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Nigerians all over the world have been reacting to the recent subsidy removal by the government resulting in more than doubling of pump price of the commodity. At this point, it is necessary to take a dispassionate look at the issues in the oil subsidy debate.

On mass protests:

It is good that the mass protests called by the Labor unions in Nigeria are properly directed against Nigerian economic saboteurs now unmasked. Particularly those who used to supply tankers of water and collect subsidy from Nigeria's federal government as if they supplied tankers of fuel.



The protests should rightly be directed at these highly placed saboteurs of the nation's economy as well as those who divert the products imported into Nigeria to neighboring countries, and those who collect subsidy for distributing fuel to the North when they end up selling at the refinery gates!



Those 'pure water billionaires,' the repository of corruption and waste in Nigeria, those heartless people who have built a total of 15 refineries outside their fatherland with a view to selling fuel at exorbitant prices to their country even though they end up getting double value by diverting it to neighboring countries.



These people employ an average of 20,000 foreigners for each refinery with the resultant effect that Nigeria lost 300,000 jobs to foreigners who only pay tax to their countries but depend on Nigeria for uninterrupted electricity. This cartel ensures that these neighboring countries get priority electricity so they can run their refineries without generator and they do it by manipulating government policies.



We should direct these protests against these people and call on government to seize the national assets they privatized into their own hands. With this goal the protest becomes meaningful; for what would it benefit us to direct it against an innocent man, our new President!



On Sponsors of Terrorism

The subsidy removal policy is the only way to fight Boko Haram and all the sponsors of terrorism who tap this easy money provided by the military to distort the economy and give them soft competitive edge. With the so-called subsidy, they bought over the privatized Institutions and created jobs overseas for oil refining and bunkering at home for cheaper fuel which when refined and resold to Nigerians have no more subsidies. They prosper in the midst of crushing poverty and monopolize trade. Now is the time to flush out these enemies of the Nigerian people and those who depend on this evil empire for success. Youths and innovators will excel!



On Support for Subsidy Removal

Thank you John for supporting this policy, which goes beyond what, we see on the surface. Thank you for the detailed insight for once beaten twice shy. We must be careful not to join in the war declared by Boko Haram for we do not believe western education is taboo as they do. We want to join the western cashless society and compete in the globalized market and so we need to remove all subsidies to secure membership. The more you depend on the Military industrial complex and their smokescreen subsidy which translates to real unemployment, educational decay, High prices of cow meat and sponsored religious pilgrimages the removal of subsidy will be painful but those who cherish western education it is liberation from the stranglehold of un-Godly rule!


On Subsidy Removal as Restructuring Strategy

Subsidy withdrawal is a far-reaching restructuring strategy. It tackles existence of distortions in the Nigerian Economy. This country, or any other, cannot survive alone in a globalized cashless economy in the new age of globalization. You may subsidize agriculture but not fuel because it has far-reaching negative effect on stratification of society, which is vital for spiritual harmony aside from creating soft money for the smart and privileged people, this time the retired Generals, who could buy up the privatized institutions.



The result is that subsidy money goes into unproductive side of the economy encouraging the production of pure water billionaires like those rated from Nigeria by Forbes. These people are opportunists who end up sponsoring Boko Haram, Hajj, and Sharia with their profits while the majority wallows below 2 dollars a day.



What subsidy does to Nigeria is to create an imbalance in the economy allowing everyone to go into bunkering, raising private armies, jetty ownership, private jets and every other endeavor antecedent to it. They build private refineries in foreign countries employing as much as 20000 foreigners while our own refineries remain less competitive going by the subsidy we pay outsiders. It explains why Nigerians have developed the economies of neighboring African countries where electricity is more stable because it helps to sustain their refineries so they could smuggle in the products or sell to us at high prices thereby requiring higher and higher subsidies.



Last year alone Government paid about a quarter of the subsidies since 2006 and by this year was expected to double last years cost. Yet we sink ever deeper and foreign investors stay away. Our suffering is to reform in our collective ways of living so we depend less on what is inherently a wrong way of living forced upon us by our past rulers.



