NaijaMutant:


Below comment is a mockery of your level of intelligence

Its a big disgrace Seun considered you qualified to be a moderator on this platform

NaijaMutant:


Below comment is a mockery of your level of intelligence

Its a big disgrace Seun considered you qualified to be a moderator on this platform

Emycord:
TO THINK THAI IS JUST 68.8M IN POPULATION JUST 1/3 OF NIGERIA

emperormossad:

You don't need to remind him of his present predicament.
Reality stares him in the face but instead of him to bury his head in shame like the proverbial ostrich, he decides to flirt with obfuscation.
At the peak of 'corruption' and a rotten economy in 2014, a bag of rice was sold for about 8000.

With our self-sufficiency in rice production, I don't need to tell you how much a bag of rice costs (destoned or not).
Any news coming from any govt official has the unenviable record of being biased ab initio. Our economists are so sound that they can furnish us with information about the reasons for unemployment in other countries while we wallow in quagmire.
Please save your time for worthy fellows.
This one has gone.

doctokwus:

This is the most pathetic lie I have heard this year.
Thailand is a country of about 70million people and Ogbeh is stupidly claiming that because of reduced rice importation alone from Nigeria alone,about 2million Thais have been rendered jobless!
I am not annoyed with this lie,I only feel sympathy for how Ogbeh at about 70yrs or so can make a mockery of himself with such lie that a kindergarten child able to read and write will feel ashamed of.

sweetgala:


That man may be old enough to be your father as I assume going by NL demographics you may not be older than 50.

It is a shame you would label a man who has committed several decades to the development of Nigeria and is doing his very best to bring progress to the agricultural sector as stupid.

You too would grow old one day

doctokwus:

This is the most pathetic lie I have heard this year.
Thailand is a country of about 70million people and Ogbeh is stupidly claiming that because of reduced rice importation alone from Nigeria alone,about 2million Thais have been rendered jobless!
I am not annoyed with this lie,I only feel sympathy for how Ogbeh at about 70yrs or so can make a mockery of himself with such lie that a kindergarten child able to read and write will feel ashamed of.

AnanseK:


Wailers will continue to wail, but PMB will continue his working until 2023.

Buckubuck:


On Friday, Audu Ogbeh, minister of agriculture, claimed that Thailand has accused President Muhammadu Buhari’s government of being responsible for the collapse of seven of its rice mills. The minister quoted the Thailand’s ambassador to Nigeria as saying that the federal government has “dealt” with his country. Ogbeh said this was because Nigeria’s importation of rice has fallen by 95 percent.

Consequently, he said, unemployment rate has risen by four percent in Thailand.

“Just like two weeks ago, the ambassador of Thailand came to my office and said to me that we have really dealt with them,” he said.

“But I asked what did we do wrong and he said unemployment in Thailand was one of the lowest in the world, 1.2 percent, it has gone up to four percent because seven giant rice mills have shut down because Nigeria’s import has fallen by 95 percent on rice alone.”

TheCable fact-checked the claims made by the agriculture minister.

CLAIM ONE: COLLAPSE OF SEVEN RICE MILLS IN THAILAND

TheCable carried out an extensive research and the minister’s claim that seven rice mills collapsed in Thailand owing to Nigeria’s low patronage could not be verified.

Instead, Thailand’s export has continued to grow. According to The Nation Thailand, overall exports in January this year alone rose to 17.6 percent with an income of $20.101 billion.

Significantly, rice exports grew to 37.2 percent year-on-year — an indication that rice mills are not collapsing in Thailand. Instead, rice producers in the country may be needing more mills!

Also, the Rice Exporters Association of Thailand said rice exports reached a record high in 2017.

Charoen Laothammatas, president of the association, said they would be able to export around 9.5 million tons of rice in 2018.

The quantity of rice imported from Thailand into Nigeria is not significant enough to lead to the collapse of any mill in the country.

Information on the association’s website puts Nigeria’s import in 2017 at 23,192 metric tonnes. What Nigeria imported in 2015 and 2016 were 644,131 and 58, 260 metric tonnes respectively.

These figures are less compared to what Benin Republic has imported. The country imported 1,811,164; 1,427,098 and 805,765 metric tonnes of rice in 2017, 2016 and 2015 respectively.

It is even suspected that most Benin imports end up in the Nigerian market through the land border.

CLAIM TWO: UNEMPLOYMENT IN THAILAND HAS RISEN TO FOUR PERCENT

Checks by TheCable found this claim to be false.

Trading Economics puts Thailand’s unemployment rate at 1.3 percent as at January 2018.

“The unemployment rate in Thailand inched up to 1.3 percent in January of 2018 from 1.2 percent in the same month a year earlier,” information on the website read.

“The number of unemployed went up by 26 thousand from the prior year to 475 thousand while the number of employed declined by 142 thousand to 37.07 million.

“In December 2017, the jobless rate was 1 percent. Unemployment Rate in Thailand averaged 1.45 percent from 2001 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 5.73 percent in January of 2001 and a record low of 0.39 percent in November of 2012.”

CONCLUSION

The claim that seven mills collapsed in Thailand because of Nigeria’s low patronage cannot be verified. The claim that Thailand’s unemployment is at four percent is false.

Maybe the ambassador, as quoted by Ogbeh, was only speaking tongue-in-cheek to show how insignificant Nigerian market is to Thailan — but Ogbeh, eager to celebrate his achievement in office, took a private joke to the public without crosschecking.

http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/03/agric-minister-audu-ogbeh-lied-about-collapse-thailand%E2%80%99s-rice-mills

chocberry:



Yet you don't have a brain that functions outside manipulation. I'm afraid for the offsprings you'll produce.

Biotechnologist here. Best research student back in my school days. Yea, it's easy to dress up and earn a pay. Started over 20 businesses here. Employed and trained over 80 Nairalanders in the past 18 months.

Now i'm waiitng for you to prove saying the truth equates sabotage. Not proving this means you're an eediot.

sweetgala:


Started over 20 businesses ! maybe if some of them had been successful you'd have stopped being a serial failure. I have business interests myself sustainable partnerships. My associates value my enterprising spirit and input

Let's stop blowing trumpets here makes you look small , I like those who don't give up thou ..20 businesses kilode

chocberry:



It's called genius

sweetgala:


It's not called genius. it's called not having a plan.

chocberry:



I'm decades ahead of you. Give yourself 20 years, when the world starts practicing it, you may start understanding then.

sweetgala:


What makes you think I've not had stumbles abs learned from them. I have mentors and fortunate enough to know people who advise me on this regard.

I don't have to fail to learn when others who have gone before are an example

chocberry:



Like i said, you'll understand in 20 years not now

sparko1:


Read this again and this time use your cap! Even if all they are saying does not reduce the price of rice, that does not mean he is totally wrong!