₦airaland Forum

GeneralShepherd:
APC or PDP, Northern politicians are animals. All of them

True

Colonelhannibal:
Omenka, a northern minority slave is the one trying to establish a PDP, APC rift.

The kaduna state governor is Fulani before PDP. Whether he moves from PDP to APC tomorrow, that violent and oppressive mentality will still be there.

Gbam!
Some of them take this party stuff too seriously, a party they can just wake up one morning and dump for another while their ethnicity and inner nature remains unchangeable.

majekdom2:
world economics don't sound sensible. They will be selling higher so as not to make losses. You dont have an option than to buy because you don't have the facility to refine . You don't have an option than to sell your crud produced also because you need to generate income. You see the problem nigeria is facing. We have o all crude at a lower price , and import higher simply because we don't have maximum means to refine here.

You are just making a very wild assumption.
There are more than one source of buying refined petroleum products, there is now way they will be selling to us at a higher price despite the huge drop in the cost of crude oil, no level of voodoo economics can explain that.
There is now way they are going to make any loss whatsoever, unlike here in Nigeria, the price of Petrol in those countries is determined by market forces, they sell according to how much they buy. Reduction in price only takes effect the moment they exhaust their old stock and buy new stock at a lower price.
No loss whatsoever there.

It is a northern issue from Buhari to Junaid Mohammed to Elrufai, even when Azzazi made that famous boko haram declaration, he was referring to Northerners in PDP (most of whom have defected to APC).
That violent mentality is why the region is ravaged by boko haram, fulani herdsmen and all kinds of ethnic, religious and political violence.

majekdom2:
you really don't understand. Oil prices dropped in those countries because they don't import... That's so easy to comprehend. We produce about 2 million barrels/ day ...which sells at a lower price. You will be importing not at the price the company you importing from sells to their citizens but at a different price. Ok which has to go up.Brent crude oil was averaging just under $109 a barrel for the first six months of the year, and by September it was down to about $95 for the month.

It was at $85.23 a barrel in early Asian trade on Tuesday, meaning that refiners that bought cargoes as recently as September are sitting on losses of about $10 a barrel relative to current spot prices.

The price of refined products in Asia has mirrored the drop in crude, with Singapore gasoil dropping from $110.15 a barrel on Sept. 30 to $98.10 on Monday.

This means that a refiner who paid September prices for crude but is selling products at current prices is staring at substantial loss which has an effect on the export, hence we be paying more for import subsidy. The percentage change has only to effect in the internal operations in the country. Dunno if I am right to use the word " internal economies of scale " in economics.

No need for unnecessarily long posts.
Are you are telling me that those we import petroleum products from will be selling to us at an even higher price despite the drop in the price of crude oil?
It doesn't sound one bit sensible to be honest.

majekdom2:
the refined product sells in dollars not naira.

My guy let us sort this out once and for all.
The price of crude oil fell from about $110 in January to $79 precently, that is an almost 30% fall.
The exchange rate of Naira to dollar rose from about N162 in January to N176 presently that is a 9% percent fall in the value of naira.

So there is still a very huge difference, the cost of importing and subsidizing petroleum products is supposed to reduce by far.

scosco1:
I think if subsidy will be completely removed then we should have nothing to fear because of the fall in pricing of Crude in the world market,but that I know can never happen . Kerosene is subsidized,petrol is not completely subsidized,diesel for a long whle is no longer subsidized , for diesel we are been made to understand that it goes hand in hand with the world market price so if there is a rise in Oil pricing diesel retail price soars but now there is a continous decline and no agency or Oil marketer has made any move to reduce price of diesel ...so with decline of crude pricing,removal of subsidy we should expect reduction of petroleum pump price ! Afterall when market forces are in good play price falls ... aπϑ literally we should expect thesame fall in our local pump price . Except there is more theories that we should expect τ̲̅ȍ get from our govt !

God bless you.
I don't know why people cannot put on their thinking cap.
Imagine the Government whould have spent the same amount of money subsidising a product when the price has fallen drastically and many wouldn't have figured out.
It now seems like they are even doing us a favour, they could have been diverting the extra to their pockets.

legendsilver:
Are you a Nigerian=?
Do you live in Nigeria=?
If yes, then you shld have known by now, that the Law of gravity don't work in Nigeria. Its always what goes up will remain up and keep rising up from generations to generations.

That is your opinion.

majekdom2:
cost of import goes up. The Nara is falling against the dollar. It don't work the way you thinking. It is inversely proportional.

The cost of importing it has not gone up, it went down along with the falling oil prices.
The fall of Naira is much smaller than the fall on oil prices.

The reason why politicians continue to trample on Nigerians is that many (if not most) of us are incredibly daft! You complain when you are not supposed to and keep quiet when you are supposed to be complaining.

