 2016 results and essentially matches his 2.302 million for 2013. And 2018 was helped by Trump’s tax cut sugar high.
2011 total: 2.075 million
2012 total: 2.174 million
2013 total: 2.302 million
2014 total: 3.006 million
2015 total: 2.729 million
2016 total: 2.318 million
2017 total: 2.153 million
2018 total: 2.303 million (first year of tax cut)
Past 12 months: 1.782 million
2019 year to date through August: 1.141 million
2019 year to date annualized: 1.711 million
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/09/20/trump-has-created-15-million-fewer-jobs-than-obama/#2a47bd6f27ce

umarshehu58:
He believed you could change.

But a 35yr old person should be praying without somebody's order. He doesn't want his children to end up like you. If you can't pray, how would you tell your children to pray?

Do we muslims do court wedding? I don't know

Can you force someone to pray? Should not prayers come from the heart. The very act of threatening someone to pray, either with divorce or with gun is antithetical to true religion.

nextdoor84:
Please tell this forum the language spoken in Austria!
Make your comparison wisely bro!
All the listed tribes above are all of igboid origin.
Make no mistake about it!

What do you mean by igbo origin? What is the etymology of the word igbo. You guys from abia and Anambra try to define who and what igbo is and coarse all others into your definition of igbo.

So what is igboid origin? What is the origin of igboid origin?

What you guys fail to understand is that people migrate from all over the place. In Nigeria, especially along the rivers Benue and Niger, migration along the river played a crucial role in migration of the tribes.

Quite recently, I use to think that my people, the itsekiris migrated mainly from ijebu, ilaje and Bini, but recently I met a guy who is igala from Benue. He has itsekiri marks, he has itsekiri physical structure and even itsekiri sounding name, but had never been to any itsekiri land. It was later I leant that some itsekiris migrated from Benue along the river niger. Imagine passing all the way from igala, through igboland, through Urhobo land, all the way to warri. That's why it is difficult to label itsekiris as Yoruba, because there are migrations from other areas.
Same with some so called igboid tribes, like Anioma, Ika, egbema, yes there was migration from Igboland, but there was also migrations from other tribes.

Lehksyen4life:
I really feel your pain...Telling you to observe your daily salat is a sign that he loves you darely. And also bear in mind that, your husband is going to be held accountable on the day of judgement if you refused to complete your salat, hence, threatening you with divorce because he doesn't want your accountability to hinder him from entering paradise. Please, try as much as possible to always complete your salat and see how the relationship between you and your husband will be good again as before.

NOTE: My wife to be is also in the same shoes with you, and have been trying to correct her for the past 4 solid years. If by next year and she still continues that way, then, I won't gave choice than to quit the relationship because I would have married her since if not for her stubborness to salat.

Interesting. So you mean that in Islam, the husband will answer for the wife on judgement day?
What happens if she does salat just to please you and stops, say 5 years or 10 years into marriage, will you divorce her?

What happens if in the future any of your children stop doing salat or even converts to Christianity? Will you disown them. Some suggests they should be killed.

Religion seems to be the number one problem of Africa.

zeeprince:
Bro u 4got that saudi,qatar,iran, and others have more muslims than nigeria and even prays more than nigeria and they are not poor nations...in fact ask urself have u ever heard that mecca or madina mosques has ever been empty without anyone praying there ?

Name one Muslim country that is rich as a result of hard work and production and not as a result of relying on oil. If oil should crash today, most Arab countries except UAE to suddenly become poor.

Mecca and medina are tourist attractions that had been attracting millions of tourists for centuries. Other less popular religious tourist sites are Prayagraj in india where over 120 million worshippers converge for the Kumbh Mela, along the river ganges. The Vatican and even Oshogbo along the Osun river for the Osun festival.

The president has no powers to sack the vice president, only the national assembly has that power through impeachment.

