BEEF-FATTENING: a money-spinning business IntroductionCattle-rearing is not a new business Nigeria. What is new, however, is the modern method which is unknown to the local farmers, most of whom risk their lives habitually throughout the dry season toiling and looking for where to migrate to in order to find water and feed for the animals. […]

‘We must use what we have to get what we need’-By Chukwudi Odili Background Treatise During the first and second quarters of 2020, we observed with awe, how the steep fall in international oil prices and the lock-down against the coronavirus pandemic practically left our country Nigeria with lean financial resources needed for present and […]

Background The previous edition of this write-up analysed realistic economic lessons to learn from both the COVID_19 and the steep fall in global oil prices experience, which cautions on the need to use what we have to produce even more than what we need, going forward. This edition suggests additional lessons to learn from India […]

BackgroundIt was emphasized in the preceding article that ‘basic needs’ (food, leather and footwear, wood and furniture, textile and apparel (garment) industries must be accorded number one priority by any country in the process of development because ‘basic needs’ are what matters most in life. The focus in this very edition is on food, with […]

PrefaceAs previously highlighted, the beautiful thing about the COVID_19 experience is that it would perfect us to think aright as a nation. It would make us to begin to look increasingly inwards for practically all we need, ranging systematically from food, clothing (garment) and footwear, to housing, infrastructures and other things in the needs hierarchy. […]

RationaleThe Covid_19 experience affords us yet another opportunity to begin to produce all our foot-wear needs, locally. Production of foot-wears (shoes) is necessary for our wellbeing because shoes are an extension of clothing; and as earlier pointed out, clothing is a basic necessity just as food and housing. OpportunitiesShoes come in various shapes and sizes, […]

Everybody needs housing. That is why housing just as food and clothing are classified as basic necessities of life. Taking a cue from preceding articles, there is an abundance of local materials that can be utilized to erect the buildings we need; which buttresses the fact that a new economy that we must build should […]

IntroductionFurniture, which is derivable from wood, represents a further set of basic needs that our local entrepreneurs can produce in abundance within our shores. In reality, furniture is an extension of housing which is a basic necessity. Both of them go hand in hand. Without housing, furniture may not be that valuable. On the other […]