Yesterday, Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria posted on Twitter that Nigerians can now export cow bones duty-free to China.
Under the comment sections, some Nigerians were asking the ambassador to tell them what they are using the cow bones for😁
Some were telling the ambassador to tell his people to come and setup the processing facility here in Nigeria, so they can create jobs.
Funny people. I laughed at our inability to do simple Google search.
As a livestock farmer and Agro commodities trader, I already know the uses of cow bones.
And about building a factory here in Nigeria? Nigerians are the ones to do it, but sadly everyone is building hotels😁
Let me tell you a few uses of cow bones.
Here are 4 major uses of cow bones you can mention in your content;
✍🏻Bone meal fertilizer: Cow bones are processed into bone meal, rich in phosphorus and calcium, used to improve soil fertility.
They prefer this to fertilize their soil not the chemical sold to our rural farmers.
✍🏻Animal feed supplement: Processed bone meal can be used as a mineral supplement in livestock feed, especially for calcium and phosphorus.
We use this for chicken feed, pig, and fish feed production.
Verify the price per kg and you’ll be shocked.
✍🏻Gelatin production: Cow bones can be processed to extract gelatin, used in food, pharmaceuticals, capsules, and cosmetics.
Just imagine the volume of cow bones wasting in your village?
Pharmaceuticals companies are paying billions of dollars to buy it from those processing it.
And I believe those Chinese companies will focus more on this.
It is big money wasting away in Africa because we don’t know anything about value addition.
✍🏻Activated carbon / bone char: Burnt bones can produce bone char, used in filtration, sugar refining, and water purification.
Pause here and think deeply with me. They use bone char for water purification in their country.
But they produce capsules and sell to us for water purification😳
Let’s not blame them. We take responsibility.
Now, let’s be honest. This is a golden opportunity for us. Let’s export the cow bones and cash out.
Also, let’s learn how to process the cow bones locally and export the finish product too.
If I tell you now that chicken feed producers in Nigeria import bone meal, you won’t believe. Research it yourself.
A ton of bone meal is around $200 - $750 currently.
Bro, just imagine earning over $200 from wastage thrown around our local markets in Africa.
Business opportunity for you. Do your research and see how you can position to serve this market
On the issue of VAT sharing in the proposed tax reform bills, the ECFIRS Zacch A. Adedeji Phd has this to say.
This is explanatory enough. Kindly tag a friend who needs to hear this.
Girl power is using your whole prime to hoe around, and then starting a new life when it's time for marriage.
Girl power is fighting for rappers who promote their songs only by being naked and revealing their ass.
Girl power is speaking only on the negative sides of marriage,
Facts about women.
-Women are not naturally born to lead or rule.
-Women cannot thrive without being loved and building a family.
-The ultimate goal of every woman, is marriage.
-Women do not invest in men they see no future with.
-Women give terrible advice to other women,
One of the essence of marriage is to cover your partner's secrets and not wash your partner's dirty linen in public.
We are in a generation where everything has to be visualised for the whole world to see. There is very little respect for privacy now.
There are couples using
Marriage remains the ultimate goal of every woman.
Without marriage, a woman with all educational degrees and awards is incomplete.
Most women who hate marriage, hate marriage because they haven't been given a ring.
A woman will jump on a ring, because it crowns her efforts.
India Has Much To Teach Nigeria and Africa About Self Confidence
My greatest education is not my British education. Rather, it is travel. One country that blew my mind is India. Few countries have as much self confidence as India has. In India, they painstakingly renamed all their towns and cities from the names the British gave them. Bombay was restored to Mumbai, Calcutta reverted to Kolkata, Bangalore changed to Bengaluru, and so on. And you do not see brides getting married in white dresses. Indian brides generally marry in red. Red is their traditional marital colour.
And the only books that they translated into Hindi were science books. Only 2% of their population is Christian. They retained their ancient religion, Hinduism. Today, they are more prosperous than the tithe payers of Africa and their Daddy GOs.
Another culture shock you get from India is that you can spend a week there and not find anyone named John, Michael, James, George, or even sillier names, like Cletus, Remigius, Urbanus, or any other -us ending name.
If it is not Deepak, it will be Rahul, Tribhuvan, Sanjay, Pradeep or Rajiv. If you cannot pronounce their names, that is your headache!
