₦airaland Forum

Nbote:
This report is funny. The high cost of these grains is why these companies are halting purchases. These grains are now high because farmers are suffering from security challenges and have been paying taxes to bandits while suffering losses and damages occasioned by herdsmen who ravage their farms to feed their livestock . Some farmers who do not have storage facilities will resort to selling off at a loss to eat in the meantime while those who have will simply store their grains and wait

That doesn't justify increment in prices everyday. Haba!! Cement was 10500 yesterday, 11000 this morning and 13000 this afternoon.
Gari was 900 two days ago, a seller was already mentioning 1200 naira today!
A 45ah battery was 27000 naira two weeks ago, today I paid 35000 in the morning and my friend paid 37000 naira in the afternoon! Can you see madness? They even refused to mention the price of some of other items, claiming that they don't know the current price yet, that we should come back later. Imagine what we have turned Nigeria into as a result of greediness, selfishness, lawlessness and lack of patriotism

Well, as far as I'm concerned, he's doing a shitty job. Making life a hell for the citizens

fawaz050:
Prepaid metres that were initially introduced as free. Now, one don cost like Gold.

I coughed out a total of 115k December last year for my prepaid meter

Topman7:
SHUT UP and stop talking rubbish.

What is all this “people better than you, smarter than you” rubbish?

Go to blazes with your wretched inferiority complex.

In your head some white pea brain who has more money than sense is “smarter and better” than a “nobody” on Nairaland.

Your comments stink of gross inferiority complex towards other races, and it’s disgusting and disgraceful to behold.

If you see yourself as a “nobody”, do not project your inferiority complex unto others.

Nonsense.

Are they not better and smarter than you? It is not about the skin colours, it is about wealth, then knowing what you want and going for it. Calling yourself somebody doesn't make you somebody. You are a NOBODY, at least for now

Penisman:
What did we even do wrong that they want to kill all of us in hellfire? Wetin we do sef?

Religious people are delusional people now

Dtruthspeaker:
Hunger don already chop you.so tay you no even fit Bleep olosho to get pikin.

Me? I have three generations under my care. Can you see now that I'm a true definition of a man while you are still a boy who have been damaged by wrong indoctrination and brainwashing since childhood.

highchief1:
my immediate elder sister I was chatting with on whstapp.sent her a message she didn’t reply again.in an interval of 20mins I was called by her husband before I could get to the hospital I met her lifeless.athsmatic attack. she was even cooking.since then nobody can tell me anything again.i know I have been damaged for life.no pastor or doctor can redeem me.i am ready to die now now now.death doesn’t scare me no more.i kinda feel the other side will be more interesting because most of the ppl I love most are there.

That was unexpected

oneman2k7:
It was on Wednesday 25th March, 2019 at exactly 11:15 am. She was sick and they sent for me. When I arrived, I bought some drugs, locozade boost because she lost her appetite.

I was sitting beside her and looking at her as if I don't want her to leave me. Around 11 o'clock, she said she wanted to take her bath, we prepared the bathroom for her. She requested that she want to change her clothe she wore to a new one, we quickly obliged.
Still I am the only child sitting beside her on the bed, all other siblings were around but all were outside talking. Around that same time, she forced me to eat something, which I did.

I was on her neck, monitoring her closely.
Around 11:10am, she told me to go outside and leave her room to go and meet my other siblings outside, I rejected this her offer. She was saying it repeatedly, I had to step out of her room and sit on a sofa facing her room instead.
Immediately I stepped out, my dad came into the room to see her only to meet my mum lifeless. My mum knew that she will die and my presence was preventing her from dying.

This is still fresh on my mind till today. My only regret till today is that I should not have left the room, I should have became Mario there.

I really love her and she knew this.

Rest in perfect peace mumsy

More like she was holding on because of your presence. She didn't want you to experience it and you should be thanking her because, only God knows what you would have been dealing with now.

CHIOMAEZEH:
I was giving my dad CPR and watched give you the ghost ....I was also at the back seat in the car, holding him upright as we took him to the hospital to he confirmed dead. . and then taken to the mortuary ... Being that I was holding him.... I felt his temperature turning from warm ...to cold ... .I still remember like it was yesterday...
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It brings relief to me when I realise that someone who has been pronounced was already turning cold before being buried or taken to the mortuary. That was how we (Muslims) nearly buried a man with warm body until I called the attention to it.

