nairalanda1:


Yes, and back then that was 'expensive'

That milk cost N1 did not mean that oga husband and father could afford it...salaries were probably somewhere around N100-200, and then you still had to pay rent and stuff.

Plus until 1984, some food items, milk inclusive, were heavily subsidised. The subsidy was removed because thanks to the oil price collapse of 1982, we just did not have the money to keep milk down.

Kudos.
You really know Nigeria.
From way back it has always been stories of suffering in the country.

nairalanda1:
So, at the end of the day, the question being asked by fuel subsidy supporters is


WHY CAN'T THE GOVERNMENT STOP FUEL SMUGGLING.?

It is a good question, and one I agree with myself. The APC government, and precceding governments have failed in this regard. APC in particular was voted in on change mantra...and all they could do was close the borders (throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and it DID NOT WORK at all.

Well, the first reason why is that smugglers are not all 'Rich Hausa-Fulani dudes moving their tankers to Niger Republic' ...it is Nigerians of all tribes and regions, and Nigerians from rich to poor who do it. Stopping them would involve a full fledged war of the kind we cannot fight well or win.

(Or we find money and bulid the ulitmate border wall...and shoot anyone carrying jerrycans across the border...not going to work).


But the thing is, countries who subsidise , ALL have smuggling issues.

Below is part of a reply to someone on another thread...but I am putting it here, with some edits and additions.




See, another reason why we have to remove fuel subsidy. This is one case where we really do have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.


Bonus: Libya bombs fuel smugglers



DISCLAIMER

I do not support this APC government, or the one before it, or the PDP governments before it. Nigeria is a poor country, and I do not feel that, subsidy removal nothwistanding, this government has the gumption to make the hard decisions we need to become a stronger nation economically.

I also do not work for any oil company, or in anyone;'s propaganda department. My views on fuel subsidy have been formed over the last 12 years , ever since I got woken up in 2011 by GEJ's propaganda adverts on fuel subsidy and why it was useless.

Good.
But pls why did you say GEJ's adverts on subsidy was a 'propaganda' & useless?

kernniejay:

I have been hearing this since early 1990s. Anyway, may be that corner is 200 years away.

Me sef don dey hear that thing since time immemorial.

Enyimbamercedes:
Nincompoop

Dead excuse!

A president who couldn't afford nomination form had a foreign team of doctors?

This was the nonsense they used to deceive the gullible pseudo-intellects and empty coconut heads

.

This is a correct statement. Kudos

mailemy:
You can never compare a salary job to a real business, no matter what you think about. How many workers get to that MD,Ministers etc. Or even get to work in a government parastatals.

This is a very wise comment. God bless you.

OrinAgba:
I finished from Methodist Primary School 1

Same here, Class of July 1984.

Peterpanny:
na watin make una be the original slave people.spineless elements.

Go tell that to your coward governors in the East.

Na your Uzodinma & co be Chief traitors nau.

Your spineless governors came out to betray the entire Southern Nigeria Governors by declaring support for a United Nigeria in May 22, just a few days after a general agreement by all the South.

Rubbish thread.

Akaegwu:
Let them keep their products.
Their farmers will suffer huge loss.
They deliberately send their cow and herders here to kill our crops while they harvest their own and sale in our local markets and towns.
The south will shock them this farming season with sufficient products from our farms

I agree with your point 100%.

larryking540:


and do you think that's a good thing,, haven a wealth that is untraceable.... my guy ,I fit no sabi this bit coin o,but if bitcoin isn't Traceable then there is problem o

As you no sabi am so, is it not better for you to desist from condemning something you don't know anything about?

Foolishbuhari:


First about "China and India banned", they told you what you wanted to hear.

China never banned bitcoins, China banned mining activities in their country and ICOs. They never asked citizens not to touch it. China is a communist state and the idea of a decentralized means of earning didn’t really appeal to them but they didn't place a blanket ban.

Their policy then in 2017 affected trading companies who uses to churn out ICOs but that was only the reach. China didn’t say "don't use crypto currencies" and perhaps it will interest you to know Chinese are some of the top users and investors in crypto currencies. It's also one of the easiest places to purchase bitcoins.

About India, did you study the news or you read just the headlines? In summary, India is looking at making their own crypto currency which they would try to regulate to prevent criminality! India didn’t place a futile blanket ban on bitcoins!

For your last question about what I know that Emefiele doesn't, I know a whole lot Emefiele doesn't because I've played the crypto game with major companies and hedge funds in the world.

