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To me ...She looks stupid and sucks

This is why if i man wants to get out of Nigeria.....There is no decency and dignity


Thanks k lord the if oan resisted and brought this out


I just like igbos they are too stubborn for my liking

I'd Igbo land is in tatters can we compare

Ibadan and Enugu
Ota and Owerri
Oshigbo and Onitsha
Ijebu ode and Okigwe
Ado ekiti and umuahia
Asaba and ilesan



Let's compare these and know where is in tatters....Choose any city


These are Yoruba cities....Don't call Lagos because Oba of Lagos has rested that arguement


We are waiting

erinalex:
ibos are deluded, ibos are under a spell,or how come a reasonable tribe,shall always claim to be developing other people's place and left his own homes in tatters. If you have brains ,you will stop your investment in Lagos, kano,Kaduna, and so on,if you're really serious about Biafra. But No,you will all leave ur villages and rush down to Lagos,Kaduna, kano,if u know Tinubu is a thief, why coming to his state, or u want him to rob u as well. Stay in your villages and develop them. All u know is Tinubu, Tinubu, Tinubu. Gej spent 5yrs in power, yet ur place remain as bad as ever.

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Fellow Nigerians, let me say categorically that I’ve never seen a country where the citizens like to argue over every miniscule issue like Nigeria. We are a country of absolutism. Every now and then we just enjoy coming up with highfalutin theories out of the blues and everyone begins to recycle and regurgitate the mantra. Once upon a time, TRUE FEDERALISM was the swansong. Half, if not most, of those shouting the phrase had little or no idea of what it meant. It seems we just love to hear the cacophony of our own voices and prefer to join whatever is in season or in vogue.

I vividly recollect how a SOVEREIGN NATIONAL CONFERENCE became the only panacea for a united Nigeria after the satanic annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election. If you asked the exponents of that discordant idea how to activate and actualise such event, they always drew a blank. For example, who would represent each zone? How would the representatives be selected to the general acceptance and acclaim of the people? How binding would the deliberations and conclusions be on the generality of Nigerians? Would the outcome replace our Constitution? If the Conference goes ahead and by whatever stroke of luck or miracle Nigerians for once agree that the present Presidential system is bunkum and we need to return to Regionalism and Parliamentary system, how would the current beneficiaries like Governors, Ministers, Commissioners, Senators, House of Reps members, Local Government Chairmen, Councillors and a long retinue of political jobbers, agree to effect this unpleasant decision that would render them impotent and ultimately sack most of them? Answers: BLANK!

The latest craze in Nigeria now is RESTRUCTURING. Everywhere you turn, someone must tell you Nigeria needs to restructure fast. Everyone, including those who have controlled power the longest, is crying and lamenting, like the Biblical Jeremiah, that they’ve been MARGINALISED. You begin to wonder what is wrong with us. The renewed agitation for BIAFRA is borne out of that supposed persecution complex of the Igbo people by, as always theoretically, the Hausa/Fulani oligarchy. Surprisingly, geography is not a popular subject in Nigeria. Many of those tribal jingoists often lump the whole of Northern Nigeria together as a monolithic entity. They studiously forget that the North has its own majority/minority brouhaha. Indeed, there is not one Igbo nation as the agitators may want us to believe.

The arguments of those seeking justice by fire by force thus falls flat on closer examination because there is no one North or one South, or one Igbo, One Yoruba, one Hausa. New and uglier problems would instantly emerge as soon as we break Nigeria up into pieces. I’m reasonably assured that fresh complaints of marginalisation would resume. In the State of Osun, where I spent half of my present age, the people of Ile-Ife are already grumbling aloud that no Ife son or daughter has ever been a Governor even though Ile-Ife is the ancestral home of the Yoruba race. And that is the tale and litany of woes everywhere. Whatever we see happening now is nothing short of marriage of convenience.

