FreeStuffsNG: They know but the hypocrites are just filled with hatred and evil that Jesus warned them against.
In the crusade era, the Pope decreed that christians must hate muslims and fund war to kill muslims if they want to make heaven. They believed him except St. Francis of Assisi.
Christians are followers of Christ and not pope.
The crusader did what they did for self-defence, the can use any Christian doctrine to justify it.
You are just to focused on the cross of their war costumes.
Arostar2023: But questions should be asked on why despite CBEX's public solicitations for clients, the regulators turned a blind eye to their fraudulent activities. Where were EFCC, SEC , CAC and the rest? Nigeria is a country with corrupt and weak institutions. Institutions that were created and meant to protect the masses ...and here we're, blaming the victims that were swindled. Not everyone is financially intelligent. The world will always have dumb and weak people. Protecting the weak and gullible is the hallmark of a functional society.
Some people don't just have empathy.
Example of people that are weak or gullible in our society are; 1. Women 2. Children 3. People with disabilities 4. Animals 5.
Obrigardo: I told you guys elon musk in real deep shit.
He might even be deported back to south africa and the US government cancel all his contracts and revoke his security clearance.
The man is a clear enemy against the United States.
Look at this agbad0.
Even if the man is a piece of shit with no morals, won't you evaluate the amount of work he has invested into the US economy before making this cynical statement.
Why are you guys always thinking from emotional stand points.
tsdarkside: least educated to western education you mean.... muslims have their own education....to think your western education is superior to their islamic education is naive....
Bro I said general consensus.
I did not indicate the type of education, maybe you can argue with those that said so.
You should go do your own research on my the Americans set-up their system that way, I was only using my illustration to give an hint.
Ayoefa: It's not good. This is the only democratic system in the world where the person with the majority vote might not win. May be they had good intentions when they came up with the system back then, but now it's not serving the intended purpose.
I bet, you don't know why their founding fathers came up with that system.
I will give you a hint.
Their is a general consensus that the north are the least educated.
Their is another consensus that the north are the most populated.
That leaves the faith of the president to the majority of the voters who happens to be the least educated.
On the contrary, it is serving the purpose why it was put in place, you can read up too.
flokii: While I agree that those in government have their faults too, let's face the fact that Dangote's own is too much. If you chop small, you relax.. not that you'll want to chop the whole Nigeria dry.
There are sectors begging for intervention of FG such as the "pulp and paper" used to produce our notebooks, textbooks, jotters etc. Did you know that Nigeria imports over 98% of the pulp used to produce paper?. What we can produce comfortably here in Nigeria with trees and wood everywhere. These are some of the areas government can look into and leverage on to create jobs and employment for Nigerian youths.
Just do the maths.. compare the population of Nigeria, the number of pupils and students that write on notebooks with the number of textbooks we buy in our bookstores.. then check the gain Nigeria can make from the pulp and paper sector.
Our politicians are just doing anyhow, no concrete plans or interest in the country's development.
Lastly, I wish Dangote well but will never support his business model of always wanting monopoly and to chase others out of the market. Such evil practice should have no place or enjoy support from well-meaning Nigerians.
Imagine you build the biggest pulp and paper industry in the whole of Africa.
Then one government start accusing you of monopoly and how we can't depend on you for paper production alone and the need to have more people import pulp and paper.
Do you think, you won't make noise like how Dangote is doing today??
Dangote is a group of company, who look for opportunities just like any other businessman. (From the outline of things, I'm sure you will call out Dangote, if he is the only one willing to invest in pulp and paper)
He has no power to stop others from investing as well, it is the work of the government to incentivise that industry to make sure other players comes in and stop the monopoly. (Unlike before where other government works with Dangote alone)
I'm glad you said you don't have anything against the man Dangote, please let it stay that way.
Topsido: This is my main problem with Dangote. Shebi we would have been consoled by the fact he is creating employment if he indeed has. Man has simply created a doorway for Indians to make money off Nigeria. His business hasn't benefited us in any way other than the inevitable taxes he pay.
