₦airaland Forum

baby124:
This is nonsense. Even abroad farmers are subsidized to keep food prices low. They even have tax breaks. This foolish minister of agriculture better know what he is doing. Scarcity of food is the fastest way to bring a government down. No to removal of subsidy on agricultural products.

Subsidy is not placed on fertilizers... dey r suppose 2 B placed on agricultural products nt on agricultural inputs... major farms like otta farm buys million tons of fertilizers and a village farmer is wait 4 cooperative to give him 2 bags 2 plant his 7plots farm land.... Bro calculate we gain frm d subsidy

I am a graduate of agriculture n I can say confidential dat it is a welcome development.... because the farmers d subsidy was meant 4 don't get d fertilizer and d major farmers get 2 buy all d fertilizer n profit frm it.... I tink it is a welcome development.....

Mimi... hypocrisy nairàlanders has any company come out 2 defend d youth as their security workers then the military are on course .... if u have not worked for any security outfit, you would never know how they operate.... idiots

Nairàland n hypocrisy are like 5 n 6.... wear made in Nigeria goods.... is sprite....

I was on my way to see a friend when I ran into this church banner.... It was funny that I had to a pix of it...

Abeg mak una no vex nah my Nokia touch I bin hold 4 hand....lolx

Dat man need deliverance from all the Nigerian pastors

ayzTIGER:
change is gradual process indeed; gradual process from bad to worse. We are in same country and the economy is striking me and you even the ones schooling abroad. Keep on supporting cluelessness gradually while the economy is bleeding profusely

The children of Israel of complained n said Egypt was better...forgetting the promise land was ahead...... Keep complaining n u would not c d promised Nigeria.....

Poure water - to have sex...
Hyper low gp - I too knw
Jako meter - someone dat reads alot
Cement - weakling
You bad scatter - you too much....
I pray oooo - a way of expressing sarcasm....

Keneking:
I hear there are only two streets in Ebonyi.

1. Abakaliki
2. Afikpo

The rest are local government areas

The state had no data on the information released today on NL. I think this state should be turned to grazing site for cattle rearers.

Well because dey r less reported about doesnt mean they don't exist.... Cos u dnt knw d colour of my poooooo doesnot mean it is generally black......

Ebonyi state are made up of majorly farmers......

Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia

Padang is the largest city on the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It is also home to Andalas University. Students make it a mission to attend this university, but just getting to grade school and high school is a challenge. Students in Padang, Sumatra ,Indonesia use a tight rope to cross 30 feet above a river on their walk to school. Balancing themselves on the the rope is a life or death situation that these children face daily.

Bassi Kalan Village , India

Flooding is a common and inconvenient problem in some parts of India. These primary school boys in India carry their school benches to a drier spot after their school was flooded. The school is located in Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu. These impromptu moves cause student to travel far to go to school and is the reason why India has the largest illiterate population in the world.

Lebak, Indonesia

In Lebak, Indonesia children have to cross a suspension bridge to get to school. It gave out only hanging on by one hand rail with many of the planks missing. That did not stop the kids there from going to school. They simply figured out a way to cross the damaged bridge. After pictures like the one above were widely circulated, Indonesia’s largest steel producer, PT Krakatau Steel built a new bridge to ensure that the students crossed safely.

Columbia

In one part of Colombia, kids use an 2625 foot steel cable suspended 1312 feet above the ground, to cross the Rio Negro River on their way to school. This is the worst way for a child to get to school. School Children as young as six grab on to the cables for dear life and shimmy and swing to the other end while carrying their books and backpacks. It is an extreme risky way to get an education.

Cilangkap Village, Indonesia

Students from the Cilangkap Village in Indonesia don’t have a bridge to get over the river to get to school. The school children here have to ride a makeshift bamboo raft to cross the Ciherang River on their way to school. There is only one raft that is used by everyone in the village to get across the river. The raft is just sturdy enough for a few people to get on at a time.