Let us say we and other oil exporting countries were exporting crude oil at 5000 Naira per barrel and we import back its refined products like Petrol for N150 per litre and the government spends N50 to subsidize each litter of petrol to N100, then crude oil prices suddenly crashed, we now export at 4000 Naira per barrel and import petrol at N125 per litre, should the government be spending the same N50 to subsidize a litre to N100?

Can you now see that the President is cutting off an avenue for easy siphoning of billions of Naira? I say ''easy'' because it seems most of you would never have figured it out.
SMDH!

nnamdibig:
Oil price is falling in the international market and Nigeria who happens to be producing a large quantity of the oil will start paying more for it. What a country.

If oil price is falling, isn't our cost of importing its refined products and subsidising them supposed to fall too?
I wonder the kind of schools you guys went to.
The prices of petrol will remain the same.

I don't think this will lead to an increase in the cost of fuel as some people are saying.
Crude oil prices have fallen, our cost of importing petroleum products will fall along with it, the cost of subsidisng those products have no choice but to fall too.

Yoruba people their bad belle no get part 2.
SMH

Boko haram will officialy take over.

Looks like a rail line that will pass through almost all the states in Southern Nigeria.
Killing many birds with one stone.

MayorofLagos:
Why is it only Hausa and Yoruba commanders getting shot or wounded or killed in battle front?

Are there no Ibo commanders at the front?

Oh, I forgot......the COWARDS have fled!

Why is it that most of the Yoruba soldiers where shot in the arsè while fleeing?

I have never really been interested in this world richest list stuff, a more evenly spread wealth is better for Igbo land and Igbos.

Nobleval:
Good. Bury him at sea..if you they do that.I can assure them that he will never rise again. Ask Osama.

There is nothing good about it, if this is true and his death weakens the Ombatse cult, then the way has been paved for genocide on the Eggon tribe by Fulanis in colaboration with the state government.
The Ombatse group was actually formed to protect the minority Eggon tribe from Fulani and state government opression.

The same people saying Jonathan was witch-hunting him when the court case started, are the ones now complaining after he has been acquitted. All because he is no longer in their party.
Hypocrites.

Buhari is seriously hustling to get the required 25% of votes in at least 24 states.
An Impossible task if you ask me.
We will continue to avoid him like ebola.

Some people will find a way to connect whatever decision he makes to the upcoming elections.

soroptimist:
You are a despicable being!

Can you hear yourself talk........so all you could infer from the article is that Buhari went an put a dilapidated signboard in Azikiwe's House to score a political point with the SEners

If the signboard does not have a project that it is referencing which he did 18years ago,will he be able to show face at the same place after all these years?

Some of you have indeed sworn to a lifetime pact suffering and everlasting sorrow hence will always see people who have the capacity to help alleviate your sufferings as enemies owing to ethnoreligious bigotry and undefined hatred

What is renovating a house compared to the projects Buhari did in the north with the same PTF money?
Instead of answering the question, you are giving me a long and boring epistle.
How does renovating a late politician's house alleviate the suffering you are talking about.

mmimahbub:
PTF under Buhari recognized and renovated Dr Nnamdi Azikwe's home more than 15 years ago. What did uncle Jonah do to honor your leaders ? Not even you.

So putting a dilapidated signboard in Azikiwe's house was all he could achieve in the South east while he was building roads in the north with the same PTDF fund?

But Igbos have been avoiding Buhari like ebola since the 16th century.

The North is in trouble.
Decapitated head of the Suicide bomber
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jamace:
It is difficult to totally cut off supplies from the insurgents because if they don\t get it from Nigeria, they have other neighbouring countries to get supplies from. The success of this tactics lies in the total cooperation of neighbouring countries.

They can sell of the whole Lake Chad basin to the neighbouring countries just ass the sold out Bakassi Pennisula to get Cameroon's cooperation.

