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UrVillageChief:
I like how you keep lying to yourself about this very topic. I love how you're pretending to not know that even in this our own Nigeria, a typical northern Muslim thinks he is more Islamic and pious than his southern counterpart. A good religion should be able to eradicate this. I'm not with any of the two religions but this is another area where Christianity triumphs. A southern Christain pastor isn't superior to those in the North and nobody can claim to be the head of all Christians in Nigeria by the virtue of his region being the best or the first to receive the religion.
Let's stop being economical with the truths, it's annoying.
The same way a northern Muslim thinks he's more Muslim than his southern counterpart and believes that no one except the sultan should be the head of Muslims is how the Arab Muslims think they are superior to the blacks and yes, a good religion would have addressed this. This should have been corrected since the days of Bilal, the first caller of the adhan

*Yawns*

I made my point clear, I'm not here to argue religion but racism.

Racism isnt an evil restricted to any religion. Some of the worst form of racism and racial cruelty humanity has ever recorded was perpetrated by people who tightly held bibles in their hands.

Western slave traders who inflicted some of the worst form of racism against blacks did so with bibles in their hands while preaching religion. So I'd be swimming in the same ignorance if I fall for the lame trap of trying to paint racism as a Christian vs. Muslim matter.

tishbite41:
There's naked racism in the Quran

What does that mean?

My point is that the worst form of racism ever experienced in the world were justified and propagated with religion. So on this issue, this shit has nothing to do with religion.

Sonnobax15:

A religion that sees people of the same faith as less and inferior simply because of their skin complexion .

That ain't no religion, but ,a cult of the highest order.

Helinuss post=138873230:
Very funny religion. The Arabs are terrible racists

Racism actually has nothing to do with religion. Just stupid ignorant people being ignorant... and this ignorance exists everywhere, regardless of the religion.

These psychos just making life difficult for everyone with their ego driven decisions.

yarimo:
but constitution mandate peter obi to only react or condemn anything outside south east states

Only willfully blind or selectively dumb people keep repeating without evidence, this nonsense talk about Obi not reacting to things that happen in the SE.

Prove to the world that you arent in one of the 2 categories I mentioned above by pointing out the notable event in the SE which Obi ignored.

AsomughaChuks02:
Today, 17th March, 2026, Governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo CFR will be sworn in to office for a second term with pomp and pageantry all well deserved. He earned this honour after Ndi Anambra overwhelmingly gave him our mandate 21/21 with all his opponents in the election losing their local government areas while some like ADC and LP candidates even lost their polling units. Peter Obi the former governor lost his own polling unit to APC.

Now that the elections are behind us, today marks a new cycle of 4 years of the Solution is Here administration. On Sunday 15th March, a thanksgiving was held to thank God for the last 4 years and the next 4. Prominent Anambra sons and daughters graced the event including former governor Chris Ngige. Noticeably absent was Peter Obi who may have allowed his bitterness to get the better of him. Though in the country, he was a no-show.

Let's hope he will overcome his bitterness today and show up like the gentleman he pretends to be!

As a former governor of the state and as the most infuential politician from the SE, if he wasnt invited, Obi will be silly to gate crash a formal state event where he wasn't invited.

OBI never harboured any ill-thoughts against Soludo, but Soludo appears to lose sleep and bitterly run his mouth whenever he hears Obi's name. Perhaps he's just jealous of OBI's unprecedented popularity and amongst Nigerians.

fergie001:
Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court after his cyberbulling suit was adjourned to next month

Sowore confidently labelled every other person a thief, but obviously couldn't use the same tag for OBI. Rather OBI's "crime" is merely being in the same party with people he calls thieves.

givedemwotowoto:
Dangote has already reduced his petrol price due to public outrage and people asking tough questions, because everything I described was possible, while some people are still online explaining and defending nonsense

Defending?