Let’s get down to brass tacks and tackle the matter of restructuring. The word itself suggests that there is something faulty about the present structure and configuration of Nigeria. That has never been in doubt. However, the problem in my view is largely political and less economic in nature. Those who have controlled Nigeria politically in the last 57 years have shown no capacity to exploit their humongous power to the overall benefit of their people. All they’ve succeeded in doing is empower a few of their cronies who become demigods during their reign. Most end up frittering the loot they make away with like prodigal sons and soon return to irrelevance and infamy.

I’ve asked many of those saying they feel cheated in Nigeria to explain what they mean and I’ve concluded from their answers that it is more of politics than anything else. None could answer me when I asked why a strong and highly educated Dr Alex Ekwueme could not do much as Vice President under President Shehu Shagari from 1979 to 1983? I asked a similar question of why at least five Igbos were Senate Presidents, one Deputy Senate President, one Deputy Speaker and none has been able to seek and cede more power to the Igbo people in the last 18 years? If the Igbos argue that they want the Presidency as a matter of legitimate right, then the answer is they must keep working like others. The example of Chief Moshood Abiola has demonstrated clearly that for anyone to win the race, he must build consensus everywhere. He showed that it is a game of mathematical numbers and it is never a gift to anyone. Out of the old six regions in Nigeria, a Presidential candidate must lock down about four to realise his dream. The point is that you should never become Nigeria’s leader simply by virtue of where you come from but by what you have to offer in nation building. Rotation and zoning are largely responsible for proliferation of poor and preposterous leadership in Nigeria.

Let’s highlight some permutations. Had the Igbos worked well with the South West and the North Central, it might have been easier for an Igbo Presidency to materialise. Just imagine if they could lock down the entire South where majority are Christians and the Southern Muslims even marry Christians, the next job would be to align with the so-called minorities scattered across the Northern belts. I’m certain many of our youths are unaware that Chief Obafemi Awolowo once performed such experiment when he chose an Igbo man, Phillip Umeadi, as his running mate. He would probably have succeeded if he had secured massive votes from the South East and South South. All he would have needed was to poach from mostly North East and North Central. Alas, the audacious experiment failed woefully. Since then no Southern candidate of note has ever dared to pick a running mate from the South.

There is an enduring lesson to learn from the people of South West Nigeria. In 1981, Chief Moshood Abiola was frustrated out of a political party in which he invested so much time, energy and resources, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN). He went back home quietly to lick his wounds. He had enough cash to try and destabilise the polity at the time but he opted to up his philanthropic work. He reached out to every nook and cranny of Nigeria helping the needy, contributing to schools, churches, mosques, creating jobs, investing in agriculture, sports and so on. From being one of the most hated Nigerians, he became one of the most loved. It was only a matter of time before his chickens came home to roost. By the time he launched his Presidential bid in 1993, even his most vociferous critics knew he was unstoppable. Chief Abiola won the election, but lost the mandate freely given to him by every part of Nigeria. The Nigerian Mafia, connived and conspired to rob him of his hard-fought victory. Every effort to regain his mandate was rebuffed and frustrated. The strategy was simple and effective. Reduce Abiola’s victory to a Yoruba affair, repeat all kinds of lies till they become believable, and a pan-Nigerian mandate was burnt into ashes. Abiola was abandoned and left in the lurch. Still the Yoruba people did not seek revenge or retaliation. They fought and without firing a shot extracted a form of justice as payback. The destroyers of June 12 could not believe the resilience of the people. In frustration and desperation, they sought and found a perfect ally to dump the stolen mandate on since they didn’t want Abiola by all means. General Olusegun Obasanjo served this purpose and it was a coronation of sorts when he reincarnated as civilian President.

It is important to note that the people of the South West were not over-excited about the re-emergence of Obasanjo. As a matter of fact, they became his most ardent opponents. In anger, Obasanjo turned his war against Yoruba leaders like Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Lagos State was deprived of its statutory allocations, even after the Supreme Court ruled in its favour. Interestingly, the current Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, was the Lagos State Attorney General that fought spiritedly against the Federal Government at the time. The lesson I wish to draw from this is that, sometimes, it is better, and safer, to fight a battle of wits than a duel of brawn. The use of force can never guarantee a meaningful victorious end.

