₦airaland Forum

So in other words the rag tag looking bandits are more sophisticated and technologically smart that the ministry of information and technology despite the billions being budgeted for the ministry. Na Ogun go kee all of Una corruption infested souls.

Poor descision, even though the T&C of such a deal was not made public. What happens if she dies early, business folded up, issues of inflation?

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A clear conscience fears no accusations, if his hands are clean let him go and defend himself. EFCC arrest is not a jail term sentence, prove your innocence no be chochocho!!

Sirchiboy:
Can anyone proof me wrong.
Because they have no impart on the life of their younger ones.
They prefer to help stranger than to uplift their younger ones

For the fact that you experienced the uselessness of elder brothers in your family firsthand doesn't give you the yardstick to appropriate figures carelessly.
Lost our parents early our elder brother stood firmly and trained all of using the proceeds of our late parents house rent, and his menial hustle pay. Till date that property is still not shared among us, everybody takes turn in rent collection like osusu.
Do you even know the pressure that comes with being an elder brother?

Ogun kee you and Okowa with him surplus teeth there

Why should 4 people be using 1 meter in the first place? So if one has a water heater and carelessly put it on, everybody will bear the consequences. For this one I no do.

nairalanda1:
So why do you oppose cost reflective tarrifs?

That shows you want power for free .

Can you please point out where I opposed cost reflective tariff? You don't expect me to pay cost reflective tariffs when I'm shouldering the responsibilities of disco. I will gladly pay cost reflective tariff when they start taking responsibilities. Engaging you is nothing more like beating a dead horse, I've wasted too much time in ELI5 to you. My last response is this.

nairalanda1:
In brief, you want power for free.

That's not possible.

Good morning

If this is what you arrived at, then I blame for myself for the time wasted in beating a dead horse.

nairalanda1:
Because they won't earn profits, or attract investment otherwise.

We aren't under NEPA things since 2013.

I don't think you understood the question I asked, read it slowly so you will understand it.

Denying a problem does not mean the problem doesn't exist.

I also suggest you run a business where 19% of your consumers pay you the appropriate price, while the rest underpay or not pay at all for your service. You will soon see why.

There are various customers tiers in business. There are customers that businesses go the extra limits for in terms of services offered because, they are very confident of these customers paying for the extra service rendered. What stops Discos from doing this?

You sound like a father who does not give his child food, and expects him to do his chores and come first in class every term.

Lazy excuses, and chasing shadows, people will pay for reliable service rendered. A good number of Nigeria homes still spent heavily on fueling their generators, they will gladly pay for reliable power.

nairalanda1:
You foot the bills for transformers, electric polies, meters and maintenance, because you don't pay a cost reflective tarrif, therefore your local disco cannot make the profit needed to do that effortlessly for you, so you end up doing it.

That has been the problem since we had NEPA.

And what makes you think if the Discos are ready to take full responsibility, for reliable and efficient power people won't pay cost reflective tariffs?
Nigeria erratic and poor power supply has nothing to do with people not paying cost reflective tariffs.

nairalanda1:
Southy also charges cost reflective tarrifs compared to Nigeria.

To the point that sometimes power prices can jump up twice in a month.

And even then, they don't have enough power self.

Nigeria where sixty percent of people bypass meters, meaning power companies operate at a loss, meaning they cannot supply power effectively

And before you start, aba power company was supplying 24 hour a day power and people were complaining of how expensive it was. Same thing with band a people

Nigerians think electricity is free. That's why we don't have light. Even government owes discos and gencos self.

How will I pay cost reflective tariffs as Nigerian consumer when i foot the bills for buying of transformers, electric poles, meters, and maintaining them, Is it supposed to be my responsibility as a consumer?

Parasitic North that will not allow this country to progress. They will rather budget billions for hajj.

Disgraced country of concern, who can't protect her citizens.

Kemetian:
Ghana has 25 million people.

They should have no problems with such a tiny population that is less than Lagos.

Egypt and Algeria BOTH saw far greater colonial infrastructural development than black African countries.

If you visited Cairo or Algiers in the 1960s, they were like SOUTH AFRICA too.

LAGOS WAS BUSH, apart from Ikoyi where the colonial thieves lived.

BY THE WAY, ACCORDING TO AI CHATGPT, BRITAIN OWES NIGERIA $50 TRILLION FOR HER PLUNDER OF THE COUNTRY.

Our underdevelopment today is caused by THEM.

THEY LOOTED THIS COUNTRY FOR A WHOLE CENTURY AND PUT NOTHING BACK.

THAT'S WHY WE ARE PLAYING CATCHUP TODAY.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW YOUR HISTORY, YOU WILL LEARN IT BY FORCE.

And Nigerian politicians owes Nigeria how much for looting? There will always be excuses for failures.

Positions like this Nigeria takes the lead if the counting starts from behind. Giant of Africa for anything rubbish.

With this for a gift I will say back to sender. Ogbeni this na iron condemn na!!

That's how it feels for now, just like when Gboys are taking olosho to various clubs, eating barbeque, drinking moet, and making sex in exclusive hotel rooms. But when the dusts settles they all cry had I know, we hope you don't later on.

bigcasava1:
Borrow sense, America owns the dollar even they are owing it will still not affect their economy. Is it not we own in Nigeria than in dollar

Borrow education and learn how to express yourself okay?

lilsmart:
Poverty is the root of all crimes

It is not, people kill for religion.

malali:
No comfortable person wants to die. Trust me.These people are easily hired because poverty in the north is very high. Can you hire Dangote's child to go and do banditry and kidnapping ?