Emefiele is just a dumb man, privileged to be CBN governor. But for politics, is Emefiele the best we have to offer? Under him, we've seen our fortunes go down the drain rapidly! We've seen the CBN behave as an Annex to the executive when it should be a stand-alone supervisory and advisory body. We've seen double digit inflation. We've seen banks fleece people of their hard earned monies while he stood by and did nothing!

Due to his silly forex policies, we've seen foreign remittances drop drastically. Not that these monies are not coming into the country, but just like water, Nigerians have found other ways to stay afloat at the detriment of income which could be taxed. Emefiele doesn't know financial markets are fluid! The market isn't some horse you can whip into position! Someone has to tell Emefiele this isn't 1830 and the roles of the central bank has gone beyond issuing statements up and down and stifling innovation.

Tesla a fortune 500 company purchased bitcoins worth $1.5 billion just recently. It will please you to know they've been up in profits to the tune of about a billion dollars extra. If we were thinking critically, isn't that an asset we could rather jump on, to shore up our dwindling Foreign reserves and hedge against inflation threatening to cripple us?

What investments has Emefiele made for the country? In all honesty, WOULD YOU RATHER TAKE FINANCIAL ADVISE FROM EMEFIELE OR SOME LACKEY FROM THE CBN AGAINST ONE FROM THE FINANCIAL TEAM OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST COMPANIES ON PLANET EARTH?

May God bless you my brother. It is really laughable having to deal with so many dumb people who brandish their stupidity with this much boldness.
My dear, I repeat, God bless you so much. Amen.

MENELIIK:


Osu, you were trying to be clever by half until the osutic tendency in you gave you out. Get your fact right, Wakili or whatever you called your master has since run away, you should be more concerned about getting your #100k cattle tax you agreed with the Fulani not to kill you in Igbo land. Sunday Igoho is very much on ground the only audio war lord is your Nnamdiot Cownu who is commanding troops from the face book. Nobody solicits for your opinion on Yoruba matters and the crisis will not help you achieve your imaginary Biafrud neither will it get you presidency.

Classy.

StaffofOrayan:
It's an African thing that can be linked to poverty of the mind.
We do videos showing wads of cash
We show our watches, diamond chains, phones, and other senseless things that we don't produce.
In the west these phones are bought on contract and most people pay less than $50 monthly to own.
It's the same reason Africans take pictures with Gucci and Versace and are envied by other shallow fellows.
That's why white artists never oppress themselves musically, that's reserved for blacks

Wise words.

Chukwurah003:


I don’t blame you. Your plans of installing a crook as President failed and you’re pained. Enjoy the pain.

I like the part 'Enjoy the pain'. Chukwurah Ebube dike pls borrow a broda that phrase, it would be a good dose for some Igbos on the forum.

Honor10:


I am not praying for it, it is what will happen. U people are conquered 5laves of Nigeria. We will never let u go and we won't let u rule. U will serve every other tribes until the nation break. Ntor

Honor, I was just going thru some threads. I absolutely love this post.

Nigeria, God please have mercy and console his people.

Noel1:
Soro lo ro pe o so sile yii abi isokuso. Kai, eranko ni o o. Haha

Yeee, e gba mi o. LMHO!

Hotfreezers:
Inec Lawyer - Yunus Usman
Apc Lawyer - Lateef Fagbemi
Buhari's Lawyer - Wole Olanipekun

Atiku's lawyer - Livinus Uzoukwu

By the time this case is over, he would realise why Ikpeazu sacked his entire team of Igbo lawyers and replaced them with Yorubas. E remain small, Ogah for comot am.

This same Olanipekun saved Ikpeazu from getting kicked out due to his fraudulent and incompetent lawyers before the Court of Appeal in Enugu gave judgment.

Intelligent post from an intelligent man. Kudos.

Printerscanner:
Is there a similarity between Tonto Dikeh's madness and Aunty Kemi Olunloyo's craziness? I think they both need spiritual help.

I think, I can help them make sacrifice to the gods. One white Mercedes G-Wagon 2019, One white mansion in Banana Island, Seven white duplexes in Seven Capitals in Europe, Seven white fat female Elephants, Seven white fat Donkeys, Seven white females hens, Seven white African goats(e.g. eran Iya Oshogbo), Seven lorries of white French wines and $7m. I will buy from my own pockets and add the remaining things as my own contribution.

The sacrifice is to be taken to the exact spot where Uriah the husband of Bathsheba was killed when David sent him to war front.

It is fun, yet educative reading your posts. A cold can of G. Stout for you, my guy.

Okoyeeboz:


Story.

Stealer Oduah opened an international airport for you in the SE. What are you guys still doing in Murtala Muhammed Airport?

