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NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja - Politics - Nairaland

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NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Islie(op): 7:29am On Mar 05
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has increased petrol price at its retail outlets to N933 per litre in Lagos and N960 per litre in Abuja.

The national oil company increased the product’s price by N103 from N830 in Lagos, and by N85 from N875 per litre in Abuja.

TheCable observed on Wednesday that the NNPC increased the price at its retail outlets in Apple Junction and along Ago Palace Way in Lagos.

In Abuja, the product was also sold at a new rate of N960 per litre at NNPC retail stations along Airport Road in Lugbe.

On March 2, the Dangote Petroleum Refinery increased its ex-gantry petrol price to N874 per litre, from N774 per litre.

The pump price hike comes amid the ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, which have triggered significant shifts in global crude oil prices.

On March 3, Brent crude rose to $85 per barrel — from $72 on February 28.

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETRAON) had asked the federal government to ensure a steady crude oil supply to local refineries to reduce the impact of global disruptions on Nigeria’s petroleum market.

The association warned that if the crisis persists, its effects will go beyond pump prices, impacting foreign exchange (FX) stability, domestic fuel pricing, and overall inflation.
https://www.thecable.ng/nnpc-hikes-petrol-pump-price-to-n933-in-lagos-n960-in-abuja/

Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by esnbrutality: 7:46am On Mar 05
I have my APC card and my MANDATE CAP. grin

They must sell for all of us supporting TINUBU at #105 per liter.

Even after Dangote disappointed us , by not letting the price of fuel reduce.

I am so Disappointed in TINUBU...even Madridguy, is not finding it easy as BRT fares have increased and without Air-conditioning in the buses.


All these people that don't support TINUBU are wailers...as TINUBU is developing NIGERIA. grin
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 8:07am On Mar 05
Yep, to be expected, higher crude oil price = higher fuel prices.

NNPC Has to adjust otherwise they would collapse financially.

It's kind of crazy that supporting the right of a business to set its prices means you support trinunu. Did my supporting the same right in 2011 make me a GEJ supporter?
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by erai30(m): 8:08am On Mar 05
Nigeria is working,this is the set of clueless criminals working for Nigeria and some paid comedian will come to tell us that Nigeria is better than 10 years ago. Stupid clowns everywhere.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by femi4: 8:08am On Mar 05
E lo fokan bale..A ma gbe wale
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by owobokiri(m):
Why should Nigerians allow Dangote, the federal government and the compromised media houses to fool them nonstop on fuel pricing?


How is it that a commodity that we have in abundance locally, together with experienced local hands that have worked in the industry for ages, is being sold at costly international prices??
Why should we use western benchmarks to set petroleum pump prices here??

Somebody is going to quote me and talk as if he is a professor here, but it is all bullcrap. It is a very simple issue made complex by industrial scalle corruption. We don't need to import crude for Dangote to refine. Dangote commissioned his pipelines from the Niger Delta to his refinery years before the commissioning of his refinery.

So if the crude is local, the labour is local, the refining is local, why am i paying American and European priceshuh
I mean Nigeria does not even export up to her OPEC quota! So why can't the cheap labour used to extract hydrocarbon in Nigeria help to lower the final pump pricehuh

It is cheap in Qatar, cheap in Libya, cheap in Kuwait. Why must Dangote make it outrageously costly here the same way he did with his cement?
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by TrainPark: 8:10am On Mar 05
It is not NNPC or Tinubu.

It is the Epstien regime of the dumb Donald Trump.

Oil is a global product whose prices are determined by world events.

The murderous, blood thirsty, pedophilic juice started an imperialist war that is now messing up people's lives.

Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/nnpc-hikes-petrol-pump-price-to-n933-in-lagos-n960-in-abuja/
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by anonimi: 8:10am On Mar 05
Islie:
https://www.thecable.ng/nnpc-hikes-petrol-pump-price-to-n933-in-lagos-n960-in-abuja/
How much subsidy is city boy and his All Promises Cancelled, APC progreThieves forcing Nigerians to pay for their massive corruption in the oil sector?

