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The fathom removal of oil-subsidy is just a ploy to increase the price of petrol. Reason? GEJ wants his friends - the CABAL to continue making billions from fuel-importation, but wants to shift the burden from the neck of his goverment unto the neck of the poor masses already overburdend through goverment corruption.

Please anyone who has even a single bone of sincerityin his/her body, please ask yourself & answer this pertinent question:

Why can't this fuel subsidy be removed through making(by repairs) our refiniries to start working & functioning at full capacity?

WHY CAN'T THIS OIL-SUBSIDY BE REMOVED BY MAKING (BY REPAIRS) OUR REFINIRIES TO START WORKING AND FUNCTIONING AT FULL CAPACITY?

In my own opinion, the answer to this pertinent question(also big puzzle) is this: if the refinries start working as they should, the need to make any trillions availabe for oil-subsidy will vanish. But that's not the only thing that will vanish. The very lucrative billions-of-dollars-profit-making- business of fuel-importation will automatically grind to a halt since Nigeria will have all the fuel it needs produced loaclly through our refiniries, hence no need for importation.

So because fuel-importation must continue at all cost, because "chopulation" must continue at all cost for the BIG BOYS of PDP and PDP associates, the option to be taken is for price of fuel to be inceased instead of the best option (best both in short & long terms) of repairing our refiniries.

But this is just my humble opinion. Please can we have yours. Kindly educate us.

Reps reaffirm opposition to
fuel subsidy removal December 1, 2011 at 4:02 am by Daily
Post Staff The House of Representatives has
restated its determination not to let
Nigerians down on the proposed
removal of subsidy from petroleum
products by the Goodluck Jonathan
administration. The Chairman of the House Committee on
Media and Public Affairs, Zakari
Mohammed, said Nigerians should have
faith in the House on the matter, adding
that the President must present it to the
National Assembly. Mohammed addressed reporters at an
interactive session with members of the
House.
He said the President would have to
explain to Nigerians details of what is
expended on fuel subsidy as against what was appropriated by the National
Assembly. Mohammed said: “The position of the
House is that we don’t even know the
amount spent on fuel subsidy. All oil
producing countries in the world
subsidise and we said if last year we
spent half a trillion, this year we are talking about over a trillion, there is a
problem somewhere. “We are saying: where is this money
going? We told Mr President at the last
meeting we had with him to go after the
cabal. ‘You are empowered; if it is on
that, we are supporting you to unravel
the economic saboteurs’. “We are still on that page. Until we are
convinced, we will not do anything to
betray the confidence of the people. We
have closed this matter for a while. We
are on it and we have not concluded on
it. What we are saying is that the appropriate government agency, right
from the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) and others, should
give us information.”

Abagworo:
Bayelsa remains the way Alamiesiegha left it.Even Jonathan could not do anything.Sylva is nothing to write home about. Dickson will be another 4-8 years of waste. Only Ben Bruce could have been the much needed Messiah.

My stand is that since both Dickson and Sylva are the same set of incompetent people, why replace "okay" with "mediocre"?

Even Timi Alaibe could do better than these two.Anyway I'm not from Bayelsa.Let them waste more 4 years.Na their business be that.My Imo and Rivers are doing well with competent Governors.

Very true; Ben Bruce is indeed what Bayelsa needs. But wonder why he wanted to become governoe through PDP since his mindset to make sure the "people's money is spent for the good the people" is totally at variance with what obtains in PDP. 'wonder what made to think he has a chance of getting the ticket in the first place at all.

And now that he been cast aside by the machinery of the PDP that would not want a similar "OKOROCHA tight-fisted" goverment that will not favour "chops-for-all" for the boys to happen in Bayelsa, if Ben Bruce really wants to help Bayelsans, why can't he go and contest under CPC or APGA; or isby force he must be a PDP governor.

By the way, I noticed the SilverBird morning-show has stopped his pro-goverment suppoting tendencies during interviews that are political in nature,

firstly, let me say the minister's assertion is true. Infact it's not just about devaluation. Everything that is wrong with Nigeria today started during the administration of GEJ's adopted father. He practically legalised and laid the foundation for Corruption as we see it today.

But having said this, I really don't see the point of the minister bringing that fact up now. It's a lame excuse for non-performance of today's goverment; that is GEJ's goverment.

Only an EFFCC that is not under the control of the President and the executive can fight corruption.

there are already concerns from some quarters and bodies that Lamorede is "Politcal Exposed Person" and freind to many "Politcal Exposed Persons".