This is what they government should be tackling, not fighting the whole of the company.
And it's even a simple case, there is a certain quota a company must hire from the host country, state, LGA.
How is fighting the company benefiting the Nigerian people . Or What is the end game for this fight??
Topsido: Tinubu go show this Dangote shegge. He thinks he is wise.
VDM might be right anyway, many Nigerians are oppressive in nature. I wish you can tell me Dangote's fault in all this drama.
sulaak: Nigeria needs more Dangotes who benefit from government favouritism. Dangote got $5.2 billion in loans from Nigerian banks and access to cheap dollars from the CBN to finance his refinery. The Nigerian government should extend these opportunities to other industrialists.
The name Dangote infuriate and trigger some people, let me help you rephrase your statement.
Nigeria needs more giant cooperations who benefit from government favouritism. Dangote got $5.2 billion in loans from Nigerian banks and access to cheap dollars from the CBN to finance his refinery. The Nigerian government should extend these opportunities to other industrialists
siverspooon: What you just said is like from fry pan to fire. So they should free Nigeria from a group of cartels only to make one man the sole cartel abi? If dangote succeeds and becomes the only refinery selling petroleum products Do you think the dangote you and I know will ever allow another investor to come in that sector and succeed? Your guess is as good as mine. The NNPCL should as a matter of urgency auction the port Harcourt and kaduna refinery so that there will be competition in that sector Only that can lower the price, but if they leave it to only one man We will always be at his beck and calling
How can Dangote stop investors from succeeding?? How??
All problems are solved one step at a time.
Step 1 Problem: We have a Forex and fuel scarcity problem Solution: We empower Dangote's refinery
Step 2 Problem: The refinery becomes the only functional refinery making it a monopoly Solution: We empower other refinery and investors to compete. ( E.g Telecommunication)
As we continue to climb up the steps, we will continue to encounter problems.
Just because we foresee a future problem doesn't mean we should ignore the current solution.
Stilloracle: U may erroneously see Dangote as a Monopolistic biz man, But NO. This man is an astute biz man trying to save Nigeria from the mess of oil barons that that over the decades plunder Nigeria into deep financial mess using oil importation as the tool since the military era. They crippled NNPC refineries so that they can continue the importation for their own benefits, which is where Subsidy comes from. They created the Subsidy. (This is why any sensible person will understand why Tinubu radically removed the Subsidy and why the North is now fighting Tinubu. The crook leaders of the Subsidy are Northerners, led by the retired generals)
I did my NYSC at PPMC/NNPC and within 1 year of my service, what I witnessed by myself is a colossal tsunamic corrupt system that only God can bring Nigeria out from.
Govt corruption is just child's play when compared with what oil companies/multinationals/oil marketers commit. They control the market and since oil is Nigeria's main source of income (The oil sector provides for 95% of Nigeria's foreign exchange earnings and 80% of its budgetary revenues.) they have a choking hold on the country
If Dangote refinery succeeds in all its plans, Nigeria will be free of the stranglehold of the marketers. And it will encourage other investors to also build refineries.
Imagine selling NNPC refineries to investors who will fix them and upgrade them, making Nigeria free from importing oil and gas and rather becoming exporter. NIGERIA WILL BE SO GREAT and RICH
I'm sorry your personal testimony is not enough for some people to stop calling Dangote the devil.
linearity: So how will competition kill a locally made product?
Nigerians don't learn.....That how they ban all foreign rice and many other produces in the name of they are 'killing local production' how did we fare?
The case rice was very good, because we have many many local options or sources to buy from, in this case once Dangote kills import, he will be the sole supplier of petroleum product in Nigeria and you trust him that he is going to sell it to you at a fair price?
What mechanism will be in place to even determine what the fair price will be?
Since he is getting crude locally and in Naira, his focus would have been to undersell importers because he would not be exposed to their variableness rather than trying to ask a Court to invalidate their licenses.