On Reaching a Common Goal for Protests

Protesting is good where you have a goal to achieve and you articulate it and you know that higher authorities with discerning minds are watching. But where the people are not aware of what is happening owing to institutionalized ignorance and poverty protests become a way of prolonging the struggle rather than resolving it. Check out what is happening in Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood has apparently shortchanged the democratic movement after the protests with no clearly defined end goal: whether it is Islamic rule or democracy.



The goal posts were shifting until there was a gulf of power that the military are still filling to date! Beware of whose war you have chosen to fight for you will pay for it at the end! For so long the youths were uneducated and unemployed. Now they want to give their life too for the sake of reversal of fuel subsidy removal yet most of them vow that existence of subsidy never benefits them. It means we want to retain what does not benefit us.



On The Stand of the Niger Delta Integrity Group

The Niger Delta Integrity Group is telling the Nigerian youths that removal of fuel subsidy is designed to create jobs for them. Do not be deceived by those who held you in bondage for so long. Beware of whose battle you are being recruited to fight! The youths may be fighting for the sustenance of the cabal who do not want the youths to work.



On The Mandate of Labor:

What labor should do is to make a demand and not try to change government policy for which they are not elected to do! Labor should say Okay Government pay workers double of their salaries from January ending to offset for inflation instead of demanding reversal of policy which is not their work!



On the Place of the President In History:

We have been praying and asking that Nigeria economy be restructured away from waste and corruption; Nigeria’s last chance to stay together and achieve her goals was snatched by President Goodluck Jonathan, with one stroke by Subsidy removal yesterday, and some want to go on Strike!



On The Need to Create Awareness and Shame Ignorance



What we need is more education on what is happening! The fuel subsidy is one way that our military leaders used to keep us down thereby distorting our economy and making us unable to key into the emergent global economy. A section of the country abhors competition and merit and so they sustained it thereby depressing Naira value and making Nigerians only 419 pariahs in global trade. But to be relevant in the global economy you must be competitive. Subsidy is a facade a smokescreen for inefficiency and corruption by the unenlightened who want to rule over the educated! It gives them the room to bunker fuel and refine in foreign countries giving away Nigerian jobs and selling currency at the black market to rule Nigeria while poverty and unemployment reign. We cannot continue to pick crumbs in a table richly laid for us by God! We must learn not to depend on such bait of Boko Haram or we would be subsidizing our slow demise in the hands of an un-Godly set of people.



On Why Subsidy Removal Is Liberation of Nigerians from Past Bondage

The subsidy issue came from the times of Federal Character, catchment area; educationally disadvantaged and all the jargons introduced by the followers to enable them become the leaders. So is the subsidy it is a smokescreen to confuse you, to rub you of your initiative and rule you as a dependent vassal. The TAM (Turn-Around-Maintenance) could not work because the people who are making policy are also the bunkerers of oil and owners of refineries each employing up to 20,000 non Nigerians in neighboring countries. So removal of subsidy is liberation in disguise. These military industrial complex are sponsoring Boko Haram and Bunkering and they have hijacked organized labor's leadership and privatized Nigeria



On Transformation and Pains

You know more than I do that transformation cannot be painless. Pain with hope is better than pain without hope. Joining the global economy and cashless society will boost merit over mediocrity. The pain arises from long dependence on a system of economy that is unsustainable in the new time. So let us face it now. Let us properly differentiate society by restricting movement to those who really should move while others can stay to till the land!



On Survival of the Masses

You will survive better if you learn to do things differently and avoid depending on the current channels of enrichment. When everyone is affected then no one is affected because society has a way of balancing out things. We did not die after the civil war. Is it fuel subsidy removal that will kill us? Must we move to survive?



On Corruption and Legal Loopholes

You are right. I have the same concerns too. As a lawyer you know that it is loopholes in law and implementation that encourages deviant behavior in society same is true of corruption in the oil sector. Subsidy on petroleum is always wrong and unsustainable. You can subsidize agriculture but not movement. It unbalances an economic system creating a loophole for easy money leading to distortion in the merit system that drives a sustainable society. The building of 15 refineries by Nigerians outside Nigeria to sell fuel to Nigeria is the outcome of such policy imbalance. Nigeria lost 300000 jobs to outsiders.