Another example is Dr Goodluck Jonathan’s emergence as President of Nigeria. When President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s cabal was going to stop him from acting as President in the face of obvious incapacitation of the President, some Yoruba leaders, including Professor Wole Soyinka, Lt. General Alani Akinrinade, Bola Tinubu, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Femi Falana, mobilised other Nigerians to fight for the Nigerian Constitution to be respected. Afterwards, it would have been tougher for Jonathan to defeat Muhammadu Buhari in 2011 but for the superlative support he got from the South West.

The same Yoruba people may have felt marginalised under Jonathan but only retaliated with their votes in 2015. This principle should be borrowed and adopted by other tribes of Nigeria. Your greatest weapon is your vote and not how many guns you can acquire and fire. The calculated support for Buhari paid up handsomely when Osinbajo became the Vice President of Nigeria. Osinbajo is Acting President today because of the principle laid and nurtured by the Yoruba in 2010 when they supported an Ijawman as Acting President. It has become almost impossible for anyone to go against our Constitution. The Igbos enjoyed no special infrastructure privileges under Jonathan but had a quasi-Prime Minister in Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. They threw their full weight behind him in 2015. Unfortunately, Jonathan was sacked from power.

Let’s now fast forward. Nigeria is in big trouble. Suddenly, everyone is talking blah blah blah and crying wolf where there is none. The virulent, violent agitators will not consider dialogue or compromise. They are fixated about breaking away from Nigeria. All well and good. The liberals feel that is not the way to go. They want Nigeria restructured fast and now. I support the latter and I have two fundamental suggestions to make.

The Presidential system we miscopied from America has become too convoluted and expensive. Nigeria can no longer sustain 36 States plus Abuja and the attendant political operatives. Any call for the creation of more States is therefore reckless and irresponsible. I know it is impracticable to collapse some of the existing States and return to the six Regions or 12 states but this must be considered. The resources of Nigeria are being carelessly wasted on less than five percent of the population. If we truly love ourselves, we must bury our foolish pride and do the needful.
The principle of federal character was adopted to give every part of Nigeria a sense of belonging. The born to rule mentality of some people must be discouraged and curtailed immediately. Such puerile and nauseating statements credited to some Arewa youths that they donated power to Abiola, and later to Obasanjo, should be totally disregarded, dismissed and kept where it rightly belongs, the dustbin.

Democracy is a game of numbers and whosoever can mobilise enough Nigerians is the leader. The principle of rotation is unconstitutional. It is left to the political parties to accept or not. Any Nigerian is free to contest his popularity at the polls and should never be threatened into abandoning his dreams. That is why Nigeria is not a one-party state. Anyone who threatens the peace of Nigeria should be sanctioned and disciplined. A powerful Sultan Dasuki was dethroned and banished from Sokoto for whatever reasons. His son, Sambo, a once powerful National Security Adviser, has since been in indefinite detention, under whatever guise. A popular Shiite leader has been incarcerated without trial all this while. Why should some pseudo-cultural leaders feel they are above the law and that they can insult fellow citizens to the bargain? Enough of that crap. The law should take its course within the confines of the Constitution.

The Buhari government should declare a state of Emergency on Education. The reason our youths are easily brainwashed is because of the preponderance of ignorance and poverty in our country. The comments spewing out of some people are just too jejune and disgraceful at this time and age. Educational pre-requisites should be brought to par in all States. Never again should we breed sub-standard students under the guise of educationally disadvantaged zones. Education is education and those who cannot meet the requirements should stay longer in classes to catch up on their studies. I wrote my WAEC exams thrice in 1976, 1977 and 1978 before I made my credits. No one should be admitted into a university if they can’t meet the cut-off marks. We’ve damaged our education almost irreparably by condoning mediocrity in the past. Our myopic and sectional leaders obviously did not know they were sowing seeds of backwardness (or did so deliberately to clone a nation of morons) and the result is the bountiful harvest of mass illiteracy and dangerous brigandage we have in our hands today.

