₦airaland Forum

helinues:
What precisely are they striking for? To add more to what they are complaining about

If one if the duty of the NLC is to negotiate on behalf of the workers, shouldn't also be tasked to be fishing the ghost workers from the same workers they fighting in behalf. JS

You see this your evil mindset, don't pass it down to your children or generation unborn else we will have more evil people roaming the streets.
People are earning wages that cannot sustain their livelihood, they are asking for increase in their wages or reduction in the price yet an evil man like you don't see any reason for them to complain.
What are you then advocating ? They should fold their hands while they die of hunger?

Richtaiwo:
Kano, katsina, Kaduna, Delta, Ogun and Lagos were not governed on regional basis but each of these states has state-owned cancer treatment centres. Peter Obi was governor of Anambra State for 8 years. Tell us the one he built. Nobody is interested or asking for the nonsense you typed up here. Just tell us the one Peter Obi built in Anambra which shows he really want those centres.

In a bid to support a failed government, you people will just come online and spit jargons in topic you know nothing about to deceive gullible Nigerians.
There are only 3 cancer treatment centres in the whole of Nigeria 1. Luth, 2. UCH Ibadan and 3. A private hospital in lekki Lagos. I know this first hand because I lost my mum to cancer in June this year, so where did you get your statistics that Lagos ,Kano etc have cancer treatment centres?
Obi is very right on this one and if this is the only thing he can achieve for Nigeria I will gladly vote for him. Infact one of the reasons I despise this Tinubu government is watching my mum die needlessly due to inadequate cancer care, it was so painful because the crowd is so much for the inadequate facility in luth.

nairalanda1:
Government exists for the people, but government cannot fund welfare on imaginary money.

The problem you have is that you are have an extreme capitalism mindset and you don't seem to view things beyond your own myopic lens if subsidy is bad it kills industry.
There are two sides to a coin you should see things from different perspectives too, wheat is subsidized in America, government subsidize power in china but in Nigeria the only subsidy we enjoy as citizens has been taken from us.
Come off your myopic view that Nigeria is broke and cannot afford subsidy, Nigeria only needs an ingenious government to get things right and unlock this economy to her full potentials, even the oil we have , we are not drilling enough. Nigeria should doing up to 5m barrels per day but we are doing only 1.7m , now combine that with several minerals like bitumen lithium, gold, granite etc that are in abundance all over Nigeria, we even have sunlight and wind power in abundance all year round, yet myopic people like you think Nigeria cannot afford subsidy for her citizens without borrowing.
Successive Nigerian government only have a lazy mindset like you that cannot think outside the box that's why you think we cannot afford subsidy without borrowing.

Bobloco:
https://thenationonlineng.net/atiku-defends-subsidy-return-plan/amp/

Atiku abeg return our subsidy jare, when dem remove the subsidy wetin we benefit.
Atiku is getting my vote in the next election, don't waste your vote on Obi, even if it's only subsidy Atiku will return Atiku will get my vote though I'm a Yoruba man.

njokuuche77:
Saying "Tinubu doesn't fix prices" ignores how governance works.
He doesn't hold the fuel pump, but his administration's policies completely dictate the price.

Economic Directives: He announced "Subsidy is gone" on Day 1 and floated the Naira, which caused the exchange rate crash that directly pushed landed costs of fuel to these heights.

Dual Role: He chose to remain the substantive Minister of Petroleum, meaning the sector's failures are his direct portfolio.

Constitutional Duty: The primary purpose of any government is the welfare of its citizens. When policy failures make food, transport, and school fees unaffordable, the leader takes responsibility. The number one seat isn't for decoration.

Make una no dey support nonsense abeg

I wish I can like this comment 100 times, majority of the people here are either ignorant or just decide to have selective amnesia.
Government exists for the people and not the other way round. I spent 6 hours in traffic yesterday to navigate from VI to Magodo while burning the fuel that I bought at 1400 per litre in the process.
I thought to myself that despite all these suffering going on in this country,that APC is still poised to win the next election means Nigeria is a lost cause and irredeemable.

ElSudani:
Cut out the emotions and crap. I already told you how licenses were sold to the likes of MTN and GLO. Tell me exactly how much your PDP spent in developing the telephone infrastructure we use today.
Now, now let's talk about the responsibility of the government which is basically to do for us those things we cannot do for ourselves like building power plants, roads, hospitals etc. Your PDP government didn't do any of those things but they spent close to $40 billion dollars on fuel subsidy alone in order to make people like you happy.
Now you are crying of no power, no good roads and good hospitals. Can you still have your cake after eating it?

