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Subsidy began 30+ years ago when Babangida and Abacha allowed the 4 NNPC refineries to fall into disrepair and didn't build any new ones to meet the demands of the growing domestic market.

They discovered that through the so called "subsidy" of refining petroleum abroad, they could award contracts to their cronies and enrich themselves.

The domestic market for petroleum continued to grow, so the racket in subsidy grew to the point where it became unmanageable. Now that they can no longer make money from the scheme, they want to pass the entirety of the financial burden of refining petroleum abroad onto the shoulders of Nigerians.

backbencher:
Yes, subsidy was a bad decision, economically speaking.

But every time government suggested complete subsidy removal..from 1993 to date, Nigerians have always said NO. (That's why even people like Abacha never contemplated subsidy removal totally).

All government can do is to reduce subsidy payments from time to time when the cost of producing petrol rises. (which manifests as a price increase...and which means all is well, until the cost of producing a liter of fuel rises again)...ie periodic partial subsidy removals...which have happened several times for over 3 decades.

Now we are a t a point where falling oil prices means it has to go....or we keep on taking more loans (which IMF doesn't want us to do, because they are tired of us doing so).

The simple truth is that they have spent the last 30 years destroying the energy sector under the guise of subsidy and now they want to push the financial implications of their mismanagement on the ordinary Nigerian.

jeffoe:
What IMF is saying is just common sense. Nigeria is going the way of Venezuela and Argentina. It is so glaring even with my basic knowledge of economics.
Sane Countries that provide subsidy do it in social services like education, health, public transportation etc but this countries have very high taxation rate that can go up to 60% of ones income and the market determine the prices and not govt.

Govt job is regulation which is to prevent any person from gaming the system or forming cartel unfortunately Nigeria is a member of the opec cartel.

Govt should provide services to companies that would make then internationally competitive e.g High quality workforce, research, efficient service to bussines etc

The Nigerian government first have to be completely transparent with it finances, With monthly information about who get what and the purpose it for. This would build citizen trust in the system and then gradually phase out subsidies maybe on monthly basis till it is completely removed.

Labour union law should be modified to meet international best practice examples would be providing unemployment benefit for a fixed period of time if a union member loses is job.

Build a robust citizen credit rating system and ensure that rent and other bills are paid monthly with one month deposit, govt should bare the cost of possible one month default and then retrieve it from the defaulter while putting that info on the person credit info which is available to everyone.

I can keep going on and on

State capitalism can only work in an authoritarian society and/or a very very transparent (less corrupt) society

Ajala is a brainless, spineless fool and he will always do what his IMF masters tell him to do.

funshint:
I shiver anytime I hear IMF giving a country advise. Those people are demons!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar23C0-jbdI

With Spanish subtitles?

These options will never work in the civilised world where polygamy is illegal. Only in an oturugbeke country like Nigeria.

Toks2008:
E don land.

That was how she rose to fame. She owes everything she has achieved in life to that sex tape with Ray J, including her marriage to Kanye.
Ray J even sang a song to celebrate the fact that he disvirgined Kim. He titled it "I Hit It First"

DOTian:
This gal has been over brutalized,...
Don't know what you guys still see there..
I mean from the days of Ray J,..

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A petition by Reno Omokri, a former Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, on the change.org platform has received 76,420 signatures as of 12.39 pm on Friday.

The petition, which was filed on Wednesday, was directed at the International Criminal Court and comes after the Lagos #EndSARS panel indicted the Buhari administration in its report.

At over 75,471 signatures, the petition is the first of Nigerian origin to hit that number in two days.

The petition is titled, ‘A Petition to The International Criminal Court to Arraign Muhammadu Buhari for Crimes Against Humanity’.

The petition sought to have Buhari tried and imprisoned by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity believed to have happened at Lekki tollgate on October 20, 2020.

This is after the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry on Restitution for Victims of SARS Related Abuses and other matters says at least nine persons were confirmed dead at the Lekki toll plaza on the night soldiers stormed there to disperse #EndSARS protesters on October 20, 2020.

The Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel made this known in its report submitted to the Lagos State Government on Monday.

In the report, titled, ‘Report Of Lekki Incident Investigation Of 20th October 2020’, a copy of which was sighted by our correspondent, the panel said atrocious killing of unarmed protesters at Lekki toll gate on the night of October 20, 2020, can be equated to a ‘massacre’ in context.

The panel also indicted the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lekki Concession Company, the police, and the army.

The body of the petition read, “On October 20, 2020, the Buhari administration murdered multiple innocent, unarmed, peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate in a massacre that has since been dubbed #LekkiMassacre.

“These youths were protesting to put an end to the rampant police brutality that had become the hallmark of the Buhari regime, which treats so-called repentant Boko Haram almost like royalty, while coming hard on young Nigerians, sometimes for the flimsiest reason, such as wearing dreadlocks.

“Following the murders of these protesters, the Buhari administration denied that the incident ever occurred. They threatened those, like myself, who insisted, with proof, that this massacre happened. The government even threatened to jail people who called for those behind the murders to be brought to book.

"However, on Monday, November 15, 2021, the Lagos state Panel of Inquiry into EndSARS released its report to the state government in which it established judicially that not only did the massacre occur, but that the government of Muhammadu Buhari and its agents, re the Nigerian Army and Police, perpetuated the murders.

“This petition is therefore directed at the International Criminal Court to set machinery in motion for the trial of Muhammadu Buhari for crimes against humanity in the same way that former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, was tried and convicted.”


https://punchng.com/lekki-tollgate-over-76400-sign-petition-to-jail-buhari-after-lagos-endsars-panel-report/

You're so right. We spend all our days envying the north for being so far ahead of us


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Comedian2019:
The envy in the south is just too much.

Your prayer should be: May we not continue to be witnesses to the existence of the comedy show called Nigeria

Wiseandtrue:
If the accused is from the north, then the accused becomes the victim

But if it's from the south, the accused becomes guilty!

Buhari no dey even hide am! May we NEVER experience a leader like this again in Nigeria! Amen!

S & G

Sergio101:

Very good I must say

The niggrr fine oh

It's just too easy exposing the lies and ignorance of these filthy almajiris. Too easy

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ArewaNorth:
No! Your arguments are driven by religious fanaticism and nothing more. Alcohol VAT doesn't amount to reasonable figure to be debated on. Can u compare alcohol's economic value to the cow u so much hate and still eat just because of ethno-religious reason?

How Both Male & Female Prostitution Is Thriving In the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

When Zainab met her first client almost two years ago, she was drunk, drugged-up, and had passed out by the time he started raping her. She had never touched alcohol before, but was told she’d be better off unconscious. Terrified, she reluctantly agreed.

The man was gone when the then 18-year-old woke up; her body in pain, her thoughts filled with regret.

She says she now has no alternative but to continue selling sex.

In Afghanistan, sex work is illegal. But as war – and the widespread poverty that comes with it – lingers, the number of women and men who see the trade as their last option has been steadily rising.

Although the penal code does not specify the punishment for sex work, they risk a prison sentence if they get caught.

“Poverty and illiteracy are the main drivers for prostitution,” says a spokesperson at the women’s affairs ministry. “There’s a lack of understanding when it comes to sexual knowledge, especially among younger women. Often, they are deceived into the business.”

Several non-profit organisations across Afghanistan confirmed a steep rise in numbers, estimating that “hundreds” worked in the capital, Kabul. Men and women who sell sex operate out of friends’ houses, coffee shops and beauty parlours.

Fearing threats and retribution, aid workers who were interviewed asked the Guardian not to reveal names.

With the burden of having to take care of her five younger siblings after her father’s death, Zainab had dropped out of school to work full-time as a housekeeper.

When her younger brother became ill and needed hospital care and medication, she asked for a pay advance. But her employer told her: “I don’t have money, but I can bring you a man. You’re a virgin, you will be able to receive a lot of money.”

