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iamoyindamola:
Those about to die is like Spartacus (story about ancient Rome)

House of ga'a is about bashorun ga'a

Give me link for those about to die

izzou here is further evidence that Dangote is simply fighting a war for a right to monopoly ; and clearly he’s losing .

As far back as April 2024 , the same agency he’s fighting now allowed him to sell the same product of inferior quality just for him to be able to recoup some of the money he invested in the venture . Even when importers were compelled to import higher quality of product which placed them at a disadvantage financially .

swiz123:
Dangote is very stupid. Same thing he did with cement, he wants to do now. If he wants the largest market share, he should compete with prices as it should be in a free market.

Well, he’s just a Nigerian business man who is after self preservation . He wants to continue to profit from the Nigerian situation . He prolly wants to take in as much cheddar as possible before other refineries like BUA and the likes come on board .

He wants a state backed monopoly so he can continue to top the chart of Africa’s richest man.

I don’t blame him sha, when our own government refused to have just one working refinery for decades . So he’s using the savior complex angle to try and buy his way into a state backed monopoly for his business .

Na we do ourselves or let me say na our leaders do us

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Since they are a regulatory agency and Dangote's product is inferior, why don't they shut it down?

That's self sabotage, and it is quite shameful that a government agency would say such about a business.

Since when the man said NNPC has only 7.2% stake in the refinery, compared to the 20% lie that they have been reciting, i am not surprised to read this.

Dangote's product is inferior, and na him Diesel full everywhere. [/color]

The bold is untrue .

Dangote is simply fighting a trade war with the importers /depot owners and he’s using the pity method to win people like you to his side .

Read the link below and see the letter written by the depot owners association begging Tinubu not to concede to granting Dangote full monopoly on the Diesel market.

Dangote’s diesel is alleged to have sulphuric content above 700/ppm which is above what the agency recommends , yet he doesn’t want the marketers to source for diesel elsewhere aside his refinery .

https://www.arise.tv/petroleum-depot-owners-urge-tinubu-to-sustain-deregulation-prevent-dangote-refinery-monopoly/


I have attached screenshot of premium times news of match 2021 when major marketers had been opposing Dangote’s call for monopoly . U see say no be today! Dangote simply constructed the refinery hoping he will enjoy monopoly like he did in some of his previous businesses .

Abi did Dangote talk about FG’s 7.2% stake in 2021 too ?

From all indications, it appears Dangote assumed whoever took over from Buhari and Emefiele would sign off on granting him the monopoly he had been mouthing since way back, but alas he has been disappointed .U really need to snap out of that thought that anybody is witch hunting him for that 7.2% / 20% stake issue

TrebleChamp:
The "inferior product part", why should a subsidiary of NNPC put out such a statement?

They said inferior product compared to imported ones . The agency is a regulatory agency .

Dangote has been clamouring for a monopoly and they have replied to him that they can’t give him monopoly because his product is inferior to those imported .

The onus is on him to come up with evidence that suggests his product is not inferior to those imported products ( if he still believes he deserves the monopoly )

See ehn, Dangote is just a businessman . He’s in it for the profit ; he’s not a Good Samaritan sent by God to Nigerians . He’s playing every card at his disposal to recoup every penny he splashed into the business ; but the FG agency has a duty to watch out for the common Nigerian man.

I don’t feel any pity whatsoever for Dangote . He should face the challenges of he business and sort it out.

TrebleChamp:
See what a Govt agency is saying concerning Dangote refinery, seem like some very powerful people within and outside the Country truly want this refinery to fail.
I am beginning to think Emefiele's support for the refinery project was against the desires of the cabals, Dangote has a serious fight on his hands...

https://www.nairaland.com/8158225/dangote-refinery-products-inferior-nigeria

What is wrong with what gen agency said ?

The agency is simply saying Dangote will not be given the monopoly he’s always enjoyed in other business ventures he’s been enjoying in the past.

