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OasisX:


......when I said FCCPC, DSS and EFCC may intervene to curb greediness of traders, marketers in the country, one dôlt was vomiting in the mouth like epileptic patient. LOL!

I had to quickly local-search the number of times FCCPC has been mentioned on this thread since its creation.

Not surprised to see the historical instances of the same people dismissing the role the FCCPC should play in curbing prices.

But, hey, let's haha instead of addressing real issues based on facts and what's legally backed.

Two fueling stations in the same area I was earlier in the day sold at different prices. Almost adjacent each other. #15 naira difference.
And the FCCPC works that won't happen.

Ask your lady to tell you the price of a bag of garri in the market she buys from. Same garri, different prices. In the same city, some sell way cheaper than others, and market unions hårrass those who don't sell at their fixed rate which is more expensive.

When the price of rice reduced last December, it was still sold a higher rates in the different parts of the same state.

But that's the Iran War too. There are no internal factors which should regulate these things.

Just emotions busting from the seams because facts reveal something deeper. Many of you might even have wives with shops who are inflating food prices, but let's blame the Iran War too.

Price of crude oil per barrel, May 2025: Averagely $64 USD. https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-market-report-may-2025

Price of PMS in Nigeria when it was $64 USD on the average in May 2025: #1,300. https://www.channelstv.com/2025/05/21/petrol-prices-surge-by-76-73-year-on-year-in-april-2025-nbs/

Was the Iran War responsible for the hikes too when crude oil was cheaper?


You are ether factual or dûmb depending on emotions which aren't backed by fact because Nigerians feel more than they think and champion emotions over facts.
The Heavens forbid the day emotions have to replace facts for me.

semid4lyfe:
Baba, you are normally spot on with your analysis but on this one.your brain don waka go sabbatical.

Crude is an internationally priced commodity and the global oil market sets the price. And since the Iran war began, the prize of crude has jumped from $60 per barrel to over $100 per barrel.

Shipping routes have been disrupted. Supply don diminish and crude no surplus like before. Freight and insurance of vessels sef add money. So the price don go up everywhere.

America produces over 20 million barrels of crude oil per day and even refines locally, yet even them don increase their pump price since the Iran war began.

Americans are all over social media complaining about the cost of fuel and the other day we saw Korra Obidi post a video complaining about buying fuel more expensive due to the Iran war.

It's also the reason Donald Trump has being para-ing, daring and threatening Iran not to close the Hormuz Strait. Because 20% of the world supply passes through that route, and if that route is disrupted, iit would exacerbate the situation in America which would affect him politically too.

Another point. The price of refined fuel always mirrors that of crude. If crude goes up, PMS, diesel, aviation fuel and all other derivatives sef go get erection.

Nigeria case get k-leg. Dangote is the only local player and the FG only supplies about 30% of his crude requirement. Even at that, Dangote pays in Naira at the international benchmarked crude price, and this has increased from $60 before the war to over $100 now. So naturally, the price of Dangote fuel go increase.

The other importers and independent marketers sef no get choice but to increase their prices because no be wetin dem dey buy PMS before, dem still dey buy am.

Now, Nigeria is a fuel-dependent country and fuel is the lifeline of our economy. So when fuel goes up, every other thing go follow....transport. commodities, farm produce, groceries and FMCGs, cost of doing business, services, everything.

It was inevitable that the local fuel price will increase with the Iran war. The only way it wouldn't have was if govt paid subsidy.

I rest my fingers.

You are making my point. Nigeria is an oil-producing country. Before the Iran War, we were dealing with fluctuating fuel prices. It was never stable and we had artificial hikes up to #1,500 at some point last year.

Our FCCPC doesn't work and I uploaded a screenshot here with discussing with someone stating same with analysis a month ago.

Here's the price of petrol in May 2025: https://www.channelstv.com/2025/05/21/petrol-prices-surge-by-76-73-year-on-year-in-april-2025-nbs/ .

#1,300. May, 2025 – almost a year before the Iran War.

The Iran War isn't why we have a monopoly and the FCCPC doesn't do its work.

You can either be factual by posting links to corroborate these things or bank on fleeting haha moments.

LOL. You obviously haven't used VEO 3.1 Pro.

Even with great prompts, you can create ultra-realistic videos from images generated with Nano Banana and used as a base image for VEO 3.

