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BrownSugq:
Tinubu has spent 2 weeks without any achievement except his personal ventta.


Not even one single achievement.
Economy
Security
Kidnapping bandits
Fulani hardsmen
Bokaharam
ISWAP
Corruption
Poverty etc.

Zero achievement

In case you were sleeping when these underlisted achievements were performed by Tinubu, here is the reminder:

@officialBAT 10days after:



1, Declaration on removal of fuel subsidy
2, Met the service chiefs
3. Appointed the SGF
4. Met all progressive governors
5. Met the 36 state governors
6. Official close time set@8pm daily
7. Met the NLC and TUC twice
8. NLC/TUC called off proposed strike
9. Met the G-5 governors
10. Met Falana over subsidy and etc
11, Met all Yoruba Obas
12, Met NNPC Group MD, CBN governor
13. Met the Petroleum independent marketers
14. Abrogated crude oil swap
15. Deregulation of fuel importation
16. Signed 2 important drafted laws
17. Make fuel ques and hoarding dissappear
18. Technically Abolished the fuel black market
19. Insisted on a single Official exchange rate
20. Ordered the FEC to begin discussion on minimum wage
21. Stops fuel smuggling to neighbouring countries and many more in just 10days.
22, Appointment of the CoS
23, Appointment of SSA to the office of the President
24. Sacked the CBN Governor for incompetence and criminal acts.

Irrespective of which divide or party you may belongs to, or the Candidate you may have supported, I think BAT deserves a pat on the back from all of us. If we all agreed, he's on the right track, then it can't be out of place to say it as it is and, at least, to give him the needed encouragement.

May Nigeria succeed.

obrian888:
You must be a fool to think that Tifnubu won this election.

And you must be a bigger fool to ever think that he did not win it, and that your Obitif won it.

00FFT00:
I want to talk about Tinubu's drug dealing. You will agree, will you not?, that a man who was convicted of heroin trafficking and usage, is not fit to parade himself as Nigeria's president, especially where he obviously did not satisfy the constitutional requirement to be so declared?.

Convicted you say, but walking free to and fro in the same America, and currently the president of your country. I hope you know the meaning of "convicted". If not, go back to school.

slawomir:
Damnnn niggar

That doesn't stop the fact that you are not our president

Obi is coming

He go shock everybody



Same thing Jonathan do inside 2012
But una nor let am go through with protest everywhere

Now same thing happened in 2023
Protest was now tagged south east and south south protest
Even nlc north and nlc west make it clear they are not gonna join
This country is very funny......but anyway lets play the tribalism together
The tribalism hidden came out fully and too obvious in this election
Nobody can deceive anyone again

I believe the real owner of this moniker is already in EFCC jail, regretting his wicked yahoo criminal days.

You are just masquerading as him.

VeeVeeMyLuv:
All those squeeze neck policies na Bubu brain child 💯🤙

If Una wan drag CBN GOVT make una also remember to drag Bubu too.

What about fuel subsidy that was bleeding Nigerian economy so badly that govt kept borrowing to pay salaries? So why did Emilokan not suspend the NNPC Limited Group CEO likewise in the same vain?

Abegi make we hear word...tell us something else.

If you are an intelligent person, you reasoning would have told you long ago that Melle Kyari, NNPC boss, will not last long in that post. His days in the sunshine will soon lapse, just like Emefiele's.

THE REAL SUBSIDIES ARE NOT FOR THE POOR, BUT THE RICH.

BY

FEMI FALANA, SAN

Globally, subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them. In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. I will highlight a few, how they are being manipulated and how huge sums of money can be recovered not just to subsidize fuel but also provide funds for development.

1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account

A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC) Fee of $2,000 per annum from every expatriate in Nigeria. The revenue from 2019 comes to an average of N40 billion per annum. This collection which violates Section 162 of the Constitution and provisions of the Immigration Act 2015, is then shared on percentages of Federal Government, 30, Interior Ministry, 7, Immigration Service, and Continental Transfert Technique, 58 per-cent.