According to the constitution the president is not required to transfer power to his Vice, anytime he leaves Nigeria. He is only required to transmit power if he is going on an official holiday or if he is temporarily incapacitated or unavailable. Past presidents did not hand over to their vice anytime they went on foreign trips. In the same vain, I have not seen any governor transmit power to their deputy when the leave their states, even on holidays.

MicroBox:
Comprehend before typing OK..
I said sex is her basic right. If she wants it or show any sign of need, he must give it to her.
He has no right to deprive her that. So stop spewing trash. Women want it more than men most time especially if the spouse knows how to make her happy.
You're just been lazy by running away from religion. Praying five times a day is a big task for some and as such come up with different excuses to justify their laziness

Sex is not a right by for any one male or female. It is a choice, a consensual choice. There is no must. If he does not feel like it, she cannot rape him or divorce him.

It you guys that religion has deleted some of your neurons, sex is not a right.

Lazy running away from religion? Who has religion help? Certainly not China or Japan or even modern day Europe.

Prayer did not make China the second biggest economy in the world, planing and hard work did.

Prayer did not make Saudi Arabia rich, petroleum resources in the ground did, unless you are saying prayer put the oil in the ground.

Prayers did not make Japan rich.

With all the prayers Nigeria does fives times a day, 365 days a year, Nigeria is still one of the poorest countries in the world. In fact the amount of time a community and country wastes in praying correlates to the amount of poverty in such community or country.

Of the top 10 richest persons in the world, over half are atheists.

Prayer (and juju) does not respond to the laws of economy.

Let me add. In my family my wife does all the praying, while I do all the working, and yet it is I thar bring in all the money. If prayer brings in money, she would be a billionaire by now. I often ask her what will happen to the family if I also go to church almost everyday and spend the whole of Friday night in night vigil and unable to function properly on Saturdays? we'll all starve.

dbestuncle:
its not just prayer, it is ur refusal to yield to his instruction that provokes him. he is stingy but loves u.
start to pray regularly n jist us

Loves who? He loves himself. Someone that loves another does not subject the person to psychological and mental torture, just because of a flimsy reason. He has not spoken to her or taken care of her psychological and material needs for 2 years, and you are talking about love.

MicroBox:
Sex is part of her basic right in Islam. The husband is fulfilling his own end of the bargain, both as a Muslim and as a husband but what about her. She spend more time with the kids yet she's is not praying so tell me what kind of example is she to her children.
Stop the crab of saying religion is hypnotism and mind control. if you have been abuse or traumatized by a religious leader before, say it out let council you.
You need a religion to connect to your creator. If you believe Big Bang, then OYO..

Sex is a basic right in Islam, but not a basic right in the constitution. Unless you advocate we jettison the constitution and adopt the sharia as our supreme law.

What happens if she refuses sex, or if she due to one condition or the other can't have sex. Does he rape her or find another woman. Why is sex so crucial to muslim men? I honestly do not understand.

Religion is simply mass hypnotism and mind control. That has been the role of religion throughout recorded history. It's simply a tool used by a selec few to control the masses. How else do you think religious or spiritual leaders can get people to blow up themselves or drink poison?

Forget big bang, forget creator. The most important thing to all living things - plant and animals is survival, and to survive in a less painful manner.

abbey621:
If the OP follows your advice she's bound to end up going from frying pan to fire. Muslims pray 5 times daily because it is commanded by the Almighty not their husband or wife. The fact that the man eats her food and still lays with her shows that he's not after marrying another wife rather he wants her to change. The OP already said he comes from a strong muslim household, this goes to show you where his orientation comes from, a woman with kids will surely influence her kids. The man is thinking about the bigger picture but most women being the emotional creatures that they are can only see the present. Think about it, why would a woman come on Nairaland asking for advice just because her man told her to start acting like a real Muslim? Why would you watch your man keep malice for a whole YEAR and still refuse to adjust? Is she trying to prove stubborness or that she can't obey him? Religion or no religion, one's character cannot be hidden for too long!