I only explained basic economics 101 to you on why the price increased and you think that's "defending"? Well, it's not my fault if the elementary explanation I gave flew over your head for you to term it 'nonsense'.

There are several avenues for Dangote to reduce it's price if it wants to, they can simply choose to reduce their 'profit margin' and that can help reduce the price. But my point was that if NNPC chooses to sell crude cheaper than global prices to Dangote, then that's a form of subsidy. That is all I said, but if your brain chooses to interpret this as me 'defending' the price rise, then I cant really help you.


...by the way, the ever greedy Dangote didn't reduce his price because of any public outrage or tough questions, he reduced his price cos global oil prices dropped in the last few days.

givedemwotowoto:
This one is different from subsidy payments. Let’s use a simple Math:

You sell tomatoes produced from your farm. It costs you N500 to produce each basket. You sell each basket for N1,000 locally. In the international market, you sell $2, that’s the global price.

There is flood somewhere in Australia where a lot of tomatoes are also produced, so demand abroad pushes global price to $4.

You still produce it for N500, nothing changed.

As a tomato company funded with the tax money of your community members, will you raise the price for locals to N2,000 just because the global price changed, even when your N500 production cost didn't change?

Yeah but if the company keeps its products at the same price, there's an 'opportunity cost' for that, and it's still a form of 'subsidy' or 'under-recovery' (which is the fancy term the NNPC under Buhari tried to use to mask the term 'subsidy'.

If there's an opportunity to sell at N2000 and make a profit of N1500 per basket, but the tomato company chooses to keep it's price at N1000, that additional profit of N1000 which the company forfeits to keep prices low for its community is still referred to as 'subsidy' in economics.

advanceDNA:
So what is wrong with subsidy sir?
What is wrong with you as a citizen benefiting from your own common wealth…. Baba u pple should not be brainwashed by ur own goverment into to thinking that subsidy is an abomination ….. its a strategy of this govt because they know its the only way to truly give back to the pple…

I think Nigeria has grown beyond the subsidy argument. My concern is what the government should be doing with the funds allegedly saved from subsidy removal, not about reintroducing subsidy payments.

givedemwotowoto:
Nigeria doesn’t spend N1 in crude oil production, the oil companies do, and they will get their profit from their own share of crude. Nigeria sets its own price when they receive their share of crude, about 1 million barrels per day. If they sell to their international market, they must sell at the prevailing international market price. If they sell locally for local consumption, they can sell at a lower price.

Nigerians consume only 30% of Nigeria’s share of daily production. They still have over 60% to sell globally at the prevailing international market price, so what’s the problem? Why are already suffering Nigerians paying for the blockage on the Strait of Hormuz?

What you're asking for is basically 'oil subsidy'. The only way to keep pump prices low when it's expensive everywhere else is by subsidising.

If global oil price rises to say $100 and NNPC is instructed to sell to Dangote at $70 to keep petrol prices low, what that means is that Nigeria will be losing $30 for every barrel of oil sold (i.e. govt. paying a subsidy of $30 per barrel). So if 327,000 barrels (Nigeria's daily consumption amount) is sold to Dangote daily at $70/barrel, that's equivalent to ~$10million daily in subsidy to keep local petrol prices low.

givedemwotowoto:
This is a rejoinder to: Petrol Price May Hit N1,800 In Nigeria- Refiners Warn

20% of global oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. We get it.

But here are the facts:

1. Almost all of Nigeria's crude oil is sweet crude.

2. Dangote Refinery has the capacity to process 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day.

3. Nigeria's daily consumption of crude oil is 327,000 barrels per day (or 52 million liters per day).

4. This means Dangote Refinery can process 100% of Nigeria's daily consumption locally.

So for the defenders of fuel price increase, explain to us why there is fuel price increase at Nigeria's petrol stations.