On the rice issue There is something called DEMAND and SUPPLY.
YES!! Nigeria is producing locally, but if we can't meet up with our demand, it simply means the price will rise.
That doesn't mean importing rice or any other product is good for our economy, it just shows how poorly prepared the progressive government have been.
With the numbers of refinery we have in this country, they can easily meet out demand and arguably drive the price down but enemy from within won't allow it
skywalker240: Don't be a gullible Nigerian, you should know by now that anything coming from Dangote is not genuine and actually a specific type of Greek gift
When Dangote was doing that rubbish on cement, were there no other cement factories
He always try to be on top of the market share just to dictate prices
Every company covet that thing you are describing as monopoly.
And that is why government are put in place to checkmate them.
Dangote did not kill other cement brands, the government of the day failed them.
Just like in the nearest future I won't say the marketers killed Dangote's refinery, the government did.
It's okay for government to say we don't want a monopoly, but how the government bypassed all the existing private and public refinery to choose importing as a solution is what I'm struggling with.
Krismas: That’s your last card ofcourse! RELIGION. Am not a believer in any holy book. So don’t quote Quran to me. There is no map since 2000yrs ago that don’t have Palestine on it. It only stopped in 1948, where Israel is used to supplant Palestine on world map in the most sickening example of everything wrong with this world. Israel has never existed in Palestine. The Jews are Europeans. It proves itself, no need wasting my time with religiously motivated people. All religion is a fabrication and religious people are intellectually blindfolded. Thanks and bye
Same as Jerusalem and Judea.
But to you, any history of the Jews is just another religious fabrication.
I see the holy books (bible or quran) as history books.
And so far, I'm yet to see any of the present day countries that are mentioned in these books call them out to be fake and fictitious.
Krismas: Don’t imagine u are smart or making ANY sense. Music festival is not a location in Israel. The activity was held in the Gaza envelope. Hamas did not extend out of the 1948 Gaza demarcation on Oct7 operation. Everyone is that festival are ILLEGAL MIGRANTS and so, Hamas is duty bound to arrest and deport them.
Thank God you are not anybody's lawyer.
HAMAS is duty bound to arrest and deport them, How merciful are they, that while Israel decided to kill them, HAMAS in their infinite mercy decided to arrest (kidnap) them without trial.
flokii: I don't think there is any man as cruel as Dangote in Nigeria.. the man is just too greedy for my liking. When I first read the PIA, I knew instantly the Northerners in the Petroleum Ministry were planning to hand over the downstream petroleum sector in Nigeria to Dangote, part of the reasons they won't allow our State owned refineries to function. I don't know why Southerners in Federal are just fvcking docile, is it that you people's education is substandard or what??. The Dangote man wants Monopoly of every sector in Nigeria which is very very wrong. This is the worst businessman to ever come out of Africa.. It's obvious his wealth is questionable.
Just take a look around the country, how many Southerners do you see being pampered and pushed like Dangote?.. Nigerians don't know that over 85% of FG concessions are going to this Dangote alone, the records are there in Ministry of Finance, yet he comes out publicly to lie that he didn't get any support from FG.
Now I've been vindicated on some of my posts here.. companies in Free Zones don't pay taxes to either FG, State or Local Govt. because they are considered as technically "not within Nigerian Customs territory".
If NMDPRA wants to finish Dangote completely, they should impose import duty and levy on all his refined petroleum products, let's see who will go out of business.. Very evil man that derives joy in impoverishing Nigerians for his selfish gains.
Whoever is the judge of the Federal High Court should throw out Dangote's suit as it lacks merit or substance.. Nigerians deserve fair pricing, Nigerians have right to life and Dangote can't take that right away from us by selling delicate products such as Cement, PMS etc. at exorbitant prices. He should export his PMS, AGO etc. to other countries, we don't need them.. we don't mind importing our petroleum products from saner climes with sane producers till we finally get it right and have our own refineries working.
We say a big NO to Monopoly!
