₦airaland Forum

Welcome, Guest: RegisterLoginWith GoogleTrendingRecentNew

Stats: 3,327,228 members, 8,429,918 topics. Date: Friday, 19 June 2026 at 03:50 PM

Toggle theme

Firefire's Posts

Nairaland ForumFirefire's ProfileFirefire's Posts

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 (of 776 pages)

PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 11:07am On Jul 20, 2015
tonychristopher:
point of correction ....its not Nigerians its some group of sophisticated ones ..pls in east and some south south region they have been buying pms 100 for more than 3 yrs and you do not have ar noise


I keep saying let the market forces which is demand and supply determine the price of pms et al. there must be an equilibrium price

it's just stupid for any idiottt to assume the price of pms will be the same in Lagos delta Kano and sokoto

where do you factor the logistic costs and other overhead
Bro, their is no reason why fuel should not sell at the official pump price of N87/L across the country.

Because the government already bear the cost. see the breakdown...

On the product’s distribution margin, retailers get N4.6; transporters, N2.99; dealers, N1.75; bridging fund, N5.85; marine transport average, N0.15; and admin charge, N0.15; making a subtotal margin of N15.49.

The subsidy above is the local content on top the actual landing cost.
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 11:02am On Jul 20, 2015
onatisi:
bro, did buhari actually say all these ? If he did then Nigeria is in some deep deep deep very deep problems .
See attached...

PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:50am On Jul 20, 2015
Rilwayne001:
Firefire, I expect to see you counter the above.

Bottom line, [size=15pt] 8 more years to go cheesy [/size] After when Fashola will take over tongue
read it carefully...

https://www.nairaland.com/2463504/petrol-subsidy-hits-n1.69bn-daily/2#36074627
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:48am On Jul 20, 2015
tete7000:
What is this one saying? It hits, does it mean it has reached its peak and won't go up or come down depending on what happen in the crude market? Oh, you still didn't read and want to teach me english? Sorry for you! You really need help. You can't be enlightened.
Perfect response.

Help on the way for him...

PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:41am On Jul 20, 2015
PrinceMario:
#1.6b daily is less than #600b in a year. The otuoke goat spent over 2trillion naira in one year on petrol subsidy. We are yet to also forget the #3trillion kerosene subsidy. Foolish hypocrite wanting to blackmail a government which is less than 3months by justifying the cankerworm that milked us dry for 6 solid years.
Please take your time to read this post and get understanding...

tete7000:
I must say its quite sad and pathetic to imagine you didn't read before commenting.
Anyway let me help you out. The crude is sold for about $57 per barrel and the subsidy figure stands at the current price. Now what you don't know is that the subsidy cost will increase as the crude price increases. At some point in the last govt life, crude hit like over a $100 per barrel and that means during those periods they are paying almost double what is currently being paid if we assume there is direct variation between the crude price and subsidy payment (even though this might not been so but whatever, there is sure to be subsidy increase as crude price increases.)
In the life of this govt too, should crude price rise in the international market there is bound to be rise in subsidy payment and your stipulated estimate of over $500bn fade into insignificance with time. If the crude price increases far beyond what it is now, the govt might end up overtime pay close to/more than the $1tr past govt paid. This reason is basically why it is difficult to accurately budget for subsidy as crude price is a fluctuating figure that is difficult to be accurately predicted.
Hope you have been enlightened. It is not everything people in the past govt said that are necessarily false. Sometimes ago you had believe as told that subsidy was fraud but you can see now that there was no fraud in it but pure propaganda the opposition party uses in winning election.