And we can learn from that in Nigeria. Port Harcourt was named after a sexually deviant British Lord. Let's restore it to its precolonial name. Escravos in Delta State means an enslaved person in Portuguese, partly because of what my ancestors did to some ethnicities. How can we call ourselves enslaved people? Forcados in Delta means forced labourer in Portuguese. Lagos means lagoon in Portuguese. Why do we not revert to Eko? Even the name Cameroon means shrimp in Portuguese because the Portuguese found much shrimp there. How can your country be called shrimp?
Then, we must begin to localise science. Let us normalise translating science books into our local languages. Insult me, but I believe it is more important than translating the Bible into Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ijaw and many other languages. Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther, who first translated the Bible into Yoruba and helped translate it into Igbo, was still rejected by the bishops of the Church of England even after his elevation to the bishopric.
How much has changed since then? Have they given you a Black Pope or Archbishop of Canterbury?
Even the Church of England was founded in 1534 because the British people did not want to be dictated to by the Catholic Church and its Pope, partly because they refused to elect an English Pope after the first and only one, Adrian IV, was appointed in 1154, and Henry VIII felt they were biased against him and his choice of wives.
Fact-check me: Catholicism was illegal in England for almost three hundred years, and Catholics could not legally hold, buy or inherit property, or be appointed as judges, squires, mayors, join the military or be elected into public office.
And why must we marry in white dresses, black suits, and ties under our humid tropical heat? What is wrong with our native wear, which suits our weather better? In India, their land was colonised, but their minds were mobilised and liberated. But here in Africa, it seems both our minds and lands were colonised. We have to recolonise both.
But it is not all hunky-dory in India. They have two major institutional and cultural problems that we do not have in Nigeria. A caste system that is almost impossible to break out from, and some of the most uneven distribution of wealth on Earth. India is now a wealthy country. But except you are a light-skinned, high-caste Hindu, it is very difficult for you to have upward social, economic, and very definitely political mobility.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.
Your criteria for choosing a man??
-What he does for a living. Does he earn legitimately or not.
-His age
-Does he live alone? with friends? Or in the family's house?
-His tribe? Is that the tribe your family want for you? And is that the tribe you want?
-His religion. Are
During the commissioning, Dangote appreciated the Lagos State Government and its successive governors for the resolute facilitation of enabling business environment, which he noted had made him to invest over $30bn in various industries in the state economy.
“Those who have made Lagos their home will testify that since the beginning of the current democratic dispensation, the government of Lagos State has been exceptionally remarkable in its commitment and support for the private sector,” he said.
However, the biggest private investment in Africa was not initially designed to be built in Lagos State, the commercial capital of Nigeria, but for providence and unfriendly policies by some states, especially Rivers, Ondo and Ogun states, whose indigenes are counting their losses as Lagos makes gains.
If Nigeria must overcome her food shortages, then we must make some changes. I suggest the following:
Action One: Every schoolchild should be given seeds and a tiny portion of land to plant seeds. And for thirty minutes of the school day, they should cultivate that land.
Result: It will achieve two things. They will have a lifelong skill of how to grow food. And they will have a harvest to take home to augment their parent's income.
Action Two: At the worker level, each worker should be given seeds and fertilisers for free by the Federal, State and Local Governments. Let them close from work and go home to engage in small-scale agriculture in their backyards.
Result: It will increase Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product and reduce food costs, as well as address scarcity of food items.
Action Three: The Federal Government should send officers to every Local Government Health office to provide every pregnant woman in Nigeria with one crate of eggs. A litre of milk and the equivalent of $5 in Naira weekly. They should also have officers in every primary school in Nigeria to mark a register and give mothers the equivalent of $5 in Naira every week, irrespective of how merry children they have (they only get one payment), on condition that their children attend school.
Result: It will make the next generation of Nigerians physically and mentally fitter and more educated. And educated citizens produce more, are healthier, and have fewer children. The end result is that it will boost our Gross Domestic Product and stabilise our population, which is currently growing faster than our economy.
Action Four: Just as we had the Environmental Sanitation Day under the military, perhaps the National Assembly may want to pass a Feed The Nation Act, mandating that the first Saturday of every month should be set aside for compulsory home gardening in Nigeria for one hour during daylight.
Result: It will help instil discipline in Nigerians, as studies show that when people grow their own crops, they are less likely to waste food. It will also help address the weather for two phenomena that is prevalent in Nigeria. It will make us less dependent on imported foods, as well as boost the income of every Nigerian, as they will spend less of their income on food, leaving us with more disposable income.
Action Five: As part of their orientation, each participant in the National Youth Service Corp must spend at least two weeks on a farm, whereby the only food and beverages that they consume should be what they produce or grow. It is possible. Tai and Sheila Solarin achieved it with schoolchildren at Mayflower School, Ikenne.
