₦airaland Forum

watchindelta:
Subsidy is not the problem of nigeria. The problem is corruption. Everything inside nigeria are corrupted.roit systems. Here I'm government Subsidized nearly everything but no problem to the country because they utilized their resources very well. So Nigerian should stop giving that bullshit as excuses. The government Subsidized Healthcare. School. Renewable Energy.rent. agriculture. Even support businesses. We paid tax in everything in Nigerian now! still yet the government are still complaining 🙄 no light.no water.no road 🙄 policemen and army everywhere on the road here in warri after keke n yahoo bois. Only one road get like 4 road blocks 🚫 aha nigeria is death. Paying tax for nothing to showed. After the government go say the citizens are lazy 😴 how? No light to use run businesse? How I take lazy? No security (farming ). How can economy run without light? Is impossible.

Absolute nonesense.

You did not tell us which country you live in where 'government subsidise nearly everything but no problem to the country.'

Mention the country na. Even Saudi Arabia has stopped 'subsidising everything'.

You think you are the only one that has lived abroad.

You are either trying to deceive people or you don't understand how the country you live in work.

I lived in the UK, my income (salary) tax plus Council tax was over 40% of my salary every month.

So, if I went to a hospital that was free in the UK, it meant the government was subsidising the hospital?. Absolutely not. It simply meant I had paid for the 'free' hospital through the very high tax I was paying.

You say people pay taxes in Nigeria, hence the government should provide subsidised services. Which tax really.

My tax in Nigeria is ...erm, less than 2% of my income (tax people please no come harass me o - you people don't demand for tax ). Yet, you want the government to wave a magic wand and provide Nigerian citizens with a fabulous subsidised lifestyle.

Some of the richest countries in the world have some of the highest personal income taxes too.

Personal income tax in Japan, Finland, Austria etc are around 50%. In Sweden, it is 52%. In Ivory Coast, the most organised country in West Africa, personal income tax is over 60%, the highest in the world. So you can see there is some correlation between high government tax revenue and development. Will Nigerians agree to pay 40% of their total monthly income in tax?

And remember many of those developed countries have been collecting taxes from their citizens for over 200 years which they have used to build their country.

Yet, in 2025, the vast majority of Nigerians still pay zero tax, yet you want to compare Nigeria to those countries.

As for electricity, I get up to 22 hours a day consistently, and I am not even in Zone A, or whatever they call it. While it is safe to say my experience is not replicated across the country, there clearly appears to be manifest improvement in many areas, and I hope with time, every part of the country will share in that experience.

udemzyudex:
Lol..why not ask your president what they have done with the money saved from subsidy removal.

You guys will say the coalition is a joke and on the other hand you'll be running helter skelter to say anything to discredit them.

There was no money to save, they were borrowing money to pay subsidy and mortgaging the future of your generation as a result.

Thankfully common sense has now prevailed.

Corruption is not the problem

There is corruption everywhere

In India, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Egypt, there is plenty of corruption

As Dangote recently said
When they steal in those countries the money STAYS in the country

When they steal in NIgeria they take the money OUT of the country



Fundamental problem we have 3 very large ethnic groups that should be in different countries forced to be together


The most illiterate and backward were in charge of the country for 36 out of 39 years after independence from 1960 -1969 and they wrote the constitution we now operate

Because of them we have no power and failed to industrialize

Everything they did was for their interest

They moved capital to Abuja because of THEIR interest

In 1991 they got $12 billion oil windfall because of Gulf War and spent it on Abuja

No power, no Refinery, No rail
Misplaced priority

By incompetent Northern Muslims has brought us where we are

If Nigeria splits into 3 today the South West will be fine regardless of corruption

Imagine a people that are destroying beer bottles in the 21st century, grazing cows on the streets of Abuja how can anything good come out of them

Let us never forget

from 1960 to 1999
Only two people ruled from the south
by mistake after the person in charge was killed

Ironsi for 6 months
Obasanjo for 3 years

The rest was a Northerner and they did not bring anything good
Lagos Ibadan Expressway the first motor way , Obasanjo
PH Enugu Obasanjo
PH Airport Started by Obasanjo almost completed before he handed over

Same thing with Egbin Thermal station biggest power plant in Nigeria.

