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Dem don reach the stage of gospel music. When career don dey slow, dem go release praise song.

ogolemati:
agbero union still surprises at how buhari was better than their agbero chairman

I always laugh whenever I see news clips about this man and Reno. Chai, because of the stomach, the head takes a back foot. What an anatomical conundrum.

Oga by the time you think it is rightly your turn after misrepresenting yourself, those people you think are your backers will then realise that Ikwerre has some Igbo semblance and support a candidate from their over you.

They will always have excuses for why it is not Igbos turn yet so don’t think you are them any recordable favor.

Leemzyy:
Ya Salam😞😞
This is pretty Sad, Tinubu must Go 😔

look me up, i don't support Tinubu but I know for certain that issues like this are not fixable by any president or person in particular. If PO becomes president, i believe that violence especially from the north would increase significantly.

We have deep cultural and systemic deficiencies in our value systems in this country. I just don't know how the change would come.

SpaceX:
no way a woman can steal this much

Dey play, go and research OneCoin, the woman chop people maga in Billions of $, even the people wey join her orchestrate the package, no know where she dey today, she japa leave all of them.

Lol, you think sey Petroleum refinery is pure water factory. A single large scale operation can erase the need for another within a wide geographical radius.

While some Nigerians in diaspora are exploring Male virility and fertility in Scientific Labs, some others are carrying out self explorative studies using teenagers, aged patients in care homes and most recently emergency patients in ambulance (as we read today) as test subjects.

E Kere Oru Eke. That group known for such misbehavior should learn self-discipline. From 001 , Oluo**, Oo** to the lowest rank of them, they are either kneeling to beg for it or fighting your business partners for it. Tuehh.

This is highly commendable and should be the case in all resource rich African countries.

The reason is simple: in any market, your influence over the price of a commodity is closely connected to how much of its value chain you control.

Resource-rich countries focus too much on extraction and export of these raw resources while leaving processing, manufacturing and distribution to others. Those who control these downstream stages consequently capture a much larger share of the value and gain greater influence over pricing.

This is why Africa produces 75% of Cocoa that goes into various products that are consumed all over the world with popular demand yet, the price of cocoa beans is greatly influenced by what some institutions based in Switzerland are willing to pay for it because they control the distribution and processing.

Same applies to all the rare earth minerals that China is mining in Africa. If they tell you tomorrow that they can only afford to pay half of what it sold for yesterday, these countries would still sell it, because without the technical expertise those minerals are just useless rocks in your backyard.

Africa wake up. I am greatly delighted by the steps Dangote is taking by bringing petroleum refining back to Africa in a big way. The company has planned similar developments in Kenya. Africa is gaining bargaining power in the petroleum market. European refiners would either play fair or lose market accept they collude.

"You can never tell" is the right answer.

I wonder why the article that includes the name of the suspects was not used here. I know why so I will provide the article here

https://guardian.ng/news/nigeria/metro/nscdc-busts-illegal-juice-factory-in-lagos-arrests-two-women/

yemre:
Tell us their names, we want to check something

YEMI, I wills satisfy that your curiosity by telling you that the prime suspect's name is MORENIKEJI ALAWIYE, she says that the illegal operation originates from her grandmother and has been closed by authorities before.

Operatives of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have stormed an illegal juice factory in Aradagun, in the Badagry area of Lagos State, and arrested two women.

The factory, where a drink branded Barkas Juice was allegedly produced, was uncovered at Talabi Onilegbale Street, Aradagun, Olorunda Local Council Development Area, on September 19, 2026, at about 9:00 p.m.

The two women, aged 48 and 50, were arrested at the premises by operatives of the NSCDC Badagry Divisional Headquarters.

The corps alleged that the factory was unregistered and that the product, produced under Titi Alubarika Trading Stores Ltd, carried a purportedly fake National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) registration number, 01-2166L.

When The Guardian visited the premises, a truck loaded with the products was still at the factory, apparently awaiting distribution.

Cartons of the drink and rolls of product labels were also seen inside the bungalow being used for production, while part of the building served as a residence.

A dirty well, which the NSCDC said was being used to source water for production, was also seen within the premises, alongside an unclean industrial storage tank.


The operation, according to the NSCDC, followed five days of surveillance after intelligence was received about the activities at the location.

The corps also alleged that the products were being distributed to Edo State and other parts of the country.

Speaking on behalf of the Lagos State Commandant, Adedotun Keshinro, the NSCDC spokesperson, Oluwaseun Abolurin, said the operation was conducted after operatives encountered resistance from youths in the area.