Some of you are so ruthless in your evil against Dangote,
Look at you describing perfectly how NNPC can destroy the only functional refinery in Nigeria just because of spite.
Killing of business is not a way to fight the monopolistic tendency of every business.
And funny how you trust the same NNPC, who have 3-4 non-functioning refinery under them to help you finish of the only functional refinery we have.
This is a "media war" or better still "war of narrative" choose your side carefully.
The reason we all (including myself) don't like Dangote, is because of the selective favouritism he has enjoyed over the years by previous government.
So if you want to fight for the people against him, then reverse the favouritism and let other businesses enjoy the same privilege as well, we still need those companies you know
Themandator: Why is the Dangote refinery not meeting it own target of 25m litres daily production and expects to be the sole supplier to the market.
Does it even make sense, that a company will openly tell a government to make it a sole supplier.
Please don't fall for this media judgement on Dangote.
I'm not supporting Dangote, but if the Government doesn't want him to be the sole supplier then bring on board another refinery and not importation as alternative.
For the question, there are so many reasons a company will not meet it's daily targets. (Dangote or BAU) 1. Input is greater than or equal to output
Krismas: Once again, u embark on hasty generalization?
1. Why don’t u attach any archeological evidence, that AUTHENTICATE THE HISTORICITY OF THE BIBLE? The Bible is FICTIONAL. It’s nothing but religious delusion. e.g the gospels in the KJV originally had no known authors. But people called those books Matthew mark Luke and John. So u know the Bible is the fable manipulation of man.
2 Jews in North Africa are Shephardic, who migrated to those places from Western Europe, mostly Spain and they lived comfortably in northern part of Africa until the Zionists forced most of them to flee to the false state of Israel. Cos how can u explain Jews who have lived in a place for hundreds of yrs suddenly had to go to a new place in the Middle East?
3. Ur confusion is on the word Jews. They are Europeans and not from the Middle East. They are not the people of the Biblical land of Palestine. There was nothing like Jew in the first KJV of 1611. The Bible was burglarized to insert the word Jews into it by the Zionist cults. DNA of Jews show them out clearly as Europeans. That’s why DNA testing requires court approval b4 its carried out in Israel. Jews only came into Palestine in 1800s for first time
Point one, the Bible is a fictional book
Point three, quoting the fictional book to make a point.
Talking about Authors, Who is the author of your Quran The Zionist cult must be damn good at what they do to also insert the word Jews in the Qur'an and Hadith.
Krismas: Hamas posted what exactly on their website?? Beheaded babies or serial rape? Or incinerating babies in an oven? Or cutting off the breast of women and playing football with it? Or cutting open a pregnant woman and beheading the fetus? Or what? These were all the LIES Israel spread about Hamas which even Israelis living in the kibbutzs where they claimed it happened REJECTED the stories as events that didn’t happen in their kibbutz. Look at the way Israel is conducting its war! Targeting civilians with impunity, whereas those who NL Zionist lickspittles call terrorists only target military sites and military personnels. Yet they still believe all the foolish lies of Israel that Hamas killed civilians Oct7? Mumus!
You are beginning to sound like a broken record that is on a repeat mode right now. (New dawah propagandist recruit)
Did you even Google the said website to at least check for your self.
I wonder where you are getting your information from, I don't know how a *musical festival* became a *military site*.
Krismas: Israel kills civilians as a military accomplishment. So, I expect many more dead civilians. Civilian lives must not be used as a bargaining chip like America and Israel is doing! Civilians are dying and hungry, so Hamas should take the CURSED deal on the table! An argument that is so damning as to be satanic. Which show how sick Israel and its allies are. Yet, killing all the babies of Palestine cannot bring Israel the victory it seeks or the security it needs. Israel is finished!
Bro, heaven knows I have tried my best.
The only thing that will make us agree with each other is if I curse Israel. But what you are doing is selective blindness.
In a war that is almost 75yrs old, the only guilty party to you is Israel.
