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Turn Your Backyard Garden To Snail Haven

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Prince Arinze Onebunna

Are you an unemployed graduate or did you just retire from paid employment and you are aspiring to own a business? If you answer yes, I advice you to invest in snail farming and turn your backyard garden to snail haven. As the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Jovana Farms, I knew that backyard snail breeding can take many people out of unemployment..

Millions of Nigerians can get out of poverty if all local governments set-up snail farms. I advice

job seekers, retirees and all business minded people to focus on snail business because it can put food on your table.

Snails are very easy to rear. They do not bite, kick, bark, sting or harm and they don’t mess up the environment like other livestock. Snail farming is a business that does not require millions of naira. If land/space like one room size is available, then you don’t have problem. With N180, 000 anyone can start it, he said.

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Two years old snail (Archachatina marginata specie) breeder (suitable for rearing) is sold for N350. They are reared in pen or in free range system. Not all snails grow to a large size some are dwarf others are giant sizes in various ages. The best are garden snail and Archachatina Marginata Species widely known as (West African Giant Snail)’, he said.

It is better for a starter to stock already domesticated snail breeders to enable them to get used to their new environment as they grow to adult. Wild adult snails caught and immediately confined may die severally because of the environmental change, the confinement and the food.

In addition, you do not buy food for snails like you do in fish farming, pig farming, poultry farming, and the rest; because they feed on shelter plants and vegetables already planted inside their pen. They are hermaphrodites having both male and female reproductive organs and this means that all the snails in the farm will be busy laying eggs year in year out.

Anyone can start snail farming and make profit within six months. At the end of the day, one snail can produce 60-young snails in a year, Snails are noiseless, odourless and very cheap to rear.

The profit in sail farming is encouraging because each Archachatina Marginata snail under suitable environmental and climatic conditions can  produce at least 100 eggs in a year and a small scale farmer can keep at least 300 snail breeders and make profit.

Therefore, 300 snails can produce about 18,000 eggs in a year with at least 50 percent success,  9,000 hatched eggs can grow to adult snails within two years with 9, 000 adult snails suitable for consumption at N100 per snail with whole sale prices producing N900, 000’.

From my experience, Snail farming is profitable and millions of jobs can be created through snail business alone. Sadly, Nigerian preference and rush for oil money has led to the utter neglect of this lucrative agricultural enterprise. People can raise snails for their own consumption or for a commercial business. The time is right to utilize a natural food resource that is literally at their feet. Pen or free range snail farming is not a hobby, it is a serious business that yields good financial reward’, he said.

Potential 

In Nigeria, “congo meat” (popular name for snail meat). It does not have high cholesterol, in most cases doctors recommend  it to people who have heart condition, and the demand for snail meat is so high.

Snails are very food  providing animal protein. They can be fried, roasted and or prepared as the popular pepper soup and served in big hotels, restaurants, eateries as well as some joints patronized by middle to high level people.

Challenges

People find it difficult to get the fast growing specie of African Giant Snails (Archachatina Marginata) suitable for domestic rearing, but I am happy to tell you that in my Jovana farms, we have high quality snail breeders, you can start your snail farming business with.

The archachatina  marginata snail specie has very high market value of local consumption or for export.

The first challenge I face involves technicalities, what this means is that people need to go for proper practical training before venturing into the snail farming business. Some people who started the business without the right specie of snail or without practical training have already shut down.

They did it as a hobby, and at the end of the day, abandoned the business because of one mistake or the other.

As unemployment increases with more jobs being threatened, people keep seeking for things to do. Besides their jobs it will help support the family income, yet would not take much of their time. And, since 70 per cent of Nigerians live below one dollar/a day, it only make sense to put time, resources and energy into other productive areas. And snail farming, because of its almost zero production cost has proven to be one of such areas.

Supply

When I started my snail business, I laid more emphasis on how to produce very cheap food supplement that will enable them grow faster and heavier. I started from developing food high in calcium, fibre and crude protein myself, and developed the criteria for measuring their growth rate and weight and compiling their data one after the other.

Today, I have put in place an indigenous scientific approach to breeding giant snails that guarantees fast growth and high productivity. People come to my farm for supplies of snail breeders (suitable for rearing) and their supplement feed.

Expectations from the Government

The government and agric-politicians should be well advised to use snail farming to alleviate poverty and unemployment in the society.

Jovana  farms organizes nationwide sensitization training seminars on the practical ways of making it through small scale animal farming. Attend our nationwide seminars nearest to you and know more opportunities in quail and other small animal farming. Visit: www.jovanafarm.com or www.facebook.com/jovanafarm for more details.

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Kano Transfers Over 1,000 Almajiris To Different States Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

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The Kano State Government on Saturday said it has transferred 1,098 ‘almajiris’ to different states of the country.

The commissioner for local government, Murtala Garo, disclosed this while presenting a report before the state’s task force on COVID-19 at the government house, Kano.

Almajiris are children who are supposed to be learning Islamic studies while living with their Islamic teachers. Majority of them, however, end up begging on the streets of Northern Nigeria. They constitute a large number of Nigeria’s over 10 million out-of-school children.

Mr Garo said the Kano government transported 419 almajiris to Katsina, 524 to Jigawa and 155 to Kaduna. He said all of them tested negative for coronavirus before leaving the Kano State.

Despite the coronavirus test done in Kano for the almajiris, the Jigawa government earlier said it would quarantine for two weeks all the almajiris that recently arrived from Kano.