We challenged this illegality at the Federal High Court and won the cases. The court directed the NIS to collect the funds henceforth and remit same to the Federation Account. But the contractor and the federal government appealed against the judgment and have continued to share the N40 billion per annum.

2. Additional Revenue of $1.5 billion payable to Federation Account

In July 2015, I drew the attention of the Federal Government to the fact that the 15-year fiscal incentives given to the oil and gas companies operating under the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contracts Act had expired in June 2014. When the Federal Government ignored our request, we drafted a Bill for the amendment of the law. The Bill which was adopted and sponsored by Senator T. Orji scaled the first reading in the Senate but was not passed before the dissolution of the 8th National Assembly.

However, the same Bill was modified and passed by both houses of the 9th National Assembly and assented to by President Buhari on November 4, 2019. In justifying the passage of this Bill, Senate President Ahmed Lawan announced that the new law would increase the revenue of the nation by not less than $1.5 billion per annum.

3. Outstanding royalties of $62 billion

In campaigning for the amendment of the Deep Offshore and Inland Basin Production Sharing Contracts Act, I requested the Federal Government to collect outstanding royalties payable by the International Oil Companies under the Act. The Federal Government admitted that the country had lost a whopping sum of $60 billion. But my demand for the collection of the huge fund was ignored.

The governments of Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa States then approached the Supreme Court which on October 20, 2018 ordered the Federal Government to collect the royalties for the past 18 years. The Federal Government confirmed that the outstanding royalty withheld by the IOCs is $62 billion but has refused to collect it.

4. FG denied revenue of $500 million by a group of corrupt public officers

The international Cargo Tracking Note Scheme to protect international shipping and prevent the movement of dangerous cargo and arms shipments was introduced into Nigeria in 2010 via an agreement between the Nigerian Port Authority and TPMS, a private company. Barely a year later, the agreement was suspended. When our attention was drawn to the illegal suspension of the Cargo Tracking Note system, we protested and the suspension was lifted on May 28, 2015 only to be suspended again in 2016.

In 2022, President Buhari issued an executive order which authorized a company to operate the Cargo Tracking Note. But 5 companies sponsored by top government functionaries overruled the President and hijacked the contract. The company that won the contract has since sued the federal government at the Federal High Court. Meanwhile, Nigeria has lost at least $500 million while the security of the nation has been compromised by a bunch of corrupt public officers.

5. Sale of public assets and enterprises

Successive regimes have been selling assets and enterprises owned by the Federal Government to members of the ruling class in the name of privatisation. The buyers turned round to engage in asset stripping. According to the Bureau of Public Enterprises, between 2004 and 2002, the federal government sold 142 public enterprises to members of the ruling class.
The 10 per cent shares reserved for the staff of every privatised enterprise have been cornered by the so called "core investors" contrary to the provision of section 5(3) òf the Privatization and Commercialization Act.

6. $7 billion fixed in 14 banks

Sometime in 2006, the CBN yanked off $7 billion from the nation’s foreign reserves and fixed it in 14 commercial banks in Nigeria. The deposit and the accrued interests were not recovered from the banks. When I reported the matter to one one of the anti-graft agencies, the CBN claimed that it had forgiven “the forbearance”.

7. Sale of Polaris by Heritage Bank, Keystone Bank, Union Bank and Polaris Bank by CBN

The CBN took over Heritage Bank, Keystone Bank, Union Bank and Polaris Bank, spent trillions of Naira to revitalise them only to turn round to sell them under the table. For instance, CBN invested N1.3 trillion in Polaris Bank but sold it for N50 billion!

8. Theft of Crude oil

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has revealed that Nigeria lost 619.7 million barrels of crude oil valued at N16.25 trillion ($46.16 billion) to crude oil theft between 2009 and 2020. Immediate past National Security Adviser, General Babagana said that Nigeria might lose $23 billion in 2023 to crude oil theft.