Since then all we hear is Abacha loot .

ArmaniUhuru:
Oga it’s too early for all these. You people should calm down. It’s obvious this ADC is causing APC sleepless nights.

Wait o

Are you trying to tell me that these coalition members don't have a clear cut plan of what they want to do when they get to office?
You mean they want to grab power first before planning what to do to move the nation forward?
Take it or leave it, ADC is APC volume 2. they can't offer anything special.

If we look at the negative impact on subsidy removal compared that to zero benefits any right thinking leader would have retraced it steps.

They told us this government will not borrow after removing it. But today they are still borrowing.

School fees increased and electricity. Still nothing to show rather than more suffering for Nigerians.

Feeds is now above the roof, transportation is higher than salaries. Healthcare is terrible for poor Nigerians. Inflation and businesses folding up.

So tell me what Nigerians are benefiting from this government with increase in tax every now and then. Internet subscription has tripled in the last few years


They told us subsidy is the problem why we haven’t developed and removing it will bring butter and bread.
So what excuse do we have right now to justify subsidies removal because nothing has improved other than retrogression

DeLaRue:
Nonesense.

You did not tell us which country you live in where 'government subsidise nearly everything but no problem to the country.'

Mention the country na.

You think you are the only that has lived abroad.

You are either trying to deceive people or you don't understand how the country you live in work.

I lived in the UK, my income (salary) tax plus Council tax was over 40% of my salary every month.

So, if I go to a hospital that is free in the UK, it means the government is subsidising the hospital?. Absolutely not. It simply means I am enjoying the benefit of a very high tax that the government takes from my salary.

You say people pay taxes in Nigeria, hence the government should provide subsidised services. Which tax really.

My tax in Nigeria is ...erm, less than 2% of my income (tax people please no come catch me o). Yet, you want the government to wave a magic wand and provide Nigerian citizens with a fabulous subsidised lifestyle.

Some of the richest countries in the world have some of the highest income taxes in the world.

Personal income tax in Japan, Finland, Austria etc are around 50%. In Sweden, it is 52%. In Ivory Coast, the most organised country in West Africa, personal income tax is over 60%, the highest in the world.

And remember many of these countries have been collecting taxes from their citizens for over 200 years which they have used to build their country.

In 2025, the vast majority of Nigerians still pay zero tax, yet you want to compare Nigeria to those countries.

Here italy government Subsidized things. Especially if your salary is low. You get more benefits.
So you think 🤔 nigeria is a country . Pride without noting to showed na be our problem. That is why the country is like this. We people hate the truth 💯. Yes In italy.

is this how UK you they running their country? All Nigerians above 18 years working pay their tax[/quote]

The 'subsidy' you refer to that Italian government pay to people who need help is taken from the high taxes that other Italians pay, plus money that the Italian government continue to borrow on a monthly basis.

You forgot to tell us that Italy has the highest debt in Europe, about 3 trillion euros.

That puts the country's debt-to-gdp ratio at around 130%. The 3rd or 4th highest in the world.

The country is almost bankrupt.

There you go...that is where uncontrolled government spending (subsidy) gets you.

When you borrow to subsidise the lifestyle of your citizens, you end up on the verge of bankruptcy, like Nigeria was in 2022.

Yet, Italy is the example is you want Nigeria to follow?

DeLaRue:
Absolute nonesense.

You did not tell us which country you live in where 'government subsidise nearly everything but no problem to the country.'

Mention the country na. Even Saudi Arabia has stopped 'subsidising everything'.

You think you are the only one that has lived abroad.

You are either trying to deceive people or you don't understand how the country you live in work.

I lived in the UK, my income (salary) tax plus Council tax was over 40% of my salary every month.

So, if I went to a hospital that was free in the UK, it meant the government was subsidising the hospital?. Absolutely not. It simply meant I had paid for the 'free' hospital through the very high tax I was paying.

You say people pay taxes in Nigeria, hence the government should provide subsidised services. Which tax really.

