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• Cocoa prices surged on world markets in 2023-2024.

• In Nigeria, thousands switch careers to grow cocoa

• Official: big share of Nigerian beans smuggled out

Growing up in Nigeria's cocoa farming area of Ikom in the southeast, Anyoghe Akwa did not see much of a future, so instead he decided to move away, study civil engineering and carve out a career in the construction industry.

That was until 2023, when he heard that cocoa prices were surging and farmers back home in Ikom were making a fortune.

"We saw 20-year-olds who never attended university generating a lot of money from cocoa farming, while those of us who were aspiring for a PhD were struggling," said Akwa, 47, who had enrolled in a doctorate programme.

"So we started to come back and opened our own farms."

Akwa is one of a cohort of new entrants to the sector, mostly men and nicknamed "cocoa boys", who have switched to farming or other jobs to cash in on the cocoa price surge.

The Cocoa Farmers Association of Nigeria, which represents smallholder farmers, saw its hip increase by more than 10,000 in 2023-2024.

In Ikom, located in Cross River State on the border with Cameroon, most farmlands are owned by the community. Under an ancestral custom, a person with family roots in the community can present a bottle of wine, an offering of food and a modest sum of around 5,000 naira ($3) to receive a plot of land.

Akwa had inherited some farmland from his father and added some more through community allocation so he could plant more cacao trees, whose seeds are processed into cocoa and chocolate.

"Last year, I harvested four bags. I sold the first bag for 800,000 naira ($500), and the others between 1 million and 1.2 million naira per bag. It was a lot of money," he said, noting that sale of just one bag matched his annual salary as a civil engineer.

At the top price, Akwa was selling cocoa for 20 times its value in 2022, when the price of one 64-kg bag of beans was 60,000 naira, according to local growers.

NIGERIA'S COST OF LIVING CRISIS

A drop in output from Ivory Coast and Ghana, the world's top two cocoa exporters which together for 50% of global production, drove prices up from $2,200-$2,500 per metric ton in 2022 to nearly $11,000 in December 2024, according to the International Cocoa Organization, an inter-governmental body.


The price surge coincided with Nigeria's worst economic crisis in over three decades, with record numbers of people being plunged into poverty.

Those producing cocoa were largely protected, and even helped by a devaluation of the naira that made exports more competitive.

Growers are not the only beneficiaries. The cocoa business also involves factors, or middlemen between farmers and licensed buying agents, who warehouse the beans and sell on to exporters.

Ndubuisi Nwachukwu, 48, made the leap from banker to LBA in 2022, inspired by a business mentor. His timing turned out to be ideal.

"The income I've made these few years as an LBA, if you add up all the salary I earned as a banker, it is not up to it," he said.

In Ikom and other cocoa-producing areas, the newly-affluent "cocoa boys" are shaking up local economies and driving up housing costs.

"You can consider me to be a cocoa boy, because when you (talk about) cocoa now, people see you to be a 'big boy'," said Mark Bassey, 41, who left a low-paying job as a medical laboratory scientist to become a grower in his ancestral home.

As a boy, Bassey followed his mother to the cocoa plantation, so the skills were familiar to him. Like Akwa, he had wanted something different and had studied science at university, but he found it impossible to make a good wage.

"I know that I will still go back into my profession because of my love for it, but for now I want to focus on farming," said Bassey, who says he has quadrupled his income.

SMUGGLING AND HEDGING

Nigeria is the world's fourth-largest cocoa producer, according to the ICCO, but its output of 315,000 metric tons was far behind its West African rivals Ivory Coast and Ghana, at 2,241,000 and 654,000 respectively.

The influx of new farmers, coupled with new cocoa strains that bear fruit within 18 months and government efforts to boost the sector by handing out free seedlings, should be driving up output, but this is not reflected in official statistics.

"Putting all these things together, by now we believe that Nigeria's cocoa production level would have doubled," said Rasheed Adedeji, director of research and strategy at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria.

