Demdem:

See .where this mumu is taking this issue to? FYI, am presently based in nd area Sunday I know how ,much I got fuel this morning.

Doesnt matter. We will be able to afford it when you lot have gone. You are the parasites holding us back. What are you doing in ND? Why are you not in your coacoa producing rock land. If I know your location, you are in real soup. Ode

The only people that should ever enjoy any subsidy in Nigeria are people from the oil producing states, shikena! That is what we are going to campaign from now on! NCNC! [b]N[/b]o [b]C[/b]ontribution, [b]N[/b]o [b]C[/b]hop!

Everyone should answer his father's name!

oyb:

ode. from sincere belt tightening.

teh same man who is imposing hardship on the fools who voted him in voted 1 billion for his feeding

he has a government full of special assistants who do nothing

he is running a govt that is 70% recurrent expenditure

and you have the gall, or absence of gray matter to ask where the funds are to come from

where did the money squandered from the eca in the run up to the election go? no one can tell.

Ode square like you! Are your uncles and village chiefs/idi.o.ts not part of the 70% recurrent expenditure. Tell your uncles to sit back in the village and farm instead of going to abuja to demand for national cake they contribute nothing to. How much does your state contribute to naija? Ole

Bliss4Lyfe:

dmainboss, it's a sis o.

Ha! My bad. No vex. You don make me fall in love,

Demdem:

Honestly the retardeen is really annoying with this statement. However, he isn't slow in eating food. Imagine 1 billion worth of food in a year. Ole oshi

Read the story, not the thread headline. That is what intelligent people do. The joke is on you

Demdem:

I know the curses of nigerians like u said doesn't matter, that's why I am extending it to his entire household.
What idiotic job is the bastard from bayelsa doing? Making sure the interest of the minority( pdp cronies) remain protected. Of his several promises prior to the election, where on earth did he mention this killing action of his.

so where is he supposed to get funds to fulfill his promises? From the rock in your village or from the 1 billion naira per anum your state generates? f00l. Your words can not even go past your computer screen, let alone affect anyone.

~Bluetooth:


May the curse extend to their unborn generations too.

Empty words from an empty head! lol

sebastinta:

what your saying ll only work on a country dat isnt corrupt, its a good move but not for Nigeria , everythn get ll only get worse frm here on, i give u few months, u ll have a change of statement.

We have been hearing dooms day talk likes these since i was small. In a few months, nothing will happen except things will get better with a deregulated fuel market.

Demdem:

U again asss sucker. Honestly u are a foool. May u and the retardeen share all the curses nigerians are presently spewing out now.

It doesnt matter the curse the likes of you spew. It means nothing. The man is doing his job and a great job at that. These are the decisions governments should have taken a long time ago but they choose the easy routes. It has to be done and a strong man has done it. You said he was weak and lame. He has stuck it up your as, s! deal with it. The joke is on you

afam4eva:

Where in the world does a president tell the populace that he's slow. This guy is really daft.

Where in the report did you see him say he is slow? Daft Mumu

Demdem:

Classic.

Dafter Mumu.

Please go back and learn how to read. How did you pass your comprehension in WAEC?

Bliss4Lyfe:

Well am not surprised at some comments here? Nigeria is ranked as a country with a high level of illiteracy. So the fact people have reading and comprehension problem is no surprise.

The president was merely responding to critics saying he was slow on dealing with boko haram by admitting he took time to pass judgement as to avoid the mistake of his actions being misunderstood or misconstrued.

No President in Nigeria history have been able to stop terrorist aboki from killing their fellow Nigerians, lets have dat in mind, likewise anybody thinking of moving up north.  

God will bless you my bro. There are 2 sets of people commenting here. One set are illiterates who cant read or dont understand the report. The other group can read and understand the report but are bigots looking for every opportunity to vent their anger because they lost the last election. I ddnt see them insulting Fashola when he put a toll gate in a residential area and when he asked LASU students to pay 300, 000 school fees.

sebastinta:


pls tell me how he is alleviating the problems nd not causing more?