He said the corps had to strengthen its inter-agency collaboration, including involving the Nigerian Army, to guard against possible attacks. He, however, said community support helped the operation to succeed.

He said: “Adulterated fruit drinks are being produced in this factory and supplied to Edo State and other parts of the country. The products were found packed in cartons and also loaded in a truck.”

Abolurin described the alleged production process as a threat to public health, urging Nigerians to be wary of unregistered fruit drinks.

He added that the NSCDC contacted NAFDAC to verify the registration details on the product and was informed that the product was not registered.

Abolurin further alleged that the drink contained high levels of sugar, additives and dyes, but did not provide laboratory findings to substantiate the claim.

Speaking to The Guardian, the primary suspect, Morenikeji Alawiye, said the factory had originally been established by her grandmother and had been operating for nearly two decades, although she acknowledged that it had previously been shut down.

According to her, the family initially produced bottled and sachet water before the factory ran into difficulties.

Alawiye said she had been trying to regularise the business before her arrest and claimed that she had contacted an uncle working with NAFDAC to assist with the process.

She also said an aunt had introduced a prospective customer in The Gambia who wanted the product manufactured for export.

By Eniola Daniel, TheGuardian News

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Willy2025:
The north sees the mineral resources in their areas as their personal properties, but the oil in the south must be shared to all.

They prefer to be security men for oil pipeline. Hausa man don build refinery for Lagos, another Hausa man in building another refinery in Akwa Ibom, yet people wey dem born inside the oil, still dey do boy boy

The article from NewsDay says ADELAMI writes from Lagos.

I also have questions for this ADELAMI and other ADELAMIs

I want to ask ADELAMI why he is yet to write on the President's past involvement in a Narcotics case and the questions Nigerians, Organizations and Forensic experts should be asking in order to confidently sever the political rise and influence of the President from possible financing sourced from illegal drug trade.

I also want ADELAMI to harness his journalistic curiosity to perform an expository inquisition into the entity of Alpha-Beta, a private consulting firm that plays a significant role in the Internal Revenue Collections process of the most populous state in Nigeria, Lagos. This inquiry should seek out to examine what connection this entity has to the current President and what role his influence as the former Governor of state plays in the process by which Alpha-Beta secured and maintains this opaque business relationship that expresses an clear institutional conflict of interest. Finally, express confidence in the transparency and uncompromised value that this relationship is meant to deliver to the people of that state.

Na the same Tinubu that is currently in Europe unbothered with whatever is happening in faraway Africa na im you dey warn ?

Nawaoo, see town abi city looking like a movie shot in Awolowo times, IGR nka ehnn

Why wouldn’t there be an “olodo uprising” in a country where rampant unemployment makes it seem as though graduates wasted years of their lives pursuing an education?

Obi said he wont buy votes and ypu know what he meant by no shishi not that he wont support party operations

Excellent93:
That's what monopoly can do ...no one dares to compete with him he has all sector to his palm and people still screaming one Nigeria the likes of ebeto and the rest have been sent out ...

Abeg leave that talk, i am igbo and that narrative is heavily false.

Btw Ibeto is as clueless as most of the Igbo sucessfull men. Na tallest fence dem wan dey build and ofu onye 10 title, to do ogaranya for their kinsmen, let them continue.

Goo0dHardDick:
Heard without government support and backup, this dude would have been nothing?

Abeggi keep quiet, which government will abandon an industrious son

MT:
Makinde rejects fuel subsidy but he is earning ridiculous amount of money from the federal government.

This dude thinks we can be fooled. I can bet Tinubu is not even paying any attention to the dude. Time waster

The way you guys throw this "earning from the FG" makes me wonder what you guys think government really is, a self-enrichment exercise or what.

This is what i suggested here on the other thread, and some goons were ranting.

If the money meant for petrol import subsidy can in one way or the other subsidize local production of petroleum products then progress has been made in 2 directions, palliation of the masses and support for local industry.

favor914:
Cho Cho Cho analyst, what is Ekweremandu’s crime that automatically made him to lose his voice in Enugu State

When he comes back, elect him Governor of whatever state you’re from, since it seems you have a particular affinity for politicians with experience on the other side of the law. It’s your kink, do you.

Personally, I don’t think my conscience would allow me to vote for someone who was convicted and imprisoned for an international human-trafficking offence arising from an attempt to procure a medical procedure abroad through unlawful means, particularly when he had spent years in a position of influence and had the capacity to contribute meaningfully to the advancement of healthcare in his own state.

