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abduleez1:
You know my stance on this Dangote refinery vs import ban. Well it was clearly stipulated in the PIB bill that when domestic refining reach a critical stage of fulfilling full national consumption, then import licences should be suspended. Yep, it is law. And yes it might be selfish for Dangote to advocate for that but he's actually in his right exploit a legal and regulatory oversight that is advantageous to him.

Regarding other industrialists, I stated them in my post especially BUA.

In fact, Indorama Eleme Petrochemical plant you put up I actually wrote the company's contribution too in fertilizer in making Nigeria a net exporter of fertiliser and top 10 worldwide. I later scrapped the company's name and achievements and BUA's planned fertiliser plans because my post was getting too long and verbose. I'm well aware of them.

I know of Eleme's expansion plans but Dangote is also not resting on his oars. Dangote is also expanding his fertiliser plant from 3m to 6mn metric tonnes per annum which doubles Eleme's. Also note the Dangote Ethiopian fertilizer business is going to be a 3mn mtpa facility.

Anyways, kudos to all companies and their visionary executives.

One other reason I am always at loggerheads with your monopoly shout against Dangote is that I'm well away of BUA's incoming 350,000 bpd oil refinery under construction. So, surely by 2028 Dangote wouldn't be the only major refinery operator in Nigeria if NNPC decide to remain useless. That's why the monopoly shouts doesn't faze me cos I know he's currently enjoying first mover advantage and competition is coming. A solid competitor at that.

I'm only soliciting other big wigs to pull their weight too..... Other fellow billionaires. That's why I praise BUA's Abdulsamad who also tows the massive industrial building as opposed to the financial services billionaires who mostly sit on massive funds without much industrial push.
That's why I'll always hawk Dangote and Rabiu Samad like gala for my head.

Of course I know of other billionaires inputs in their various ways in Dangote's businesses, in fact Elumelu and Dangote signed a deal a month ago for UBA to finance/facilitate a few expansion projects.
So me putting Elumelu's in my castigation doesn't necessarily mean I don't know he's contributing one way or another, especially with his acquisition of energy blocs with his Heirs Energy.


As for power I've been here in the past to commend and sing Barth Nnaji's praise in the past and his Aba Power/ Geometric achievements.

There's also Adeleke building an almost completed 1000MW of electricity gas plant in the SW.
I am just an Oliver Twist and wish to see more private participation in nation building in the scale of an Abdulsamad Rabiu or a Dangote.
They have the money, have the connections and the required expertise to do these projects in scale.... I just feel they're mostly lacking in the ambition.
I like someone who dreams crazy big like Dangote. That's why I'm pained how that Access Bank CEO died.

People don't just invest in businesses because they have billions, most of them invest in businesses they have passion for and can find enough expertise for. They also look at businesses that have chances of turning their capital over and not just because they believe the market is open.


In fact there are business you will start today in Nigeria that if you are not careful you will run out of raw materials to use in production.

I won't blame billionaires in the banking and financial services if they choose not to go into production and manufacturing.

I think our focus should be on government using money recovered from corrupt public officials to use start some of these industries. Also those money they recover from Paris club, Abacha loot, etc, that's what they should be utilizing those money for. Not for them to be sharing as one nonsense conditional cash transfer that won't really do anything for anybody. That's what It means to think from consumption to production.

abduleez1:
What Dangote has even said, fine if you want to import, no problem. But at least import the level of quality of oil that is produced domestically or that is required by the regulators into the country. Not the substandard trash with low octane rating, several thousandths of sulfur per unit contained that don't even nearly meet up to the standards set by the regulators before you can import.

It is not In Dangote's place to act as the operator by determining who imports what. There is a regulator who determines the quality of fuel that can be imported. Dangote should let the regulators do their job while he minds his own business of selling refined products.

Dangote has been caught in web of propaganda in the past, so taking his word on matters that concerns competitor as the gospel truth is just you letting yourself drawn in by the antics of a cutthroat business man.

I hope you know NMDPRA actually debunked the allegations by Dangote that imported PMS had excessive sulphuric content?

daveP:
If our highest Goalscorer didn't have a good season, to me that's an inference that solidifies the stance of those that preferred the team played to his strength since he arrived. For that, i raise my hands in surrender like Sabinus.

And yeah, i cant deny the fact that he had terrible games this season. But in contrast, the Kai fans made it look like their fave hasn't let the team down across the last 3 seasons when it mattered most. This is the 1st of this guy and i won't lie, I'll have the same stance for Osimhen or any 9 that arrived Emirates. If 9 arrives na to play to their strengths slowly or fast as so coaches can switch stuff up faster.