9. Theft of gold and other solid minerals

The theft of the nation’s mineral resources is not limited to crude as solid minerals are equally smuggled out of the country by highly placed criminal elements. Former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uche Ogah recently disclosed that private jets are being used by the rich for gold smuggling in Nigeria. He stated this at an investigative hearing on $9 billion annual loss to illegal mining and smuggling of gold organised by the Senate Committee on Solid Minerals, Mines, Steel Development and Metallurgy. During his contribution at the hearing, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu disclosed that Nigeria lost close to $54b from 2012-2018 due to illegal smuggling of gold.

10. AMCON is owed N5.4 trillion by the rich

A few years ago, commercial banks were going to collapse due to toxic loans taken by members of the ruling class. To prevent the impending economic doom, the Federal Government set up the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) to buy off the loans with trillions of Naira provided by the CBN. AMCON has not been able to recover the loans of N5.4 trillion from about 370 corporate bodies.

11. Indiscriminate import duty waivers

A few privileged members of the business community buy dollars at official rate while they are allowed to import all manners of goods into the country. In the last 5 years, import duties worth N16 trillion were waived for them.
12. Effort to track and monitor tankers conveying fuel sabotage by NNPC

On August 8, 2018, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the installation of technology monitoring schemes and structures under the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) for N17 billion. The technology which was designed to track and monitor tankers conveying fuel and other petroleum products was not acquired while the N17 billion approved for it was diverted.

13. N10 trillion diverted by CEOs of Government enterprises

The Buhari government revealed on December 19, 2018 that government enterprises including the CBN owed about N10 trillion in unremitted operating surplus as at August 2018. The details were provided. The said sum of N10 trillion remains unpaid.

14. N6 trillion unpaid ground rents by buyers of Government properties

On March 29, 2023, the Senate noted that since 1992, over two million houses across the 36 states and the FCT had been built and allocated to beneficiaries by the federal government without evidence of payment of ground rent on the properties. Consequently, the Senate set up an Ad Hoc Committee to recover over N6 trillion unpaid ground rents from property owners in the country.

15. Stolen crude oil valued at $29.17 billion

A group of lawyers engaged by NIMASA confirmed that 60.2 million barrels of crude oil valued at $12.7 billion of crude oil was stolen and illegally exported to the United States of America between January 2011 and 2014. This has not been recovered. Also, the House of Representatives investigated and confirmed that undeclared crude oil worth $17 billion was exported to global destinations during the same period. The affected companies are known but government seems to lack the will to bring them to book and recover the sum of $29.7 billion being the value of the stolen crude.

16. Oil theft of N16.25 trillion

The Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) revealed that between 2009 and 2020 Nigeria lost 619.7 million barrels of crude oil valued at N16.25 trillion ($46.16 billion) to oil theft. The security forces have not been able to stop the stealing and smuggling of crude oil from Nigeria.

However, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd (TSSNL), a private company discovered pipelines through which crude oil was being diverted from a 40,000 barrel per day Forcados pipeline to the high seas for export. The indicted oil companies including an IOC involved in this grand theft are yet to be prosecuted.

17. Deduction of collection costs by FIRS & NCS

The Federal Inland Revenue Service and Nigeria Customs Service are allowed by their enabling laws to deduct percentages of the taxes and duties collected by them as collection costs. Thus, the FIRS between 2016 and 2020 made N533.39 billion deductions while Nigeria Customs Service withdrew N128.64 billion as cost of collection in 2022.

The laws which allow agencies of the Federal Government to deduct collection costs are contrary and inconsistent with section 162 of the Constitution which provides that all revenues collected by the Government of the Federation shall be paid into the Federation Account.

18. Diversion of $6.065 billion approved for turn-around maintenance of refineries

Between 1993 and 2016, successive regimes spent, through the NNPC, about $6.065 billon on the so-called turn around maintenance and rehabilitation of the four refineries at various times.

It is public knowledge that the turn-around maintenance of the refineries was not carried out. Therefore, the contractors should be invited by the EFCC and compelled to refund the said sum of $6.025 billion.