It is funny how Muslims that believes the Qur'an is the word of Allah, choose to do their selective ignorance and call the Jews who are mentioned in their Qur'an as occupiers.
This is a challenge to you, the holy books of the 3 major religion in the world can also double as an history book. "Show us any evidence that Palestine ever had that land and called it their home"
Krismas: U incorrect. In dat, war has rules. That Israel conducts its wars with reckless impunity regardless. Israel believes it will never be held to account. But the day may come wen all its political leaders will stand trial like Nazis and Khmer Rouge. As for Oct7, Israel prevented an independent investigation into the incident. What people know about the event, is what Israel is parroting in MSM. And no man should be allowed to be judge, jury, executioner, complainant and IPO in their own case. Oct7 narrative is Complete sham
Bro you claim to know everything about Oct 7, but it skipped you that HAMAS actually posted the clip on its website first.
You trying to even justify HAMAS action is making me sick already.
Krismas: U completely wrong Zionists say in Gaza, there are no innocents! They say even a baby can be killed and IDF snipers shoot children in the twice to make it clear, the act was no mistake.
I'm curious to know what Muslims, HAMAS and the people Palestine think of Israeli and the Jews.
You are a partaker in genocide by ur rubbish parroting of Zionist narratives. t!
I wonder who's narrative you are pushing and I hope it helps you stop the killing of those children or push them to their death
Krismas: U completely wrong Oct7, why don’t you say IDF used dead Israeli civilians as human shield? U say Hamas killed civilians in Israel. Yet in Gaza u say Hamas is using Palestinians as human shields? Complete lies. It just an IDF excuse to slaughter innocent people. Zionists say in Gaza, there are no innocents! They say even a baby can be killed and IDF snipers shoot children in the twice to make it clear, the act was no mistake. You are a partaker in genocide by ur rubbish parroting of Zionist narratives. Hamas is fighting for their homeland against the most brutal settler colonialists ever known to man. And Hamas will prevail. Israel better recognize the right of Palestinians to have their state or lose everything they now have. The choice is theirs and times running out!
If boko haram attack me, I will blame my government first, who are responsible for the safety of life and property of Nigerians before I put a single blame on boko haram.
The attack on Israel on the Oct 7th was 100% Israel's fault. So many shady circumstances.
And by extension, same can be said about Palestine casualties as well.
The early we start holding the appropriate quarters responsible, the faster this conflict will be resolved.
flokii: You don't know who Dangote is.. he buys anybody buyable as far as he is able to kill off competition.
The time to stop the wicked man and fight for the soul of Nigeria is now!
Mark this down today, if Dangote succeeds in ending issuance of import permits to marketers, PMS that ought to be sold between #500 - #600 will sell for #2,000 - #2,500 per litre in Nigeria before ending of 2025.
Nigeria doesn't need people like Dangote.. he can go to hell for all we care. What we need is for FG to revive our State owned refineries and revamp all our industries from textiles to steel, etc. That way, there will be jobs everywhere and economy of Nigeria will bounce back to life.
Forget that guy Dangote, na barawo banza.
Like I said, importing fuel is not a solution to this problem. I'm happy you listed some practical solutions that will help.
But guess what, it is not Dangote's fault that all this solutions are not being implemented.
They people you claim he can buy, are government officials, so technically the government are the problem not Dangote
Themandator: Why is It so hard for some of you to understand that Dangote is not working for your good
How is It that imported products are cheaper than his locally refined products
How come prices are coming down every day at the depots since these guys imported the products
Bro.....
Subsidy can make the price of imported goods to be cheaper than locally produced goods
Tariffs and regulations can make price of locally produced goods to be more expensive than the imported ones.
Dangote is not bigger than our government to dictate how things will go, the government should be the ones to answer that question " why are imported fuel cheaper than locally refined fuel"
nairamaniac: If you support Dangote on this, it means you are amongst the unfortunate-majority that Dangote has succeeded to deceive.