And I mentioned to you that it's impossible for private sector to come and invest in telecoms if the government did not create the right incentives and environment so your attempt to not give pdp credit for telephone development in Nigeria cannot work on me.
Now to what you mentioned about what you think is the responsible of government, the fact on ground and not your own lies actually show that pdp indeed outperformed APC in those things, you mentioned power plants but a simple Google search will show you that between 1999 to 2015, PDP built a total of 16 power plants while your APC is yet to build 5, the PDP government started the 2nd Niger bridge and the Abuja - Kaduna railway under jonathan they did all these despite paying heavy subsidy.
So talk another thing Mr blind APC ostrich supporter.

ElSudani:
Lol, the same lame responses whenever they are caught.
Did you think about how far 40 billion dollars invested in power, education or road infrastructure could have pushed Nigeria? All the problems you expect Tinubu to solve in 3 years.

What is lame and what did you catch? It's a verifiable and visible fact that pdp government developed telephone industry in Nigeria, even kids know this. I am surprised you didn't know or it's just blind party loyalty that's making a known fact unknown to only you.
Perhaps I'm responding to a kid who was born after 2001 when gsm came into Nigeria .
Your attempt to digress from the topic and start mentioning 40Bn dollars is just the usual rubbish, your APC government is not only stealing but they are expert at stealing borrowed funds from even our untapped oil.
They spent over 5Bn dollars borrowed funds with our oil from Buhari to tinubu to repair refinery, yet the repaired refineries cannot produce a single petrol because they have looted the money. They borrowed over 2Bn dollars from IMF that they want to give the poor yet I don't know of any poor person that received the money.
APC is the father of looting not pdp, very useless government.
As I mentioned earlier, every Nigerian should just ask if his life was better before or after this government before casting his vote then I want to know where APC will get votes from.

ElSudani:
The PDP government did not spend one kobo to develop the telephone infrastructure we are using today. Rather, they made millions from selling licenses to companies like MTN having realized NITEL was going nowhere.
In the same period of time between 1999 till when Jonathan left, roughly $40 billion dollars was spent on fuel subsidy alone.
Think about it for a minute, the kernel of your troubles did not germinate in 2023.

They didn't develop telephone infrastructure yet you said they sold licenses . If they didn't create the right incentives and environment will the telephone companies come in?
You ascribe the success of Dangote refinery a private company to why we don't have fuel queues anymore and why local export has gone up to APC government yet claim pdp success on GSM development is privately driven you obviously need to see a doctor and be examined.

ElSudani:
What were the major investments the PDP made for the future economic development of the country?
None, all spent on giving you and our neighboring countries cheap gas and cheap dollars.
Did they build new power plants? New roads? Develop agriculture or mining? Tinubu is not close to being the source of your problems.

See this one, Nigeria had best years under the PDP government with visible legacy impact that's still obvious for all to see today.
Starting from the phone you are using to type this jargons, the pdp government brought is to Nigeria during Obasanjo, the PDP government built power plants and nlng was also floated by pdp government during Obasanjo time yet we bought fuel for less than 100 at that time.
Now you tell me what your own APC government has done with over 150Trn borrowed yet we are buying fuel for 1300 now .
At the end of the day, the question every Nigerian should ask before casting her vote is if his life was better before or after this government and in sure you know what the answer is.

Atiku Baba!!! Keep pressing the Agbadorians neck jare.
I really like the way Atiku is going about this opposition thing enroute the next election and he's shown that he's indeed the only opposition at the moment while Obi and co are just gallivanting.
He's kept APC on their toes by proffering alternative solutions to fuel subsidy removal and border closure already.
I am seriously rethinking about him and he would get my vote next year if he continues this way.

You are very correct, I lost my mum just last month after her protracted battle with larynx cancer and I can tell you there was a way she smelled that was never her body odour.
Infact, there was a time my wife asked why she was smelling that way and I forbade her from ever talking about my mum like that.
This is a very good observation that the medical guys in the house can explore for further research and make money but trust the average Nigerian docile and lazy mindset to just wave it off and laugh about it.

kingsways:
Sale of products meant for local consumption in Nigeria in USD is unfair to Nigeria and Nigerians, and I urge both Nigerians and the government to reject it

1. Dangote got a good chunk of the fx used to build the refinery from Nigeria at official rates that was way below the market rate, and this is not a good way to repay that gesture

2. The new pricing policy breaches the regulations against dollarisation of the economy. It is illegal to price products produced in Nigeria and sold in Nigeria in USD