19. Investment in Dangote refinery and rehabilitation of 4 refineries

The Federal Government has invested $2.7 billion in Dangote Refinery while the NNPCL will supply the refinery with 300,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Furthermore, the Government has awarded the contracts for the rehabilitation of the two refineries in Port Harcourt for $1.5 billion, as well as Kaduna and Warri refineries for $1.4 billion.

We are compelled to call on the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress to monitor the ongoing rehabilitation and upgrade of the 4 refineries.

20. Special salaries for top public officers, security votes, and pension for governors

Top public officers have illegally taken themselves out of the general salary structure. For instance, contrary to section 70 of the Constitution which provides that the salaries and allowances of legislators shall be fixed by the Revenue Allocation Mobilization and Fiscal Commission the members of the National Assembly are paid emoluments ranging from N13 million to N15 million per month.

In addition to their salaries the 36 State Governors are paid security votes running into hundreds of millions per month. The largesse has since been extended to all senior public officers, including heads of ministries, departments, and agencies of the federal and state governments, as well as local government chairmen. The security votes paid to senior public officers are about N241 billion per annum.

As if such subsidy is not enough, state governors have been placed on scandalous pension of billions of Naira. But due to public criticisms, the Lagos State Government has halved the pension for ex-governors while the Governments of Kwara, Imo, and Zamfara States have abolished the payment of the outrageous pension to former governors and deputies. We call on all other state governments to emulate the example of the aforementioned 3 state governments.

21. Diversion of dividend and feed gas of $33 billion by NNPCL

Nigeria LNG Limited is jointly owned by Nigeria and the OICs. The 49% shares of Nigeria in the joint venture were paid for from the Federation Account in 1989. On March 29, 2021, former President Buhari disclosed that the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) had generated $114 billion in revenues, paid $9 billion in taxes, $18 billion as dividend and $15 billion in Feed Gas Purchase to the Federal Government. However, rather than pay the fund into the federation account as constitutionally directed, the $33.9 billion dividend and feed gas was diverted by the NNPCL.

22. Diversion of trillions of Naira through fuel subsidy fund

Notwithstanding the allocation of 445,000 barrels of crude oil to NNPC per day for domestic consumption, it has been confirmed that the figures for fuel importation in Nigeria between 1999 and 2023 are as follows:

1. 1999-2006 =N813 billion;

2. 2007-2009= N794 billion;

3. 2010-2014= N3.9 trillion;

4. 2015-2023= N11 trillion.

Last week, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mr. Mele Kyari stunned the nation when he said that the federal government still owes the company N2.8 trillion in fuel subsidy payments. But the monumental fraud that has characterized the fuel subsidy scam has been confirmed by the Buhari regime.

Thus, on March 27, 2022, former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Timipre Sylva publicly lamented the controversies surrounding the amount of petrol that the nation consumes daily, said the subsidy regime encouraged criminal activities like smuggling, which in turn impact negatively on the nation’s oil resources. He said that, “I am told the figure sometimes rise to as high as 90 or over 100 million litres. I don’t know how that happens. At this rate, I have said if anyone is looking at a criminal enterprise, look no further than the fuel subsidy.” The criminal enterprise ought to be probed by the Bola Tinubu administration.

Conclusion

It is crystal clear form the foregoing that members of the ruling class are heavily subsidized by the peripheral capitalist system while the masses are subjected to excruciating economic pains. We are therefore compelled to call on the Nigeria Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress as well as the progressive extraction of the civil society to mount pressure on the federal government to stop the dollarisation of the national economy, indiscriminate grant of duty waivers, theft of crude oil, gold, and other mineral resources and recover the nation’s looted wealth. In other words, these ‘subsidies’ should be recovered while the nation’s refineries are fixed so that the country can provide genuine subsidies that can make life livable in Nigeria.

#SOURCE
https://saharareporters.com/2023/06/08/real-subsidies-are-not-poor-rich-femi-falana-san

humberjade:
1. Rice, but preferably stew...garnished with pasta or beans or plantain

2. Ewa aganyin with direct from bakery bread.

You garrit.