If you are literate, you will knwo that removing fuel subsidy is a solution not a cause of the problem. Nigeria is spending more than it earns. The proper business decision is to curb that. Off course you wont know that because you dont and cant run a business. You depend on government handouts

Its a pity that NL is filled with Yoruba folks who just think they own the country. we should split and go our separate ways. We dont need you parasites who produce nothing drawing us back. We will be far better off without you lot. Imagine a man who comes from a state and LGA that contribute nothing to the country demanding for his fuel consumption to be subsidized. Ole

You are insulting the hand that feeds you. Ode

oyb:


i inherited problems is the whine of incompetents. leadership is not a walk in the park. thats why they say sink or swim or get out of the kitchen if the heat is too hot

your excuses remind me of one of my colleagues who was engineer at a terminal. one problem after another. one day we had a quarterly meeting . the guy knew he would get hammered, so he started off with when i came here i inherited all sorts of problems. . .he out of the system now, and the problems he inherited have mysteriously disappeared.

all you pathetic muppets know how to do is make excuses. well excuses are a dime a dozen. your muppet in aso rock tries to come off as an african obama. obama has been taking heat on the economy, george bush's mess. he doesnt whine about how he didn't create the mess. he took out osama, he didn't whine about how osama attacked the us before he was in office.

you are a disgraceful fellow.

You still dont get. Is your IQ that low? You are the problem. Your region is the problem. Your unproductive states and LGA that add nothing to the national purse are the problem. Without you, we'll be fine and drinking cocktail somewhere. What do you or your state contribute to the nation that you think you deserve your fuel subsidized?

You and your handout seeking lot. You are the parasite. lol

oyb:

going by your posts, you'e even worse than a pdp(the party that has failed nigeria for 12 years)  loyalist, you're a tribalist. another of those it is our turn, so even if it is a deltan monkey in aso rock i will support him, even if he throws sheet.

i no talk am? this is teh sort of animal who will excus mend terrorism, because they are  'from a state that generates' . another empty headed nimrod who knows nothing but resource .

Hmmm. An ostrich trying to bury his head in the sand. So PDP has been ruling Nigeria since 1960 abi? Or before 1999 everything was fine in Nigeria abi? I gave you a little bait and you exposed yourself. An ACN bigot. My biggest wish is that the country disintegrates. Then I will see how your gbegiri will sustain you. A country where 6 states are feeding 36 states and you think everything will be fine. You are a dreamer. Kano has 40 LGA and all of them are funded by money from the same six states and they even want their fuel subsidized. nonsense

oyb:

does that change the fact that he is incompetent and a hypocrite?

Since not playing to the gallery of your party is now incompetence and hypocrisy, then thats fine. I am in full support

dplordx:

So, what are you his stupyd and oloriburuku supporters enjoying from the ugly black monkey you rigged on us?

We are getting exactly what we voted for. An overhauling of Nigeria. Deal with it. If your state contributes to the national purse instead of being so parasitic, we will be better for it. You generate nothing but talk crap

You guys are very funny. All the people complaining here did not vote for Jonathan, so it doesnt matter what they say. They are ACN and CPC supporters. Check their usernames and check their old posts. lol

^^^Trying to derail the topic again with this old man? What does he know about the economy. All his kind knows is to marry more wives or join the army. From where he comes from, they tell you if you are poor, it is your destiny. How many almajiris has he taken off the streets? Please stick to topic man. dont insult our intelligence and dont let us derail

^^^There is no place in the world with a perfect economy. There is no place where people dont complain. I have friends in the Netherlands and Canada and they still complain. The point is,, most people living abroad dont ever understand issues on the ground. You cannot for example really isolate economic issues from cultural and political issues. So if you sit in the UK and try to discuss Nigerian economy, you will never be able to have a balance.

^^^+100

Obiagu1:

Now is time for everyone to come out and fight against corruption in the government, in the senate, everywhere in Nigeria and not fight over things that are necessary like subsidy removal and forget things that are more important like corruption!

Beautiful post. These are the kind of stuff that make me glad

cap28:

I dont know why we derive pleasure in lying to ourselves - if the cost of living is low why do so many nigerians queue up endlessly outside various embassies of the world in a bid to get the hell out of the country?

why were there so many nigerians living in libya?  why did many of them come back to talk about how much better their standard of livign was when they were in libya?  

we love lying to ourselves.