One reason is that a significant proportion of Nigerian cocoa beans, around 200,000 tons a year, are smuggled out of the country, he said.

The CRIN says it has received over half a million requests for new cocoa seedlings so far this year, enough to cover 400,000 hectares of farmland, triple the demand seen in the same period last year.

Still, some of the new growers are hedging their bets. Akwa shuttles between his farm and various construction sites where he still directs teams of workers and foremen.

"I don't sleep because I have to keep calling them to see if they have done this or that," he said. But if prices hold, he sees a long-term future in cocoa. "With what I'm seeing, it's possible that I would switch to cocoa farming full-time."

Source: https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/cocoa-boys-flock-nigerian-farmlands-drawn-by-high-prices-2025-05-06/

There is money in farming

Shocking report coming from Reuters.
Looking like what a typical Nigerian blog would write.
It takes an average of 3-5 years to harvest Cocoa.
So how can someone that went into cocoa farming in 2023,have harvested and sold that much by early 2025 or even 2024 when the guy interviewed would have harvested?
I hope Reuters has not been sold another agric scam because before you know it ponzi schemes would start exploding, telling people they will double their money in 6months once they invest their money into a cocoa farming programme with promises to buy hectares of cocoa that would be harvested and exported to the international market in 6months

Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Why are dollars a good thing? What do you do with the dollars? Consume imported stuff that fuels jobs in other countries?


The problem is this

Land used to grow cocoa is not being used to grow stuff that we eat in Nigeria. That is a problem

Is that opportunity cost worth it for the country if you end up importin rice? using dollars?

African Nations are being used as farmlands for rich countries to grow cocoa, cashew nuts cassava, coffee, tea even flowers whilst African people go hungry. Most of these cash crops their people cannot afford to consume.

We are not even allowed to add value to the cocoa and the real money is made in places like the USA, Belgium, , Switzerland


We need to forget ing our land to service Europe with things our people cannot afford to consume

The other thing is that they have the power to crash prices of cocoa and other commodities when you least expect it . We have seen it many times with crude oil


We should focus on trading with our African neighbours growing things that Nigerians eat or our neighbours eat

Rice , Yam, beans, vegetables, cassava potatoes
If we must grow cocoa. We must insist on making chocolates from it and aim to get our people to consume it
If not let us aim to train our youths to make electric cars, solar s and so on

No matter how you dice it the labourers working on cocoa farms are close to slave labour. Our people deserve better

Now Chinese people are going into the bush and loading containers with cashew and cocoa and our people are celebrating because they see the kind of money they have never seen before but it is not in our best interest. We need to look at the bigger world picture. See what Trump is doing

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

Interesting.

To the poster on this thread advocating regional integration...

ECOWAS has not been able to achieve monetary and financial integration despite several years of empty promises and declarations. the Eco?

If we can't even agree on a common currency for cross border trade, then what's the point? Nigeria uses the Naira. Ghana uses the Cedi. I wasn't even aware that there is a West African CFA franc (used by Togo, Benin, Niger and our other neighbours etc.) and a Central African CFA franc (used by Cameroon and Chad)!

Had this crop growing freely in my hometown.

Interesting times, the people that inherited cocoa farms are cashing out big time.

Who ever thought....

Idanre peeps in the business I hail oo.

omonnakoda:
Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Why are dollars a good thing? What do you do with the dollars? Consume imported stuff that fuels jobs in other countries?


The problem is this

Land used to grow cocoa is not being used to grow stuff that we eat in Nigeria. That is a problem

Is that opportunity cost worth it for the country if you end up importin rice? using dollars?

African Nations are being used as farmlands for rich countries to grow cocoa, cashew nuts cassava, coffee, tea even flowers whilst African people go hungry. Most of these cash crops their people cannot afford to consume.

