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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist:
On the SUBSTANCE of the subject matter under discourse...
THERE IS NO SINGLE SECTOR IN NIGERIA WHERE DANGOTE HAS A MONOPOLY!

Dangote’s Competition

Cement: Lafarge (the world’s biggest producer, operating in Nigeria since the 1950s/60s); BUA Cement; Ibeto; etc.
Sugar: Flour Mills/Golden Sugar (in business since 1960); BUA; Josepdam; etc.
Petrochemicals: Indorama (one of the world’s biggest multinational producers); Warri Petrochemicals; Kaduna Petrochemicals; etc.
Fertilizer: Notore (with multinational investors such as the IFC and Orascom); Kaduna Superphosphate; etc.
Refineries: NNPC; Waltersmith; Orient; Edo; BUA; with more than 28 private refinery licenses issued since the OBJ administration.
Tomato Paste: GBFoods (the Spanish multinational operating in 50 countries), Erisco, and Tomato Jos, among others.

On cement, that is the subject matter of this thread, Dangote competes in Nigeria against the world’s BIGGEST AND MOST POWERFUL cement producer, LafargeHolcim. In fact, despite operations of the world’s biggest producers (including Blue Circle, Holcim, Heidelberg, Scancem, etc.) in Nigeria since the 1950/60s (ie, before many of us Nairalanders were even born and while Aliko Dangote was a toddler), Dangote Cement is the FIRST (and probably remains the ONLY) producer of 52.5R grade cement in Africa, which is the highest grade globally, and in the process has dragged foreign cement producers in Nigeria (Lafarge, Holcim and Blue Circle, etc.) to modernize their facilities and upgrade their products from the 32.5R grade they had been dumping on Nigerian consumers since the 1960s to 42.5R. Blue Circle (now part of LafargeHolcim) did not bother to rehabilitate or upgrade its decrepit and polluting 1960s-era Shagamu and Ewekoro plants, until Dangote built its world-class Obajana plant.

The entry of indigenous Nigerian producers like Dangote and BUA has helped transform Nigeria from the world’s second-largest importer of cement (only behind the US) to an exporter of cement, in the process saving Nigeria BILLIONS of dollars previously spent on importing cement, earning Nigeria millions of dollars in exports, and (most importantly) CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN NIGERIA FOR NIGERIANS across the entire value chain, while generating wealth and livelihood for hundreds of thousands more NIGERIANS in ancillary, related and other industries and businesses, as well as tax revenues in corporate and income (from all those jobs created) taxes and charges for the Treasury to invest (to the extent not embezzled or misappropriated by politicians) in education, healthcare, public transportation, social security, public housing, infrastructure, etc.

Economic activity and the attendant CREATION OF JOBS is how best to help the poor citizens of any nation, NOT through charity. As reportedly the BIGGEST non-governmental employer of ordinary NIGERIANS (numbering in the tens of thousands in direct employment, and hundreds of thousands in indirect jobs and livelihoods), Dangote has more than done his bit to advance the fortunes of ORDINARY NIGERIANS (and according to a recent post here on Nairaland, just one of his companies paid N98 billion in taxes last year into the Nigerian Treasury - in a nation where most citizens outside of the civil service and PAYE system do not bother to pay their tax obligations - the very basic responsibility of citizenship). That is the real GOOD that folks like Dangote do for Nigeria. Any philanthropy is merely cherry on top!
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 10:34pm On Apr 21, 2021
omohayek:
I hope you're getting paid for this ridiculous propaganda, as I'd hate to think anybody could be slow-witted enough to believe the inanities you've written. How does the fact that a monopolist like Dangote throws back a few crumbs in the name of "good works" excuse his mercilessly squeezing 200 million of the poorest people on the planet to add to his USD $10 billion fortune?

