EXCEPT FOR A CURSE THERE IS NO SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION FOR HUNGER IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA.

There is no scientific explanation for a region where seasons are normally predictable; where sun shine in its own period and rain falls in due season to be in this state. There is no scientific explanation for a region where you can throw a seed of mango randomly beside the road, and in years to come, without anyone grooming the seed, one would find out the seed have grown to become another mango tree to lack food!

No war, no natural disasters(earthquakes, tsunamis volcanic eruptions etc), yet my people are complaining of hunger! How do we explain a people living in plain fertile land complain of hunger? What kind of disaster is ours?

Curse is the only explanation. Experts in philosophy have conducted thorough research ere this conclusion was reached.

Our curse must be cured.

Away from that, we must not be hypocritical about what food items should be. For instance, we want to show people we are eating corn flakes(processed Zea mays-var avarta cum sacharrata), we despise eating whole unprocessed corn! Is that not funny?

In the same vein, we despise garri and yam and turn foreign rice to our staple( we have forgotten that garri is not less carbohydrate than rice.)

Dear friends, I must be emphatic that there are seven classes of food. Carbohydrate (Cn[H20]2n ) is one and it is the prime energy giving food. So if rice and garri become expensive we can shift to corns. Let me tell you authoritatively that unprocessed corns contain proteins(don't be suprised), fats ,minerals, vitamins, fibres and even anti-oxidants in sufficient quantities for us to survive this period of transition.

Foreign rice are polished and contain less fibres than required by the body.

Be those as they might, how did rice which used to be a delicacy wriggle it's way up to become our staple?! Like my friend Oga Sabinus Sabinus TV would say 'nor be juju be that?'

In Ikale for instance, we ate pupuru. They eat pounded yam in Ekiti, how did rice come in all the way from Thailand and supplant these?

It happened because Nigeria is a country of 220million people who refuse to grow their own food. The resultant effect of unidirectional food importation(esp. rice)on our fragile economy is better imagined.

Plants pre-exist animals. Even Solomon in his glory is not as adorned as they are. Jesus Christ spoke about this in the Bible(Matthew 6:29 and Luke 12:27). I have grown to learn from plants and fall in love with Nature through them.

A couple of years back( lest we forget), we were studying Nitrogen Fixation in leguminous( proteinous) plants in mutualism with Azotobacter, Rhizopous and couple of other microbes. Man is yet to synthesize their own food from the abundance of the atmosphere as the plants are doing. A feat plants have achieved. Man is still busy waging wars against themselves.(It's not funny)

Carbohydrates( hydrated Carbon) is being synthesized in by green plants using the minute(0.04%)carbon IV oxide they find in the atmosphere.
So plants provide food for us so that we can later be eaten by them when we die...

So plants are wiser. They don't complain to anyone about food. They simply make use of what obtains to achieve what they want: food and perpetuity...

Coming to the main track, there is hunger in the land. Yes, there is. There shouldn't be. Our hunger stemmed from our hypocrisy. We place premium on certain food items thereby distancing foods away from what it is

I must thank Ikale people of predominantly Ondo South, Nigeria for making púpúrú, their staple, now of international standard. Dear Ikale people there are some of your staples that are now going extinct.
For instance ìpére(dwarf snail)and òkùkù are going extinct. There should be a way of rearing ìpére and òkùkù to a commercial scale.

Are we waiting for Chinese to come and teach us how? I bet it with you if China should get hold of them within months they will start exporting them back to us.

I want to see fried ìpére in the supermarkets, please.

Closing, there is hunger in the land. There shouldn't be. I implore us to plough the economic hours we waste on mountains praying for food back into the "art of ploughing the land" to plant crops and rear animals. I believe the president H E Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not the one to do that for us. He only owes us the conducive milieu.

God bless Nigeria 🌹

Ọ̀gbẹ́ni Bíọ́dún Ọjà
Honew Dew Estate,
Alagbaka, Akure
Nigeria.

Cc: Mynd44

Sapasenator:
Nope, why do you think poor people have the most kids.

Do poor people have frequent sex? Does frequent sex equate more children?

Hunger affects everything.

Dear President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu ,

WHY? HARVARD'S ECONOMIC THEORIES ARE NOT WORKING FOR AFRICA, DEAR PRESIDENT.

I consider myself honoured to have your audience via this letter. History will not forgive me if I know what to do to place Nigeria on a higher pedestal and I refuse to add my voice.

Sir, I didn't study economics at the university. I studied Biochemistry and later Management. I studied Film Producing and Production Management and recently I studied Graphics Design. I have been working in the banking sector since January 2006.

Sir, may I amuse you that no matter the promotion I've gotten while risking and rising through the ranks I never got to earn a thousand dollars per month up till this moment. I penned down and retired on April 30, 2022 to commence contractual banking in order to have more freedom to participate in the Nigeria Project.

I witnessed the economic conditions of the common man deteriorate over the years.

Dear Sir, the country is tough for the common man. That notwithstanding, I believe in you sir, I believe in your ability to turn things around.

Sir, permit me to talk about the economy. As laid down in the books, the IMF's and the World Bank's procedures are not working in Nigeria...

Sir, you don't need to sack your economic team, you need to intervene in what they are doing. We need to abort the norms and go in the opposite direction.

We need to think outside the box.

There is excess liquidity in the system. To curb inflation, CBN has to increase the cash reserve ratio(CRR) and raise the monetary policy rate(MPR) on monthly basis.

