₦airaland Forum

Asswipemod:
Subsidy removal is not taxing. It's selling products according to actual cost price. And it's so because petrol is an import. If you're a car dealer and you import cars, would you sell less than your cost of acquisition? You should blame GEJ and Buhari the terrorist who had a combined 14 yrs between them but wouldn't repair out refineries. You should blame the past leaders first.

Tinubu the drug dealing terrorist sponsored the terrorist called Buhari and also bankrolled the mother of all protests against subsidy removal. At this point, even the illiterate Nigerians know what subsidy is you don't need to explain it.

If you don't lack comprehensive ability, you will understand the correlation between subsidy and taxation in the context of the comment you quoted. Subsidy was removed because it's said to be a scam and it's encouraging smuggling which was costing Nigeria a lot and that put a lot of hardship on Nigeria. What is a thinking president supposed to do at this point? To give you a clue, a thinking president is supposed to implement policies that will ease the pains of Nigerians to cope through the hardship. But what is Tinubu doing? Implementing policies that put Nigerians into more pains. Tinubu only removed subsidy to have more money to embezzle same reason he's putting out more policies that generate income to have enough to embezzle

Why did he put the heavy tax that would put heavy burden on poor Nigerians after removing subsidy? Was he high on meth or his drug baron mentality of maximum profit in all sitiations took better of him? Grab as much as possible regardless the number of souls that perishes - that's what drug business is all about and bringing that into politics will destroy millions of lives

Sometimes, I think being a Nigerian is a big curse. In Nigeria, things are not easy, and when you migrate to overseas, lots of conditions will work against you as a Nigerian. I can't go into details of what these conditions are but having experienced life in Europe as a black guy with a Nigerian passport, I can assure you it's far from rosy. Majority of Nigerians are depressed and lonely. The only people that have it easier are those that have sponsors - family members like brothers or parents that are citizens. So in all, your migratory route to Europe matters very well. No easy way out of suffering, calamity and tribulations for anyone holding Nigerian passport. This breaks my heart

nairalanda1:
In 2016, Buhari made NNPC the sole importer of fuel.(to cut subsidy costs, as before there were many importers, including marketers).

That meant that NNPC was importing fuel at a certain price and selling to market below that price. (As at 2022 Aug, NNPC was bringing in fuel at N391, and market price was around N186)

At the end of the day, NNPC loses money from doing that, so government pays them a subsidy...or compensation for that.

As for whether there was looting...that;s for an audit to answer.

The compensation NNPC received from government for selling below the cost price, what is it called?

Proof of Obi making any promises? The last time I remembered, it was random people on the internet making such promises

This is SK true. Argentina won because they have Messi, that has FIFA.

This is not disputing the fact that Messi is good or better than Rinaldo, but in the world cup, we can see the body language of FIFA and how they tried so hard to push Messi.

The best player in the world cup was Mpape by far

Never put north and honesty in the same sentence. Even seeing the happenings in Nigeria today should tell you who they are

HitlerWasRight:
Easier said than done because just like in 1967, their own leaders and vast majority will reject Biafra if it doesn't include the annexed Niger Delta.

They were given Biafra and they rejected it?

HitlerWasRight:
Declare Marshall law across the SE and install a Military administrator over them.

Dusk to dawn curfew .

Banning of every and all gatherings be it burial ceremonies , weddings and what have you.

Derecognise all traditional stools .

Enforce a military security network in all states of the SE.

Every interstate and intra state movement to and within the SE must have military clearance approval


That's the only solution.

There is an easier and less complicated solution - give them Biafra, but restrict it to the South East alone.

NOC1:
I do tell people, police is same thing every where.

The difference is that some countries have already advanced in technology, experience have made them improve in their laws.

You probably have never travelled beyond your village that's why you just said this

Absolute nonsense. She didn't write anything just bunch of gibberish

iammo:
UK and UAE have higher cost of living... Nigeria remains the very best

500,000 a month on rent in UK and UAE

300,000 a whole Year in Nigeria ... 12 months oo


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Stop being stupid. Or you have never travelled probably. High cost of living, but your salary will be enough to pay all the bills and still have enough left to buy some nice clothes, phones, shoes. If you happen to have someone accommodating you, you can work for one month and buy a car - a lot of my friends did. Tell me how a normal human being can make any comparison here

Rolings:
One of the reasons igbos hated Buhari all through 8 years is because Buhari stopped all the illegal "businesses" they are involved in ....the illegal businesses they use to make the little money they are beating chest about.

Buhari closed border against their importation and smuggling rackets, that effectively took many igbos out of business...

Where real businesses are concerned, igbos cannot be found.....it belonged to the yorubas and hausa/fulanis
But when it comes to petty trading, importation of goods we can produce locally cheaply from china so they can make huge profits .....and in turn kill most of our industries from Matori to Agbara

Yes, you're correct. Skull mining, almajiri and banditry is the real business

Africa or Arab? Wetin concern Africa and Islam?

Spirit04:
did you read the news? "Federal government saved 400bn in 4 weeks" that's money they'd have shared. Jonathan's own NSA literally confessed that they shared money meant to buy weapons, it's not an allegation, it's not an accusation, it's a documented fact. Give me a verifiable fact of Tinubu stealing money and not some gossips from spare parts market

Are you always this stupid or just being partisan?

helinues:
Does that matter?

Are you seriously asking this? Do you what a campaign is?

I arrived Nigeria from Europe in January during the dusty period. Immediately I landed in Lagos airport, I almost regretted. Everywhere was weird and odd and dusty. The Airport was old and untidy. I couldn't spend more than two days in Lagos before flying down to Abuja. Lagos is indeed a slum despite having the highest concentration of multinational headquarters due to its being a former capital

NOC1:
Lagos State politics is too mature.