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Former senior military officers have asked President Goodluck Jonathan to declare total war on Boko Haram. The retired senior officers, including a former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, who spoke with SUNDAY PUNCH in seperate interviews, insisted that there was the need for the Federal Government to cut off food and fuel supplies to the insurgents to weaken their strength. They said government should engage the sect head-on to end the insurgency by the group . To prosecute the war, they also advised the Federal Government to consider other alternatives to the United States on arms procurement. Although President Jonathan had, in his nationwide Democracy Day broadcast in Abuja on May 29, 2014, directed the armed forces to launch a full-scale military operation against Boko Haram, the Generals expressed the belief that the war against the insurgents was not full-scale yet. To clarify what total war implies, a retired Colonel in the Nigerian Army, Paul Ogbebor, told SUNDAY PUNCH it was distinct from other types of war. He said, “There are many types of war. We have insurgency and the operational mode is internal security operations; that is what we have been doing. There is the guerrilla warfare, which the terrorists are using; they hit and melt away. “We also have the conventional warfare, which the President and Commander-in-Chief must declare and determine the mode. It could be a police action,
which is the lowest level of warfare. He could say he
is fighting a war of invasion on enemies encroaching on our territory. That is the type of war
we should be fighting now to uproot the enemy.” Ogbebor, who is one of the first Nigerians to be admitted into the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, stressed that the country had yet to begin a full war as it had not applied its national might. “When you say you are fighting a war, it means that the federal troops are the friendly forces, while Boko Haram should be the enemy forces. It also means that the friendly forces must do everything to defeat the sect. “As of now, we are fighting insurgency. It is not a national task because, if it were, everything would be directed towards it,” he said. He, however, said that with less than 200,000 military officers, the country lacked adequate forces to engage in full-scale fighting. He stated that adequate recruitment of both new and retired officers (reserves) to fill up the loopholes was required. Ogbebor said, “The army of 150,000 should be quickly built up to a minimum of about 500,000 so that we can capture the ground and occupy it sufficiently. Retired officers should remain in their places and join the police for internal security. Internal security should go side by side with total war. What happened in Kontagora or Yobe should not happen; we should have men on the ground for surveillance.” Citing the Nigerian Civil War, also referred to as the Biafran War, Gowon told SUNDAY PUNCH the purpose of the war was to defeat the insurgents who decided to take up arms against the state. He said if the aim of Boko Haram was to divide the country, then all efforts must be geared towards crushing the sect. “We are not fighting the people; we are fighting these insurgent groups. Just like during the civil war, I did not fight all the Igbo people, I only fought those who took up arms against the authorities. There was the order that whatever you do, you should not harm the ordinary people: women, children and old people. It is only those who took up arms against you. That is really the meaning of all-out war — not against the people. “If the people are backing them (Boko Haram), then they have to contend with the fury of government to restore law and order. I think this is the way it should be understood. It is not fighting a war against the ordinary people, who, in any way, would be running away from the war. “If anyone takes up arms against you and decides to establish what they call an Islamic state, then I think you can deal with them, because they are really trying to break the country and that must not be allowed,” Gowon said. On the implications of the war on civilians in the affected areas, Ogbebor said the effects could be managed by the Federal Government as was done during the Nigerian Civil War. He said, “There is always such a situation in the enemy’s territory where we have to find a way to cut off supplies to the enemies — food, water, communication and electricity — in order to stop things that will encourage them to continue with the war. We had that in the civil war and it was effective. Similarly, a former Military Administrator of Bauchi and Osun states, Col. Theophilus Bamigboye (retd.) said he was in support of the Federal Government declaring a full-scale war against Boko Haram. He told one of our correspondents on Friday that the menace of the insurgents and their occupation of territories in Nigeria were taking a long time and it was bad for the image of the country. Like Gowon and Ogbebor, he expressed his support for any measure taken to flush out the insurgents and return normalcy to the troubled areas. Bamigboye stated that there was the need to adopt high-powered intelligence to know the actual location of the insurgents and the most appropriate approach to adopt to end their menace. He said, “You can imagine the strategies adopted (by Nigerian forces) so far and the insurgents are still occupying some Nigerian territories; the issue is still on. I will advocate for a full-scale war so that we
can finish the insurgents. It is no longer a local thing. “We should declare a conventional warfare so that we can deal with this situation and forget about it because the pain and the destruction are going on for too long. I will support a full-scale war against the insurgents.” In the same vein, a former Military Governor of Kaduna State, Col. Abubakar Umar (retd.), said “total war” had begun in Nigeria since 2009, when Boko Haram began its attacks. He said, “Nigeria has been at war with Boko Haram in the last four and a half years. The President simply made an emphasis in his speech, perhaps out of anger concerning what had transpired two or three months before, where Boko Haram had been torturing one town after another. “He was simply trying to emphasise that Nigeria was indeed at war and that all hands must be on deck in this war against Boko Haram. Many politicians have considered the Boko Haram attacks as insurgency happening in a distant corner of Nigeria.” The former military administrator pointed out that Boko Haram was to Nigeria what ISIS was to the Middle East, adding that they both threatened global peace and security. Efforts to get the Presidency to comment on the calls for total war were unsuccessful. A presidency source, who would not have his name mentioned, simply asked SUNDAY PUNCH to direct its enquiries to the Army. But attempts to get the reaction of the Defence Headquarters on the issue did not yield any result as calls made to the Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, indicated that his phone was either switched off or out of network coverage area. However, findings by our correspondents indicated that Olukolade was out of the country. Copyright PUNCH.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH
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