Celebrities › Re: Actress Yvonne Jegede Flaunts New Sexy Curves [PICS] by passionate88: 4:27pm On Dec 30, 2015 |
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Romance › Re: 7 Obstacles That Might Have Kept Some Of Our Ladies From Getting Married In 2015 by passionate88: 8:40am On Dec 30, 2015 |
Igbos and Yorubas do No.1 a lot. Let's not mention the Hausas because those ones are entirely different from the rest. |
Sports › Re: Ideye Brown Exposed By White Woman, Says He's The Father Of Her Kids by passionate88: 7:54am On Dec 30, 2015 |
Women, no matter how ugly a man is, all he needs is just to have money and they'll open everything for him. |
Politics › Re: Military Not Sincere On Casualty Figure Of Sunday’s Attack – Borno Residents by passionate88: 6:21am On Dec 30, 2015 |
godoluwa: I know that God will intervene now na God you don turn to?, wetin do sai baba? |
Crime › Re: 18 Yrs Old Boy Shot Dead In Warri During Church Service Hours by passionate88: 4:36pm On Dec 29, 2015 |
anthonykezy: Please explain to me so I understand. If there is more to it, let me know, please. You can send me an inbox or email. I will appreciate it. Thanks forget |
Crime › Re: 18 Yrs Old Boy Shot Dead In Warri During Church Service Hours by passionate88: 11:35am On Dec 29, 2015 |
anthonykezy: OK. Explain how his eyes or mouth warrant shooting him in the chest, pls. like I said earlier, you wouldn't understand |
Crime › Re: Woman Pours Hot Water On Nursing Mother (graphic Pic) by passionate88: 10:29am On Dec 29, 2015 |
Nigeria women!. Tufia, majority of them are wolves in sheep clothing |
Politics › Re: Kaduna APC Suspends Senator Shehu Sani by passionate88: 8:29am On Dec 29, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Suspected Female Suicide Bomber Apprehended By Troops In Borno - Pictured by passionate88: 8:28am On Dec 29, 2015 |
ebbybest: Am in the north, infact i was born and brought up in the North. U can't tell me a different thing about what i know. same here, but no longer in the north. A buy a is different, try from zaria |
Politics › Re: Photos Of Victims Of Maiduguri Bomb Blast by passionate88: 8:22am On Dec 29, 2015 |
ajebuter: You echoed my exact sentiment. Insurgency should be collectively tackled, not politicised as has become the order of the day in our country. who started it |
Politics › Re: Photos Of Victims Of Maiduguri Bomb Blast by passionate88: 8:16am On Dec 29, 2015 |
Chanji...... I thought liar muhammed said these things will be a thing of the past when the dullard enters |
Crime › Re: 18 Yrs Old Boy Shot Dead In Warri During Church Service Hours by passionate88: 8:14am On Dec 29, 2015 |
anthonykezy: You can explain to me better. He just finished secondary school not too long. He didn't attend school in Warri. He spent all six years secondary school in a dormitory outside Warri. So why did you think his hands were not clean? and he also spent his holiday outside Warri too?, mind you, I didn't mention only his hands |
Politics › Re: Suspected Female Suicide Bomber Apprehended By Troops In Borno - Pictured by passionate88: 8:11am On Dec 29, 2015 |
jane0000: See her ugly face. All these long hijabs should be ban in borno till further notice You really don't know those idiots. They will protest nd even burn churches and kill Christians if the government bans the wearing of hijabs. |
Politics › Re: Suspected Female Suicide Bomber Apprehended By Troops In Borno - Pictured by passionate88: 8:08am On Dec 29, 2015 |
ebbybest: My fellow Nairalander's if you are very observernt, you will notic the color if hijab that she is wearing. That color has always been the colour the female sucide bombers used to wear. And even at the time the picture of the Chibok girls were realeased it was this same color of hijab that they were all wearing.
sumtine is wrong sum where nothing is wrong somewhere, that's one of the colour they love wearing in the north. Black or brown, it hides the stains |
Politics › Re: Suspected Female Suicide Bomber Apprehended By Troops In Borno - Pictured by passionate88: 8:06am On Dec 29, 2015 |
disloman: Must you politicised everything?If your hero had taken the right steps while he was in office.We won't have been in this situation.Lives are lost bro. and is your hero taking the right steps? |
Politics › Re: Suspected Female Suicide Bomber Apprehended By Troops In Borno - Pictured by passionate88: 8:05am On Dec 29, 2015 |
temitemi1: I hope this is nt another lie name big lai na, very BIG LAI. |
Crime › Re: 18 Yrs Old Boy Shot Dead In Warri During Church Service Hours by passionate88: 8:00am On Dec 29, 2015 |
anthonykezy: What makes his hands, eyes or mouth not clean? You won't understand |
Politics › Tinubu’s Canvass For Subsidy Removal by passionate88(op): 11:24pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
By Ikem Adimorah
“Tell men of high condition That manages the estate, Their purpose is ambitions, Their practice only hate And if they reply, Then give them the lie”.