Who is a good statistician to help us calculate the amount huh

Are we supposed to use pictures of incomplete concrete roads as payment for the subsidy forced on us by corrupt, incompetent and clueless APC rogues?

anonimi:
Petrol should never cost more than N70 per litre, says APC

January 19, 2015

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as mere tokenism the reduction of petrol price from N97 to N87 per litre, saying the petroleum product ordinarily should sell for N70.

On Sunday, the federal government announced the reduction of petrol price, citing the fall of global crude oil price.

But the APC through Lai Mohammed, its spokesman, on Monday accused the government of making a show out of deceit, saying “a 10.3 per cent slash in the price of petrol was a mere tokenism at a time the price of crude oil has crashed by about 60 per cent”.

It argued that the pump price of a litre of petrol should not be more than 70 Naira, alleging that at N87 per litre, the government was forcing Nigerians to subsidise the massive corruption in the oil sector by N17 for every litre of fuel.

https://www.thecable.ng/petrol-never-cost-n70-per-litre-says-apc/
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by omolola12345(m): 8:11am On Mar 05
The so called Nigerians are the problems of themselves. Mr President supposed to use iron hand to handle sector like this but the question is how clean is Mr Presidents hand. Because he supposed to ensure the price is regulated at all cost. We don't know the reason for this sudden hike in price of petrol and gas. Even when Iran and Israel war has not started the price is going up.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 8:12am On Mar 05
erai30:
Nigeria is working,this is the set of clueless criminals working for Nigeria and some paid comedian will come to tell us that Nigeria is better than 10 years ago. Stupid clowns everywhere.
So, basically, you are arguing that NNPC should sell fuel way below its prodiction cost so that you can be happy....while it loses so much money as a result?

Business have to be run at a profit so that they can pay taxes, pay staff salaries (remember NNPC Is no longer wholly funded by government, and government is even taking away its money making powers self)...pay for transport costs and so forth.

A business selling at a profit is hardly signs of NIgeria failing.

Remember...the USSR used to subsidise everything including fuel and food. By 1985, there were queues for everything, and scarcity everywhere. That's the end result of subdising fuel.

Nigeria used to subsidsze food...recall ESSENCO...until the government ran out of money due to oil price collapses...by the end, there were queues for milk and sugar and even bread. Until the thing was ended in 1985.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by anonimi: 8:13am On Mar 05
TrainPark:
It is not NNPC or Tinubu.

It is the Epstien regime of the dumb Donald Trump.

Oil is a global product whose prices are determined by world events.

The murderous, blood thirsty, pedophilic juice started an imperialist war that is now messing up people's lives.
Was city boy ignorant of all these details when he promised to crash petrol price in January 2023?

Is this what he told you personally?

Is the Chicago druggiee not the dumbo here, along with his dogmatic justifiers huh

Deltafirstson:
Although the pump price of fuel was N197 when President Bola Tinubu took over on May 29, 2023, the product now sells for N617 per litre – less than two months after.

In his inaugural address, Tinubu announced that subsidy was gone, fulfilling a promise that all leading presidential candidates made during the campaign.

Nigerians have been lamenting the hardship occasioned by fuel price hike. Amid the lamentation, a video where Tinubu campaigned to slash the price of fuel went into circulation.

Checks by Daily Trust affirmed the authenticity of the video uploaded on the YouTube page of Channels Television.

At his campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, on January 25, 2023, Tinubu spoke on a number of issues, but those of fuel scarcity and naira redesign made the headlines.

However, Tinubu who spoke in Yoruba language, also assured the crowd that though people were saying petrol price would hit N200, it would be reviewed downward under him.

