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[00:00:18] Hello and welcome, this is Just
[00:00:21] Nigeria, coming up on the program, smart
[00:00:25] farming can artificial intelligence help Nigerian farmers grow more
[00:00:29] food. waste less and feed a green
[00:00:32] population and clean
[00:00:35] living. Barbie subis popup market supports women farmers
[00:00:39] and brings healthier food choices to more Nigerians.
[00:00:43] Also, Cameron's rising
[00:00:46] femicides, fresh killings of eight women spark outrage
[00:00:50] and renewed cause for stronger laws against gender-based violence.
[00:00:53] Plus, my name is Ahmed. Check me
[00:00:57] me out. The social entrepreneur who has inpart. more than
[00:01:00] 13000 young
[00:01:03] of Africans,
[00:01:15] thank you for joining this episode of Jist Nalgeria brought to you by the BBC and
[00:01:19] Channel's television, here we track stories online in the news and
[00:01:23] unpack what they mean for everyday Nigerians, I am wali
[00:01:27] fakile, we begin with our top story.
[00:01:31] now getting food from the farm to our tables is becoming more
[00:01:34] difficult as farmers battle climate change in security
[00:01:38] and rising costs around the world, AI is helping
[00:01:42] farmers work smarter, but can it do the same in
[00:01:45] algeria? in this
[00:01:47] of story, just Nigeria's Mercy Frank takes a look at the
[00:01:50] opportunities, the challenges and what it could mean for the
[00:01:54] country's food future. Over 30
[00:01:58] million Nigerians face a... huge food insecurity,
[00:02:02] can artificial intelligence put food back on their plates? the
[00:02:06] biggest problem of agriculture in
[00:02:08] de Nigeria is post-arvest loss data we have come to
[00:02:12] learn is by far the most important
[00:02:15] aspect for development
[00:02:17] in agriculture. we are building a system called AI
[00:02:19] detector, AI corp detector, it detects
[00:02:23] the kind of diseases affecting the cop and it will give you much more
[00:02:26] insight. we need
[00:02:28] of a national fooding. intelligence
[00:02:30] system.
[00:02:36] of in Food
[00:02:40] security remains one of Nigeria's biggest challenges.
[00:02:44] The United Nations World food
[00:02:46] in program focused that by the peak
[00:02:48] of the 2026 Lean season, nearly one out of every
[00:02:51] seven people in Nigeria is at risk of
[00:02:54] a severe and acute hunger, just one step away
[00:02:58] from farming. You already are we. the insecurity crisis across the
[00:03:02] food system, different regions where food is primarily
[00:03:06] produced and then climate change which results to either
[00:03:09] droughts, outbreak of pest and
[00:03:12] disease. in southeastern
[00:03:15] state, david onoaha says he spent two years
[00:03:19] building a livelihood from casava and rice
[00:03:22] of guided by instinct, the royal elements and wisdom of older
[00:03:26] farmers. i call on the experienced ones i asks
[00:03:30] people around, people have been into this for decades, people have been
[00:03:38] of me into it for centuries, you have to understand how does this thing work, why is the leaves - turning brown, why is
[00:03:42] this area not going where he supposed
[00:03:43] in to go, but instinct has its limits, last year i ventured
[00:03:47] into rice farming, i had my biggest loss because i
[00:03:51] ventured almost all my
[00:03:52] of savings into it, while david is yet to come to terms with how
[00:03:56] emerging technologies beat traditional guest work, for the north
[00:04:00] in Kaduna state, Samshudin Jibril builds
[00:04:03] of agricultural drones after watching his father's health
[00:04:06] deteriorates from handling pesticides. I saw how his labor
[00:04:10] is used to spray chemical which
[00:04:13] of is very manual and is very hazardous. It lead them to have
[00:04:17] spotty problems, cancer diseases and many more. So he built an
[00:04:21] of AI powered drone to care for the crops faster than humans
[00:04:25] cold. A manual person can do 10 or 50,
[00:04:28] we can do more than 400 in ad because
[00:04:32] it's it's it's much more faster and predict plant
[00:04:35] diseases before it's too late. i saw how farmers are
[00:04:39] even having kind
[00:04:41] of of of of like
[00:04:41] a difficulty in terms of um detecting diseases like
[00:04:45] kachia there's a lot of ginger farmers uh they lost millions
[00:04:49] of millions of ner by using our
[00:04:53] machine will help them to identify. other experts
[00:04:56] add that AI can support
[00:04:59] of farmers long before. crops even reach maturity: AI can help
[00:05:03] a farmer know planting season based on an AI
[00:05:06] powered advisory system, so such powered advisory
[00:05:10] system will
[00:05:11] of need the...