If this was other states Ambode would have been making noise since he left unusually, Ambode left with a heavy heart. The dude carried the cross and the tears alone, he never rebelled neither did he give press men something to feast on.

The same thing applies to Fashola, despite all the humiliation he suffered under Ambode, he never altered a word till the night of the campaign against Ambode and he was careful with his words.

Femi Hamzat, becoming a Deputy under Sanwolu was a strange thing to him, but he did not miss yarn, for those who don't know Hamzat has more political sagacity back then than Sanwolu.

Sanwolu did not for one day try to subdue his Deputy, in fact, many politicians will not be happy to have a deputy who is more popular and acceptable than him.

It's not maturity. They're member of a cartel and only take orders from the baron in charge. Cartel members work with a code that you dare not break because the cartel lords are ruthless.

Lagos dearly needs deliverance from this cartel

Spirit04:
Jonathan's boys would've shared the money just like they shared the money meant to procure weapons

Share which money exactly? Removing subsidy means there's no longer money to be shared in the name of subsidy.


Tinubu removed it because he doesn't like sharing when he can loot it all but we know Jonathan is not much of of a looter like Tinubu

lacemose:
Here is the convoy of the former governor of Anambra state, Peter Obi some months ago during the presidential election

See video
https://youtube.com/shorts/8SVhBAcAFrw?feature=share

Lalasticlala OAM4J Mynd44 Seun nlfpmod Dominique

Did you say "during the presidential campaign"?

Why ask for a part when you have the power to embezzle it all? The drug cartel leader Tinubu knows better than being a partaker when he can be the sole beneficiary

State Police? No need for state Police. What Nigeria needs is regional government, true federalism and resource control. Every state will either be creative or perish.


Or better still, the country needs to be divided into several manageable chunks

Why are some people bringing ethnicity into this? Most preferred doesn't mean they're best - or does it?

Asaba - a state capital was abandoned Ibori and Uduaghan and their predecessors for decades. This is a very huge problem that governors can abandon and underdevelop their state capital because they're not from that part of the state. Is there any other states where this is obtainable?

Ibori revamped Warri and Ogharha and abandoned Asaba. Uduaghan abandoned the whole state. When Okowa came in despite the embezzlements, he tried his best to turn Asaba around as it should be. A state capital should have more development by virtue of its status but in Delta, we're too tribalistic

Usman Dan Fodio was a terrorist and plays the highest role in our present predicament. Does it mean Tinubu is not only a drug baron and kleptomaniac but also a jihadist?

OChimex:
See it below, village man. We are talking about what’s happening in Russia and this one is being sentimental.
Nobody wants a war but it’s happening.
Putin made a speech asking for his head, he in turn, threatened to unseat him and foist a new president.
He can only achieve that by taking out Putin.
You guys and little mind”

He said in response to Putin's speech but we all know he was just fuming. The whole thing was never directed at Putin. It was never a coup but a mutiny against the Defense headquarters. His Wagner group was getting disbanded and his whole action was an emotional outburst. Putin refrained from using maximum force for very obvious reasons

OChimex:
I thought Puting declared him an enemy of the nation and his actions treason. Now he wants to settle with him, a terrorist?

Listen, they aren’t terrorist. They are private group Putin has been using to fight most of his wars. He declared Putin wanted and was advancing to get the fool, he ran away from Moscow into hiding and was calling Wagner boss begging and crying like baby to retreat.
Now, they will pull out of Ukraine, let’s see how Putin soldiers can put up with all these fights alone.

Putin should should insist on decimating them naaa. No peace deal..

Lol

Where did he ever declare Putin wanted? And you sound dumb. You want a country at war to start fighting another internal war? Wisdom is profitable to direct. Wisdom is strength not weakness. No wonder y'all take Zelensky destroying his country too serious

egoldman:
Try again, a coup leader was allowed to leave Russia just like that, a man who's crime is punishable by death.

Russia will absorb troops who consist of mostly convicted criminals.

You can twist this whichever way you like, but here this ;

No one challenged the Wagner chief because lost of the Russian elite forces were in support of his acts and fed up with outing.

Putin was not sure if all millatry command will be with him if Wagner enter Moscow. He saw a clear threat to his power and life and gave in to this shameful resolution.He proved all his hard man posture na fake.

You sound like you have insider information

nnamdi640:
It is the rat inside that led the ones outside in. Don't blame the west rather blame the selfishness and greed of Africa leaders. Why can't you guys do thesame to them?

Does Africa have leaders? After colonization, what came was neocolonialization. All the people you call leaders are puppets. The structure is already there. It will take hundreds of years for tables to turn around - won't be in our lifetime but things will surely turn around. Empires comes and go some last for a few century and some last for several centuries

ivolt:
See this toddler dabbling into what he doesn't understand.
Putin didn't survive this long by allowing ordinary protest among his cabinet let alone a armed rebellion.
I won't bother schooling you into what an open rebellion means to a leader who survives
by perceive strength. You are free to fantasize however you wish.

You don't seem sound. You are not defined by what comes your way. You're defined by how you handle them

ba7man:
You see all that money Diezani stole and how Jonathan was dashing out Nigeria's reserves back then??

All that would have been child's play if Jonathan had being the one responsible for removal of subsidy back then.

The subsidy removal wasn't the problem, the President and the administration that wanted to implement it was the problem.

With what is being revealed today, even Buhari wasn't the person that would have been able to successfully implement it.

Just shut the fvck up. So Tinubu has already done something that reveals he's better than anybody - even Buhari? Under 1 month? So under one month a lot has been removed that showed Tinubu is the best person in position to remove it?