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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.

According to a report by venture capital firm Foundamental, China and India are expected to account for nearly 40% of global construction growth between 2020 and 2030. China remains the largest contributor (26.1%), while India ranks second (14.1%), highlighting Asia’s growing role in shaping global infrastructure development.

Last night, the most powerful army in the world bombed water reservoirs in Sirik, Iran, leaving people without drinking water I can’t remember even ISIS doing something like that Americans, are you proud of your terrorist regime and army?

Pres Trump just said 200 ships have secretly passed Hormuz since the war began That’s compared to over 10,000 in the normal 100 days since the war 200 is 2% of the norm World heading to historic energy crisis

Trump on Monday: Netnyahau is not my boss! I'm his! And we're ending this war! Trump today: We're again bombing Iran like Netnayahu wants! (I love the notion that Iran is the aggressor by attacking a US helicopter there to impose a full embargo on Iran, a classic act of war).

Bro to bro, -Stop eating anyhow, eat right -Drink ginger shots instead of soda. -Blend watermelon with seeds Banana Date Coconut water and make it your favorite smoothie. -Eat garlic every night before going to bed. -Eat onion regularly and add some to your daily meals. -Take fruits that contains fiber (Avocado , apple, pomegranate and banana). add avocado, oranges and eggs to your daily food. drink water (be hydrated), and do regular exercise. -Stop watching porn. If you're in; Repost for others!

We prefer the language of diplomacy, but we speak other languages far more fluently. Break your commitments, and we'll switch to what we speak best. You ride the horse you saddled!

Foreign forces in proximity to our territory are at constant risk on account of their own human errors, plain accidents, or potentially being caught in crossfire. To reduce risk, best solution is for them to leave. We prefer language of diplomacy but speak other languages too.

Absolutely. The whole point is to destroy the Middle East as an oil-producing region and make the market come to America. The US already succeeded in becoming Europe's #1 supplier of LNG, oil, & coal by taking out Russia/Nord Stream They're simply scaling the plan up globally.

They knew an attack on Iran would threaten Gulf economies, disrupt diversification plans, and increase regional instability. They did it anyway and expected the Gulf states to absorb the costs. So much for caring about their allies and partners’ stability and security.

RT @Ole_S_Hansen: OPEC crude production fell to a fresh 40-year low last month as the continued blockade of the Strait of Hormuz forced ano…

As expected, Israel struck Iran's oil production just as Ukraine have been doing to Russia's these last months. This cuts off China reduces their market share at the source — while US naval blockades pirate the oil in transit. In the end US sales go up & Petrogas-Dollar wins.

BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨 World Cup fever kicks off as America welcomes the world with a traditional display of their culture and traditions.

Iran has included three important tests within the terms the MOU it is negotiating with the United States. These tests are intended to give Iran's leaders confidence that Trump, a counterparty they see as highly unreliable, is ready to make credible commitments, opening a pathway for further diplomacy. First, the Iranians are testing the credibility of American security commitments by insisting that the MOU encompasses a Lebanon ceasefire. They are not doing this for the sake of Hezbollah or Lebanese Shias. Rather, they want to see if Trump can restrain Israel in its own backyard. If Trump is able to do that, then he might be able to defend his own deal with Iran from further Israeli sabotage. Second, Iran is insisting on a nominal fee for vessels passing the Strait of Hormuz. This is not because they want more revenue, which would be negligible. They are insisting on this arrangement because they want to test whether Trump will endorse a deal that includes a clear instantiation of Iranian sovereignty and authority, especially one that did not exist before the war. Iran believes in the logic of a win-win agreement. Trump does not. Forcing him to accept a fee forces him to give Iran a "win" and to defend it as such from the Iran hawks in his circle. This is politically meaningful. Finally, Iran is insisting on a the release of frozen assets. The sums in question are a tiny fraction of the economic cost of the war and the release of assets is not as valuable as sanctions relief that Iran will also be targeting. But by insisting on the release of funds at an early stage of the negotiations, Iran can test whether broader economic commitments, such as sanctions relief, will be credible. Iran will only consider the promise of sanctions relief to be credible if Trump's sanctions bureaucracy allows Iran to move and spend its own money. The Iranian side will insist on transactions that push the Trump administration to set new precedents for how sanctions relief can be operationalized, especially through guidance to banks. For many in Washington, these demands seem unreasonable. But that is entirely the point. Iran's leadership won't tolerate a kind of narrow deal that allows U.S. policymakers to avoid putting political capital at stake. Iran wants a deal that reflects the unprecedented nature of the war and ensuing crisis. To meet the moment, the diplomacy has to be transformative. Iran's leaders don't trust Trump, so they are testing him. So far, he is failing these tests.

Firstly, Ethiopia is under US sanctions while Vietnam is not. And speaking of former French colonies, Haiti was the first to get independence (1804) and is still one of the poorest countries in the world because of the debt they had to take on to gain independence (it took them until 1947 to fully repay it!). Whereas, New Caledonia is still a French colony and is neither rich nor poor. "If colonialism were the answer to why Africa is poor..." This line completely ignores the European powers' (and US) post-colonial control over Africa. Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected leader of the DRC, was tortured and killed by Belgium and the US for being a nationalist. His body was dissolved in acid so he wouldn't become a martyr. His legacy is largely unknown even within the continent. Several other such "lessons" were meted out. Google Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso) and Sylvanus Olympio (Togo). Once you set the example, you gain obedience. The VietCong, on the other hand, didn't surrender even though 3 million Vietnamese died during the war, and several thousand more continue to die to this day (!) from Agent Orange exposure. As for former French colonies in Africa, France still controls their currency and holds their central bank reserves in France. As Rothschild purportedly said, "permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws." Third, the borders in Africa were drawn in such a way that conflict was inevitable. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-85, the European powers simply carved up the continent by drawing straight line borders. African leaders were conspicuous only by their absence at this historic event which shaped the next century. This is why Cameroon, a French-speaking country, has a minority English-speaking territory, ensuring it remains destabilized. Likewise for West Asia/the Middle East, where the Sykes-Picot legacy lives on. @magattew conflates formal colonial rule with colonial control. Vietnam managed to fully kick out both France and the US, reunified the North and the South, and kept its sovereignty. All African leaders who attempted the same have been systematically eliminated (see Muammar Gaddafi, Libya's divisive leader, for a recent example), ensuring Africa forever bears the open wounds of its colonial legacy. But Ms. Wade is right on one thing: Vietnam owes its prosperity to overcoming colonial rule. Maybe Africa can become prosperous if Africans do the same.

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began. The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start. Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have. If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

🔥 CENTCOM boldly claimed that they intercepted all the ballistic missiles and drones Iran fired earlier this week against US bases in Kuwait. New high-res satellite imagery attests exceptionally precise strikes against multiple hangars and other facilities.

Totally agree

I disagree with you. Dangote Refinery is the catalyst for foreign capital inflows.

#عاجل مصادر في أدنوك لـ"الطاقة": لا صحة لإشاعات نشوب حريق في محطة الغاز المسال بجزيرة داس #أدنوك #الغاز_المسال