That's the problem with Muslims in general and Nigerians as a whole, you want to impose your religion (apart from other views like political and moral views) on others; that's fundamentalism. And it often leads to lots of conflicts, both within the family and nationally ).
This difficult not use to be so during my secondary school days. I went to Catholic school and there were lots of Muslims, there was no single conflict, we were all friends (and still friends today). I did Hsc in sokoto, we easily mixed with Hausa fulaniu muslims with no conflict at all. They attend their prayers, we attended ours, no conflicts whatsoever.

I knew lots of families with Muslim father's and Christian mothers, we felt the love and respect within the family, no conflicts at all.

You should learn that religion is a personal journey, you cannot take any other person with you. It is a personal relationship between you and your god. It should not be between you, another person(s) and God. I for one am not religious, my wife is a pentecostal Christian, we all respect each others views and space. Occasionally I follow her and the children to church to show moral support. That's it. No conflict whatsoever.

As the proverb goes, you can force a horse to the river, but you cannot force the horse to drink. If she had never been a strong muslim praying 5 times a day when he met and married her, what makes him think she would start praying 5 times a day after 5 years of marriage? What's the use if he see her praying 5 times a day, but knows she does not really believe or like praying 5 times a day? It's all to reinforce his believe that he has absolute control over his wife.

You sound like one of those people that peddle hatred. Every issue is looked at from the negative side. An innocent advice by an emir to his people is used to propagate hatred on the Emir. He even absolved the igbos and blamed his people instead. Maybe you would have been happier if he condemn the igbos and absolved his people. Maybe you would be happier if the Kano state indigenes blame igbos for abducting their children and start attacking igbos in kano

FriendNG:
Somebody sent his child to school along the line some unscrupulous elements abducted the child, transformed the child into something else, give him/her a new name and change his religion from Islam to Christianity.

After police rescued children, as a leader you did not share the grievance with parents, neither condemned the act, but all of a sudden you want to jail the parents when you have not jailed the Kidnappers.

What are you talking about here? Maybe you are responding to another thread. In this particular thread, the Emir was responding to children abducted in Kano and found in Onitsha.

As a leader you should try to stop the abduction first, charge the accused to court before you talk about the victims share of blame.

As an Emir, you want him to stop the abduction and charge the accused to court? How? What powers does he have to do that?

Where on earth did you got the information that these 9 kids were Kidnapped while begging on the street? Some were Kidnapped alongside with their mother, they later released the mother and left with the children. Can you call all these as an act of neglect

Where did you get the information that the children were abducted together or individuallyon their way to school? 3 to 5 years old going to school in kano? I thought you guys always insults the northerners for not sending children to school and turning them into almajiris? So now they all go to school?

Please provide links where children were kidnapped with their mothers and the mothers later released.

A child was on his way back home from school and he was abducted & someone tells me it is the parents fault.

If is abroad (USA or UK), it's the parents fault. The police would blame the parent because it's the parents responsibility to ensure the child gets to and from school safely. Social services might even take away the child from the parent due to negligence.
When Madeleine Beth McCann was abducted in Portugal 12 years ago, the parents were arrested by the British Police. Although they were later released due to public outcry, the girl was never found.

Besides, these kidnappings weren't just random, they were well planned and organised. Instead of blaming the victims of this atrocious act, you're blame the community. This is like blaming a rape victim. Just because u are privileged to be a leader by an accident of birth doesn't give u the right to speak so arrogantly.

That's what Emir sanusi has been trying to do. He wants to change the mindset of the average Hausa fulani. He preaches against the almajiris system, he advocates for the education of children, especially the girl child, he preaches against giving birth to children you can't take care of. All these have put him in conflict with the powers that be in the Conservative north.

Indirectly he is giving the abductors an upper hand, because there is not a single sentence where he criminalised the abductors but he criminalised the victims.

I need someone to help me point out a single statement in the entire write-up where the accidental emir condemned the abductors.