It was then that Zainab found out about the underground brothel her employer ran. Now 20, Zainab continues to see between two and three men every week, receiving 2,000 afghani (£18) from each of them.

“I was 13 years old when my father died. My mother had long been sick, and as the oldest, I had to take responsibility for my family. I started working as a housekeeper, but the money was never enough,” Zainab says.

Wrapped in a black abaya cloak, Zainab agreed to be interviewed under one condition: no photographs, no last names, no reference to the neighbourhood where she has been working. She sits with her hands folded as she describes her work, only her eyes exposed.

“Most of the men are young, between 25 and 30 years old, and most of them are married. They know my employer and call her to arrange an appointment. Some men request to choose from several girls,” she says, constantly reminding me how much she hates what she does.

“They take 10 minutes, sometimes 20. Some use condoms, but not all of them do,” she says, explaining that her employer provides regular birth control injections to avoid pregnancy, but that she was worried about diseases. “Every time I’m alone in a room with a man, I am scared.” Neither friends nor family know how she’s sustaining an income. Zainab tells them she still works as a housekeeper.

Heather Barr, co-director for women’s rights at Human Rights Watch, says she first met women in Afghanistan selling sex in 2012 and found that many were forced to do it or found it was their only option to survive.

“It illustrates huge failings by the Afghan government in protecting women’s rights,” she says. “Women should never be so cut off from help that they can be abused by others in this way without being able to escape, and the government’s complete lack of a financial safety net and other assistance is what creates a situation where this can be a woman’s only option to survive.”

Zainab says she has seen other women at her employer’s house, but she has never talked to them, too ashamed to admit what she does. She knows many male sex workers operate across Kabul as well, but says she hasn’t met any of them.

Male (Homosexual) Prostitution Is Also Booming In Afghanistan under the Taliban

Javeed (not his real name), a 28-year-old husband and father of three, explains that he lives a double life, with his wife and children unaware of his other occupation.

"I realised many men wanted to sleep with me and I needed money. I started going home with people and developed an interest. Some are now my clients and pay me; others are friends who I decide to have sex with,” he says.

The money, he says, is barely enough to feed his children and provide them with school supplies. Unlike Zainab, he claims his clients never use condoms.

Both Javeed and Zainab say they cannot see a way out of their current situation.

“I know it’s dangerous. I’m scared living this double life,” Zainab says. “But I don’t know how else I would support my younger siblings. I’m sacrificing myself for my family.”

https://amp.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/jun/14/im-sacrificing-myself-agony-of-kabuls-secret-sex-workers-afghanistan

Which God are you appealing to? The real one or the plagiarized and fictionalised version created by an illiterate pedophile prophet from Mecca?

PrinceGallant:
Bravo! I can see you trying to sound intellectual but your hatred does manifest in your words and gives you away.

May God humiliate you

And they exist around you abi? Your women commit all types of whoredom and prostitution in their HOjabs and you think they're holier than thou ABI? You are the land of Karuwanci and prostitution! Your women use those same HOjabs that they're wearing to wipe themselves clean after entertaining customers!

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ArewaNorth:
Morality and decency doesn't exist around u. Tell the truth, even animals are jealous of ur lifestyle!

What indecent attire are you talking about? Students wear native outfits, business/corporate skirts and jackets and trouser suits, these are all perfectly decent and it's how females in positions of responsibility dress all over the world, even in the Middle East.

ArewaNorth:
This is rubbish. Christians are using their System to feign neutrality. What sort of neutrality do u mean?
Do u want to tell me the imposed indecent attire handed to u by whites should be adopted by all without right of consulting other faith as a uniformity?
You can never do justice to ur claim!

I didn't even see the latter part of your post. Did Jesus own any black slaves? I think we both know who owned black slaves...

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Patrioticman007:
That making & fabricating lies against the greatest man ever lived the face of earth, shows your delusional mental capacity. Google about the 100 greatest men, surely you will find your answer.
Its a fact that no reasonable man will practice the religion of Christianity for its history is a poison to the intellect.

