A001:

Subsidy on fuel will still be removed sooner or later. The humongous funds spent on subsidizing fuel aren't sustainable in the long run.

However, I suggest the government delays the subsidy removal until later in the year and use the next few months to prepare palliatives for the masses.

monerozi5590:



Na to increase minimum wage and other stuff to ease the sufferings oh. Once fuel increase like this, na so prices of things go increase for market oh.

Realmrsean:
it's his real account..

monerozi5590:


Tinubu might reverse the decision on June 1. Let's wait and see what the incoming government will do regarding that.

afrodoc2:
Buhari wants to remove subsidy without planning, the same way he banned old currency notes without planning. This presido is brain-dead.

hopefulLandlord:


But the currency he removed only affected Tinubu now. Now whenever I'm on the road I see many Tinubus queuing, I heard some Tinubus queue for hours only to be given 2K saying the bank is out of cash. worst part is that you can see the policy doesn't respect which Tinubu it affects. wether the Tinubu is from East West South North or central is inconsequential. so long this new cash policy affects you then you're Tinubu

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
"I have said it before on this show, that if you live in London , you are a Londoner, a British-Pakistan, is a Londoner. my boss, the British Foreign Secretary is clearly British-Sierra Leone & lives in London, they are Londoners."

nihilistjnr:


UK doesn't do state of origin. Infact we don't have states.

The MP (senator) for a constituency is typically "assigned" to a seat by his/her party to contest, and usually doesn't live or have any connection to the place they are going to contest for.

Rishi Sunak for example is from Southampton on the southern English coast, and has lived most of his life in London. Yet he is the MP for a constituency in North Yorkshire near Scotland.

It's like an Ikwerre man born in and bred in Port Harcourt contesting and winning a senatorial seat in Jalingo.

When people make that ignorant comparison between Lagos and London it always sounds so stupid because we practice such utterly different political systems, you might as well be comparing chalk to cheese

Realmrsean:
it's his real account..

Eazzii:
If they want to remove subsidy, they should work on electricity generation and distribution. Else, aya song.

afrodoc2:


An Ikwerre man born and bred in Port Harcourt who lived most of his adult life in Lagos winning a senatorial seat in Jalingo.

It’s good for people to post such ridiculous comparisons here so we can easily identify the ignorant ones.

The first day I tried explaining tribes to a Westerner I almost developed a migraine.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
e no get any diff between what Donjay said abt Lagos & what the deputy high com is saying

Eazzii:
If they want to remove subsidy, they should work on electricity generation and distribution. Else, aya song.

afrodoc2:


She is incredibly unqualified to be Minister of Health in my opinion.

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaoooo not unexpected . Sadly there's no dodging this reality.
The time government should have used to finish up the much talked about Siemens deal so this subsidy can be removed has been stretched too long.

nihilistjnr:


We spoke about this thing last year.

Like play, like play, it's finally here.

BlueRayDick:


The uprising that will follow this planned/unplanned subsidy removal will be unprecedented. A country where the 30k minimum wage has not been fully complied with by state governors, A country where state governors still owe backlog of salaries owed civil servant, A country where almost everyone depends on PMS and other petroleum product to generate electricity.......Only God knows the which government owned buildings or facilities that will be spared by arsonists this time.

The number of people living below poverty line in this country is too damn much! I don't think the government is fully aware of what is to come going forward from here

Eazzii:
If they want to remove subsidy, they should work on electricity generation and distribution. Else, aya song.

BlueRayDick:


The uprising that will follow this planned/unplanned subsidy removal will be unprecedented. A country where the 30k minimum wage has not been fully complied with by state governors, A country where state governors still owe civil servants backlog of salaries , A country where almost everyone depends on PMS and other petroleum products to generate electricity.......Only God knows the which government owned buildings or facilities that will be spared by arsonists this time.

The number of people living below poverty line in this country is too damn much! I don't think the government is fully aware of what is to come going forward from here

iamoyindamola:

I doubt it will happen straight away probably toward the end of the year not when emilokan will just enter

raumdeuter:
izzou are you back in civilization abi you don dey burst condoms for East West road?

BlueRayDick:


The timing is not the problem, the problem is what reasonable palliatives are being put in place to cushion the effect of the subsidy removal on the general price of items.

Like electricity now, all we keep hearing is government signing deals here and there, yet the national grid has not stopped collapsing. How will people cope when the electricity situation is still the same?

People who work for private companies, how will they deal with high cost of transportation on the same salaries?

Some private companies will even cut down on their number of staff in order to make ends meet after spending triple or quadruple on lighting their own premises .etc

As much as I don't want to be pessimistic, it's almost impossible to see anything but gloom from the subsidy removal this year.