Mr Garo said another 100 almajiris scheduled to be taken to Bauchi State also tested negative to COVID-19.

In a remark, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje said the COVID-19 situation in Kano was getting worse. He appealed for a collaborative effort to curtail the spread of the virus in the state.

Mr Ganduje, who commended residents for complying with the lockdown imposed in the state, said the decision was taken to halt the spread of the virus.

Kano State, as of Saturday night, has 77 coronavirus cases, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

The decision to transfer the Kano almajiris is part of the agreement reached between Northern governors that almajiris in each state be transferred to their states of origin.

However, even before the latest agreement by the governors, the Kano government had been transferring almajiris to other states and neighbouring countries after it banned street begging in the state, most populous in Northern Nigeria.

Despite the transfers, however, no concrete step has been taken to ensure such children do not return to Kano streets as there is freedom of movement across Nigeria although interstate travel was recently banned to check the spread of the coronavirus.

 

Sourced From: Premium Times Nigeria

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COVID-19: ‘Bakassi Boys’ Foil Attempt To Smuggle 24 Women Into Abia In Container

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By Ugochukwu Alaribe

Operatives of the Abia State Vigilante Service, AVS, popularly known as ‘Bakassi Boys’ have arrested 24 market women hidden in a container truck, at Ekwereazu Ngwa, the boundary community between Abia and Akwa Ibom states.

The market women, said to be  from Akwa Ibom State, were on their way to Aba, when they were arrested with the truck driver and two of his conductors for violating the lockdown order by the state government.

Driver of the truck, Moses Asuquo, claimed he was going to Aba to purchase stock fish, but decided to assist the market women, because they were stranded.

A vigilante source told Sunday Vanguard that the vehicle was impounded while the market women were sent back to Akwa Ibom State.

Commissioner for Home Land Security, Prince Dan Okoli, who confirmed the incident, said that  smuggling of people into the state poses great threat to the state government’s efforts to contain the spread of COVID- 19.

 

Sourced From: Vanguard News

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Woman Kills Her Maid Over Salary Request

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Operatives of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba of the Lagos State police command have arrested one Mrs Nene Steve for allegedly killing her maid, Joy Adole

The maid was allegedly beaten to death by Nene for requesting for her salary at their residence located at 18, Ogundola Street, Bariga area in Lagos.

Narrating the incident, Philips Ejeh, an elder brother to the deceased said that he was sad when they informed him that his sister was beaten to death.

He explained that the deceased was an indigene of Benue State brought to Lagos through an agent and started working with her as a maid  in January 2020.

‘’She reported that her boss refused to pay her and anytime she asked for her salary she will start beating her.

She was making an attempt to leave the place but due to the total lockdown she remained there until Sunday when her boss said she caught her stealing noodles and this led to her serious beating and death,’’ Ejeh said.

He called on Lagos State Government and well- meaning people in the country to help them in getting justice for the victim.

The police spokesman, Bala Elkana, stated that the woman and her husband came to Bariga Police  Station to a report that their house girl had committed suicide.

Detectives were said to have visited the house and suspected foul play with the position of the rope and bruises all over the body which confirmed that the girl had been tortured to death and the boss decided to hang up the girl to make it look like suicide.

He said: “The police moved on with their investigation and found a lot of sign of violence on her body that she has been tortured before a rope was put on her neck.’’

He added that the police removed the corpse and deposited it in the mortuary for autopsy to further ascertain the cause of the death.

Elkana said the matter has been transferred from Bariga police station to Panti for further investigation while the couple have been arrested and will be charged to court.

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Boko Haram Attacks: Buhari Summons Urgent Meeting Of Service Chiefs

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President Buhari and the Service Chiefs in a meeting. (File photo)

Ostensibly alarmed by the latest killings of dozens of soldiers by Boko Haram insurgents, President Muhammadu Buhari has summoned an urgent meeting of Service Chiefs to find ways to stop the trend. 

He has also dispatched the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, to the neighbouring Republic of Chad for an urgent meeting with President Idris Deby and his defence counterpart. 

Knowledgeable sources said in Abuja on Friday that the president is worried by on the deterioration of security situation on the Nigeria – Chad Border that has led to the recently increased Boko Haram terrorism in the area.

The sources which did not want to be named in Abuja said: “Nigeria has a Chad  problem in the Multi-National Joint Task Force (MNJTF) put together to secure the Lake Chad basin areas and repeal the Boko Haram terrorist attacks against all the countries neighbouring the Lake.”

The sources noted that Chad is believed to be having their own internal security challenges and this has reportedly led to their pulling away their own troops manning their own border around Lake Chad,  saying: “That lacuna is being exploited by the Boko Haram terrorists, who go in and out of Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon to launch terrorist acts.  This is a clear illustration of the fact that terrorism is beyond national borders.”

When contacted, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed that the Defence Minister is going to Chad but said he is unaware of the purpose. 

Meanwhile, the military authorities are said to be in the process of identifying the families of the latest victims with a view to making contact with them. 

Credible sources revealed that it is the reason the president is yet to make any pronouncement on the matter. 

“The President has called an urgent meeting with the Service Chiefs, as well as the fact that families of the latest victims of the Boko Haram are being identified and contacts made before a government pronouncement on the tragic attacks. This, it is understood, is the reason for the silence of the government over the incident,” the source said. 

 

Sourced From: Tribune

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