Kosovo

In Kosovo, students have to walk miles and cross the frozen Batllava Lake on their way to school. After weeks of bad weather, students in the village of Orllan are finally able to go to school. However, if they want to get there, they have to cross this frozen lake which is very risky. Temperatures are normally below zero during the winter months adding another element for danger to their journey.

Zhang Jiawan Village, China

In the Zhang Jiawan village in southern China, school children have to scale huge rock using unsecured wooden ladders during their journey to school. The latters are not on an angle and go straight up, making the climb very steep. Children as young as five years of age make the journey to school. The only alternative, the children have is to make a four-hour cross country detour.

Zankar, India

On the eastern half of the Indian state Jammu and Kashmir is the city of Zankar. Zankar is a high altitude semi-desert lying on the Northern flank of the Great Himalayan Range. Children who live here have to battle ice and freezing temperatures as they trek through the mountains on their way to boarding school. Increased tourism here has helped finance schools but the children still have to risk their lives to them.

Kasmiri, India

Children in Kashmiri, India cross a makeshift footbridge built over a stream in India to get to school. The original footbridge was damaged during a storm and has been replaced by planks and tree branches that stretch to the other end of the stream. Children have to cross this bridge going to and coming from school. One wrong step and the children can be swept away in the stream below.

Afghanistan

Afghanistan was not the ideal place to go to school for the past few years. Afghanistan was crawling with U.S. soldiers and Afghan terrorist group have made this country a war zone. That still doesn’t stop children from walking the streets to get to school. Everyday, school children risk their lives to get an education. Some even forfeit their education to join the fight.

Cario, Egypt

In Cairo, Egypt, students have a long journey home. To cut the time it takes to make they trip they hitch a ride on the back of a trucks to get home from school. This isn’t the best way to get to their destination because the drivers sometimes don’t know they are on their car. It can be groups of five or more children on one truck. Their school is located in Ibsheway el-Malaq village in Gharbia governorate, about 103 miles from where they live in the northeast of Cairo.

Toronto Canada
You can see some pretty serious snow storms. Outside of Toronto, two students are dwarfed by power towers, and fight against a powerful winter storm to get to school. Severe winter storms often surprise the residents. Snow storms can dumped up to 50 centimeters of snow. The temperatures, as you can imagine, can get bitterly cold as well. It makes you wonder why they don’t cancel school on days like this.

Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, this group of schoolgirls walk across a plank between the walls of the 16th-century Galle fort everyday to get to school. There is a lack of quality infrastructure and unequal access to education in Sri Lanka. Civil conflict and the 2004 tsunami has made getting an education even tougher. In areas of the island nation, such as the central highlands, it’s common for girls to work long hours for low wages instead of getting a proper education. This results in a serious literacy gap

Shengji county, Bijie city, China

In China, school children have to walk through mountain ranges to get an education. Kids walk in a straight line on an extremely steep cliff to get to Banpo Primary School in China. The school is in Shengji county, Bijie city, in the province of Guizhou and it takes about five hours for the students to get there. The headmaster and math teacher Xu Liangfan leads the kids to the school which is half way up the mountain. The narrow path the students are walking along was carved from cliffs over 40 years ago. It is the only route between Gengguan village, where they live, and the school.

Manila, Philippines

In Manila rain can be a deadly event causing flash floods and destroying poorly build buildings. This makes getting to school very difficult for the children. In this photo students wear rubber boots and use chairs as a makeshift bridge to get to a classroom at their elementary school in the province of Taytay, Rizal . The school grounds were built on a former garbage dump site and have no drainage so it is constantly flooded with water.

For many of us a big part of our childhood is walking to and from school. We have heard the stories of how our parents or grandparents had to walk miles in the snow to get to school. Perhaps some of those tales were embellished just a little bit, but we got the point. A lot of kids these days have the luxury of being driven to school and picked up afterward, whether it is done by mom, dad, a community car pool or the bus provided by the school. In other countries children don’t have the option of being taken to school in a comfortable car. Their journey for education takes them across rivers, lakes, mountains, and busy and dangerous cities.

