ItsModella:


I agree. This is now beyond the fuel subsidy. The removal of the fuel subsidy was just the push or final shove Nigerians needed to openly query the Government.

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BIGER BOY:

Yes I think it has gone beyond the subsidy kobojunkie, although the subsidy matter is the catalyst, and it will be a strategic blunder to let that go FOR NOW, to pursue broader issues. But I must say these are some of the things I think are at hand now.

1. Nigerians AS A NATION have overcome their FEARS/COMPLACENCY/LAZINESS call it whatever

BIGER BOY:

2. As much as the politicians have played on our ETHNICITY, TRIBALISM, POVERTY AND IGNORANCE to divide and rule us, there is still a silent force in every nigerian that is stronger then any wedge put between us by politicians to weaken us, and that force is THE AUDACITY TO HOPE.

BIGER BOY:

3. Any one that takes the masses for granted does that at his own peril.

BIGER BOY:

4. Nigerians are asking questions, and not just gbaga gbaga questions but salient questions. FOR ONCE NIGERIANS ARE MAKING EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND THEIR BUDGET

AND MORE,

Kobojunkie:

Where is the evidence of this? It remains that the majority are NOT involved in the protests. In many areas, people have chosen to stay indoors than actually step out on the streets to protest. In some areas, there are no cars for miles of street and No protests. Let's not get carried away.

cold:

Whilst I am all for the withdrawal of the subsidy,albeit,a phased withdrawal.The protest has gone way beyond the removal of fuel subsidy.The removal of fuel subsidy was only the match that lit the tinder box called Nigeria.Our people say even goat when  dem push am to the wall go bite.The protests around the country is a culmination of the aggregation of all the sufferings of Nigerians over the years.Nigerians have had enough of the brazen in your face  corruption in high places,dishonesty,distrust,demagoguery,skulduggery etc.

We're saying enough is enough,we have had it up to here.Government has to start becoming more responsive to the citizenry.What happened to the excess crude account?How did our foreign reserves tumble from $80 billion  to $33 billion with nothing tangible to show for it?Who are members of the so called cabal?Are they aliens,why can't they be investigated,arrested & prosecuted?These are pertinent questions we should be asking.

All these talks about palliatives are things that should have been on ground before the removal of the subsidy in the petroleum sector.Nigerians are not asking for too much.Just the same kind of amenities we find in other climes.It's not rocket science,it is doable.The government has to earn our trust not ask us to trust them when antecedents have shown & proven that the Nigerian government cannot be trusted.While the blame can't be entirely laid at the feet of GEJ,I dare say he has not made any spirited effort to change that perception.

Change is coming & the time is now.We must not lose this momentum,aluta continua,victoria acerta!  

BIGER BOY:

Seriously! The protest has been sustained for week now, and I don't think it is the same pple on the street every day, pple participate in the rallies at their convinience and at different days. I for one participated once and my family stayed home, but like many who stayed home it doesn't mean they don't approve of it. I DON'T THINK YOU, I OR EVEN THE GOVERNMENT WANT THE WHOLE 160M NIGERIANS ON THE STREETS?

And yes nigerians are asking question because unlike before where the majority of people that question govt were the opposition or objective columnist in the dailies. Today you see the lay man asking "1BN FOR FOOD? IS IT LOUIS VUTTON RICE OR GUCCI BEANS THEY EAT IN ASO ROCK." and a host of objective questions like how the subsidy funds have skyrocketed.

The evidence of this new awakening is most glaring in the fact that, that government with all it's media and propaganda machine were I'll-prepared or not expecting this much scrutiny from the public, hences you see the hasty distribution of busses, lack of well thought out response from govt on the questions on the quadrupling of subsidy funds, the hasty but insufficient 25% deducting in salary by govt and a host of others.

I REPEAT GOVT UNDERESTIMATED THE KIND OF SCRUTINY IT WILL DRAW ON ITSELF BY THIS SINGULAR ACT OF SUBSIDY REMOVAL

osaman2011:

But must we students wait 4 d subsidy issue 2be resolved before we resume?. If ASUU is threatenin 6months strike. Can't we do sumtin? Can't we network wit other universities, mobilise our SUGs 2meet wit our Govt & resolve it?

U dat is supposed 2 be on IT now, U dat is supposed 2graduate dis year, dose in other levels hopin 2leave school in due course, must dey add another year 2our graduation date?

Na our future be Dis o!!!

Pls broadcast Dis msg 2yur friends &dose in other schools if U are tired of stayin at home
-from osaman