₦airaland Forum

Winterhaven:
Dead on arrival for the super chickens... As if they will have any impact if they qualified for the world cup

Let us go first

kingbee90:
Confused Gov. and rubber-stamp senate.

Rewarding their political associates with undeserved Gov positions while the system suffers due to their incompetence & gross financial misconduct.

Did you read the profiles?

ebukal67x:
The probe is a distraction. Farouk should focus on the job.

Which job, approving billion of liters of petrol?

malali:

Its not by just building refinery
Run it for 3 years problem free.
Show us its a thriving business with or without government patronage.
Anybody can build a refinery and then seek to monopolize the petrol sector

Dangote has finally cracked the code. These guys should not drag us back to Egypt

malali:
There has been refineries built, there are privately owned modular refineries in Nigeria asides Dangote's.
They are not complaining.
The risk of buying from only Dangote outweighs the problems we might have from corrupt import process
They can fix the import process and make it more transparent.
But Nigeria should never hand over all its petrol supply to Dangote.
Thats the worst decision any government can make.

You missing the big picture. How does importation solve our energy problems? I thought what those wailers should be doing is developing and seeking support to build a Refinery or buy out NNPC Refinery and compete. These your argument does not hold water

malali:

He can end importation not by monopolizing the the sector but by dropping the price he sells.
Dangote wants to operate like a drug cartel. You can only buy petrol from me and you can only sell crude to me.
Its a free market, lower your prices and Nigeria will buy from you

Let these importers come together and build a refinery, simple. It's create more jobs and a bigger economy

bestman09:
Bua is already building his own refinery. This is good for the country. Monopoly is bad.

And for your information, the said Farouk doesn't have the power to issue an import licence unilaterally. There may be some corruption underneath anyway but it didn't start today and I pray it'll end with this fight. However, like I said before, Dangote should fight for his business. When he was importing Rice, he made sure that local rice farmers and fellow importers closed their businesses

Is he still the one blocking them today? No. Let others build Refinery and compete. That means more jobs and bigger economy
We should stay away from the rent seeking approach to our national life

malali:
Tell me why he is worried about their petrol imports.
Why does he need levy to stay competitive.
Why doesn't he just sell his petrol cheaper than their imports ?
He is producing locally, he doesn't pay transport to ship it back from Europe, so his own should be cheaper.
So why not just use pricing to eliminate the competitors ?

Because we are all Nigerian and we know that the so call importers comes from Togo, and some blended. These are individuals who import only documents as fuel in the time past.
My question to you why these individuals can't build a refinery for themselves and compete?

malali:
In business, you cannot force a buyer to buy or force a seller to sell. Dangote's refinery is a private business.
Its only in a drug cartel with monopoly, that you can dictate 100% who is the seller and who is the buyer.
Dangote trying to force Nigeria to buy petrol from him or sell crude to him is slowly taking the shape of a cartel.
If his prices are low and remain low, he does need to beg for buyers....But if he plans to sell at high prices then he needs a buyer that will keep buying regardless.
That is what he is doing now. He is trying to force Nigerians to be his 100% customers by eliminating all other sellers, after he is successful doing that he will now raise the prices.
Same thing was done when he started selling cement. The government has to make sure he has competition,

Has he stopped them from building a Refinery? That's how we killed the Textile industry.
You obviously want us to go back to those era when we are dependent on importation for energy security. The stability we have today in our fx market is as a result of Dangote's effort.
I can't see monopoly here

bestman09:
The concern here is the corruption allegation on the man Farouk, not on import license as he can never issue an import license on his own power.
Dangote likes monopoly. Many businesses closed down as a result of Dangote flooding the markets with sugar, flour and cement and heavens did not fall. Let him fight for his business. The sky is big enough to accommodate everyone.

Let them come together and build a refinery. Bua build cement company, nobody is complaining, Lefarage is inthe Cement sector, but they are all having cement plants in Nigeria.
To be using importation to compete with a local producer is evil.
Farouk issues import license

malali:
No third party speaking we are just tired as Nigerians, giving all our wealth to one person (Dangote) , now he is trying to monopolize the energy sector. Why cant he buy crude and sell petrol as a private business man. Must he sell to Nigeria ? If his margins are within profitability, he can sell petrol to anyone in the world. Why the fight to dominant and force a buyer to buy. He has more tricks up his sleeve as usual. Some of us have lived long enough to know how he does business. This is just stage one. His ultimate goal is to monopolize the sector

