PHCN would have been privatized by now if Yaradua had done his job. He suspended and reversed and probed in the "interest of the North". So with the Steel industry. All because some people want govt jobs where they do nothing but stand around and chop oil money. Now everyone is worse off and the privatization program still has to be done. The deregulation of the oil industry has been stalled because the North and our usually conscientious Southwest wants cheap oil at the expense of the Niger Delta. This will turn out very badly for the North. The injustice of govt seizing oilfields in the Niger Delta to be embezzled in the name of One Nigeria will end soon. There will be no short cut to correcting mistakes or trying to postpone the results of Northern mistakes.

Nigerians haven't seen nothing yet. GEJ, on the advice of the fine economists Ngozi Iweala and Lamido Sanusi offered to Nigerians a golden gift: TO CLOSE ONE OF THE GREATEST SOURCES OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA CALLED THE FUEL SUBSIDY. Instead we Nigerians kicked and cursed and demonstrated without understanding the issues. Yes, our people hate to study issues and listen to experts in any field like Iweala and Sanusi. Even NLC and TUC subsidiaries benefit from cheating Nigerians with this so called fuel subsidy. Yes,NLC and everyone else is demanding FG builds ten refineries before removing subsidy Everyone wants cheap fuel on the back of the Niger Delta. Not to worry, coming fuel shortage will dwarf those of the military era, and demonstrators should be ready to import their crude oil for "subsidy". Your parasitic Farouk Lawan and Tambuwal are scum, with or without the bribery allegations.

Again, I ask, did the Onwuliris know about the plan to use thugs dressed up as soldiers during the elections? Did they see or hear his Excellency bribing voters and eliminating opponents? Has the Catholic Bishop of Owerri asked them? I walk this town everyday thanking God Ohakim did not win. Am supposed to cry for someone like Celestine that tried to doom us. NOOOO!!!!

Why did this amicable wonderful man support Ohakim last year? To the extent of wife becoming Ohakims deputy Gov candidate? [b]Was he privy to the election rigging and murders committed by Ohakim? Did his wife tell him? Did they visit the families of persons maimed or killed defending their votes from Ohakim? [/b]Do we hold our lives in so little regard that we pray and praise our oppressors and destroyers? So why would anyone not cheat, kill and loot? Why blame the Indians for flying an old plane? Afterall our lives are so cheap!!!!

Well, what can I say? This man and his wife stood by while Ohakim murdered and rigged elections with impunity in Imo State. Mrs Onwuliri was Ohakim's running mate. The Catholic Church didn't see it fit to expel him and his wife from the church. Maurice Iwu is another pillar of the Church in Imo State. Yes, the Onwuliri's were silent accomplices to Ohakim's rigging and the people maimed and murdered to achieve it. The muslims won't touch IBB, Abacha or Al Mustafa. These foreign slave religions are killing us.

This guys are serious about the power issue and they will eventually succeed. Power in my area is better than it was in the past. Once GEJ and Nnaji gets through the Unions and politics, PHCN will be sold off. Then kiss goodbye to darkness.

Get out my friend! I am too busy chasing crumbs under Oyibo's table to think about such things. I am using the bible to rob more than Oyibo ever dreamed.

I thank the NERC Chairman and Prof. Nnaji and GEJ for hammering on the power issue. I hope Nigerians have learned their lesson from the fuel subsidy saga to support the privatization of PHCN. It may be expensive, but it will be available once the private sector takes over.

I will buy Jehovah's Witnesses: I believe they are the safest and lowest cost operator in this industry. Their customers(witnesses) are thoroughly removed from their kith and kin and their community. The reduces the chances of switching to competing products like Catholictism or Pentacostalism. They will remain reliable multiplying customers for the future, for the company product encourages family and marriage, which produces newer customers through reproduction. The cost of acquiring new members is low compared to other companies. Each witness preaches for free to convert simple minded sheep into the fold. Introduction of new products like healings, seed sowing and strict tithing will boost earnings in the medium to long term for patient investors.