We are not even allowed to add value to the cocoa and the real money is made in places like the USA, Belgium, , Switzerland


We need to forget ing our land to service Europe with things our people cannot afford to consume

The other thing is that they have the power to crash prices of cocoa and other commodities when you least expect it . We have seen it many times with crude oil


We should focus on trading with our African neighbours growing things that Nigerians eat or our neighbours eat

Rice , Yam, beans, vegetables, cassava potatoes
If we must grow cocoa. We must insist on making chocolates from it and aim to get our people to consume it
If not let us aim to train our youths to make electric cars, solar s and so on

No matter how you dice it the labourers working on cocoa farms are close to slave labour. Our people deserve better

Now Chinese people are going into the bush and loading containers with cashew and cocoa and our people are celebrating because they see the kind of money they have never seen before but it is not in our best interest. We need to look at the bigger world picture. See what Trump is doing

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

You made interesting points.

I think even yam that we roast, boil, fry, etc in Nigeria is exported to Europe and Asia to earn foreign exchange while we grow hungry and angry in Nigeria.

No bi Juju Dem do us so as a government and as a people.

Let's policy makers in Nigeria particularly in the Agricultural sectors start thinking home.

Since 2015 farmers in the country have been cashing out especially in palm oil, timbers, palm kernels, cocoa and cassava.

@omonnakoda
It is alwyas a good thing to have a cash crop living up to its potential. We have plenty of lands for other crops! U can encourage value addition without stopping Cocoa production

omonnakoda:
Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Why are dollars a good thing? What do you do with the dollars? Consume imported stuff that fuels jobs in other countries?


The problem is this

Land used to grow cocoa is not being used to grow stuff that we eat in Nigeria. That is a problem

Is that opportunity cost worth it for the country if you end up importin rice? using dollars?

African Nations are being used as farmlands for rich countries to grow cocoa, cashew nuts cassava, coffee, tea even flowers whilst African people go hungry. Most of these cash crops their people cannot afford to consume.

We are not even allowed to add value to the cocoa and the real money is made in places like the USA, Belgium, , Switzerland


We need to forget ing our land to service Europe with things our people cannot afford to consume

The other thing is that they have the power to crash prices of cocoa and other commodities when you least expect it . We have seen it many times with crude oil


We should focus on trading with our African neighbours growing things that Nigerians eat or our neighbours eat

Rice , Yam, beans, vegetables, cassava potatoes
If we must grow cocoa. We must insist on making chocolates from it and aim to get our people to consume it
If not let us aim to train our youths to make electric cars, solar s and so on

No matter how you dice it the labourers working on cocoa farms are close to slave labour. Our people deserve better

Now Chinese people are going into the bush and loading containers with cashew and cocoa and our people are celebrating because they see the kind of money they have never seen before but it is not in our best interest. We need to look at the bigger world picture. See what Trump is doing

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

💯 FACT 👍

omonnakoda:
Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

You have spoken very well.

wink2015:


You made interesting points.

I think even yam that we roast, boil, fry, etc in Nigeria is exported to Europe and Asia to earn foreign exchange while we grow hungry and angry in Nigeria.

No bi Juju Dem do us so as a government and as a people.

Let's policy makers in Nigeria particularly in the Agricultural sectors start thinking home.

On the individual level the farmer is making money but at a strategic level Government needs to pay attention

e.g India puts in place export bans on rice because of the food security of their people

Today a lot of Chinese companies in Nigeria buy cassava which they use to make ethanol for export

That is cassava that does not end up in our plates
The effect . Less cassava for garri. Higher prices of garri

These companies are often state backed with cheap loans whilst interest rates in Nigeria are nearly 30%


We do not understand international trade and geopolitics

For me there is nothing to celebrate in this in is not in our national interest.
We have no control over cocoa prices and are vulnerable to shocks
We are excluded from the chocolate industry and need to think Nigeria first

Using our land for Cocoa is not the best use of our land if we cannot participate in the chocolate side

The same thing applies to Lithium we export unprocessed lithium when we should be making batteries which is exploding in demand
We are loading our jobs on those containers of cocoa

All those villages in Ondo and cross river with cocoa farmers are all big boys driving bike and building house

omonnakoda:
Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Why are dollars a good thing? What do you do with the dollars? Consume imported stuff that fuels jobs in other countries?