See, if Dangote is sincere with the price he placed for his product, these other importers would die a natural death. They wdnt even stand a chance as a competitor to Dangote.
How can people who are using Vessels to ship and also buy their fuel from overseas with Dollars oooo, be a competitor to Dangote.
See, Dangote fuel shouldnt be selling more than 600naira per litre for a start.
Then after some years, with other indigenous refineries, the price should come crash.
Just like what's happened to phones and charges to make phone calls and access to internet.
Bet you don't know that government can decide which business works or not.
And it's obvious, they have decided that Dangote's refinery won't work.
There are better ways to checkmate Dangote other than importing. That's like self sabotage in the long run
flokii: All his products are substandard.. the NMDPRA Chief attacked Dangote because he has priviledged information that others don't have. The man Dangote ought to be blacklisted by the FG.. over 95% of those working and managing his refinery are Indians. No local content, no jobs for Nigerians, yet he will be looking for ways to cheat the system.
How I wish the Minister of Interior can revisit the expatriate tax and expose people like Dangote. Only one man packed foreigners into Nigeria to be working in his company, what can never happen in India or any saner clime.
This is not even a big issue.
All this can be addressed while the refinery is working at 100%
Or are you saying we should ground the refinery because of this trivia issue
It's a shame that some people don't understand basic economics.
There is a huge difference between fighting Dangote's monopoly and Dangote's company.
There are both government and private refinery in Nigeria, all the government has to do is to bring them onboard. That way you have fought Dangote's monopoly.
Importing fuel and making Dangote's refinery look ineffective and non functional like the other existing refinery we have, is the government fighting Dangote's company.
And before you accuse Dangote of being a monopolist, ask yourself, which business in this world won't want that privilege or likes competition.
It is the work of the government to make sure monopoly doesn't happen and both small/big companies enjoy a level playing field.
And considering that Dangote's refinery is the only functional refinery currently, I don't think he is enjoying any level playing field.
FARA4GA: Hmm....the truth is no side wins in a war ...both loss of lives and messing up the minds of those who witnessed the murder and mayhem, death and destruction ....
I know many of us have been programmed to believe Hamas as the villains.... But remember that Hamas is to Palestinians as ANC is to South Africa ...
Yes, the same ANC that is the ruling party in South Africa was once a resistance REBEL group...
Mandela was termed a Terrorist...even when he had become South Africa's president....
Unfortunately, Hamas is Muslim....so, it's now being termed as religious fanatics, but they are only fighting for their ancestral homes ...
ANC were rebel group fighting for their people. HAMAS on the other hand are terrorising both Israel and the people of Palestine. In case you want to ask how they are terrorising Palestine, aside fighting for them, they steal aids donated to the people. The ANC did not use their women and children as human shield, HAMAS even have tunnels to hide and protect this children from the bombs, but they prefer the current outcome.
ANC through Mandela have brokered a deal for the survival of his people, HAMAS find a way to start up the war at every interval to profit from it.
My view maybe wrong and I stand to be corrected. While both of them can claim to be occupied and apartheid, the interest and methodology of getting it resolved is totally different .
GBTYO: Over 50 survivors of the attack have so far been suicided.
You know why?
Because these are the guys who refused to back down and went to town telling people that IDF soldiers and helicopter gunships shot at the concert.
The IDF killed most of their own people on Oct 7 and most of the survivors know this .
I know Jews are chicken hearted but how can 50 survivors commit suicide within a year of Oct 7.
Does not make sense until you know that they didn't commit suicide but were murdered by IDF.
Israel knew before hand that the attack will happen and they let it happen and when it was going on, IDF and Mossad goons fired on their own to max the casualties so as to enrage the Israeli public to accept total war on Gaza.
It was a pyschop.
Edit:
I see 0koro judases mentioning me and spewing trash.
The Mossad that has been suiciding these survivors has as their motto the pic related below
Assuming this is true!!! Which can be anyway.
We haven't heard of any allegations days after their release and days before their suicide
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Once again, u embark on hasty generalization?