[00:05:12] tells about the crop, the soil
[00:05:16] moisture, so these are features that the AI model will take in.
[00:05:20] this promise also holds true for livestock. you simply
[00:05:23] take a picture of probably a goat
[00:05:26] or a cow and it based on
[00:05:30] physical features of physical symptoms in that image, the air model can
[00:05:34] predict if if that image is -
[00:05:38] that cow or goat is diseased with about 42.
[00:05:42] small holder farmers in Nigeria, the question of how AI can
[00:05:46] scale without widening the digital divide begs for
[00:05:49] answers, we should not treat it as one of those apps that
[00:05:53] should be handed over to farmers right, so it should rather be an
[00:05:57] integration across different systems that support farmer's
[00:06:01] activities, look at the farmers you want to give the tools
[00:06:04] to, are they digitally
[00:06:06] literates?
[00:06:16] Records show that in 2025, Nigeria lost an
[00:06:19] estimated 40 million metric tons of food to post
[00:06:23] harvest inefficiencies with tomatoes, vegetables,
[00:06:27] fruits, dairy, meat, fish and root crops mostly
[00:06:31] hit, because of insecurity in certain areas, farmers are no
[00:06:35] longer cultivating around these areas and some infrastructure have
[00:06:39] become
[00:06:40] more reborn tomato farmers like an, young suffered from this
[00:06:43] systemic inefficiency. when came harvers time there
[00:06:47] was a glot and because there was a glot we lost a bit of money.
[00:06:51] now if we had known prior to
[00:06:55] planting the data of what was being
[00:06:59] grown, how many farmers were growing tomatoes? how
[00:07:02] many hectares of tomato farms were being
[00:07:05] cultivated? you would be able to have more understanding of whether or
[00:07:09] not it was a good time to plant tomatoes, which it wasn't.
[00:07:13] Anekon says that loss
[00:07:14] was the start of an AI solution platform to follow crops from
[00:07:18] farmer to buyer. now to do all of those things we need to get data
[00:07:22] on all the farms and all the farmers that are exporting and are producing so
[00:07:26] that we can have data on the farm that it was
[00:07:30] grown, the warehouse it was aggregated to and stored
[00:07:34] and the exporter who eventually exports it so that a single
[00:07:37] scan from buyer and they can see the entire value
[00:07:41] chain, the entire supply chain of that
[00:07:43] product, so how much more
[00:07:47] opportunities does AI bring across the food chain?
[00:07:51] if other support activities within the food
[00:07:54] system can introduce the use of
[00:07:58] AI in order to ensure that challenges
[00:08:02] that triggers the breakdown are addressed,
[00:08:05] not from reactive point of view, but from a mitigative and
[00:08:09] decision making early enough to ensure. that the system is
[00:08:13] resilient, so I believe that AI will be able to support that, would have been
[00:08:17] able to help say processors know whether it was time to
[00:08:21] double down on the investment and build a bigger processing, or whether it was time to
[00:08:25] invest in cold cold um chain,
[00:08:28] cold storage chains like for preservation of post
[00:08:32] harvest losses, would be wrong for us to use um american
[00:08:35] data to solve Nigerian problem, it's not going to
[00:08:38] work, reports indicate that out of Nigeria's overall
[00:08:42] food losses, about 20% occurs specifically during the
[00:08:46] transportation and transit phase. we have done a study and we have
[00:08:50] seen that sometimes they even spend far more than what they are carrying by the time they
[00:08:54] get to the in their destination, which means they will pass all these cost
[00:08:58] also to the market. yeah, in the event that
[00:09:02] let's say the truck that is moving the food breaks down, with
[00:09:05] that intelligent information through the support of AI or integration of
[00:09:09] AI, the distributor. or the offtak should
[00:09:13] be able to get to the closest
[00:09:17] infrastructure to store this food in order
[00:09:21] to avoid further breakdown or um
[00:09:24] spoilage the food. you can have AI
[00:09:27] powered um um cold silos right
[00:09:31] air power cooling systems that
[00:09:34] is it will control the amount
[00:09:38] of
[00:09:38] you know temperature even while um these
[00:09:42] products are being
[00:09:43] transported.
