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Where is petrol selling at N1k?

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Be consistent with your taxation program

PheelzAlmighty:
How much are you paid again

Did anyone send you to be labouring in vain?

chidiokay:
Do you know its never too late to do the right thing ... propaganda no be life

You are still nagging

malali:
Stop comparing looting to USA-style social infrastructure. Let’s be clear:

1. In the USA, unemployment benefits exist for those actively looking for work but unable to find a job.
2. Citizens who cannot afford housing have Section 8 and other public accommodation support.
3. People who become disabled and cannot work receive disability benefits.
4. Social Security ensures that anyone who has worked until ~62 receives a basic income, regardless of private pensions.
5. Every child gets free schooling up to high school graduation.
6. Underserved children have access to healthcare if their parents cannot afford it.
7. Children from low-income families receive food vouchers to ensure they are fed.

Now look at Nigeria. We have mountains of debt, but what is it financing? Which of these fundamental social supports does Tinubu’s administration provide with all the money borrowed?

Debt in Nigeria is not building social safety nets, infrastructure for human capital, or sustainable welfare. Instead, it seems to prop up a bloated government, subsidies that barely reach the intended people, and a political class focused on optics rather than outcomes.

The question is blunt: why borrow so heavily when none of the systems that make a society humane, productive, and resilient are in place?

Debt without social investment is not development; it’s a trap, and we are all paying for it.

And how many millions of homeless people do they have in USA? Can you compare that with Nigeria

kunle4toyeyaho:
It makes the protest have national outlook instead of regional affair

Nothing regional about the protest as it only happened in Abuja. Regional would have made the protest across the Nigeria regions

duro4chang:
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. However, it exposed some so called activists. It exposed some unintelligent lawyers like the one who was bundled into kuje prison. He has kept quiet now.

Bro, imagine Kanu's lawyer joining the protest. What was he thinking? He's not even allowed to discuss the issue on any media not to talk of joining the protest , a case you are representing, still in court

All the best. I no dey envy you

Willy2025:
Nothing because Kanu is still facing his trials. I honestly believe that Sowore only capitalised on the emotional sentiments of folks from the East to catch a cruise and gain some political and economic leverage. He will use the situation to negotiate with his sponsors

Lol. The protest was a success to Sowore as new grants was approved for him. He only used others to make the crowd

chidiokay:
Becos you know Men like Tinubu take things by FORCE

I can think of reason to re elect Tinubu, and i keep wondering what will APC use n campaign he did
1. Tinubu policy brought air peace fare down,

is it security or stable power supply ... what will he say he did for Nigerians to deserve re election

It's too early to be nagging

Privatize those refineries to the serious foreign investors. As long as it's been managed by FG, we might no see the progress on time as there are too many saboteurs most especially the oil marketers

I am just wondering what the protest exercise on Oct 20 achieved after the protest. Has Kanu been released, his case sped up?

All the best to them in the implementation

Make Dem dey play. Adeleke is romancing with the presidency, Oyetola might not be in the ballot

And weaken the naira bah. Thanks but no thanks

Somalia carry money around with wheel barrow

Madam, you can lie oo. Easy now

Just wondering if our taxation is more higher than this, it means less will be left for the workers after taxation

ElSudani:
And the person he believes can bring this change is Obi. The same Obi he asked about three times on TV what he intended to do differently from Tinubu and he couldn't answer.
He only gave a vague answer about doing things "systematically"
Rufai is just a hack masquerading as a journalist.

Rufai knew himself that Peter Obi has nothing to offer but he's only after promoting Peter Obi in exchange for appointments.

You have no idea about how many people like Rufai that was dreaming of becoming a minister or hold political position had Peter Obi won in the last election. Even the owner of this forum had some kind of appointments expectations in the last election .

Rufai, Seun, Falz, Macaroni all thought they would be appointed

malali:
Yet even though the federal government now has more fiscal space by not paying subsidies, what we are seeing is more borrowing, not less. That contradiction strikes at the core: the problem was not simply the subsidy. The problem is how government spends and borrows.

Why is it that, despite freeing up money from subsidies, the government still keeps filling the debt pot? Why are we still seeing large borrowings while promises of jobs, agricultural revolutions and domestic manufacturing remain un-fulfilled?

Meanwhile:
• We are not seeing meaningful growth in Nigerian manufacturing, despite having vast arable land and young labour.
• Oil prices are stuck in the US$50s per barrel, so there is no windfall there to magically solve everything.
• The only thing holding up the economy’s illusion of stability is borrowing and currency/FX buffers, not a fundamentally transformed production base.

What this suggests is that the real challenge is governance: institutional discipline, transparent spending, reducing bloat in government, and avoiding the trap of turning reform optics into mere slogans. If you fill one hole (subsidy) but dig another (uncontrolled borrowing + bloated expenditure), you haven’t moved forward, you’ve just redirected the problem.

The many ministers, convoys, bureaucratic overheads, the creeping idea of “political dynasty” or “monarchy by another name” (i.e., Tinubu-and-sons or wike-and-sons), all this adds to the sense that the architecture of public service is drifting back into degeneracy. It’s worse than a simple budget item: it’s a governance culture issue.

The promise of 2027 elections should not become the excuse for not doing the work now. The real test is: what has ordinary Nigerians’ lives improved by, three years in? Are more people employed? Are we producing ourselves instead of importing rice? Are anti-corruption cases visible and credible?

Reform is not simply removing an unsustainable subsidy. Reform is pairing that with fiscal discipline, institutional reform, production-led growth, and transparent governance. Until then, savings from subsidy removal will keep leaking away into borrowing and inefficiency, and the recovery will remain more illusion than reality.

Perhaps, after getting your salary at work or make money from your business, you always squandered everything without having any reserve

Wondering why US is having trillion dollars debt

Modified: See so many American citizens on this thread. Chai, may bitterness about one's country not be our portion in life. Amen

She tried. More success dear

Your spermatozoa is likely to be watery now

The more sex you have, the more you are weaken your own self as those cells released as sperm have their own roles to play in your strength and physicality

The guy above me is ingrained with bitterness. There are lots of them on this forum who never display any form of joy for years.

One can't express himself without them trying to shut you down. Anyways, the few of them that are still able to see my comments na privilege, the blocking button is magical

The real business men and women not the noise makers like some people

I have been trying to crack my head on what could have inspired those who are planning the coup and the only thought is about ongoing saboteur investigation within our security operatives. Both Service and retired officers have been milking from the insecurity

Probably the investigation was leaked and the culprits got to know about their end, hence planning a coup

Arms dealing in Nigeria is mostly South South business men work, so linking the coup back to Bayelsa state is not surprising

sleek214:
Says someone that doesn't have money in any bank

My account Manager, long time oo

whatmoreng:
Picture of helicopters this night? You are unbelievable

Perhaps you are using Nokia 3310

Pinshures or na as usual joke

President Tinubu's reelection is unstoppable

What a man can do, a woman could do better

She took advantage of the late president, the drummer man and decided to turn the country into her personal affairs