Some of you always quote things with no understanding of issues. I mean no disrespect guy.  Nigerians do not queue up in embassies because they have nothing to eat. Anybody who queues up in a foreign embassy should have at least 500 thousand Naira somewhere. Those who go to the US and china, normally have much more. Do those look like people that cannot feed? Nigerians are constantly under pressure because of our family systems that put a lot of pressure on us to deliver back home. That is a whole different discussion for another day. The people we call masses cannot raise the money to travel abroad. Except those taken there as slave workers. If I have 500 thousand Naira, there are a lot of businesses I can do and i will be comfortable. But the pressure to succeed and "hammer" in Nigeria is something else. I grew up in places like Benin and PH. In Benin, around 70 to 80 % of families have someone abroad. Sometimes, they sell their houses to send them there. They are not sent because the families cant feed. they are sent because someone needs to hammer from that family. You must understand the effects of socio/cultural influences in these matters.

The mass movement abroad started around 1989/1990 when IBB started his funny policies. A lot of people from Benin flooded Europe, especially Italy, Belgium and Spain. And that was when things were not even this difficult.

Omo_Tier1:

This is really laughable! Inveribly you are saying the so called INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT will be financed by a non-existence funds FYI, last year budget appropriation for subsidy was a whooping N390bn! According to the documents released by the Senate, between January and March, N20bn was spent monthly on subsidy, however and curiously, between March, April and November when the scam was discovered, nearly N1tn was expended on same amount of litres of Fuel imported!

Going by your submission, it would be right to conclude that there is no N1.3tn Savings from any budget, hence the much talked about savings is actually none!

It might interesting you to know that when the N390bn subsidy was appropriated for, that sums why prepared by the same PPPRA, NNPC and Ministry of Petroleum officials, right, so how then did they miss out a whooping N1tn estimate in the budgetting process?, Guys,  lets think with our heads,  Nigerians are being bled massively!

Again, you completely missed the point and kept repeating things I said.

First, the government is paying with loans, fact. Secondly, the government will still borrow from time to time, but we should never borrow to spend on consumption. we shoudl only borrow for production. We should only borrow for investment. Infrastruture is investment. Power, Roads are investment. They will produce wealth. When you borrow for consumption, you are being stu.pid.

The bolded is simply repeating what I said. They budgeted 390bn but spent 1.3tr. So they didnt provide 1.3 tr in the budget at the beginning of the year. That is not rocket science my friend.

cap28:

i dont know why you are suprised why "people like me come here to post " am i not a nigerian? do i not have the right to post my opinions on here?

You claim nigerians enjoy low cost of living -how come food prices are so high? how come the average nigerian can not afford to live in a decent accommodation and is forced to live in places with untarred roads, overflowing open gutters stinking of raw sewage?

how come the average nigerian can barely make ends meet on the meagre salaries that they earn, if cost of living was as low as you claim how come the majority of nigerians livign abroad are supporting their relatives back home?

Tax may be as high as 40% in some european countries but at least the money is used to provide universal healthcare, free education, clean and tarred roads, underground sewage systems, responsive emergency services like the police, fire services and ambulance services.  In nigeria we all know where your taxes go - straight into the pockets of those thieves you call leaders thats why your roads are death traps, your healthcare is non existent your educational services are substandard and your police services are glorified armed robbers.  Wouldnt you rather pay a lot of tax and live in a clean and secure environment?  Wouldnt you prefer to be able to send your children to schools where they actually graduate with the ability to read and write?

the govt doesnt bother with you because they are too busy looting the national treasury, this is why you are all left to your own devices - the thing you fail to understand is that your govt should be serving you- you should be holding them to account not allowing them to get away with grand theft.
Governments have a responsibility to provide for their citizenry - nigerians are the only people who demand nothing from their govts thats why they continue to abuse and exploit you. As you can see they are about to shaft you once again by hiking up petrol prices under the pretext that they intend touse the money generated to provide infrastructures - if you beleive that this govt of criminals have any intention of doing anything constructive for the nigerian populace then you must really be naive.  
Understand this - THEY DONT GIVE A DAMN ABOUT YOU- THEY DONT CARE WHETHER THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF NIGERIA DROPS DEAD - ALL THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT IS FREEING UP THIS EXCESS MONEY TO FINANCE THEIR ALREADY LAVISH LIFESTYLES.

Here in the UK the average person can afford to take care of their family without having to engage in criminal activities, their salaries are sufficient to put food on the table and pay for their electricity and gas bills.  Those who can not afford to do so ie the unemployed, pensioners, disabled etc are given assistance by the govt and are not abandoned and left to rot as is the case in nigeria, the fact that you come to the UK and take your friends out does not mean you are better off than them - unless you are going to tell me taht you also pay their mortgage/house rent and bills?