Move along people; there is nothing here; the War against corruption is dead for now.

In GEJ's present goverment, corruption is having a rosy air-conditioned, jacuzzi, 7-star residential accomodation. Only an ignorant or mischief maker will say this is not so,

Please lets forget about projects for now. Roads are much simpler to guage what I'm talking about. Al least everyone can see that. The roads in these places I mentioned have needed to be done like 2 yrs ago. When Fashola came to Alimosho wish is the biggest LG in Lagos, to campeign for 2nd term, he said his plain sight of everyone, that his plan is to start work on this places immediately after 2nd term. Well there is no sign of anthing. These are roads that once it rains, there is problem. Why d neglect of this areas.

Then the way you are responding, going gaga at any form of critism of Fashola is give-away. Anyone with ituition will know u are a goverment agent. U dont even want to reason with people or meet them halfway. fashola is all round best and that's it. I wish u d best in your PR job.

By the way, does anyone know why all these goverment PR men are invading Nairaland?

first of all let me say it's obvoius Eko-ile is another BEAF, but ds time working for Fashole someway, somehow; not GEJ.

I've said this before and I'll say it again: Fashola is an elitist governor. I've known this for long and in this his 2nd term, the fact is becoming very conspicous. Only an mischeavous person will argue otherwise. The lady who said Fashola is beatifying one-side of Lagos while abandoning the rest is so-too right.
Many roads in posh have been rehabillated and sevarl rehabillated and re-worked up to even three times. But the same Fashola has completely abandoned the arears where you don't have the elitist-rich upper class dwelling. From Ikotun to Egbe, Ejigbo-Isolo, Agege, Ipaja, Iseri-Jakande Road etc, these roads are in terrible conditions.

He has also attended to the mainstream roads that rich people flying into Lagos will see and are likely to ply.

Then the corruption & cornering of state resources going in Lagos is phenomenal .

then take a look at the unbelievable and rediculous hike in LASU fees which Fashola is justifying and taking a hard posture on. Exactly what's on his mind: does he wants LASU to be only for the rich.

and concerning the buildings, the state can erect estate in which civil servants and people earning like a 100k a month can afford to own through a appropriate scheme. The tuth is, the state is only inerested in luxury flats because they know thats where they will make a lot of money, both officially and much more unofficially by cutting so many delas, aquiring alloacations for themselves and reselling to rich people who are ready to pay millions for them,

PointB:
^^^^
Ribadu was also appointed by the Presidency, so was Jega, and in another clime Dors Akunyili.

Sometimes it's the personality that matters at other times it is the institution. It's not rocket science to get an agency to function. Square peg, square holes.

executinal:
says who??, well bellow responds is for your guidegbam.

I just marvel at you guys logic and arguement sometimes. All over the world, in advanced countires, it'a a well known and established fact that it is Institution that matters and not individual.

Your mentioning of some few names does not change that fact.

Bodies like INEC and EFCC (NAFDAC does not fit into the picture) are not under the control of the President in civilised democracies all over the world. Go and find out.

The RIBADU which you are talking about, can kindly please tell me what happened to him under the Yaradua Presidency, when his determination to do his job began to cross the interest of some PDP politicians and goverment officials?

I rest my case?.

This news is completely false. We all know the intent of this poster for making this post.

I advise Nairalanders to shun every single post of this person and he will fade into obscurity.

Please people try and do this.

The contents of this article is exactly the opposite of the title the poster has given it. Talk about abilty to comprehend?.

If Ben Bruce was not another bootlicker of Goverment in power, he would have been able to see beyond his nose, and would not have contested on the platform of PDP.

If he had contested on the platform of APGA, I believe he would win, even despite all PDP,s attemp to rig. You can see from the little campeign he did so far that has a goodwill similar to the one Okorocha has in Imo. People want a geniuie change and would have voted for him massisvely.
Maybe now all the pro-goverment tendencies on Silverbird morning shows will stop.

The President has no business in appointing the chairperson EFCC or any anti-corruption body for that matter.

Nothing is gatering any steam. EFCC is failing becusae it's under the tight control of the President and the PDP machinery. It will continue to fail as long the status-quo remains.

Kobojunkie:
^^^ I am guessing you have no idea what this decision by the traditional rulers potentially means for Nigeria as a whole? It means we finally have a go ahead to move Nigeria as a whole forwarned . . . . eliminate the problem we have all been burdened with for a long time now . . .

If only these were true.