Christian36:
You just remind me the day I lost my mum, it was 15th November 2018 on Friday 4:53pm. What hurt me most is that dead didn't allow her to eat the fruit of her labour. Since then, I lost interest in anything that have to do with going to church and praying, with all her prayers and my family prayers yet dead still took her away from me and my siblings. I came to realize that some of the prayers we say won't change what has been destined to happen in our lives.

Welcome on board. The realisation of that fact makes life simple for the individual

Kobojunkie:
Oh, I see! Just wondering whether the cancer was asymptomatic or she was merely blinded by religion. Sadly, she is gone. please take heart.

From your first question, I knew right away that this is where you are heading to.

rhames:
Diesel is imported
Gypsum is imported
Paper package is imported
If there were substitutes the price of the finished product cement will not increase.

My point is that the prices all these items didn't start to increase just four weeks ago, it had been on the increase way back since Tinubu came on board. The price of cement on the other hand just skyrocketed within the last four weeks or so. And the rate at which the price of cement jumped didn't match the time line of the increase in the prices of its so called "raw materials".

Dtruthspeaker:
Its fools who pray to be rich. But, its okay, because today both rich and poor are going to burn forever since both are fools!

Don't try to have enough, hunger go wire you and your kids till your brain reset to factory default

bizzibodi:
Cement is not scarce unless you are saying d factory refuse to release them to d market making seller to hold into their products so that they will all benefits from d hikes in price.

That's what I meant now! They intentionally halted or reduced the supply. That was the beginning of the price hyper increase

Procashtips:
Actually, the top echelons know

Go and watch "Leave the world behind".

The movie dropped hints.

Still, there will be series of events leading up to that. You know, like Russia or China and USA threatening each other over some issues as usual. It won't be like North Korea will just wake up one day and send bomb to USA

LongT:
Why build bunkers underground when it could be build in space.

Living in space is not that simple, that's for the future when technology improves

PortHarcourtcit:
Mr ITK no man knows when the doomsday will struck... So be humble...

No one knows when or if it ever will. But of course, there has to be series of events leading to atomic bombs flying everywhere. He's somewhat correct.

Dtruthspeaker:
Remember now, the rich are already in trouble with God so.like denial, they have to try hiding and everything like the folks of Noah's days.

Why would the rich be in trouble with God? God must have hated wealth, right? But I'm sure that you are still praying to Him everyday to make you rich so that you too can be in trouble with Him
Religious people are special set of dumb people

jesusjnr2020:
What Bible Says About The Rich And Powerful Building Doomsday (Underground) Bunkers

Revelation 6:15-17 (KJV)

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains: And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

So even the doomsday underground bunkers being built by the rich and powerful will not be able to save them from the day of God's wrath if they don't repent.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/doomsday-luxury-bunkers/index.html

God bless.

They're not building bunkers to hide from the fairy God or his wrath but from the fellow man and his nuclear bombs, chemical and biological warfare. Olodo rabata!

RepoMan007:
They kidnap the breadwinner then expect his people to rally round and pay huge ransom hastily. Is that a good kidnap strategy?

Na to just withdraw his own money to bail him now. No be how it used to be before?

Ex CBN director! That's like huge ransom at play.

rhames:
Please educate them that diesel price is also on the increase

Since when the issue of increase in price of diesel start that it is now the reason price of cement jumped from 5200 naira to 10500 naira within four weeks?

bizzibodi:
My brother No artificial scarcity cements are everywhere.

There was artificial scarcity. In fact, that was the genesis.

BluntCrazeMan:
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Why are you all talking about DANGOTE.??

Is he the only cement manufacturer in Nigeria??

What also happened to BUA Cement, Elephant Cement, and Lafarge Cement.??

Does it mean that they all planned together and continued raising the price of cement.??

(Even without Dangote’s input).

Very much likely. The supply to the market just went down all of a sudden, within a month. Something that we produce in Nigeria, get from the ground and still export to the neighbouring countries.

Feldie:
all your mouth is government government government. This is why everyone keeps fleecing you because they know you will leave the real culprit and start attacking government that are chilling in Abuja without even the slightest care about you. If Nigerians start boycotting these people hiking prices, they will stop but they know we don't have sense

This is the result of leadership failure. When leaders fail and lose control, followers will do as they like. Goverment is government for a reason, not just to be earning fat salary and allowances and be stealing naira in billions.
Increased production costs can't be used to justify the price of cement surging from 5200 naira to 12000 naira in under six weeks. That's insane!