That's what companies use for targeted social media ads.

This is the FCCPC X page. https://x.com/fccpcnigeria Go down its posts if you'll see it sanction any organisation for arbitrarily increasing prices since last year.

The last one it did was at a supermarket in Lagos in mid last year and that was performative because of the uproar on social media as nothing came out of it.

Everyone is taking advantage of the broken system. It's not the Iran War.

semid4lyfe:
I do not understand how any Nigerian go dey gloat and post the war with glee when the same war is making life more difficult and draining our pockets. I mean, there is absolutely nothing to gloat about in this Israel/America-Iran war.

Israelis don kpai. Americans don kpai. Iranians don kpai. Many on both sides dey wounded. Even the gulf countries wey no dey directly involved don lose people.

Properties have been bombed and left in ruins. Schools and whole neighbourhoods have been reduced to rubble. Investments have been wiped out overnight. Businesses shut down. Airports closed. Oil facilities hit

Families have lost fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and children. Some of the people killed no even get anything to do with the fighting.

Even for Nigeria, things don red and we dey feel am. Fuel don enter 1500. Transportation don go up. Bolt and Uber fares don jump. Interstate transport companies don adjust prices. If they haven't already, airlines sef go do upward review of ticket prices.

Cooking gas don enter 1200/kg for my side. Kilo of beef, 8000. Goat meat, 9000. It used to be 6500 and 7500 before. Bukas and small restaurants go adjust their prices and portions too.

Commodities and FMCGs dey add money like garri wey soak for water. Rice, bread, noodles, vegetable oil. Everything dey creep up small small.

This war is in the middle east but the shockwaves dey reverberate all the way in Nigeria. and it's draining pockets.

I do not care for Trump, Netanyahu or Ayatollah. My own be say make the war end so things fit return to normal.

Why? The cost of PMS hasn't increased in Iran, Oman, Saudi Arabia or Qatar which are being hit and are oil-producing countries like us.

Nigeria is thousands of miles away, produces its own petroleum and gave some sort of monopoly to one man as the largest refinery in the world, which the current administration likes to brag is due to its favour business policy and celebrated with pomp and fanfare.

Netanyahu, Trump and our very own Okpatollah aren't the reason this country doesn't have other functional refineries or the functional one we have which gets crude from local sources ramped up petroleum products cost arbitrarily.

The Iran War isn't the reason Nigeria's FCCPC and other price regulatory bodies spiked prices.

The missiles flying in the Middle East isn't the reason why if you drive down the road in your area this evening, you'll find 7 different fueling stations selling petrol at different prices and state government price control boards aren't enforcing anything because most of the fueling stations are owned by those in the corridors of power.

Is the Iran War the reason the woman on your street corner selling at the fruit mart pegging mangoes and oranges for double the prices she sold just one month ago?

Ellexy:
He might actually be in some real trouble. He's the reason Khamenei is dead.

Damn! Let me go check X.

I do know even in the thick of the Ukraine - Russia War, he traveled to the Kremlin to interview the Russian Foreign Minister without fear under Biden. That felt odd to me given how Russia was capturing high value Western citizens for swap deals.

What the hëll happened to Tucker? The Tucker of 2018 wasn't like this.

Sportsweb:
Damm. Candace and her friends are trying to tie Erika Kirk to Epstein by every means

Yesterday, Candace surprisingly debunked the alleged Erika audio connecting her to the Epstein ring.

But what's crazy is that, Erika's father was connected to Epstein via business interest, but that's it. No direct connection to Erika.

I actually still find Candace amusing. She's the Kemi Olunloyo kind of independent content creator. Sometimes she says things we agree with, sometimes she says shìt; and sometimes she hounds people for years like she's doing to the Macrons and Erika; just as Kemi has a thing for the whole Adeleke family.
Kemi would say Ifeanyi was a girl, and Candace insists Bridgette Macron is a man. Sometimes it's something which isn't so deep you can laugh about.

Tucker and MTG, on the other hand, are like Gistlovers - their main intention is to wreck your life and reputation so would spin the most evil things.

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By the way, someone out Tucker Carlson who got his son to work in the White House (still works there under Trump) yet he's publicly a critic of DJT and Israel.