“The great Nigerian youths, the great Nigerian students, the confident Nigerian youths. This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. They are plotting, but they will fail. They said fuel price will increase and reach N200 per litre. Go and relax, we will bring it down,” he had said in the 7th minute of the video.

https://dailytrust.com/breaking-video-of-tinubu-campaigning-to-crash-fuel-



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JH8CC_JdUA
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 8:15am On Mar 05
omolola12345:
The so called Nigerians are the problems of themselves. Mr President supposed to use iron hand to handle sector like this but the question is how clean is Mr Presidents hand. Because he supposed to ensure the price is regulated at all cost. We don't know the reason for this sudden hike in price of petrol and gas. Even when Iran and Israel war has not started the price is going up.
If the President does that, there would be no fuel in the stations in days.

Fuel costs a lot of money to refine, to transport, and to sell. If government starts introducing price controls...NNPC would collapse financially in months.

It's like you are asking that people who sell bread sell it to you at N200 per loaf to help the poor. How is the baker going to pay employees, taxes, transport costs, even maintenance costs.

Remember also that NNPC imports fuel or pays dangote for it...and dangote is not selling at market price.


The only way to have low price of fuel is if every Nigerian, even beggars and people that do not use cars...pays over half their income in taxes.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 8:16am On Mar 05
owobokiri:
Why should Nigerians allow Dangote, the federal government and the compromised media houses to fool them nonstop on fuel pricing?
Why should you suggest that government should set prices of every business person?

You know what happened when government was setting prices of petrol...there was scarcity galore, and we lost four refineries...because the sector was not making enough money to keep things running well. Plus we lost billions of government money to smugglers.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by anonimi: 8:21am On Mar 05
nairalanda1:
So, basically, you are arguing that NNPC should sell fuel way below its prodiction cost so that you can be happy....while it loses so much money as a result?

Business have to be run at a profit so that they can pay taxes, pay staff salaries (remember NNPC Is no longer wholly funded by government, and government is even taking away its money making powers self)...pay for transport costs and so forth.

A business selling at a profit is hardly signs of NIgeria failing.

Remember...the USSR used to subsidise everything including fuel and food. By 1985, there were queues for everything, and scarcity everywhere. That's the end result of subdising fuel.

Nigeria used to subsidsze food...recall ESSENCO...until the government ran out of money due to oil price collapses...by the end, there were queues for milk and sugar and even bread. Until the thing was ended in 1985.
We are asking that promises made be fulfilled by APC leaders looters of integrity.

We are asking why national debt burden has increased despite All Promises Cancelled, APC pseudo-socialist progreThieves removing subsidy TWICE in 2016 and 2023?

We are asking why we had greater widespread prosperity in 16 years of PDP deregulation and privatisation policies?

We are asking why other Nigerians are not working with us for a return to these better days of before 2015?


anonimi:
How Indorama sustains manufacturers, boosts Nigeria’s FX earnings

Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has emerged as a major value creator in the Nigerian economy. It is responsible for the survival, growth and sustenance of many manufacturing companies in Nigeria today. A large number of plastic and allied firms depend on the Eleme-based company for petrochemical resins (or polymer resins) which serve as their raw materials.

The petrochemical company is just one of the several subsidiaries of Indorama-Nigeria Group, which also comprises Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Indorama PET Nigeria Limited, and Indorama Port Operations.

Since Indorama Corporation of Indonesia became core investor in the old Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) in 2006 through privatisation programme of the Federal Government, the group has become a game changer in the Nigerian economy.

The petrochemical company has solved the major challenge facing a number of manufacturers— poor access to raw materials. Rather than scramble for foreign exchange to import inputs, the company ensures that manufacturers have access to their critical raw materials, enabling them to save costs and improve margins.

The major resins used by plastic and allied companies are polyethylene and polypropylene. Indorama produces about 45 grades of these products for various industries. About 600 of such companies in Nigeria depend on IEPL for their survival. They are estimated to have over 90,000 workers.

https://businessday.ng/real-sector/article/how-indorama-sustains-manufacturers-boosts-nigerias-fx-earnings/
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by owobokiri(m): 8:27am On Mar 05
nairalanda1:
Why should you suggest that government should set prices of every business person?

