₦airaland Forum

Richtaiwo:
E don reach Governor Muhammad Bala's turn. They will now open his chapter and read his dossiers to him. It is today we will hear how he has been looting Bauchi dry. Or how he is incompetent and doesn't care about the masses. I'm ready to see how he has stocked his house with corn and collected $20 Trillion from Tinubu.

Muhammad Bala doesn't know that as it is now, nobody dares say anything good about the government because a packaged fraud is being desperately marketed to Nigerians.

How his pockets are bursting with corn.

Very poor understanding of presidential powers. Buhari had his own policy direction Tinubu have his own.
Your argument is only valid if Osinbajo who ran with Buhari as vice president was president.
Heck, Osinbajo ran against Tinubu.

Jayhome24:
No need to tell thm. All what those lazy no ambition mofos want is father Christmas economy and entitlement economy so if they are not happy with the reform they are free to get out of Nigeria nobody is stopping them one thing I'm sure of is no country take total economy reform without bouncing out better and stronger. Take it or leave it..we don't care.

There's real hardship brought about by the subsidy removal but doing nothing would have killed the economy without doubt.
10 year or more from now people will look back and thank Tinubu for doing what previous leaders couldn't do.
They pacfied Nigerians with destructive subsidy and basically ruined the economy because of fear dissent.

Babalegba:
Lol, if one keeps repeating falsehood ,some idiots might start perceiving it as truth. Tinubu brought untold hardship to people. An intelligent president would have done things better.
The much vaunted western intelligence is all smoke. Even Bubu was a better president and a better human.

Given the economic circumstances in 2023 tell us exactly what you would have done differently.
Just facts, please.

slivertongue:
Lies from the pit of Apc. He saved his gang from misery

He said the absolute truth. Where were you in 2023? Where's is your evidence that he lied?

We are not talking of 30 years ago and you are already trying to distort the truth.

If the Thai government for this reason say Nigerians must go through hell before they can visit Thailand they will still come online to blame Tinubu.

nairalanda1:
Because people are suffering.

Heck, even back in the day when we had subsidy and government did periodic increases of prices, people cried loud and hard about suffering.

Cost of living has always been an issue in nigeria. Some view subsidy on fuel, even with all the issues around it, as a means of mittigatiing the suffering.

Production Production Production this is what our politicians should be campaigning on.
Production in every aspect of the economy. This is what is going to save Nigerians not hand out.

Dogalmighty17:
Majority of Nigerians including the OP are too lazy to take the time to even do basic research on why certain things are the way they are. When you patiently try to explain it to them, you get termed a supporter of the president.

Until Nigeria starts giving Dangote crude in the volumes he requests for, we cannot expect him to sell fuel at a price lesser than he does when he depends on mostly imported crude to keep his refinery running. The NNPC is struggling to meet its crude supply obligations to international partners. Supplying crude in requisite volumes to Dangote remains a challenge for them.

God bless you. Why is this so difficult to understand?

Mariangeles:
As bad as Buhari was, why didn't the economy collapse his hands?

It did actually. By the time he left there was no money to pay for the subsidy anymore. By the time he left no bank was willing to lend us any more money. Our oil was already sold upfront!
Where exactly do you think Nigeria was heading to in such a situation?

Mariangeles:
I remember when Tinubu was campaigning, talking about agbado, cassava, garri, ewa and all the nonsense he said at that time, Nigerians found it so ridiculously funny, they even made jokes, because the reality back then was that Nigeria wasn't that bad, so "what is this man talking about?"
"Where is all those nonsense coming from?"

Not knowing that the plan of Tinubu then was that by the time he was done with taking Nigeria backwards, common Nigerians would be glad if they saw those basic foods to eat.

That is the reality common Nigerians are living now.

The worst part is everything happened within a short period of time.
What a disaster of a president.

The disaster is the fact that most of you were either living under an illusion or completely resigned to the mediocrity of life in Nigeria.
Some people would say "teach me how to fish rather than give me fish"
The tragedy is that folks prefer the fish and when you run out of fish why not leave your car keys or house deed with the fish seller so you can get more fish.
What Tinubu inherited was unsustainable and the economy would have completely collapsed if he had continued.

nairalanda1:
At the moment, Nigeria cannot afford subsidy.

You can call me tinubu supporter, and bla bla bla, but Nigeria cannot afford subsidy.