We wanted a forward that will scare defenders and we got him. That's enough for me. He's adapting too. And if he settles, to our advantage all the same

You need to drop this agenda about not playing to his strength abeg. We watched matches Gyokeres got the right weight of passes and he missed them on different occasions.

I'm sure if he had scored those chances nobody will be pushing this agenda say "they are not playing to his strength ". I know you in particular will be waxing lyrical about how recommended Arsenal getting a striker and how it has made the difference.

It's like you didn't know how poor Gyokeres was at some point with his first touch, his ball movement and even some lame shots he was attempting on goal. Maybe if you watch of the clips below, they will refresh your memory and you will understand that what you are doing is that you are only using his latest performance to whitewash his past average performance


https://youtube.com/shorts/12KmNvcLVms?si=2hEWJVBXT7C_ZhXH

https://youtube.com/shorts/MkN1ZJABGZQ?si=qv5royu10tquemAP


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWCxH85GGz8?si=hU8C4_85RmX8GqxD

https://youtube.com/shorts/88mD986dq8E?si=hrMF4QIzh4qFRsVB

It's okay for us to appreciate his performance in the Athletico match and recent matches but e no mean say others no try. Even the recent goals he scored na the players work am out for am, he didn't carry ball from defence to opposition goal post by himself.

abduleez1:
Dangote don dey mention going into power sector, LNG, steel and phosphates and mining for the past 6 months oo. All are very ambitious projects and would probably disrupt some certain line of businesses.

Baba don dey do promo since, no much noise now o. Later Dem go wait until he finally builds his new empire and then begin to shout monopoly.

They'll wait until it's too late and imminent death of their business before you start seeing pushback and tears about monopoly all because we've somehow become used to the habit of rent seeking and "subsidies or concessions".

If you build a privately funded plant , start production and the n start pushing for government to ban importation of similar products which serves as close substitutes; trust me people will shout monopoly and they are within their rights to do so.

If it is a free market like most capitalist economies are expected to run, you are not expected to be lobbying government to ban or stiffle competition.

The truth is Dangote's refinery owes the country part of its success story and Dangote himself does not deny it. It is common knowledge that FX was made available to him for the construction of the refinery at a time other Nigerian business were going through hell to access FX under Buhari's government. Now imagine you are one of those businessmen who was denied FX then and after Dangote's refinery goes into operation the same Dangote is lobbying government to stop granting import license to you just to kill off competition.

If such a person cries about monopoly , do you think such a person is not justified in his "wailing"?

This is what they call nation building. Imagine if we have just 10 likes of Dangote with these outsized ambitions and goal getting. Nigeria go don massively develop in 10yrs. Thankfully, BUA Group owner Abdulsamad Rabiu is following his footsteps but we need more.

These dem Elumelu, Otedola and the likes hiding in banking sector & Oil and gas with high margins needs to step up with the industrialization push. But I know say dem no go gree, since they're some of the peeps always telling Dangote his plans would fail in Nigeria

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It will surprise you to know that Dangote is not the only investing in Nigeria, he just has bigger PR than others. For example Berth Nnaji already invested in Geometric power long before Dangote thought about this investment you are excited about.

Indorama has 2 train of Fertilizer plants that currently has annual capacity of 2.6 million metric tonnes of Urea prodcution and currently constructing the 3rd train that will take their production capacity to 4million metric tonnes . NB. Dangote Fertlizer plant's current capacity is 3 million metric tonnes per annum.

BUA is doing well with their Cement plant that rivals Dangote. BUA is also building an Urea Fertilizer plant to compete with Dangote Fertilizer and Indorama, the project is in its Front End Engineering Design (FEED) stage.

The various business ventures of Dangote has other Nigerian, Foreign and Institutional players who are investing in those sectors too. I guess they are all involved in nation building as you put it.

What will be irritable is for Dangote to make moves to corner any of those sectors by lobbying government to enact policies that will incapacitate competitors. Trust me, nobody will keep quite when they see someone trying to take away their food.

Let Dangote invest his money in any way he desires; but let him not start making moves like he did with the refinery when he was telling FG to withdraw importation license from other oil marketers. Simple! E no pass like that.

daveP:
Yeah. The urgency in the last few games since that city lose was never seen all season. Even from Sporting Days, Kai no be hin level. See how he rattled the Atletico defenders and one wanted to fight him after the final whistle. Mosquera and Rice had to quench the fire 😹😹😹😹

Kai can't register that fear in any elite team backline. Na why i dey laff when some say he played like Kai yesternight. Just proves they didn't watch his Lisbon days. At least highlights dey YouTube, eveb the Sweden matches too. If he settles in and continues, our wingers will have a new level of freedom we've never had in years.