Dangote was asking the agency to prevent others from importing products because he’s producing locally . That’s monopoly which will make him decide the price of petroleum products in the country .

Jodera:
Arsenal's away kit.

Dope or No??

I’m buying this one it is available in naija. (most likely next month )

GloriousGbola:
i have an understanding of their mindset. anyone who has worked in ph has. 'it is our oyel ' . the men are lazy and the women are the hustlers. also why cultism is popular. easier to take machete and rob someone than do 9 to 5 taking shit from someone

imho, they are all part of it. you think governors are not getting their own cut from oil bunkering etal? when amaechi was governor there was a significant reduction in cult activities and violence in rivers. when wike entered, cult activties resumed, bunkering got to an all time high, and kpofire became so entrenched that there is permanent soot in the air in ph.

it is the same miltants who are pledging allegiance to fubara or wike right now. the governors are complicit in all this. same wike who was insulting chiefs cannot call them to tell them to tell their boys to behave?

Hmmmm…. U made some strong allegations up there o.

My hand no Dey o 🤷‍♂️

GloriousGbola:
there are two issues - theft of materials which is large;y a process and security thing, and incursion by the community which is partly a government matter.

Fubara is governor of the state. he has the power to get the community leaders in line. we saw fashola do the same with the restive community when dangote was building his refinery. this is also why we had doubts about wigwes university.

people complain about lagos all the time, but these are the things that ensure that all your state gets is an ioc mini office rather than a head office

if your community leaders and youth are too foolish and short sighted to understand creating a business friendly environment, you as the governor should know better and call them to order

then again, most of these governors are just idiots elevated to leadership positions. fayose actually pulled this nonsense in his first term when he brought some thugs to burn a bank down, and in his second term when he dug ditches in front of all banks in ekiti because they refused to let him shake them down

port harcourt is also a stakeholder in this matter.

Baba, Niger delta and oil matter goes beyond what a governor can solve .

If it was something that can be solved by a state governor , do u think FG would’ve come up with amnesty program? The Dangote matter with host community in Lagos is a totally different ball game entirely .

You need to have a conversation with a member of the host community in the Niger Delta to have a peek into their mindset

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Abiru chaired a failed and useless Prudent/Skye/Polaris bank naa.[/color]

Well u are right sha. He was made the MD of the bank by appointmentof CBN and not really the normal kinda MD employed by the board.

GloriousGbola:
this is why the IOCs have all left.

who wants to have to deal with entitled and lazy individuals?
the leaders of the community are more interested in deve than the long term benefits of the project.
this is also why dangote did not even look at PH.
this is were fubara is expected to show his mettle, but he is more concerned with fighting wike.

as for the theft, that is unfortunately standard on construction sites . you have to have proper processes in place to secure your materials


as an engineer this is just another highlight of NNPCC's fundamental incompetence and their culture of throwing excuses rather than solutions

everyone who works in the ND knows you will have community issues and plans for it. this is the way it has been for years .

the most annoying thing about govt officials s their ability to reel out problems. any fool can do that

but if i am going to my boss with a problem i will also have a potential solution as well

when you are not committed to succeeding, this is what happens

You didn't start this post well, but u ended it well.

What is Fubara expected to do to prevent a criminal from being a criminal? Crime happens in all the 36 states of this country. Few weeks ago, a vandal was arrested for vandalizing the lights fixed on the newly renovated 3rd mainland bridge in Lagos. Do we pin that vandal's criminal activity on Sanwoolu like u want to pin this one on Fubara?

The koko is there is a law and law enforcement agents have successfully apprehended the criminals in both instances; there's no need politicizing the acts of criminals that doesn't favor anybody but the criminals.

I agree with you 100% that in the Niger Delta companies usually face serious issues with their host communities. This is mostly because the indigenes always have this sort of mentality that the companies didn't bring anything to their community aside capital & equipment which they use to make billions, pay billions to FG and state as tax while leaving them the host community with little or nothing. I'm not saying this mentality is right, but that is mostly what drives them.