The funny thing is that the list you're talking about was talking about influence from a negative perspective. The guy who prepared it is a known white supremacist named Michael W Hart.
So your self esteem as a Muslim rests on the opinions of someone who looks down on you?

Patrioticman007:
That making & fabricating lies against the greatest man ever lived the face of earth, shows your delusional mental capacity. Google about the 100 greatest men, surely you will find your answer.
Its a fact that no reasonable man will practice the religion of Christianity for its history is a poison to the intellect.

Yoruba Christians have historically been better educated than Yoruba muslims.
That is an inescapable fact which nobody will deny unless they want to deny the truth.
I was educated from nursery to university in the South West, from Lagos to Ibadan and in every single class I attended, Christians outnumbered Muslims. In fact, the higher I climbed on the education ladder, the fewer Muslims I met. By the time I got to the University of Ibadan, I only had about 20 Muslim colleagues in a class of nearly 300 students.

These lopsided statistics can be leveled and perhaps even reversed if muslims took education more seriously. It's entirely up to them. Trying to impose quota systems will be disastrous in the long run.

As for the wearing of headscarves, some institutions just want to maintain a semblance of religious neutrality, while others are trying to prevent cheating

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ArewaNorth:
There are other cases in reference and examples of the violation of the civil rights of Muslims in Yorubaland but u surreptitiously don't want it to be exposed.
Muslim female teachers who went for a promotion interview in Abeokuta last week (Thursday 15 th April, 2021) were told that they must remove their hijab before they could be interviewed. The Muslim girl-child is being stigmatized in the school and sometimes locked out of the classroom on account of an ordinary headscarf.
“The hijab of the Muslim girl-child is yanked off her head by Christian teachers who are also Yorubas. Muslim girls are beaten up and sent back home. Muslim parents suffer this humiliation on a daily basisin Yorubaland. Muslim males are forced to remove their caps and turbans. Some are forced to shave their beards before being attended to by government civil servants who are also Yorubas. Court cases which bother on the infringement of Allah-given fundamental human rights of Yoruba Muslims litter courts in the region.
“Political appointments are reserved mainly for Christians while Muslims who constitute the majority are ignored. There are only four Muslims among the fourteen (14) commissioners in Oyo and Ogun states where the governors are Christians. All the board chairmen in the two states are Christians except the Muslim Pilgrims Board and the governors have ignored the complaints of Muslims. In Ekiti State, Fayose ran an all-Christian cabinet. In Oyo State, the hijrah holiday which was declared by a former Muslim governor, Isiaka Ajimobi, has been annulled by Seyi Makinde, a Christian governor.
“Muslims are also totally marginalized in the education sector. Christians are in charge in the ministries of education in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo. All the teaching service commissions TESCOM) are headed by Christians. Some of the heads are even church clerics. A pastor is the chairman of Ogun State TESCOM while an evangelist heads the Ogun State commission. We believe this is a deliberate and strategic ploy to perpetuate Christian hegemony in the education sector in Yorubaland. This is the machinery of oppression and it has served in the repression of hijab-wearing female Muslim students and teachers. The perpetrators persecute Muslims with impunity since they are assured of official protection up to the office of the commissioner of education.
“We are nonplussed that Afenifere has never commented on the above maltreatment of Muslims that has lasted decades (since independence) in its domain but it revels in joining Ohaneze of the South East and the Middle Belt Forum in complaining about marginalisation, nepotism and Islamisation which they claim began six years ago.
He who comes to equity must come with clean hands. For now Yoruba Muslims see no difference between Afenifere and the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). In fact, the former looks more like the political wing of the latter in the South West. We are waiting earnestly to know which way the cat will jump as regards Afenifere and the Muslim 2023 presidential candidate.
http://muslimrightsmuric..com/2021/04/press-release-shariah-in-yorubaland.html?m=1

You have my sympathies

Slickest:
Eeyah!!! Its sad!!!