Only a paid shill or someone with "special educational requirements" would attempt to launder this gigantic criminality by pointing to the "good" things Dangote has done with a tiny portion of the money he's stolen from every single Nigerian over the last 40 years. You might as well say mafia bosses are "good" men because they squeeze in the occasional act of local charity in between their busy routines of murder, drug-pushing, fraud and extortion. The only difference between a Dangote and a Don Corleone is that Dangote managed to get an entire nation's government to give legal backing to his organized criminality.

Politicians who truly cared about improving the lot of ordinary Nigerians wouldn't waste time talking about "incentivising" local producers by creating new subsidies that would only generate new avenues for corruption. Instead they'd be agitating for the outright abolition of all import restrictions and special tariffs on cement, so that any Nigerian wanting to build a house could enjoy the fruits of international competition. Cement is by its nature a low-tech, commodity product, so even the usual "infant industry" type arguments protectionists love can't be applied here - Nigeria gains nothing by having it produced at higher cost locally.
I ignore JUVENILE and uncouth personal attacks and insults...
They merely betray the lack of a substantive argument and a crude family upbringing.
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 10:30pm On Apr 21, 2021
BIGNAME2020:
The tomatoes paste and Sugar factories you mentioned above has revealed who you are. You're one of the newly recruited Dangote Media Crew to defend his greediness. Didn't know how cheat tomatoes paste was before he came monopolized it and made the prize skyrocketed to whatever amount he want? Same thing he want to do in sugar market which is why he has been fighting BUA. Truth is he knows what is coming for him from the poor masses that is why her recruited people like you to keep defending him. It's a matter of time. W'll rise!
lionphil:
My son go school... you no gree go, my son read about history, mba... oya my son person don read am come still dey brief you but yet you won't accept. What makes you different from an Evil forest?

What do you know about the history of the land you stand on? When elders are speaking just STFU bloody zombie
I ignore uncouth and JUVENILE personal attacks and insults...
It merely betrays a lack of a substantive argument and a crude personal upbringing. grin
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 10:27pm On Apr 21, 2021
UnabashedIPOB:
What do you expect when you have one FULANI man playing monopoly? What happened to all the cement manufacturing plants that were operational back in the day like Nigercem (Nkalugu), Ewekoro, BCC (Benue Cement Company), Bendel, etc. For one reason or another, they were all forced to CLOSE due to the FULANI monopolistic agenda. Now you have one man as the sole importer. The IDIOCY of the whole thing is that the cement is not even manufactured in the ZOO, but only packaged and then sold to the citizens at a very high price compared to other African countries. What a hopeless country! ONE NIGERIA will kill all you mutha f**kers!
They were run into the ground by POOR government management....

Nonetheless, Ewekoro still exists. It is owned by Lafarge (used to be Blue Circle UK, before Lafarge acquired Blue Circle), which is the world’s BIGGEST AND MOST POWERFUL producer of cement. The irony was that despite the fact that Lafarge has been in Nigeria since the 1950s/60s (as well other major multinational cement producers like Holcim, Scancem, Heidelberg, etc.), before most of us were even born, it was until indigenous Nigerian producers like Dangote and BUA built world-class plants that Lafarge decided to rehabilitate and modernize its decrepit and polluting Ewekoro and Shagamu plants, and it was still bagging imported cement and producing/dumping low-quality 32.R-graded cement until Dangote and BUA came on the scene with locally-produced 42.R-grade cement (Dangote is the FIRST, and likely remains the ONLY producer, in Africa of 52.5R-grade cement, the highest quality globally).

Bendel Cement was acquired by BUA Group under the Obasanjo privatization program, and has since been retrofitted and modernized, and a brand new plant added, and is now producing about 6 million tons/year (more than 10x its production under government management and ownership). Sokoto Cement was also acquired by BUA Group under the privatization program, and repeated the same modernized production upgrade feature as it did in Edo State. Calabar Cement Co., which was moribund and not producing, was acquired by Flour Mills under the same privatization program, and together with Holcim built a state-of-the-art new plant in Cross River State, and again has geometrically increased production levels and capacity. Similarly, when BCC Gboko was acquired by Dangote Cement under the same Obasanjo privatization program, it was moribund and NOT producing any cement. After so much objection by rent-seeking Benue politicians, Dangote Cement turned around the plant, increasing its capacity TEN-FOLD from 400K tons/year to 4 million tons/year, built a power plant (which supplies electricity to the local community and LGA), roads, clinic and housing. Meanwhile, Ebonyi politicians also engaged in a long fight against Ibeto Group’s acquisition of Nkalagu Cement Co., until relatively recently, and since then the Ibeto Group has awarded contracts to Sinoma for a total rebuild and modernization of the Nkalagu plant (as well as a second new plant nearby).