Like u rightly said, most companies always plan for such community issues. Some companies go as far as giving the host community a tiny bit of their shares such that when the company pays its shareholders dividends, the community will get something substantial which will be shared by their leaders however they deem fit. That way everybody is happy and the community leaders always fish out criminal elements threatening the companies' operations

This a very unreasonable move at a time when CBN is trying to raise minimum capital requirement of banks to N500billion , N200billion and N50billion for international banks, national banks and regional respectively . Talk about policy somersault

This is just another move that shows our lawmakers lose critical thinking the moment they join politics . Just look at Abiru who was a former bank MD supporting nonsense with full chest.

So it is the banks who should help FG fund new minimum wage and the white elephant coastal road project right ? It is not in the place of the law makers to take a pay cut to contribute to the “development “ of the country ?

Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, Sen. Sani Musa (APC, Niger-East), in defending the plan to tax the profits of banks, said the banks had made more money lately, taking advantage of the administration’s foreign exchange policies.

He stated, “The end-of-year reports of the banks tripled, despite the high interest rates. How are they making this money?

“They should be taxed to contribute to infrastructure development in this country.

“I believe taking a small percentage out of that profit to contribute to our economic development is not bad.

“I am in full support that we should look at the books of the banks in terms of their profitability in foreign finances.”

Sen. Adetokumbo Abiru (APC, Lagos-East), who chairs the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions, also gave his full support to the amendment of the budget and the Finance Act.


“The profits of the banks must have come from the liberalisation of the foreign exchange market and the policies of the current administration.

“So, it’s not out of place to ask the banks to contribute some funding to the running of our economy”, Abiru added.

However, Sen. Seriake Dickson (PDP, Bayelsa-West), cautioned against what he termed the hasty amendments to the Finance Act, saying that the Senate must not pass laws that would later be unimplementable.

He argued that a government must not continue “to tax our citizens, whether corporate or otherwise.”

The former Bayelsa governor added, “We are talking about taxing the profits of banks, that will be a serious issue. We should step down the bill and have the benefits of expert opinions on it.”

Dickson recalled how the National Assembly passed a similar bill for more taxes by telecommunications operations through the Office of the National Security Advisor, adding that though the law was signed, it had to be quickly withdrawn due to public outcry.

Make una Abiru that was a bank MD until yesterday, see wetin he Dey support . 🤷‍♂️

So it is the bank that must use finance new minimum wage and Lagos-Calabar coastal road project from their profit ba?

When banks start moving mad and start transferring this to their corporate and individual customers now, we will be blaming banks .

It is forbidden for these useless lawmakers to take pay cut to contribute to naija development , instead it is the bank and its customers that must sacrifice . 🤦‍♂️

https://www.nairaland.com/8157178/senate-welcomes-tinubus-requests-adjust

Page 50 hundred .

I pin for here

ouzo1:
Nothing dey shock me again when it comes to Master Strategist Government.

Master strategist just Dey show workings Dey go 😂

iamoyindamola:
Baba wan cash out na
David said the site domain belongs to a Canadian

I’m not a big fan of David o, but on this one he really got it right.

Omo ! Nigerian government no get any single shame like this .

iamoyindamola:
Shebi na una wan japa
Shey una no go compensate FG for helping ni
This country you just have to be thinking why a f how did we get here like seriously

Later they will claim it is the opposition that are posting fake news.

Na minister of Information post about the 640k visa application fee o….. chai!

Ellexy:
David Hundeyin vindicated once again.

So Nigerian government really wanted to scam Nigerian on top this Dubai matter, later they'll say the citizens are demarketing the country. EFCC won't go after FG now but they'll be disturbing young boys and girls

Nigeria is a crime scene .

So the federal government literally wants to steal as much as N640k from its citizens before they can apply for Dubai visa ? 😮

Unlimited22:
No matter how you try to avoid it stanship will make you lose objectivity.