[00:09:53] Nigeria's national artificial intelligence strategy names
[00:09:56] agriculture as one of its priority sectors with pilot
[00:10:00] projects targeted for the 2024 to 2026
[00:10:04] window. Beyond pilot we have to think
[00:10:07] scalability and adopt the right model and
[00:10:10] strategies that ensures that this technology
[00:10:14] AI itself is decentralized AI
[00:10:17] starts with data so if the government can
[00:10:21] invest more in data systems also
[00:10:26] um infrastructure, we need to build by ourself here Nigeria,
[00:10:30] not be importing everything for David, the
[00:10:34] future of farming may still depend on experience, for innovators
[00:10:38] like Samshidin and it may increase in the dependent
[00:10:41] data, infrastructure, connectivity, and for
[00:10:45] Nigeria, bridging those two worlds may determine whether
[00:10:49] AI transforms its food system or remains
[00:10:53] another promising idea. that never
[00:10:56] skills. Mercy Frank, just
[00:10:59] Nigeria.
[00:11:05] Well, the future of farming may be smarter than we think. Can AI
[00:11:09] help Nigerian farmers cremer food, reduce waste and ultimately
[00:11:13] make food cheaper for everyone? Tell us what you think on exit just
[00:11:17] Nigeria TV, would love to hear from
[00:11:19] you. Um, to our next
[00:11:22] story, what happens when it's cup business executive
[00:11:26] swaps the bordroom for the farm, that's exactly what
[00:11:30] Barbie Subai is doing using organic farmers markets to connect
[00:11:33] people with fresh healthy food while supporting women farmers
[00:11:37] and vendors. Just Nigeria Show recently met
[00:11:40] up with her in Lagos. I
[00:11:44] choose to focus on organic because what we take
[00:11:48] in into our body determines who we
[00:11:51] are.
[00:12:12] It's really hard to find adult tasted honey in Nigeria, now I know we think
[00:12:16] of it as a Nigerian problem, but it's a global thing, honey is the third most adold treated food
[00:12:20] worldwide.
[00:12:33] In the advent of farmers and
[00:12:37] traders wanting to maximize
[00:12:41] profits and reduce wastage. They have
[00:12:45] started using chemicals that are harmful
[00:12:49] and really it is killing us
[00:12:52] slowly. So I started organic farming. and I thought,
[00:12:56] okay, so if I grow these vegetables, how do I sell
[00:12:58] them?
[00:13:09] We were looking at um, food from farm to
[00:13:13] table and from farm to skin, and then we expanded it even
[00:13:17] further to include wellness and
[00:13:18] sustainability.
[00:13:29] "we run quarterly business growth workshops, so it's like a pseudo
[00:13:33] accelerator program where we help them
[00:13:36] to put the right structures in their businesses so that they can grow and
[00:13:40] scale. over the last 10 years we now have over 300 women on our
[00:13:43] platform and we run the market weekly and at the end
[00:13:47] the year we have huge market event where we try and bring all our
[00:13:51] vendors together." "
[00:13:57] Obviously being here at the market gives a platform, it gives me the
[00:14:01] opportunity to meet people, to meet potential customers
[00:14:05] and also to learn from people. What you don't get a
[00:14:09] supermarket is that that face to face
[00:14:12] interaction with
[00:14:13] customers.
[00:14:22] We're hoping to scale through replication.
[00:14:25] um keeping the market size small so that we
[00:14:29] can still have the personal input to helping our women in
[00:14:33] their businesses. nice one
[00:14:37] there bby andsted to come here and just Nigeria from the
[00:14:41] BBC and channels television after wave of
[00:14:45] killings cause growth for stronger protection of women in
[00:14:49] Cameroon.