My tax in Nigeria is ...erm, less than 2% of my income (tax people please no come harass me o - you people don't demand for tax ). Yet, you want the government to wave a magic wand and provide Nigerian citizens with a fabulous subsidised lifestyle.

Some of the richest countries in the world have some of the highest income taxes in the world.

Personal income tax in Japan, Finland, Austria etc are around 50%. In Sweden, it is 52%. In Ivory Coast, the most organised country in West Africa, personal income tax is over 60%, the highest in the world. So you can see there is some correlation between high government tax revenue and development. Will Nigerians agree to pay 40% of their total monthly income in tax?

And remember many of those developed countries have been collecting taxes from their citizens for over 200 years which they have used to build their country.

Yet, in 2025, the vast majority of Nigerians still pay zero tax, yet you want to compare Nigeria to those countries.

As for electricity, I get up to 22 hours a day consistently, and I am not even in Zone A, or whatever they call it. While it is safe to say my experience is not replicated across the country, there clearly appears to be manifest improvement in many areas, and I hope with time, every part of the country will share in that experience.

how much is minimum wage as relative to those countries mentioned? Nigerian has the lowest minimum wage in the world and there is a reason for that because of subsidy and low cost of doing business things.


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naptu2:
Short video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4KQfFgjPUE?si=Bbzy0pAXsf2XA0wK



https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/07/will-you-bring-back-fuel-subsidy-gov-radda-questions-coalition-leaders/

Full interview


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8KusHDWUds?si=Ip72eQ0VhRjOvj9z

This is foolish talk subsidy is done and buried...I wonder who's got the lower IQ between Nigerians and their leaders

raumdeuter:
Good question but I am sure they will lie or dribble around the question

All the major candidates last election in 2023 said they will remove subsidy

Some will say I will return subsidy but when asked how will govt function that is when they will start rambling

Whatever they say, Ask them to swear by Bible, Koran or better still Ayelala

Forget Bible and Quran , my take is both the past , present and the incoming , plus the collusion must swear by our traditional gods

Ofunaofu:
I can understand Governor Radda’s pain, he knows the ADC tsunami will sweep him away come 2027, just like the APC tsunami swept most Northern PDP governors in 2015.

He should rather direct his question to his party, the APC, and to Tinubu, and ask them to tell Nigerians what they’ve done with the trillions of naira saved from subsidy removal.

Not this vague explanation the government keeps giving that the money has been invested in 'critical infrastructure.' Which critical infrastructure? The notoriously fraudulent Lagos-Calabar coastal highway?

So your argument here is basically because the APC is a colossal disaster, we do not even need to hear about the policies of the opposition, where he is in pain or being disingenuous is of little relevance here, as every voter should desperately be holding every single candidate feet including the emilokan corps to the fire. Only in this country does a political party promise to make life better and people like you just gurgle it up because you think if your team wins, you win no matter the consequence to the country

MissOpe:
Bringing back subsidy will not have much positive impact on goods and services,,, rather they should think of how to better the economy by making use of our resources judiciously

💯

Subsidy will change nothing, in fact bringing it back will make things worse

How can you not be able to provide electricity since independence? Not like you are to provide it for free,

Godfullsam:
Wait o

Are you trying to tell me that these coalition members don't have a clear cut plan of what they want to do when they get to office?
You mean they want to grab power first before planning what to do to move the nation forward?
Take it or leave it, ADC is APC volume 2. they can't offer anything special.

First and foremost; the coalition and her supporters that don’t like critical thinking —which is why they cannot think of alternative policy solutions they largely thrive on illogical sentiments.

raumdeuter:
Good question but I am sure they will lie or dribble around the question

All the major candidates last election in 2023 said they will remove subsidy

Some will say I will return subsidy but when asked how will govt function that is when they will start rambling

Whatever they say, Ask them to swear by Bible, Koran or better still Ayelala

That Ayelala will be ok, they know That Bible and Koran won't do them anything, if everyone of them are made to drink Ayelala water and once someone steal money, him stomach begin dey swell. In 20yrs time Nigeria go become a developed country.