I will buy the Catholic Church: This venerable blue chip will continue to pay steady, if not growing dividends for patient investors. Political connections, economic might, and massive real estate holdings in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa serves as valve safety against any plot of the Evil One. Corporate Headquarters at the Vatican, traditionally tight lipped, is awash with rumours of buried treasures of gold, diamonds and other precious stones in Holy See. The opulence of the pope and his intimidating security entourage seem to confirm the pontiff is indeed holding a treasure. This is a no stress pick that will outlast any bad news or scandal.

@alj Harem

May your harem continue to increase in Allah's name, Amiiinnnnn!, your questions are:

Why was Obasanjo able to pay off our national debt worth billions of dollars while retaining fuel subsidy?
Why was Obasanjo able to build up our foreign reserves into billions of dollars while subsidy was still on?
Why did Obasanjo still launch some projects, like satellite, while subsidy was on?
Why was subsidy money in the billions while others were in government but went into trillions just few months into Jonathan`s government?
Why were the implicated subsidy beneficiaries(oil cabals) not punished by Jonathan?
Let me stop here. Answer these questions satisfactorily and I will join you in canvassing support fr subsidy removal.


1. Most bad habits don't kill or maim immediately.  They take time to build up damage and maim or kill.  The number of cars being imported into Nigeria has been increasing since 1999 and the FG has to pay to  fuel them. Of course they were bound to run into problems like we are having now. The number of federal government employees have more than tripled since 1999. These things build up and become a problem

2. With the advent of democracy more people have access to power and  information about this and other lucrative FG programs.  It's not a matter of a very few military officers and their civilian cronies taking advantage of these programs, now you have speakers, governors, ministers and advisers piling in.  That's why the cost of this program has been increasing and now threatened to take over the majority of the budget, each year more people are catching on and joining the subsidy party.  Remember politicians need friends and money to win elections!

3.  Your FG is illegitimate itself, it is hard to prosecute criminals in this contraption called Nigeria.  Prevention is better than cure.  Don't run programs that are so vulnerable to corruption unless absolutely neccessary and affordable. Who are you going to send? The army or police or senate or HOR that won't be compromised?  Lest make the best of this bad marriage and reduce govt. involvement in business.  That will at least ensure peace and survival.

Quoting Pato405
I'v read every post here and i must confess that drugdoc or whatever he calls himself is either a right hand man of one of these govt officials/cabals or is most definitely high of HARD drugs. others in support of subsidy removal are equally reasoning foolishly and may need to visit a shrink.
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I will be on hard drugs if the NLC and these disgruntled Northern politicians have their way to reinstate the fuel fraudsidy.  We are not Europe or USA with one majority religion, one majority tribe or ethnic group, one language and a majority culture.  Nigeria is a forced marriage, with the component nations hating and struggling against each other.   This oil is the unholy glue to this marriage.  FG cannot administer subsidies transparently or efficiently.  After all the subsidy itself is stolen from the Niger Delta in the first place using a most immoral and unjust law.  Most of us don't believe in Nigeria.  Leave the private sector to efficiently handle these things or it will always be disaster- NIPOST, NITEL, Nigeria Airways, Our Universities, teaching hospitals, highways.  Or grant wide autonomy to institutions that greatly reduce govt involvement.  That is the best way to manage this bad marriage.  Insisting on an illegal, abusive, thieving FG administering an honest subsidy program is the height of foolishness.

Each time I fuel up my SUV's the govt of Nigeria would pay 65 to 70 Naira per liter on my behalf. That is insane and unsustainable. My unemployed  brethren in the village don't get a tenth of what I was getting from the subsidy.  I don't even come from an oil producing community.I have not encountered an oil spill. People from oil producing communities can't run for governor in my state.  How can such nonsense not produce fraud and disaster like the so called subsidy has?  Our people admire the west,  like to go overseas and enjoy what rational and logical choices produce, but they insist on cheating and irrationality in their own dealings.  It is impossible for this subsidy to work without massive fraud, pure and simple.  I listen to and trust my technocrats Sanusi and Okonjo Iweala