3. The policy will put the Naira under intense pressure as marketers will again begin sourcing USD to buy products

THIS POLICY IS BOTH WICKED AND ILLEGAL

Please don't be hasty to conclude, you sound very intelligent so I will pardon your ignorance here.
Read up about companies operating from a free zone areas, a free zone area is regarded as another country within a country so the government of Nigeria don't have any jurisdiction on how Dangote price it's products, Dangote is free to sell her products in USD or whatever currency he chooses because he operates from a FZE and Nigerian law on dollarization does not affect him.
Instead of blaming the actual culprits here which is the Nigerian government you Nigerians are blaming Dangote, should he own a business he cannot sustain? He do s not have sufficient dollars to import Crude oil from abroad cos he's selling in Naira, even NNPC is selling crude to him in Dollars.
What were you expecting then?
I don't know how the useless government cannot meet dangotes crude demand and sell to him in Naira instead of dollars .

cr7lomo:
This shows u how trashy copa America is ... The Euros is harder than the WC

I wanted to comment before but when I saw your moniker it confirms you be real mumu.
Shebi France see ball yesterday against Paraguay and dem wan faint.
Copa America is trashy tournament, Euro is harder than WC ode oshi.

SQLmastar:
It's the way you guys downplay some of these teams and overestimate your Super Eagles that amazes me.
So, because Germany lost to Paraguay (via penalties), you feel they are not a good side?

This current Paraguay team will beat your Super Eagles 3 goals to nil!

You dey mind the mumu, even the main Super Eagles that was far better than what we have now in the days of Okocha, Olise and co was beaten by Paraguay in France 98.
How much more this current crop of Super chickens that cannot even for WC.

Parachoko:
List out the Inconsistent Jidgements you're talking about

I don't have time for your delusional response pls. If you can't see the plethora of useless inconsistent judgements being given with deregistration of parties, different courts contradicting themselves.

Parachoko:
I hope he has his evidence with him when he's told to show evidence

He doesn't need any evidence, the evidence is glaring with the plethora of inconsistent judgements we are seeing daily.
Only a fool will argue that donating luxury houses to judges is not a form of inducement to judges. How many of such houses have been donated to doctors, lecturers and teachers? Or are judges the only professionals? It's simply because APC and Woke want judges to do their biddings.

I think the solution to this problem is very obvious but the government is either too daft or too proud to take the solution.
Hire foreign mercenaries from Russia or Israel tonight these supporters of APC and they will be cleared within two months.
We cannot continue like this as a nation, the stupid people we have in government just like to polish a situation that's already rotten. It's obvious our security forces cannot tackle this menace because they have been infiltrated so why not hire foreign security outfits like Wagner and let them enter the forests and deal with them.
Nigeria has the money and we can pay them with oil even if we don't have the cash.

Patnome:
Wetin Alvarez dey play self

He is not worth more 50 milla dollar

No be him play against arsenal in Emirate weh we no see?

Abegi....... that guy is overated

But he scored a wonder free kick goal against the same arsenal so what the heck are you saying.

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Patnome:
God bless you

Oil dey your head

I no dey see wetin dat guy dey play ooo

He is not worth more than 50 milla

Osihmen is far far far away better than him

Osimhen is better than Alvarez? I always wonder what you people smoke in this platform. A world cup winner who was the most influential in the tournament apart from Messi, someone that scores free kick from any angle player and the most sought after footballer right now in the whole world, psg, Bayern, Barcelona and real Madrid all fighting to sign.
Bro just stay on nairaland and let people who understands football do their business.

Samueltemi337:
Watch out for

Curacao vs Germany
Brazil vs Haiti
Portugal vs Uzbekistan
Spain vs Capo Verde
France vs Iraq

Who told you France can beat Iraq talkless of beating them 10-1? Is it the same Iraq that just drew against Spain. Have you watched Cape Verde play at all? Yet you think Spain will trash them, Cape Verde that is yet to lose a single friendly and has been playing all top ranked teams in FIFA ranking.
You people still think football is played on paper, this WC will shock everybody and most of those teams you think will trash others will crash out in first round. Football has changed and there's no minnows anymore, he go shock you.

That's not a good sign at all and it's one of the early of CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) , you will need to act fast before is gets to total kidney failure.
First, go and get yourself tested , request for electrolyte and urea test.
Once the stage of the disease is ascertained , you might need to enrol for dialysis.
I wish you the best bro

Reference:
I don't think importing crude oil is bad news. It has become clear that we don't have enough crude to feed Dangote. We have to accept that. And as we have decided that as a private entity he is free to buy from wherever he can get it. Who knows if those folks he buys from have a stake in his refinery.

What will have been embarrassing is if Nigeria was offering him crude particularly at a discount and he turned the country down in preference for imports.

It is clear we (that is government and citizens) have decided the foreign exchange we get from exporting crude oil is more valuable than taxes and royalties from the local economy.