The problem is this

Land used to grow cocoa is not being used to grow stuff that we eat in Nigeria. That is a problem

Is that opportunity cost worth it for the country if you end up importin rice? using dollars?

African Nations are being used as farmlands for rich countries to grow cocoa, cashew nuts cassava, coffee, tea even flowers whilst African people go hungry. Most of these cash crops their people cannot afford to consume.

We are not even allowed to add value to the cocoa and the real money is made in places like the USA, Belgium, , Switzerland


We need to forget ing our land to service Europe with things our people cannot afford to consume

The other thing is that they have the power to crash prices of cocoa and other commodities when you least expect it . We have seen it many times with crude oil


We should focus on trading with our African neighbours growing things that Nigerians eat or our neighbours eat

Rice , Yam, beans, vegetables, cassava potatoes
If we must grow cocoa. We must insist on making chocolates from it and aim to get our people to consume it
If not let us aim to train our youths to make electric cars, solar s and so on

No matter how you dice it the labourers working on cocoa farms are close to slave labour. Our people deserve better

Now Chinese people are going into the bush and loading containers with cashew and cocoa and our people are celebrating because they see the kind of money they have never seen before but it is not in our best interest. We need to look at the bigger world picture. See what Trump is doing

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

Summary of the matter is…. Money is a tool for mind control.

An illusion people keep chasing after, rather than being in sync with nature to improve their standard of living.

The picture below explains it better.

omonnakoda:
Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Why are dollars a good thing? What do you do with the dollars? Consume imported stuff that fuels jobs in other countries?


The problem is this

Land used to grow cocoa is not being used to grow stuff that we eat in Nigeria. That is a problem

Is that opportunity cost worth it for the country if you end up importin rice? using dollars?

African Nations are being used as farmlands for rich countries to grow cocoa, cashew nuts cassava, coffee, tea even flowers whilst African people go hungry. Most of these cash crops their people cannot afford to consume.

We are not even allowed to add value to the cocoa and the real money is made in places like the USA, Belgium, , Switzerland


We need to forget ing our land to service Europe with things our people cannot afford to consume

The other thing is that they have the power to crash prices of cocoa and other commodities when you least expect it . We have seen it many times with crude oil


We should focus on trading with our African neighbours growing things that Nigerians eat or our neighbours eat

Rice , Yam, beans, vegetables, cassava potatoes
If we must grow cocoa. We must insist on making chocolates from it and aim to get our people to consume it
If not let us aim to train our youths to make electric cars, solar s and so on

No matter how you dice it the labourers working on cocoa farms are close to slave labour. Our people deserve better

Now Chinese people are going into the bush and loading containers with cashew and cocoa and our people are celebrating because they see the kind of money they have never seen before but it is not in our best interest. We need to look at the bigger world picture. See what Trump is doing

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

there is enough land laying off without anything on it,cultivation of cocoa has nothing to do with land for cultivation of food to satisfy Nigeria as a country, only niger state sur South East in land mass

Prolly we need to have Processing Industries

being:
@omonnakoda
It is alwyas a good thing to have a cash crop living up to its potential. We have plenty of lands for other crops! U can encourage value addition without stopping Cocoa production

Nothing is always good

And generally I do not engage with people who talk like that they are generally incapable of analysis and often talk like children
E,g you say
We have plenty of land? How much ? do you have any figures or data?