Result: It will instil discipline in our youth and help us produce a new generation of leaders who understand the importance of food security. They will be more likely to make and implement policies that will help Nigeria achieve food security.
These may look simplistic, but it is simple things done regularly that make nations grow great and strong. Nigeria must make every effort to move from being a consumer nation to being a nation that consumes what it produces-a prosumer nation.
Opposition leaders must move from complaining and criticising to selling Nigerians what they would do better than the government in power. Because picking holes and deconstructing the ruling party is very easy. What is not easy and which takes intelligence is building and ideating.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. Ruffler of the Feathers of Obidents. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022.
Ever wondered why femininity is going down the drain??
-Women no longer value their nakedness. The reason why the women of old go naked as a means to protest, was because there was value in their nakedness. You could hardly see the private parts of a woman, through the clothes
OUR PROBLEM IS NEITHER APC NOR PDP OR OTHERS- WE ARE MOSTLY WICKED, HEARTLESS AND SELFISH PEOPLE IN NIGERIA!
We are just wicked people
...Simple._
CBN pumped billions of naira into rice production, and we are big producers now Yet same Nigerians helped by government to go into rice farming at single digit interest rate are seizing the opportunity of non-competition from importation to sell at exorbitant price -
We are just wicked set of people
PHCN was sold with clauses that practically make us slaves to the buyers For government to severe the sales agreement would cost about 3trillion naira. The sellers that accepted such conditions are Nigerians, the buyers who are part of the agreement are Nigerians too. We are just wicked set of people*
Government subsidises petrol consumption* for every body to benefit, but empty vessels would sail to our waters and payment received for empty vessels. The fake importers and those approving payments are Nigerians.
We are just wicked set of people.
Many shouting about corruption or misgovernance are bitter because they are not part of the game* or waiting and praying it would get to their turn.
We are just wicked set of people.
Check us out in all facets. The policeman that would kill because of N50 ($0.125), set big criminals free while imprisoned poor pick pockets.
We are just wicked set of people.
The Custom Officer that would allow fake drugs and ammunitions into the country* because he has been "settled.
Yet cry for escalated insecurity.
We are just wicked set of people.
The civil servants who hardly go to work, and when they go end up cheating , conniving and personalising government assets and property by inflating every items of purchase and leave no kobo for possible salary increase are not foreigners, but wicked Nigerians who later cry in their unions for salary review or lack of training in the Service.
We are just wicked set of people.
The primary and secondary school teachers who are interested in their alert rather than teaching hardly be in school to teach*, and yet criticise government for falling standard of education as if they were not part of it.
We are just wicked set of people.
The lecturers and their unions who failed to checkmate themselves on internal mismanagement of higher institutions and unethical conduct by their colleagues in class management that lead to extortion, sell question papers, award marks for money or sex and only proceeds on strike to blame falling standard of education.
We are just wicked set of people.
The government hospital personnel that would steal drugs and attend not to patients* yet decry state of health institutions and medical tourism.
We are just wicked set of people
The contractor that would collect mobilisation fee and not execute jobs
Some even collect the whole contract money doing shoddy job or without doing anything.
We are just wicked set of people.
A fellow Nigerian would kidnap, cheats or murder another for money
Then live big in towns or runs abroad to sponsor youths against bad governance.
We are just wicked set of people
OUR government at various levels are being run by Nigerians not foreign colonials yet we don't have good governance.
We are all contributors to these wickedness.
WHAT OF YOU THAT IS READING THIS WRITE-UP.
ARE YOU NOT A WICKED NIGERIAN?
WICKED PEOPLE (LEADERS AND FOLLOWERS ALIKE.
TAKE A STAND AGAINST WICKED NIGERIANS
Until We CHANGE OUR WAYS, OUR LIFE WOULD NOT CHANGE
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What are the signs that your boyfriend respects you?
-He puts your likes and dislikes into consideration, before doing anything.
-When making decisions, even if he would not do what you have suggested, depending on the situation, he still listens to you to hear your own
Why do people say that to lead a woman effectively, you have to be ahead of her in everything??
-It is in the nature of women, to look up and submit to a higher authority. Women find it easy to lay low and allow men who are above them to control them. When a woman knows that
Do you know why the past of women is talked about more than the past of men?
-When searching for husbands, women put into consideration the things the men have to offer. These things are, a stable home, finance and provision, security and protection, care and affection.
However