*Just 1 is ok*

Here is just 1;

“;I am not saying others are not guilty , I know tomorrow people will start saying I am blaming parents for abduction of their children. I know my statement is always misconstrued. I did not say they are not guilty, but Hausa man himself observed in a proverb that ‘if the fly is stubborn, the candy is sweet’,” the emir said.

arinpe16:
@baby124, He prays regularly and we have kids.
@pharmagba Did you read the post at all? He's the one telling me that I'm not marketable again. As per obedience and humility, don't judge please. You do not know me.
He doesn't set good example for me. He will pray, eat my food, have sex with me and still keep malice with me? Is that what the Qur'an says about religion? We've been together for 5 years and he didn't see it as a big deal. Why is it now that everything good is coming his way, he suddenly start seeing me as being a devil, not marketable and what not.
So, I'll have to pray for him to love me and do his right? Just imagine. He can't even correct me without threatening me with divorce. Is being divorced a disease?

As long as I never wish him bad and I'm trying, he should know I'll get there, but it takes time. So, i ask again, is divorce the answer?

My sister, you have received enlightenment. You have been free from the hypnotism and mind control of religion and want to asset your dignity and freedom as a human being. Religion is a mind control tool to keep you perpetually a slave to others.

The redded quote gets me very angry. He eats your food and have sex with you but still keeps malice with you. That's sadistic. All with the excuse of you don't pray enough. Is he God?

What happens if you refuse him sex, will he rape you or throw you out of the house?

Anyway, you have to realised, you are highly disadvantaged here, because you have kids. He will abandon the children if you dare leave him, and the children will suffer, except of course you make enough money to house, feed and educate them.

That's why I always frown at ladies who feels, their whole existence must depend on a man, and once married, they will not work again for the rest of your life. That's is very precarious position to be.

You cannot assert any degree of freedom or independence without some degree of financial independence, so you have to either get a job or start a business. He can decide to throw you put any minute or take a second wife.

You also need to inform your family what's going on. You family can ask him of his grouse with you. If it's only prayers, then that's easy to accommodate. You can do eye service and form Sister Mary (or sister Mariam) whenever he is around. Most Christians and Muslims pretend anyway. They say in one thing in public and do another when no one is looking. But, if there are other issues, then you have to start preparing for an eventual separation.

Lucasbalo:
You don't know Jack about what you are talking about. It's been proven to be false after extensive investigations but a liar just like a fraudulent pathological lying Trump will always spout his usual junk.

They are suffering from schizophrenia. They take a conspiracy theory or make up one, then elevate it to the level of truth without any basis in reality, meanwhile, the allegations against trump has plenty of evidences, sometimes from his own mouth or tweets, sometimes he had been found culpable by a court and asked to pay fines, but his worshippers would completely remain oblivious to his proven crimes.

Hillary Clinton was grilled by Republican led senate for hours, over her use of private emails. He was also grilled by Comey led FBI in an investigation spanning over 2 years. At the end of the investigations, no crime was commited. Trump on the other hand refused to be questioned during the Muller probe, his lawyers only submitted written answers of mostly " I don't recall" and at the end of the day, although Muller could not find Trump guilty of collusion, he found him guilty of obstruction of Justice. But the justice department had already told him, he can't indict the president, so he did the next best thing of submitting a report to the justice department. The justice department has refused to submit the full report to the congress.

The blue wave sorry tsunami has started early, pence just lost his hometown to the Democrats for the first time in 4 decades. This is a rehearsal for 2020.

DEMOCRATS TAKE CONTROL OF MIKE PENCE'S HOMETOWN FOR FIRST TIME IN NEARLY FOUR DECADES
- https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-columbus-indiana-democrats-gain-control-city-council-1470028

I hope all Trump's Abobakus are preparing to commit suicide.

