No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister - Politics (4) - Nairaland
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| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by davidif: 8:12am On Nov 05, 2024 |
Basiljoe:How about this? Some African countries have not had a lot of educated leaders knowledgeable enough to run their countries. In case you didn't know, running a country is very, very difficult. You have the political side of things and you have the economic and financial side of things which some leaders don't have a background in. Just imagine, you are a military leader with only a secondary school education or a degree in Veterinary medicine and you are now in charge of a large and very diverse nation in and you are dealing with competing interests within the country and now you have to figure out things like trade policy, competition law, tax policy, govt reforms etc meanwhile your counterparts in the west double or even triple majored in Political science, Economics and Philosophy in school then after that went on to get an MBA and a law degree from some of the best schools in the world where they are thought to think and tackle very challenging problems then after this, they add some real-world experience in the top financial institutions in their country to their CV before joining politics. How in the world do you even think you can even begin to compete with this in policy and trade discussions? |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by davidif: 8:23am On Nov 05, 2024 |
lildush:The problem with this administration is that they have not done a good job explaining the concept of currency manipulation that we have been practicing for so long so that the average Nigerian on the street understands it and its long-term debilitating effects on the economy. Most folks do not understand how expensive it is to prop up your currency artificially and how much of your reserves you have to burn through to do that. |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by Feldie: 8:40am On Nov 05, 2024 |
olaniyilukman:they're idiots hoping Dangote and Bua will be competing with each other. Nigeria where we have only two billionaires and the mumu government is talking about market forces. Why should the two billionaires compete with each other when they can sit down, fix price and fleece Nigerians to stupor. Even market women selling garri don't compete, the price one call for you is the price the rest will all call for you regardless of whether the seller got the cassava from her farm or bought it to resell. Market women are fixing price and the naive government are fooling themselves thinking billionaires will compete and bring price down. Dangote and Bua can decide to fix the price of cement at 30k today and nothing will happen. They can decide to fix price of spaghetti at 15k and nothing will happen. |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by Love800(m): 8:53am On Nov 05, 2024 |
Okay. Thanks. crossbreedwears: |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by commoditiesnig(m): 9:34am On Nov 05, 2024*. Modified: 5:44pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
olaniyilukman:My brother if you know back then pre-floating FOREX how individuals have made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS from FOREX "subsidy", currency racketeering, BTA runs, etc for years eh. You'll weep for this country! Remember a certain nephew to an Ex-President and an ex-CBN gov comes to mind. How can a country 'subsize' her own currency against a foreign currency? I don't think I've heard that anywhere in the world. While in Europe, an acquaintance then visited my place from Nigeria and told us how he gets so much USD thru BTA runs with help of his person in a Bank. Its just crazy! |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by Ballo1292(m): 9:35am On Nov 05, 2024 |
Bebigiby1:Which chaos? At the sound of a gun, you will run enter your miserable hole. Omo oleee. Week fellows!!! |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by olaniyilukman(m): 10:07am On Nov 05, 2024 |
commoditiesnig:bro, it's really annoying, this man has no clue on how efficient to run the economy to maximum of achieving growth and overall development of the people.... |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by LadyExcellency: 11:00am On Nov 05, 2024 |
richmond500:What do you mean? Is this what you call stability?
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| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by richmond500: 11:41am On Nov 05, 2024 |
Hmm |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by 9jatriot(m): 11:53am On Nov 05, 2024 |
4 trillion, oga start to de fear God with your lies. Haba Kobojunkie: |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by ehinmowo: 12:03pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
Ikaeniyan0:Govt should not. And should have never try to defend the Naira directly. The only thing it can do is provide an environment for fair foreign exchange competition and utilisation. And the downstream sector should be deregulated (un the started the two policies without proper cushions). |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by justtoodark: 2:51pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
Kobojunkie:do you have prove....?? |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by MomohMrMoore: 2:55pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
There is no economy minister. We have a team of tax collectors. Their only policy is how to collect from the people and concentrate wealth in the hand of the government. That is why you have the worst performing currency in Africa and a galloping inflation with manufacturing companies collapsing by the day. The country descending to destruction. |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by Kobojunkie: 3:14pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
justtoodark: 9jatriot:► https://www.reuters.com/markets/nigeria-spend-372-bln-fuel-subsidy-this-year-draft-document-says-2024-06-06/ ► https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/701270-despite-tinubus-pronouncement-nigerian-govt-spent-n3-6-trillion-on-subsidy-in-2023.html ► https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/august-2023/nigeria-ends-oil-subsidy-invest-savings-infrastructure-development ► https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-10/nigeria-s-fuel-subsidy-set-to-drain-almost-half-of-oil-revenue-imf-says ►https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-19/nigeria-owes-state-oil-firm-4-9-billion-fuel-subsidy-debt ►https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/nigerias-nnpc-says-its-facing-financial-strain-over-costly-fuel-imports-2024-09-01/ ►https://punchng.com/reps-to-investigate-nnpcs-2-26bn-debt/ |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by 9jatriot(m): 3:26pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
All the reports you are posting are saying "projected to", "expected to" etc to keep prices fixed, so the question is has PMS prices had a fixed since May 29th? In all the report, they start with this "projected to" and then cycle back to telling us the history of the subsidy removal. Not one of them explicitly stated that any subsidy was or is paid. The only one I couldn't read is the one from IMF, perhaps that one would have had more substance. Kobojunkie: |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by Kobojunkie: 3:33pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
9jatriot:This whole is about the actual cost of fuel subsidy since May 29, 2023 announcement that the subsidy had been removed. The House is investigating NNPCL's debt of over $3.2 billion which it claims FG owes it. But here you are rambling about some price? ![]() |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by 9jatriot(m): 3:52pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
This is the second time you state something, provide articles to try to justify your statement and then the articles that you provide end up working against you. You probably know your audience, who will stop at the headline and not go further to read the report, or maybe even you does not read what you post to confirm if it validates your points. This is the blanket statement that you made with authority. Kobojunkie:Yet you provide news contents that all project or believe or expected to... I was hoping to see a document that says government spent the 4T you stated and at least show proof. Senate investigating a loan or lost is not yet proof, haba, you can do better. Kobojunkie: |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by Kobojunkie: 5:50pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
MomohMrMoore:Concentrate wealth in the hands of the government through collection of taxes? ![]() |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by PropertyOffers(f): 8:17pm On Nov 05, 2024 |
ufotunang: |
| Re: No Going Back On FOREX, Subsidy Reforms – Finance Minister by pak: 5:06am On Nov 06, 2024 |
Kobojunkie:I am replying to this, as a bookmark. Cos the post is the true position |
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