I have said it before go and build a refinery or advise the importers to build Refinery to compete, you are adding to our unemployment by buying back refined Petrol

malali:
He walked for Apple, when it started, Do you know if you had invested 10k USD in apple at that time you will have a return of 80 million dollars today.
Not everyone is as poor as you think

Go and defend him in ICPC/court

malali:
He walked for Apple, when it started, Do you know if you had invested 10k USD in apple at that time you will have a return of 80 million dollars today.
Not everyone is as poor as you think

Go and build Refinery and compete. This your argument is stale

malali:
Thats not true, USA imports Petrol, imports crude oil. This has not killed local production.
That argument is moot, we import a lot of stuff in Nigeria. Dangote should produce cheaper fuel and he will exterminate the competition, but not by trying to Levy the importers.

Why can't PETROAN and other importers build their own refinery and compete? PIA should be respected.
On you USA, you are comparing apple to orange, USA trades with her currency and does not have exchange problems, it's amusing that the fx that Dangote generate are what these importers are relying on for their importation, what an irony

bestman09:
I said it earlier that this expose and fight is not just about being patriotic by Dangote, but to save his multi billion dollar business as he likes monopoly in any field he is in.

Corruption in Nigeria is on another level and needs to be dealt with appropriately, so on this note, I'm very happy because the masses will enjoy the outcome. Price war has started and prices of petroleum products are going down rapidly as a result.

I also pray that the crook of a farouk should be investigated and prosecuted if found wanting. Imagine a civil servant spending millions of dollars on children's school fees.

Obviously sponsored by those who are benefiting from Farouk continuous stay on the seat.
So because Dangote is a billionaire, he should wait, open his eyes and allow his investment to be destroyed.
Dangote said his tanks are filled with refined Petrol, his production can meet local demand, at which point the PIA said an embargo should be placed on importation of petrol ( When domestic production meets local demand) yet the Farouk kept issuing import license.
That's how they killed the multi billion Naira Textile industry, Nichemtex gone, Nigeria Textile, Kaduna Textile etc all gone because of this type of policy.
I like Dangote style, he won't wait to be destroyed.

Nnamdipapa:
WHY OJUKWU MOVED THE BIAFRAN TROOPS INTO WESTERN REGION TOWARD LAGOS

This was Ojukwu's first mitary move - the thrust toward Lagos. If it had worked, the war would have been over in one month. His goal was to force Gowon out of Lagos and that would have led to the west breaking off too. Without the west, the north would not continue the war.

Nigeria had just declared war against Biafra. The head of Nigerian army was in Lagos commanding the war from there. Ojukwu had a very clear military objective to attack the Nigerian Supreme commander at his base, which was Lagos. The goal was to force Gowon to abandoned Lagos and move to Kaduna which would end the war. Biafra was not attacking the Yorubas. Ojukwu wanted to attack Gowon. Gowon was sending bombers to attack Ojukwu in Enugu. What is wrong about Ojukwu trying to attack Gowon wherever he found him? I hope you appreciate this answer. From a military point of view, that was a very brilliant move.

However, the western thrust failed because of confusion among the commanders. Colonel Victor Banjo who led the western thrust decided to pause at Ore to try to reach a different kind of deal with Yoruba elders. It was a terrible mistake militarily. He needed time to conclude such deals. So, he paused his advance at Ore for three weeks. That was all the time Gowon needed to organize a counter offensive led by Colonel Murtala Mohammed. The counter offensive succeeded in driving the Biafran forces back all the way across the River Niger.

The failure of the Western trust was the main reason Ojukwu suspected Banjo and ultimately executed him for treason 4 months later.

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Then He will appoint Banjo as Head, and Yoruba will report to Igboland. No be today. Nnamdi Azikwe attempted this same scenario in 1953/55 when he planted Micheal Okpara as the head of Eastern Region to become Premier and came personally to contest and want to rule Yoruba from Ibadan, what's the obsession of Igbos desire in Yoruba.
Today, you will hear, Lagos is no Man's land.
You guys go learn the hard way as in the 1950s

malali:
This is among the most refined responses I’ve encountered in quite some time. It clarifies why Farouk Ahmed places such deliberate emphasis on educating his children. Education is a form of permanent sovereignty: when the mind is trained, oppression loses its leverage—even in the absence of great wealth.

What we’re witnessing is not chaos, but a method:

*A wild and spurious allegation is introduced.
*It attracts a public brickbat, loud and emotionally charged.
*Then, the serious mind steps back—to dispassionately distill the issues.