Lucasbalo:
You are right again. I have seen the evil of racism growing up in Uptown section of Chitown and that's my numero uno problem with Trump. President comes and go but for a 73 year old man to be delighted with dividing a beautiful country along color line is immoral. The fight is not for me but for the little Black and Brown children with fragile psyche. All his a$s lickers here can't even get a US visa because he has signaled to all the US Embassies and Consulates all over the world that Black and Brown people including Muslims should be restricted into coming to US. The racist pig lovers here would have a better chance of obtaining a US visa under Obama or any Democratic president than the Chief Racist in the White House now.

As I said, Trump is master of emotional manipulation, he might not be intelligent academically, but years of being in the media has given him good emotional intelligence. Afterall, the mass media is all about manipulating the masses to take a predetermined action or to buy a product. That's why he always appeals to emotions, and that's why his bases although in the minority are very passionate. They will get violent if Trump prompts them to violence.

To Trump is all power play, that's the most effective way he knows how to grab and hold unto power. He has no loyalty to anyone, not even his wife or family, definitely not the Republican party. Rudi Gulianni is being set up to take the fall for Ukrainegate.

RichDad1:
The guys actually took advantage of the woman greediness and naivety.
Kafi street being the next street to the road popular Ikeja city mall, has just about 3 hotels lots of nightlife.
With the amount of people that patronize the mall and the clubs around , any smart person knows that hotel business is gold mine around there.
He just played a fast one on the old woman in connivance with the agent.

Agreement or not, I don’t think the tenant has any right in modifying the property and converting same without the owners consent.

I trust Lagos State Government, the tenant will be ejected because he might not have the necessary approval to run a hotel business in such environment. Unless he’s someone that knows someone somewhere.

It's very painful Nigerians are so ignorant of the law, that's apart from being very greedy. That's why they can be scammed and taken advantage of. A tenants after taking one flat wants to take another after 6 months, and you just collected cash without asking why he needs another flat. Is he planing to take another wife and house her there?

Then the lady meant to tell us that she did not know of all the renovation works being carried out on her property all these while. She was only interested in money being wired to her account.

It's a very simple case, the woman should just report officially to Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development for illegal conversation of property without approval and the property will be sealed immediately.

If she wants to take procession of her property, then she has to go through the court process.

Lucasbalo:
Spot on my brother. CTPlayer is a classic Nazi infiltrating this tread. He used to call himself Oyinbowithatan and the first day he came on this forum, I called him out with his overt racism and bigotry. How can a guy classified 185million Mexicans as rapist and drug dealers. It was yesterday the same skinhead was ranting about illegal aliens committing many crimes in US. Guess where he get that from ? From the play book of Trump and his Nazi buddies. The foools here that give him his useless likes are not even smart enough to know that the guy loathes them. I can understand the Nazi piece of Basura supporting his comrade in bigotry Trump but for our brothers in Nigeria supporting a vile racist pig named Trump is beyond appaling to me.

That's part of the primitive base human nature, some people hate themselves and their people, they love, worship and adore their oppressors and wish to be like them. Many Jews supported Hitler against their own people. It was Jews pointing out other Jews to the SS to be arrested and taken to concentration camps. Many Nigerians (especially those that hate Nigeria and other nigerians) would support anyone that hate Nigeria and even the black race.

mrvitalis:
What was Jonathan minster of agriculture known for ?

Why was he the most popular minister ?

Akinwunmi Adesina was popular for his fertiliser policy which greatly reduced corruption in fertiliser distribution to farmers and made it available.
No Jonathan minister increased rice yields per hectare.

Okoroawusa:
Which Jonathan?... David's friend?

It must be a mythical Jonathan. A Jonathan with special powers that was able by magic to get 8 ton per hectare of rice, and we were all eating Nigerian rice.

Lucasbalo:
That guy is a Nazi sympathizer and no wonder he love the racist pig Trump.

