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This protest can only be delayed. Averting it looks impossible.
Food is cheapest this month and August of every year, so if protest thought can cross minds at this time, it is only a matter of time before they erupt into the streets asking for a real change.

They are answering Dangote's call to return their money back to nigeria and invest. From Dubai and London. Many more expected.

Dennisochampa:
Above all... I'm not against protesting but people should be careful...
If the government didn't care about Nigerian lives during end Sars...it won't care now... There should be no destruction or disruption.... The protests should be peaceful... Life no get duplicate

It is up to the govt to not infiltrate the protest. Their antecedent is well known to all. Thugs being driven in expensive jeepss by well-kitted drivers are not poor protesters doing. The govt is the number one problem.

They may succeed now but that will only make the protest spontaneous and unmanageable because the hardship simply doesnt look like it is about to relax. The July-August period has always been time of harvest and brings cheapest fresh food to Nigerians. This year it is funny, the sweetest part is when protest is being muted. What happens when things go up in december January.
They are trading a manageable scenario for an unmanageable and spontaneous one.

Dennisochampa:
Make sure when the guns of the bad government start blazing... You and your family stand at the front of it all... Peace

Hunger is like a bullet too. Take the desperation easy bros.
It can do more than bullet even so calm down and use your brain for once. People dont like to go out but are being forced to. We also have case of brainwashed Buhari supporters who want to transfer all the frustration their untouchable and unquestionable Buhari inflicted on them for eight years. They are the people we were made to believe actualize the MuMu ticket of APC.
You have the Obi supporters who always wish chaos on Nigeria so they can sell their "market".
The yorubas are equally vocal about the pains. Tinubu knows the hardship is real, has no plans to fix it, so wants to use political means. It may work now but wont be too long before another protest cry is heard again.

Was watching a documentary series about what Kenya did with their loans and I realized it is like this continent is gone. They sold themselves into Chinese slavery on the short term and western slavery on the long term. Loans were negotiated to allow for ample looting margin for few Kenyans. At the end, they cant force patronage of the projects the loans were used for.
Kenyans are just beginning to ask questions and it is too late. The inflated projects have been signed, sealed and delivered. Repayment is unbearable to the common kenyan who doesnt get even 25% of the value they are repaying via tax for.

It is better Nigerians ask sensible questions about some last minute projects by Tinubu's govt. Do we really need duplication of roads and routes to major cities at a time people are suffering unprecedented hardship? What are the details of these mega highway projects, who pays for the repayment? If tax by taxpayers, will it be a flat tax to all citizens or toll by users? If tolled, will patronage be forced via more neglect of older, already neglected alternatives?
We are on a long thing with this Tinubu govt o.

Average african man is a freelance hisbah.

Kobojunkiee:
Market for teachers is saturated with millions of children out of school?

It is the way folks who reason as you do manufacturer these lies for me. How can any reasonable person make such a claim as the one you just did?

immortalcrown:
What exactly is the aim of the protest?

A professional test(pro-test) for the Tinubu rookie govt. Lol.

AutoChick4U:
who will teach our young ones if all the teachers decide to take up other jobs?

The market for teachers is saturated already. Such questions only applies for medical practitioners and few other pressing skills not teachers.

This hardship series is not looking like something that will go away soon. I implore her to think away from teaching and look for what she has more control over that can fetch her at least N75k a month. Something she can do on her own comfort and do very well that's also very much in need.
Teaching for a proprietor who will be paying you N25k puts her out of control. That salary cant even allow her save a capital to start even frying of Akara or roasting of corn. The only capital can only start her with two wooden stools to start weaving people's hair. And that business is saturated.

MrBrownJay1:
of course his fuel will be cheaper... because the price Nigeria buys the fuel abroad is with the mark up of the refinery AND transport back and forth from abroad AND with the yeye middle men taking their cuts. if the price aint cheaper then what is the point of the gov wasting time with Dangote refinery if he sells fuel at the same price as the imported one?

the minute Dangote sells his product more than what the gov can get it for abroad, then thats the minute the gov will do just that and put Dangote's refinery out of business. do you really think Dangote wants that? do you even think thats his aim?! the only monopoly he will have is by giving Nigerians fuel that is cheaper than what they had before...and regardless of how these fuel mafias feels, THATS BEST FOR NIGERIANS!!

Dangote as far as I know has not opposed import. He is against import of dirty fuel that damages vehicles. Is there anyone else who owns more vehicles than Dangote in Nigeria asides all states and FG combined?
He is also against the idea of local crude being sold to him at $2-$4 pb above intl price. That effectively wipes the advantage that comes with local refining to him. Imagine at full capacity, him paying average of $3 pb times 650k bpd of his refinery out to rent seeking cabals whose only justification is that Dangote took food out of their mouths. That's about $1.5m a day or about half a billion dollar a year.