On The Need to Trust Our Leaders

We must learn to trust our President to act in our best interest. Removal of Petroleum subsidy is in the best interest of transforming this impossible economy which is artificially propped up by cheap fuel which goes into the pockets of the few slave masters leaving the Majority without hope or jobs. If we want change this is it!



On Vision for Greater Nigeria

Things have already gone bad in Nigeria decades ago; what we are seeking is a way out. No one knows it all. When you have many ways not well enough under the circumstances you chose the best. Leadership responsibility is to guide not to stop people from what they chose to do. Subsidy removal is the least suffering Nigeria will face to get back to her feet and that is the way I see it within my own limitation of vision. That is why I support it well above others. That is, believing that our collective vision is to get back to our feet!



“Mr. President is deeply touched also by the pains that citizens are going through because of the temporary jump in the prices of petroleum products, as well as of transportation in most parts of the country. Mr. President therefore called the emergency meeting to expedite action on measures to alleviate these pains which citizens are going through. “He made it very clear that as President of Nigeria, his role is to ensure that the welfare of Nigerians as well as the growth and development of this country becomes his major goals and that is exactly what he is pursuing. Mr. President therefore told members of council of measures already, particularly to address the issue of mass transit in the country, in order to bring down the cost of transport fares as well as to alleviate the pains and discomfort that citizens are facing now.”



“Mr. President urged Nigerians to appreciate the difficulties this nation is going through, particularly in the economy. As FEC, “we are not here to punish Nigerians, we are from the people, we know the discomfort that is going on right now, we totally empathize with Nigerians and we want to reassure the people that the measures that have been taken is for the greater good of the people of Nigeria and citizens”. Nigerians should also watch in the next couple of weeks how government is going to move quickly to implement the various activities from the subsidy reinvestment and empowerment program.



Nworisara, a Policy Analyst writes from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He can be reached at: nworisara@yahoo.com

Dailymail not new to controversy
these are some of the succesfull lawsuits against the paper.
2001, February: Businessman Alan Sugar was awarded £100,000 in damages following a story commenting on his stewardship of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club

2003, October: Actress Diana Rigg awarded £30,000 in damages over a story commenting on aspects of her personality.

2006, May: £100,000 damages for Elton John, following false accusations concerning his manners and behaviour.

2009, January: £30,000 award to Dr Austen Ivereigh, who had worked for Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, following false accusations made by the newspaper concerning abortion.

2010, July: £47,500 award to Parameswaran Subramanyam for falsely claiming that he secretly sustained himself with hamburgers during a 23-day hunger strike in Parliament Square to draw attention to the protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009.

2011, November: the former lifestyle adviser Carole Caplin received damages over claims in the Mail that she would reveal intimate details about former clients.

2014, May: author J. K. Rowling received substantial damages and the Mail printed an apology. The newspaper had made a false claim about Rowling's story written for the website of Gingerbread, a single parents' charity.

RE: £250 MILLION GIVEN BY BRITAIN TO THE NIGERIAN PRESIDENT WITH FIVE HOMES WHO SENDS DAUGHTER TO A £26,000-A-YEAR ENGLISH SCHOOL

Dear Editor,

Kindly grant me some space in your widely respected newspaper to express my disappointment over a story published on your website titled, "£250 million given by Britain to the Nigerian president with five homes who sends daughter to a £26,000-a-year English school".

This article is wrong on so many levels, and what's more disturbing is the level of nonchalance in the editing of the article. Anyone who knows Nigeria even for a short period would pick up these dangerously misleading points:

1) A misleading headline: Why say "£250 million given by Britain to the Nigerian president..."? I thought aid is given to people, not a single person.

Besides, I've been working in the development sector for at least seven years, and I've never heard of a donor country giving money directly to any government. The aid is mostly in kind, which directly employs the citizens of the donor country first.

Even if the UK actually gives Nigeria £250 million cash (which is almost impossible!), don't you think Nigeria deserves it, given the long-standing history between the two countries?

