Of course, it was going to affect Benin and some other neighboring countries. The only issue is how do we ascertain the proceeds from the subsidy removal will be used for the promised purpose cos I dont trust this new government.
This was the economic woe that befell Venezuela before their current recovery.

Tvoice:

The same bene dat deported nigerians few months ago .

Nigerians like you who no regard themselves...of course some Nigerians are pathetic, like the headless mob.

Benin Republic is just 13 milion people. And besides that Thier is very minimum fuel amount that get to that country. Same also Nigeria import cheaper things from that country. It's not the reason we are paying trillions but corruption.

Bobloco:
I knew that they will come out with this propaganda

We are waiting for Niger, Togo, Chad and Cameroon

All to justify this thoughtless decision by Tinubu

Instead of fixing refineries, blocking leakages, having an effective and efficient border patrol to arrest and prosecute these smugglers

You are a baboon

nairalanda1:


Yeah, because the profit margin from smuggling fuel...I could earn enough if I was a smuggler, pay off the customs and excise people and still come home with a ton of money.

Plus, here is a cold truth,...customs men and women cannot be everywhere. Unless we built the equivalent of the Berlin Wall around our country and manned it with over 3 million soldiers, we won't stop this nonsense.

At least that loophole is closed for now.

The same thing happens in Venezuela. Fuel is less than N10, meanwhile in its neighbours it is above N500. Result...Venezuela loses 18 BILLION dollars annually to smuggling.

It's like osmosis...area of high concentration and all that.

How can fuel be less than N10? Are they mad in that country or what?
Custom guys are some of the richest civil servants, the amount of profit they rake in from bribes and impounded products is mind-blowing

WhatIf:


Is there any evidences that Petroleum Products were been increase because of Benin Republic?

How is subsidy removal a good development for nigeria?

Yes

When it comes to intellectual discourse you can never find obedients there because they are too beclouded by prejudice and bigotry to see the truth or think right, imagine saying this is propaganda, if Peter Obi had won and he removed the subsidy on his first day in office I'm sure they will cheer him on and argue vehemently about how right he is, they don't mind throwing Nigeria under the bus just to malign Tinubu, but we know their tactics.

Since subsidy was removed from Kerosene and Diesel, who e help? No one is against Subsidy Removal but do it with sense

Patriotsleague:

Nigerians like you who no regard themselves...of course some Nigerians are pathetic, like the headless mob.

I will ignore ur stupidity for now ,say something stupid again and i will course ur generation because i never mentioned u , dont dare me.

Bobloco:


This is pure propaganda

How is these products finding their way to those countries. No one have been sacked for not doing his job in securing our borders or arrested by the security agencies for smuggling



Instead of tackling the issues, they keep running around

No one can force you to believe anything, if you caan believe that Buhari was jubril then there is nothing on earth you won't believe.

Propaganda or not sensible people both main oppositions PDP and LP said yes to the removal they only have issues with the method.

So where's is the propaganda in this?

Nigerians are really gullible. Is this not the same borders buhari closed that put everyone in suffering?

vannessa7:
When it comes to intellectual discourse you can never find obedients there because they are too beclouded by prejudice and bigotry to see the truth, imagine saying this is propaganda, if Peter Obi had won and he removed the subsidy on his first day in office I'm sure they will cheer him on and argue vehemently about how right he is, they don't mind throwing Nigeria under the bus just to malign Tinubu, but we know their tactics.

No one is again Subsidy Removal. And stop being little

Psoul:
Removal of subsidy is one of the best things to do.
My problem is, will the government invest the N7.2 trillion yearly budget into Education, Health or Infrastructure?
They will still loot it.

I believe subsidy is around N5.5 trillion.

In addition to the spending areas you highlighted, remember too that government will have to use some of the saved subsidy money to pay down the huge loans past governments have borrowed.

Removing subsidy should strengthen the country's fiscal position, but the money saved will still not be enough to suddenly transform Nigeria. But it should help to.improve things a little.

delejoye:
The best decision is decades. Let them do proper importation from Dangote Refinary. Enough of this madness already.

Good and they pay us in dollars ..

Bobloco:
I knew that they will come out with this propaganda
We are waiting for Niger, Togo, Chad and Cameroon
All to justify this thoughtless decision by Tinubu
Instead of fixing refineries, blocking leakages, having an effective and efficient border patrol to arrest and prosecute these smugglers

For once, try to remove the cloak of partisanship, reason, and talk with patriotism.

NoToPile:


Loool , I hail una ooo.

Not me. I don't stay in Badagry nah I only go home. Those boys are big boys o. If I tell you where they channel it from ehen e go shock you...

nairalanda1:



Oga, this is not propaganda.

It has been going on for years. That is how we keep losing money

And the same thing happens in Venezuela.....

Look, I know Tinubu and company are not the best we can do for this country...but this part is not propaganda. There are articles and papers and diagrams online that detail the extent of the smuggling problem.

Or have you forgotten the brave Customs officer who exposed what was going on?

Removal of subsidy has ended the cheating that some marketers were doing. Make them work hard for their money.

You guys sometimes sound like you reason from your anus. So, because some unscrupulous people have been smuggling subsidized fuel from Nigeria to Benin Reprublic, the whole citizen should bear the brunt? What happens to setting up a task force to curb this menace? What happens to effective border policing? There's a reason why illiteracy is worse than cancer. There's no single economic benefit of this subsidy removal. Please don't say that the money will be diverted to other sectors because you and I know if won't. Rather, it will be looted in broad day light.


Secondly, the law of equity says that; 'He who must come to the table must come with clean hands'. If the government is truly sincere about the development of this nation, why can't they reduce the running cost of governance? Or is their bogus pay not affecting our recurring expenditure? See, they ain't bearing any brunt but they are telling the citizens (who are already going through a lot) to sacrifice for the greater good. If you cannot see the insincerity of our government, then you need to have your head examined.