Before you come with Canada argument, let me preempt you:
Most of Canada’s crude is heavy crude and almost half of the 16 refineries can’t refine heavy crude, so the crude oil needs to be exported to the U.S. for refining. Because it is exported abroad, global oil price will affect it: you export at a high price due to demand, you import at a higher price.

Dangote buys the crude which he refines at the global oil price. So if the price of crude rises, Dangote also increases his prices.

I'm actually happy for Reno... The man has hustled tirelessly and shamelessly for this role. Would have been too embarrassing if he was dumped like El Rufai.

Goo0dHardDick:
Iran has nuclear weapons and they were disturbing USA with it, ranting how they were going to destroy America and others.

For 5 years, the late Iran supreme leader has been boasting until Trump had his time. It didn't even take up to 48hrs before they killed him asap, despite his nuclear weapons. Lol dey play.

Iran nuclear weapons are by far greater in numbers than NK that has literally nothing. USA has the most nuclear weapons in the world, followed by China, Russia, Iran and others. Nk is in the last or so. So how on earth would they withstand USA or Israel? I don't understand.

Oga NK will be reduced to ashes in 24hrs if Trump or Israel Reason their matter. Dey play

Lol.... I even thought you were knowledgeable in the subject you were discussing and arguing all over the thread. You dont even know the difference between 'ballistic missiles' and 'nuclear weapons'

If Iran had actual nuclear weapons, nobody would have dared to fire a single shot of even BB pellets into their airspace.

Goo0dHardDick:
This dude won't last 72 hours if USA or Israel reason his matter.

However the battle is against those islamic terrorists not Kim Jun

But that's exactly the point. No matter how much they hate him, no one dares to "reason the matter" of an unstable person with nuclear laden ICBMs.

Omo,, na small thing Oga Otti take escape dwarfism oo

flex04:
US Air Force is not aware of that crap

What crap? The planes sold to Nigeria?

Botragelad:
Read to understand boy. A Russian-made Iranian Yak-130 is exactly what it sounds like. Built in Russia, bought by Iran a couple years back to modernize their air force and train pilots for their old MiGs/Su- fighters.

I brought Russia in because an Israeli F-35 shot one of these Yak-130s over Tehran. A Russia piece of nonsense. What are you crying about? Fix your forehead son.

Imagine Nigeria is in a conflict with another country and they shoot down one of the NAF Super Tucanos which we procured recently from the US.... And then someone uses that event as a basis to ridicule US air force.

That's how ridiculously childish your narrative sounds by dragging Russia into this.

bestman09:
Enough of these analyses.
China are just wasting resources.

Any property you don't use is a waste as it will continue rusting away

CHINA: "We will not fire the first shot, but we will never allow a second"

There's a reason the US wouldn't even bother facing certain kind of countries in war. Wars aren't only fought with bullets and missiles!

Phew!... Finally Nigeria is represented in something which isn't exactly negative!

Ezewuzie01:
Peter Obi couldn't do something like this in Anambra because he was too demented. In his mind, what Anambra people needed was to get high with beer.

Going by your logic, even your President Emilokan is demented too cos history doesnt have a record of him installing even single pillar for this project.

Anyway, I think we all know who the real demented person is here...

Zionmdde:
What I know is that no politician can rig any election without the common man on the streets. So if the common man is not tired of the way Nigeria is today, then no problem. But if they are tired, they know what to do

I thought with 36 governors and over 200Million Nigerians standing on the mandate, tinubu should never have been afraid of a free and fair election.

Even house of rep ye or ne is rigged talk less of elections

The common man on the street is hungry and also greedy. A hingry man can easily be influenced to even kpai himselfm

yarimo:
but obi reacting to cases in Lagos state he is not a private citizen abi? Hypocrites kids everywhere

ProudlyLagos:
but he is not the president but he can talk about happenings in Lagos and other state outside his ipob sit at home terrorised region? His hypocrisy is nauseating

What law prohibits a private citizen from commenting on or reacting to events happening in any part of their own country? Point to it. Cite it. Show it!