The truth is this: the prosperity and opulence and way of life of the Tradional rulers/Emirate, for the first time feels threatend by the Almajiri system via the activities of Boko-Haram - because having being so dehumanised, life is worthless for them, they are an easy prey to bainswashing and an endless supply of suecide bombers for Group, to be used against anyone. There os nothing more dangerouse than a man who is ready to die; who has nothing worth living for.

Are the Traditional Rulers after decades of existence of the system suddenly realizing that it is evil, very evil and has ruining lives of genrations of youths. These elders who are custodian of theor own people. They are supposed to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

It's interesting to note that they yet don't see anything wrong when this same people burn churches and kill christians.

So don't get exited. These rulers are only inerested in protecting their own asses. The only love they have is for thmselves, not Nigeria, and certainly not the the disavantaged and dehumanized Almajiri youth.

Kilode?!:
Are we still waiting for Boko haram to condemn almajiri before we take this opportunity to save those young kids?

It's time to put politics aside and act for the sake of those children.

Exactly my point.

egift:
@Beaf and co:
I thought PDP were alleging that Boko Haram was the child of CPC, specifically Buhari!!!

You beat me to it. Exactly what I wanted to poit out. I'm sure everything will stll link back to PDP.

I hope those brainwahed ignoramus shouting Ayatollah Buhari will shut up now and have a rethink.

I think Fashola is an Elitist governor. This coud not be percieved so much before because Lagos had had it so bad in governance.

But it's clear to me. If you for instance analyse the way/logic by Fashola is "doing" Lagos roads, you will see he's concentating on roads in elitist neigbourhoods (some have been done up to three times) while roads in arear like Ikotun, Isolo, Ipaja, Agege, Iseri have been COMPLETELY ABANDONED,

Further more, the headline below and its contents expresses clearly the opinion of General Buhari on Fuel Subsidy and Fuel Subsidy Removal

Fuel Subsidy Inflames Jonathan,
Buhari Row Isah
Ramat's
picture Fri, 11/11/2011 - 12:27am | SHUAIB SHUAIB , BLESSING ANARO , and STANLEY ORONSAYE Cover Stories News Although Buhari is in the opposition, he does not politicise the issue of fuel subsidy because he knows the country will benefit from it. It is strange that those who should know better have turned to criticising government and are ever waiting at every turn to vilify whatever it is doing -- JONATHAN Most of what they call subsidy is the cause of corruption. When the product gets to Nigeria, they allow it to stay at the ports for 14 days so that they can pay demurrage. It stays at the jetty where charges are paid -- BUHARI President Goodluck Jonathan and the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday expressed
divergent views over the proposal of the federal government to withdraw the petroleum subsidy in January, 2012. Jonathan and the former Head of State spoke at separate functions in Abuja. First to fire the first salvo was the president who used the forum of the 17th
Nigerian Economic Summit, organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) to inform the audience that unlike other opposition leaders, Buhari had backed the subsidy removal.
Jonathan also lambasted those who for their selfish interest were politicising what he said was a good policy that would benefit Nigerians in the long run. The president said: “Although Buhari is in the opposition, he does not politicise the issue of fuel subsidy because he knows the country will benefit from it. It is strange that those who should know better have turned to criticising government and are ever waiting at every turn to vilify whatever it is doing. “If the fuel subsidy is not removed now, Nigeria will begin to import petroleum products from Ghana, Chad, and Niger, among other countries in the next 10 years.” According to Jonathan, those criticising the decision to remove the subsidy are out to misinform the Nigerian masses, saying that, “It (fuel subsidy removal) is the best thing that will happen to the country”. In a report submitted to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Appropriation and Finance, investigating the management of Petroleum Support Fund (PSF), otherwise known as fuel subsidy recently, the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) disclosed that the federal government spent N3.7 trillion on fuel subsidy between 2006 and this year. Buhari, who served the country as federal
commissioner of petroleum and natural resources during the military regime of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, was said to have stated that fuel subsidy had been an opportunity through which those controlling the country have been stealing resources out of the country’s coffers. President Jonathan said whatever he is doing now is not for his person, but for the good of the country tomorrow.
In that vein, Shamsudeen Usman, minister of national planning said the federal government has already sent a bill on continuity to the National Assembly for consideration. According to him, growth is all about continuity and consistency, without which there would always be policy summersault. He said a situation like that will scare away investors. If the bill passes through the National Assembly, whatever policies (particularly the issue of the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) put into place would not be changed by future government without regard to law. But Buhari has faulted the claim of Jonathan, saying that he has never supported the plan to remove the fuel subsidy on the grounds that there is no subsidy in the first place. Contradicting the position of Jonathan who commended him for backing the removal of the subsidy, Buhari said the president quoted him out of context by suggesting he was in support of the removal of the subsidy.
Speaking through his spokesman, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, Buhari said what he meant was that the existence of the subsidy was a scam and an avenue for marketers and government officials involved in the importation of petroleum products to corruptly enrich themselves. Acknowledging that Buhari’s position had
been completely misrepresented by the president, Odumakin said, “Gen Buhari does not support the fuel subsidy removal. All that he said was that there was no subsidy and the government should fix the refineries and stop the importation of petroleum products.” He said: “Most of what they call subsidy is the cause of corruption. When the product
gets to Nigeria, they allow it to stay at the ports for 14 days so that they can pay demurrage. It stays at the jetty where charges are paid. “Government should build new refineries, fix existing ones and should not be involved in the importation of petroleum products. And if the products should be imported, it should be left strictly to the oil marketers.”

