Coconuts. Such a versatile product. You can eat them, you can drink its fresh sweet juice. You can even use it on your skin and hair.
But as Alan has been finding out they can also be made into coco-peat and they can produce energy.
So a very handy crop.
And this is why Nigeria, despite growing plenty of them, last month, the country launched a coconut planting initiative in the southwestern town of Badagry in Lagos.
It's part of a drive to promote the fruit as a cash crop and help the country become self-sufficient, as today Nigeria still imports 70% of the coconuts it needs from countries like Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
Alan Kasujja sits down with BBC Business reporter Ijeoma Ndukwe to find out why Nigeria is nuts about coconuts and how the country can become self-sufficient in coconut production?