@ Stealer, Stella . LWKM.

MetaPhysical:


Fulani herdsmen in SW always carry arms. How many has had himself to blame? None...never! Not even the ones known to kill.

There are three wars in NW.

1. Fulanis herd livestocks but Hausa farms. There has been widespread herdsmen/farmers clash up in NW long before it even recenty became an issue in Middlebelt or South. Fulanis are expected to pay communities when farms are destroyed but they quit doing that. Farmers in turn started exacting recompence by forcefully taking cows from herds. This is how cow rustling started.

2. The dispute remained unresolved for a long time and cow rustling became a widespread problem even in unjustified cases. People started stealing cows for the least grievance against fulani. It led to physical assaults between Hausa and Fulani attacking each others villages to vent anger. Now the Tuaregs in Niger and Libya who lived on ambushes and kidnaps in the desert were attracted to Nigeria because of human trafficking. Their modus operandi is assault attacks with high grade weapons. Some of them were mercenaries on many conflict fronts in Libya, Tunisia, Mali...and so on. They would raid villages in North North ( ....my SS brothers go like this one ) and kidnap their young girls into prostitution and cartels shipped off to North Africa for forced marriage or profit. This human trafficking route became popular and our people in South saw it as a way for quick entry into Europe and began falling for scams that recruited them into same syndicates penetrating from Zinder to raid villages in NN.

Can you see how these atrocities are all inter-linked?

The marauding Tuaregs introduced ak47 to Fulani. Fulani started acting the ways of the Tuaregs and some even abandoned herding and went into raids, robbery and kidnaps. It is very rewarding and no penalty. No one messes with you but you can mess with everybody and anybody....including police and army!

3. Zinder people are ethnic Hausas, same with Agades, both are in Niger Republic. They speak Hausa in these places. So the farmer/herdsmen problem in North has escalated into inter-ethnic war between Hausa and Fulani. They have done a very good job of keeping it concealed because its a flashpoint and vulnerability that could be exploited to call for uprising and topple Emirates. So this is why FG and Nothern Emirs are soft towards ak47 fulani herdsmen because in a way they have become an army of protection that can put any Hausa revolt down if it should come to that.

So the solution proffered by NW Govs is a package.

1. Amnesty - absorbing bandits into vigilante and community policing. In other words, putting them in employment and on national payroll.

2. Gun control - if any region in South begins a reprisal killing against fulani herdsmen FG will not have the morality or legal standing to declare State of Emergency and send in troops because there is a precedence in NN where a similar declaration is past due. So to preempt such needs the Governors were directed to remove all prevalent conditions that will qualify for troops deployment in NW. Their intervention with gun control is aimed at that. The message is just for consumption, it is not meant to be realized. Ok?

3. Vigilante proscription. Hausa vigilante group is the one in war with fulani bandits. They are not under authority of the govt. Govt wants a vigilante group it can control. So why not just absorb them into the new community policing they plan on starting? . Its a trick! Macban has its own vigilante. Macban vigilante will be on payroll but the Hausa vigilante will be proscribed and outlawed.


So my brother there is nothing going on in NN that mybhumble self is unaware of. Dont let my kidding around on this forum fool ya!

Oro die lan'so fun Omoluabi, t'oba de inu a di odindi!

Yoruba Govs should wake up. Thats why I want them to show BIG BALLS to the public. We are not interested in their fvkng security analysis.

Thank you. A very insightful analysis. Kudos.

T9ksy:






Be very careful what you wish for 'cause you might just get it!!!


When this war you all are ignorantly and myopically wishing for does happens, how the hell do you think you and your kinsmen are gonne fare in those in those waring regions?

For starters, ibos would be persona- no- grata in those regions.

Alo all your myriad phantom wealth in those regions will go up in smokeand you lot will have no choice than to carry whatever you can salvage ( a definite enactment of the prelude to the Biafran/civil/oil war) back to your improverished homeland- the same one you miserable souls ran away from to seek a better Social evonomic status (which is obviously unobtainable in your hamlets) among those you just love to hate.

Bottomline is, if the Yorubas and the North does go to war, you folks will be the greater losers but i reckon the bile you lot were infested with by your slimy elders wouldn't allow you to see the bigger picture.

Kontinue............

Thank you my brother, they are quick to forget that their nomadic lifestyle and sojourn in other peoples lands has made them become the proverbial 'grass that must always suffer' whenever elephants clash.

