₦airaland Forum

Seun:
I want to thank everyone who responded to this thread. I benefitted from your responses. Shadow died at night on the 6th of June.

During the night of the day I wrote this thread (Friday 2nd), the dog summoned the will power to get up and relieve himself. But that was the last time he ever walked. He had developed the most massive testicle infection that you could imagine. His legs were kind of dried up and limp. The hind legs were kind of black. Vet suggested atrophy but with the orchitis I figured it was some sort of infection. But his core was still strong

On Sunday 4th, he started making efforts to get up to relieve himself. Heartbreaking efforts. I could only clean him after he pissed/shit on himself. He was so weak that he couldn't bark but he made the most heartbreaking sounds. I broke. I asked my vet if he had an assistant who could help me take the dog to a clinic. He said no, that I should get a taxi. A dog that was messy. I did my ugly crying. 2nd time over a dog.

I resolved I'll just continue to take care of him with what I knew. He had stopped eating chicken so on Monday I just force fed him custard and gave him the same medications. Changed from vet-prescribed amoxicillin which clearly wasn't working. (Btw amoxicillin is trash.)

But by Monday the 5th, he started aggressively resisting my efforts to feed & pill him. He clenched his teeth so tight. I figured I would respect his decision. If he was going to die, I didn't need to make his last moments a struggle. I would give him peace. I started researching how I could take him out myself without causing any pain. I also wasn't going to let him go out struggling and fighting the vet and me the way Sloane went out.

So on Wednesday the 6th all I did was clean him up. There was food/water but he didn't eat/drink and I didn't force him. I noticed he started shivering & had some nasal discharge. I guessed that the infection was spreading. All I could do was pet him and apologize. I was already in bed that night when he started to breath heavily, then stopped. Then I heard farting sounds. When I woke up the next morning, he was gone.

If I ever have a dog again, it would be a tiny Papillon dog, and I will form a relationship with a vet clinic which has the capacity to conduct tests and base their treatments on the results of those tests. I'll also ensure he gets vaccinated for parvo & distemper and everything else. There's a part of me that allowed him to go because he was too big to handle alone and aggressive to my helper. He still bit him on Saturday the 3rd. 😆

Naijamallam:
Where is the money?

grandstar:
I have to be frank with you, I don't understand what you're saying.

Removal of the fuel subsidy and merging of the exchange rates were extremely urgent and should have been carried out years ago.

If you're supporting the multiple exchange rate policy of the Buhari govt, then you're supporting the briefcase millionaires you whine about.

In which space will a well connected renter briefcase businessman make money: where the official exchange rate is 461 and black market 750 or the present one where the official rate is 745 and black market 750?

Rountripping (buying forex at the official rate and selling at the BDC or black market rste) flourished under Buhari because of the massive differential in exchange rates. By floating the Naira, that has put an end to briefcase millionaires or even billionaires.

Also, the old exchange rate policy favored only the well connected. There was an unmet demand of $12bn under Emefiele. The airlines alone could nor repatriate $800m.

That waa not an environment conducive for business. In the past , dollars flowed to the well connected but now flows to those who can pay for it.

Secondly, the fuel subsidy simply needed to go. I have only filled my generator once since the subsidy was removed, so I know it hurts. But there was no option.

Your last few lines are appreciated. Let's see if the Tinubu can sell of the country's parastatals in a very transparent manner, free of corruption.

bjdon:
It does not matter if they are 2% or .02%. Their actions were bankrupting the country. Have you not seen the massive amounts that were being spent on so called subsidy? Do you not also realize that it's due the corruption with petrol subsidy that none of our refineries were working. For your information there are cartels all over the world. In the US it's the arms and weapons history(Otherwise known as the military industrial complex).
With the subsidy gone, local refining will now take off (BUA, Dangote, others) and eventually the cost of PMS will come down due to competion. The nation will also save MASSIVE amounts of FX which will help the exchange rate.
I will agree though, that the govt should very quickly provide relief to the masses

grandstar:
This professor is giving a text book answer to treat the severe economic mess Buhari left behind.

You go the slow and gentle route, you'll simply embolden those against reforms to frustrate things, especially when the president eyes re-election.

Shock therapy is the best. Get everything over and done with quickly. Already, two of the most painful reforms have been carried out: removal of petrol subsidies and unification of the exchange rates.

More deregulation in prices are needed in the telecom and power sector. If those in these sectors can't recoup costs, they won't reinvestment. Government setting of rates there isn't the best but I can understand the GSM carriers have oligopolistic power and may abuse it and use it to fix prices illegally.

Cutting down the size of the civil service may prove politically risky now as it may push them and their sympathizers into voting for the opposition in 2027. The best they can do now is simply to prune it.

hisexcellency34:
Ask Dangote

OneCandleAway:
You can't over tax the people and expect the country to prosper. Over taxation is why I never wanted Tinubu. He over taxes. There are other ways the govt can generate revenue, we have multiple natural resources, the zamfara gold I have never heard anything about how the gold is adding to our income. How do you encourage SME when you're taxing them to death.

helinues:
No unnecessary borrowing this time around.

We need to generate the money internally

kayone2:
Arresting only your political enemies while allowing billions of USD in tax payers' money stolen by your corrupt friends to go unrecovered giving room for more looting, is the simplest definition of economic destruction.

Sirika, Malami, Ganduje, Matawalle, Sadiya Umar Farouq, and even Akpabio, are just a few economic terrorists to bundle up if you truly mean well

Okealaaye:
Tinubu is a beloved of God. Whoever God loves is incomparably excellent. Boys like Peter Obi and his maddening mob are way outside this circle of favour. God hates pretence. How could anyone have thought that He would prefer a Third Class graduate of philosophy who once vowed upon the incident of death if he ever left the party of his fathers? A container trader who was verbally cautioned by his acolytes to desist from citations about China, Indonesia and even Egypt economic growth and development that's rooted in equivocation and falsehood and lies. God so loves Nigerians that He so graciously gave us The Global Jagaban at this momentous time in the life of our nation. Otherwise, upstarts and chest beaters would have held sway by now, from Umuokpara to Arochukwu, stalking the land like the clay-footed God that the Long Juju is.

limeta:
The truth is there's no truth
Propaganda is agenda of the day

hisexcellency34:
What about Dangote Refinery

Speaking with worldviewafrica, Sagay said he believed that subsidy should only be removed when Nigeria is refining and producing fuel locally.

plat0:
Nigerians don't care about those metrics, they want the dollar to naira rate to be equal. I still maintain that Nigerians are largely ignorant.

Opanka44:
The hardship is frustrating me right now.