We are in massive debt, thanks to years of mismanagement, covid causing revenues to be so low that we litterally had to borrow or else, and subsidy right now is going to worsen our debt

Yes, tinubu is evil, corrupt, etc etc, and yes government should cut costs, and yes, everyone agrees with me APC and tinubu must go, but it still does not change my opinion or the facts on ground.

If una want us to face debt tomorrow that would be triple of what we have, retintroudce subsidy.

We have not paid the tax or done the economy saner climes have done to afford subsidy.

Let them continue to wallow in ignorance. It got to a point where government had to borrow to keep it going! What type of madness is that?

Kaymaxi2222:
anybody who has Nigeria at heart and is ready to make it great knows that the lesser the people involved the better. He is just spreading the stealing nothing else

How is he spreading the stealing? By doing what the constitution requires him to do?

Kalashnikov49:
Roll call

Yarimo Richtaiwo Wickedtruths Legendhero UncleAyo madridguy FreeStuffsNG FSBoperator Ttalk chopnaira slytiger Ibrahimcoomasie Guestmale christistruth01 christistruth00 christistruth03 afamed vision101 seunmsg omenka ElSudani etc etc

Let us add Dangote, Otedola, Elumelu, Abdulsamad and more. Not a bad company at all.

Basically what is supposed to be a short term or emergency relief had been the policy of the Nigerian government for something like forty years?
When are you going to berate Trump who is causing all these problems for everyone including his own country by launching unprovoked attacks on another country?

Perhaps you fear he might send you back to Nigeria?

The organized labor movement you are calling upon were wrong before by blocking the sale of the now dead refineries to those who could have better managed them.
Now, let them come back and raise hell about the rise in oil prices which is beyond the control of the government?

HacheNoire:
Are you joking?

They don’t hold their nose and that’s right, but they will give you the space to know you are isolated.

It’s not even hidden or make up! Both continents you mentioned are best in serving racism on a platter of Gold!

Is this an argument about whether or not there's racism in Europe and America? I am saying I have never seen an Asian behave in such a way in Europe and America. In fact, some of them complain about being discriminated against.

Mrchippychappy:
U never jam these people, Chinks and arabs always do this deliberately to black people in their country BUT interestingly when you are in the same bus with them in Europe dey don't do this, so clearly its an attempt to psychologically belittle you and make you feel less.

God bless you. I've never seen them do this in Europe or America. It was clearly meant to belittle her. Sick people.

LWKMD
What kind of human beings would actually believe a president was cloned?

Sheuns:
“Nigeria has been in economic doom since 1960 till 2023 when Tinubu came and saved it.”

APC data boy mentality.

No, actually in your warped estimate Nigeria was shoulder to shoulder with Germany and Japan until Tinubu came and ruined everything for you and made you hungry.
It is hard for folks like you to understand why a country so blessed with everything could still be poor.
Many of you cannot think beyond the next meal even though folks like you would rather emigrate to Afghanistan than having anything to do with producing that food.

Sheuns:
“Slow down the economy”

“Reduce their purchasing power”

Mr. Man, you have no intention of bringing down costs of living, when the Catholic bishops came to you and told you the hard truth, you lied to yourself that you were doing well and Nigerians are better off. You’re making this U-Turn because of election season and it’s only going to work on the ignorant once that choose to still remain ignorant.

What economy did you have? South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Nigeria were on the same level at some point.
While others invested in industry, education, agriculture, health etc. We wasted our own resources on dumb populist schemes.
Tinubu actually saved Nigeria from economic doom.

Rayjay45:
When we allowed Tinubu worm his way into Aso Rock, we should have known there and then that our image in the comity of nations was in the pits.


Even in West Africa here, Ghana's John Mahama is seen as the real force - not the 'has beens' with rogue leaders who care only about stealing and plundering.

Jeez!

Right, Tinubu is singlehandedly traveling to all these places to tarnish the Name of Nigeria.
Tinubu is in Ghana, South Africa, China, India, Kenya, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines doing petty crimes.
Continue to bury your head in the sand. Besides, this bad behavior started long before Tinubu was even a governor.

SmartPolician:
Believe it or not, Nigeria isn't destined for greatness! This country is too disjointed, ignorant and tribalist to work as one unit. This explains why we produce these kinds of inept leaders over 2 decades later.