LordClem:
The only person I don't know in this pic is the guy on the right.

We all are batch B/14 xcorpers oooo ogoja/bansara.... Hw I missed dat place

Due to the case before the code of conduct tribunal against the Senate President, senator bukola saraki, the Senate has moved to amend the code of conduct act.
As the Senate moves to decriminalize corruption by Amending the code of conduct of bureau / tribunal law.
Here is a picture of the bill being proposed...


Source:https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/720814691564593152?s=08

I think the tales of Moses, the Israelites and Egypt is repeating itself...... Do u remember Ed that the same people that wanted to leave egypt... Cry n shouted to be taken back to Egypt.... Remembered that the Egyptians fought back...... We r on the road to our promise land...

Well... avenue for fone moving......n wallet disappearance

Bekwarra:
I served this nation in Cross River state for the mandatory one-year NYSC programme. I passed out on July 2nd 2015 (CR/14B). I served in Bekwarra Local Government Area; two schools located in Akpakpa and later Afrike 1. Being someone that loves travelling and seeing places, I moved around the state and was able to visit 15 of the state's 18 LGAs so I can say I know some things about the state. These are 10 of my observations in the state of The People's Paradise.

1. The people are warm and friendly
Cross Riverians are a warm and friendly people. They are accommodating and drawn to visitors. They are always ready to help you if they see that you are a new face there. This was evident from when we got to the NYSC camp at Obubra. They are always very ready to help and they feel easily drawn to visitors. Someone like me who's always slow and cautious when making friend was able to make a handful of friends in a short period of time. I've been to a few places in Nigeria but the people of Cross River are some of the most friendly.

2. They Are Great Cooks

I once told a friend over phone while still in Cross River that "bro if your life depends on food and you want to marry solely for food, please get a Cross River chick". That Cross River women are good cooks is an understatement. Their girls and women are experts in cooking. Cooking for them comes with ease. They have these tasty and delicious soups gosh they are fantastic. Back in Lagos we are all used to Calabar kitchens and we respect their soups but I'm telling you there is more to their delicacies than Calabar soups. Back in Bekwarra I enjoyed tasty soups like Oturukpa, Akum, groundnut soup and Beniseed soup. It was also in Ogoja that I ate plantain porridge; unripe plantain cooked with palm oil, bitter leaf, crayfish and dry fish. What a delicacy. Whenever you visit Cross River, make sure you eat their local meals. I'll recommend beniseed with akpu. Their akpu is strong and hard jeez; more like something you can use to deworm by stoning the worms inside you to death. I nicknamed one girl fufu pounder due to her dexterity in handling the pestle. Bekwarra people cant do without eating akpu in a day.

3. It's A Largely Rural State

The state is a largely rural state in all ramifications. Apart from Calabar and a few other towns like Ogoja, Ikom and to a lesser extent Akampka and Obudu, Cross River state is largely rural. There's not much on ground in terms of infrastructure, development and economic activities. The government should do more in terms of infrastructure. They should stop concentrating on Calabar and allow development to spread especially to the northern part of the state. For example I don't have verifiable data but I can say that from my observations, Ikeja LG has more banks than the whole state. Successive governments seem to be concentrating development in Calabar which is an impressive and beautiful city already. No hustling in the state, if you are not a farmer then you are a civil servant. There are few economic activities. Even in Calabar, the peeps move to neighbouring states and towns especially PH to hustle. You don't hustle in Calabar, you spend. The city is expensive yet few economic activities happening there afford the people little opportunity to hustle unlike other big cities in Nigeria. For example Calabar is still sleeping by 6am, few people and cars on the road by that time unlike Lagos which is awake and on its feet already by 4am. I once told one of the teachers in my school that you can be caught in traffic in Lagos by 5am and he turned me to a liar. To him it's strange.