We understand you love Gyokeres, but the bitter truth is he didn't have an excellent season like you want to paint things now.

Most of us don't have any love for Havertz to make us defend him for anything, but while he was injured we kind of wished he was available to give Gyokeres some real competition cos at that point Gyokeres wasn't living up to everyone's expectations. Gyokeres and his teammates have learnt to play to each other's strength and that's what we should celebrate not try to pull down Havertz who has played his own little part in the club's fairy tale since he came back from injury.

It's okay to celebrate Gyokeres improved performance towards the end of the season that has seen us in the Champions league final and 3 wins away from EPL trophy, but don't make it seem like Gyokeres has been that shining light for Arsenal all season cos he's not.

Referring us to Youtube for his Sweden and Sporting highlights won't erase some of the not-so-good performance he had at the first half of the season at Arsenal.

Roland17:
We know it is about money but it needs to be regulated. We will wait until someone dies live before regulation and enforcement. When Adrenaline disappears, the realities of possible brain trauma will kick in. Dizziness, headache, blurred vision, numbness, slurred speech, unexplained/ unusual behavioral patterns are just a few. Blows to any part of the head and rib areas are no joke.

Someone like Portable who smokes Colos and other dangerous synthetic weed is already having his brain fried normally. To think he has participated in at least 3 of those boxing matches....

Anyways, he doesn't behave/act like someone that intends to live long sha.

I scored 92 in Use of English in 100 level(GNS 101)

My head was still hot from the way I studied like crazy for JAMB the previous year. I had mastered so many rules of English language particularly Concord (Agreement), use of verbs and other areas they tested in the GNS 101.

While in the exam hall I told myself that if I scored lower than 80, then I would know there was a foul play in the marking of my script. I was that confident.

izzou:
Hmmmmmm

I can't believe we once shut down this country because of an increase to 86 naira

Na the very people wey lead the protest to shut down the country that time come dey form understanding girlfriend now. If you try to remind them, they will either insult you or claim we were living fake life then.

There was a country !

izzou:
Haaaa

I dey outside Lagos for 3 weeks now, and na 1350 - 1380 dem dey sell here.

It's definitely about to go way higher than that between today and tomorrow. I'm sure most of the filling stations will adjust their pump price with immediate effect.

Na N1,300 MRS wey dey close to me dey sell for here in Lagos. I'm sure it might be adjusted to N1,400 or thereabouts since na like N75 Dangote add at once to ex-depot price.

Emaprince:
Chelsea also played bayern, barca and Napoli in the group. Heck, bayern played chelase and even this same psg they are gonna play again.

On a two legged game against the teams on the other side of the draw, arsenal may not have seen the semi sef.

Did Chelsea beat all those top teams they played ? No!

Arsenal won all the top teams they faced and that earned them top spot and a favorable side of the draw. You need to understand how the draws are made before crashing u begin crashing and blaming UEFA that didn't do anything wrong.

Arsenal was seeded along with all top 8 finishers and were drawn against the winners of the playoff between teams that finished 9th-16th and 17th- 24th. That is how we got our opponents just like every other team . You can't your team's tough luck on others baba.

Dangote has increased ex-depot price of PMS once again. He now sells to marketers for N1,350. Who knows maybe na N1,500 those ones go sell as pump price.

https://www.nairaland.com/8666664/dangote-refinery-hikes-petrol-price

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daveP:
It definitely will.


Igwe suggesting the tag The Unforgettables if they win the UCL fire


Fans like this guy below no get better eye. Lucky this guy stayed fit till now.

It's because Gyokeres was underwhelming at the earlier part of the season. His touches were heavy, his positioning was questionable and some of his misses leaves not much to be desired.

Yesterday's match was arguably his best game in an Arsenal jersey. The Fulham match too he had a great performance , but in the earlier part of the season he struggled to gel with the team.

The author of tweet probably tweeted out of frustration when results weren't going our way.

iamoyindamola:
Ofcourse every player had it tough including the manager

Yeah

iamoyindamola:
He's a liability this season

Havertz helped us win some matches in the EPL this season. He's not complete liability like that, he played his part.

Gyokeres too had his tough times but he was phenomenal yesterday. All our players have worked hard to keep us in the two major competitions till now.

GloriousGbola:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Charlie+boy+adeyanju+money&oq=Charlie+boy+adeyanju+money&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjMyMzI1MGowajeoAg-wAgE&client=ms-android-xiaomi-terr1-rso2&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

The way all these Charly boy stans unlooked the fact that he collected money from keyamo and cut of adeyanju needs to be studied.

After that expose the man shoukd have been canceled as the double talking sellout that he is but I guess whatever drives obidients is stronger than actual logic, so here we are

Where is the stanship in my post now?