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria!!!


https://etimes.com.ng/exactly-restructuring-dele-momodu/

Lagos isn't what it is because of Tinubu


Stop these revisionism

Zico5:
Yes tinubu is a thief but Lagos is what it is today because of him. Point to one achievement of ur thief T A orji

erinalex:
l have said it before and I will say it again. "Ibos are the most confused tribe in Nigeria" they simply don't know what they want. I deliberately wanted to waste my time this morning, because talking to an average IBO man,amounts to a waste. See d post by this brain less one now, he claimed Tinubu owns more than half of Lagos, and in another forum, this same IBO boy will say IBO owns 70% of Lagos. What a tribe. Orji is been discussed here,and what readily comes to your mind is Tinubu,can't u do without that name,or was he d one that denied u Biafra.

Yoruba isn't confused yet tinubu, aregbesola et al run amok i. The region

These are the things that make me like Igbo


They don't send anyone



Keep disgracing them

Just like the guy disgraced okorocha in UK

mirabel001:
buh why do u wanna stop biafra? just 5 reasons

Biafra is a better option because it will avail the Igbo the opportunity to

Take back their economy
Have a like thinking minds as citizens
Have people that have the same outlook to life
Culturally sameness
Have their economy in their hands
Make better decisions of their foriegn affairs
Plans tenor development without going to abuja



Biafra is the best option ....I am trying to give Nigeria some things that they can negotiate...I am having pity for the country ....

But Biafra should be the best option



So i have given you more than five reasons



Now give me five reason why you are worried about Biafra ?

That's where you made a mistake


In tech world innovation is the key not copying

NaijaTechGuy:
Today I'll be assigning "Bragging Rights" where they truly belong.
I'm tired of some smartphone companies claiming to be the first to make an innovation in the mobile phone sector when they were just the first known brand to do such. It's time to get even.

I'm delighted you could join me on the Bragging Rights Award Show ..

FingerPrint Technology
Apple was probably first company to convince the public that they needed a fingerprint scanner on their phones, but it certainly wasn't the first to put it on a handset. The Award goes to the Pantech Gl100 manufactured in 2004, that's exactly three years before Apple even made the iPhone.

No Headphone Jacks
Guess who is responsible for the present trend of leaving out the standard 3.5mm headphone jack?
The O2 XDA II (made by HTC) in 2003. Its USB port was used as a headphone port, as well as charging and data transfer.

Refocusable Photos

Every Smartphone Company is rushing into dual cameras, often used to create bokeh effects. But Nokia was ahead of them on that one, with refocusable photos (bokeh and all) in 2013 with the Lumia 925.

Slow Motion Video
Sony is king of the cameras right now with its 960fps capability, but in 2007 LG released the KU990 Viewty. It managed the impressive 120fps at 240p, not bad considering that even 30fps videos didn't have much in terms of resolution - just 480p.
First Selfie Camera
Siemens pulled this off in 2003 with the Siemens U15

Wireless Charging
The Palm Pre supported wireless charging with the Touchstone stand. Samsung started wireless charging in 2015's Galaxy S6 (the S4 and S5 had official wireless charging covers, but it wasn't built in).

Water Resistance

Water resistance is another popular feature that is quite older than you might expect. Sony achieved this with the Ericsson R310s in 2000. It had basic water resistance thanks to the GORE All-Weather material (commonly used in jackets).

The Casio Can 502S was the world's first properly waterproof phone. It was launched in 2005 and could stay underwater for up to 30 minutes..
Let's have a round of applause for the awardees. Drop your device right now and start clapping.

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Yeah
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I said keep clapping..

I know some people will feel like doing this to me right now

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There, I'm done with the bragging rights award. However, the main thing isn't about who did it first, it's about who perfected the feature.

