₦airaland Forum

Molebs:
Kachikwu saying he was not expecting this is a technical and analytical incompetence on his part.
it is well with my country.

Which way Nigeria?

You never had problem with SE voting OBJ, even though OBJ remain a corrupt ruler who never repaired the SE pipeline, the SE still voted for him, and the North( Atiku brothers) and Yorubas( OBJ) brothers were happy with the whole scenario, no one cajoled the Igbos for voting OBJ and PDP that had done next to nothing for the region.

In 2007, Igbos still voted for PDP and Yaradua, despite the fact that PDP continued to ignore the region, never did any Yoruba or Northerner demand that Igbos should dump PDP, even though you all knew PDP was of no use to Igbos, you could care less about the sufferings of Igbos as long as they were voting for a PDP controlled by either a Yoruba president or A Northern president.

mamagee3:
[color=deeppink]Pu$$yeater, leave me alone. Look for someone else to stalk and buttlick. You've been stalking and following me nonstop for the past two months.

Seriously, I can't even understand when this whole infatuation began but I want it to stop. Stop harassing and monitoring my online activity.[/color]

bigiyaro:
dis is actually one of naija's problems, sentiments, n yeyerious ones for that matter. Products are loaded from the same depots at the same price, even dealers in the north expend more resources transporting products due, to distance n other factors, if they can sell at 87 per liter, why can't dia counterparts in the east sell at the same price? If it's not due to over profiteering n man's inhumanity to man. Come to jos in December when easteners r going home for Christmas, u will see dem buying bags upon bags of rice n other condiments, cos in dia home town, dia kits and kins are well ready to cut dia necks wit high price.

99100:
I'm a resident and indigene of Orlu geopolitical zone.
After a turbulent week as a result of fuel scarcity and hike in Imo state , I'm compressed to ask this question ; Why do we buy fuel between #120 -130 and the same fuel is being sold #87 in the north? Does it mean that the govt only subsidises fuel that goes to the north.... and easterners can buy high.

HighIQ:
What of ministry of communication. It is a private agency and it has its own minister seperately without it being merge it with other sectors

gohome:
If Kenya, Ghana and Benin have not parked their cars at 1.1 while will nigeria park. Have we parked our cars since May?

You obviously are still head strong. How can one be this dumb or hypocritical or both? It beats me.

I will reply you just for the benefits of others, because I think you are beyond repair.

[b]I want to congratulate jpphillips, 989900 and others who have some REAL knowledge of what happens behind the scenes in the Nigerian downstream oil and gas sector. You have responded well to the OP's weak attempt to convince us of the need to "immediately" remove The Subsidy.

Having read almost every post here I gleaned a few things about the OP

1. He is completely ignorant of the workings of our downstream sector. To load his first post with petrol price figures from 2012 was his first albatross. It proved that he was working from a predetermined answer back to the question. More evidence of this is his over reliance on info from Google. If ur fully involved in a thing when you talk people will know.

2. He has no form of understanding of the causes or potentially destructive results of galloping inflation in a country that is import dependent. Relative to its size Nigeria produces nothing- whether goods or services. The City of London props up the entire British economy via its financial sector. Man, for now oil is all we got. Three times or so he says that an increase in petrol price from N87 to N220 will have no effect on Nigerians. Obviously he avoided Macroeconomics class in school.

3. He is a very callous being. Anybody who can't afford to run their car at N220 should park it according to him.

4. He is very deceptive. He skillfully ignored the fact that EVERY thriving Western economy has subsidies(in one form or another) in place for the betterment of the lives of their people.

5. He is bereft of any deep thinking on this matter.
I might have been swayed if he had a superior strategy and tactics to make his immediate subsidy removal work but all he does is present emotional pleas about whether we want our unborn kids to suffer. Beer parlour arguments I must say. Nothing of substance just fluff in his arguments. Pity.

My prayer for you is that God will not permit your type position of National Influence because you're obviously too immature to take us to the next level.
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Anticabal:
Mr Gorrilla, Read up carefully, this time very slowly. We are talking about November last year when a yoruba journalist visited West African francophone countries. Not in the 70s'. Scroll up and read, carefully this time.

Anticabal:
The nation newspaper (a yoruba media outfit) journalist made the observation when he travelled on the west african coast to Benin rep, Ghana. The article was posted on nairaland last year. 1 Biafran pound exchanged for about N680. Now have you conducted your own research to make me believe your statement.

Tell me why i should believe you instead of the journalist that made the findings in Cotonou and Ghana and wrote his article? I really want to believe your 'facts'. Help me

DelGardo:
My brother these guys are tedious.