You know what happened when government was setting prices of petrol...there was scarcity galore, and we lost four refineries...because the sector was not making enough money to keep things running well. Plus we lost billions of government money to smugglers.
Getaway you..
Happy serfs..

You want to make the argument that government involvement in business is wrong when the very government you are trying to defend with that warped narrative is busy awarding all construction contracts to some very successful government businesses from China!
How about that?


No economy will grow if the pricing for the most essential commodities are left to unpredictable vvagaries of undefined "free trade". You are just so full of it, abi too empty for this..

You surrendered the cement, floor and grain businesses to this guy and he has been setting the prices so high Nigerians are dying slowly while he laughs to the bank.
You guys are now trying to bring him into the petroleum business with all that weird talk about how private businesses flourish. Why is it that when private businesses fail you keep mute?

Is ECONET not a private business? It crumbled. Why don't ypu use that as an example to ban private ownership of companies? Look at the power sector after privatisation. Its booming, abi? Why don't use the failures at PHCN and the many collapsed private banks and insurance companies as good reasons to argeu against privatisation too??
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Emeskhalifa(m): 8:37am On Mar 05
Fight dey happen for Iran and America, Nigeria dey Hike petrol price, is the fight in Nigeria?
Abi una refinery and crude oil na middle east e dey? Omooorrrr we too wicked to each other for this country no be small
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Bluntemperor:
The Troubles With the Nigerian Govt- Establishments:
For an Organization that ought to lift up the Masses burden from Poverty -but rather,are adding to the burden,so what do you expect?
-NNPC should be dismantled.
•They should have learned -From Saudi Arabia ARAMCO - how they are doing it there and is one of the Best Public Institution- and the best Performing institution in the World 🌍!
-Honestly,Most of the Past -Appointmented Executives ,
of this Organization, even -back to when it was Created - Should be behind the Bar 🍻- for FAILURE to deliver the Very Refineries they pledged to Work but till today - the 4- Nigeria Refineries Are glorified and Corrupt Entities!
• If DANGOTE REFINERY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED and Working Efficiently- WE( NIGERIANS ) WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO BELIEVES THAT NNPC,DISCOS,etc- is not Possible for them to be Efficient.
-Thank God for Dangote and his Crew- by breaking the ginx .
•Now we can see that most of these Institutions - are Established to take More from the Masses than- in Adding Values to us.
Too bad and terrible 😞.
Just FACTS AND TRUTH!
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 8:43am On Mar 05
owobokiri:
Getaway you..
Happy serfs..
Well, you have the better of me, Prince Vladimir Ivanovitch Sergey


You want to make the argument that government involvement in business is wrong when the very government you are trying to defend with that warped narrative is busy awarding all construction contracts to some very successful government businesses from China!
How about that?
And what does that have to do with the idea that 'allowing businesses to set their prices means they will do well'

Plus many of those chinese government businesses work because they are allowed to set their prices. Hence Deng Xiaoping's feline related commentary about economic matters (also included some color coded lingo)

That's why they are strong enough to do business globally...plus not all of them are government owned by the way.

FInally, Nigerian companies still get contracts...and JB is still gaining contracts.




No economy will grow if the pricing for the most essential commodities are left to unpredictable vvagaries of undefined "free trade". You are just so full of it, abi too empty for this..
Damm, this is so wrong for many reasons.

We used to, for example, set prices for essentiall commodiites in the 1970's...milk, sugar, bread, etc. It failed because the cost of producing these things went up...and as a result, the government struggled to keep on setting prices and paying subsides...and then oil prices collapsed in 1982. By the end there were long queues for milk and bread and sugar, and so forth. Ending the policy in 1985 meant that all those queues dissapeared. I doubt you have seen people queueing for bread or milk in the last 40 years.