The entry of indigenous Nigerian producers like BUA and Dangote has helped transform Nigeria from the world’s second-largest importer of cement (only second to the US) to an EXPORTER of cement, saving billions of dollars previously spent on importation, earning millions of dollars from exports, and CREATING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS IN NIGERIA FOR NIGERIANS! Only people who celebrate failure and denigrate success would want Nigeria to return to the old regime of poorly run government-owned cement companies, and massive imports. SMH
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 9:51pm On Apr 21, 2021
Akamariner:
Good move.
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Quote with your price
marv1:
Let's talk
zigzagluv:
where , i want to use for legit work
You lot should quit partaking in illegality... angry
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 9:42pm On Apr 21, 2021
BIGNAME2020:
The most wicked soul in Nigeria is Dangote. Apart from opening his ass for little girls, what else is he doing with his money? Richest man in Africa for donkey years now and all of those years his region has been the most poorest and wretched region on earth.

Stingy goat!
Is Dangote the Governor or government of Northern Nigeria?
That’s why Nigeria is a s/hole - the same people who idolized FAILED politicians will denigrate successful private citizens.

FYI, the Dangote Foundation (endowed with US41.2 billion) has supported poor people, particularly widows and IDPs throughout the North. It has built FREE housing and given FREE grants to the poorest Northerners, especially women. It has awarded hundreds of scholarships, built schools, built the Business School at Bayero University in Kano, and students’ housing at Ahmadu Bello University in Kaduna. Meanwhile, Dangote’s businesses employing thousands of Northerners (as well as other Nigerians) include Africa BIGGEST tomato paste processing plant in Kano, Savannah Sugar in Numan (Adamawa State), and Nigeria’s biggest sugar cane plantation, together with a mill and refinery complex (under construction) in Nassarawa State.

How we wish more Nigerians would be as “wicked” as Dangote! SMH

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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 9:28pm On Apr 21, 2021
Bofoy4:
Dangote is wicked

in fact we need revolution in this country

very soon attack on dangote and his company will start.
Internet Revolutionary...
Dangote has created more JOBS for Nigerians than your government.
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 9:26pm On Apr 21, 2021
ajebuter:
They are making the move because most of them are building contractors and cement is essential to them

Not because they love the masses..

Anyway, Dangote's monopoly needs to be broken..
Dangote does NOT have a monopoly...
Unless of course you don’t know the meaning of the term.
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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist:
lionphil:
These people are pure evil... immediately after Nnamdi kanu mentioned it, talking about how they killed Burham cement, Elephant Cement, BCC cement, Ashaka Cement, Ibeto cement factories amongst others, they all of a sudden want to look good in the eyes of the average Nigerian.
Bunch of useless fo.ols.

Give us Referendum let's leave this evil contraption for your guys to enjoy alone.
What does Nnamdi Kanu know about cement manufacturing?
Why doesn’t he come back from Oyibo land and build his own cement plant?!