4. There's More To The State Than Calabar

So many people see Cross River and Calabar as the same. I used to feel the same until I went there. The state is one of the most diverse in Nigeria with over 33 languages being spoken there. Most people back in Lagos that called me during my service year or chatted with me usually told me "guy I hear say u dey serve for Calabar". I'll only shake my head and smile thinking that "these people don't know I'll spend between 5-6hrs going to Calabar from here". There are other people with culture and languages different from that of the Efik people. There are Bekwarra, Afrike, Ogoja, Yala, Boki, Obubra, Obudu people to mention a few. For example Bekwarra and Afrike people are in the same local government but they have similar but different languages..

5. Agriculture Is A Way of Life
Many outsiders who have never been to the state before see it as a riverine state whose major source of life is fishing. Many people see Cross River as this state of fishermen who love carnivals and festivals. Except the coastal parts of Cross River South and Central, other parts of the state are largely agrarian. They are mostly farmers. They take agriculture seriously and they never joke with it both males and females. Cross Riverian kids are introduced to agriculture at a very early stage. They go to the farm with their parents. If their men are not on the farm making heaps or clearing the bush, they'll be on the palm tree tapping or in the bush hunting. Their women are not left out; they are either planting cassava, peeling cassava and making garri, making palm oil (well refined) or back home preparing akpu and soup. These industrious people love agriculture a lot and this is responsible for cheap food. Food is so cheap and with a little amount, you can eat to your satisfaction with the exception of Calabar obviously. They have food and farm products in abundance and at cheap prices. One of the things I cherish most about them is that they are hard workers. I respect them a lot.
The government still needs to help them a lot in the area of improved seeds, fertilizers, mechanized farming (almost non-existent) and to stem the scourge of Fulani herdsmen (I witnessed a lot of confrontations between the villagers and the nomads)

6. Backward Educationally
This is a general problem in Nigeria. Education in this country is a joke but some states are still better than others. I can't vouch for any northern state but in the context of southern states, education in Cross River still has some catching up to do. I can't say for South East and South South states but placing Cross River state beside South Western states, there is a very big gulf. Education is not really taken serious us here and the government also is not really helping matters in this regard. Their children and parents don't take education serious and the few who do are not encouraged by the government. Majority of schools in the rural parts depend on corp members for staff strength. The quality of education is low and examination malpractice is rampant and encouraged. I can recollect my VP once telling the students to learn how to write fast when note is being dictated because during their external exam nobody will slow down for them when answers are being dictated. The bitter truth is, the state still have a long way to go in terms of education.

7. Calabar Girls Are Not The Real Deal
Whenever you mention Cross River, Calabar comes to mind and merely hearing Calabar, two things come to mind; their soups and girls. Many people do have the erroneous belief that Cali girls are so beautiful, exotic and refined more than any other in the state. Although, Cali girls are more popular and more exposed but when it comes to beauty, I'll unequivocally give it to Ogoja girls especially those of Igoli and Ishibori. They are beautiful in the pure and real sense of it. They are ravishing, homely and naturally beautiful. Worthy of note are also some Bekwarra girls (not many), Ikom, Boki, Obudu and Obubra girls.

8. They Love Burial Ceremonies
This is one of the highlights of many villages. Burial is only second to Christmas. Burial ceremonies are big occasions. Naming and wedding ceremonies are more of rarity but burial ceremonies are the big deal. The whole place is always agog with preparations and they spend a lot on it. They don't like burying their dead outside their villages so they don't mind bringing them in from other parts of the country where they died. Their burials last for weeks or more at times. Although I didn't witness any naming ceremony and only witnessed a single wedding ceremony, I witness lots of burial ceremonies which not only for old people. A 30-year old man's burial will see food being cooked and guests been fed.