Just change Exclusive List to Inclusive List.
Make the States Fully Autonomous or collapse the states and give the people region.
Let these region have 90% control of their affairs and these regions should be created along economic feasibility and ethnic lines not on political lines
Make them contribute uniform rates based on their individual Preceding Year's Earning to F.G.
Make the central powerless and make the regions power
Presidency must be rotated among the regions with the regional heads forming a quorum that is akin to council of states where decisions are made not by fiat but by vote
Restrict F.G to Foreign Affairs, Military and Treaties.
All we need is about 5 regions


That's my humble submission as an Igbo man....Do this and see Biafra die a natural dead



But will the black man reason out if the box ?

Time will tell





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Where is NCAN when you need them ?

Oyibo Haas gone far we are here asking how is our bubu

Your correct dear

Read this

https://etimes.com.ng/south-south-term-niger-delta-igbo-question-1/

Amberon11:
Keep quiet. Are you not ashamed of saying the bolded? So your Biafra must be centered on Niger delta and anyone who opposes is Hausa/Fulani/Yoruba spy right?

So without Niger delta, Biafra is nothing right? Just so you know that lady is one of the most sensible Igbo's on this forum and is not an ass licker like you and your fellow ipobs.

Sanchez01:
Cry like a sissy from now to the end of the earth, it does not take away the fact that your quest is a solo quest. If there would be a need for the Delta to secede, then Biafra would be the last consideration. Our struggle was made known before your genocide in 1967, meaning we have been there before you. Fall back to the history books to nourish your crafty reasoning.

The only serfs and minions I see here are those screaming to 'control his destiny'. Refrain from the identity blackmail, biko. Genetically, we are not related, neither are we tied by culture, believe me. We are not from Israel and we are no Jew. The so-called irrational fear and paranoia of domination is carefully arrived at, and until an Ebonyi man would be seen as equal to a man from Anambra, and the Osu-caste system which many claim to have been fully abolished, while an Ngwa fellow would not be despised by his own, we would always relate to your kind and people with paranoia.

Don't blame us that the world is wary of you.

Read this https://etimes.com.ng/south-south-term-niger-delta-igbo-question-1/

I have been waiting for the nwa enwe to answer me but the ikpu nnunnu refused

Ogidigba1:
ignore this guy he is typical afonja . The useless impostor has been busted on this thread

Seriously, i have been seeing this post in nairaland search engine


Are you a bot or a human

Just wondering

IAMMUIC:
My name is Macquis Udochukwu and I'm Igbo by ethnicity. I was born and brought up in lagos, in other words I've been in Lagos all my life. So also my parents. My parents have invested so much in Lagos, and telling them to leave behind all their investments and properties behind and move over to the region Biafra really doesn't settle well with me. Igbos Keep complaining about them being marginalized, but are they the only ones who have been marginalized in Nigeria?

I recently stumbled on an article where the so-called Messiah of the igbos Nnamdi Kanu openly declared his plans to bring Nigeria to ruins, a threat he plans to carry out by making sure no president emerges in 2019. According to him, all Biafran states will boycott the 2019 presidential election.

One thing I know for certain is that the only thing that can separate Nigeria is war. Another Civil war! It was also the case with Sudan and other countries that suffered secession as we all know it. What really happened in Sudan? After South Sudan had gotten the much desired freedom, was there ever peace within their walls? If at all the goal of Nnamdi Kanu and a handful of igbos are achieved, will Biafra ever be a nation of peace, stability and prosperity?

Truth is, the problem with Nigeria isn't Nigeria, a particular set of tribe or people, it is man himself. Man by nature is corrupt as we all know, Nnamdi Kanu himself isn't free corruption or human flaws. He too would disappoint as many as put their trust in him. We live in a flawed world overflowing with flawed men, igbos and every other tribe should understand this and live with it. Biafra is not going to be heaven or Canaan land as some are programmed to believe. There would be problems, such as we're currently experiencing in Nigeria.

I'm not comfortable with Nnamdi saying things on behalf of the entire Igbo nation as though he speaks for the entire Igbo nation. Let a poll be conducted to decide which Igbos are in support of Nnamdi's selfish action and those not in support. This would go a long way to correct the impression that all igbos are in full support of his actions. By the way, I wonder how Biafra would survive without the support of the Niger Delta region.

