Ori-Oke Ajaiye.
A prayer mountain in Kwara State.
Friday night. May 23rd. 8:30pm.
Bandits invaded.
Killed three. Took fifteen others into the night.
While they were on their knees.
The community has a name for what happened.
They are calling it Black Saturday.
Not Ekiti State. There is an Ekiti Local Government Area inside Kwara South. That is where Ikiran sits. That is where Ikerin-Opin is.
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Let me tell you how it happened. Nigeria’s ginger export hit zero from N26 billion within 3 years.
The official story blames fungal blight.
But here is what actually happened. When Nigerian farmers lost their indigenous seed supply, grant-aided interventions arrived with replacement seeds.
An associate professor at Lagos Business School flagged publicly that some of those interventions involved GMO organisms that weakened indigenous crops and compromised soil health.
That is not a conspiracy theory because it is a documented academic concern.
Now that Nigeria spoke got destroyed by the GMO seedlings….what is not the result?
Nigeria was forced to import ginger from China to fill domestic demand. Chinese ginger has none of the pungency, oleoresin content, or quality that made Nigerian ginger a global premium product. And the ginger now sitting in Nigerian markets tastes like wood because it essentially is wood.
The two indigenous varieties that built Nigeria’s global ginger reputation, the Tafin Giwa and Yatsun Biri, had decades of soil relationship and quality built into them.
Once the soil was degraded and those seed varieties were displaced, the product that returned was a pale imitation. Nigeria did not just lose a market. It lost a seed. And without a National Ginger Seed Bank, which nobody has built, it may never fully get it back.
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@rukky_nate Funny enough it's not as bad as people talk about it and the white Maggi (MSG) that you buy is better than the one inside Indomie seasoning. A lot of people take it everyday and they don't even know and it's a highly concentrated one that is inside Indomie seasoning.
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