2) The article mentions how the Nigerian president spends £150,000 to educate his daughter at University of Surrey. However, even the laziest of editors can verify this claim by simply visiting the university's website. And I just did! And guess what I found…

For foreign students, the tuition fees for University of Surrey is between £14,000 and £17,000, depending on course of study. I guess the article is talking about the tuition only since no one can possibly know how much the president’s daughter’s pocket money is, unless we want to concoct another lie.

How then did the Nigerian President spend £150,000 to educate his daughter? Did she study there for 10 years?!

3) You mentioned something about his daughter studying in a "£26,000-a-year English school", but you were short of mentioning which of the daughters and which university.

You see, unfortunately for lazy journalists, journalism is today beyond slapping some numbers in an article and expecting readers to fall for it hook, line and sinker. Anyone can spot a shoddy work in a jiffy!

4) The article also made another misleading point about the president's assets, and I quote: "...even his partial admission included more than £1 million in the bank, five houses and two plots of land." This is a blatant and shameless lie.

The Nigerian president declared his total asset at 30 million Naira, which is about £100,000 at current official exchange rate. How is that anywhere near a million pounds?!

And for your information, he has only two houses in the whole wide world: one in Kaduna and the other in his home town of Daura. And it’s common knowledge in Nigeria that he borrowed to build both houses – even his staunch opponents know and admit this!

Finally, I'm sure you understand my disappointment with the editorial service of Daily Mail... I hope you'll have the dignity to take this filth down.

By the way, the Nigerian President is not a "self-proclaimed people's president". He was duly elected by the majority of Nigerians, and the same people gave him the title of "the people's president"!

Thank you,

Dr. M. Aminu
(Liverpool, UK)

not suprise about this media called dailymail.co.uk ,trying to disgrace nigerian president.
they are used to false information......below are some of
successful lawsuits against the Mail

2001, February: Businessman Alan Sugar was awarded £100,000 in damages following a story commenting on his stewardship of Tottenham Hotspur Football

2003, October: Actress Diana Rigg awarded £30,000 in damages over a story commenting on aspects of her personality.

2006, May: £100,000 damages for Elton John, following false accusations concerning his manners and behaviuors

2009, January: £30,000 award to Dr Austen Ivereigh, who had worked for Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, following false accusations made by the newspaper concerning abortion.

2010, July: £47,500 award to Parameswaran Subramanyam for falsely claiming that he secretly sustained himself with hamburgers during a 23-day hunger strike in Parliament Square to draw attention to the protests against the Sri Lankan Civil War in 2009.

2011, November: the former lifestyle adviser Carole Caplin received damages over claims in the Mail that she would reveal intimate details about former clients.

2014, May: author J. K. Rowling received substantial damages and the Mail printed an apology. The newspaper had made a false claim about Rowling's story written for the website of Gingerbread, a single parents' charity.

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International hacktivist group Anonymous has targeted a number of official Nigerian government websites as part of an operation to weed out corruption and tackle poverty in the country.
Known for previous attacks on religious organizations, political figures and terrorists, the hacking collective issued a call for followers to “take out” Nigerian government websites.

Posting on Twitter, the secretive group threatened to leak data unless “selfish politicians” address widespread corruption, rising unemployment and problems with healthcare.

The statement referenced allegations of stolen oil money and missing public funds as reasons for the Operation Nigeria hack.

“Let them see that we have Anonymous Nigeria,” the group said, “... Let them know we are anonymous, we are legion, we do not forgive, we do not forget, they should have expected us.”

On Friday, images showing websites belonging to the Nigerian state being tampered with, including the Federal Ministry of Justice, Customs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were published online. ...........



https://www.rt.com/news/328382-cyberwar-anonymous-hack-nigerian-government/

Forty customers of the Electricity
Company of Ghana (ECG) have been
arrested for power theft. They were
arrested during an exercise organised by
the ECG with the assistance of the police
to clamp down on illegal connections.

During the exercise, the customers, whose
power supply had earlier been
disconnected for non-payment of bills, had
self-reconnected the power.

Briefing the press in Kumasi Thursday, the
Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations
Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police
(ASP) Mr Mohammed Tanko, said the
police had been assisting the company to
clamp down on the activities of power
thieves for some time now.