As Nigerians let us be wise and not be a gullible people. Let us not act like lower animals-the likes of cows and sheep, programmed to never think, but just follow anyone who leads them not minding the credibility or motif of the said shepherd.

God bless Nigeria and those dwelling within her walls!

https://www.nairaland.com/3891312/nnamdi-kanu-threat-peaceful-existence

NCAN pls do the needful

There is a popular saying that goes like this ” procrastination is a thief of time ” and that is what most people do, though , unknowingly. Most folks try to postpone anything they do till later date. This acts have been found mostly in the youths and people in school. With their burst of energy and top notch creative imagination. They tend to forget that while age is still on their side but time doesn’t wait for no one but at a stage, it will be on their side but not forever. So, why don’t start up that idea that you want? Why wait till after school. Experience is the best teacher ,even the academicians will concur with this notion.

There’s no point waiting until you graduate from the university before getting down to work. start your dream now.



Write that book. champion that cause. start that company. design that future you always daydream of. bleed this youthful energy into your future. you look at yourself in the mirror and, by god, you’re so smoking hot and irresistible. you see. I bet you, anything you do now with all these hotness and energy will come out glorious.

Explore your mindscape and push until even the thinnest dot becomes a highway. walk on this road. run the miles.
imaginations are not mere shadows. they are stars. they point to miracles.

I’m telling you this because I know how this truth has help shape my life. i was 19 and in the last year of my NCE program when I received the Teacher of the Year award. I was a part time teacher then. I was living my dream as a teacher. Most of my coursemates were still ashamed of their status as students of a College of Education.

I’ve got five years teaching experience already. I’ve got practical teaching experience aside the theoretical jargons we were inundated with in the classroom.

Life does not begin after graduation. it begins now. live it. chase that dream while you still have guts.

This is life, it waits for no one


https://etimes.com.ng/nigerian-youths-life-waits-no-one-chibuihe-obi/

The idiot that wears red blouse and shows shoes


Some blacks are just stupid

Ebonyi doesn't have any other tongues other than Igbo now stop shifting the goal post


So you think we don't have Igbo in cross River and Calabar


Ignorance is bliss


Tell me other tongues that Ebonyi have that ain't Igbo

slivertongue:
sorry, i thought i asked you the meaning of his name. I know that link, i know that he is of the agbo stock in abi but i have never heard of him claiming to be igbo. His father was a minister and i dont remember him claiming to be igbo. yes Ebonyi has other tongues other than igbo and borders CRS with abi being a mixed lga

Oga you no fit talk

slivertongue:
pls cross check ur facts. Dont drag igbos into unnecessary crisis.
his wife is igbo and not governor

tobillionaire:
in a country like Nigeria, secession is inevitable

I doubt ....The politics is hot but we can work on cooling

xstry:
Ipobs peddling fake news

I wonder how the average Yoruba man thinks

http://www.thetrentonline.com/yoruba-restructuring-arewa-youth/

The hen has finally come home to roast or to be roasted


Whichever way you see it

The hen is back to square one ...Which is the home


2019 will e interesting...

A coalition of Arewa youth has said that “the Yoruba are the most ungrateful stock in Nigeria”, in a statement signed on behalf of the group by Muhammed Shehu and Tanko Abdullahi, after an emergency meeting called by the coalition in Daura, Katsina State, on Tuesday, June 27, 2017.

In what may be the most inflammatory statement of the times, the Northern youth group, which said that they speak for the youth of Northern Nigeria, said “having given power to the Yoruba on a platter of gold in 1999 as a way of compensating them for the June 12 saga, it is quite worrisome and unfortunate that they have lived up to their legendary reputation of backstabbing and betrayal by supporting the divisive calls for restructuring or dismemberment of the nation against the will and desire of the north”.


“We gave the late Chief MKO Abiola the mandate in 1993 but shortly after that, as it is with the Yoruba as a culture, they immediately started circling around Abiola plotting on how to emasculate the north and strip us of every access we had to the politics and economy of this nation,” the Arewa group said in the statement which was e-mailed to The Trent.