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PoliticsRe: Senate Moves To Cut Cement Prices by 9jaRealist: 9:23pm On Apr 21, 2021
Officialhorlah:
https://thenationonlineng.net/senate-moves-to-cut-cement-prices/
And how many times “higher than the global average” is NASS wages and salaries?! shocked
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PoliticsRe: Sanwo-Olu: Lagos Has Implemented, In Compliance With Judicial Financial Autonomy by 9jaRealist: 5:18pm On Apr 21, 2021
sojfarm:
This is a meeting for Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General of the State. Not even the National body of the Bar
It show maximum respect for the bar...
Nigerians and their leaders should learn HUMILITY!
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PoliticsRe: Sanwo-Olu: Lagos Has Implemented, In Compliance With Judicial Financial Autonomy by 9jaRealist: 5:17pm On Apr 21, 2021
BusinessRe: Amazon To Open African Headquarters In South Africa by 9jaRealist: 5:13pm On Apr 21, 2021
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Amazon is primarily a LOGISTICS company...
It was never going to locate its regional HQ in Nigeria (or even Ghana).

Even in the US, it “rejected” SCORES of cities for its 2d HQ...
The notion that every multinational should be located in Nigeria is DELUSIONAL!

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PoliticsRe: Atedo Peterside: Moshood Abiola Convinced Nigerians He Was A Change Agent by 9jaRealist: 5:08pm On Apr 21, 2021
owobokiri:
Abiola was a philanthropist per excellence..., A very joyous-life loving typical Nigerian business man with great tentacles in government. Loved genuinely in every part of Nigeria when "donations" at "launchings" characterized infastructurall development in different communities across the country..Even Babangida, the president of the country was moving around competing with the Abiolas, the iwuanyanwus and the Fantasy on who will donate more at duh events..
But he also made a very big fatal mistake, just as Tinubu is making today.. He treated the east with a lot of disrespect politically... It didn't end well then for him, it won't end well for Tinubu today! Those who because of the events of the late 60s have decided to frame a majority ethnic group as a minority and hope to rule over them perpetually as a result, will always find out at the end of the tunnel, how wrong their political miscalculations were and how polarized the country has become as a result..
Had nothing to do with the South-East...
MKO rode to the top on the back of the same tiger that turned around and ate him.

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PoliticsRe: Atedo Peterside: Moshood Abiola Convinced Nigerians He Was A Change Agent by 9jaRealist: 5:02pm On Apr 21, 2021
BSdetector:
One thing is certain......the only acceptable Yoruba leader to any non south Westerner is a dead one..... their hate and bitterness towards anything Yoruba has only made their problems worse. One will never produce a president or progressive leadership, while the other will continue to make up a large portion of beggers in Lagos.
Didn’t Obasanjo rule Nigeria for 11 years in total, or LONGER than anyone else?
Nigerians should quit this obtuse obsession with ethnic leaders and search for GOOD ones!

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PoliticsRe: Atedo Peterside: Moshood Abiola Convinced Nigerians He Was A Change Agent by 9jaRealist: 4:55pm On Apr 21, 2021
CuriousMynd:
Founder of Stanbic IBTC Bank Atedo Peterside on Tuesday said the late nationalist Moshood Abiola was not given the chance to deliver on his promise as a change agent, Igbere TV reports.

He stated this while discussing national issues with the former director-general, Bureau of Public Service Reforms Joe Abah on Twitter.

Abah had first said:

https://twitter.com/DrJoeAbah/status/1383682413151227911?s=20

Peterside reacted:

https://twitter.com/AtedoPeterside/status/1384106929882951687?s=20

Abah responded that Nigeria’s current political system was unlikely to allow a change agent to emerge.

Peterside then brought him Abiola into the discourse, describing him as a change agent who had his own resources and was supported by corporate Nigeria. “He gave us hope,” he said.

A Twitter user @bio_jibril countered, saying Abiola could not be regarded as a change agent.

https://twitter.com/bio_jibril/status/1384426564574658560?s=20

Then Peterside replied:

https://twitter.com/AtedoPeterside/status/1384442473540431875?s=20[/quote]Buhari also convinced gullible Nigerians that he was a Change Agent... embarassed
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HealthRe: Dapo Abiodun: We Met Five Ambulances In Ogun, We Have Bought 12 More by 9jaRealist: 4:37pm On Apr 21, 2021
hslbroker2:
what a great achievement your excellence, keep it up, election is coming.
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TravelRe: You Won't Believe This Road Is In Aba! by 9jaRealist: 4:34pm On Apr 21, 2021
GuyWise101:
Nna mehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

