₦airaland Forum

lexy2014:
What has the population of Nigeria got to do with how wealth from oil is shared?.

How will manufacturing and agriculture propel you that oil couldn't?

How oil is Japan, Germany or Switzerland?

What is Nigerias most valuable resource?

Which of the countries you mentioned is dependent on oil or any single commodity?
Which of the countries you mentioned is 200 million in population?
Which oil producing country is richer than China that is not an oil exporting country?
Which country is over 100 million in population that has only one community as its main source of income?

AngelicBeing:
Population is not the issue, China, India , USA are more populated than Nigeria and their citizens are living far better than Nigerians

What is your point? Which of the countries you mentioned is relying on one commodity?

AngelicBeing:
So sad to see that Nigeria has crude oil and yet it has become a curse on the country, due to different levels and layers of official corruption in almost all the different sectors of the economy, abi no be the same oil wey dey Nigeria dey for the GCC countries, l have visited Dubai More than Ones and l see what oil has done for both the country called UAE and their citizens, The same thing Applies to Saudi Arabia, Qatar,Oman, Bahrain but in Nigeria the reverse is the case

There are 200 million Nigerians, oil is not going to do for Nigeria what it did for smaller populated countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE.
Manufacturing and Agriculture can propel us even further than those countries.

Bobloco:
So stop making excuses for Tinubu. Tinubu is clueless and incompetent. His calamitous economic policies is responsible for putting this country in this mess.

Nigeria was already in a mess before he came in. Several months before he became president you were using naira to buy naira.

Bobloco:
What about the new aircraft, the new all-black Armored Cadillac Escalade SUV, the Aso Rock Villa Hospital, while the president keeps junketing different hospitals in the UK and France, including other extravagant lifestyles and unnecessary spendings? You don't want to talk about these ones because it doesn't support your narrative of the lie about the kind of economy Tinubu inherited.

At the bold, which court exonerated him?

The president of Nigeria should be going around in Keke Napep? What are the other extravagant lifestyles?
Running a country is a serious business and there are legitimate reasons for some of these things and they are not the personal properties of the president.

Where were you when Stella Oduah bought very expensive BMWs for her ministry, despite all the noise about it what came out it? And that was a good example of wasting the government money.

You have too much time on your hands.

Bobloco:
But a country can become worse off under seventeen months. 
And what did they inherit? They told us lies, falsehood, and propaganda that they inherited a dead economy, but they bought a new aircraft, bought a new all-black Armored Cadillac Escalade SUV, discarding the Mercedes-Benz Maybach S class Buhari used, a yacht, and spent billions and trillions of naira in endless renovations of VP residents and Aso Rock Villa Hospital, living extravagant lifestyles. I am asking you, bro, can a dead economy afford all these?
 
Regarding what you described as my usual nonsensical rhetoric about drug dealing and certificate forgery in my previous post,

They have a very significant role to play in the life of this nation. For the first time in the history of this country, Nigeria has lost its soul and moral compass simply because the individual who is today the president is an individual of despicable character. A man with no integrity. A notorious narcotics drug trafficker and a renowned certificate forger buccaneering power grabber engaging in criminal state capture. And you don't expect such an individual to suddenly become a messiah that will propel the growth and development of this country. It doesn't happen anywhere. No one has ever grabbed and snatched power in criminal state capture and used it for the good of the people.

We are talking of a country here not your village cooperative. You've mixed up some truths with falsehood to advance your argument.
Nobody bought any yacht anywhere, the VP residence was an abandoned project which was rightly completed by the administration.
You are free to continue your debunked lies about this president, I guess it comes with the territory. But your allegations are obviously false because he was exonerated on every count in different courts of law both home and abroad.
Facts are facts and no matter how much you try to distort it, the truth will always prevail.

Conspiracy theorists at work. One thing though, you will not see long queues for non available fuel again.

Nobody expects you to be jubilant over anything. That will be out of character for you since you never jubilate over anything, especially good news.

Bobloco:
Can you tell me why subsidy was removed and why naira was floated? Because seventeen months later, there are no positives, but rather so many negatives. In fact, up until this moment, Nigerians don't know how much has been saved from subsidy removal or what was saved where it's channeled. Please don't tell me the usual rhetoric about FAAC increasing and rice being shared.

No country is ever turned around and developed in seventeen months given what this administration inherited.
Your initial post was not interested in why of anything just the usual snide remarks born out of hate.

Quite unnecessary.

Yourprick:
What's now the essence of the refinery of we're still buying fuel at above 300

Why don't you just ask NNPC to give it to you free of charge?