What kind of dumb logic is this? Is this honestly the sharpest argument the brains of APC supporters can churn out?

ChukwuObe:
But why do we have so many dumb people in this country? Any law without a provision if the clause fails is bound to cause and create chaos. Imagine there is no network in Obi's polling unit, will they be happy if the results of the votes are not counted just because the e-transmission is not possible? What happens if some people spend lots of money to buy signal jamming equipment and deploy it in their opponent's region to prevent e-transmission, will they not be crying if the results are voided? Please use your brain. Imagine if card reader was made mandatory when Jonathan biometrics could not be captures, would he have voted without manual option?

Always the ApC theived and bandits speaking English to defend fraud in advance!

Ezewuzie01:
The lady should also ask Peter Obi why his children are in the UK and not in Anambra that he governed for eight years.

So you want the bandits and terrorist your APC federal government and armed forces have been breeding, defending and pampering in Nigeria since 2015 to consume his children?

Fix the security situation and see if diasporans and japarians wouldn't surge back into the country.

yarimo:
Peter obi you are yet to react or condemn IPOB terrorists sit at home orders in your state

The person you're supporting who happens to be the sitting president and commander in chief of all armed security forces in Nigeria, before you call on OBI who is a private citizen, has your president uttered a single word about it?

You want a private citizen to do the job of the government you claim to have voted in?

Burob:
Na u bring up Obi’s name, Charity they say begins @ home, & we all know that what is good for the goose, is also good for the gander, so I asked u how much did Anambra state release for capital projects to state hospitals?

Oh wow! I didn't know OBI was a government official in you people's own world.

TheBizGenius:
Hellooooo.

Some of us have dads who worked in the upper echelons of power in the ministries.

You assume a car/air conditioner/photocopier won't break down and need replacement not maintenance? Abi you think they count all those as recurrent expenses?

And you assume N36m will cover all that within a year in a ministry that covers 36+1 states? That's N1m/state?!

Think am well well ooo.

I stand to be corrected by someone who works in the health sector on the level of a permanent secretary and above anyway.

Repairing faulty cars or air conditioners, or even outright replacement of certain items doesn't always constitute capital expenditure; those are operational costs.

By the way, the revelation of N36 million was made be the minister of health himself during budget presentation; so what exactly do you need a perm secretaries to clarify for you?

helinues:
Are you included?

Relevance of the question?

helinues:
Productive people are at work today Monday

Those people at the National Assembly gate are more productive than 99% of the people inside the NASS and 99% of Nigerians currently sitting in government offices doing nothing. These guys are doing the Lord's work to save the nation from the filthy shameless scoundrels you support. Posterity will be very fair to these guys...

muykem:
Does it mean that they have not been paying salary to their staff? Nigeria love sensational headline without asking questions. How are the two ministers of health running their offices?

gbagyiza:
How will a normal person believe this news. Nigerian health sector would have crashed completely with that kind of figure.

TheBizGenius:
It's actually not Nigeria per se.

It's majorly forums like nairaland and the people here that believe these stories that obviously don't add up.

And it speaks more to the commenters cognitive abilities than to the article itself anyway.

Gboom:
Most of you believing this criminal manipulation are myopic thinkers. Hatred has replaced you sense of reasoning because of politics of bitterness you are practicing. 36 million cannot pay 10% of staff salaries for one month alone, or how will this meagre sum pay for other overheads. Try and practice better opposition, this one lacked common sense

You guys are trying to be too smart for yourselves; go back and read the report properly before defending. Report clearly talks of CAPITAL BUDGET, not the recurrent funds for overheads.

Burob:
How much did Anambra State release?

What's the correlation?

Were talking of how much the FG released for capital projects in Federal Hospitals, you're desperately trying to divert the focus of the discussion.

If you want to know what states released, you might want to go and ask the health commissioner in Anambra, or better still the governor of Anambra.