The Soviets did the same...and it worked when they had money...which came from expropriation, doing things like having all mining done by penal prisoners (which worked because it kept labour costs low, wink wink)...and then high oil prices in the 1970s. But eventially scarcity and so on came about because the money ran out, and workers and farmers started demanding to be paid according to their effort, not according to some arbitary government set price. But as you know the USSR continued doing so..until they collapsed as a result.

People like to be paid, and government interveining in setting prices usually has the result of businesses not making enough profit to pay people, and to keep running costs well.

BUt you can change that. Just follow the example of Illich.



You surrendered the cement, floor and grain businesses to this guy and he has been setting the prices so high Nigerians are dying slowly while he laughs to the bank.
Cement industry has 4 compettiors to dangote
Grain industry also has competitiors to Dangote
FLour...also has golden penny and Ideal flour...and a host of others.

You were saying?

You guys are now trying to bring him into the petroleum business with all that weird talk about how private businesses flourish. Why is it that when private businesses fail you keep mute?
Nigerians' insistence on subsidy meant that all the people who had licences to build refineries (over 20 as at 2012) could not build refineries because banks won't lend them money and investors won't invest because under subsidy, the refineries would be losing money a lot.

So,at the end of the day, it was only rich folk like Dangote who could get financing for obvious reasons ...if his refinery lost money under subsidy, all the banks need to do is take over his other lucrative industries and PAY THEMSELVES.


Is ECONET not a private business? It crumbled. Why don't use it as an example to ban.private ownership of companies?
Econet did not fail...it was taken over by Vodacom of South Africa, then Celtel, then Zain (Celtel's parent ) and now Airtel.

It hasn't failed. The company that is HP was once known as Compaq for example..before HP took it over.

Poor example

Look at the power sector after privatisation. Its booming, abi? Why don't use the failures at PHCN and the many collapsed private banks and insurance companies as a reason to argeu against privatisation too??
The power sector is not booming because government sets its prices and then pays them an inadequate subsidy. Also, 40% of power in Nigeria is used without being paid for. Even with Band A , it means that for every customer on Band A that the sector makes a profit from, the other four ...it loses as much as 160 naira per kwh sold. That is why the sector is not booming...government sets its prices. It's the same thing as the subsidy regime in the oil sector before the government removed subsides.

So, as you can see, Electiricity in nigeria is a good illustration as to why government should not intervene and fix prices...as you suggest.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by anonimi: 8:53am On Mar 05
owobokiri:
Getaway you..
Happy serfs..

You want to make the argument that government involvement in business is wrong when the very government you are trying to defend with that warped narrative is busy awarding all construction contracts to some very successful government businesses from China!
How about that?

No economy will grow if the pricing for the most essential commodities are left to unpredictable vvagaries of undefined "free trade". You are just so full of it, abi too empty for this..

You surrendered the cement, floor and grain businesses to this guy and he has been setting the prices so high Nigerians are dying slowly while he laughs to the bank.
You guys are now trying to bring him into the petroleum business with all that weird talk about how private businesses flourish. Why is it that when private businesses fail you keep mute?

Is ECONET not a private business? It crumbled. Why don't ypu use that as an example to ban private ownership of companies? Look at the power sector after privatisation. Its booming, abi? Why don't use the failures at PHCN and the many collapsed private banks and insurance companies as good reasons to argeu against privatisation too??
ECONET did not collapse. It was sold to another company that sold it to another company and continues to operate as Airtel.

What do Russians and Chinese people know about privatisation and deregulation being a better system for widespread prosperity that you are ignoant of huh

Nairalanda1 is very correct, but surprisingly he is not working for the return of PDP politicians with their deregulation and privatisation policies.

anonimi:
Neo-black Problem: Must Blacks Be Ruled by Whites in Order to Prosper?

In short, the neo-black dilemma may be framed as follows: is it better to live under white rule without political dignity but with basic life-sustaining standards for many;

or to live under black rule with illusory political dignity and without basic life- sustaining standards for the majority?
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The path forward for Africa lies in cultivating higher and adequate levels of personal and communal agential integrity as well as full personal responsibility and productivity. Not to mention creativity (including epistemic creativity), productive justice (such as merit and freedom), harmony and reconciliation at local and international levels, and a proper domestication of capitalism and other related values and institutions.

