₦airaland Forum

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Ever since the ADC presidential candidate Alh Atiku Abubarka hinted on returning sudsidy.

There have been a loud chorus of his return to subsidy by many Nigerians.

Prominent Amongst them is NDC presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi who has promised to return subsidy.

Judging by SDM revelation one can say that the removal of subsidy without building and enabling the right environment and system has put Nigeria in a precarious state.

Whether the subsidy is on education, health, fuel, the naira…..etc govt must pay…. It’s the only way the common wealth of the nation will surely get to everyone….

A govt thats not paying any form of subaidy is b heavily robbing the citizens, especially in a rich country like Nigeria whwre one person can steal 300 billion and the country continues as usual

As a staunch supporter of Peter Obi, I stand with him. Subsidy stands removed. I wish tinubu had not been callous and cruel in his approach, he should have adopted the Obi's approach. Obi proposed the Angola model. Angola removed Subsidy too, but gradually. That's why they're not crying today. You came into office and said...Subsidy is gaan! Without,first providing palliatives like Jonathan he once criticised with sponsored nationwide protests had done.

Had he made provision for a supplementary budget to cater for this, same way he did on less important and frivolous areas when he came, the masses wouldn't be crying like this today and it takes a wicked and unfeeling leader to act that way. Nigeria isn't difficult to govern. Fashola's leadership model in Lagos made me believe so, cos my state is the most difficult in Africa to govern. Though it was because he didnt listen to tinubu which almost cost him his 2nd term bid. He dealt ruthlessly with Tinubu's allies who refused to do good jobs after taking contracts as well, their usual habit.

Atiku should just rest. There's no amount of baits he can set for us that would catch us. He'll rather draw Nigeria backwards by half a century if given the chance to rule Nigeria. The way he managed the sale of fed govt property and the monetisation arrangements had shown. He should just rest and focus on his bad leg.

Subsidy should stay removed.

Before the removal of the subsidy all Nigerians were benefiting from it, now the subsidy has been removed only the rich and corrupt politicians are benefiting from the subsidy money, leaving the masses to suffer for nothing .

Return the subsidy,after all that’s the only thing Nigerians are benefiting from the government..

Other countries subsidise one product or the other for their citizens, why should ours be different..?

Even Tinubu that claimed that removal of the subsidy is to save Nigeria from bankruptcy, why did our debt tripled since Bola came in then ?
is it that he’s a criminal as he was alleged or that there is something else he’s hiding from Nigerians ?

Nigerians are seeing hell since the subsidy was removed, nothing good is coming out of the removal..

Return the lovely subsidy!

The Question should be .
'Do you like how you are suffering?'

It's been removed. Anyone telling you they will bring it back are giving you false promises. Unfortunately the powers that removed subsidy is beyond Nigeria

I have not gained anything since subsidy was removed. No light, no roads, no security. Just empty talk and fake promises.

They say "Governors have more money" abeg how does that affect me?


The hardship is terrible. If you earn 100k monthly, half of it goes to transportation, minus feeding, house rent, medical bills, school fees etc

But how many Nigerians even earn 100k in a nation where the minimum wage is 70k?

PLEASE BRING BACK SUBSIDY IMMEDIATELY.

Since they are sharing the money generated from subsidy among themselves, it's better for it to be restored back let the common man enjoy his dividends of democracy.

We have not gain anything since the removal….the politicians are still the ones embezzling the funds while we pay the price.

Let them bring it back.

We are not seeing the benefits of subsidy removal.

If the money can be channeled towards something productive, then it should remain removed, otherwise, let the subsidy return

Subsidy is one thing that everybody in the country enjoys directly or indirectly. Yes if it’s goin to be done without corruption

No subsidies. This country will finally collapse.

NO! SUBSIDY should not return but the cost of governance should be drastically cut down.
-Stop all needless presidential travels estacodes, large, entourage etc.

-No cars or special privilege for NASS members,

-Strengthening EFCC,ICPC and the courts to make them truly independent to fight graft.

-Reintroduce capital punishment for anyone indicted in corruption since they explore leeways in the laws to escape justice.

-Sanitize the judiciary. Remove corrupt judges indicted in any corrupt act. Stop building houses for judges. Give it an independent leverage to adjucate without any interference. Go back to the day of justice Nikki Tobi Alfa Belgore, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa etc.

-Concessionalize NNPCL, refineries, Ajaokuta. Remove them from govt mgt. Govt can augment work modular refineries.

-Reduce govt aides, implement the Orasanye report on merging govt MDAs, parastals( VIO/FRSC, NSCDC/Police etc).

-Unimportant projects should not be embarked upon. Building super coastal highways of fraud while major trunk-A roads across Nigeria are n dilapidated state.

Subsidy gone. That's where I stand, because paying for subsidy in nigeria right now means our debt would worsen.

The problem with a subsidy now is our debt is too high for us to pay for a subsidy without borrowing more money, which would worsen our debt profile.

Keeping subsidy after 2012 in particular led to the situation with the debt we have now, caused not only by massive borrowing , but by government printing money in excess, which made the bad matter worse.

And removing corruption? Tell me, which Nigerian government has removed corruption? Na Atiku that is as corrupt as tinubu wey go remove corruption? Even Peter Obi , he is surrounded by corrupt people. Ya think those ones would allow him remove corruption.?