THAT was one of the stanzas of Sir Walter Raleigh’s final poems some times titled “The Lie”. It was written on realising his impending death and that life is vanity and falsity in 1592. The satirical poem loaded with irony and metaphor threw up so much that was hidden in the political protests of January 2012 against the removal of fuel subsidy by the PDP led Federal Government.
The hypocrisy has crystallised with the recent provocative urging of the Buhari government by Bola Ahmed Tinubu to quickly do away with the oil subsidy.
Admitting that his view against the removal in 2012 was due to ignorance or sheer quest for power. As he put it “… However, I have reached the conclusion that there are too many demons in the system for that hell to be turned into heaven”. File photo: DPR official sealing a fuel station
File photo: DPR official sealing a fuel station
It is pertinent to recall that Tinubu and his cohorts were of the view that Nigerians deserve the subsidy and should be allowed to enjoy it and that all that government needed then was to block all the loop holes where money use to leak out from government coffers into private pockets. They went further to add that if Nigerians will vote them into power, the subsidy will be increased for the common people to enjoy. Regrettably, the people have voted them into government and they are giving us “the lie”. Now they have known and Nigerians will have to pay more for fuel.
The leakages have been blocked and it is still not yet enough. Invariably it was not just the leakages. How many billions of dollars have we wasted in the name of subsidy with the attendant fraud that goes with it?
Many Foreign and local investors would have invested in the down stream sector of the oil industry and created jobs for our people. Three years have been wasted and still counting. “It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution” – Hannah Arendt.
Many innocent Nigerians have opposed the subsidy removal for fear of the unknown but majority of us are fed up with the harassment that the removal has caused over the year and will be happier if it will be done with once and for all.
But for the politicians if removed, cannot be used again to deceive us or cajole us to vote for them. May be they will start preaching welfare state which is fast becoming the new lexicon in Nigeria politics. But we should not be deceived for welfare state and oil subsidy are two sides of the same coin.
Buhari should remove the subsidy that fuels smugglers across our boarders will look for new jobs and allow us know the exact quantity of fuel Nigerians consume daily. That the number of those who die due to fuel tanker accidents will reduce. That fuel queues will disappear at the filling stations. Fuel subsidy should be removed that long official convoys will reduce and the accidents they cause on the high ways will reduce too. Our experience with politicians has gone full circle and we are taking stock. Politics without integrity has been laid bear for us to see. Those whose names are synonymous with lies have been noted as the pay day is fast approaching.
Many Nigerians are looking forward to a vibrant legislative arm of government that will make patriotism their watch word and reduce partisan politics in its legislative duties. But, the 8th Assembly seemed to have been cowed due to how the principal officers of the houses emerged.
The stability and focus of this present government is taking a longer time than anticipated. This is taking its toll on the economy such that experts are calling for quick surgical intervention before it becomes too late for all of us http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/12/tinubus-canvass-for-subsidy-removal/tonyebarcanista |
Crime › Re: Photo From Traffic Robbery In Lagos Last Night by passionate88: 10:55pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Crime › Re: . by passionate88: 10:54pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
that girl wey dey d second pix ugly no be small |
Crime › Re: 18 Yrs Old Boy Shot Dead In Warri During Church Service Hours by passionate88: 10:49pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
The guy man hands or eyes or mouth no clean |
Crime › Re: Police Men Who Drove One Way And Killed Uniport Student Have Been Arrested by passionate88: 10:45pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
R.I.P |
Crime › Re: Policemen Who Killed UNIPORT Student Have Been Arrested by passionate88: 10:44pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
Rest In Peace.... I remember my encounter with him at love garden where the photographers stay.... |
Crime › Re: Leak Video: Nigeria Woman Caught Having S*x With Her Child In D Bush by passionate88: 10:38pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
she wasnt having sex with her child.... |
Crime › Re: Graphic Photos: Afghan Militia Group Beheads Four ISIS Fighters In Revenge by passionate88: 10:36pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Is ISIS Moving Their Headquarters To Nigeria? by passionate88: 9:43pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Jokes Etc › Re: Hilarious Warning A Zoo Management Issued To Their Visitors by passionate88: 7:57pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Female Bombers Attack Motor-Park In Adamawa, 30 Feared Dead - Premium Times by passionate88: 6:22pm On Dec 28, 2015*. Modified: 8:04pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Celebrities › Re: Kiran Matharoo In Cleavage-Baring Outfit To #OLIC2 [PICS] by passionate88: 5:39pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Family › Re: Pastor Marries Corpse Of Church Member He Impregnated In Akwa Ibom by passionate88: 5:30pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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Politics › Re: Maiduguri Residents Line Up To Identify Corpses After Boko Haram Attack (Photo) by passionate88: 4:38pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
4reala: But dem teell us say na army kill 10 terrorist nah  u dey believe them? |
Politics › Re: Maiduguri Residents Line Up To Identify Corpses After Boko Haram Attack (Photo) by passionate88: 4:37pm On Dec 28, 2015 |
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