Sometimes you run into a statistic that makes you realize that our continent as a whole is really not trying. We are not punching anywhere close to our deserved weight in so many areas, even in the commodity export we feel is our only source of edge. Today I saw statistics about coffee production and […]
Tag: agriculture
Valentine Special: Your Valentine Flower Is From Kenya
Happy Valentine’s Day guys! As of this morning, millions of rose stems will be delivered or handed to lovers all around the world in honor of Valentine’s Day. And many of those roses will be flowers grown and shipped out of the flowerbeds of Kenya. As my valentine’s gift to you all, I’ll be sharing […]
African Development Bank will Loan Nigeria $4.1 billion
Just the other day, I read about how Diageo gave it’s Nigerian subsidiary Guinness Nigeria Plc a loan of $95 million at around 5.6% interest rate to help it deal with the foreign exchange issues. I sighed then, and asked Oluwa to please be a parent company to our economy generally. It’s starting to look […]
On Nigerian Agriculture, Finance and the Land Use Act
Nigeria is a strange place, full of strange people who do strange things. And one of the strangest things of all has to do with the process by which land in Nigeria is owned, titled or exchanged. I wonder if most of us knew that the lands under your feet, by legal right, belong to […]
On Nigeria and Our Agricultural Commodity Exchanges.
First off, did you know Nigeria had an active commodities exchange? I had no idea. It was formerly known as Abuja Securities & Commodities Exchange, and is now known simply as Nigerian Commodities Exchange . I stumbled upon it by chance, and learned as much as I could from the little of it there is […]