Africa must stop wasting her time on dreams of socialism because it is a system of wealth distribution primarily. Whereas, capitalism is a system of wealth creation primarily, and wealth has to be produced before it can be distributed.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/10/12/neo-black-problem-must-blacks-be-ruled-by-whites-in-order-to-prosper/
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by anonimi: 8:54am On Mar 05
Bluntemperor:
For an Organization that ought to lift up the Masses burden but rather,are adding to the burden,so what do you expect?
NNPC should be dismanted.

•They should learn From Saudi Arabia ARAMCO - how they are doing it there!
Honestly,Most of the Past Executives of this Organization back to when it was Created - Should be behind the Bar 🍻- for failure to deliver the Very Refineries they pledged to Work but till today - the 4- Nigeria Refineries Are glorified Corrupt entities!
• If DANGOTE REFINERY HAS NOT BEEN ESTABLISHED - WE( NIGERIANS WOULD HAVE BEEN MADE TO BELIEVES THAT NNPC,DISCOS,etc- is not Possible.
Thank God for Dangote and his Crew- by breaking the ginx .
Now we can see that most of these Institutions - are Established to take More from the Masses than in Adding Values to us.
Too bad and terrible 😞.
Just FACTS AND TRUTH!
Are you working for Atiku to be president so he can dismantle NNPC as he promised and as he did to its petrochemicals division in 2006 huh
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Obviouslyblunt: 8:58am On Mar 05
nairalanda1:
Yep, to be expected, higher crude oil price = higher fuel prices.

NNPC Has to adjust otherwise they would collapse financially.

It's kind of crazy that supporting the right of a business to set its prices means you support trinunu. Did my supporting the same right in 2011 make me a GEJ supporter?
for a country that produces crude oil?
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 9:02am On Mar 05
Obviouslyblunt:
for a country that produces crude oil?
USA produces oil as does the UK..and fuel is very expensive.

Plus, we produce less than 2 million barrels per day, and the revenue for that provides 80% of government revenues. For a nation of 230 million people. The Saudis and the gulf states that produce crude produce more than us, and have very low populations, that's why they can afford subsides for fuel

For Nigeria to afford subsides based on our revenue sources...crude has to rise up to over 150 dollars per barrel...and even then it would eat up a lot of our revenue doing so either way.

Either the above or

1. Taxes take half of everyone's income

2. More and more borrowing.

People unfortunately like to be paid.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Bluntemperor: 9:13am On Mar 05
anonimi:
Are you working for Atiku to be president so he can dismantle NNPC as he promised and as he did to its petrochemicals division in 2006 huh
No I'm not,but I'm JUST BEING FACTUAL.
Atiku is one those Nigerians,we can not trust, even with PRIVATISATION then,but selling the NNPC AND LOOKING ST HOW ARAMCO OF The SAUDI ARABIA - IS DOING GREAT- Is Worth to learn from.
Why should we keep Wasteful entities - is it by Pomping More Money on them?
I think Otherwise?
Please, respond to my statement ' that IF DANGOTE HAS NOT SUCCEEDED IN THIS REFINERY BUSINESS,NIGERIANS ARE MADE TO BELIEVE THAT NOTHING IS WORKING?
TRUE OR FALSE?
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Anndju(m): 9:16am On Mar 05
SEUN YOU REALLY NEED TO CREATE DISLIKE BUTTON. NIGERIA REFINES OIL BY THEMSELVES FOR CHRIST SAKE!
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by nairalanda1(m): 9:24am On Mar 05
Anndju:
SEUN YOU REALLY NEED TO CREATE DISLIKE BUTTON. NIGERIA REFINES OIL BY THEMSELVES FOR CHRIST SAKE!
Yep, we do, but the thing is, due to our being OPEC members..crude has to be sold at international prices to domestic refiners.