He said the exercise, which was carried out
in Suame, Danyame and Abuakwa district
areas of the ECG, saw 40 arrested for
power theft and illegal connection.

He said unlike previous exercises where
the company allowed the suspects to pay
the amount owed with a penalty without
prosecuting them, “this time we want the
law to take its full course to serve as a
deterrent to others”.

http://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/crime/40-Arrested-in-Kumasi-for-power-theft-398472

GENERAL +GENERAL =

Nigeria’s power
generation at “all-time low”; crashes
to 1,327MW sometime this year....

JEDDAH: The
capacity of electricity plants at the holy sites
at 18,680MW, according to the Saudi
Electricity Company..........

http://www.siasat.com/news/power-capacity-holy-sites-18680mw-839344/

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Ten ships laden with petroleum products and food items have arrived Lagos ports waiting to berth.

This is contained in a publication `Daily Shipping Position’ made available by the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos.

The document noted that the ships were waiting to discharge petrol, diesel, aviation fuel, base oil and bulk rice.

It indicated that 31 other ships laden with petrol, diesel, fresh fish, general cargo, buck wheat, containers, steel products and base oil were being expected at the ports.

The publication, however, explained that 14 other ships containing diesel, base oil, crude salt, buck wheat, rice, container and bulk sugar were discharging at the ports.

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/2015/06/10-ships-laden-with-fuel-food-items-arrive-lagos/

And he s presiding judge in the case of ken saro wiwa
during Abacha regime

and who is the lucky survivor that broke the news?
how many meters b/w the story teller and the suicide bomber?
if its true whats the motive behind saying SAI BUHARI?
if a suicide bomber shout GOODLUCK TILL 2019 what does he mean?

And what their non locating brings to them?

CAPITAL FAILURE
in afghan
Libya
Iraq
Everywhere
They never won any war.

Who resambles the master here @tanoids

And this president on. Official vist waited ten minute outside downig .

Remember Gmb is on Private visit
Can somebody tell me how many African presidents visits downing on private

Where is Gordon brown here @ tanoid

bro ffk, defeat is a defeat...bad,worse,worst

choose one
still
Defeat

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did somebody notice how the guy with red, and the lady in yellow sweating in the palace,
what a disgrace to nigeria and nigerdelta in paricular.

A whole kings palace in the middle of nigerias oil capital
the birth place of goodluck johnathan
after 5+years of ruling no common (tiger)Generator

....drowing the windows curtains for light...shame!!

Some Nigerians of Igbo extraction have pleaded passionately with President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to truly reconstruct Igboland that has been neglected over the years since its devastation by the civil war. They made this plea under the umbrella of Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF.

President of the group, Prof. Uzodinma Nwala, made this call yesterday at the inaugural conference and presentation of a two-volume book: “Igbo Nation: History and Challenges of Rebirth and Development” of the group at Igbozurume Unity Centre in Enugu.

While congratulating Buhari and the All Progressives Congress, APC, for winning the presidential election, Nwala reminded him that, “Nigeria is not a federation of political parties, but a federation of ethnic nationalities, many of whom are viable nation-states in their own rights.”

He charged the incoming administration to always keep in mind that equitable power and resource-sharing essential for the unity and stability of any federation is the right of the various ethnic nationalities, and not the exclusive preserve of political parties.

The Igbo leader disclosed that the ADF was working on the production of an Igbo national charter which would help in promoting a common vision among the people.

“ADF is conscious of the challenges posed by Igbo integration both within Nigeria and among her people. We are conscious of the set-back caused by the Nigeria-Biafra war and the immense damage done to internal unity and development in Igboland,” he said.

In his remark, ADF Board of Trustees’ Chairman and former president-general of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Dr Dozie Ikedife, emphasized the need to re-define the Igbo national character, saying that with the co-operation of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and other Igbo organisations, “we shall make the difference in making Ndigbo to speak with one voice and act with one mind.”

He also said that ADF and other Igbo groups will undertake to conduct a census of the Ndigbo worldwide.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/05/21/civil-war-aftermaths-ndigbo-urge-buhari-to-rebuild-igboland/

No fuel

Corrupt army, police, custom

No national airline

No jobs

No water