It's like being against the Tinubu administration publicly but my son works at the Presidential Villa.

DissTroy:
Despise? Tucker and Candace have gone full baloney since Charlie's assassination. They say it's Israel's doing and they are ready to spin any conspiracy which puts Israel in the bad light, true or false.

Go watch Candace's podcast last night. Even her usual supporters are saying, "Candace, you've gone mad with hãte".

Ellexy, your dislike for Tucker is justified. I even stated he's crazier than Candace.

Your boy has been trending. Since last night, he has been trending for spinning a conspiracy the CIA read his text to a contact in Iran just before the war started and they are planning to charge him for treason.

Two days ago, he's was wrapped in an anti-Semitism scandal, with him and Candace asking people to mark local synagogues.

Check the quoted comments in the embedded tweet.

https://x.com/i/status/2032182049092628913

Shinny pictures, Excel files, infographics, still images... What the hell?!

The Okpatollah has done everything to earn that seat when Majitoba gets kaboomed. If the Supreme Council do not ppoint him, it's a grave injustice.

iamoyindamola:
Our boy have accepted the apology, he dropped the case
We now have weaklings coming out forming genZ
Someone was close to ruining his life and he let it go

Damn! He should have at least gotten her on the register officially as a false rãpe accûser, even without the monetary compensation.

Watch how in the succeeding days and months, that Adeife girl bounces back on Facebook, championing herself as a feminist.

The Victor Kelechi guy who was falsely accused by Somto he has never met because he questioned the factuality of Mirabel's assertions has also forgiven her.

Well, it was a publicized case and their apologies went as viral as their accusations, but I wouldn't have let go. I'll have done an Erisco on her.

Vector's cover of Ice Prince's 2010 classic, "Oleku", will always be a classic too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsw01bz7LW8?si=P0BYvBMuSXE6CeFj

Then it made me listen to my favourite Vector song of all time: "Kilode" ft. Emmsong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7qArJ29loY?si=DyOkyKAgqqFenBJ9 .

I've always wondered what happened to Emmsong. Just like Shaydee of the defunct EME Records, Emmsong could hold a candle to Wande Coal and Chuddy K's vocals.

I found myself singing a song I've not thought about in years. Then I got nostalgia, raiding YouTube. Here:

Mudina ft. Vector Tha Viper - "Pami". 2009.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FukEdkBM28?si=MQaiJ5dZxrvETxLx

Lie! In 2014, she did a song called "Marry Me" featuring Falzthebahdguy. Her lyrics included "Right now, I am 28".

28 + 12 years is 40 years old. And that's assuming she was not reducing her age in her lyrics 12 years ago.

Do cows eat bailey? Yes. Just another free feed source for marauding herders.

Emaprince:
These are the NRGCs....They live and eat propanda just to save face.


https://www.nairaland.com/8634383/mojtaba-khamenei-gives-first-speech

X and YouTube content creators are farming the engagement money hard.

With good prompting you can use a combination of Nano Banana free version and Adobe Firefly to create ultra realistic pictures.

Grok Imagine free version can create at least 6 seconds of it.

That's enough to deceive people who are readily seeking anything to back their biases. That's what's on new channels on YouTube now, and X accounts. Even CNN (which is Leftist) is admitting the rise of propaganda videos. Like the viral one of US soldiers captured by IRGC.

I guess the NRGC is still in the business of creating its own happiness.

I just found out the woman David Umahi owes and whom she claimed sexually harassed her has apologized he never accosted her for sex.

A lot of you believed her and tagged Umahi guilty. She gave no proof but you believed her...even in the thick of the Mirabel saga.

If Tinubu were some woke President, Umahi would have been forced to resign. Just as you all believed Natasha's unsubstantiated accusations last year which she has recanted.

Will the Umahi accuser face the law for the false accusation? No.

But men like me who call out these things are the "paranoid" ones.

Darekiki:
Happy birthday. But baby why opening the cleavage?.
You bring your jollof rice come football field you talk say make anyone no try taste am.
At least make all look decent.
Those areas of for tempting.

Most women can't help but objectify/sexualize themselves in public. They can't help it.

What you must do is caution the women in your life - wife/lover, sisters, cousins, nieces, daughters – not to do so.