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Fuel subsidy removal a time
bomb –Odumakin Written by newsadmin on November 3,
2011 in Politics - No comments •Odumakin Pro-democracy activist and Spokesperson
for General Muhammadu Buhari,
Presidential candidate of Congress for
Progressive Change (CPC) in April
elections, YINKA ODUMAKIN in this
interview with Asst. Politics Editor, DANIEL KANU, speaks on the planned
removal of oil subsidy, Sovereign Wealth
Fund, President Goodluck Jonathan’s
performance so far, among other issues.
Excerpts: The recently held local government
election in Lagos State saw opposition
political parties crying foul. How would
you react on the exercise? My involvement in that election came
when I got calls from CPC members in
Agege local government, who were
complaining that they won two wards
where results were issued to them but
that at the local government level where the final results were supposed to be
collated LASIEC announced the wards
won by the ACN and refused to announce
the wards where they won. Their
apprehension became so serious because
there were reports of results being changed in different areas. Well, I
advised them to go to the local
government first to find out what was
really happening. They mobilsed and
went to the local government and while
they were there they called me on phone and I was hearing sirens at the
background. They told me that the local
government chairman had called in the
police with the allegation that the CPC
people came with weapons to burn down
the place but when the police came and saw that the people were not armed in
anyway, but were mere protesters, they
appealed to them. The police looked at
the result and said it was difficult for
anybody to change it. We also got the
media involved. So by the time the final result was announced those two wards
were announced in favour of the CPC. But
on the whole some of the things that
worry me in that election are as follows:
it was reported in the media that the
national leader of the ACN went to the polling booth without voter’s card and he
was allowed to vote. That was not good
but I learnt that other people who have
also lost heir cards were allowed to vote.
But if the law says that you need to
present your voters card before you vote, why change that rule at the middle of the
game. That was not neat and tidy for me
and I have issues with that. Secondly I
am surprised that a former chief judge of
the state would conduct an election,
announce results after 48 hours and about 10 days after the election we still
don’t have figures of what candidates or
parties scored. They just announced that
ACN or PDP had won this and this seat
without saying that in this place this was
what they scored and they have been sworn in. That also says a lot about the
election and electoral misbehaviour in
the country. I am also aware of the loud
protest by the PDP that they won in some
places but that their victory was denied
them. That is bad enough but also I think this is what the PDP serves nationally.
Justice Adeyinka said those that are
aggrieved should go to court I said this is
also the language of the PDP. Once they
rig election, they will tell you to go to
court because they know they are in charge of the Judiciary. An interesting
thing I read was Senator Musliu
Obanikoro saying that he does not have
confidence in the Lagos judiciary to give
judgement in this matter because the
judiciary is in the pocket of the ruling party in the state. That says a lot about
our failing institutions, which means that
because the PDP controls a larger space it
manipulates our institutions, electoral
institutions and the judiciary institutions
to suit its whims. If what the PDP is saying in Lagos is also true, it means that
in the small space that the ACN is
controlling, ACN also does what the PDP
does at the larger space. So it means that
if the ACN has the chances that the PDP
has it will still do the same thing, and that is worrisome. It shows the
immaturity of the Nigerian political class
and its inability to play by the rules. They
will only shout foul when they are hit. What is your take on the planned
removal of fuel subsidy by the federal
government? Well I think it is the greatest fraud of the
century for anybody to be talking about
the removal of subsidy; talking about the
landing cost in Nigeria as if it is no longer
in this Nigeria where we used to have
four functioning refineries, which were operating at full capacity that we had
enough fuel for our domestic
consumption. We were even exporting
refined petroleum products to other
countries. What has happened over the
years that today we are just talking about landing cost? When they are
talking about landing cost, it’s a big
fraud. Now this is what happens and we
are challenging them to controvert it.
Those who import fuel and those who are
in government have colluded with a cabal to rob the Nigerian people blind.
Their agents have sabotaged our
refineries so that the billionaires they
have created through fuel importation
will continue to have their game. We
know those who were washing cloths three years ago and today they are
billionaires because they have exclusive
rights to import fuel into the country.
When election comes they bring out
billions to fund the elections then when
those people they have sponsored with the funds win they will now put them on
their economic team and these are
people who do not have any idea on how
the economy should function. Now how
do they make their money? Fuel
importation should be by private people but it is the government that does the
circulation. The Minister of Petroleum and
the President are the ones who know
where they are importing fuel from and