Meanwhile, in that same state, the same kind of medical condition that affected his daughter remains a serious problem. Patients and their families still have to rely on public fundraising to access treatment abroad or seek palliative care in public and affordable facilities that are often under-equipped and overwhelmed. Go to a facebook page called Okwulora and see for yourself.

So no, you can vote for him if that is your choice. But I can’t and I don’t think I should have to compromise my conscience to justify that choice.

goslowgoslow:
Are the people from the east speaking up about their brothers who are in different prisons all over the world especially Asia for drug trafficking some awaiting death?
I won't be surprised if some of them are working for Tinubu. Awon hypokrits!

Let them come back home and contest for political office then you will know the difference between east and west beyond the compass.

Someone like Ekweremmadu has lost his political voice automatically in South East. People nitpick to a fault in south east, in the south east you can gain opposition for having parents from another SE state (which is just stupid imo) talk less of being a publicly indicted criminal. Your opponents would have a field day and it would be left for the electorates to decide whether they openly want to support a known ex-con. This is given external influence like FG pressure isn't involved.

oneMalik:
See NONSENSE weh this one deh analyse .

are you this concern about your tribe too or YORUBA tribe just deh give you headache cos they're a far ahead of your tribe .

cry your cry and leave Yoruba mata alone .

Pele ooh, na your type and whatever products you produce with this sense go still join the campaign teams of Hushpuppi or KC Luxury for Governorship elections come 2050. No single shame.

They should be deeply concerned, because ugly precedents are being set in the South West.

The involvement of prominent politicians—including the current governors of Ogun and Lagos States and the President—in criminal cases abroad sends the wrong signal to the younger generation and risks lowering the standard for the kind of leadership that may emerge from the region.

If such conduct is normalized, we may eventually reach a point where individuals with questionable or criminal pasts feel entitled to occupy reputable public positions simply because their “misdeeds" occurred in the past.

Those who shape and influence Yoruba cultural and social values should speak up now. Silence risks allowing these precedents to become normalized. Yoruba society has produced exceptional talent, particularly in Nigeria’s technology industry, and it is troubling if people of impeccable public character can be regarded as equal to—or even lesser than—individuals with questionable pasts simply because wealth is given greater value in a corrupted public consciousness.


If care is not taken, “KC Luxury / Hushpuppi for Governor 2050” could become a slogan, after all, they “served time for their crimes.” Meanwhile, people like Iyinoluwa Aboyeji may have to struggle to market themselves as good people, while some will call them hypocrites simply because they choose to live simple and frugal lives.

nairalanda1:
Because the refining process is very expensive. A subsidy of. even one product would lead to losses.

Subsidy too has issues. You can budget x amount for subsidy for the year and then oil price increases pushes up the.cost. Result is goverment borrowing to pay for subsidy.

Everything decision is a trade-off that a government has to make, so don't make it sound like the absence of subsidy has no negatives.

This is Nigeria where there is no steady power supply, businesses have lower purchasing power than their counterparts in other non-subsidized markets. The government of Nigeria, exposing its local economy directly to the market forces and competition for fuel will definitely have harmful effects on the local economy. Inflation is one of those resultant effects, businesses incur more costs and transfer costs down to consumers, soon enough it balloons up and now your savings are worth 30% less in just a year.

Honestly, I supported subsidy removal initially because I assumed that the savings made by the Government in that regard is enough to change Nigeria significantly in just 4 years by any dullard in government. But today, all that money has gone into Chagoury's money laundering scheme and bribing of Governors. We don't have a mature democracy and political scene so let the masses simplest solace continue through subsidy.

HacheNoire:
You already producing but seeking cheaper fuel!

You think those importers are foolish? Nigerians for that matter!

People supported the importation saying it will compete with Dangote. Here we are now!

Why can’t the government kill two birds with one stone by subsidizing at least one petroleum product while partnering with local refineries to guarantee a stable domestic supply?

First, the subsidy would alleviate the burden on the masses while supporting the growth of local industry. Second, it would encourage investment in domestic refining capacity, because more refiners would have an incentive to establish and expand their businesses locally.

It will discourage anyone from importing fuel for local consumption whether adulterated or not becuase the subsidy will be paid to registered and audited local refiners only.

If as the biggest oil producer in Africa, we are yet to produce finished product that is affordable enough to discourage anyone from importing petroleum products of any kind, then something is fundamentally wrong with us.