I find it funny that you can say your friends in the UK live from hand to mouth when over 70% of the nigerian population live on less than the equivalent of $1 a day.

First, you do have a right to post. I was only referring to the content of your post.

Having said that, you are going round in circles. I have already stated that what we lack in Nigeria is infrastructure, so we completely agree on that. But your previous post postulated that there is high cost of living in Nigeria. Very untrue.

Please stop quoting the cliche Nigerian NGO's quote when they want to collect funds from International organisations. 70% percent of Nigerians do not, i repeat, do not live on $1 dollar a day. I have traveled several states during this holiday period and I don't know where you lot get those cliches from. They are completely false. $1 is the cost of 2 bottles of soft drinks. Most Nigerians will afford that daily without stress. $1 is the profit you make from selling 3 bags of pure water. An average pure water seller can sell over 15 to 20 bags in a day in urban centers and around 10bags a day minimum in rural centers. And that is not normally the only thing they sell. Please stop peddling those false figures. All the artisans I know around me constantly drink at least 2 bottles to 4 bottles of star daily. except those that don't drink. Please stop. It is only almajiris, that will apply to and they are not 70 million.

Food prices are not so high in comparison to other countries. We say that they are so high because we are humans and have many needs we need to meet, but in reference to your post, they are not so high. In Lagos where you have one of the highest cost of living, I can eat comfortably with N100. With
N150, I can eat with a decent piece of meat. Not saying that is the best we should have, but am only speaking in relation to your post. In other states, it could be less. If you want to eat in Tantalizer and Mr Biggs, then you will have to pay big bucks. But that is not the norm.

My point is simple. What we really suffer is infrastructural development.

Omo_Tier1:

@beaf tell us, is there a provision of N1.3tn subsidy in 2012 budget? So where is the N1.3tn savings going to come from?

After so many debates, some of you still don't get it. It is not just about savings. Nigeria has been paying for subsidy with loans except in a few cases where oil windfalls has assisted. The 1.3 trillion was not also provided for in last year budget. Simply put, we are living above our means as a country and eating the future today. The amount that was provided for in the last year budget was way below the 1.3 tr.

I am beginning to think a revolution might be great after all. It might just be the catalyst for disintegration

honestly, if i were GEJ, I would just look for a way to disintegrate Nigeria. All of you ranting here come from states that contribute nada to the rest of us. pathetic. and you want to enjoy subsidy. sad. And your states have the largest number of local governments and overheads.

All of you calling for revolution, where were you when Lekki toll commenced. O, I remember, you were junketing in a night club. lol

@Akinzo,

you are a funny chap. So of the 160 million Nigerians including labor, you are the only one that saw that "revelation " eh? Funny chap. So if it is that simple, why didn't labor see it like you just did and stand by that? Even labor and all the opposition governors didn't disagree that there is subsidy. They are only making arguments in the areas of corruption and assurances for cushioning the effects of subsidy removal. Nigerians self and their self deceit and i too know attitude!

All of you calling for revolution, where were you when Lekki toll commenced. O, I remember, you were junketing in a night club. lol

babestella:

The leaders we have in this country are just pathetic greedy fools who are insensitive to the cry and sufferings of Nigerians, they have misplaced their sense of reasoning and are terribly lacking in innovative ideas on how to run this Nation. Fuel subsidy, when last was a new refinery built in Nigeria When the world was busy evolving, our leaders were busy revolving Nigeria for more than 51 years now.

Who are those being paid money for fuel they did not import, who are they? Can't the CEO of this country mention their names, instead he is busy giving tom Joystick and harry national awards. People are being killed by BH daily and GEJ is comfortable in his villa? This is absolute insanity to think that removing subsidy (if any) will solve the problem of this country which is majorly corruption, Corruption has killed this nation and it is not perpetrated by ghost, they are humans with face. The monk called GEJ is just something I cannot describe, this is pathetic,  OMG.

Corruption is not the problem of Nigeria. Our almost irreparable ethno/cultural differences is the biggest problem of Nigeria. It is the cause of corruption. We need true federalism or outright disintegration

Also, noone told you they are paying money for fuel they didnt import. The importers are doing a legitimate business. Those talking about naming them or arresting them are funny. They are doing legitimate business. The problem is that the Nigerian situation has created loopholes for them to benefit unfairly. Government simply wants to block those loopholes