These protesters where napping and watching English Premier League when the legislators take home 25% of the overhead of the Federal Govt. Of course the president can't stop them, it is a democracy.  The fat cat Omar didn't demonstrate.  Governors are carting home insane amounts as security votes and the people watched Arsenal vs. Man U.  Touch their freaking Fuel Fraudsidy and Niggers go wild.  They don't protest the Land Use Act, probably know more about the bible and koran that The Act that affects us.  After praying in church  and mosque they insist the Federal Govt. continue to steal from the Niger Delta and give them fuel "fraudsidy".  Let everyone stand up and work out how to survive without oil.  It has become a curse and removing this fuel fraudsidy is the beginning.

Na so African man life de be, hunger don dabaru his sense- Fela

It's unbelievable how the NLC and some Northern politicians are manipulating the people.  Stand tall GEJ, NOI and SLS.  We are proud of you! The fight against corruption has only just begun.

Go and read the Arab Muslims books, they are full of commands to kill other human beings because God told them to. The JWs will tell you those religions are devil inspired and Jehovah has perfectly good reasons for killing Amalekite babies in the bible. Well so does Boko Haram. You are all the same. Why are you squabbling over other peoples politics and religion, Arab, Jewish and European? Is Oduduwa mentioned in the bible? Is Lagos or Benin there? Why are you following something not meant for you?

They may be the most hated religion because they take stupidity to the highest level, literally believing that the Bible is a perfect book, an infallible word of God. It is a book written by mostly Jewish human beings, like any other book. Other religions acknowledge some limitations in their belief, but not the JW. The bible advocates genocide of babies, allows David to murder a man and steal his wife, who gives birth to Solomon the ancestor of Jesus. It is just like any other book of history and religion. Why are Africans so brainwashed and superstitious?

The Bible is infallible, really African?

Please explain Joshua 6:15 to 21 and 1Samuel 15:3. Would you kill my little breast feeding daughter here? So suspend your brain, your senses and justify these verses please.

@Adesteve,

You haven't made any logical humble examination!!! That is a lie your organization teaches.  How is your bible and Jesus superior to Chukwu, Amadioha or Egbesu or Shango?.  If Frederick Lugard and the UAC had not defeated our forefathers in wars, JWs won't be in the space of Nigeria mouthing these nonsense.   ALL THE FOREIGN RELIGIONS ARE A CONSEQUENCE OF AFRICA'S MILITARY DEFEAT.  THEY ARE TOXIC. How many followers do you have in Saudi Arabia?  How many congregations in Iran?  How many in Afganistan before the USA invasion?  How many in China?
They send to you to these defeated land of ours to spread confusion together with the muslims, catholics and their hybrids to scatter our societies.

Yes, you be will be making the biggest mistake of your life.

1.  JWs are control freaks.  They use the bible to separate you from your family and the society at large. Before you know it, all your friends and interactions are with JWs only.  JWs teachings on the devil controlling the UN, countries, flags, birthdays all serve to make you uncomfortable anywhere outside a JW environment.  Then you can never leave them because they are all that you know after a few years.

2.  Their teachings are flawed and baseless.  Take for instance being separate from "the world", which makes them the only true religion.  But JW's are an organization started by European-Americans.  America is land stolen from the natives (native Americans) who have been mostly killed off and confined to refugee camps to this day.   Yet JWs live in this stolen land of America and have their Headquarters in NY.  They enjoy the proceeds of slavery and oils wars of America through the schools and hospitals of America.  Yet they claim to be "separate from the world".  They even pay taxes to Beast controlled governments that belong to the UN.  They are really insane then.  They make use of technology that were invented by devil organizations like the USA Army invention called the internet.

3.  They change their teachings, or false prophesies.  They claimed Jesus will return in 1914, then 1974 and then changed it to by the time everyone alive in 1914 would have died.   How are you sure they won't change present teachings after you have sacrificed your live living by them?

4.  As an African, you need to go and educate yourself on your culture and traditions and the future of your race.  These white organizations are coming from super rich countries that are busy bettering their conditions here on earth while these strange religions distract you with their rubbish.  

