portacabin:

Petrol has been selling above N65 in the east f for a long time now.
The strike is on because banks are shutdown and civil servants are note going to work

philip0906:

^^
I'm 4rm abia state but its very unfortunate that my igbo brodas can allow "ethnicity" and naira 2 becloud their sense of reasoning. . .
our brodas r massacred in d north without d weakling of a president doing nada and instead of seizing this opportunity 2 vent their anger they keep mute. . .very unfortunate

Mr. Globe:

Sellouts

Olodostein:

Why should we? We are thinking on how to rid ourselves of this cancer called Nigeria. Our brothers are being killed with impunity. That should be our worry.

You all are always looking for others to do your dirty bidding. Mind your priorities.

alj harem:

Yours brothers are being killed and the best solution is to be quite about the whole thing

Lasinoh:

They have learned their lessons.
Never have anything to do with the owners of Nigeria(Hausa and Yoruba)!
Abi you want over 2million of them to make faces like 'abandoned property and project' 2 years for again?

Because, they are Biafrans. . . living in Northern Nigeria. Not Nigerians.

canuck:

Thanks philip0906 and Mr. Globe. May be a a good number of Eastern leaders were paid-off, and that will explain why Igbo top-shots are not supporting FSR.

But GEJ can't buy the common man in all Eastern states.

Igbos are naturally egalitarian, independently-minded people who are not easily led by their noses by their leaders. So, even if their leaders are "settled", the people will still protest.

It appears that the common man in Eastern Nigeria does not identify. Why?

noblezone:

You guys are so funny & uninformed.

1. Our enocomy in the South East is more of entreprenuership than civil service & oil companies. Most of our income is not slary based. We work hard, and I mean that we work hard. If fuel increases, our goods & services will also increase. Market forces will simply help us to balance up,

2. We have more concerns for now than subsidy. We can't cant be demostrating agaist a policy that will save the lives of our brothers. Subsidized fuel is smuggled accross borders in exchange for arms & bombs used by Nigerians to kill our brothers. We are in mourning mood.

3. Subsidy is not worth dying for. When NLC/TUC calls for a protest against 8oko Haram, and all the senless slaughtering of our brothers, then we can join.

4. Those championing these protects are the ones that ruined goverment parastertals. Its the members of the NLC that ran down the refineries, NITEL, NEPA/PHCN, etc.

5. Project Nigeria has failed, we are busy brain storming on alternative.

Em, one more thing. Jonathan will surely bring an end to free oil, its only a matter of time.

naijaking1:

@op
FYI, even with the so-called subsidy, petrol sold much higher in the east anyway. For the past 2-3 years, we've been complaining that a liter sells for an avearge of 100 naira in the east while the price had remained 65naira in the "privilaged" north and other places.
So why would you think the same easterners who have been marginalized from everything like number of states, to good roads, to federal appointments, to official miscounting of their census, and now to the price of petrol would troop to the streets to support your protestss

naijaking1:

@op
FYI, even with the so-called subsidy, petrol sold much higher in the east anyway. For the past 2-3 years, we've been complaining that a liter sells for an avearge of 100 naira in the east while the price had remained 65naira in the "privilaged" north and other places.
So why would you think the same easterners who have been marginalized from everything like number of states, to good roads, to federal appointments, to official miscounting of their census, and now to the price of petrol would troop to the streets to support your protestss

can you shut up and stop these lies. how can the average be 100 Naira ? when one of the most booming commercial centre in the east Nnewi is about 75-80 Naira.

Who do you think you are deceiving here ?

Rubbish

Your leaders in the East are miscalculating again and when the time comes to reap the gains of the protests, the same leaders will be crying marginalization.  What a crop of dumb leaders!

ndu_chucks:

The reasons for the non participation of Ndigbo resident in the East, in the fuel subsidy strikes are quite senseless and counterproductive. More sensible Igbo boys are on strike and are protesting all over the country. Your leaders in the East are miscalculating again and when the time comes to reap the gains of the protests, the same leaders will be crying marginalization.  What a crop of dumb leaders!

manchy7531:


You are the biggest fool on Nairaland.you better find how you will help all those your amajiri littered on all the streets of west Africa cos your leaders are the most irresponsible leaders i know.both political and private unless bill gaten and his likes will keep on coming to kano to test new polio drugs which maybe dangerous to their health.an sure you are aware of the pfizer case that kill some children in kano. when you have the likes of thief dangote,dantata,sanusi who can change all the over night.

Chaos broke out in Awka, the Anambra State capital yesterday when it dawned on residents that a 131 per cent increase in the price of petrol had crept on them.


Commercial bus drivers and their customers engage themselves in bitter arguments, and even fisticuffs before the situation sunk in as the day wore on, the commuters realised that the situation was the same everywhere.


A survey of the situation in Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, Awka and even Enugu revealed that the pump price petrol was between N150 and N180 a litre. Many commuters were forced back home, as short distances that hitherto cost N30 became N50, and destinations that were before now N100 turned N300. Awka to Enugu, which used to be N250 is now N1,000.


Also, most filling stations within the Enugu metropolis refused to open for business, while the very few that opened sold at between N180 and N200 a litre.

http://odili.net/news/source/2012/jan/3/16.html

Your leaders in the East are miscalculating again and when the time comes to reap the gains of the protests, the same leaders will be crying marginalization