This Ururuka road in Aba, This road is an example of how OVI wants Aba to look like before he lives office.
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Nigerians celebrating MEDIOCRITY...smh
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PoliticsRe: Meet Sunday Erhabor: Policeman Who Has Never Shot A Single Person Since 1992 by 9jaRealist: 4:28pm On Apr 21, 2021
TravelRe: Maiduguri The Media Will Never Show You: A Tour Of The City (Photos, Video) by 9jaRealist: 4:27pm On Apr 21, 2021
Kcitytv:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBNxG7tf2xQ

Maiduguri is the Capital of Borno State. It is located in the Sahel Savannah region of north-east Nigeria .

Maiduguri is the capital and largest city of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria.

The state is called home of peace ,yes it was one of most peaceful state in Nigeria before the Boko Haram issues started. Some people think that people don't live in the city or the city might be a ghost city due to the attacks.

We went round the city to show or take you to Maiduguri via this video so that you will know how Maiduguri look like.

●NOTE The video will be useful to people that always hear of the state in the news and what to know how the state looks like.
Should be THANKFUL to the media then...
Because, quite frankly, this sadly looks very MEDIOCRE!

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CrimeRe: Cross-Dresser Beaten By Area Boys In Ijeshatedo Surulere (Video) by 9jaRealist: 4:09pm On Apr 21, 2021
Revolva:
An Unknown Nigerian crossdresser got more than he bargained for when he went to Ijeshatedo area of Surulere and it went so bad for him .

He never know the area was so unfriendly, but he decided to shoot one of his skits in the location and He was seriously attacked by the area boys who tore his clothes and removed his wig and even had to punch him and pour him water from a bucket.

In a video that has gone viral, the unknown crossdresser who was seriously manhandled by the area boys who felt irritated that he was dressed as a woman when he is a man.

The crossdresser also shared a video crying as he recounted how he was embarrassed by the hoodlums.

Do you think it's real or staged? as for me its not staged because I know those guys ..they are brutal guys in d hood who can terrorize people whenever it gets tough

let hear from the comment area below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pCpQIVuALE
PRIMITIVE ZOO! angry

Said it many times here on Nairaland...
The ONLY difference between most Nigerians and SARS is the uniform and the badge.

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CrimeRe: Man Breaks Bottle On Policeman’s Head For Trying To Impound His Car by 9jaRealist: 4:05pm On Apr 21, 2021
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This is the sort of act that will get you SHOT in the United States... grin
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PoliticsRe: Gunmen Kidnap Construction Workers In Ondo by 9jaRealist: 4:02pm On Apr 21, 2021
Bishop7170:
Please nairalanders lets all pray for the peace of this nation no matter where you are from be it Ndigbo my friend, Arewa my friend and Oduwa myself.
Less prayers, and more investment and work...
Nigerians are leading most of the world in prayers and trailing most of the world in development.
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PoliticsRe: Gunmen Kidnap Construction Workers In Ondo by 9jaRealist: 4:00pm On Apr 21, 2021
CocoaOla:
The inflations and poor standard of living in Nigeria is so alarming...
We've got rude leaders indeed.
Quit making excuses for CRIMINALITY...
They are poorer people elsewhere who still conduct themselves with integrity.
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PoliticsRe: Gunmen Kidnap Construction Workers In Ondo by 9jaRealist: 3:58pm On Apr 21, 2021
etokhana:
https://www.tvcnews.tv/gunmen-abduct-construction-workers-in-ondo/
Tomorrow, they will complain about bad roads...smh
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PoliticsRe: Kaduna LG Election Qualification Exam (Pictures) by 9jaRealist: 3:45pm On Apr 21, 2021
Arewa1stSon:
Look very well, it is brains first, ideas first, leadership and all.

That's why Kaduna is chasing the oil rich Delta state bomber to bomber!!
Oh, the irony!