BigMamaNaija:
Wakie wakie! This government, pay you N200,000 minimum wage... that was a nice dream. Better wake up and input N50,000 for your robot to process for you.

Human beings are supporting the government. I noticed that BMC were learners compared to the new TMC (Tinubu Media Crew). They must earn N50,000 per month for all their hard work and dedication.

E go soon red. We're just starting.

I laugh my heart out. Very funny.

olamike02:
What's in that bag behind Ajaero

It is the merecine called Dolapo dat mek him ditch all of us, waiting for the strike, inside gutter.

tonytony208:
Ìwo tí o dì'bò fún drug dealer gan ni Omo àlè Yoruba.

Ta ni Iwo omo atohunriwa dibo fun, bikose ole.

jaxxy:
if u cab show us tinubu tax records either in Chicago or in lagos we will u urchincs in ur witch-hunt campaign.

seyi tinubu bought house in London for £11m and drives a lamborghini.

Show us his tax records.

. Go and ask the British Govt for that.

Goodman2023:
Imagine a nigeria without people like you

Nigeria without people like ihordspy will be too dull. We love it hot hot, and he is giving us what we want here.

Patriotsleague:
Let's do big brother, by setting up filling stations across West Africa, under our new NNPC PLC, we need to optimize value, make money from West Africa, then give back. Big brother needs revenue.

Big Brother needs more money to remain big brother. Let us suck our neighbours dry this time around, it is payback time.

BTCJagaban:
In Benin republic, people only buy smuggled petroleum products from Nigeria. The fuel in their filling stations are not subsidized hence, they result to buying subsidized products which smugglers smuggle from Nigeria. They display this product by road side and they do it openly.

I think Benin republic government are great beneficiary of this subsidy removal. It will eradicate selling of petroleum products by road side.

Nigeria should get ready for influx of Africans into Nigeria. Subsidy removal in Nigeria won’t affect Nigeria only. It goes beyond.

They are all welcome here. The more suffer-heads we have in Nigeria, the merrier.

OloyeVIII:
Why i no dey see my name?

Check well, e dey dere.

kollinzgee:
tinubu will never sit on that seat,qnd nothing you guys can do about it,if you do anyhow you will be dealth with.

It is not new, the Igbos have always hated the Yorubas, but we always triumph over you.

See below what your kinsman Nzeribe was saying about the Yorubas decades ago, but was made to eat his word when Obasanjo took charge of Nigerian presidency and performed outstandingly.

Johnson225:
Why nairaland looks so different? Is it just my phone??

I thought it was my phone that caused it, and I have been battling my brain to resolve it. Now I know it affects all. But I don't like it.

gigabyte13:
Who dey give Dem eze indigbo titles in Lagos....?
I think government should look into this titles very very seriously.........
Let the chieftaincy department of the LGAs start scrutinising this useless title holders across Lagos communities before they turn themselves to huge menace.
Though we still have good, peaceful and lovable igbos....
Just that the miscreants and the unfortunate ones are the one creating nuisance everywhere.... They will be dealt with appropriately.

Let's start with the annulment of all fake Eze titles across Yorubaland, which is after all a useless ego trip for those bearing the title.

Odin13:
The man said it as it is… Olumo said more than .. yet he’s sleeping peacefully at home .. no body takes him serious.. yes .. simply because IBB was right ..

But you see an igboman.. underate him at your own peril.. they call them chestbeaters .. ;But the world and their fathers no Dey don’t beat empty chest.. like their people..

Insecurities… insecurities and fears.. fear of the very people the smart around that they’re better than . and yet with all these fears and insecurities and claims of super humans … with 10 heads
only common IPOB .. not even esn or unknow gunmen ..

Everybody don Dey piss

If Nigeria is safe .. why would anyone panic? Why would anyone have reason of protecting home..

As for Lagos state.. the very Yoruba state ..

Nigerians mark it ..

It won’t be long before .. non indigenous people take it .. and govern it better .