Some people in the north dont have access to 20k naira from January to December. These people will commit crimes for 10k naira, they dont care about what the optics look like,

That's childish, those farming in the north, rolling wheelbarrows morning to night, riding keke and motorcycles don't know how to steal or kidnap? A man caught red handed on top of someone else's wife, will always have a reason why he did what he did. Stop using poverty to justify insecurity, that's childish and lazy thinking.

malali:

All the insecurity in Naija is as a result of poverty. If Musa Obinna and Bayo had 3 square meals, a comfortable accommodation and a business which is thriving. No one will entice them with funds to come and do banditry,kidnapping or other vices.

We are running away from the real cause of the problems and chasing shadows.

So based on your analogy it is poverty that made people go into worship centers and started shooting, and bombing them? You need serious beating.

Even America is owing trillions of $ is what they will tell you. But when it comes to comparing standard of living in both countries, they start to shift goal post. Somebody say bambiala borrow, borrow.

Wahala!!! still on day 2 since? We no go loose more than 1 sack of rice money before December 25 like this?

Houseofglam7:
I’ve seen graduates who would definitely pass as illiterates as they can neither read nor write properly.

Very true, once escorted my former classmate in secondary to GT bank to open an account, because ogbeni couldn't communicate in simple English or fill basic forms, and way back in secondary school ogbeni got 5 credits in 1 sitting, no be JuJu be that?

Mercury12:
men mostly regret it than women

And how did you arrived at such conclusion?

TempUser:
Imagine. 1 million in a whole year wey go don lose purchasing power by December

Though you have a point, but it is better you saved #1m even if it's current purchasing power is 700k, than saving nothing.

That's true irrespective of the gender.

Truth be told first lady disrespected the office of the governor, but govor self, you too over do, there should be moderation in your doings. Must you try to steal the show in every occasion you attend?

grandstar:
Wake up!

Whether mere assumption or not, the Naira would not fare well. It will destroy the Naira as the only way the subsidy can be financed is through ways and means. What is ways and means?

Most of you don't know the first thing about economics and you still won't educate yourself.

In most countries where oil subsidies exist, it is adversely affecting them. In Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and Angola, it is showing them shege.

The oil rich Gulf states such as the Qatar, the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi, they are still able to afford it because they have small populations but produce massive amounts of crude oil. However, they want to get rid of it.

Iran and Iraq are being battered by the subsidies. There's massive smuggling of fuel outside to sell to neighbouring countries. In Venezuela, there's also smuggling. The subsidy is one of the reasons that Venezuela is bankrupt today and a failed state.

To sell petrol at a subsidized price, the government has to reduce the price, and leads to reduced revenue. So, let's say it cost N400 per litre to produce petrol, and they sell it for N200. that means the government is losing N200/litre. Let us say the country uses 40m litres daily, it would lose N8Bn daily, or there would be a shortage of 8Bn daily. In a year, that would be almost 3 trillion.

Government says it does not want to lose that money again. Why do you think the governors like Tinubu? It is because with the subsidy gone, the money they are collecting has shot up. The "shortage" is now entering the state coffers.

Also, with tjhe devaluation of the Naira, this has also increased their revenue.

Lets say $1bn is shared monthly, at $1-N600, that is N600Bn. At $1-N1,500, that is 1.5trillion. You can see why the governors like him?

The problem with those refineries is worse than corruption. It is people like you.

Global best practice would have been to sell the refineries as they are and not to repair them. If they are sold, government no longer has to waste money on them. When OBJ sold the refineries in 2007, there was an outcry. Yaradua now took them back. NLC at one point claims that $14bn has been spent on repairing them since. If they had remained sold, $1 would not have been wasted on them.

That is why economists urge the privatisation of state-owned enterprises. They are cesspools of corruption and inefficiency worldwide, especially in poor countries. The year before the Argentine telecoms company was privatized, it received the largest subvention from the government. The year after it was privatized, it was the largest taxpayer to the treasury

There will always be excuses for failures, the country is where it is because of people like you who claim to know it all, yet when asked to take the lead they find whom to blame. What happened to the many corruption cases of subsidy paid for petroleum products that were never imported? Open your eyes subsidy was never the issue, corruption was and still remain the main issue. Countries like USA, Germany, France, still indirectly subsidies petroleum products by offering tax incentives both in production and exploration of petroleum products.
If you like write Wikipedia epistles, corruption remains Nigeria biggest issue, everybody wants to grab its own share if the national cake. Every other thing is secondary, know this and know peace.

grandstar:
Had the subsidy not been removed, the Naira would be $1- N2,500 or even 3,000. The government would simply have resorted to ways and means to maintain the subsidy.

If you think $1-N3,000 is good, then they should bring back the subsidy.

That's one of the benefits of the subsidy removal.

These are mere assumptions, the funny thing was that there was still corruption in the subsidy scheme. Subsidy was and will remain a good thing, the corruption inside it was the issue. The government would have fought the corruption. And just to let you know I'm not talking about the government backing the naira, I'm talking about petrol subsidy.

If Nigeria major issue is not corruption, how then billions are being budgeted and spent on our 3 refineries yearly and currently NONE is working? From OBJ - Tinubu each administration spent billion of naira on those dead horses how come they are still not working? Na subsidy cause am?