₦airaland Forum

Android17:
lol they denied it during the presidential primaries quickly because they knew it could heat up the polity. Then they used a VP placeholder to ease sentimental people in and now it is here. By 2024, people will still be here analyzing how elections were rigged because at that time they'll be fighting to accept that all the sentimental analysis ended in the dustbin.

Buhari selected bla bla and lost. You use him as the standard of a man who "understands" Nigeria. Yet he lost. Then you want someone else who wants to win to follow the path of the man who lost. Yet the same people who don't like Buhari's failed govt, want some of his policies to be adopted - even policies that clearly failed.

You people have not yet truly accepted if this Muslim vs Muslim is paining you because APC will lose (which should make you happy) or because you know this is a game of chess and BAT moved the right piece in the right way.

Android17:
Twitter is proof that even within Living Faith, some people will not comply with Oyedepo's political directives.

So I don't need to ask church members. I lived in the SW when I was in Nigeria and if you are familiar with some of my posts you will know that I am quite conversant with Christianity and its tenets in Nigeria. Believe me.

Majority of the most popular men of God will support a PO candidacy under the guise of APC presenting muslim v Muslim candidates. However, when the voting is actually done and counted they too will realize how divided their churches are.

RCCG is dependent on what part of Nigeria or city you enter do you agree, why?

raumdeuter:
Let's wait and see. Na February na. Which Christians are you talking about and these Christians who did they vote for in the past cos saying Christians in places who never voted APC will not vote APC is not going to change anything

In the SW majority of Christians will still vote Tinubu

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Less than $5 oh.

The problem is that it is not even accepting the card at all. I think it's the Naira Mastercard itself that's the problem.

Make I go find Dollar Mastercard[/color]

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Has anyone tried paying for a service on Google? maybe Playstore, YouTube, etc

Which card you use abeg? None seems to be working[/color]

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I specifically used NE.

If Atiku wins any part of the NW, it would be because of people like Tambuwal and the likes.

But for NE, he would lock it down[/color]

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Just so glaring to see.

The examples he's showing is even proving the point[/color]

Oasis007:


Are you implying Muslims are not the majority in the SouthWest States I mentioned?

harlee:
4.2 or 2.4??

24SEVEN:
Pls sir, how much can someone clear a Lexus IS250 2015 model car??

Genevach:
What’s the clearing price of please best price :' 2009 BMW 525i sallum

oliverjiad:
#1.4m

Jaid

Itsrm:
I overheard a song a couple of days back on radio and I've not been able to track the song nor the musician.

Unfortunately the only line I remember was something like he hardly gets credit alerts but numerous debit alerts.

Do you by any chance know the song?

Donstain18 Disstroy

airmark:
This must be a song by Andrewbaba44 of Dead Barca.

BlueRayDick:
Removing subsidy at any time soon will only lead to greater crisis than the one witnessed after the end SARS protests turned bloody. The people are already close to breaking point.

I go out everyday and see people barely able to keep their mind due to high prices of commodities. Just this current fuel scarcity alone, u see people waiting in bus stops unable to afford ₦100 to ₦200 increment in transportation costs. They wait hours hoping for buses that will call the usual price will come around.( U just need to give them a lift and engage them for u to know what people are going through)

Imagine their are graduates who work for banks and other financial services firms as contract staff and they get paid 80k per month. People like this will pay transport fare daily, feed themselves daily, most likely have parents who sent them to school out of nothing and who now expect them to send them something at the end of the month, they have to save monthly towards their next rent payment, and other sundry expenses.....People like that are barely surviving.

How will such people that are at lesst still underemployed adjust to what will come after subsidy removal? Then the army of unemployed youths are there. I usually shake my head anytime I see people on my whatsapp status and other social media accounts celebrating passing out of NYSC and talk about Wishing themselves luck in the " Favor Market".....Favor market where some organizations are cutting down operating hours be use of diesel price, shey na that organization go come get budget to recruit fresh new graduates?

Removing subsidy might just lead to military coup cos the citizens will surely revolt and we will be close to anarchy.

The problem of subsidy has always been that the government has been unable to monitor and put checks & balances in place to ascertain who gets what. I posted a proposal of Prof. Ndubuisi Ekekwe the Nigerian-American scholar who was proposing a model he drew up to monitor the level of actual fuel we consume and to track it's delivery all across the country. Till date nobody in government has even given it a thought. I think every government just pay lip service to the fact that they wan to tame the subsidy demon but none has made any serious efforts concerning it.

BlueMann:
Na preseason game o

Ibime:
Not suggesting he definitely wants to decamp but he will have conversations. The scenario you painted above also applies if Atiku wins cos Okowa would be next in line if power was zoned to SS

raumdeuter:
I agree with what you said so far
But will Wike be willing to continue investing in an opposition when 2027 will reach another Atiku or Tambuwal will show up and win as long as they are able to share dollars. You know how expensive opposition financing is. Now that he wont be in govt

Imagine how much Wike invested in PDP struggles in the last 4yrs plus the primaries and what did he get back in return?

E get wetin Akpabio see wey make am grab his chance in APC instead of financing opposition when he doesnt have direct access to state funds

raumdeuter:
If PDP wins 2023, In 4 to 8yrs, the VP Okowa will be preparing himself for that position. So will Wike have enough clout to fight Okowa in 4-8yrs time?

If PDP doesn't win, which money will Wike use to campaign and buy delegates in 4-8yrs time. Its not easy to spend money anyhow when you are not in govt

Ibime:
You never show your hand in politics until you have carried all stakeholders along both in PDP, and reconciled with the APC like Tonye Cole, not to mention Amaechi. So even if he was planning decamp, he wouldn't tell you until all parties are on the same side. Make he no be like Amaechi that decamped and lost the whole structure of Rivers State in so doing.

If Goodluck his political Godfather can decamp, decamp is not beyond Wike, but he will be powerless if he decamps and the whole House of Assembly in Rivers doesn't move with him

raumdeuter:
itsrm

What is cooking in wikeland?

https://www.nairaland.com/7217972/photos-apc-governors-fayose-meets

izzou:
[color=royalblue]What's up with this story? How e take end?[/color]

afrodoc:
My point exactly. The money saved will be stolen. Corruption and insecurity have to be tackled first. Then you focus on developing infrastructure that will support job creation and local industries.

THEN you can start SLOWLY reducing the subsidy over a number of years. It can't be a sudden change or else the country will burn.

raumdeuter:
Well then if govt turns around and say the main reason why we are not investing in Education, Health, Infrastructure, Economy is because the entire budget we are spending on subsidy. Then what will you say?

raumdeuter:
Subsidy is an avenue to steal money.

What subsidy in basic terms mean is that oil in global market is selling for N500 per litre , govt buys at that rate and sell it to Nigerians at say N300. absorbing a N200 loss.

This is the easiest money to steal as we have seen many administration is for middlemen to claim they are bringing in oil, bill govt and deliver less or nothing

Those who are familiar with the West African subregion will tell you they mostly depend on the cheap petroleum product in Nigeria to run their own economy. So instead of getting their oil from the global market at the regular price, they will rather smuggle from Nigeria. The marketers in Nigeria will also prefer to sell abroad to Benin or Togo. since they can buy for N300 per liter from Nigerian govt and sell to Togo at close to N500

On the other side, if Nigeria is exposed to global prices, the populace wont be able to afford it

So the choice is continue subsidy and give opportunity for people to steal

Oasis007:
What's your take on subsidy removal?!

Cc

Raumdeuter
BlueRayDick
Jodera
Larride
Afrodoc2
Ibime
Roland17