That discipline is power.

When Dauda Kahutu Rarara sang “turanchi ko, turawa” in Omo-Ologo, this is precisely the subtext he was pointing to: not colonial nostalgia, but mental posture. The difference between reacting and reasoning. Between noise and navigation.

Education doesn’t merely inform; it inoculates.

Lol. PETROAN defending their godfather.

9jatriot:
Una sure say this guy na real lawyer? Does he think the EFCC chairman is a judge who needs to recuse himself from the case?

I have asked this question severally. I think he should focus on defending himself

budaatum:
I stand corrected. Below is the best I've found.

He's at the ICPC and he should there defend himself.

budaatum:
Likely from years of previously working in the United States and the United Kingdom within the oil and gas sector before becoming a civil servant!

Which Companies, name them

Salewa97:
The NMDPRA boss should be commended.

He has shown that he can stand firm against any pressure.

Farouk Ahmed, keep it up

But let him explain the source of the $5million dollar

Flangelo12:
This is too low for Dangote.

How is it low, the guy want to kill Dangote's $20billion investment
You dey play

SpaceX:
Most of the foreigners in Nigeria are criminals running away from their country...

Dey play

And an Igbo Man took him to court, an Igbo Man got the judgement to throw his Load out.
So what's government business in that.

You guys are barely literate

princeade86:
Good job. But I believe judge will release him which is the nigeria problem. And many are criticising ASUU, where as these people are embezzling in billions.

I don't get. What are his offense here if I may ask. Are those companies qualified and was due process followed?

AllBlack:
As a Nigerian wey get sense...

you no supposed to dey for that crowd oh.

e get why.

Lawlessness. I hope everyone there are arrested. You committing crime and you dey record am

DomPerignon:
Have you also considered that not being the true child of the deceased woman, the boy must have been subjected to traumatic child abuse ?

That boy not being remorseful is because he has been totally MK-Ultra'd by that woman


Every psychopath had a very abusive and traumatic childhood.

The boy not showing remorse is a symptom of his abusive childhood.

And they sent him to school, spent money and resources to raise him till he was 14. Aside the boy didn't claimed he was abused by the unfortunate Mother, he looks good for his age.
He was picked from an orphanage home not stolen as you claimed.
Yoruba will call this Foworaku

Hard works don't hide, it will speak. Congratulations

Ezeama400:
Tomorrow they will start crying for southern unity, yet they are ready to sabotage any progress from their southern neighbour..

Trust these people at your own peril.. We know them more than they know themselves..

Their sabotage didn’t start today.. They did it to Jonathan politically, now they are doing it to entire SS economically,,

Yet it's an FG led by a Yoruba Man and a Ministry headed by a Yoruba Man that has effected the movement. You will pretend you don't see that

Katell:
I remember this guy and Keyamo drama during the assassination of Bola Ige in 2001.

Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola, aka Fryo, was the prime suspect in the high-profile 2001 assassination of Nigeria's then-Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ige. Keyamo held a press conference where he presented Olugbenga Adebayo, who was at the time wanted by the police. Keyamo also released a sworn affidavit by Fryo, which alleged that the Deputy Governor of Osun State, Iyiola Omisore, and other high-ranking officials were involved in the murder plot. Shortly after being handed over to the police by Keyamo, Fryo repudiated the contents of the affidavit and dropped Keyamo as his lawyer. He claimed Keyamo had forced him to make false statements to implicate certain individuals especially the then Osun Deputy Governor, Iyiola Omisore. Following Fryo's denial, the police arrested Keyamo and charged him with perjury and for keeping a wanted person in his custody for more than five days. Keyamo's younger brother, Lucky Keyamo, also accused him of doctoring the confessional statement. Keyamo was later freed by the court for want of evidence, while Fryo remained a principal suspect in the murder trial. This was the case to brought Festus Keyamo to the limelight after his controversial exit from Gani Fawehinmi Chambers. Fryo became the prime suspect because he was among those hoodlums who removed Bola Ige cap at Ooni Palace, Ile-Ife on December 15, 2001 and Bola Ige was assasinated on December 23, 2001. He was a student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife at that time.

Fast forward to 2025, some 24 years later, Festus Keyamo is the Minister for Aviation, Iyiola Omisore is seeking APC gubernatorial ticket while Adebayo Olugbenga Adedamola has secured the same ticket through PDP.

Our polity has always been in the hands of people with questionable past.

Good insight. You just did the work of the journalist for him, providing context