Hope you will have patience in reading through. You need to be able to read to really be thoroughly learned.
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:39am On Jul 20, 2015
tete7000:
I must say its quite sad and pathetic to imagine you didn't read before commenting.
Anyway let me help you out. The crude is sold for about $57 per barrel and the subsidy figure stands at the current price. Now what you don't know is that the subsidy cost will increase as the crude price increases. At some point in the last govt life, crude hit like over a $100 per barrel and that means during those periods they are paying almost double what is currently being paid if we assume there is direct variation between the crude price and subsidy payment (even though this might not been so but whatever, there is sure to be subsidy increase as crude price increases.)
In the life of this govt too, should crude price rise in the international market there is bound to be rise in subsidy payment and your stipulated estimate of over $500bn fade into insignificance with time. If the crude price increases far beyond what it is now, the govt might end up overtime pay close to/more than the $1tr past govt paid. This reason is basically why it is difficult to accurately budget for subsidy as crude price is a fluctuating figure that is difficult to be accurately predicted.
Hope you have been enlightened. It is not everything people in the past govt said that are necessarily false. Sometimes ago you had believe as told that subsidy was fraud but you can see now that there was no fraud in it but pure propaganda the opposition party uses in winning election.

Hope you will have patience in reading through. You need to be able to read to really be thoroughly learned.
Thank you for schooling the Professor of English.
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:36am On Jul 20, 2015
bushdoc9919:
Of course...oil subsidy must go.

Importing the stuff costs more than selling it at N87. And subsidy just covers the difference barely.

We could cushion the effect by building more refineries.....but that is going to take time.

I know NNPC is a corrupt cesspool, and I know of the subsidy scams(which by the way happen because most marketers are making zero profit from the current subsidy regime)....but let's be honest, we are wasting money. Money which we do not have because....oil prices per barrel dropped.
Thank you for your comment.

We are paying double fuel subsidy at the moment.

Nigerians are paying since the filling stations are not selling at the official subsidized rate of N87/L and the government is also paying N42.35 on every single litre consumed per day. (40 Million Litres/D)

We can't continue like this...
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:31am On Jul 20, 2015
PrinceMario:
You still have 7yrs+6months to wail. Keep the fire burning for the next 7yrs.
I see that most of you have sold your mind to the enemies of Nigeria on the platform of CHANGE & partisanship.

You see this as wailing?

You guys have lost credibility already, you could not counter our posts objectively any more, you rather results to cheap blackmail.

Continue, we are all in the same boat, abi na only me dey buy fuel above the official pump price? NO!
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 10:21am On Jul 20, 2015
onatisi:
Apc and buhari are finding it difficult to implement a subsidy removal because they protested against it just 3 years back. How will they tell nigerians that they want to implement a policy they vehemently protested against 3years ago as been anti people. It will be more or less telling nigerians that they were lying all along and pdp will pick this up immediately and use it against them. Now they are in the middle .
They should swallow their pride and remove it...

We are witnessing a double subsidy payment now.

https://www.nairaland.com/2463504/petrol-subsidy-hits-n1.69bn-daily#36064792

PoliticsRe: More Pictures Of Buhari At The Blair House In The US by Firefire(m): 10:16am On Jul 20, 2015
Rilwayne001:
Mo ni baba kan o..baba agba to mo iyi omo. Ko fi wa sere, baba agba to mo iyi omo.

Cc: Firefire tongue
Nigerians are suffering already... embarassed

https://www.nairaland.com/2463504/petrol-subsidy-hits-n1.69bn-daily#36064792
PoliticsRe: ITS OFFICIAL: U.S To Trace Nigerian Stolen Assets by Firefire(m): 9:32am On Jul 20, 2015
rabex:
no...just to show d extent of my anger towards thos people
cheesy cheesy cheesy
PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 1:36am On Jul 20, 2015
.

PoliticsRe: Petrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op):
Is Nigeria really on auto-pilot?

Nigerian government is subsidizing our petrol with N42.35 per litre, expecting us to buy at N87 per litre.

Unfortunately you can’t get the fuel at the official pump price of N87 and yet we are still paying subsidy every day?

Who are this wicked cabals?

[size=18pt]
Why is the government of Change under Buhari keeping silent since May 29th?
[/size]

If the official price is N87 per litre and we are buying fuel at N110 per litre, and Nigerians consume 40 million litres of Petrol daily see the computations below:

See the loss to Nigerians since President M Buhari took over:

Official Price 87/L

- You are buying at 110/L

- You are paying additional (87-110) = (23)/L

- Nigeria daily fuel consumption is 40 Million litres (40MM x 23) = 920 Million loss every day.