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[00:15:52] begins with news gathering and research. we
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[00:16:08] of both the fiscal and
[00:16:09] the monetary authorities make impact. 90% of
[00:16:13] Nigeria's economy is an informal sector, just like this market,
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[00:16:58] many thanks for staying here, i am wali fakile, still
[00:17:01] ahead, the social entrepreneur dedicated to youth
[00:17:05] empowerment and workforce development, across
[00:17:07] africa, but before we
[00:17:11] take that story, cameron is
[00:17:15] facing green concern over the killing of women with many calling for strong
[00:17:19] action to protect them, official figures show that at
[00:17:23] least 250 women have been killed since 2023,
[00:17:27] but campaign has said the real number could be even
[00:17:29] higher
[00:17:36] just. "we are simply waiting for justice to be
[00:17:39] done, we are placing everything in the hands of
[00:17:42] justicement la
[00:17:46] justice,
[00:17:47] cristance
[00:18:05] d'abord je voulais que c'est elle
[00:18:07] qui se..." I wanted Christians to be here because as she was the elderst a
[00:18:11] family of nine children, I wanted her to be the guide the family
[00:18:14] after me. In principle, she had no favorites because she
[00:18:18] had not experienced motherhood, she could not have
[00:18:21] favourites, so she was everybody's mother. More
[00:18:25] than four and a half years ago they lost their mother,
[00:18:29] and christians was the only one who had to replace
[00:18:32] her.
[00:18:36] qui devait remplacer.
[00:18:50] women were victims of domestic violence in Cameroon and not
[00:18:54] protected, there is no real structure in place, because when you
[00:18:57] complain, people ask you, why did he beat you? when you say he
[00:19:01] beat you while you were asleep, nobody believes you, you
[00:19:05] arrive and find women like yourself, was supposed to welcome you,
[00:19:09] but they are the very women who tell you, I'm sure it was the neighbor who
[00:19:13] advised you to file a complaint against your husband, is she
[00:19:16] divorced?
[00:19:25] can reassure you that we have reached a consensus on the
[00:19:29] formulation the different articles and what have
[00:19:33] you, so I think that the next step is for
[00:19:36] that bill. to go to the highest
[00:19:40] authority the
[00:19:41] state,
[00:19:50] very disturbing phenomenon there, and bik in
[00:19:53] Algeria, precisely in the southeast, oh waterfall in
[00:19:57] Enogu state, one the areas popular tourist attractions
[00:20:01] is set for face left, the state government says it plans to upgrade the
[00:20:05] site to attract more visitors and make the experience even
[00:20:08] better, inkirjogu tells us
[00:20:11] more. ohome, one
[00:20:15] the communities in the local government area of state
[00:20:19] and the host to the majestic waterfall that plonges about
[00:20:23] 30 meters down the
[00:20:24] rock. it's a
[00:20:28] journey of about 45 minutes from the city center and another
[00:20:32] 45 minutes track through dense vegetation in the
[00:20:36] company the local v
[00:20:43] after the long walk and crossing some huddles, the stream from the
[00:20:47] waterfall finally comes into view.
[00:20:52] so cool,
[00:20:54] hello, here the water cuts
[00:20:57] its way through towring rock, creating a narrow passage
[00:21:01] into the heart of a
[00:21:02] home.
[00:21:09] one after another, tourists step beneath the ting
[00:21:12] waterfall, taking in the water at close range and inscribing their
[00:21:16] names on the wall. beyond
[00:21:20] expectation, i've seen it on videos, pictures,
[00:21:24] but i think coming here does more justice to it
[00:21:28] than what you see online uh, we walked through the
[00:21:31] waterfall, not just looking at the waterfall, so
[00:21:35] it's it's breathtaking, i think it's so cool, it's
[00:21:39] such an adventure, it's really nice buse it's not only waterfall, it's like
[00:21:42] actually you walk through the Kenya, you walk through the water,
[00:21:46] it's like then you come here like it's really amazing, it's so... so
[00:21:50] beautiful, it's my highlight so far. some the
[00:21:53] tourists give their expectations on how to make the waterfall more
[00:21:57] attractive. so i think government should improve on the general
[00:22:00] security, it will help touris also access. the
[00:22:04] road to this place, if um there is a way they can provide,
[00:22:08] because the major problem getting to this place is that tracking. if there is
[00:22:11] anything this place is now is means of transportation. the state government
[00:22:15] says is creating another route through different communities for those.
