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Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
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I work as a systems agronomist at @ICRISAT, Nigeria in Kano. and we have worked extensively over the years and have released improved bio-fortified, early maturing, drought tolerant, striga tolerant, Sorghum, Millet and Groundnut Varieties.
Search up our improved Millet varieties: Chakti and SUPERSOSAT
Sorghum: Samsorg 52, 53 and 54 and Samsorg 49
Groundnut: Samnut 24, 25, 26, 27
No be GMO, na conventional breeding and crop improvement strategies we dey do.
We promote Sustainable Farming
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This is why I hate politics, suffer the opposition with verifiable facts, You can cook up agenda if you want. But Witch-hunting?? Haba! in big 2026?
Which of God’s blessings can I deny!
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Maybe we can start whitewashing "gbọmọgbọmọ" and use the literal meaning and say they are people that help others to carry their children.
And while we're at it, do same for "Asẹwo" also, they must be task collectors helping people to split their money into smaller denominations.
As if you don't understand the context in which the wordAgbero is used anywhere.
Just like when you call someone "Sùbérù", we know it's someone's name but every Yoruba understand the context and meaning when someone calls you that.
Dickson,
I actually learnt you studied law which you don’t practise. Perhaps, the reason why you allowed such a sensational headline by Sahara Reporters to becloud your sense of reasoning, preventing you to know that Agbero is a legitimate job guaranteed by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, just as your profession — the one you abandoned for social media validation.
Now to the point: you referenced a Sahara Reporters’ sensational headline as the premise for your deliberate misrepresentation of Dr. Obafemi Hamzat’s 2020 statement on why no government in a democratic Nigeria, including the government of your home state of Delta, can ban Agbero.
Dr Hamzat’s statement about Agbero was accurate and remains so till date. If you are in doubt, we can actually test the legal grounds of Dr. Hamzat’s claim from your home state or Abia State to see if the court would uphold such impunity.
Agbero is a pseudonym for members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), a legally established trade union that enjoys the same rights and legitimacy as other organisations like the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
It is surprising that a so-called lawyer would expect the government to ban Agbero, a duly registered association. It speaks about the level of your knowledge of law which they said you studied.
The post you quoted obviously referred to common street touts, who take advantage of such situation to extort money from people. They couldn’t have been Agbero because you will never see Agbero harassing non-commercial motorists. Agbero is not the same as ‘street boys’.
For anyone who cares to read Dr. Hamzat’s true statement on Agbero, which Sahara Reporters sensationalised, here are the excerpts from the same Sahara Reporters 👇🏽👇🏽
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Grateful to the ACRESAL team for the support and the opportunity to spend the past few days deliberating on how we can improve livelihoods while building more sustainable ecosystems.
Good conversations, practical ideas, and a shared understanding that the two must go hand in hand. There is still much to do, but conversations like these are a good place to start.
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This answers the question
Every sip contains about 7% alcohol by volume (ABV), assuming the drink is well mixed (which beer, cider, and most alcoholic drinks are).
Let’s calculate laidis:
A drink labeled 7% ABV means 7% of the liquid is pure alcohol, So if you take a small sip, that sip is still about 7% alcohol.
If you drink half the bottle, you’ve consumed about half of the total alcohol in the bottle, If you finish the whole bottle, you’ve consumed all of the alcohol in it.
For example:
A 500 mL bottle at 7% ABV contains about 35 mL of pure alcohol (7% of 500 mL).
A 50 mL sip from that bottle contains about 3.5 mL of pure alcohol.
So the percentage doesn’t “build up” as you drink, it stays the same throughout the bottle. What changes is the total amount of alcohol you’ve consumed as you take more sips
Thank God say you no be angel, so we’re all feeling how it goes.
But will they be sustainable truly?
That’s the exact angle that we are all going to.
Will they bro?
In economics term that we always quote, they will say it takes at least 2 years for a policy to cause a measurable change, have we seen much?
But seriously, I support subsidy removal. My question is, what cushion effect was put in place to protect Nigerians from the immediate shock? What survey was done to understand how much the effect will be?
At least, in our small organization, we do this. Talk less of a nation.
But on the “viable alternative” you mentioned, shebi The IMF and World Bank advised adequate compensatory measures and the government eventually introduced ₦25,000 monthly transfers to 12 million households because of the hardship. Isn’t it audio? Bro! I live in the city and I go to the rural villages and communities, nothing at all..
These things are being politicized.
So if IMF, World Bank and even the government itself recognised the need for cushioning, then the question is not whether alternatives existed. The question is why the cushioning didn’t match the shock.
This could make me go into our agric and development sector that I am in and how subsidy removal is affecting them, what is cushioning them?
we can argue based on politics and I’m sure we may not align on that, but a lot of things need to be put in place.
The 3 top guys handling our finance sector are professionals .. so I still have hope sha
Bro, you really think you’re explaining this to someone who doesn’t understand finance and economic statistics? I def know GDP rebasing is a statistical adjustment, But a rebased GDP can make the economy look larger without Nigerians actually becoming richer or gaining purchasing power.
That’s precisely my point. If GDP is being celebrated while we face higher food, transport and ordinary light costs, then what are we celebrating? After 3 years.
And also, I work directly in the development sector, so I’m talking with facts, not emotions.
And on subsidy, saying it wasn’t sustainable doesn’t erase the negative immediate effects of its removal, that was what I was asking bro. What has the removal gotten us apart from the agenda they're peddling?
Me and You are both in this world na, àbí na angel you bé?
You’re speaking sweet English and still explaining the point @Maliqifeoluwa was making.
You mentioned “policy effects.” Is subsidy removal not itself a policy?
Nobody is arguing that every single price increase in Nigeria was caused by subsidy removal. That would be a stupid argument. Inflation has multiple causes, which is true.
But you cannot remove a major policy intervention from the analysis and then pretend the resulting price shock was simply “inflation.”
Haba now! In May 2023, the average petrol price was ₦238.11/litre. In June 2023, after subsidy removal, it jumped to ₦545.83/litre, a 129.23% increase in one month. Our NBS also recorded average intra-city bus fares jumping from ₦649.59 in May to ₦1,285.41 in June, a 97.88% monthly increase. Intercity fares increased by 42.09%.
What exactly drives the economy in Nigeria, no be fuel? Even the World Bank sef acknowledged that Nigeria’s 2023 inflation was partly driven by the one-off price impact of fuel subsidy removal.
Boss, when you identify “policy effects,” you don’t get to conveniently remove one of the biggest policy shocks Nigeria experienced since 2023.
Subsidy removal did not cause ALL inflation, but subsidy removal DID directly increase petrol prices, which increased transportation and logistics costs and contributed to the broader rise in prices.
Tell me bro, what exactly have we enjoyed since the subsidy removal?
Let’s not also forget that we rebased our economy ooo