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abujagirl
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Unbeknownst to the overlords, there is a miracle taking place in rural Nigeria called the Conditional Cash Transfer. The Jonathan administration is giving cash to women who go to Federal Government provided health centers for pre and post natal care. If they choose to have their babies in these centers, they get another cash transfer.
Many of these rural women are thus enjoying for the first time the better life they have been hearing about since the 1980s.
Another miracle occurring right before our eyes is Dry Season farming.
For the first time in Nigeria, farmers in arid and semi arid areas are being assisted by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to engage in dry season farming where they had hitherto only farmed during the rainy season.
Many people in Nigerian cities are buying roasted and boiled corn as I speak. This is a new phenomenon. It used to be that corn was only available during the corn season. That you are able to buy fresh corn by the road side in March is one of the miracles of Dry Season Farming.
Ask yourself how it is possible that Nigeria did not face a food crisis after the 2012 flood disaster that wreaked havoc on much of Nigeria?
It was because of the miracle of dry season farming!
After the flood, in just one week, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture distributed free of charge, 20,000 metric tonnes of rice seeds. In addition to these, farmers also received another batch of flood resistant rice seeds sourced from the Rice Research Center in the Philippines, a country that has learnt to cultivate rice in spite of their regular annual floods.
The end result is that Nigeria's annual food import bill has reduced from 2.3 trillion Naira per annum before 2011 to 1.8 trillion Naira today. This is 500 billion Naira that has remained in Nigeria instead of finding its way to Far East Asia from where we import a lot of our dry staple foods.
And I encourage every reader to verify these reports. They are publicly available and you can Google them.
Farmers, Almajiri, and rural women may not all presently have access to the Internet and Social Media, but they all have access to and have been touched by the Transformation Agenda and are the major reason why Nigeria's Per Capita Income which was at $1091 in 2009 is $1721 today. (Please see tinyurl.com/y5tfwwd)
They are the reason why Average Life Expectancy in Nigeria which was 47 years in 2007 is today 52 years (please see tinyurl.com/yyl5xy2)
And they are the reason why I remain unapologetically a supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan and his Transformation Agenda irrespective of what an overlord may say.
Many of these rural women are thus enjoying for the first time the better life they have been hearing about since the 1980s.
Another miracle occurring right before our eyes is Dry Season farming.
For the first time in Nigeria, farmers in arid and semi arid areas are being assisted by the Federal Ministry of Agriculture to engage in dry season farming where they had hitherto only farmed during the rainy season.
Many people in Nigerian cities are buying roasted and boiled corn as I speak. This is a new phenomenon. It used to be that corn was only available during the corn season. That you are able to buy fresh corn by the road side in March is one of the miracles of Dry Season Farming.
Ask yourself how it is possible that Nigeria did not face a food crisis after the 2012 flood disaster that wreaked havoc on much of Nigeria?
It was because of the miracle of dry season farming!
After the flood, in just one week, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture distributed free of charge, 20,000 metric tonnes of rice seeds. In addition to these, farmers also received another batch of flood resistant rice seeds sourced from the Rice Research Center in the Philippines, a country that has learnt to cultivate rice in spite of their regular annual floods.
The end result is that Nigeria's annual food import bill has reduced from 2.3 trillion Naira per annum before 2011 to 1.8 trillion Naira today. This is 500 billion Naira that has remained in Nigeria instead of finding its way to Far East Asia from where we import a lot of our dry staple foods.
And I encourage every reader to verify these reports. They are publicly available and you can Google them.
Farmers, Almajiri, and rural women may not all presently have access to the Internet and Social Media, but they all have access to and have been touched by the Transformation Agenda and are the major reason why Nigeria's Per Capita Income which was at $1091 in 2009 is $1721 today. (Please see tinyurl.com/y5tfwwd)
They are the reason why Average Life Expectancy in Nigeria which was 47 years in 2007 is today 52 years (please see tinyurl.com/yyl5xy2)
And they are the reason why I remain unapologetically a supporter of President Goodluck Jonathan and his Transformation Agenda irrespective of what an overlord may say.