5.  JW are probably the least educated religion in the world.  But their founders were very educated men.  They discourage education and will encourage you to walk the streets of Africa spreading a Judeo-christian religion.  It is one of the most tragic consequences of our defeat by the Europeans for them to send their non-sense missionaries to create confusion and sheep-like Africans.

6.  Any sincere humble soul, searching for answers is ice cream to the JWs.  They enjoy manipulating and controlling people, less educated and studied people at that.  There are better ways an African can live his/her life than being a Jehovah's witness.  Arrrghhhh!

Very good pictures, but to more serious issues. I understand the Aro played the prominent role in spreading the slave trade in Igbo land. The wealth and land gained by the prior generations still benefit Aros to this day. Now that Aros are hopefully educated and enlightened, any plans to apologize for the roles of their priests and ancestors in the slave trade? It would really start the healing of Ndigbo.

@Enigma,
May God our creator and our ancestors bless you and your family abundantly. I have followed your painstaking lesson for that lost soul, worshiper of "Chris Oyakilome". Africans are truly, truly lost. Imagine going through that 140 million times for each Nigerian, explaining logical reasonable things in tiny, tiny detail for each brainwashed zombie. They believe they can cheat and rip off other people like their pastors and Imams. It is so sad that Joabgajee is accorded rights of an adult in Nigeria, will marry and teach these garbage to his/her family and so forth. I will bet he and the originator of this thread are typically fornicators, cheats and tribalists, but somehow they believe they are going to "heaven" with their jerry curled idol.

The government has admitted its failure and mediocrity but you don't want to hear. We are all responsible for this mess. Its failure and mediocrity is Nigeria's too. It wants the private sector to run things for a profit since Nigeria by its design lacks patriotism. If NITEL were running the gsm sector, you can just imagine where that sector will be now. We will only bring misery on ourselves by asking a government of looters to refine and subsidize our fuel.

@Kruku,
I hope you saw the Abia rape video.  That is probably the kind of revolution that will occur.  If MEND is wise, they will use this opportunity to seize their oil once and for all.  You and your red eyes will still survive.  The fuel subsidy is seriously slowing the development of Nigeria.  Anyone that wants progress and jobs should support its removal.

Thanks Mr. B, Edicolove and others.  There is finally hope of tackling our most serious problems and usher in an era jobs and economic growth but suffering don "dabaru the sense" of the African man and woman.
  The subsidy should go.  We are not an European Nation. The countries of Europe have a majority tribe AND a common religion so they can honestly administer subsidies.  For Europe, "na we, we".  Nigeria is a forced union of divided interest, it is near impossible to honestly administer fuel subsidy.  It is only used to siphon wealth away from the national treasury to a few corrupt pockets for just importing fuel.   1.2 Trillion Naira on subsidy per annum!
  If our graduates want jobs, removing the fuel subsidy is their best bet.  If we want constant fuel supply removing the subsidy is our best bet.  If we want electric power, remove government from that business.

This is one the best news so far from Jonathan and Ngozi.  The Federal government of Nigeria cannot subsidize every liter of fuel consumed in Nigeria to the tone of 60 or 70 naira per liter.  It is either the damned subsidy ends or we go back to the dark days of fuel shortages.  
We are past the stage where as a country government could have learnt to build rigs, educate our engineers, refine our fuel, count our people correctly and administer subsidies efficiently.  We are a nation of 200 different peoples, forced to live together by the white man.  Everyone is trying to take care of themselves and not Nigeria.  
 Let the private sector import and sell fuel.  Very soon greed will bring several refineries to Nigeria, employing thousands and thousands of our graduates.  Just like the GSM experience. Most of the money saved will go into infrastructure.
 This oil belongs to the Niger Delta, so the sooner we wean ourselves off this injustice, the better off all Nigerians will be.  Don't complain about our corrupt politicians if you send them to steal other peoples oil to provide subsidy and sell it to you below market price.
IT DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!