9. They Have The Best Palm Wine
One of the things that made me enjoy my stay in Cross River is palm wine. Cross River especially the northern part is a land of palm wine. If you've been there before, you can't but attest to the fact that they have superb palm wine. I'll say it's the best in Nigeria. I had many drunken days there. My students spoilt me with it, my VP being a tapper too was also culpable. They have two varieties; the up one and the down one. The up one is fresher, richer and definitely costlier. It is the one that's tapped from the top of the palm tree. The down one is cheaper but greatly more intoxicating. You get drunk easily while drinking it. It's gotten from palm trees that have already been cut down. You can get the best palm wine in places like Afrike (Bekwarra), Mbube (Ogoja), Okpoma (Yala) and Obudu. They have it in abundance and it is cheap.

10. They love to enjoy themselves. No matter how poor this people are, they still find time to enjoy themselves. They love dancing to a fault and not only that, they are expert dancers. Gosh these people can dance. The way they wiggle their bodies is something else even the small ones among them. They love their ceremonies and most especially new yam festival. The Calabar Carnival is a shining crown on all their festivals. There are lots of other festivals and events to witness in Cross River. Sundays are always bubbling even the most rural villages. People go out to drink, see friends, hold meetings and unwind. In short they love to unwind and enjoy themselves. Their Christianity does not stop them from drinking and making merry.

Other notable observations are that they are generally Christian mostly Catholics and Assemblies of God members, it is a very big state, only Oyo state is bigger in southern Nigeria, there are some parts where you'll have a foot in Nigeria and the other in Cameroun (there are some parts in Lagos state where you won't know whether you are in Lagos or Ogun state, the same is applicable in Cross River), life is serene and generally peaceful, no hold ups, no shouting and cursing and the hustle and bustle of city life, if you've never seen a witch in real life go to some parts of Bekwarra like Ebegang and Anyikang, nature is at its best here with nice scenery.
These are my observations of about a year that I spent in the state. My stay their was enjoyable and fulfilling, a few disappointments and a lot of memorable moments. I'll love to visit the state again. I may be wrong in some of my observations but those are the things I observed as a CrossKopa who served in Bekwarra and was able to visit 15 out of 18LGs. Your views are welcome from both indigenes and non-indigenes.

This post is so right I served in bansara, ogoja. N transport fee to igoli from bansara is close #1000 n I have to go 2 clearance. To clarify us all it was July 5th nt 2nd...
You forget to mention that an average women in cross river is slim shade.... U hardly find a fat woman (calabar nt included).
The average age of having sex is 12 years of age....N early marriage is a norm there.....

I almost redeployed because of ishibori girls...truth to God...

satowind:
U made me laugh so hard inside church that people started looking @ me strangely. I have to rush home pick up my phone log in just to give u like before I forget... Serious if he made u laugh show him some luv I expect more like than what am seeing...
Happy easter...

They r conducting deliverance on me right nw due to how I laff'd n fell on d floor

Lolx..... When I was in the hostel I devise a means of eat my food without interference.... How did I do this?
I eat my food right from the fire..... Wen d fud don dey don I go carry spoon dey chop am directly without bringing the food down...
I once had a roommate then #jarule_baby that ate 1 pack of golden penny spaghetti for 1 full month....everyday throughout the month.... Jisos

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission is moving against those involved in the procurement of fake visas for travellers in the country. A top operative of the commission said the ICPC had arrested over 100 persons involved in the production of fake visas for intending travellers. It was stated that the ICPC was involved in collaborative efforts with the Embassies of the United States, India, South Africa and France to curb the trend. The source said the ICPC had got 18 convictions against some of those behind the visa racket believed to have been tarnishing the image of the country abroad. The source added that the alarming issue of visa scam involved the operators, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and their counterparts in some of the embassies.

source: www.punchng.com/news/icpc-moves-against-visa-racketeering/

tell ur uncle 2 tak her n d family n travel to d village ..... he should Mak sure her atm, fones n sims r destroy after dat he shuld head back to abj alone.....as simple as dat

Kogi state shw allow d igbos do business in Der state n I guarantee development....

heavy fighting and shoting at apapa wharf... this is due to the on-going strike by the tanker drivers... preventing buses from going there and passengers stranded. If you are heading there be very careful...