Buari days in office now 51 Days.

51 Days x 92 Million Naira daily loss



Total loss to Nigerians under Mohamodu Buhari is now 46 Billion Naira, excluding the official subsidy of 1.6 Billion Naira daily.



Na so we go dey?
PoliticsPetrol Subsidy Hits N1.69bn Daily by Firefire(op): 12:50am On Jul 20, 2015
The Federal Government now incurs about N1.69bn daily to subsidise petrol consumption,



Nigeria currently spends N1.69bn daily as subsidy on petrol despite the decline in the country’s oil exports and the resultant squeeze on the nation’s revenues.

While industry experts and highly placed politicians canvass the stoppage of the subsidy regime, President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to take a stand on the issue.[/b]

Buhari had last Monday explained that he had yet to take a decision on the removal of subsidies on refined petroleum products.

The President, in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, was quoted as saying, “I have received many literature on the need to remove subsidies, but much of it has no depth. When you touch the price of petroleum products, that has the effect of triggering price rise on transportation, food and rents.

“That is for those who earn salaries; but there are many who are jobless and will be affected by it.”

Subsidy is a form of financial aid or support extended to an institution, business, or individual generally with the aim of promoting economic and social policy.

But experts told our correspondent that the President was considering the political gains of subsidy, and stressed that this was detrimental to Nigeria’s economy, considering the whopping sum being spent daily subsidising petrol consumption.

Latest figures from the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency show that the government is paying N42.35 as subsidy on every litre of petrol consumed in the country.

Specifically, the agency, in its pricing template released on Thursday July 16, 2015, which was based on average Platts prices for a day before, stated that the Expected Open Market Price or total cost of petrol was N129.35 per litre.

This is against a regulated retail price of N87 per litre. The difference between the EOMP and the retail price is, therefore, N42.35.

According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the country consumes about 40 million litres of Petrol daily.

By multiplying the volume of petrol consumed across the country on a daily basis with the current amount spent on subsidising the product, it means that the government spends about N1.69bn on subsidy daily at N42.35 per litre.

The PPPRA stated that the effective date of the approved pricing template was January 19, 2015, noting that the actual landing cost of the product was N113.86 per litre.

The cost elements that make up the landing cost include the product’s offshore cost of N102.6 per litre; trade margin, N1.47; lightering expenses, N4.18; NPA fee, N0.77; financing, N1.59; jetty depot throughput charge, N0.8; and storage charge, N3.

On the product’s distribution margin, retailers get N4.6; transporters, N2.99; dealers, N1.75; bridging fund, N5.85; marine transport average, N0.15; and admin charge, N0.15; making a subtotal margin of N15.49.

When added to the landing cost of N113.86, the EOMP of N129.35 per litre is arrived at, but the product is sold at filling stations at N87 per litre.

The Director, Emerald Energy Institute, University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Wumi Iledare, explained that the plunge in crude oil prices and the drop in Nigeria’s oil exports had led to a stiff revenue squeeze and wondered if the Federal Government would be able to sustain the billions of naira being incurred daily as subsidy.

Iledare, who is a former President, International Association for Energy Economics, said, “We cannot continue to subsidise petrol without having functional refineries. Other countries that subsidise petrol like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have refining capacities beyond what they consume. If we refine all we consume and sell excess, nobody will call for subsidy removal. But we don’t.

“It may make political sense and the only thing they are worried about is the political implication. But this is where they have to educate the society that what they are losing as a result of fuel subsidy is enormous. These are monies that can be used to increase Nigeria’s education standard.”

Also speaking on the issue, the Managing Director, Frontier Oil Limited, an oil and gas field development firm, Mr. Thomas Dada, told our correspondent that the price of crude oil would fall further in the near future, judging by the recent historic deal between Iran and the United States.

Dada said, “I hope the President will be able to assess the issue in detail maybe when he has formed his cabinet. But I think sooner or later, we have to remove subsidy because it has never benefitted this nation but only a few people.