Venture capitalists are buying government issued bond at around 20% per annum(p.a) while the masses groan in pain and are denied access to credit due to exhorbitant lending rate(now over 30%) p.a.

Dear President, I am practicing in the field of Nigeria's Economy and I can reveal to you that Harvard's economic theories are not working in Nigeria.Why? Economics is a behavioural science.(Nigerians are not Americans or Europeans). We are a different set of people.

Dear President, industries are dying! The land is becoming desolate!

Dear President, I cannot lie to you because I aspire to be president of this country one day.

Sir, here are my(informed)thoughts and observations on the economy:

1) There is excess liquidity in the system(true).

2)These liquidities are in the hands of few individuals.

3)These individuals will rather buy government bonds at delicious rates than invest in the real sector( low risk investments)

4) For this reason, they would rather not invest in building new industry. They will invest in Treasury Bills which is a government organized ponzi scheme( in my own opinion)

(Sir, if you see new mega viable industries around they are mainly owned by the foreigners, especially Chinese)

Sir having identified this challenge(s), I will like to provide the panaceas( as it seems to me):

1) Let us fix lending rate to maximum of 9%

2) The Treasury bill rates goes down to <=5%.

3)Investor pull out of the of government issued bond and invest in building industries for our graduate to find places to work.

4) Jobs becomes available to all and sundry, while government rakes in revenue in terms of taxes and levies rather than borrowing.

These are my thoughts. You may wish to kindly give experts these opinions for perusal sir.

Dear President, the prosperity of the most populous black country lies on your shoulders...the fate of the teeming Nigeria's populace lies in our hands. The future responds to our actions today. Please give my proposal a thought.

Please accept my assurances of continuous loyalty sir. I shall write to you again if the occasion demands.

God bless you. God bless Nigeria.

Sincerely yours,

Ọ̀gbẹ́ni Bíọ́dún Ọjà
HoneyDew Estate,
Alagbaka,
Akure,
Nigeria.

The university system should be able to generate their own power

That is not true. Unilever lost out to competition

Nigeria are becoming wiser. A time will come when they will realize religion is a scam

Mimiko ruined the economy of Ondo State with his style of politics. He should just keep quiet please

Look at you.

Funny 🤣

Why invite NLC to subsidy removal meeting? NLC and TUC can demand for wage increase...There is a huge volume of workforce contributing to the nation's GDP who belongs to no trade unions. There should be wages and salaries increase across board. That is all

Noted

Living in UK? For what?

@Seun
@Mynnd44
@Lalasticlala

Please moderate and push to FP.

Regards

Benin Electricity Distribution Company has appointed Dr Deolu Ijose as the new Managing Director.

Dr Deolu Ijose, is a first class graduate of Accounting from University of Lagos. A combination of erudition with focus, Dr Deolu retired from banking as a general manager/regional head of UBA, SouthWest where he served between May 2007 and July 2013 before joining Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company as the Chief Commercial Officer CCO in May 2015.

Upon retiring recently from IBEDC, he got appointed to the board of BEDC, before his appointment as the substantive Managing Director.

He is a fellow of the institute of chartered accountant of Nigeria (FCA). He also schooled in several schools in the United States of America.

About Dr Deolu Ijose:
"A highly dedicated, enterprising, innovative, self-motivated, performance driven/analytical FIRST CLASS professional with exemplary Business Development/ Relationship Management/ Treasury Management/ Turnaround Management skills.

Deolu is a FIRST CLASS Graduate of Accounting from the University of Lagos and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He also attended skilled/ professional training programs at WHARTON BUSINESS SCHOOL (University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia, USA), COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL, NY, USA among others.(Source: Linkedin)"

"He has over 25 years unblemished industry experience acquired in Utilities (Power/Electricity Distribution), Financial Services/Banking, Oil & Gas, Accounting, Auditing and Consultancy Services, that is readily available to be deployed to solving organisational problems towards attaining superior corporate objectives."

Born in Ilutitun -Osooro in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, Deolu ironically hails from a region that has been disconnected from national grid for close to 15years due to alleged indebtedness to the company by the people of the region. Although the region has a lot of oil producing communities their debts to BEDC remains sticky since the first term of Dr Olusegun Rahman Mimiko in office.

Resident in Ondo South is the richest mornach in Africa as well as the richest man in Ondo State.

All eyes is now on Ondo South as the region is also expected by rule of natural justice
and an unwritten rotational agreement to produce the next governor of Ondo State.

Will Deolu be able to reconnect Ondo South to national grid as soon as possible!? Achieving that will give a serious boost to the already soaring reputation of the erudite achiever.

Did UK citizens ever came to Nigeria to protest their own elections conduct?

Dear Senate President,

Nigerians don't want these set of lawmakers FYI.

Thanks 🙏

The fiscal policy is not in the hands of the CBN governor...only the monetary policy is. The fiscal policy is in the hand of Mr President.

Who can tell. I think human bites can be poisonous to snakes too

Kemi Adeosun waa the pillar of the economic stability we had in the first term of GMB's government.

I'm sure she was conspired against.

These folks are theives.

Being dead or alive is a realm of consciousness...Not breathing in and out.

Death is a state of separation from God.

African Judiciary

Make up free indeed...

it is good

If the South East can present candidates like Ngozi Okonjo_Iweala or Peter Obi....

Alaye don't worry yourself. The child will catch up

hormones

Be disgracing yourself around in public in the name of proposal.

If you know what you are doing, you should have women craving to marry you.

Where Dangote, Jim Ovia, Otedola and Mike Adenuga?

Egungun don enter express be that oooo

Pyrates are not cultist