The issue is that the priority must be to use our land to ensure FOOD SECURITY for our people.
Why are we hungry
Our people are starving and we are importing food despite having more arable land than all African countries

There is no point in using our land for so called cash crops when we are TOTALLY EXCLUDED from value addition

Let me give you a simple statistic

The Total cocoa bean export in the whole world in 2025 was under $10 billion but Chocolate worldwide in the same period was close to $150 billion So if we cannot participate in that we should think whether cocoa production is the best way to use our land and whether we should be cutting down our forests to grow more cocoa


IT IS MORE PROFITABLE for Belgium Switzerland that do not have a single cocoa tree.

They are exploiting us.

omonnakoda:
Every thing in life has two side Let me introduce a different perspective

Yes farmers are making money but does the country benefit?

Some may argue. It brings in dollars .

Why are dollars a good thing? What do you do with the dollars? Consume imported stuff that fuels jobs in other countries?


The problem is this

Land used to grow cocoa is not being used to grow stuff that we eat in Nigeria. That is a problem

Is that opportunity cost worth it for the country if you end up importin rice? using dollars?

African Nations are being used as farmlands for rich countries to grow cocoa, cashew nuts cassava, coffee, tea even flowers whilst African people go hungry. Most of these cash crops their people cannot afford to consume.

We are not even allowed to add value to the cocoa and the real money is made in places like the USA, Belgium, , Switzerland


We need to forget ing our land to service Europe with things our people cannot afford to consume

The other thing is that they have the power to crash prices of cocoa and other commodities when you least expect it . We have seen it many times with crude oil


We should focus on trading with our African neighbours growing things that Nigerians eat or our neighbours eat

Rice , Yam, beans, vegetables, cassava potatoes
If we must grow cocoa. We must insist on making chocolates from it and aim to get our people to consume it
If not let us aim to train our youths to make electric cars, solar s and so on

No matter how you dice it the labourers working on cocoa farms are close to slave labour. Our people deserve better

Now Chinese people are going into the bush and loading containers with cashew and cocoa and our people are celebrating because they see the kind of money they have never seen before but it is not in our best interest. We need to look at the bigger world picture. See what Trump is doing

Let our land serve us

Something similar is happening with Dangote. He is more intent on exporting fertilizer than mobilizing it to boost food production in Nigeria.

Here is a very interesting fact

Nigeria is number 8 in the list of countries with Arable land and number one in Africa.


Why are we hungry.

The cocoa story is nice but let us switch that to what we actually eat IN NIGERIA

Oga bottom line is that if I go into cocoa farming it is to get the harvest and sell to the highest bidder preferably in $$, ££, € etc, take my money and put in my foreign aza or local domiciliary "accant" for the betterment of me and my family. You on the other hand can grow local crops for consumption of locals and to lift Nigeria up.
There is enough land to go around for you and I.

emperor4love:
there is enough land laying off without anything on it,cultivation of cocoa has nothing to do with land for cultivation of food to satisfy Nigeria as a country, only niger state sur South East in land mass

How much land? Many of you just talk ignorantly?

Do you have figures?

Is land the only input> The question is whether that is the best use for our land and does it benefit our people

Any worker working on a cocoa farm is not producing rice or yam or things WE EAT

There is not an infinite supply of workers

It cocoa is more profitable then no one is producing yam

Recently India banned the export of rice WHY? is it that they don't know how to cash out

When you look at what Trump is doing and other happenings around the world you will understand that the issues are very deep and we must think Nigeria First.

If American ships blockade our ports for any reason will we eat Cocoa beans?