Imagine someone asking "How does a stop in debit card usage compensate largely for the fall in foreign earnings or foreign savings most especially when this significantly stops mainly the activities of small scale businesses whose demand for hard currency is in small proportion? I expect you to be more discerning than this." right after you had explained that legitimate entities can get FX through their banks using Form "M", which has no minimum limit.

Gosh!

Mr/Chief/Doctor/Sir Oz4realsss I have a question for you - if restricting spending does not guarantee better reserves (savings) management how will profligate spending help our dwindling income?

gohome:
You are here again. I remember you from the subsidy thread. Talking with no substance. Unlike most people here though, you have a potential to be smart but you are very sentimental.

You have said so many things without a workable solution. Wait for GEJ to come back in 2019 to show you the SWF

HighIQ:
As you all know that the situation of power supply in Nigeria currently is nothing to write home about. The power supply is presently very and extremely poor with some place struggling between 4 to 6 hrs power supply per day.
Psychologically , President Buhari giving a crucial ministry like "power" to someone alongside works and housing may show that the man may not really be interested in Power supply. Considering how poor power sector is. Unlike other sector like Health ministry, Education, Finance etc. that have their seperate ministry on their own. Why did president Buhari merge a very important sector like POWER that is so important with Ministry of housing and works? All to be controlled by a man, Mr fashola, may show the low intetest of Mr president in the having a stable power supply in this country. The ministry of power should be a seperate ministry on its own, to be controlled by a Minister for Power and not Minister of POWER, WORKS AND HOUSING. So the minister can focus on the power sector more adequately OR what do you think? lalasticlala

hammerT:
This is an Igbo man Business being intercepted.


Wen dey say contraband, i thought it was hard drugs but it is soap and tyres.


Why is Buahri trying to make live miserable for Business men in the country?


Is Buhari going to give them political appointment he has given to the North?

Oz4realsss:
As usual, you have arrived at a number of conclusions without any fact to support them. I am not disappointed at all.
So much about the quality of your education and your level of comprehension! Shall I remind you that the report was on the suspension of ATM cards for foreign transactions? Why try to derail the argument then?
And to even make things worse; when I put a simple question of what you produce to guarantee inflow before you, you decided to blame it on Jonathan like your paymaster would. Is Jonathan the name of the goods and services that earn you foreign exchange?
My response was to reallign your deviation and I ensured I never answered any of your distractions. If you are ready for any brainstorming, it must be within the scope of the report. Any deviation would be matched by a counter deviation.

chiefobdk:
yea in Ur underwhelmed mind. U reduce outflow by restricting people from spending thr money legitimately

Let us learn to say things the way they are. According to you, Government suddenly stops the usage of naira denominated debit cards for foreign transactions so that trade can be balanced. How does this really guarantee balance of trade? Is it by the capital flight to neighbouring countries like Ghana and Benin for dollars that it will encourage or the possible strangulation of small scale enterprises that need hard currency and are unable to afford it?

How does a stop in debit card usage compensate largely for the fall in foreign earnings or foreign savings most especially when this significantly stops mainly the activities of small scale businesses whose demand for hard currency is in small proportion? I expect you to be more discerning than this.

Which parameters associated with the sudden stop in the use of Naira ATM cards for foreign trade are you talking about? Are they economical or otherwise? I really need you to provide details on your claim.

What is difficult for you to understand that Nigeria did not begin to earn foreign currency from the Government of Jonathan? Why have you not asked Gowon, Shagari, Buhari (1983), IBB, Shonekan, Abdulsalam, Abacha and OBJ what they have done with our foreign earnings during their Governments? Oh, they have all become saints overnight, afterall, your messaiah, Buhari, claimed that Abacha never stole a dime. So much for a "realistic mind" like yours!

opey25:
bros,his knowledge of history is very poor. he said on another thread that nzeogwu was a university graduate. he even said ojukwu joined the nigerian army as a NCO. I think the OP still has a lot to do about his knowledge of history.

APCLyingBastard:
Murtala had a history of insubordination and disrespect to authority and his seniors.

Here is a man who led and participated in the counter coup of 1966 alongside the likes of Dimka to purge the army of Ibos where most of them where his superior officers.