how much the fuel will cost. When the
fuel lands here deliberately they will allow it to stay in the ports for 14 days
and then they start paying demurrage of
$10, 000 per day, which will be part of
the landing cost and this is after the fuel
has landed. Then they now move the fuel
after the 14 days from the ports to private jetty where they will pay other
outrageous charges before they now
allow the marketers to load. If they bring
100litres for example the marketers may
load about 70 litres, the remaining 30
litres are now what are calculated upon which the whole landing cost is on the 70
they have given out to the marketers for
the price of 100. It’s all this fraud they
computed and called fuel subsidy and
that is what they are saying they want
to remove. The only thing that should be removed is supposed to be the lack of
accountability and the corruption. It is
the greatest scam of the century. They
have also come up with another
argument that they are going to remove
fuel subsidy and push the money to some eminent Nigerians to manage. If the
government cannot manage proceeds
from oil subsidy and now wants some
eminent Nigerians to manage it, so why
not put those eminent Nigerians to
government or put government in the hands of these eminent Nigerians? It
means that those in government are not
eminent; it means their words are not
straight. As it stands now all the states
have rejected allocation for September
on the basis of the fact that government has turned so-called fuel subsidy into first
line charge that they want to remove
N250billion for September as fuel
subsidy. When have marketers become
first line chargers? The other fundamental
issue is that in this year alone the budget for fuel subsidy was N250billion. Now
they have removed N250billion in just
one month and yet they have not
increased what they are importing and
the price has not gone up internationally
which tells you that the whole thing is a fraud, just for those who are milking us
to continue to steal. Federal government
must know the implication of the action
they want to take. We feel it is not in the
best interest of Nigerians and they must
listen to the pulse of the people. We are sitting on a keg of gunpowder and this
action government is proposing is like a
time bomb that points to danger ahead.
Government must weigh its option and
tread cautiously. The poor masses are still
dying instalmentally and what the FG wants to do may cause civil unrest. The
truth is that Nigerians don’t want it
because they know it’s not in their
interest. What of the federal government’s
insistence on implementation of the
Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF)? Sovereign Wealth Fund is another
attempt by the government to set aside
some money, which they will also do
with what they like. Have we forgotten
the excess crude account, how it was
depleted. When President Yar’Adua died we had billions of naira in that account.
How many months did it take and the
entire thing was gone? You can see that
the governor’s forum is saying that they
cannot trust the FG with such funds. So if
the governors are saying that they cannot trust the FG, how do you now
expect Nigerians to trust the FG? How would you assess the performance
of President Goodluck Jonathan in
office so far? For me, I have not been disappointed
except those who are ambushed by
sentiments of geography, religion or
whatever. It was clear that from the few
months that Jonathan stayed as the
Acting President, he lacked the needed competence to manage a country like
Nigeria and his incompetence has shown
in the last six months in the way the
country has been handled. The way the
country has been managed has left little
to be desired and we have not seen a clear policy direction. We have seen the
way the security situation has been
badly mis-managed in the country. We
have seen that the economy is not
getting anywhere. We have a President
that that does not face responsibility but one who is always giving alibi. Look at
what happened on October 1 when MEND
issued a threat that they were going to
bomb the Eagle Square if there was any
parade there. He decided to go and hold a
‘beer palour’ celebration inside the Villa, surrendering to merchants of terror. What should he have done? What he should have been done in that
instance was either to cancel the entire
celebration out rightly or say okay, all
civilians stay off but all military chiefs, all
security chiefs lets go to the Eagle Square
and we have to secure the venue because if we can secure the Villa, we
can secure the venue and must look this
terrorists in the face and tell them that
they cannot dictate to Nigerians how we
will live our lives. If he had insisted that
all security chiefs should mount surveillance there, nothing should have
happened and then the terrorists could
have gotten the message that they
cannot dictate to us. Look at the way the
country is going there is no development
in any sector. You will just be hearing of billions being voted every week and
nothing seems to be changing for better.
And there is no clear direction on where
the country is going. So what do you expect him to do? First the issue of security must be taken
seriously. There has to be clear direction
to show Nigerians that the leadership can
secure this country. That is very
important. In terms of the economy,
infrastructure must be looked into. About petroleum issue, what we need to do is
to fix our refineries and stop this
nonsense of talking about landing cost.
Niger Republic that just discovered oil,
we hear, is building refinery. They will
soon start exporting fuel to Nigeria. What is wrong in fixing our refineries with all
the money that we have? President
Jonathan needs to get his acts together.