An attempt has been made .. fears has risen .. won’t be long and oppression is gone ..

The one your fathers chestbeat before and during the civil war, what was the outcome of it? Sorrows, tears and bloods for your people. And the one your IPOB brothers are currently chestbeating for you, what is the outcome? Again, sorrows, tears, bloods and loss of business for your people.

When will your people learn their lessons to stop fighting a self defeating war? Until you allow the the Hausas, Fulanis and Yorubas to take over your small lands again?

And if you push us too much this time around, we will do so and finally take over everything the Igbos have ever own. And unlike before, we will not release them back to you.

SisterAnn:
I'm very very proud to be part of the OBIdient movement. But I can't say same for you a Batist. Your candidate in that election was fundamentally flawed. It's only in a shit hole like ours can such a despicable character even dare to run for office.

It is getting interesting. So what makes Tinubu, a great organiser of great men for governance, a despicable and a flawed person in your eyes? Just because he flogged your tribal candidate in an election.

SisterAnn:
You are the zombie, remember?

Yeah, we remember that it is meant for you and your Obidient protagonists. The whole world is celebrating it on the Internet for you. You should be happy for your laudable tag, at least it gets you noticed. Why are you not?

SisterAnn:
Tinubu alone has mined over 1m skulls for rituals and to obtain Agbara.

How do you think he's able to lord it over you while you just smile and nod?

And how many has Peter Obi mined, using UGM to get your fellow Igbo skulls for ritual, to gain power through the backdoor, and to make you follow him like zombie whose senses have been benumbed?

freshvine:
This man gathered all the dregs and miscreants in Rivers State to rally. People were avoiding them because of their funny looking ways...you need to see the facial expressions of citizens as the hoodlums March through ikwerre Road looking like people in mourning processions.

He equally hired Muslim ladies from the popular Gambia street ( hausa settlement) to boost his crowd.

Whatever. At least people were following him, miscreants or not. How many people can you gather to follow your Obidient movement after election now?

Nanawey:
Davido has really tried, he deserves to be happy


This is so heartbreaking, Nigerians are truly suffering in this hard times.. may God touch the heart of a good samaritan to help you dear

Pleading for a renown scammer on Nairaland?

Seems you are new to this platform. Just ignore him, he loves changing his moniker just like a chameleon loves changing its color.

Sleekfingers:

See this brainless child . What makes you think I am from the southeast?
I am a full- fledged omoluabi........ because I just pointed out the truth , makes me an Igbo man abi?
Every tribes on this forum are always throwing tribal punches.. Yoruba , Igbo , hausa , fulanis , ijaw etc

For your information, I can bring down this forum....if the owner don't do the necessary about the hate speeches on nairaland......

Oga stop bragging. You can't bring down nada. Do it and let's see.

This Woke mindful son of Femi Falana, and his Yoruba entertaining ilks like Simi and Macaroni, will one day bite more than they can swallow, and bite their bitter tongues too, when Tinubu brings out his magic wands and brings about wonderful economic transformation in Nigeria.

How they will wish their childish utterances never escape their uninformed lips.

SisterAnn:
Your hypocrisy has come up to the Almighty God, let him be the judge.

You are damning me for saying the truth.

I don't deserve this from you. Okay oo.

Blaze14k:
Now i can read comments with sanity on nairaland.. thanks seun for looking out for igbos. May God bless u

And for rescuing the Yorubas, the Hausa Fulanis, and the Muslims from vicious Igbo insults.

oyichi:
the opposition should obtain a court order preventing the president from handing over to tinubu because he is facing criminal charges in court, he should simply hand over to the Senate president, and there will be nothing wrong with it, when there is no president, the Senate president becomes the acting president, no country should be ruled by an ex- convict, what if buhari hand over to him and he was later found guilty?

"Ex convict"? Do you truly know the meaning of this word? How does it apply to Tinubu?

IVORY2009:
I dey laugh like Obasanjo, u mean president selected

Whatever. But he is our president elect until the court says otherwise. Learn to live with this.