It's no surprise. Adolf Hitler actually became German leader by popular support and the NAZI party won majority seats at the elections. Trump and Hitler appeal to primitive base emotions of hate, bigotry and looking for scape goats for their failures. Hitler used the Jews as scapegoat, Trump is using immigrants, gays and liberals as scapegoat
They cloak all their hateful actions under nationalism.

Timbuktuo:
The pro-impeachment star witness. Ambassador Taylor's comments. Amb. Taylor gets his 'testimony' from the New York Times. . Anybody that supports this impeachment should be commissioned.

The left want to impeach Trump based on a New York Times article. SMH

You guys are pathetic, in a disposition of well over 200 pages, you bring in one page out of context and use that to discredit the whole disposition.

Ambassador Taylor was a war veteran, a silver star holder and an unblemished diplomatic career of over 30 years. In fact he was brought out of retirement to help handle Ukraine issues, and someone who cannot polish his shoes is insulting his integrity. Even Trump cannot hold a candle to Taylor.

garetz:
We have a “whistleblower” who hates Trump and was fired from the White House for leaking,

And his attorney who talked about starting a “coup” to impeach Donald Trump as far back as 2017

And we are supposed to believe this is legitimate?

What of the memo of the phone call that collaborated all the whistleblower's allegations?

What of the testimony of former Ambassador to Ukraine, ambassador Yovanovitch, who was removed simply because she refused to be used for an illegal operation?

What of the present envoy to Ukraine Kurt volker who also collaborated the whistle blowers allegations?

What of the EU envoy, Gordon Sondland who just 2 days ago admitted to a quid quo pro, thereby collaborating the whistleblower?

What about the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard the actual call with the Ukrainian president and was disturbed by it, thereby reporting it to white house lawyers?

What about the press briefing by mick mulvaney admitting on national TV, that indeed there was a quid quo pro, Ukrainian president investigating Joe Biden for the release of military aid money already approved.

All these people collaborated the whistle blower, unless you are insinuating all these people are working together against trump,

midnighter:
He said he wanted to check her fertility...so what does it mean aside from getting her pregnant?

Which topic were you responding to??

You just comfirmed you were responding to a different thread. This thread says nothing about fertility check. Not everyone reads through all the threads on nairaland.

From the other thread, the poster is even implicating herself further. A guys too the time and expense to do proper introduction, he brought his parents and family to ask for your hand in marriage, your family probably gave him a long list of what to bring apart from a hefty dowery price, and the only one thing he wants, you are doing Virgin Mary. Na only a Joseph go fit marry you.

The issue about getting pregnant can easily be resolved between the both of them in a pillow talk after a hot round of sex. That's how thorny issues are resolved marriage. She could explain why she doesn't want to get pregnant and plead for medical tests instead.

Atlanticfire:
If you guys were not able to agree on something as serious as having a child outside wedlock, then your marriage would have been trouble filled with disagreements.

I think you did the right thing not going the route of being pregnant outside wedlock. How many of the people advising her to get pregnant outside wedlock will be happy to have a pregnant sister outside wedlock?

Who is talking about getting pregnant at all, before we start talking about outside or inside wedlock. You are probably responding to the wrong topic.
In the 21st century, various contraceptives are available to prevent pregnancies, except you are insinuating that women (married or not) must get pregnant after each sexual encounter. Even the simple timing method is very effective.

Op, if you need support for your brother's schooling send me a message, I will give whatever support I can muster.

You don't mean it. Are you saying you do not have any family member, close friend or someone you know in your area that needs support for schooling or other things? Have you been able to help those who ask for your help, before you start begging to help someone who never asked you for it.
I suspect you.

mrvitalis:
Bros ask any rice farmer lost millions to that bird nothing works except eagle which I don't have n can't buy

What is the bird called. How do others countries deal with it?

Blue3k:
No border closures wont increase crop yeilds per hectare. Mechanization does reduces labor cost, increases yeilds and profit. Nigerias rice production comes from more land being cultivated. People were investing in rice before the closure look at the charts. The farmers just couldn't keep up with demand hence all the imports.