First we must have food security before we make crops that we cannot even afford to consume

seborrhic:
Shocking report coming from Reuters.
Looking like what a typical Nigerian blog would write.
It takes an average of 3-5 years to harvest Cocoa.
So how can someone that went into cocoa farming in 2023,have harvested and sold that much by early 2025 or even 2024 when the guy interviewed would have harvested?
I hope Reuters has not been sold another agric scam because before you know it ponzi schemes would start exploding, telling people they will double their money in 6months once they invest their money into a cocoa farming programme with promises to buy hectares of cocoa that would be harvested and exported to the international market in 6months

You must not know everything. Those of us living in ikom know what is obtainable. There's no single lie in the write up. Improved seeds now produce in 2 to 3 years. The names mentioned are people we know. So, calm down.

nedekid:

Oga bottom line is that if I go into cocoa farming it is to get the harvest and sell to the highest bidder preferably in $$, ££, € etc, take my money and put in my foreign aza or local domiciliary "accant" for the betterment of me and my family. You on the other hand can grow local crops for consumption of locals and to lift Nigeria up.
There is enough land to go around for you and I.

Your accant ?

That is a conversation you should have with people at your intellectual level

Na monkey and monkey dey jump


If you don gerrit forget it

My message is not for everyone

The message is simple

What would Trump do?

Trump would not allow anyone to take a single Cocoa bean out of America

You will be force to convert every single bean into Chocolate

IN AMERICA

Not picking up crumbs and celebrating like monkeys

70% of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa mainly Ivory Coast Ghana and Nigeria

But these countries have next to Zero participation in the Chocolate industry

Do you know there is a World Cocoa Foundation?
The Headquarters is in Washington

Make that make sense

We should do exactly what Trump is doing

Tell them if we cannot be in charge i.e Ivory Coast , Nigeria and Ghana then

We no do again. Nigeria First

But you see hungry fools see a few dollars with no sense of the big picture ready to sell their birthright for a bowl of soup


The rich countries are greedy and selfish

This is why the exchange rate is what it is .

We cannot make phones computers or cars even the small one that should be ours they seize

How can we progress?

I just moved mine to the forest.

Even as I never pay for land finish....but God will provide

No dulling

If you need cocoa in bulk kindly me
Zero nine zero one four four five nine eight zero six . Jokers pls stay off .

nedekid:

Oga bottom line is that if I go into cocoa farming it is to get the harvest and sell to the highest bidder preferably in $$, ££, € etc, take my money and put in my foreign aza or local domiciliary "accant" for the betterment of me and my family. You on the other hand can grow local crops for consumption of locals and to lift Nigeria up.
There is enough land to go around for you and I.

Interesting.

Which farmlands, the ones infested by herdsmen.

omonnakoda:
The message is simple

What would Trump do?

Trump would not allow anyone to take a single Cocoa bean out of America

You will be force to convert every single bean into Chocolate

IN AMERICA

Not picking up crumbs and celebrating like monkeys

70% of the world's cocoa comes from West Africa mainly Ivory Coast Ghana and Nigeria

But these countries have next to Zero participation in the Chocolate industry

Do you know there is a World Cocoa Foundation?
The Headquarters is in Washington

Make that make sense

We should do exactly what Trump is doing

Tell them if we cannot be in charge i.e Ivory Coast , Nigeria and Ghana then

We no do again. Nigeria First

But you see hungry fools see a few dollars with no sense of the big picture ready to sell their birthright for a bowl of soup


The rich countries are greedy and selfish

This is why the exchange rate is what it is .

We cannot make phones computers or cars even the small one that should be ours they seize

How can we progress?

You made a whole lot of sense tonight, you think like me. Africa is a sleeping giant

But cocoa grows in trees that take not less than 4 years to mature.
They make it sound like this is a business you can just jump into.
How many people can afford to start a business that will not make a single dime for the first 4 years.

Yeye dey smell

omonnakoda:
Your accant ?

That is a conversation you should have with people at your intellectual level

Na monkey and monkey dey jump


If you don gerrit forget it

My message is not for everyone

Don't worry, when you grow up, have responsibility and face the reality of naija you will realise the fallasy of all you wrote as being a utopian dream. People especially politicians have said and written all you wrote thousands of times since independence but we are where we are, you surely will not be the last to have such noble ideas. In reality what have you as a person done in your own space to eg grow what we eat or even cultivate and instead of export raw but added value? Likely nothing, it is all talk.