“Let me ask you a question, how many people are buying fuel at N87 per litre right now in this country? If you go to Abia, Niger or Adamawa states, they pay much more than N87 per litre and these are Nigerians paying this much because they need the product. So, who is actually benefitting from subsidy? He (Buhari) may have his reasons but we need to look at the bigger picture.

“Is the telecoms sector being subsidised? No. Is it not functioning? It is functioning! The coffers of the government are empty; so, I don’t know how you are going to sustain subsidy. Oil price is going to drop with Iran and the USA coming to a nuclear agreement. That means if we don’t see a $40 per barrel oil price by next year or two, then we are lucky.

“So, how will Nigeria continue to afford subsidy? We should be encouraging private sector refineries, which will be able to meet our petroleum product needs.”

The Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, at a function in Abuja last week, urged Nigerians to unite against the continued payment of subsidy, stressing that it was only making a few persons wealthy at the expense of the masses.

He had said, “In 2014, Nigeria was producing on the average about 2.2 million barrels of crude oil per day, while importing most of its daily consumption of 43.5 million litres of refined petroleum products. That reliance on imports of refined products has seen unsustainable expenses on questionable subsidy payments exemplified by $8.99bn in the 18 months between January 2012 and June 2013.

“About N971bn was budgeted for subsidy payments in 2014 alone (more than twice that was eventually paid). You all recall how trillions of naira were paid out as oil subsidy in 2011, when only N254bn was appropriated. No one has been successfully prosecuted for this scam.

“I daresay that the oil subsidy regime has neither grown our people nor guaranteed stability of refined product supplies. What subsidy has achieved is create a huge hole in the budget and a new array of overnight billionaires… “It is time to tackle the corruption in the subsidy regime. We can discuss how the resulting subsidy savings will be spent to improve lives, while guaranteeing stability of supply to the domestic market. We have a President with both the integrity to responsibly manage the savings and the experience of managing special interventions based on subsidy savings.”



http://www.punchng.com/business/financial-punch/petrol-subsidy-hits-n1-69bn-daily/

PoliticsRe: APC Urges GEJ To Apologise For His Bad Governance by Firefire(m): 11:59pm On Jul 19, 2015
ricsman:
just like sinked PDP
na turn by turn.

Oye to kan ara Iwo, ohun bo wa kan ara Ede.
PoliticsRe: APC Urges GEJ To Apologise For His Bad Governance by Firefire(m): 10:41pm On Jul 19, 2015
sinking party... cheesy
PoliticsRe: Gowon With Idi Amin In Uganda, The Same Day He Was Overthrown In Nigeria (pic) by Firefire(m): 10:37pm On Jul 19, 2015
Wonderful!
PoliticsRe: THROWBACK: How Gowon Declined U.S. President’s Invitation To Visit America. by Firefire(m): 8:56pm On Jul 19, 2015
queenzibah:
and buhari is a dullardi.nho...... Go and shot yourself
Confirmed!
PoliticsRe: THROWBACK: How Gowon Declined U.S. President’s Invitation To Visit America. by Firefire(m): 8:55pm On Jul 19, 2015
Interesting...
PoliticsRe: Osun Public Servants, Retirees At Winners Chapel For Food Today (pics) by Firefire(m): 5:49pm On Jul 19, 2015
dearpreye:
Apostle, with all respect, it was a choice the people of Osun took on their own, without coercion or threat. The people are bearing the attendant consequences of their sophistication.
The spell will be broken one day...

"Our soul (Osun People) has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper; The snare is broken and we have escaped"...Ps 124:7
PoliticsRe: Osun Public Servants, Retirees At Winners Chapel For Food Today (pics) by Firefire(m): 5:20pm On Jul 19, 2015
We thank the Winners Chapel.

Aregbesola, you will not know peace (because no peace for the wicked) for subjecting the people of Osun to this ridicule, shame and suffering.