The government already offers low rate loans through ABP. Have collateral also reduces risk for private sector investors meaning they wont need to charge as much interest. Only government is willing to lend below inflation rate as they've been doing.

You still do not get it, probably you don't understand economics or you are not a business man. Even if you are a businessman, you are probably a trader.

Machines are very expensive and require huge capital investments. My friend that into rice processing tells me he needs a rice sorter to separate the coloured rice from the white ones, as pure white rice has high value. He said the machine alone cost N8 million from Europe. Now if he borrows N8 million from bank at 25%, how can he pay back principal and interest if he has to contend with cheap smuggled rice?

Accessing government loans is a herculean task and government only provide loans for small scale farmers. Rice processing machines are extremely expensive. The full rice processing machines like boiler, dehusking machine, dryer, destoning machine, polishing machine and sorting machine costs tens of millions each.

In manufacturing and productions, recouping of investment and repayment of loans in the short possible time is the goal. After that goal have been met, the manufacturer reduce price to only reflect running and maintenance costs.

If cheap foreign alternative is available, local industries can never take off. China itself banned imports for 40 years to allow local manufacturers to germinate and expand, even now China strictly regulates imports. (This is one of the beef Trump has with china).

CTPlayer:
He has had a country club there for decades, Mar a Lago. So what is the big deal.

The big deal is he lived in new York for decades without paying state taxes among other alleged crimes. Thr United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is patiently waiting for his immunity to expire to descend on him.

After so many failed promises to release his tax returns, he is running from court to court to prevent it's release. What is he afraid of?

CTPlayer:
The Bidens are the criminals not Trump. People complain about aid to corrupt countries, then a President questions it he is the bad guy lol.

Who are the people that complained? So the only corruption in the whole country is Biden? What exactly is Biden being accused of? If Trump actually want to investigate corruption by US citizens, aren't there agencies given those responsibities and official channels to take?

So what about the killing of Kassoggi, should not Trump hold the Saudi government responsible and withhold any assistance, since Trump is so concerned about corruption in other countries?

Blue3k:
The lack of mechanization adversely effects agricultural industry productivity. Nigeria is only half as productive per hectare as other countries like India. According to their estimates Nigeria could double the productivity. If it did Nigeria wouldn't need to worry about imported rice competition.

The bans don't fix productivity issues with rice farming or agriculture in general. Farmers dont access to credit because they're risky because they dont have collateral. The land isn't theirs most of the time. Getting goods to market is also an issue for many farmers.

The bans will fix productivity issues especially with rice. This is because, with cheap imported smuggled rice, no one will invest in rice farming and processing. Rice farming and processing cannot attract much needed loan. Interest rates in Nigeria hovers between 25 - 30% per annum, how will farmers even pay the principal not to talk about paying the interest, when competing against cheap smuggled rice?

If the ban stays for a while and the investors in the rice business are able to recoup their investments and pay of bank loans, then after, they can reduce price to imported levels. That was how other industries like the telecoms industry grew.

CTPlayer:
Lots of people wanted CP5 dead for that attack, whoever did it. Not racial. Mexicans are the largest drug smugglers in the USA and they are rapists.
‘You Have to Pay With Your Body’: The Hidden Nightmare of Sexual Violence on the Border
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/us/border-rapes-migrant-women.html

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/central-america-migrants-rape_n_5806972

You are a very hate filled person.

You mean to tell me all 130 million Mexicans are drug smugglers and rapist? In that case all 200 million Nigerians are fraudsters, all 30 - 40 million odd igbos are drug dealers, all 100 million odd Muslims in Nigeria are terrorist.

Have any of your relatives been raped by a Mexican? How many Mexican rapist have you encountered?

There is higher rate of crime in the southern border areas not necessarily because Mexicans are evil, but because those areas had a history of lawlessness and violence, remember the old wild wild west.

Your prejudice is worse than Trump's and you have the audacity to call someone else hate filled.