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The punishment is very okay. It's not severe. She has been asked to sweep for 7 days.

Do you want stealing to be encouraged?

Ozin:
Na today?I beg make we hear word u can still wait and vote for Buhari in 2015,rubbish!Was he not head of PTF? and made his cousin the main consultant there?

Do a little resaerch before opening your mouth to talk. Buhari is not corrupt like your brother Jonathan and his PDP cohorts.

The point of the fact is: the nation's refiniried does not have to be in private hands for it to function maximally. Likewise the Benue cement company. No sir, it most definitly doesen't.

And it was completely criminal for OBJ to hand over the nation's refiniries to two men. Ina decent societies like Europe and US, such a President will be mad eforcefully resign or face impeachment.

Poster, do you not know that Otedola and Dangote are part and parcel of Nigeria's problem; very central to the reason why our refinries are not working?

Do you not know that viable national strategic parastatals which constitute our common wealth are systematically ruined so that they can be sold and aquired cheaply by same people or their accomplices in business who front for them?

And really who gives a shit about the names. While I'm not against the names being published, that would not still validate the need to impoverish the people with incease in fuel price.

If Jonathan and his cohorts are sincere and u want to deal with this cartel, cabals or whatever, why not not with fury, go ahead and put the refiniries in order; our rfiniries would supply all the fuel we need, hence there will be no need for importation, and need for subsidy will automatically disappear. Then the annual 1.3 trillion being spent annualy on subsidy(according to goverment can be diverted towards the development of infrastructure.
Tell me, is that such an impossibilty. It's impossible bc the goverment is cabal and the cabal is goverment. Why? Without support of goverment, the cabal cannot do a thing.


just like the agberos cannot be terrorising Lagos without the support of the Tinubu/Fashola Administration.

what every youth and nIgeran citzen should be demanding without compromise from "our freind Jona" is tha he should go and fix the nation's refiniries.

Poster, you are a big i.d.i.ot. Did you not go to school or what kind of a heading is that.

if u know u wanted to ask a question, why not something like: Is Nigerian Brewery Promtions and car gifts for Real?

And what makes you think anyone gives a Poo about convincing you?

is not by force to start a thread. There is no car gifs for it.

just like chaircover said, you talking of overseas; there are tens of thousands of kids growing up in Lagos who understand and can only speak English and the parents are so proud. It really baffles me.

Beaf:
When he jailed only Southerners for corruption, you think he faked it?
When he pampered the President, Shagari (a fellow Fulani) and sent the Southern Vice President to Kirikiri Maximum Prison, you think he faked it?
When he enrolled Nigeria for the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) with wild-eyed sharia inspired ecstasy, you think he faked it?

Keep your wooden headed revolution in the wild lands where it belongs.

Does this disgraceful self-actualised Jonthan's slowpoke actualy expect me to tackle concepts and reasonings with him? I have better things to do with my time.

Skii:
But on a real, could we have blown our chance to salvage this country in 2011? elections?

naijababe:
Yes we did; by electing clueless Jonathan. It's only a matter of time for his hardcore fans to biw their head in shame as the letter emanating from the office of the chairmen of south-south Youth council. I'm sure Ben Bruce too will soon be bowing his head in shame.

naijababe:
How old are you?! Much needed revolution my foot

You are a good example of what I'm talking about; also of what texpette is also talking about.

First I said revolutionary change not a revolution; and it means a complete departure from the usual practice, a state of enemity of the goverment in power with the former system of running goverment business, utilising state's resources.

So what do you mean by "revolution my foot". Do you mean we don't need it or that Buhari/bakare presidency is not capable of doing this? And you beleive Jonathan will. Was I not right in saying we addicted to suffering, mediocrity (he's trying) etc

Buhari shed tears. You think he faked it? You think a grown man, a military man shed tears for nothing.