MASTERCHIEF0847:
Mumu, so because it's produced in Nigeria that has epileptic power supply and because the raw materials are locally sourced then it means the cost of production will not increase?
Limestone is mined from the quarry using heavy equipment that runs on diesel that is selling for over a thousand naira per liter. Others like gypsum are mostly imported and paid for in dollars which the naira cannot keep up with, coupled with the cost of diesel needed to run the cement factory and cost of transportation.... but a slow being like you believes the cement manufacturers just want to punish the masses.
Educate yourself you illiterate...or better still establish your cement factory so you can produce and sell for 1000 naira per 50kg bag. Banza kawaii.

So, all of these are just happening in the last four weeks, right? You are yarning dust.

MASTERCHIEF0847:
Increase in cost of production, transportation etc... that is what you get in a dollar-dependent economy.

No, you're partially wrong. They first created artificial scarcity, a situation where what they supply to the market is less than what people need. Ask yourself, why all of a sudden? Prices of other materials have going up steadily under Tinubu but cement price remained the same until about three or four weeks ago when the supply was reduced.
The major component of cement is limestone and it's abundantly found in Nigeria. How much does it cost a bag of cement to be transported from the factory to the remotest part of Nigeria? Can't be more than N500

keymatt:
@Op, flash your agbado ID Card at any Gas Station and they'll refill your gas free of charge.
It'll favor me and my family

alsudan:
Ronu's are buying 12.5kg for 200 naira while others are buying 1kg upwards of 1200.

Paraman:
After showing the seller my APC card, he sold it for me for #2 per kg.

Parydelegate:
I wore my APC cap to the gas station and they sold gas for me 500 naira pa KG.

If another election comes tomorrow or 2024, na PDP go still chop APC votes. All these wailings from Obidients, may we never wail in vain.

EdiskyHarry:
I'm from Akwa ibom.
AKWA IBOM is only big on paper and on the internet.
Nothing is working here, apart from worship centers, big hotels, beautiful stadiums and 10 lanes roads, human capital development here is zero, unemployment is very high, and the government is doing nothing about it.
But you will see ignorant Akwa ibomites bragging about having the best worship centers, stadiums and hotel in Nigeria.
You can quote me and insult me, but I must let people know this bitter truth.

I don't know what it would take for those useless govs to set aside as little as 1 billion naira per month for human development since states are now getting improved and robust monthly allocations.
Artisans, transporters, farmers, entrepreneurs, all need some sort of support to flourish. Empower few people so that they too can empower more people. Simple arithmetic

jamalnation:
100% Disagree
All these cooked up misinformation you call statistics
Clear some people over at Nairametrics are on illegal and cheap substances
Kogi most expensive state how come?

I have to agree. I'm in Osun and I have seen instances where people are deliberately inflating the prices for different customers. Not just food prices but also other items.
A Seller insisted 12k as his price, only for buyer to get it at another shop at 9k, and they stocked at the same time!
Another sold items at 3700 naira per piece, only to discover that it was actually 3200 naira per piece. Seller was later confronted, only for him to be laughing. What about an item that was priced at 175k at a shop, only for another seller to tag it 220k? It's total madness here in Osun state

koondog:
The way this is going the Igbo people they wanted to teach a lesson are making more money today, simply by passing down the inflation costs by increasing the price of their goods. This is textbook case of tribalism backfiring.

And concerning your people doing buying and selling and passing down the costs to consumers. Your people are not the only ones doing business in Nigeria, other tribes are doing business too. And the same way the costs are being passed down to consumers from other tribes is also the same way the costs are being passed down to consumers who are of Igbo origin. Or, your people no dey consume or dem dey buy items from their fellow Igbo traders at reduced prices?

koondog:
The way this is going the Igbo people they wanted to teach a lesson are making more money today, simply by passing down the inflation costs by increasing the price of their goods. This is textbook case of tribalism backfiring.

No election in Nigeria has ever been about Igbo people. 2023 election wasn't about you or Obi or Igbo, it was about democracy and the need for new president. 2027 election won't about Igbo but democratic right of every voter. Wake up