Even me wey bring the thing come here, I never type pass 'Enzo you fool' because I like the guy well well

What do u think is making people blame Messi for Enzo and the rest of the team’s misdemeanors?

Sportsweb:
. they have deviated from the topic and talking rubbish. Na West tell una countries not to develop

As in…. U get.

Nigerians dey blame white wey don leave us to rule ourselves for over 60 years and we Dey do ourselves shege

patrickmuf:
Trust me, that money is not in Nigeria, the same western governments and corporations aid these guys to steal us dry. They'll return with aid in a bid to placate us...

The money could be anywhere .

People like Asari Dokubo carry amnesty money build university in neighboring Benin republic. Anywhere wey u carry money go, they will always receive it be it Africa , Asia, the West , etc.

The koko is did the west steal the money originally or our people did?

Firstly let our own people stop stealing from us and let’s see if things will not turn around for good for us as a people

Jodera:
I was about to bring all these and other corrupt practices up but I don't want this thread to become political thread.

Except na West deh tell our governors and politicians to do all these things which I'm not aware of. Hence what's the need of even voting or trying to hold our governors and politicians responsible/accountable if we're still under the west?

We’ve had 64 years to govern ourselves and all we’ve done is to misgovern ourselves . It’s funny that we will still be blaming the west till now.

andrewbaba44:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

E reach to ask na.

I used to blame the west, slave trade and all that for Africa’s under development . But I had to outgrow it.

Look at the 2019 screenshot attached . Between 1960 when we gained independence and 2019, an estimated amount of $582 billion has been stolen from Nigeria ( the country ) by Nigerians (the people ).

patrickmuf:
The west influence our elections, sponsor regime change and all that. It is very difficult for 3rd world countries to develop further because their development is a threat to Western Superpowers.

Is the West behind Yahaya Bello stealing 80 billion Naira as governor of Kogi state ?

Is the west behind Mamman Saleh stealing 33 billion Naira meant for zungeru and mambilla power plants which are meant to generate electricity for us?

🤷‍♂️

larride:
Is that not how the First Bank IT guy they are looking for fraud his way to over 20 billion? He was the one in charge of reversal and baba just kept moving the money to his accomplice account for more than a year or so. Someone posted the story here.

I had an encounter with Zenith Bank some years ago, used a restaurant and paid with a POS, the first transaction was declined but I was debited, I tried it the second time and it went through so I was basically charged twice. I complained and for more than 2 months these guys kept telling me the transaction was successful until I enter their branch go change ham for them, ask them to print out my bank statement I showed them the 2 transaction with the same amount with just few minutes different. Told them the first one was declined and it was the second one that went through, it was after that they actually started working on it and I got my money back within a week.

The First bank guy actually got around 40 billion. He stole more than the bank’s capital base of 25 billion . That’s why the board asked the MD to resign . How can a manager steal 40 billion and the MD was oblivious of the whole fraud for that long .

As regards ur experience with Zenith bank, it is hallway common when u have two transactions with same amount that happened within minutes .

The issue is that Most of those customer service agents are overworked and some of them don’t calm down. They will be insisting the two transactions were successful . Most times they will not cross check properly, they just want to dismiss you and stand to the next customer . It’s always better to go to the branch to sort thing out instead of calling them on phone .

Jodera:


Dem leave Enzo wey be adult wey dey do foolish and racist thing dey drag Messi weh dey Miami.

E be things

My GOAT 🐐 wey no see reason to Dey do bus parade after he don complete football, dem still wan drag am into Enzo and his friends’ misbehavior 🤦‍♂️

Truly, uneasy lies the head that wears the crown

liveLongNprospa:
Lmaoooo.

Like I said, once it's a fav. We dey defend.

As far as Messi nor dey the video, God Don save am.

This is not about defending Messi , it is actually about not accusing Messi of what he didn’t do.

U can’t be bringing alternative facts to an issue like this. Did u see Messi in the video ? No !

