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President Bola Tinubu has directed the National Economic Council (NEC) led by Vice President Kashim Shettima to device an approach and begin the process of working on interventions to mitigate the impact of subsidy removal on the Nigerians.

Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, stated this after leading some major oil marketers on a courtesy visit to the President at the State House in Abuja.

Addressing correspondents after the meeting, Abiodun, who was a former chairman of the oil marketers association, stated that the marketers expressed solidarity with the President for removing the N4trn subsidy burden, a move that can enhance the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocation to states.

The group of marketers subsequently announced their intention to donate to 50 to 100, fifty-seater mass transit buses that would run on CNG, costing a N100m each and N10bn cumulatively, to cushion the effect of the removal within the next 30 days.

They are hoping other corporate bodies can emulate their action.

The President’s meeting with the oil marketers comes amid the controversy and protests trailing the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit known as petrol.

The President during his inaugural speech on May 29 at the Eagle Square in Abuja had announced the removal of subsidy payment on petrol. The President said that the immediate past administration of Muhammadu Buhari did not make provisions for subsidy in the 2023 budget beyond June.

Many Nigerians had expected that the new price regime would come into effect by July 1 but almost immediately after the presidential pronouncement, queues resurfaced at filling stations across the country even as retail outlets hoard the product and increase prices.

Already, a litre of petrol is being sold at over N500 across the country following NNPC price adjustment and the presidential pronouncement on subsidy removal.

Fuel queues have since surged for the vital commodity, compounding the traffic situation in parts of the country, even as transportation cost skyrocket to more than 100% increment.

The Organised Labour had resolved to embark on a nationwide strike beginning Wednesday but was restrained by a court order of Monday, June 5, 2023. The Organised Labour subsequently shelved its planned strike after a meeting with the Federal Government late Monday.

Governor Alia flags off housing project in Benue State on his first day in office as Governor

The project which has 200 units comprising of fifty duplex, one bedroom, two bedrooms & three bathrooms for low income earners in Benue will be completed in his first 100 days in office

richidinho:
Lolz....you are laughing at a two term CBN governor?

Some people are truly mad

So 001 invited the gov without a state to a meeting today. One fly in the Square Office told me he politely told him to consider resigning in the interest of the nation. The gov was about answering when they chased the fly away

MissLeslie:
Hmmm

yarimo:

Jeftta:
What could Obi have done to this man ?

Be assured that these criticisms against Nigeria Air are not altruistic. They are organised by people who hate Nigeria. One example is @ObyEzeks Ezekwesili, who has turned herself into a vuvuzela for the Indigenous People of Biafra, her name may as well be IPOby.

On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, she tweeted as follows:

"I actually believed that at some point the FG would have “advised itself” & known that the so called “National Carrier project” IS A WASTE.
Sadly not so as they are determined on what is CLEARLY A WRONG PRIORITY. It SHALL FAIL. For the sake of the country, it MUST FAIL. 👎🏾👎🏾"

So, how would you expect someone with a vested interest in the failure of Nigeria Air to be objective?

This is the same Oby that danced naked in the streets when Deborah Samuel was burnt to death, but has remained silent till today after a pregnant Northerner from Adamawa, Harira Jubril, was killed by unknown gunmen in broad daylight, with her four underaged daughters, Fatima, 9; Khadijah, 7; Hadiza, 5; and Zaituna, 2.

Harira and her children were killed in Anambra on May 22, 2022. Oby Ezekwesili has NEVER condemned or even acknowledged the killings. Deborah Samuel was killed on May 12, 2022. Oby Ezekwesili condemned it within hours.

She has also not condemned the killing of US embassy personnel by Unknown Gunmen in her state and close to her local government on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Neither did she condemn the king of Ahmed Gulak in Imo on May 30, 2021.

Her policy is if it happens outside the Southeast, scream at the top of your lungs. But if it happens in the Southeast, do your best to bury it.

On Thursday, March 9, 2023, Oby Ezekwesili tweeted as follows:

"The ethnic baiting currently going on in Lagos is terribly unfortunate."

However, on an evidentiary basis, there is more video and documented evidence of people of Igbo origin being physically beaten and otherwise harassed by their own kith and kin for daring to vote for either the Peoples Democratic Party or the All Progressives Congress during the February 25, 2023, Presidential and National Assembly elections. Yet, Oby Ezekwesili has not tweeted or squeaked about that until today.

And these are the types of Nigerian by day, IPOB by night characters you are allowing to influence your views on Nigeria Air?

Tinubu asked Pat Utomi to step down for Peter Obi – Tawfiq Akinwale, Oyo LP Guber Candidate 2023 pic.twitter.com/TMMk0HFXOa

— 𝕊𝕚𝕣 𝕃𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕦 (@sirlablu) May 24, 2023