Also, Dangote has to pay internationally competitve wages, pay taxes and pay for maintenance, upgrade and expansion costs....and he has to pay shareholders when the refinery goes public.

Refining oil domestically does not mean it has to be cheap. The only way you can make it cheap is to replace all the workers at dangote refinery with say unpaid workers (prisioners for example)...and have people who drill for oil, give dangote for free...and have the construction companies that are working on expanding the refinery do it for free. ANd have maintenance done for free
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by TrainPark: 9:27am On Mar 05
Does Tinubu have to personally tell you stuff before you can know them?

As much as I don't like Tinubu or the ruling class, I still think enlightened people should know the truth, use their own brains and say the truth.

Tinubu said he will crash the price of petrol because he reckons that if the market is fully deregulated via subsidy removal, market forces and competition will drive down prices. That is what every basic economics textbook says.

Don't make me appear to be defending Tinubu, whom I don't support or like. Just use your time, your mind, and your mobile phone to do basic research. You will not be insulting Tinubu for this particular issue. The main olodo is in the USA.

anonimi:
Was city boy ignorant of all these details when he promised to crash petrol price in January 2023?

Is this what he told you personally?

Is the Chicago druggiee not the dumbo here, along with his dogmatic justifiers huh
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by dacool1(m): 9:59am On Mar 05
Don't attempt to post censored words by misspelling them.
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Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Kaycee9242(m): 10:01am On Mar 05
erai30:
Nigeria is working,this is the set of clueless criminals working for Nigeria and some paid comedian will come to tell us that Nigeria is better than 10 years ago. Stupid clowns everywhere.
Seyi Law no get sense normally, I like as Idris take flog am for that debate
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by Buccalcavity2: 10:04am On Mar 05
Anndju:
SEUN YOU REALLY NEED TO CREATE DISLIKE BUTTON. NIGERIA REFINES OIL BY THEMSELVES FOR CHRIST SAKE!
America does not refine its own oil? America is the highest oil producer, net oil exporter - crude and refined. Yet price increased. Same Canada, Netherland....Oil is a globally priced commodity. price increased globally. Any country where it doesn't increase is subsidizing it. Nigeria has chosen to discontinue subsidy. If you find other subsidizing countries attractive, relocate!
You cant in one breadth praise subsidy removal, enjoy accolades from global experts over oil industry's liberalization.....and then complain about price movements.
Re: NNPC Hikes Petrol Pump Price To ₦933/Litre In Lagos, ₦960/Litre In Abuja by ReubenE(m): 10:27am On Mar 05
owobokiri:
Getaway you..
Happy serfs..

You want to make the argument that government involvement in business is wrong when the very government you are trying to defend with that warped narrative is busy awarding all construction contracts to some very successful government businesses from China!
How about that?


No economy will grow if the pricing for the most essential commodities are left to unpredictable vvagaries of undefined "free trade". You are just so full of it, abi too empty for this..

You surrendered the cement, floor and grain businesses to this guy and he has been setting the prices so high Nigerians are dying slowly while he laughs to the bank.
You guys are now trying to bring him into the petroleum business with all that weird talk about how private businesses flourish. Why is it that when private businesses fail you keep mute?

Is ECONET not a private business? It crumbled. Why don't ypu use that as an example to ban private ownership of companies? Look at the power sector after privatisation. Its booming, abi? Why don't use the failures at PHCN and the many collapsed private banks and insurance companies as good reasons to argeu against privatisation too??
You are wasting your time with that tax master.

Just like Tinubu that attempt to solve every problem in Nigeria with rice, that guy's solution to every Nigerian problem is tax and more tax.

He even said the only way the price of fuel can reduce in Nigeria is for every Nigerian including beggars to pay half of their income in tax grin

That guy writes very well but very empty, and perhaps a paid tax agent too. Cause for the last 2-3 years I have known him here, his only proffered solution to problems is tax and more tax. I am even amazed by how he is able to insert paying more tax into every conversation like his life depends on it.
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