Women scream "stop sexualizing us" but nobody sexualizes a woman like the same woman. Even your pastor's wife will smile when added to the list of sexiest women alive.

semid4lyfe:
DissT.roy, food is ready

These things hit different when you've experienced a buddy sell his car to litigate a false accusation by his employee, or going to your favourite electrical/electronic appliances shop and it's closed. You asked his neighbour and you're told he's been arrested because his girlfriend falsely accused him of kicking her in the belly and it causing her to lose her pregnancy.

A week or so later when he's out of detention, you find out it's because he called the relationship off when he found out she was frolicking and having Detty December with an Abroadian on the prowl. She couldn't deal with the shame of being ditched and exposed as a whōre to their mutuals so cooked up a story. Nothing happens to the girl as the Police counsel, "Na woman na. You know as women dey take dey emotional", spurred on by the Policewomen who gaslighted him.

These things hit different when you know people who have been falsely accused.

Unlimited22:
Wallahi tallahi I can swear this one is a false flag.
They want to get NATO involved 😂

They attacked Cyprus, an E.U. country already. Europe is just dragging its feet about getting involved.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
He literally said that okpa ascended to Okpatollah in a civil discussion. Maybe you should look away.

If you posit, "Disstroy ascends to POTUS or Israeli PM", I would take it as a compliment. So you know ascending to Ayatollah is a bad thing because it makes you come across as a marked terrorist?

See the point now? It puts in perspective where you stand. You don't in any universe want to ascend to the level of Okpatollah.

That's why I've always been against State Police.

BlueRayDick:
The way u are always quick to insult people on top this Russia/Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah matter ehn....

I hope u no dey do like this in real life Sha

The source is Al Jazeera. I have posted a link to the website. @AJEnglish, their English language service, is tweeting statistics by the minute on X; but the okpa-brained guy will rather create his own happiness.

Iran is now shooting missiles at Turkey. The same Turkey that is a key/strategic partner of Russia.

BREAKING: Turkiye claims munition fired from Iran 'neutralised'

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/IqBE53i06O pic.twitter.com/21edhfWdK0

— Al Jazeera Breaking News (@AJENews) March 9, 2026

Direct from Al Jazeera the Okpatollah claims is now Israeli media.

Al Jazeera is now Israeli media?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/9/iran-says-1255-killed-in-us-israeli-attacks-mostly-civilians

This is why that girl drop-kicked you onboard that bus.

Al Jazeera website homepage is filled with reports of the casualties on all sides, including the U.S. and Israel; and it is reporting Iran has the highest casualties.

There's more to news sourcing that quoting @MonitorX9800, the Pakistani banger boy.

The Israeli/Iran War

The human cost of 10 days of war. Confirmed as of March 9:

🇮🇷 Iran: 1,255 killed, 12,000 injured.
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 394 killed, 1,000+ injured.
🇮🇱 Israel: 13 killed, nearly 2,000 injured.
🇰🇼 Kuwait: 6 killed, dozens injured. All Americans.
🇦🇪 UAE: 4 killed, 112 injured.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia: 2 killed, 12 injured.
🇧🇭 Bahrain: 1 killed, 40 injured.
🇯🇴 Jordan: 14 injured.
🇶🇦 Qatar: 16 injured.
🇴🇲 Oman: 1 killed, 5 injured.
🇮🇶 Iraq: 6 killed, dozens injured.
🇺🇸 U.S. Military: 8 killed, 18 injured.
🇨🇾 Cyprus: struck.

12 countries. Thousands dead. Tens of thousands injured.

Al Jazeera

https://x.com/marionawfal/status/2030964795285852412?s=46

https://www.nairaland.com/8632142/israeli-iranian-war-see-casualties

Combined human casualties from Iran alone triple the total casualties in the other 11 countries Iran has been bombing.

But "Iran is winning" according to NRGC.
Happiness is free.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Those are all commercial/civilian aircrafts.

Check the body frame. Military fight jets doesn't have such big frame. And Iran doesn't have long range bombers.
Na u dey and Nawfaul dey create non existent happiness

Someone comes into your estate to vandalize 16 cars. Your response is, "Jokes on you - those cars are all for Uber. The Mercedes my wife drives is still intact."

Gentlemen, the delusion of the NRGC in full displace.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38437766/evil-woman-falsely-cried-rape-jail/

Victoria ascerta.