“They had also raised a secret army of their elites to carry out these sinister plans against the north if Abiola eventually became president. It was this army that was unleashed on the nation in the guise of NADECO during the June 12 impasse.



“May we remind the Yoruba that without the willingness and magnanimity of the north, there was no way Abiola could have purportedly won that election, and that all the Yoruba have now as assets in the south west, especially Lagos, were given to them by our leaders out of our own usual magnanimity. However, time and time again, the Yoruba have always turned their back on us whenever their support is needed. They have chosen to pitch tent with the Igbo this time around just to spite us, but we shall not succumb to their antics.


“We are very much aware that all the attacks against President Muhammadu Buhari were planted in the media by the Yoruba and spread by southerners generally just to discredit the north in order to pave way for their son, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to become president. But their plans will fail insha Allah



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“We shall resist every of such plans and ensure by all means possible, that the north completes its eight-year tenure and possibly even continue after then, and that the federal structure of Nigeria as it currently is, is not tampered with by secession mongers and their collaborators,” the statement concluded.

https://etimes.com.ng/restructuring-yorubas-ungrateful-backstabbers-arewa-youth-coalition/



http://www.thetrentonline.com/yoruba-restructuring-arewa-youth/


http://www.ujuayalogusblog.com/2017/06/yorubas-are-ingrates-backstabbers-arewa.html?m=1

The expectation is that when DANGOTE Refinery in Lekki, Lagos starts producing petroleum products, Nigeria will no longer have to import 92% of its daily products consumption to augment the 8% production by NNPC's four refineries.

Now, some are already touting the foreign exchange savings of $16.8bn that this will bring in addition to huge savings in the logistics of importing petroleum products which NNPC says cost $11.2bn yearly.

But this only tells half the story as some pertinent questions remain to be asked and answers provided to enable us fully grasp what lies ahead in a post DANGOTE Refinery era from where at least 92% of Nigeria's petroleum products needs will be met.

The first question is this, since DANGOTE Refinery is privately owned and will require 600,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refine into petroleum products, at what rate and in what currency will this crude oil be supplied to the refinery?

NNPC receives a daily allocation of 445,000 barrels of crude oil a day supposedly for refining to meet Nigeria's petroleum products need but since its refineries can only meet 8% of this, the remaining 92% is currently imported.

What NNPC then does is to swap the un utilized portion of the 445,000 crude oil it is allocated but unable to refine locally, for petroleum products which are imported and dispensed at petrol station at N145 a liter for petrol and N50 a liter for kerosene.

Now this is the crux of the matter, NNPC has never been able to pay the full value of the 445,000 daily allocation of crude oil to the Federation Account, whether in Naira or USD, claiming that the petroleum products it imports are dispensed at subsidized prices.

NNPC also claims that the financing of the logistics of importation of this petroleum products for which it is swapping the bulk of its daily allocated 445,000 barrels, comes to $11.2bn annually.

If the 445,000 barrels of oil daily allocation to NNPC supposedly for local refining by its four refineries, was sold even at the conservative rate of $45 a barrel, that money would go into the Federation Account.

So, when DANGOTE is finally able to begin production and meet Nigeria's petroleum products needs, its important to know whether it will be paying Naira or USD for the 600,000 barrels of crude oil it needs daily to produce petroleum products.

Secondly, since DANGOTE Refinery is not government owned but set up to make profit for its shareholders, at what rate and in what currency will it supply petroleum products to meet at the very least the 92% daily consumption in Nigeria?

Nigerians will have to accept that DANGOTE Refinery is a privately owned entity and that even if it eventually is quoted on the stock market, it still has to pay dividends to its shareholders who have invested over $9bn in its construction.

So, clearly, talk of DANGOTE Refinery selling petroleum products to oil marketing companies at subsidized prices to ensure that Nigerians continue to buy petrol at N145 a liter and kerosene at N50 a liter, are out of the question.

Bottom line, DANGOTE Refinery will sell petroleum products to buyers, whether local or foreign at international market rates, although it is yet to be made clear whether the local buyers in Nigeria will be paying in Naira or USD.