[00:22:20] who may not want to walk on the water, you walk on the
[00:22:24] board, there will also be canopy
[00:22:27] walkway so that from the canopy walkway
[00:22:31] you can also view the water,
[00:22:34] for the villages, however, erosion remains one the biggest
[00:22:38] problems to the sides, and
[00:22:42] from that story we go to check me out, a weekly
[00:22:45] showcase of niges doing amazing things both home and abroad,
[00:22:49] this we check out ahmed alabi who is early
[00:22:52] life one of Africa's largest low-income communities in
[00:22:56] Lagas fuel is passion for community change. Let's check
[00:23:00] him out. My name is
[00:23:04] entrepreneur and Airtech
[00:23:05] leader.
[00:23:09] I give you this award.
[00:23:11] Congratulations.
[00:23:16] I was born and raised in one the largest in Africa.
[00:23:20] Nigeria, I lost mama when I was seven and my dad lost his job
[00:23:24] almost at the same time. I stayed out of school for academic term
[00:23:27] until the program for four children when I was 14. This
[00:23:31] program introduced me to serves team and leadership. At the age of 15,
[00:23:35] I started teaching a basic rural school eurodu which is another
[00:23:39] community where I lived in, so um and I started teaching basic literacy
[00:23:43] and numeraces skills, I said using play way method
[00:23:46] to teach kids out to spell so. like some
[00:23:50] of like
[00:23:50] you know moment that shaped my
[00:23:52] trajectory,
[00:23:57] i went to the university of lauring where i studied human
[00:24:01] kinetics education and i also went to the university
[00:24:05] of Edinburgh where i completed a masters degree
[00:24:08] program in Africa and international development through the mastercard
[00:24:12] foundation scholars
[00:24:13] program.
[00:24:20] i started the laboration initiative and started the first
[00:24:24] seminar career seminar in 2017 where i brought all
[00:24:28] these kids together and we had the career talk i developed a
[00:24:31] model called the ISOP model,
[00:24:35] interest trends, limitation and purpose. we decided to start an initiative
[00:24:39] called the skill to rural boot camp where these young people can
[00:24:42] identify problems in their communities and then create solutions to them using
[00:24:46] design thinking. we converted all of our resources into
[00:24:50] an airtech platform called skilltorrural.org where
[00:24:54] add all of our resources there and uh if you're a
[00:24:57] volunteer or young professional uh anywhere in
[00:25:01] Nigeria or Africa and you want to like do something within your community you can
[00:25:05] go there
[00:25:06] use our resources learn design thinking and go to your community to
[00:25:10] cascade what you have learned so and with that we've been able to
[00:25:14] like reach hundred of thousands of young people using that model we trained an
[00:25:18] AI model and that became the African first generative
[00:25:21] AI career counselor, i'm still story that is still
[00:25:25] unfolding and i know today my mom will look down me with a great
[00:25:29] pride, i'm proud the man that have become, thank
[00:25:33] you
[00:25:33] so much,
[00:25:36] thank you, my name is ahmed alabi, i'm a shor entrepreneur and air
[00:25:40] tech leader and you have just checked me
[00:25:42] out, well done,
[00:25:46] hammed, and before we go, here is a quick reminder
[00:25:49] of our top story: We looked at the potentials for artificial intelligence to help
[00:25:53] Nigerian farmers grow more food, west less and help feed the
[00:25:57] country's growing population. And that's all we can take on
[00:26:01] this week's episode the program. The conversation ends here now, but
[00:26:05] continues on our x sandal at just Nigeria TV, go there and leave your
[00:26:08] comments, you can also check out more content from us at
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[00:26:19] next time, I am Walifakile,
[00:26:22] bye.