This is an interesting read... As for the graph, Nigeria has now opened its borders. The unceremonious termination of that process begs the question of why the FG started it in the first place. Meanwhile, nothing was achieved by it!
As for the migration crisis, I believe nothing will change until people have a reason to believe once again in the country. In 1999, we saw a lot of reverse migration because of the re-advent of democracy. 23 years after, democracy hasn't delivered its promises.
Only an inspirational leadership with an aspirational vision and a compelling articulation can do a re-1999.
There is some rice at home, but it was likely smuggled in. What we aren’t paying attention to is what else these smugglers bring in, raise capital to buy and how that affects our security. We are burning the house down in every imaginable way because of a wild dream of rice sufficiency. That’s truly insane
I feel like the wave is very politically motivated. There was a wave of Europe by road? Remember that people no longer find that attractive because they could stay back and achieve things.
These days, people would rather take similar risks to leave the shores of the country but it isn’t cheap which leaves me to say that, the costs don’t matter anymore. For a lot of people, it has to be done, for some of us with political aspirations, we hope to fulfil this before Nigeria ends us
I'm surprised at myself for being surprised at the gap between the amount of rice we demand and the amount of rice produced. Something definitely has to be done to make production and local supply more seamless. I'll love to know what you think can be done.
We are consuming more rice but domestic production isn't keeping up with the rising demand. Makes the border closure policy look a lot more ridiculous. One would have thought the FG would be a lot more concerned with fixing the bottlenecks in the production pipeline like the nonexistent storage and transport infrastructure before considering shutting the borders.
a quick look at this graph shows that there's a large market for agric produce in Nigeria but a friend in agric investment assures me that this gap is because getting into the sector and making returns is no childs play
This is an interesting read... As for the graph, Nigeria has now opened its borders. The unceremonious termination of that process begs the question of why the FG started it in the first place. Meanwhile, nothing was achieved by it!
As for the migration crisis, I believe nothing will change until people have a reason to believe once again in the country. In 1999, we saw a lot of reverse migration because of the re-advent of democracy. 23 years after, democracy hasn't delivered its promises.
Only an inspirational leadership with an aspirational vision and a compelling articulation can do a re-1999.
There is some rice at home, but it was likely smuggled in. What we aren’t paying attention to is what else these smugglers bring in, raise capital to buy and how that affects our security. We are burning the house down in every imaginable way because of a wild dream of rice sufficiency. That’s truly insane
This is a very interesting read.
I feel like the wave is very politically motivated. There was a wave of Europe by road? Remember that people no longer find that attractive because they could stay back and achieve things.
These days, people would rather take similar risks to leave the shores of the country but it isn’t cheap which leaves me to say that, the costs don’t matter anymore. For a lot of people, it has to be done, for some of us with political aspirations, we hope to fulfil this before Nigeria ends us
I'm surprised at myself for being surprised at the gap between the amount of rice we demand and the amount of rice produced. Something definitely has to be done to make production and local supply more seamless. I'll love to know what you think can be done.
We are consuming more rice but domestic production isn't keeping up with the rising demand. Makes the border closure policy look a lot more ridiculous. One would have thought the FG would be a lot more concerned with fixing the bottlenecks in the production pipeline like the nonexistent storage and transport infrastructure before considering shutting the borders.
a quick look at this graph shows that there's a large market for agric produce in Nigeria but a friend in agric investment assures me that this gap is because getting into the sector and making returns is no childs play