Remember Adam n eve in d garden of Eden... they had all but just few minute lost of focus they lost all.... remember Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil after fasting 40days... the devil offered what seems real...
I had a friend who was in a condition like your's only to find out that it was only a scam the guy he left his to be husband was just after her punny.... be careful... and use employ your wisdom....

elampiro:

JP Morgan, however, placed Nigeria on what it called ‘Negative Index Watch’ in January this year and warned that currency controls introduced by the CBN were making bond market transactions too complex to meet its rules. http://www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/jpmorgan-investors-lose-n311bn-in-24-hours/
The kind of undergraduates and graduates we have these days. How can any literate person blame Buhari for the mess and harm done to the economy in the last administration? Nigeria refused to save or invest meaningfully when oil price averaged $110. Instead the money was squandered.
If Buhari didn't come everyone would be eating sand now, except those in government and their friends. Oil price is down, and it's only with block of money leakage and refund of looted fund that this current government can even function.

this is really stupid.... my thanks for your observation.... serious buhari critics are just hating..... get a life n look before you limp....

The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and Emir of Kano, Mallam Muhammad Sanusi, on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to plug revenue leakages in the country if he must make headway in its anti- corruption crusade. Sanusi, who maintained that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation had been a drain pipe to the Nigerian economy for a long time, spoke in Lagos at ‘the Federal Government Budget Symposium’ organised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. The emir was the royal father of the day at the event titled “Come Nigeria – The nation’s fiscal challenges and way forward for the new administration.’ He said, “No matter how good your budget is, if you cannot do simple things like track your oil revenue, you cannot meet the basic government’s obligations to the citizens” “Before the government goes borrowing, they need to find out why revenue is so low, given that our GDP is supposed to be high”. he said. He also faulted the NNPC’s swap of crude oil, saying that the country had always been on the losing side in the deal. “Nobody does swaps unless country like Iran when it is under economic sanctions and can’t sell its oil at the international market or may be your crude is of very low quality,” he said. The emir added that country was not actually subsidising the price of petroleum products, it was only hedging it, adding that the oil subsidy was structured in a way that could give a lot of room for manipulation. “Anybody who knows economics knows what subsidy and hedging are. We don’t have subsidy, we have hedge,” he added. According him, there was no way the country could win with this hedging. He wondered how the country’s Gross Domestic Product was said to have gone up after the rebasing of the country when production did not in any way increase. Earlier, the President, ICAN, Samuel Deru, had stated that the ratio of recurrent to capital expenditure at 70:30 was scandalously disproportional. “As a professional body, we strongly believe that the nation’s economy needs surgical and drastic reforms beyond cosmetic privatization of government companies. And this should be begin with plugging of all revenue leakages, revisiting and redefining of our priorities as a nation, slashing of cost of governance (e.g. by reducing Ministries, Departments and Agencies), investing more in capital goods, enforcing fiscal discipline and above all, leveraging our huge natural and human resource endowments to reposition the nation on the path to sustained growth and development,” he said.

The Delta Police Command has confirmed the abduction of a 90-year-old grandmother, Madam Helen Ojeogwu, by gunmen. The command said the woman was abducted from her home at Azungwu quarters, Ogwashi-Uku, in Aniocha South Local Government Area. Its spokesperson, DSP Celestina Kalu, said yesterday that the victim was kidnapped last Monday by a six-man armed gang, which operated in a Mitsubushi L300 bus. She said: “On July 27, at about 9.46 p.m., one Ojeogwu Chike of 24 Umuzu St., Azungwu Quarters, Ogwashi-Uku, reported that one madam Ojeogwu Helen, aged 90 years, has been kidnapped.” Kalu said that upon the receipt of the report, the police dispatched an anti- robbery team to the scene. The spokesperson said that the command had intensified efforts to rescue the victim and arrest the culprits.

www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/90-yr-old-grandmother-kidnapped-in-delta/