Bobloco:
I wasn't discussing about who made the refinery a reality, and I believe Nigerians are not interested in who made it a reality. What is good about making a refinery a reality when the price of petrol from it is so expensive and unaffordable to Nigerians just as other prices of goods and services have skyrocketed owing to the calamitous economic policies of the Tinubu regime?

Let us pretend you have no idea about the reasons why subsidy was removed and why the naira was floated.
What light did you bring into the discussion by delving into your usual nonsensical rhetorics about drug dealing and certificate forgery?

Bobloco:
The long-awaited petrol from Dangote refinery is here. But curiously and expectedly, Nigerians are not excited. Not because they don't appreciate this great feat by Dangote and the potentials of this investment on the socioeconomic prosperity of this nation, but because the pump price of petrol will still be high and unaffordable owing to the fact that the current dubious Tinubu regime is set up to improverish the people.

If Dangote petrol had hit the markets under the Buhari regime, I don't think the pump price of petrol will be above #200 a liter any where in Nigeria.

Under this calamitous dubious regime headed by a certain notorious narcotics drug trafficker, certificate forger, buccaneering power grabber, in collaboration with NNPCL, they are still telling Nigerians that they are still going to pay subsidies, price differentials, landing costs, shipping costs, foreign exchange differentials, etc. on petrol, whereas we were told by them that crude oil dealings between NNPCL and Dangote refinery will be in Naira. No one in this regime tells the truth. They tell lies, falsehoods, and propaganda every single day.

Tinubu played a part in making this refinery a reality, Dangote himself said so. The rest of your garbage analysis is born out of blind hate and parochialism.

ReubenE:
Trump the Nigerians darling. That man talks and behaves like a child and to imagine most Nigerians support him cause of God factor they believe he represents.
No wonder we mostly make poor choices in governance here, easily swayed by stupid things, only go out and pick the loudest noise add our voices to it to make it louder as the truth...leaving no room for basic thinking.

A former president and a candidate that is so publicly racist, divisive, uncouth and lie with every breath.
Almost all the people close to him are publicly racist with no decorum. Imagine one recently saying the Whitehouse will start smelling like curry if the Indian Kamala is elected.
Trump can practically call black people apes and some Nigerians will still applaud him that he doesn't pretend, he says things the way it is and he represents God so they like him.

MAGA is just a rallying point for all the scums of the earth with nothing to do with making America great again. It is a tree of division, hatred etc that every bad person over there identify with and Trump is the root.

No most Nigerians my friend.

Ogbuu101:
Monsurudeen,the case was decided in December 2013 and the man has been free since January 2024 plus d case was done pro bono by the US lawyer.
Why is your fellow bigot trying to insert herself in d conversation now if not that she wants to chase clout after the backlash from the Canadian woman issue?

You became dyslexic when you got to the part where the lawyer sought the Cooperation of Abike Dabiri. Your tribalistic eyes only see the pro bono part.
Bunch of ungrateful people.

MadPolitician:
All of a sudden, people are acting like they don't know this man again. Dangote himself is a major part of your problems in Nigeria. He has alway overpriced his products. Consistently over the years. Did you read the CIA report where they described him as they guy that basically skins his people to make money? The only good thing about Dangote is that he invests his loot massively in Nigeria. Otherwise, the guys business module will ultimately pauperise Nigerians. And he doesn't care.

Mention one area of business where he dominates that is witnessing reasonable pricing. Cement? Is there anything the government can do to make him reduce the price of Cement that has not been done but the guy still sticks to his guns? Dangote does not care about you all. Dude is a runaway capitalist. He's part of the problem and not part of the solution. Solution to Nigerias energy/petrol mess, lies elsewhere. Dangotes ambition is to beat Elon Musk as the worlds richest man, not to help Nigerians.

Build your own factories and sell your own products cheaper. That is how it is done.

Zonefree:

As simple as ABC.

Dangote is yet to tell us the colour of his problem.

Dangote should open gas stations all over Nigeria? The oga analyst is not more or less a Nigerian than Dangote, perhaps he should build his own refinery as well and also build the gas stations all over Nigeria to sell his products.
Some experts.

jmoore:
Your likes belong to stone age.

I wonder how you will train your daughters.

Pathetic!

History won't remember people with mentality like you.

He wasn't born when Margaret Thatcher was the prime minister of Great Britain.
Coupled with the fact that they don't read, what you have left are a bunch of ignorant semi literate sheeples who are easily manipulated.

Chidex369:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDow2RU_fho?si=3AT-E-fkD8u2W-a5

She won according to CNN

Not only CNN. She destroyed him and made him rant about nonsense all through.

flokii:
How do you know he is not a Lagos indigene?.. you an outsider want to decide for someone in his own State. You can see how despicable you are.
This group of saboteurs working for the Igbos should know that Yorubas are one and united. The interests of Lagos indigenes are better protected under Yorubas than under any other ethnic group, not Fulanis nor Igbos.