PoliticsRe: See What This Man Thinks Of Buhari's 33-man Delegation To The US by Firefire(m): 5:11pm On Jul 19, 2015
PoliticsRe: Blair House: Buhari's Official Accommodation During His Visit To The US (photo) by Firefire(m): 5:10pm On Jul 19, 2015
philips70:
My signature says it all. As per generalizing, I stand by my point that most people who defend blindly here based on tribal, political and religious leanings are very poor people. It baffles me because these same politicians whose kids will never suffer for a job put them in this condition.
ok
PoliticsRe: U.S Declare That Nigeria Is The Most Important Country In Africa by Firefire(m): 4:53pm On Jul 19, 2015
you see... undecided
FashionRe: Man Decorates His Suit With Naira Note To Attend An Event (Photo) by Firefire(m): 4:49pm On Jul 19, 2015
sad
PoliticsRe: A Word Of Advise To Barcanista by Firefire(m): 4:39pm On Jul 19, 2015
Adultnextdoor:
Dear Barcanista,
[s]
I see that everytime you open a thread or counter-thread,it is only aimed at painting Buhari's administration black.It is obvious that you are big fan of the PDP group and every member under this political camp of hoodlums,so trying to convince you would be a total waste of time.
Each time you open-up a thread,its always filled with pointless evidence to prove your support for GEJ and other PDP members and show your dislike for Buhari and every member of the APC group.I've noticed that you politicized most thread that are in favour of Buhari and his administration.
I don't really have much to say to you but i'll ask you to do me favour by personally going through all of the threads you've opened,read the comments out of both your supporters on nairaland and those that are not in support of you,then ask yourself this question:"HAVE I SPOKEN BASED ON THE GOOD INTEREST OF MY FELLOW NIGERIANS OR IS IT JUST FOR MY SELF-INTEREST AND MY STRONG SUPPORT FOR GEJ AND PDP?
[/s]

If you [s]read through each word,you will see that i didn't ulter any vulgar word or insult against you and everything i've just written are my observations on all your political thread.

I respect the fact that you are a political analyst and firm supporter of politics.

ONE LOVE!!
ONE NIGERIA!!
ONE AFRICA!!

Courtesy:Adultnextdoor[/s]

PoliticsRe: Buhari Surrenders DNA Ignorantly To America. by Firefire(m): 4:23pm On Jul 19, 2015
MurderX:
They can even attempt to gay our president in the middle of the night. I pray Buhari comes back straight as 1.
Amen ooooo grin
PoliticsRe: Emir Sanusi In Tears, Says Leaders will pay for their deeds (PHOTO) by Firefire(m): 4:20pm On Jul 19, 2015
Whynotthetruth:
Did they steal his ramhuh
maybe cheesy cheesy


crocodile tears...
PoliticsRe: List Of Private Jet Owners In Nigeria (pictures) by Firefire(m): 4:10pm On Jul 19, 2015
justirich:
brings you a piece on private jets in the world’s most populous black nation. As at March 2014, the BBC reported that Nigerians spent over $6.5 billion dollars on
private jets, making it one of the fastest-growing
luxury jet industries in the world. The following are
private jets in Nigeria and their owners



Source: http://naijarchives.com/list-of-private-jet-owners-in-nigeria/
Where are the pictures of Bukola Saraki jets huh
PoliticsRe: Blair House: Buhari's Official Accommodation During His Visit To The US (photo) by Firefire(m): 4:04pm On Jul 19, 2015
philips70:
Yes, most of you and it's very true most of the wailers on this forum have not had a balance of N100k in their account before. Honestly, I will never defend anybody arrested or being taken to court for corrupt practices. If any of these guys live close to you they will not hesitate to use their mobile policemen to intimidate you without even knowing you die for them daily on social media. They even oppress and intimidate family members!
For your first part: generalizing is wrong, you never can say. wink

I hate seeing our criminal politicians forming St.

Irrespective of which political party they belong, 95% of Nigerian politicians are rogues and looters, this is my message.

Nothing like reformed thieves, or progressive.

"Ole is Ole, a thief is a thief" - GEJ
PoliticsRe: DSS Found 12 Cars In Dasuki's House (Attached Picture Not True) by Firefire(m): 3:55pm On Jul 19, 2015
1after:
I dey hail you too my oga. Abeg Ino be baba olowo oooo cheesy cheesy
thanks. No qualms, the future is bright.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 (of 776 pages)