I give up.

By the way, I am in my thirties.

Men, such a pity; our youths of today walk with their brain under their feet. Anyone with half a brain can see this guy is contesting for President because he wants to bring about the much needed revolutionary change to Nigeria. That means that most Nigerian youths of today have no brain. They are incapable of discerning and choosing a leader who ready against all odds to face all the forces of corruption and evil men and bring change to Nigeria.

It's sad to say, but the sufferings of many Nigerian youths may extend into their forties and even fifties.

No problem, when 2015 comes, go ahead and once again vote for your clueless and charlatan Jonathan; and the the evil demonic PDP who will keep on getting fat from sucking your blood.

It seems the youths can no longer make use of their own brain, but just follow popularPDP propangada.

Imagine: Buhari is a terrorist; Buhari has no intergrity (are u serious!); he killed NYSC students.

We are addicted to suffering and if Nairaland can be used a microcosm, I see no end in sight yet.

Pathetic and brain dead nation.

Is your 5230 still available? Can I pay you 13k for it. Pls do try to reply here or send a text or fash to 0806 832 1289.

Mr President, don’t let us down
By Rasheed Ojikutu
Tuesday, 11 Oct 2011

I was not born rich, and in my
youth, I never imagined that I
would be where I am today, In
my early days in school, I had
no shoes, no school bag… My
dear good people of Nigeria, I want all of you to know that I
am one of you and I will never
let you down. I want you to
know that I will keep hope
alive, ” With these emotion laden
words, President Goodluck
Jonathan declared his
candidacy for the Peoples
Democratic Party primary on
September 18, 2010. By April 2011, Nigerians from all walks
of life queued behind him at
the polling stations to give him
the mandate that he so
desperately needed
considering the exigencies of the moment. The rest, as they
say, is now history. Placed on the plinth of his own
words as shown above, one
would want to ask “Is Mr
President keeping hopes
alive?” Certainly NO. Is he
letting Nigerians down? He would, if he follows the
economic blueprint of his
Finance Minister, Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, to remove
subsidy from petroleum
products and increase tariff on a number of essential items of
daily consumption which will
further worsen the already
precarious existence of the
masses. Okonjo-Iweala is no doubt an
economist of no mean
achievement and her position
at the World Bank is a
testimony to her expertise in
finance. However, the country, particularly, President
Jonathan should tarry a bit
before taking her economic
arithmetic hook, line and
sinker because textbook
economics most times come with idealism rather than
realism. This is coupled with
the fact that the minister who
had lived outside the shores of
Nigeria for so many years may
not be in tune with the actual situation on ground, hence, she
could innocently burn the
finger of the Jonathan’s
administration through some
inchoate policy initiatives. The intention of the Jonathan
administration to raise the
tariff on electricity and hike
fuel prices may tally with the
principles of Adam Smith, Karl
Marx or Milton Friedman. The model of economy being
introduced by Okonjo-Iweala
may not differ markedly from
the theories propounded by
Martín de Azpilcueta of the
School of Salamanca, but what are the empirical evidences
that these principles would
translate into the much desired
benefits, when replicated in
the lives of the masses of
Nigeria. For a people that are already overtaxed,
undernourished, overworked
and under-remunerated by the
economic misguidance and
misjudgment of yesteryears,
there could be no other inauspicious time than now to
introduce such livelihood
demeaning policies that would
further pauperise the poor
while further oiling the silky
skin of the rich. The history of fuel price
increase in Nigeria dates back
to the military era. Between
1978 and 1999 when the
civilian administration
assumed office, the price of petrol was increased from
15kobo per litre in 1978 to
60kobo in 1990, 70kobo in
1992, N3.25kobo in 1993,
N11.00 in the same year and
by 1998 it was N20. The civilian administration of
Olusegun Obasanjo took the
baton and completed the
insensitive marathonic
increase from N22.00 in 2002
to N26.00 in 2003. Today, the pump price of petrol is N65.00
per litre. Other products like
diesel and kerosene do not
differ in price treatment as
they are equally astronomical
and outside the purview of the common man. The Nigerian who is regularly
made to pay more at the gas
station has a couple of
questions to ask. Let it be clear
first and foremost that the
government in this case has no power beyond that bestowed
on it by the people of Nigeria
through the instrument of the
constitution. The government
as the custodian of our
national purse sells the product, collects the revenue
and disburses the money on
behalf of the people of Nigeria.
Therefore, it may not be out of
reason to demand explanation
on why, despite unparalleled price increase, public facilities