Dangote importing crude to Nigeria that produces crude is not only a bad news but a terrible news.
I don't know who is teaching you people economics today but basic economics should tell you that the moment you import any products into your economy you have taken jobs and all the benefits in that value chain to another clime, you have also depleted your already scarce FX reserves to another clime thereby increasing your inflation level that's already one of the highest in the world at 15.63%(highest in the whole west Africa).
Using Nigeria to compare America is one of the most illogical and senseless comparison I have seen. Nigeria needs all the value it can get from it's limited resources while America doesn't , the economy of California alone is more than the whole of Africa. America can afford to only import crude and not tap her own crude because it can afford to do so, meanwhile crude oil is priced in American currency so importation of crude does not affect American currency in any way but it affects the naira and trigger inflation.
I don't know who teaches you people in school these days because the kind of thins I read online amazes me and I fear for the future of this country.

Useless government that never gets her priorities right. You allocated just N35m to health in a full year for capital projects and you are building useless road to Sokoto for bandits and supporter of APC to use.
The last day I took my mum to Luth, my eyes was full of tears for this useless country, no bed space, no doctors on ground, nurses are on strike or no available radiology equipments cos it's all damaged.
If you support this useless government then you are as wicked as the government.

Hemanwel:
E clear like DSTV!

National Sports Commission, oya carry your lawyers, leggo to Court of Arbitration for Sports

What court of arbitration are they heading to again? Is there no iota of shame left in this godamn country again? How can you be looking for every loophole to play in the world cup when you could not qualify fairly.
Please they should just allow this matter to rest or it's we Nigerians that will beat them up in that NFF office.

ogascomax:
That was why I said if that is true. Because it's crazy to think about the possibility for that to be true. It's almost impossible.

Many Nigerians only read headlines and don't read the news content.
The news here is that only 36m was allocated for capital projects in the hospitals, it doesn't mean that recurrent expenditures like payment of staff salaries did not receive allocations but capital expenditures like purchase of equipments like xray machines, radiotherapy machines and even building if bed space centres only received 36m for a while year in this entire country.
You can now see why people are dying like fowls in the hospitals when they are not equipped to carry out their functions.

I have always maintained that the reason you find all these APC fanboys and urchins permeating the media space is because they are yet to have any terminal disease or they do not have anyone in their family with a health problem they are nursing.
The day I took my mum to Luth is the day I actually cursed this country and realized that the phrase 'Nigeria has happened to me' is not a joke but our reality as a country .
The issues in Nigeria tertiary hospitals are enormous, they will tell you no bed space, no oxygen, long queues of people to receive radiotherapy until the patient is dead, no consultant available cos they have all japaed.
No stethoscope, Doctors or nurses are on strike etc.
Yet they allocated only 38m to health in a whole year while the national assembly alone got over 200Bn for 400 members, yet these people still have supporters all over the internet who see nothing wrong in this evil administration called APC.
My prayer to you if you are still supporting this government is that God visit your family with a terminal disease so we can see whether you will still be standing on the useless mandate.

LagosOrigin:
If you Tell this APC wicked souls to pay Nigerian workers a good living minimum wage, they will say no that the economy is struggling . But here they are flexing an imported woman in a private jet and rubbing it on our faces.

Tinubu and his wicked souls in APC must be kicked out in 2027.

You are going too far bro, as I typed this message, Doctors and JOHESU workers are on strike, their demand is simply for their wages to be increased but the government is not even looking their way after several weeks.
But the legislooters and executhieves are living in opulence and flying pjs with oloshos everywhere.
The politicians own no even pain me reach their online zombies who have sacrificed their future for 30k per month. Just on this thread I have seen several comments supporting him and saying he can spend his money as he wish.
Don't you think we should start doing something about this useless fellows with blind loyalty for politicians who have permeated our media space.

Look at this lying fool talking as if they have done anything significant other than to rob Peter to pay Paul.
You are deducting almost extra 60k from my salary as tax while you are reducing people's tax obligation by just 3k here and 5k there and you think are helping out.
This government is not serious at all .

helinues:
I really don't get it why some of you are not even consciously aware about how casted you have been with your years of lies on this forum.

Don't you have a state of origin or you flew from the sky to mother earth?

Which should be your priorities, your place of residence or your state of origin

You sound very unlettered and ignorant with the kind of stupid posts you always put here to disgrace yourself.
Of course, your place of residence should be your priority anywhere in the world. If you are a Nigerian and you stay in new York then new York should be your priority. The reason is because you pay your tax to your place of residence and not your state of origin.
The place that will have the most impact in your well being is your place of residence and not your state of origin.
I was born and bred in Lagos and my father is from osun state so my priority is Lagos and not Osun that I have never visited. My PAYE tax that I'm paying to the Lagos state govt has recently been increased by almost 6 figures monthly and you expect me to fold my hands while politicians budget it to buy houses and SUVs for themselves in Lagos.
God forbid.