During the war his total disrespect and non compliance to orders by his commanders will see him being recalled from the front. During the Asaba siege he attempted on three occasions an amphibious attack on onitsha against the advice and orders of his superior officers. His first attempt saw over 1,000 men and officers dead and was forced to retreat. Morale and discipline were at an all time low that the men under his command bluntly refused another amphibious attack. When word reached GOC about how bad things were under his command coupled with his refusal to not use a particular narrow supply route which led to over 1,000 trucks being destroyed by one single artillery shell ( the supply route was narrow and the convoy consisted of long trucks loaded with ammunition and fuel. A biafran artillery corps man disobeyed his superior officer not to fire the last remaining shell but he went on to do so hitting one ammo laden truck at the middle of the convoy. The narrow Road made it difficult for the remaining articulated trucks to turn around and so that is how all the vehicles got destroyed in an explosive inferno), his commanding officers had no choice but to recall him back from the front.

The man constituted a nuisance and danger to his own men and given his long record of insubordination , the very thought of him not planning a coup is like saying Dimka was not a drunk.

That incident is known in History as the "Abagana massacre", the narrow route was the old road that presently leads from onitsha to Enugu, funny enough, the Abagana/Abba Axis of that road is still narrow till date .

The Biafran hit man that pulled the hit on Murtala was Col. Achuzie (hannibal/Air raid).
After the the failure of operation hiroshima to reclaim Onitsha from Murtala, with Biafra losing a lot of mercenaries who defended the onitsha sector, "Air raid" opted not to make a direct confrontation with a more equipped Murtala rather he opted to ambush him at a narrower Abagana.
History has it that murtala mohammed was moving from Onitsha to Enugu to Assist Yaradua who was coming down from Nsukka, both were meant to rendezvous at Enugu from opposite ends to bomb Enugu the biafran capital at the time to submission.
Murtala's approved route for that mission is the present day Enugu-Onitsha express road which was bushy with cliffs at the time, will take longer but minimal risk, Murtala did otherwise.

His failure across the Niger was partly due to the ingenuity of Rosteiner the Biafran mercenary who bombed the Niger bridge, with the bridge down, It was difficult for muritalar to move troops and supplies across the River Niger. Also the blockade on the River Niger coast and absence of a long range artillery, made his job a lot difficult.
I will not put the blame on him solely because if the defence HQ had approved the strategy of operation Tiger claw for the onitsha invasion, i believe the result would be different, the fall of calabar and the lengthy battle of Onitsha painted a heroic picture of Adekunle aka Black scorpion better than Mauritala, my opinion though.

APCLyingBastard:
Jan 15, 1966 Coup mid-ranking officers, mainly Ibos , university graduates before joining the army, leftist ideology, Ultra Nationalist outlook.

July, 1966 Counter Coup Northern Junior officers and NCOs (retaliatory and ethno religiously motivated). No clear political outlook. Continued with the policy of nationalization instigated by the Jan 15 coupists.

1975 Colonels Coup composed of Colonels to wrest power for themselves. The plotters of this coup against the Gowon govt where ironically the same set that bought him to power a decade ago. The coup was led by Murtala Mohammed who felt his turn to chop was long overdue. No clear political outlook for the country. Nationalization continua.

1976 Dimka Coup the drunkard's coup. Mainly Christian middle belt officers led by the callous Dimka. Dimka had no problem killing his superior officers as he had gotten away with cold murder of his senior officers a decade ago in the July 1966 counter coup. Dimka's motivation according to his drunken confession was to reinstall Gowon back as head of state. Ironically, Murtala and Dimka left the political scene in the same manner they had entered it - in a hail of Bullets!

1983 Buhari Coup the remnants of the class of July, 1966 where now Generals. This coup consisted of senior northern Muslim officers. motivation was to consolidate their power.

1985 IBB Coup same as above only they wanted to get rid of the stubborn Buhari.

1990 Gideon Okar Coup southern Christian minorities drawn from midranking cadre. In so many ways this coup had all the hallmarks of the Jan 15 coup and was doomed to fail because it was driven by vague ideologies and not pragmatic realities.

As we can see the most successful coup plotters in the history of Nigeria where the class of July, 1966.

The main reason advocated why they were so successful is because unlike their southern colleagues , the northern cadets admitted into the NDA where usually drawn from the same secondary school.

Since the number of schools in the north where outnumbered by 20 to 1 in the south and coupled with lowered enrollment in these same schools alongside Tafa Belewa's quota system which was specifically drawn to ensure that Ibos do not continue to dominate the officer cadet, the 1st and 2nd luitenants that carried out the counter coup of 1966 knew themselves from childhood and had a sense of duty to each other to watch their backs.

Childhood friendships are more powerful than sharing similar ideologies or a beer in the mess.

jusRadical:
So what depletes foreign reserve is the citizens using atm abroad?

So you see it was not gej the depleted our foreign reserve but the citizens that go overseas.


Is alright.