While you’re cozying up under your blanket, drinking hot coffee, enjoying the warmth of the indoors, don’t forget that the kids and teachers kidnapped in Oyo state, are still in the bush.
Wait oh, wait à minute! Is this how the kidnapped principal,teachers and children at that oyo school will grow old in the forest???? 😧😳✋🏽and everywhere is quiet all of a sudden
This is now their 34th Night as captives of terrorists in the bush! I cannot imagine the horror! The discomfort! The mental, physical and emotional torture! Toddlers and children! Then teachers! We cannot forget them! God!😭😭😭😭
This is now their 33rd night in the jungle as captives of terrorists!! 33 nights!!! Toddlers!!! Children!! Innocent teachers who just went to school! Ah!! 😭😭😭
In 2012, when I started farming in Kuje Area Council-Abuja, cashew trees were everywhere. Many local landowners planted them as economic trees—not necessarily for commercial production, but because they increased the perceived value of their land.
By 2013, the cashew industry had become a thriving rural economy. During harvest season, heavy-duty trucks lined up at Tipper Garage Junction in Kuje, buying cashew kernels for Nuts processing.
Farmers earned and the entire communities benefited from the value chain.
The boom continued through 2014, 2015, and 2016.
Then greed quietly replaced sustainability.
Instead of allowing the fruits to mature naturally, many people began harvesting prematurely to extract kernels early. The result was predictable: immature kernels flooded the market, quality dropped, and buyers began rejecting consignments.
By 2018, something even more alarming happened. Many of the cashew trees simply refused to fruit. In 2019 and 2020, some produced while others remained barren. By 2021, large numbers of trees appeared diseased and failed to fruit.
Today, the trucks are gone. The once-thriving cashew economy has largely disappeared. The trees remain, but many no longer produce.
What is most disturbing is that nobody seems to know why.
Nigeria has numerous institutions with mandates that should cover issues like this:
• Seed Council of Nigeria
• Forestry Departments and Agencies
• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
• Research Institutes and Extension Services
Yet there appears to be little or no publicly available data explaining what happened to the Kuje cashew ecosystem.
A nation that does not invest in research is condemned to repeat its mistakes. We spend billions discussing agriculture, but when an entire economic ecosystem collapses, nobody can explain the cause, measure the impact, or propose a recovery strategy.
Agriculture is not sustained by speeches and conferences. It is sustained by data, research, and institutional memory.
Until we take research seriously, we will continue harvesting from nature without understanding the consequences—and acting surprised when nature stops giving back.
i honestly think that crying over a book is one of the most prominent signs of compassion for humanity. you’re crying over someone who isn't really there and doesn't really exist, but you still feel for them as if you have known them your entire life.
It's funny how we use to tell people with anxiety that "people in public aren't making fun of you, they don't even notice you so don't be scared" and then the internet just proved to us that people will make fun of you when you're in public for virtually no reason at all.
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
It’s 28 days since Oyo children were taken.
It’s 28 days since Oyo children were taken.
It’s 28 days since Oyo children were taken.
It’s 28 days since Oyo children were taken.
It’s 28 days since Oyo children were taken.
Pls keep speaking up.
Pls share for the world to see this.
Na until all of us die???? Don’t be distracted oh. 42kids are in captivity in Borno. 35 in ogbomosho. Terrorists are doing giveaway on TikTok and Tinubu is lying that they will be found. We are on our own oh. Fight back.