Sirianese:
This is foolish talk subsidy is done and buried...I wonder who's got the lower IQ between Nigerians and their leaders

Did you actually understand what he was saying? He is not saying that he wants subsidy to be brought back, he is saying that those who say that the removal of subsidy was a bad thing should tell Nigerians if they would bring it back if they have the chance.


That's what he is saying.

Watch the full interview to understand what he was saying.

watchindelta:
Subsidy is not the problem of nigeria. The problem is corruption. Everything inside nigeria are corrupted.roit systems. Here I'm government Subsidized nearly everything but no problem to the country because they utilized their resources very well. So Nigerian should stop giving that bullshit as excuses. The government Subsidized Healthcare. School. Renewable Energy.rent. agriculture. Even support businesses. We paid tax in everything in Nigerian now! still yet the government are still complaining 🙄 no light.no water.no road 🙄 policemen and army everywhere on the road here in warri after keke n yahoo bois. Only one road get like 4 road blocks 🚫 aha nigeria is death. Paying tax for nothing to showed. After the government go say the citizens are lazy 😴 how? No light to use run businesse? How I take lazy? No security (farming ). How can economy run without light? Is impossible.

All these grammar and still you ended up not answering the very simple question asked by the Governor. You see, this is not 2014 and definitely not Jonathan in power who was chosen by luck to become VP and by luck became president when his boss died. The new sheriff in town has paid his dues and everyone including fools should agree with that.
Now back to his question, Nigerians are feeling the heat of subsidy removal and the forex reform right? Forget about the stories of how the subsidy removal was implemented. Would you bring back the subsidy on petrol and restore multiple exchange rates and maybe cancel student loan and other policies of the present regime? If yes, how would you fund the Government?

🤣 So many people on this thread are simply deflecting and trying to change the subject because they cannot answer the simple question that he asked.

If you say that the removal of subsidy was bad, then announce to Nigerians that you will bring back the subsidy and also tell Nigerians how you will fund the subsidy and also fund government.

ArmaniUhuru:
Oga it’s too early for all these. You people should calm down. It’s obvious this ADC is causing APC sleepless nights.

sleepless nights in your dreams
Instead of Obi in 2027 let Atiku win

amaridigital:
All these grammar and still you ended up not answering the very simple question asked by the Governor. You see, this is not 2014 and definitely not Jonathan in power who was chosen by luck to become VP and by luck became president when his boss died. The new sheriff in town has paid his dues and everyone including fools should agree with that.
Now back to his question, Nigerians are feeling the heat of subsidy removal and the forex reform right? Forget about the stories of how the subsidy removal was implemented. Would you bring back the subsidy on petrol and restore multiple exchange rates and maybe cancel student loan and other policies of the present regime? If yes, how would you fund the Government?

Great questions.

Should be easy for the ADC people to answer if they are serious about getting into power.

I don't think we need subsidy at this time but they should look for better ways to utilize the money gotten from it.

raumdeuter:
Good question but I am sure they will lie or dribble around the question

All the major candidates last election in 2023 said they will remove subsidy

Some will say I will return subsidy but when asked how will govt function that is when they will start rambling

Whatever they say, Ask them to swear by Bible, Koran or better still Ayelala

That is the same question I ask their followers when they shout they want Tinubu out because of hardship. HARDSHIP that we all know what caused it.
The same "what caused it" your faves planned to do during their campaign in 2022 but you got carried a way.

israelmao:
Even Tinubu who implemented the same oil subsidy was against while he was pretending to be Nigeria's messiah.

So because he was against it 13 years before his election, he should never have been in favour of removal for the rest of his life?

If he was wrong to oppose it in 2015, he was wrong to change his mind about it in 2023?

amaridigital:
All these grammar and still you ended up not answering the very simple question asked by the Governor. You see, this is not 2014 and definitely not Jonathan in power who was chosen by luck to become VP and by luck became president when his boss died. The new sheriff in town has paid his dues and everyone including fools should agree with that.
Now back to his question, Nigerians are feeling the heat of subsidy removal and the forex reform right? Forget about the stories of how the subsidy removal was implemented. Would you bring back the subsidy on petrol and restore multiple exchange rates and maybe cancel student loan and other policies of the present regime? If yes, how would you fund the Government?

stop corruption. Subsidy is not Nigeria problem but corruption. Let the government stop mismanagement of funds. With all the billions n trillions everyone in government are stealing! You expect the country to do well? Our problem 💯 corruption. You know it bad system of government.