Some kinds of stupidity can only provoke laughter and you have become my favourite joke this morning
Don't give yourself appendicitis over an uncomfortable truth

Incognito403:
Shut up, you didn't witness anything in UI, you're a bloody liar!!!

If you did you would have reported to the school authority. At least it would have been a good opportunity to exercise your islamophobia.

Wait till you hear the professor's side of the story first before you condemn him. When I was at the university of Ibadan, I personally witnessed female muslim students using their Hijabs to smuggle prepared answers into exam halls. It's so obvious that there's more to this story than meets the eye.

Incognito403:
The way these lecturers turn themselves to tin gods within the campus environment is proof that literacy is something and education is something else.

I've taken courses at American, European and even Asian universities. The simplicity and humanity of their lecturers is equal to the arrogance of our lecturers.

Take professor David Malan of Havard for example, I have his number personally. I have many other lecturers as connection on LinkedIn. If you see the blogs and YouTube channels of those professors, you'll bow.

All these local professors that can't make a 10 minute YouTube video of their specialization will be forming gods on campus.

My mom has been disturbing me to do masters but God knows I'll never do masters in a Nigerian university (at least not a government university). I'd rather do an online masters when I'm able to afford it or get a scholarship.



That you are not able to counter his points intellectually but only resort to cursing shows you're the real "oloriburuku".

It was even further away from your ignorant, illiterate, child rapist POOphet from Mecca.

Slickest:
Sense is far from you I must say...

To me, you have over painted the issue, I won't blame the man until I hear his side of the story.

Simple matter you can report to your Muslim community on campus or a Muslim lecturer who can try to appeal or settle the matter amicably.

But apparently the only solution for Muslims is to report online and not only that but until you find way to rope Christians to your mess so it will look like religion war again.

The man you are talking about is also a Muslim, but you chose to hide this fact because lies and lying is an integral part of your faith.

It is for this reason that only a fool would jump to conclusions without first hearing from the lecturers side of the story.

The way you rushed to nairaland to report this man is just creates the impression that you are willing to use lies to start a religious war.

At first I thought it was hisbah that was organizing this event, only to discover that it is the Nigerian Police which is supposed to be a religiously neutral organisation.

In fact Section 10 of the Constitution explicitly stated:

The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as State Religion.

If this is how dumb these people are, then I think it is only fair that Police commands in predominantly Christian states should also use tax payers money to organise Bible Quiz and Choir practice for various Christian denominations.
If the followers of darkness are too dim to understand the meaning of being in a secular state where religion and government should be separated, then everyone must be allowed to violate the Constitution as well.

Allow Sango, Ogun, Yemoja and Amadioha worshippers to also use public funds to organise traditional religious retreats for their followers.

Yes, Pentecostals should love the people whose religion is using rape as a tool of conversion against innocent Christian girls like Leah Sharibu and the Chibok girls.

In any event, prove me wrong. Why was your "prophet" born 4 years after the death of his "father?"

Ibkhaleel01:
People like you inherit hate and stupidity i dont blame you!

You were cursed since childhood and must behave assuch


Islam sells in naira land.

Nigeria Christians are more Pentecostal. The more Pentecostal a nation is by population, the more hate spreads. The thriving wheel of Pentecostal churches are three:

1. Miracles
2. Gospel of hate
3. False cry of persecutions.



This is why it cannot end. The moderator knows he gets more attention in his thread and web when Islam is a cause for bashing.

You should have stayed with your first opinion that she's an ugly girl. It's obvious you are are more familiar with ugliness which is why it was the first thing that came out of your mouth.

BlackfireX:
Ugly girl


Oh sorry she fine o

The overwhelming majority of the best legal minds in this country are from the South.
Even your filthy Aboki politicians always patronise Southern lawyers when there's election petition and they're serious about winning it.

BlackfireX:
Mumumu charge and bail lawyers from the southern part of this country



We the youths stand with Malami


4+4+4

When he's jobless you can employ him.

vedaxcool:
9000 ethnic bigots and self styled morons