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The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene and do everything possible to prevent petrol price from going up further and out of hand.

Mr Adeolu Ogunbanjo, National Deputy President of NAPTAN, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the appeal was coming following an emergency meeting of the association on Monday in Lagos.

Recall that Tinubu, had in his broadcast to the nation in July, said the government was monitoring the effects of the exchange rate and inflation on gasoline prices, promising to intervene if and when necessary.

Oil marketers on Monday projected an imminent price increase due to naira depreciation, against the dollar.

According to the marketers, as long as the dollar keeps rising against the naira in the foreign exchange market, the price of fuel in the country will continue to increase.

However, Ogunbanjo has now called on the president to give a concession rate on the dollar to petroleum importers.

According to him, this will create an enabling environment whereby the current price of fuel in the country will remain the same.

“The removal of the petroleum subsidy we agree, align with it. However, unifying the naira at the same time is what is causing the hardship because anytime the dollar rises, fuel imports rise.

“It is upon this development that we are pleading and seeking for the intervention of our dear president to consider a concessionary rate for fuel importers.

“About 60 per cent are parents; September is around the corner, where school fees will be paid, so the Nigerian parents are crying, begging and kneeling for Mr President to hear us.

“He should do everything possible to stabilise the fuel price and make the current pump price not higher than what we are buying now, as anything contrary will increase hardship,” he added.

OyeofIkoTuN:
All politicians are thieves...

Ndi ala

The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo state has said that few months of President Bola Tinubu’s administration has brought untold hardship on Nigerians.

The party alleged that Nigerians who voted for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu are already regretting their decision.

The opposition party was reacting to comments credited to the All Progressive Congress (APC) state chairman, Ade Adetimehin, who said that the PDP had gone into extinction.

In a swift reaction, the PDP dismissed APC state chairman’s remarks.

The PDP’s statement reads: “Adetimehin is probably the only person who is oblivious of the fact that, Ondo state people hold his party, APC and its inhuman government responsible for their suffering and agony of the last eight years.

“He does not realise that even those who were tricked to vote APC in the 2023 general elections are already regretting and lamenting their miscalculation that has brought about untold hardship on them and their families.

“Such a man, if he has any sense of shame and responsibility should have been on his knees begging the people for the huge misfortune masterminded by his party.”

AskNgige2:
If he does, may you never see peace in your lineage

TimiofEde:
Thank you sir but someone has to speak truth to power and call out the hypocrisy of my yoruba moslem brothers.

How can we be obsessed with the great Igbos 24/7 while our fulani masters takeover our lands without even the decency to allow us sight the moon or lead prayers in the mosque even if it has to be a charade, it's really painful what we the yoruba moslems are passing through and I suggest we run to the great Igbos to save us and restore our battered dignity for a change.

TimiofEde:
Lol😆 but Benin/Dahomey female warriors conquered and slaughtered us like swines, I'm not sure we have any balls left to challenge Benin, all we have to do is obey them so they don't send us back to our fulani overlords to deal with us. I'm really pained about the situation we the yoruba moslems have found ourselves in Nigeria, it's seems there's no end in sight to this perpetual servitude to our fulani masters, it keeps me up at night and I've been strategizing on how to change the narrative, maybe I'll become the first yoruba moslem sultan but I'm afraid my coward yoruba moslem brothers will betray and sell me out to the fulanis because backstabbing is our stock in trade.

yarimo:
The other ones too are relaxing

OneCandleAway:
That's what they did to Jonathan especially during the chibok kidnapping. They kept hiding useful information from him. If it was in the days of newspaper and radio I could excise the leaders not knowing what's going on in their state or country. This Internet age I cannot. At least nowadays you can easily come online to feel the pulse of the nation. That's why we needed a president who sees the masses as his structure not the elites or higher ups.

samunaka:
Look at you, it is now that he has become a religious bigot, before the election when the Aso Rock cabal were messing around with Tinubu he was the only man who has the guts to stand up for Tinubu even at the expense of his personal relationship with Buhari, let me tell you unequivocally that El Rufai present travails is orchestrated by his Muslim brothers in the North, because he refused the presidency to remain in the North

AnonPoet:
5

Mossadd:
rubbish as usual smh,president does not need Senate/Nigerians approval before sending their sons to die in another country because Nigeria soldiers are tinubu private property,you go just dey cap nonsense if you don't know what to say you better face your banning job and leave talk for people that get sense

... a government that allegedly lacks legitimacy, “having forced itself into power in a similar way the putschist did in the Niger Republic, cannot be arrogating itself the honour to lead a puritan force against a sovereign nation.''

donbachi:
E no go still end well

24SEVEN:
My siblings are all in the UK. Anyone who wants to go to UK through me should DM.

Imnaknus:
That's the Visa Application Centre in Ikeja, not the UK embassy. And yes, the crowd isn't unusual.

Dawn91:
This statement goes both ways . I remember then how you were spamming th forum for tinubu because he is your brother using your former account and how you uus called all of u standing or Obi iboz .

You tribe took this election to a whole new low. I got insulted so badly and my sTate (Edo state) abused so badly all because we chose o be obidient .

The yoruba druggie supporters turned this country into a divided hatefillwd place and the ironic thing is you guys are always the first to accuse others .

There is no name I haven't been called. Once you don't follow th yorub logic of hate the ibo
You guys immediately attack the person

SmartPolician:
Imagine the rubbish that still happens in this country in this age and time.

Believe it or not, Tinubu cannot fix Nigeria.

This country needs a radical change from a rugged, right-thinking leader military junta!

The soldiers lamented that they are not given enough food and that they eat meat once a month, buy medicine from public medical vendors due to poor medication, and bribe to get welfare passes to get out of the bush to see their families.