The governor is among those deceiving Nigerians. The removal of subsidy was done in order to suffer the masses. I don't believe there's anything like subsidy. What we call subsidy today is the difference between international price of fuel and local price of fuel, now it is wrong for the government of Nigeria to make the people in Nigeria pay international price of fuel and at the same time pay local wages or salaries to people resident in Nigeria.

Again, the government of tinubu devalued naira through his policy of naira float from # 460 per dollar official rate to around # 1600 per dollar, thereby grossly lessening the purchasing power of the people.

Not stopping at that, there is increased drive for tax collection, still aiming at collecting more from the people.

Payment of customs duty is pegged at dollar exchange rate which is affected by Naira float, still the government is comfortable with that.

What is the rational behind the calculation of customs duty with dollar rate whereas Nigerians are paid with naira.

Let the government equate monthly salary to dollar then tell us how many countries are paying that in their country.

To my opinion, it is wickedness in the highest order for this government to aggravate the sufferings of the people and still remain comfortable because they have more money to embezzle.

DeLaRue:
So because he was against it 13 years before his election, he should never have been in favour of removal for the rest of his life?

If he was wrong to oppose it in 2015, he was wrong to change his mind about it in 2023?

How would you see a leader who contradicts himself and renegades on his words?

Nigeria's overdependence on food, oil, and currency subsidies is the reason why the country has failed to develop.

Instead of borrowing funds to waste on short-term subsidies, it could borrow funds to invest in essential infrastructure, such as electricity, water supply, roads, and industries.

Buhari wasted $30 billion a year on oil and currency subsidies, leaving the country with $100 billion in debt and no electricity.

amaridigital:
All these grammar and still you ended up not answering the very simple question asked by the Governor. You see, this is not 2014 and definitely not Jonathan in power who was chosen by luck to become VP and by luck became president when his boss died. The new sheriff in town has paid his dues and everyone including fools should agree with that.
Now back to his question, Nigerians are feeling the heat of subsidy removal and the forex reform right? Forget about the stories of how the subsidy removal was implemented. Would you bring back the subsidy on petrol and restore multiple exchange rates and maybe cancel student loan and other policies of the present regime? If yes, how would you fund the Government?

stop corruption. Subsidy is not Nigeria problem but corruption. Let the government stop mismanagement of funds. With all the billions n trillions everyone in government are stealing! You expect the country to do well? Our problem 💯 corruption. You know it bad system of government. This is not about Jonathan or tribe,politics or region this about truth. I'm 😫 tired. I need a working country. I want to proud like every others country. And say this is my country. Is not about politics fratello.

FatherLord:
One of the wrong moves of Tinubu after removing the subsidy is the way he went about sharing the subsidy money. That is why Nigerians are asking questions about the effect of the subsidy money. Is it not better to have left the subsidy and fight the cabals . As a Nigerian in what way is anyone having the benefit of oil producing nation. Many oil producing countries subsidies one thing or the other for their citizens

Subsidy was removed by Buhari naa, don't we read?
Abi how can you remove something that was not budgeted for in the first place.
Please read and understand first

Ofunaofu:
I can understand Governor Radda’s pain, he knows the ADC tsunami will sweep him away come 2027, just like the APC tsunami swept most Northern PDP governors in 2015.

He should rather direct his question to his party, the APC, and to Tinubu, and ask them to tell Nigerians what they’ve done with the trillions of naira saved from subsidy removal.

Not this vague explanation the government keeps giving that the money has been invested in 'critical infrastructure.' Which critical infrastructure? The notoriously fraudulent Lagos-Calabar coastal highway?

Which pain abegggggi??

He asked a very good question

U think ADC can Challenge APC 😂

Keep deceiving yourself