Has Messi cautioned players in the past from singing such songs ? Yes!

So wetin come concern Messi in the matter ?

Ibime:
You think that song hasn't been sung in Argentina dressing room countless times with Messi present and even doubtless joining in?

If they are just singing the song once in his absence, how do they know all the words?

Does the average Argentinian even know of a country called Angola to make up such a song on the spot? They have sung that song countless times, that is one of their regular dressing room anthems.

I remember as a JJC to UK in French class then when we were asked to name a French speaking African country starting with S. After one minute and nobody in the class could answer, I said Senegal, and the whole class was shocked I knew the answer. Talkless of an Argentinian reasoning a small country like Angola.

If Messi had cautioned them when they were singing it in his presence, the song would have died out.

Messi done commit, he just wasn't on camera this time when the crime was filmed.

I fear who no fear you o! 😮

This ur talk/agenda against Messi no gel at all.

In football there are so many derogatory songs that are coined together to troll opponents which fans usually sing . At least I know in the past there used to be one song “ 🎶 when Nigeria beat Brazil, when Nigeria beat Brazil o…. Ronaldo come Dey cry , when Nigeria beat Brazil 🎶 “

Songs like this are popular among fans and players know it too word for word , but out of respect for their opponents they won’t sing it on camera . I know u will say the particular song the Argentines sang was way more derogatory than the one I referenced above, but I’m just letting u know that is is possible the players know the song without having to sing it in Messi’s presence .

You were wrong to put the responsibility of the players’ action on Messi who is nowhere near where the song was sang. Messi in the past has cautioned his teammates from singing a derogatory song mocking Brazil . So to me it appears u just want to find a way to drag Messi inside wetin no concern am. Messi does not have a baby monitor installed on the team’s bus that he’s checking the players’ behavior from.

U can take up ur vexation against the Argentine players in the video, but dragging Messi into it no be am at all.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Dem be original werey. I wonder why dem go say transaction declined yet go on to move your money.

The thing is when there’s dispense error like that , the money leaves ur account but doesn’t get to the destination bank account. The money hangs in a kinda suspense account .

So, if u report it the bank will now make a claim to interswitch on ur behalf for the reversal of the funds back to ur account . If they don’t request for the reversal , ur money can hang there for a lifetime.

The funny thing is I’ve seen a staff of a bank who orchestrated a fraud over a long period of time. He made such reversal claims but switched the customer’s account numbers for an account number he controls . He got over N20m before he was busted . A customer who was persistent kept on disturbing the bank for his refund to the extent that they investigated and their findings showed he has been refunded. He threatened to bring down hell and that prompted them to check the account number that was refunded only for them to discover it was not the customer’s account.

The bank used EFCC carry the weyrey after doing audit to discover he has hammered over N20m with that format .

Why is everybody sleeping on Wizard Chan?

That guy is a fantastic musician; his music is spiritual . Even Ibime no Dey hype him Ijaw brother .

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Abeg eehh... POS say transaction declined... But bank debit me. The pos guy say money no enter him account. I don call bank people give dem my details. They say I should wait for 2weeks.

Shey the bank go return my money?
dis particular bank don chop my money too much especially during the old and new naira note saga. I no dey trust dem again.

The bank will return ur money ; the POS guy is right.

U just have to keep disturbing the bank people , dem be weyrey. . Don’t just call the bank alone, I suggest u visit a branch and fill the form for dispense error .

During the old and new Naira saga I also had some cash return just got tired of doing follow up on. But since the end of that period I’ve known that all those dispense error u just need to follow up at the branch level

seankafor:
At this rate, I think 💭 it's best they should legalize fraud

https://x.com/PIDOMNIGERIA/status/1813229360763060724?t=Lnpu501twLTiwTZsIcFx3g&s=19

This guy 👆never misses

Hmmmm…. I just hope the guy behind the handle knows what he’s doing. U can’t just call a personality like Ooni of Ife a romance scammer o.