The Backstory

Political campaigns cost money and that money has to come from somewhere. At the moment, in Nigeria, the candidate is responsible for mobilizing funds and party member contributions to party finances are non-existent. At the moment, political parties are not owned by the people because the people are not financing them. It’s time to change all of that.

Get your PVC. Vote. Join a political party. Donate funds. Be at the table. Participate in decision-making. Demand better.

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Mariam Mohammed, Lucky Usamah, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Mr. Austin Agbonsuremi of PRIMORG

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If you've been keeping up with our episodes, you know that we have been reminding you to go and register for your PVC. So, we decided to take our own advise. In this episode, Rahmat and Lucky share what happened when they went to the INEC office for PVC registration. The deadline to register for your PVC is 30th of June 2022. For more information, go to: https://cvr.inecnigeria.org . Hurry!

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Lucky Usamah, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

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Apiculture is the business and science of managing bees. To learn more about apiculture, we spoke with Chi Okafor. Chi is the founder and CEO of Kendake Honey right here in Nigeria and she’s been into apiculture for about 5 years. She spoke to us about how she got started, her challenges, and her successes in the beekeeping business.

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Mariam Mohammed, Alexandra Gekpe, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Chi Okafor of Kendake Honey.

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You can make money from bees. They will produce honey and other products that you can sell. But in order to make money from them, you have to build them a place to live and work. An apiary is a location where beehives of honey bees are kept. The Triple- E team took out time to visit an apiary on the SCL farm and BHF Agroforestry project to show you what an apiary looks like, the types of hive, and environment.

Then we spoke to Chi Okafor of Kendake Honey and she taught us all about the business aspect of running an apiary. Listen to that episode now: https://anchor.fm/thebackstoryng/episodes/Money-making-buzz-interview-with-Chi-Okafor-of-Kendake-Honey-e1jdfl0

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Mariam Mohammed, Alexandra Gekpe, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Mr. Samuel Kwasara, Barnabas, Godwin and all the members of the SCL Farms and BHF Agroforestry project and Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

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Friday the 20th of May is World Bee Day. This day has been designated by the United Nations as a day when we remind everyone about the roles that bees play in our ecosystem.

But a lot of people are afraid of bees. And it turns out that this fear is exactly what can kill us. On the one hand, fear can agitate the bees and cause them to attack us. And on the other hand, if we attack the bees and their environment, we will cause our own death.   In this episode we ask the questions - should we be afraid of bees? And why do we even have bees in the first place? What are bees good for?

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Mariam Mohammed, Lucky Usamah, Alexandra Gekpe, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

For this episode, we relied on the contributions of many individuals. Thank you to all the people who gave us feedback about your fear of bees and a very special thank you to Dr. Semiyu Olagolden and Dr. Liaidi Muideen Tella for granting us interviews and sharing your expertise with us.  Thank you to Mr. Samuel Kwasari, Barnabas, Godwin, and all the members of the SCL Farms and BHF Agroforestry project at Yangoji for taking us on a very safe tour of the apiary.

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Stealing is stealing. Except if you’re a politician. We celebrate and welcome home corrupt politicians while we curse at, beat and lynch thieves in our communities. . In this episode, we are joined by Mariam Mohammed, the newest member of our team, as we ask: why is this so?

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Mariam Mohammed, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad

Special thanks to Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

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We used several sources for this episode including:

▶︎Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement by Peter Ekeh

https://www.jstor.org/stable/178372

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▶︎Spotify

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Last month, in March, Nigeria’s Super Eagles hosted Ghana’s Black Stars at the MKO Abiola stadium in Abuja. It was the qualifying round for the World Cup and Nigeria lost. The expected behavior after a football match ends is for everyone to simply leave the stadium. But after last month’s match ended, something strange happened: a crowd of spectators began to trash and vandalize the stadium. A complete opposite but equally strange behavior happened at the 2018 World Cup: Japanese spectators, en masses, cleaned up their trash from the stadium after they lost a match.

One word may explain the strange behaviors of the Japanese and our own: conformity.

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Lucky Usamah, John Iwodi, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

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In 1996, staff at Pilanesberg National park, a game reserve in South Africa, had a problem: young bull male elephants were on a rampage. They were going after visitors and attacking and killing the rhinos. This was definitely not normal behavior for elephants. The ecologists at Pilanesberg diagnosed the situation and came up with a plan that restored the natural balance in the park. No rhino has been killed by an elephant at Pilanesberg ever since. 

Northern Nigeria has a problem: young men in their 20s and 30s are on a rampage. Can we look to the elephant for a possible solution?

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, Alexandra Gekpe, John Iwodi, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Special thanks to Mala Iwa Gbado Ikaleku.

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And that problem is called maruca vitrata. Our farmers have been battling the maruca vitrata for decades now and losing. But last year, in 2021, West African scientist made a breakthrough and it looks like our farmers may be getting closer to totally annihilating the maruca vitrata. So in this minisode, we ask: What is maruca vitrata and why has it been harassing our bean farmers?

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This episode was produced by Rahmat Muhammad, John Iwodi, Uche Mbah, Dominic Tabakaji and Sam Tabakaji.

Executive producer Rahmat Muhammad.

Copyright (c) 2022 Triple-E Media Productions. All rights reserved.

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