I only posted his video because I'm surprised his son almost the age mate of Sowore and older than Deji Adeyanju.

Which one be "whatever drives obidients is stronger than actual logic"?

I'm not even a fan of whatever Charly boy seems to be doing with his life.

Kimbeast:
Even as horrible as Garnacho has been he has more goal contributions and chances created than Madueke who is playing for a settled team. The same Madueke his fans swore would get so much assists playing with Gyokeres.

Madueke is just useless! The guy plays like his brain did not develop fully. He just not to always get things right.

iamoyindamola:
There was a time I saw him doing exercise in ikeja under bridge people were hailing him charly boy
This is an old man una they call boy na

Very old man sef. At 75 he's older than Tinubu's official age......I wonder what he's using that old age has not caught up with him.

Most men above 70 don't have the kind agility and restlessness Charly boy displays.

We really meant business this time around. The consistency with which we improved on last season's results needs to be mentioned.

Arteta and the boys have really learnt, unlearn and relearn in their champions league journey and pursuit of the elusive EPL.

Nobody would've thought the same arsenal that was butt of jokes few months ago is now a champions league finalist without conceding a defeat and almost clinching the EPL with 3 matches to go.

I hope and pray results finally cancel insults this season. I believe the success of the club by end of season would go a long way to reconcile fans who are divided along diffrent lines due to our underachievement in the seasons past.

Tochex101:
I don't think he had found out what to do with his life then either........you forget he lives recklessly?

That's the privilege of being a Nepo kid I talked about. I read sometimes ago that once he gets a lady pregnant, his mum would meet the lady and beg her not to terminate the pregnancy but to deliver the baby and let her (Charly boy's mum) worry about providing for the baby.

His father was a chief justice who retired as a supreme court judge. Life was good for Charly boy ; he had different kids outside his open marriage.

Maybe he still doesn't know what to do with his life now sef.......He had all the good things of life that can afford him to live recklessly

Big big big kudos to the Arsenal fans present at the Emirates stadium yesterday ; they were really the 12th man the team needed.

The fans really supported the team from beginning of the match till the final whistle. The atmosphere was just electric. They didn't give the players any reason not to believe in themselves and I'm glad the players did everything possible to make the fans proud (both the ones in the stadium and those of us watching from our homes)

One of the 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 renditions of North London forever you’ll hear this season from Arsenal fans 🎶🗣️

Emirates Stadium. The Gunners have just qualified for the Champions League final. Take it away, Gooners.#StanSportAU #UCL pic.twitter.com/I4J2jXCRsd

— Stan Sport Football (@StanSportFC) May 6, 2026

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Wow! Charly boy says his first child is 53 years old and an associate professor! 😲

That means his first son is way older than Deji Adeyanju(46) and just 2 years younger than Sowore (55).

Charly boy really enjoyed the privilege of being NRPO kid right from day one. I mean for him to be 75 years old with a 53 year old son, it means he already had a son by 22 years old ; an age when most men are still trying to figure out what to do with their lives.

❝My first son is 53 years old. He is an associate Professor... I've seen really fake people, like a Sowore, like Deji Adeyanju. These are people I don't feel are in my class. These are people beneath me...❞

- Charly Boy pic.twitter.com/MpQzO23nLK

— @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) May 5, 2026

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Gyokeres was in beast mode today!

Respek! 🫡

We are just 4 wins away from having the best season ever. 4 wins away from Arteta writing his name in gold in Arsenal's history. 4 wins away from Saka's journey at Arsenal ending in joy.

Baba God do am for us 🙏

Emaprince:
The uefa draw was one sided and too stewpid.

I have never seen a draw where a team deemed to be among the favourites was draw on one side filled with dross teams.

Who do you want us to play that we haven't played in the group stage na?🤷‍♂️

We played Bayern, Athletico, Inter and Athletico Bilbao in the group stage already and we won all of them.

So you still want arsenal to play Barca, Loserpool and PSG at the knockout stage?

Na wa for you o!

Rice cops the man of the match award.

Gabriel or Gyokeres could've won the award as well. All 3 of them were exceptional!

Congratulations to Arteta and the boys!

We made it to the final without losing a single match. 🤯🤯🤯😲😲😲

If it's possible to take Madueke off for Martinelli, I think Arteta should do it.

God supposed punish Madueke specially this night!

E be like say dem swear for Madueke. He no see one ball cross out since.

That guy dey vex my spirit and soul.😏

Madueke is just an unfortunate player.

We really need to score one of these corners and close shop abeg!🙏

Odegaard comes in and loses clear cut chance. Na wa o