When you consider that DANGOTE Refinery was paid for in USD and is situate in the Lekki Free Zone, which legally frees it from local taxes while allowing it to export its products into Nigeria, buyers are likely to pay for its products in USD.

At the end of the day, getting petroleum products from DANGOTE Refinery will be no different from getting products from say a refinery in Europe, the only difference being the elimination of financing required for the logistics of importation.

The third question then is, at what prices will petroleum products sourced from DANGOTE Refinery be sold at the petrol stations to end users, as Nigerians currently pay subsidized prices for petrol and kerosene.

Rightly, the 600,000 barrels of crude oil required by DANGOTE Refinery to produce petroleum products should be sold to it at international market price with slight discounts to factor in consistency of supply required by a refinery.

This will be good news for Nigeria because it means that unlike the situation were it is being short changed by NNPC in making payments over the daily allocated 445,000 barrels of oil, DANGOTE Refinery will pay fully for its 600,000 barrels a day of oil.

Also, DANGOTE Refinery cost is over $9bn and with the bulk of this sum borrowed at interest, it will be foolhardy to expect the owners of the refinery to sell the end products to Nigerians at subsidized prices.

This means that it is either petroleum products are bought from DANGOTE Refinery at market prices and sold to Nigerians at subsidized prices, or Nigerians will have to prepare themselves for increases in petroleum prices post 2019.

Which brings me back to this troubling issue, why is NNPC not already treating its four refineries in Kaduna, Warri and Port Harcourt (2) the same way it is going to treat the DANGOTE Refinery when it comes on-stream?

Each of these refineries on their own are business entities, why not allow them buy the crude oil they need at international market prices, get loans to fund their operations, and then sell their petroleum products to buyers at international market prices?

Unlike DANGOTE Refinery, these four refineries are not in any free zone, meaning they will be subject to local taxes, they're already staffed and managed by Nigerians, and are already in production albeit at minimal capacity.

Why not allow these refineries develop their business models and approach lenders for funding the same way DANGOTE Refinery has done, and and so domesticate the subsidies that are going to foreign importation or that will go to DANGOTE Refinery?

More importantly, giving these four local refineries the opportunities to operate maximally, will provide competition for DANGOTE Refinery, otherwise Nigerians may be subject to a petroleum products monopoly post 2019.

But come to think of it, to allow these local refineries thrive will mean an end to the lucrative business of swapping NNPC's 445,000 barrels of daily allocated crude oil for petroleum products that has become the new oil well.

Worse, it may just dampen ALIKO DANGOTE's dream of being Nigeria's dominant player in the petroleum downstream sector, just like he had done with sugar and salt, but then again Nigeria has always been about monopolists, whether government or private.

Kingsley Omose
https://etimes.com.ng/pertinent-questions-dangote-refinery/

Igbo and their swags....I have never seen a people love their flags so much like the Igbo

The patriotism is high


Biafra flags flying everywhere in East

Just negodu omalicha


Where is okeikpu and ugomba seff

After two kids and sagged bobby


Ehhh

Hum2020:
Don't think that this girl is you wife for now remember she still growing and may one realise that what you both lust not love

Debate Of The Day.

A taxi man wants to marry from his village. He lives at Accra, as a result he sends some money to his father at the village to find him a good wife. His father made a good choice and took the necessary steps concerning the in-laws of his son. Now he decides to send the wife to his son in the city. He gives her the address of his son. But she arrived the city late. At the motor park, the lady wanted to take a taxi to the indicated address. However, she took the taxi of her fiance unknowingly. The guy took her straight to a hotel and spent the night with her. The next morning, each of them go their separate ways. She took another taxi which finally took her to her fiance's house. To her biggest surprise, it's the man with whom she spent the night with in the hotel.

The question is: :
if you were the man or the woman, how would you react?
Men and women, defend yourselves.
The debate is open.

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slivertongue:
pls cross check ur facts. Dont drag igbos into unnecessary crisis.
his wife is igbo and not governor

It's you that cross check his facts

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