Yorubas should be at alert to this new tactics of divide and conquer the Igbos have resorted to all in their quest to annex Lagos.

We have seen it before, it will end in more pain for the enemies of the Yoruba people.

IGBOPROMISE1:
Quit looking for 'excuses' and 'reasons' to justify the wrong choices you've made out of short-sightedness and greed! Ironsi was a military head of state, and the unification decree was to unify the military administrations of the regions under one central command based in Dodan Barracks! The decree DID NOT tamper with the resource control of the regions, or the sharing formula which at the time was 50/50 between the centre and the regions....neither did it tamper with the number of regions which still remained FOUR until Ironsi was murdered! It was Gowon and his northern hegemonic masters, together with their Yoruba ally in the person of Awo, that effected all the changes that took away fiscal federalism from the regions and created more states!

Since the Yoruba were helping to support and prop up the federal military gov't of Gowon, what stopped you from reversing the 'tragedy' you blame Ironsi for? What stopped the Yoruba, led by Awo, from insisting that either the structure of the country reverted back to pre-coup/pre-tragedy settings or the Western Region would withdraw their support for the Northern/Gowon federal gov't?

"Ironsi was a military head of state, and the unification decree was to unify the military administrations of the regions under one central command based in Dodan Barracks!"

With all due respect this is one of the dumbest interpret of the decree 34 of 1966 I've ever heard.

Notfogotten:
This is a plea to my dear Igbo brothers and sisters. As another protest is being planned, please do not join them.

I repeat, please do not join any protest. It is a ploy against you.

Thank you for heeding my advice last time.

A people God has blessed, no man ca curse.

How do you define cowardice again?

OTANJELE1:
you thought you made sense? How many people know or watch NTA? Even ordinary privately owned AriseTV, ChannelTV are more popular than that shame of a state-owned TV, if this projects listed above are not white elephant project like you're trying to dispute, can you upload the pictures of these stadiums now let's see how standard or even viable it is compare to other mega national stadium

Kid, there was a time when WNTV was the only TV in the whole of Sub-Saharan Africa. There was a time when WNTV was the only TV station in the whole of Nigeria, it was so successful Nigeria had to nationalize it. If this is what a prof would refer to as a white elephant project then I'm a afraid that term is more appropriate for the useless certificate the so called prof is holding.
The biggest tragedy to befall the SW was Ironsi's unification decree. That is the only reason we are having this useless debate.

presido11:
Point anything in that article that is not true. Let us discuss it.

I just pointed out one regarding the NTA. There are more in terms of education, Chike Obi, Azikiwe, Mbadiwe, Chinua Achebe and almost all note worthy Ibo intellectuals had their education in the SW. So much for being ahead in education.
Ahead ko, a header ni.

"So it is often claimed Awo built the first television station; the first sky scraper, and the first Sports stadium, the liberty stadium in Ibadan. Well, these are prestige or white elephant investments."

And you called the writer of this nonsense a prof.?

If Western Nigeria Television was a white elephant project how come Nigeria had to take it over and turned it to Nigeria Televisions Authority (NTA?
There was never a time in history that Yorubaland was not ahead of Iboland in development.
It is foolish to try and rewrite a history that is not even a hundred years old.

Zionmdde:
All these gibberish analysis are from your own bigoted angle abi? If I ask you the history of riot killings and tribal killings now you will go mute. If I ask you about kaduna, Jos killings you will go mute. If I ask you why the northerners initially supported boko haram you will go mute

Anyway am not here for all that trash. All am saying is simple, you see you guys who champion bigotry today are wasted sperms. I don't care who started it or not. Bigotry is a product of uselessness and empty brains that will be better stuffed with cotton wool

The guy you quoted is telling the absolute truth.

Zionmdde:
Am cursing bigots
If you are one then you are welcome. You deserve it.

I never thought I would see the day on nairaland when I would see an Ibo poster who is against bigotry. Keep it up. Perhaps there's hope still.

Zionmdde:
Lol
So tribal bigots are wise now according to you?

[b] See the foolishness am talking about.[/b ] Whether present or past all bigots are wasted sperms

I know your type, I've been on this website long enough.
You've started baiting me with insults hoping I will respond so we can start cursing each other. That is beneath me kid.
By their words you shall know them.

Zionmdde:
Lol, you were here but you can't point to a thread where you think it all started.

Anybody present or past promoting tribal bigotry is a fool whose father could have been better off channeling the sperm into the toilet. At least it would have been better as a manure in the long run.

This would have been very useful 10 years ago. Rather, the Ibos who didn't participate encouraged those who did by cheering them on.