Dude, it’s “bumper to bumper” (as in car bumpers)...
Unless Boko Haram has relocated to Kaduna State!
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CrimeRe: Nine Fleeing Inmates From Oweri Correctional Centre Re-Arrested In Ghana by 9jaRealist: 4:34am On Apr 21, 2021
EducationRe: Uniabuja Student Caught Stealing Used Sanitary Pads Of Fellow Female Students Fo by 9jaRealist: 4:27am On Apr 21, 2021
victorisreal02:
Uniabuja Student Caught Stealing Used Sanitary Pads Of Fellow Female Students For Ritual Purpose

According to news reaching 9jaflaver news desk, a uniabuja female student was caught stealing used sanitary pads of fellow female students for ritual purpose at Uniabuja mini campus female hostel, Gwagwalada…

According to eye witness (Name Wit-held), one of the students who caught the suspect “It was late this night when I stepped out of my hostel block to dispose waste when I caught her (The suspect Name wit-held) sacking loads of used sanitary pads which was dumped in the same waste tank I wanted to dump dirt into, and that point, I noticed what was going on and immediately alerted other female students close-by, but she was so fast to notice and started running, so we chased her and caught her, at the point we caught her, she confessed that she was not just sacking used sanitary pads, but was also digging spots where other female students urinates and sacking the wet sand too”

Video below…


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VzG2In123o&feature=youtu.be

Source:- https://9jaflaver.com/a-uniabuja-student-caught-stealing-used-sanitary-pads-of-fellow-female-students-for-ritual-purpose/
SUPERSTITIOUS ZOO! angry

And these are the supposedly “educated” ones...
Tomorrow, they’ll be asking why nobody is employing them! SMH

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Christianity EtcRe: YouTube Needs Prayers – Prophet TB Joshua (Video) by 9jaRealist: 4:25am On Apr 21, 2021
Abdulazeez99:
Founder of The Synagogue Church of All Nations Prophet TB Joshua has requested his followers to “pray for YouTube” after the platform blocked his channel Emmanuel TV, Igbere TV reports.

YouTube blocked the channel after UK-based organisation OpenDemocracy reported, accusing it of hate speech against LGBT people.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKSLvJyLgzw

The channel had more than 1.8 million subscribers and 600 million views as of the time it was shut down.

In one of his YouTube videos, watched more than 1.5 million times, a woman is seen being hit violently to “cure” her of her sexuality.

“Between 2016 and January 2020, the channel posted at least seven similar clips showing the charismatic Christian televangelist engaging in violent exorcism,” OpenDemocracy wrote.

The pastor said he had appealed YouTube’s decision.

“We strongly oppose all forms of hate speech!” he wrote on Facebook. “We have had a long and fruitful relationship with YouTube and believe this decision was made in haste.”

Facebook also removed several videos on Joshua’s page, which has 5.6 million followers.

Many, including tens of thousands of his followers, have criticised the move by YouTube.

Following the suspension, Joshua opened a new YouTube page which gained 27,000 subscribers after 24 hours.

https://www.facebook.com/103470916440360/posts/4166432260144185/
Their platform, their rules...
If you don’t like it, go start your own.

Don’t blame you though...
In a civilized nation, you would be in prison for Reckless Homicide.

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CelebritiesRe: Simi's 33rd Birthday Pool Party (Photos, Video) by 9jaRealist: 4:16am On Apr 21, 2021
Angrygoat:
Bunch of ugly looking stinking naija ladies with stinky pussy
Oloshos
Who rejected and hurt you, dude?
Abegi don’t turn your hurt and insecurity in crude and uncouth misogyny. SMH

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PoliticsRe: Oduduwa Republic Rally Hits Ibadan (Photos) by 9jaRealist: 4:07am On Apr 21, 2021
heendrix:
Public nuisance definition in a picture.....where are the so called Operation burst?? it's time to deal with these jobless miscreants angry
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Imaginary Republic of Agberos, by Agberos, for Agberos...smh
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