₦airaland Forum

seguno2:
You are missing the possibility of liquidating him to avoid him implicating the police and soldiers who may be involved with him. Why can’t you think of that?

seguno2:
Please how is killing an handcuffed man good news?
Was that not how the extrajudicial killing of Yusuf led to the radicalisation of Boko Haram terrorists?

Datboredberry:
Perverts...

It's just poverty that's making them complain... If every woman were to close their legs, these sexually frustrated hypocrites would hang themselves...

But because of the high prices, now they have a problem with these girls...


They still want sex, only they want it for free...

mmsen:
Where has he been where people have been asked to present the equivalent of NIN before entering a restaurant?

Reference:
Quick one.
I rather think we vote them in to 'lead'. Knowledge is not the sole preserve of government and there are far more think tanks outsides of government than there are in it. Government only needs to be skilled in listening and aggregating and assimilating ideas to be successful.

Your argument is valid.
Energy and Petroleum costs/prices are critical to any nation on earth but the struggle has always been between national economies and the economies of individual citizens. Someone must pay and so far in the history of Nigeria the people have allowed the government take all the hard decisions.

But step back and realise this. Government is US. We pay for this one way or the other and this subsidy thing has taken value out of our pockets silently and assuredly. We are getting poorer as a people year on year. What the removal of subsidies will bring is order to this chaos. We will be hit by massive inflation no doubt but we will succeed in removing the last excuse any government (present and future) has not to develop this country properly.

Reference:
Those subsidies you speak about in other climes are mainly production subsidies where government supports industries with cash, credit, waivers, patronage, etc.

What you are asking to be sustained in Nigeria is consumption subsidies which is inherently problematic as it directly confronts government revenues, they require instant and constant resource deployment and can only be sustained by cash (scarce foreign exchange) in our case which puts massive pressure on the naira.

That is why most who sit on the fence about this subsidy debacle say, repair the refineries first so that the subsidies go to the refinery operators to 'incentify' them to keep prices low. And because production subsidies are not necessarily cash driven the fear of products driven across the borders will abate.

It should be of concern to every citizen of this country that part of the reason our naira continues to weaken is because we are essentially subsidising a good chunk of the economies of our west african neighbours via cheap gasoline.