OkCornel:
Between 1999-2024, the government spent over $40 billion on maintenance of refineries that aren’t working up till now. This is more than twice the amount to build two brand new Dangote refineries!

Now why is the government screaming monopoly and energy security?

If true then the govt spent double the amount it cost to build 650k bpd refinery on combined 450k bpd refineries. Nobody is in jail yet some compromised agents of darkness on this thread are saying Dangote is about to introduce monopoly and bla bla bla.
They prefer to employ Maltese and Europeans than to employ Nigerians. Yet they talk tough about unemployment as if they care about it.

grandstar:
Why would people go against Dangote and his refinery that would not only end the importation of refined oil, but also have ample for export?

Some Nigerians have refused to fold their hands and watch helplessly as their business is forced to collapse just to please one man.

Dangote had long said that once his refinery comes on stream, the importation of all refined oils would cease. So,
what happens to those who import the stuff and live off it? Their business either crashes or will be at the mercy of Dangote.

This time around, they weren't to be cowed. Dangote has to understand that cornering the market for himself or his company does not do Nigerians a favour. There needs to be a level playing field, and this playing field is best achieved by allowing imports. That is the only way that prices would be kept competitive and him and his refinery on their toes. It is wrong to drive others out of business for yours to thrive.

The outright ban on cement importation led to Nigerian paying insanely high prices for the product and making him Africa's richest man. There's no patriotism is gouging the very people you claim to help. No one is fooled.

Governments must end the use of import bans to fuel production. Products usually banned are those the country lacks any competitive or comparative advantage in in the first place. Any product that can't be produced in an open market should not be produced in the first place.

Nigeria has lots of products it has competitive advantage in and should focus on those. It is those industries that bring about the transformational change the country needs.

Be hiding to spread hate against Dangote. Dangote loves money, goes for it aggressively, but was never a monopolist or monopolistic person.
He hasn't stopped anyone from owning a refinery. Like cement, he did his homework by building them big. That's way, the scale of economy effect on refined product prices is favorable to him.
I understand Dangote to be a man who wouldn't mind snitching on or reporting any competition in his area of shared interest who goes against the rules of local production by trying to import semi or fully processed alternatives. That's what he has done to his competitors so far. He acts like a freelance class prefect, who voluntarily takes down names of noise makers and reports to the authorities if affected by their actions negatively. That doesn't make him a monopolistic person or businessman.
The NNPC and corrupt cronies bringing in adulterated fuel today are same people who are suppose to make our refineries work. They have not been able to make even one of the four available to them work and you are obsessed with what Dangote does with his freedom.

As for the bold, if Dangote could generate his own power and the unreliable PHCH couldn't crash him , what is stopping other refiners from surviving?
Can Dangote supply the whole of west Africa? That should tell you the market is big enough to accommodate all the refineries around?
How are Niger and Cameounian refineries surviving the monopoly of NNPC cheap/subsidized import? That's how NNPC too should survive Dangote refinery efficiency until they sit up and fix their own refineries or properly privatize them. Has NNPC not been converted to a Business again? What is stopping them? Let them tell nigerians same way Dangote cried out.

This NNPC corruption is hard to cover if you will be just 20% honest here.

Kobojunkie:
Nigeria dey manufacture solar panels?

kindly go and die Oga.

330ml or 50cl? Even at that, N2000 is too much. Maybnone of those big men stores with outrageous tags on basics.

If not for inflation of cost and long throat, we should be talking about 1500 MW of combined capacity so far an not 35 MW plus.

Idiotically pretending to disagree on trivial issues so as not to look like the one-way bigot he is. Nonsense.

Nigeria shouldn't be on the list because we can afford to sponsor spirit stoners to go stone a spirit in desert with close to N200 Billion.
Yes, N200 billion when you consider what the states govt contributed also.

Our terror loving ruling party just identified with Rafah victims forgetting those people celebrated the death rape, baking alive and destruction of Isrealis immediately after Oct 07.
They murdered solution providers and our problem loving "majority" are taking sides with baby bakers.

If the item hasn't gone to the hands any third party courier on it's way to Zara, you should get it back, otherwise DHL Abuja is messing around. Probably to have you settle them for order already placed within their system.

Hmmm... we hail thee.

Antoeni:
If you Try and don't Succeed, change the Anthem.

after paying N90Bn to religious stoners abi?

Stupid lyrics.

Hailing a contraption that's never had a forward trajectory.

Gadafii:
shame on you

Are you saying Nigerian teachers don't deserve more or better?

Shame on you darkened brain. Idiotic bastards everywhere..

Policies introduced with no plan to create soft landing for their effect is the real cause.

A great fool is a great person in a sense.

youngrichnigga:
To pass a useless law on national anthem is so easy for them but to pass a law to help stem the menace of kidnapping will take ages and various levels of dialogue and lobbying

No kingdom divided against itself stands...

God said be fruitful and multiple. Truly we all don't need education(formal) to be huge in life but . . .