#A_Big_No_To_Subsidy_Removal

vannessa7:
When it comes to intellectual discourse you can never find obedients there because they are too beclouded by prejudice and bigotry to see the truth or think right, imagine saying this is propaganda, if Peter Obi had won and he removed the subsidy on his first day in office I'm sure they will cheer him on and argue vehemently about how right he is, they don't mind throwing Nigeria under the bus just to malign Tinubu, but we know their tactics.

You said it all!

olatuns2017:



You are a baboon

While you live in the zoo

OldBeer:
Citizens of Benin Republic are right now taking to the streets of Twitter to bemoan the removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria. With some hoping for the removal of President Tinubu.

This is what some Nigerians and even the NLC should understand, Nigeria is subsiding the fuel for our surrounding countries.

Benin republic will not be happy with the removal of subsidy

ravensckar:
You guys sometimes sound like you reason from your anus. So, because some unscrupulous people have been smuggling subsidized fuel from Nigeria to Benin Reprublic, the whole citizen should bear the brunt? What happens to setting up a task force to curb this menace? What happens to effective border policing? There's a reason why illiteracy is worse than cancer. There's no single economic benefit of this subsidy removal. Please don't say that the money will be diverted to other sectors because you and I know if won't. Rather, it will be looted in broad day light.


Secondly, the law of equity says that; 'He who must come to the table must come with clean hands'. If the government is truly sincere about the development of this nation, why can't they reduce the running cost of governance? Or is their bogus pay not affecting our recurring expenditure? See, they ain't bearing any brunt but they are telling the citizens (who are already going through a lot) to sacrifice for the greater good. If you cannot see the insincerity of our government, then you need to have your head examined.

#A_Big_No_To_Subsidy_Removal

Thanks and good day

Omo na for Benin republic I see the highest black market fuel business

nairalanda1:
Fuel in Benin is N489 right now.

And right now, fuel in Nigeria is N488-540 per liter.

At the end of the day, smugglers cannot make a profit at all. Removing subsidy has made it difficult for anyone to smuggle fuel across the border.

And people ask me why I say subsidy must go...well here is one good reason.

Modified

If fuel was still N195, and I was living on the border, I can buy fuel into two 50l jerrycans, at N19500, cross the broder and sell it at dobule the price, and earn a cool N40000. Note that it was not only big cabals involved in the smuggling...it was also small poor boys and gals too.

Silly comparison
Rice, textiles cars and some other commodities are also cheaper in Benin Republic than Nigeria
I've not heard of their govt thinking of jacking up prices of such stuffs so that they stop being smuggled.
Besides, it's obvious this is cheap propaganda from the stable of agbadorians

Bobloco:
I knew that they will come out with this propaganda

We are waiting for Niger, Togo, Chad and Cameroon

All to justify this thoughtless decision by Tinubu

Instead of fixing refineries, blocking leakages, having an effective and efficient border patrol to arrest and prosecute these smugglers

This is no propaganda at all. This act has been on for donkey years, Cameroon, Niger, Benin, even all the way to Togo and Mauritania. Petroleum smuggling has been on for years and it is among the things crippling our economy

Kukutenla:

Silly comparison
Rice, textiles cars and some other commodities are also cheaper in Benin Republic than Nigeria
I've not heard of their govt thinking of jacking up prices of such stuffs so that they stop being smuggled.
Besides, it's obvious this is cheap propaganda from the stable of agbadorians

K.

Kpayo kee Una dia

tonididdy:
BS stories!



Because of a few smugglers, you put an entire nation in extra hardship to remove an imaginary subsidy!

Is tinibu not a beneficiary of the smuggling? Is he not the Grand owner of the entire west?

So why did Obi said he will remove subsidy immediately? Why did Goodluck partially removed it then? Comment with sense na haba

Kukutenla:

Silly comparison
Rice, textiles cars and some other commodities are also cheaper in Benin Republic than Nigeria
I've not heard of their govt thinking of jacking up prices of such stuffs so that they stop being smuggled.
Besides, it's obvious this is cheap propaganda from the stable of agbadorians

You can't compare petroleum to those products you listed above.

And the smuggling in of those commodities are one of the things damaging our economy as well. Instead of them to use Nigeria's port or manufacture in nigeria, they go to neighbouring countries and produce over there or import from there to smuggle into Nigeria.
Our west African neighbours are parasites eating on our economy.

The smuggling of petrol has come to an end. No going back. We hope Tinubu deal with them with the smuggling of commodity products as well

See how some youths were discussing constructively without denigration of their leaders and country. Let the discussion be Nigerian youths and see all sorts of absurdities in convos

Bobloco:
I knew that they will come out with this propaganda

We are waiting for Niger, Togo, Chad and Cameroon

All to justify this thoughtless decision by Tinubu

Instead of fixing refineries, blocking leakages, having an effective and efficient border patrol to arrest and prosecute these smugglers

Oga Rest... There isn't any good time for subsidy removal. I aren't a fan of this old political party, but the truth still remains the truth.
The decision was never thoughtless. Humans always solve challenges when faced with them and not in advance .Now they removal have occurred, We all will gladly solve the challenges it will bring. No Constant power, local production of Electric tricycles and other things.

gaskiyamagana:

Who is he to effect your last paragraph when a whole Buhari can not ? In fact, those are the summary of Nigeria government failure with the masses bearing and nursing the wounds.

Are you now saying that the masses should suffer because the government refused to their jobs

lexy2014:


How is subsidy removal a good development for nigeria?

Yes

It is a good development