Are the followers any better? We have another one saying he will bring subsidy back and some are actually happy about it.
Between OBJ to GEJ governments close to $81 billion dollars was wasted on subsidy and yet we wonder why we don't have good hospitals.
Think about how many world class hospitals you can build with that money.

Bayoonanuga:
Tell me his achievements as anambra governor please person way betray ojukwu

Be kind, he helped in creating Hero Beer. Drunk people are not very good at identifying what is good for them or not.
They can just exist in a state of inebriated bliss like most Obidients.

There's nothing to weaponize. He is a confused flip-flopper.
Neither here nor there.
Ask him what he would do differently he replied by saying I will do things systematically.
Ask him to elaborate and that is when you start feeling sorry for him and ashamed at the same time.

Hemanwel:
Subsidy should return, abeg!

Don't be deceived by Tinubu's voodoo economics!

Tinubu and APC made their supporters on their Whatsapp group think that removal of subsidy is the best thing after sliced bread and butter.

The same way they made them believe that no government can achieve anything under four years.

All this just to gain power not minding the clear fact that you had subsidy for 40 years and it brought us no development at all while less endowed countries left us behind.
We have huge opportunities in agriculture, in mining and in manufacturing why the pathological obsession with subsidy?
And we are not talking about subsidizing industries here we are talking about fuel consumption.

Kalashnikov49:
Rainbow coalition is a 'subtle slogan' of LGBTQ (whatever) and SATANISTs. Nothing about APC showcases goodness, ..nothing at all

You are wrong. Jesse Jackson was the first to use it as a political slogan when he ran for president. Nothing to do with your interpretation.

jesusjnr2020:
I was actually shocked when I first saw saw the photos of Iranian Christians risking their lives and coming out and boldly declaring for Christ on the streets of Iran, because I knew how dangerous it was for Christians there to openly profess their faith.

It appears to confirm recent reports that the numbers of Iranians who embraced Jesus were exploding beyond measure, even to the millions, hence they could no longer hide it or continue to keep it to themselves, but had to boldly come out and declare that they are for Jesus.

God bless.

Who told you they were risking their lives? There are Christians and even Jews in Iran.
You should rely less on western propaganda.

EponObi:
Lmaooo... What local price?

Oil is currently being solid at $90/barrel worldwide; how much will you sell to Dangote and co?

Oil revenue is used to majorly fund our national budget; say you set local price at $50/barrel, where will you get fund the deficit of $40/barrel?

Lol... through borrowing?

While we currently sell locally at international price, we still need borrowing to completely fund our budget. These people are not serious.

We will essentially go back to the regime of subsidy fraud because local refineries can now buy crude at cheap price and offload to other nations to sell at OPEC price.

No be this same subsidy that made our refineries go into comatose for decades. We had no private investments into refineries too. Dangote Refinery was birthed because the FG took the bold step to remove subsidy. Now we have Kenyan president coming here to see Dangote Refinery work and is working with Dangote group to build one in East Africa. Today, Nigeria rules the refinery business in Africa, when the construction of the proposed East Africa refinery hasn't even take off. Nigeria now give Europe a run for their money - na we dey fill the gap left open by the Iranian war. So, how else does Hassim want support our local refinery to dominate the global market?

God bless you. Let them continue to lie to themselves. It has always been about their selfish interests rather than the interests of Nigerians at large.
I am scratching my head head to understand how his proposals could work with the subsidy in place.

Tinubu is already doing that. Also, I don't know how your proposal could have been possible without the tough decision to abolish the fuel subsidy.
Honor to whom Honor is due.

vibre:
Iranians have foolish leaders. Immediately the midterms are over, Trump won't hold back anymore, it will be bombing galore in Iran.

Trump will lose congress he knows that. The Democrats will restrict his ability to attack Iran and he knows that too that is why he was mentioning after the midterms.
He doesn't know what to do with Iran and losing the midterms will provide him with the escape route he was looking for.

saintkel:
What kind of trashy post is dis?

Not trashy at all. Tell us another Nigerian leader who faced so many problems and still managed to put the country on the path to prosperity.
A lot of Nigerians did not know or would not admit how close Nigeria was to economic collapse when Tinubu took over.
While no one will deny their is pervasive poverty in the country we have to be objective enough to know that Nigeria is in a far better trajectory today than when Tinubu took over.

Gotocourt:
Dangote banking on gullibility of Nigerians. Body go tell una ai.

Gullibility indeed. You actually believe on Nigerians are buying into the refinery.