are still dysfunctional. The problem was certainly not
caused by Jonathan, but for a
man who made promises to
keep hope alive, the heart
palpates at the insensitivity of
his finance minister to the plight of Nigerians. Okonjo-
Iweala should know that we
have passed through this road
before and that her reasons for
wanting to increase the pump
price of fuel is not new. The same story justified the price
and tariff adjustments of
yesteryears but the fact is that
after every such price increase,
there are no compensating
effect on public facilities and the livelihood of Nigerians.
Rather, on each occasion, the
life of the common man
nosedived far below what it
was before the pump
adjustment. Thanks to leakages in the pocket of the
nation as a result of official
corruption. Today, most Nigerians pay the
Power Holding Company of
Nigeria for services not
rendered. After all, Nigerians
generate their own electricity
because there is hardly a home, no matter how poor,
where there is no generator
and yet, the same Nigerians
pay more for diesel and petrol
to fuel the engine. They pay
more for kerosene to light their lantern. Same for education as most
Nigerians today provide
education for their children by
sending them to private
schools and other institutions
outside the country because of the deplorable conditions of
government-owned schools. Today, most Nigerians either
purchase their water from
water vendors, or get them
from other improvised sources.
There is hardly a home in
Nigeria today where there is no well or borehole. This is
because most public taps are
dry. Yet, this is a country with
abundant water. Roads have become death trap.
In most cities, area boys repair
roads with broken bricks while
forcing motorists to part with
money. Nigerians now provide more
security for themselves
through private security outfits
than through the myriads of
official security forces in the
country. It stands to reason to argue
that if all these are happening
in the life of a man, then he
wouldn’t be expected to live
long. No wonder the life
expectancy of a Nigerian is just 46 years. Recently a friend forwarded a
text to me on my BlackBerry
phone. The content reads: “Between 1450s and 1850s,
over 400,000 Africans were
forcibly carried away as
slaves. Today, if a slave ship of
one million capacity berths at
Apapa port and calls for those who want to go voluntarily to
the US or UK on slavery, the
ship will not take one hour to
be filled” I forwarded this text to my
daughter on her Blackberry and
her reply was “That’s true
Dad>I don’t think it will take
one hour to fill up the ship and
there would be casualties because of rush”. There couldn’t be a better way
of describing the current state
of affairs in Nigeria than the
words of these two people. The question is “what exactly
is the essence of government
and governance if it fails
abysmally in the duties
enumerated above?” Whither
the hope! Now that a man who claims to know where the
shoe pinches, because of his
antecedent that was devoid of
riches and affluence, is in
charge, one would expect him
to understand the plight of the pauperised and famished
people of Nigeria and alleviate
their sufferings rather than
add to the problems. However,
with a finance minister who
professes to know it all while advocating additional heavy
burden on the common
Nigerian, there is no way
Jonathan will not let Nigerians
down. There is certainly no
way the door of opportunities that lifted the President from a
shoeless school boy to the first
citizen of Nigeria would be
open to the children of the
poor. Dr. Ojikutu, wrote in from
Faculty of Business
Administration, University of
Lagos, vide
ladiojikutu@yahoo.com http://www.punchng.com/
Articl.aspx?
theartic=Art20111011053170

both of them, Ngozi and Sanusi, is it a difficult thing for them to outline a plan  and convince Jonathan to set a 6-9 months deadline for making all our the refineries work and 18-24 months for building new ones.

I thought that any seasoned and sincere economist will rather attack the root cause of a problem than treat the symptom.

both of them, Ngozi and Sanusi, is it a difficult thing for them to outline a plan and convince Jonathan to set a 6-9 months deadline for making all our the refineries work and 18-24 months for building new ones.

I thought that any seasoned and sincere economist will rather attack the root cause of a problem than treat the symptom.

can't stick the miserable keypad of nokia N78. I find it not comfortable; at
Least for me.

Phone is still available for lucky buyer.

DrugDoc:
The government has admitted its failure and mediocrity but you don't want to hear. We are all responsible for this mess. Its failure and mediocrity is Nigeria's too. It wants the private sector to run things for a profit since Nigeria by its design lacks patriotism. If NITEL were running the gsm sector, you can just imagine where that sector will be now. We will only bring misery on ourselves by asking a government of looters to refine and subsidize our fuel.

What are you saying man?

If you are clueless about a matter, it's not by force that you must comment.