Guestlander:


Remember the Black Scorpion, they are super made for that stuff. Remember Victor Banjo, though a Yoruba but led the Biafran army, they are made for that stuff. If they weren't you wouldn't be licking your wounds 50 years after the event.
Be careful what you wish for. Wars are not fought with mouth and chest beating. We have seen that before when Ojukwu said he had the largest army in Africa. He ended up eating akpu and ofe nsala under Houphouet boigny's bed.

The fellow you are talking to is a semi-illiterate who was just lucky to have a few MB of data given him.

PaschalPM:
All I know is that Buhari is more educated than Atiku. Who wants to argue with me this morning?

100% Correct. No controversy, my Lord.

Good you were able to outline the Eight things las las. Thank you.

ORIENTATION101:
brain Dead Biafran rat you can as well tell us when fulani-yorubas in Ilorin fought war ?
Kwara state is yoruba land. Emirates rulership has nothing to do with Fulani. It is a Islamic word for monarch, Ilorin is a religious city if they choose to adopt Emir it has nothing to do with any phantom war that exist the in head of you Biafran scums

Thank you my brother.

We need to educate many of the brethren from the East. Ilorin was an outpost town under the Oyo Empire. And when religion came, most folks got converted to Islam. The paganistic practise of human sacrifices, coupled with superstitions, taboos and other practices imposed on people through idolatory made Ilorin people embrace Islam.
Similar to what made a lot of families adopt xtianity which came even after Islam in Yoruba land. Just as in South South as narrated by Asari Dokubo in one of his videos.

Ilorin is a religious Yoruba town and they don't pay tribute to any King, not even to the Sultan of Sokoto nor the Alaafin of Oyo after their decision to revolt.
They are today eulogised as "omo ilu Ilorin, ilu to sun mo Aljanaat, to jinna s'Apaadi."

Please, let folks go for research and find out all these background events and histories.
Thank you for your truthful observation.

7lives:


The guy would have become Are ona kakanfo, he bluntly rejected the offer, he was one of the powers who forced IBB to step aside.
Having used firifiri to beat the security at Aso Rock, he went into IBB's bedroom to warn him, that " what IBB is doing " is not what the Nigerian Army fought for.
IBB had to change all the security at Aso Rock, the news had it that, some we're even killed.
He continues to torment IBB so much that, the NEWSWATCH magazine and the NEWS magazine described the fiasco, as IBB'S STRANGE VISITORS.
Okunrin meta, Ekun oko oke, may the Lord rest his soul.

Kudos my guy, 7lives for Life!

kettykin:
Reno Omkri was born after the civil war , please no one should take his story on the civil war beyond social media

Yes, in the same way we were all born after 1914, nobody should believe Nigeria was amalgamated.

And Lord Lugard was a fictional character. Clap for yourself.

Mraphel:
They should get it from Atiefku or inec server.
Is rude, arrogant and shameful to dictate to the president Buhari this way

"What happened to Igbos are not interested in Nigerian politics, we are only after our businesses "?

Yorubas did not threatened to leave the country the time they lost the election. Why always IGBOS.
When Yoruba demanded positions from Goodluck Jonathan that they voted in high numbers for, my people insulted that hell out of them. Dullnathan supported them by giving the Yorubas nothing but expecting vote from their region.

Did you know it was when my people supported Goodluck Ebele Jonathan he became a pure badluck looser?

Jonathan marginalized the people of the South West that gave him the highest votes in the Southern part. My Igbo amateur political orators hailed his gestures. This led to his downfall.

GOD bless you, Mraphel. You are a detribalized son of the East. God reward your objectivity and bless all that is connected to you. Amen.

Harlem2:
Still wondering why super rich or rich Yoruba don't build or buy properties in other part of the country.

Well, as a man of many parts, I can answer you in my own little way.


• Yorubaland is a land where there is already the advantage of diverse cultures doing diverse businesses.

• It was at initially viewed as a disadvantage, but today it has come to be an advantage. (A typical Yoruba man in the 1940s to the late '60s would believe there were too many strangers in their lands, but today the diversity has given rise to many economic opportunities).

• Decently large land mass.

• There are few regions as advantaged (thriving industrial places, the most thriving Seaport and Airports) and hospitable (large pool of skilled and semi-skilled labour) as SW in Nigeria today.

• Good weather.

• Relative peace and security

• Advantage of having the commercial capital of Nigeria (Lagos) close to their region.

• From these indices you can understand the reasons.

• Be free to develop other points from these.

Princedapace:


The most intelligent response i got so far. Weldone.

I hope others from other regions can add their voices some day. Because the real enemies of Nigeria are the political class.

My brother, your views are mature and intelligent.