₦airaland Forum

Gotocourt:
Leave Nigerians to their slaving and hardship. Presently, LPG lands Jos Plateau State for 800 from major markerters but retailers sell for 1250 . This badmen have association they created to keep cost high. Same with petrol, cheaper in Bauchi than Jos. Same price of Jos in faraway Gombe and yobe. Na man dey do man .

450 naira is a decent profit for someone who has to pay workers , taxes and find money for the wife and also pay for kids school fees and such like.

Maybe prices will go down if we piped gas to every house in this country. Maybe not

Didijiji:
Nigerians emulate their leader

Nigerians emulate their leader

Nigerians emulate their leader

Nigerians emulate their leader

Put a honest leader and see how good Nigerians can be

Evil paid in the last election so everyone is on that lane

An honest leader would be frustrated by Nigerians.

How many times this news will hit front page.

Most Nigerians are criminally minded. Only waiting for opportunities to show true colours. And we want our leaders to be different.

Ask them now they are all religious.

nairalanda1:
An honest leader would be frustrated by Nigerians.

An honest leader can't be frustrated but will go all the way to make a few scapegoats even if it means ensuring death penalties for those convicted of corruption.

The criminalities in oil industry is mind boggling.

AngelahFlo:
Wish it were that easy but it isn't. You can be manufacturer and a distributor at the same time especially in a complex market structure as his own. There's a reason why Division of labor is created and included in any business..

I think you don't understand enough, you are talking secondary school economics.

Division of labour is the coming together of different Skills to perform a productive service or production activity, it is different from companies scaling up the value chain...big companies like Total, Thermocool, Oando, Coca-Cola all did both producing and distributing...it is all about capacity which Dangote has. Facebook bought WhatsApp, HSBC and Goldman Sachs hold almost all financial, derivatives, bonds and mutual funds holdings... scaling up is not an offence or crime, it is a free market economy, winner takes all. Dangote is already making moves to go into distribution, you advocates of high prices working for marketers have failed.

Nigerians need and deserve lower prices, and your submission that you can't be producer and distributor at same time is flawed and a fallacy, as many examples of such abound. Dangote must go into distribution for the good of Nigerians (lower prices) and halting import of fuel, this will boost our naira, don't forget Dangote employs Nigerians too, so we have more benefits in Dangote than in foreign fuel merchants.

Say no more... that is it. If not , how do we have bad president since 1960

olaiya2007:
Our leaders are just a reflection of our personality as people

Quite to the contrary. Our leaders is a reflection of us Nigerians

Didijiji:
Nigerians emulate their leader

Nigerians emulate their leader

Nigerians emulate their leader

Nigerians emulate their leader

Put a honest leader and see how good Nigerians can be

Evil paid in the last election so everyone is on that lane

Fiyin007:
An honest leader can't be frustrated but will go all the way to make a few scapegoats even if it means ensuring death penalties for those convicted of corruption.

Not in NIgeria, and not under democracy.

See how long it took to prosecute dariye and ibori for corruption cases...and see how ibori was welcomed home, and how dariye got pardoned eventually....you think it was not nigerians that were protecting them and pleading for them?

The problem with nigeria is people view the economy as a cake to be shared. And there is competiton for the cake...and the cunning politican gets close enough to the sharing. That's why when many northern political and millitary leaders were killed in 1966, in what the coupists thought was a nationalist coup to save nigeria....it led to the incidents that led to the civil war because people thought that their access to government services and welfare was wrecked with the death of those leaders . And even if we split nigeria tomorrow...the same attitude will wreck the new countries (that's why I don't back secession for now....).

At the end, for me, we have to go to being a manufacturing economy. That way, corruption will reduce...that is why corruption is low in developed countries because it would harm their industries, and by extension their bottom line...

But anything to get rid of the cake mentality.

this scheme was just for a stunt from day one i think

As you can see now Nigerians with corruption ehn they are like 5&6 they'll always look for ways to corner anything cornerable shey this one now na the fault of FG again? Why do we like to frustrate and put total hardship on ourselves just because we want to get wealth. Any body doing this will never die well

And how exactly do you expect the country to go back to manufacturing when corruption thrives and leaders prefer stealing the money meant to industrialize?? There's a reason why China thrives despite its huge size and one party system. ZERO TOLERANCE TO CORRUPTION.

The root of the problem is we're too multiethnic and diverse for this Presidential system of governance we're running. Regional governments with a strong Parliament best suits us.

nairalanda1:
Not in NIgeria, and not under democracy.

See how long it took to prosecute dariye and ibori for corruption cases...and see how ibori was welcomed home, and how dariye got pardoned eventually....you think it was not nigerians that were protecting them and pleading for them?

The problem with nigeria is people view the economy as a cake to be shared. And there is competiton for the cake...and the cunning politican gets close enough to the sharing. That's why when many northern political and millitary leaders were killed in 1966, in what the coupists thought was a nationalist coup to save nigeria....it led to the incidents that led to the civil war because people thought that their access to government services and welfare was wrecked with the death of those leaders . And even if we split nigeria tomorrow...the same attitude will wreck the new countries (that's why I don't back secession for now....).

At the end, for me, we have to go to being a manufacturing economy. That way, corruption will reduce...that is why corruption is low in developed countries because it would harm their industries, and by extension their bottom line...

But anything to get rid of the cake mentality.

Fiyin007:
And how exactly do you expect the country to go back to manufacturing when corruption thrives and leaders prefer stealing the money meant to industrialize?? There's a reason why China thrives despite its huge size and one party system. ZERO TOLERANCE TO CORRUPTION.

They steal because you guys vote for them, and you don't hold them to account.

olaiya2007:
Our leaders are just a reflection of our personality as people

I always tell people that Nigerias problem is of followership than leadership. Because leaders are the the reflection of the followers.

Gotocourt:
It's against the law. The refinery can't own filling station

But NNPC has filling stations...

Gotocourt:
It's against the law. The refinery can't own filling station

But NNPC has filling stations...or he could meet the legislators review that section of the law

dederocs:
I think you don't understand enough, you are talking secondary school economics.

Division of labour is the coming together of different Skills to perform a productive service or production activity, it is different from companies scaling up the value chain...big companies like Total, Thermocool, Oando, Coca-Cola all did both producing and distributing...it is all about capacity which Dangote has. Facebook bought WhatsApp, HSBC and Goldman Sachs hold almost all financial, derivatives, bonds and mutual funds holdings... scaling up is not an offence or crime, it is a free market economy, winner takes all. Dangote is already making moves to go into distribution, you advocates of high prices working for marketers have failed.

Nigerians need and deserve lower prices, and your submission that you can't be producer and distributor at same time is flawed and a fallacy, as many examples of such abound. Dangote must go into distribution for the good of Nigerians (lower prices) and halting import of fuel, this will boost our naira, don't forget Dangote employs Nigerians too, so we have more benefits in Dangote than in foreign fuel merchants.

Your summation makes sense but you must not forget that Dangote is first of all a businessman. He should do as you have suggested but that depends on his Ethical meter. How high up on ethics is Mr Dangote? Because he might or might not want to tow that line of thought, sticking instead to just manufacturing when he should also be distributing. Will be waiting for more deliberation from you.

Nigeria is a reflection of its people!