𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐎 𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐈 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐃𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐊𝐄𝐓 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐓? – 𝐁𝐲 𝐆𝐁𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐀 𝐎𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐄𝐏𝐎-𝐇𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐌

As a Businessman and one with a passion for Economics, I have always believed that price could be a signal of the best economic policy choices. In my secondary school, some of my classmates called me ‘Baba Econs’. For the fun of it, I took the O’ level WAEC examination in Economics as an external student in my Junior class, and I was glad with the result; I had A1. When I attended University of Buckingham in United Kingdom for my Masters’ Degree, I was grateful to God that I obtained Distinctions in International Economics and International Finance to be sure that the Secondary School performance was not a fluke. Sounds boastful and immodest, but it has become necessary in the Nigeria heavily self-opinionated atmosphere to make such introduction on this emotive subject matter. After all, I am just another politician; one of those expected ‘not to know anything’. Back to the real question; what are the things that Nigerian herders do that has kept the beef price in Nigeria one of the lo...