Plus the main issue with subsidy is government has no control over oil prices. So, when oil prices go high, cost of subsidy goes high, meaning more borrowing to pay for subsidy.

And should government be selling crude at discount to dangote, that means reduced government income, which means....more borrowing to pay for subsidy

Subsidy removal has not yielded any positive result because it was carried out by a notorious criminal in power who used the income for his own selfish interest making it look as if it was a bad decision.

Subsidy should return...we will put the money in the hands of the people not the gov

I wish we could never hear the word subsidy again especially in the petroleum sector. Let's move on from That, there are other areas of the economy to work on.
Tackling the transportation sector, for example with intra and intercity rails and uplifted road networks with substantial public buses, one wouldn't feel the pain of high fuel cost as much. Improving power supply is a no-brainer.

Anybody who wants subsidy to go is just being heartless.

At least, we now have a yardstick for comparison.

How was life for Nigerians before the removal?

And how is life now, after the subsidy has been removed?

Even the blind can see that removal of subsidy cannot work in Nigeria. The masses cannot continue to bear the full weight of running the government.

No refinery has been built. Roads haven't been constructed. Businesses are suffering. Transportation is extremely expensive. Food is on all-time high. Yet, the government continues to increase our taxes without cutting the cost of governance.

Subisdy must be returned back!

Return am sharp sharp o. That's the only scholarship of the poor. Every other scholarship is a counterfeit.

Even zombies want subsidy returned
They are just ashamed to say it
That's why you see them run away from threads like this cause they are also feeling the effect
Bring back subsidy
APC already said we don't need to make sacrifices anymore!

A thorny nail dey sole of your foot..it's painful but not too painful as u walk on it. In fact you use it to beg money from people. It is removed and the pains ibecomes very sharp almost unbarable..Eventually the pain dey decrease. Someone offers to help u put the nail back in ur foot so u can resume begging . Would u do it?

Racoon:
NO! SUBSIDY should not return but the cost of governance should be drastically cut down.
-Stop all needless presidential travels estacodes, large, entourage etc.

-No cars or special privilege for NASS members,

-Strengthening EFCC,ICPC and the courts to make them truly independent to fight graft.

-Reintroduce capital punishment for anyone indicted in corruption since they explore leeways in the laws to escape justice.

-Sanitize the judiciary. Remove corrupt judges indicted in any corrupt act. Stop building houses for judges. Give it an independent leverage to adjucate without any interference. Go back to the day of justice Nikki Tobi Alfa Belgore, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa etc.

-Concessionalize NNPCL, refineries, Ajaokuta. Remove them from govt mgt. Govt can augment work modular refineries.

-Reduce govt aides, implement the Orasanye report on merging govt MDAs, parastals( VIO/FRSC, NSCDC/Police etc).

-Unimportant projects should not be embarked upon. Building super coastal highways of fraud while major trunk-A roads across Nigeria are n dilapidated state.

Na you go stop cost of governance

Space131:
Subsidy is one thing that everybody in the country enjoys directly or indirectly. Yes if it’s goin to be done without corruption

Corruption and Nigeria are like two sides of a coin at the moment. Maybe in the next century, if the ideologies of humans living here would have improved and with the aid of advanced Human/machine blended intelligence, there could be some improvement.

No long analysis or grammar abeg. Where is all the Trillions that Tinubu saved from ending subsidy? Shebi, he vowed to channel the money into Healthcare, Education, Agriculture, lnfrastructures, etc, but are all these sectors not getting worse today? And he's also even borrowing more than his predecessors!!! Love or hate Buhari but Baba never allowed the price of petrol to cross #200 during his eight years. Because he knows fully well that fuel subsidy is the only single thing that Nigerians gain from the government. Just that, nothing else again! But this heartless one removed subsidy on the first day, and the cost of everything went up like a ballistic missile, cus whether you like it or not, petrol is the number one driving force of our economy. And everything depends on it, one way or the other. Worse part is that they will always use tribe and religion to deceive and divide us. But they won't remember that same tribe or religion, when they want to share our money amongst themselves, or when their kids wants to marry each other! Wake up and break this chain of tribe and religion, and take back your country from the hands of these old wicked people, less your future generations will suffer the consequences, that's after you finish suffering your own share!!! As for Obi, l even thought that he will use this subsidy issue and gain voters like Atiku is currently doing. But man really disappointed me with his dilly-dallying over the issue. He will say one thing today and another thing tommorow. But Kwankwaso has been consistently calling for the re-introduction of subsidy. As for me eh, given the choice of Obi or Kwankwaso, l will Jejely choose Kwankwaso anyday, cus he's more consistent, strategic and patient than Obi.

WatchYourSix:
Whether the subsidy is on education, health, fuel, the naira…..etc govt must pay…. It’s the only way the common wealth of the nation will surely get to everyone….

A govt thats not paying any form of subaidy is b heavily robbing the citizens, especially in a rich country like Nigeria whwre one person can steal 300 billion and the country continues as usual

I support u ,
Some few people out of over 230million Nigerians can't keep our wealth to dem selves and their families alone,
The stealing is out of hand and a good citizen should question their government,
Why did tinubu go on exile when abacha was ruling?

Summary: Share for return of subsidy and Like for No subsidy

I stand with reasonable Nigerian patriots not APC supporters.

Asiwaju (2023-2027)