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Na lie. That was about what we were consuming before subsidy removal.
They are just looking for holes to hide their over invoicing and inflated import contracts for ghost gasoline knowing that the books will soon be opened.

Creepy....

PlayMaker14:
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This is a big fat lie...

2 days ago In our Ronu WhatsApp group, Our group member who's a Pharmacist, Dr. Akanbi told us that by the grace of God, Tinubu will reduce the price of Paracetamol to N30 per sachet as against the N150 inflated IPOB price.

I don't know why Obidients don't want Nigeria to progress, they are too negative, they don't want to sacrifice and suffer now to enjoy later.

All I know is that, all the increase will favour me and my family.

You people joke too much. This is not the time and this is not the way to save this nation or move it forward.

You and I are the custodians of this country and owe it service either in government or in citizenship and if all we offer is propaganda how are we crafting the nation we live in.

Let us have a forum where citizens banter on ideologies, discuss and debate facts and offer qualitative ideas whether they are pro or against the interests of government.

We are tired of saying this. The government is just indolent when it comes to issues of fighting inflation which is their responsibility because their decisions (right or wrong) triggered it.

And every government in decent nations round the world constantly fight inflation. What is this government doing to ensure the economy does not spiral out of control. It started with energy and currency, it has reached healthcare.

By the time it envelopes the entire economy we will have made a full circle back to devaluation again and a vicious cycle.

2mch:
It’s not only about them setting up and bringing their own people but training Nigerians in technical expertise which is what we need in exchange for all these agreements.

I used to think this way but honestly Nigeria and her citizens are just not it.
The first priority will be to get it going, established and fit for the purpose of earning this country a steady stream of foreign exchange to help balance our books.

That should be our priority, the only priority now. And if that means 100% owned and operated by foreigners I am good with that.
Providing jobs and tech transfer comes a distant second.

Just look at what we have done with our industries including all those Obasanjo seized from multinationals starting in the 70's and where they are today.

The answer to that poser is simple. Let foreigners run this one and then incentify the next Dangote to prospect in another for the purpose of satisfying all other ideals. Afterall we have so called trained operators to manage the refineries and yet they are moribund caused by indigenous management that did not build them with their sweat. That is the difference.

Tradepunter2:
Japan is a very credible partner with professionalism to the highest and transparency....

Totally agree.
One of the incorruptible development partners.

Fantastic development. Good one in the right direction of investment in export targeted industries.

Angelfrost:
Dear Coach... It's not just NFF!

It's the entire Contraption!

No Nigerian, not even the dull sycophants can point to a sector devoid of Corruption and Mediocrity!

Even the basic things of administration they cannot get right. Why employ when you know you cannot pay. Is that not fraud in officialdom.
Yet they can appropriate billions for their pensions for doing what amounts to part time work in other climes.
And some joker will yak that a government that serially embarrasses us before the world is doing well.

It appears the only folks satisfactorily catered for in this country are politicians, all others are just badly treated. Shameful, shambolic country.

Confirmedzombie:
What of the Port Harcourt Road. This is very necessary.

Travelling from PH to Aba is a big headache

We saw him inspecting it with officials of Julius Berger before inauguration several weeks ago.
They are probably working on engineering solution to is complex drainage challenges.
It may take a while to take-off.

Dshocker:
Our institute are weak and thrive on corruption.

Political bigwigs, particularly from the north don't go to prison.

Just look at the evidence against Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, were there was video evidence of him collection dollar bribe.

What can I say.

If he was in the UK or US custody the case will have been dealt with ages ago and he will most likely be incarcerated by now.
Another reason why such people should not be bailed is that their prior positions are influential enough to influence not just investigations but the judicial process as a whole not to talk of the safety of key witnesses.

When law enforcement officers anywhere in the world cross their fealty to the State, their esteemed institutions and the Trust of the public they are never treated with any bias whatsoever or given any quarter.

Unfortunately our institutions are just too weak to secure and develop this country.

9jatriot:
Most part of Edo State also have this kind of soil, I am not sure they are as prone to this kind of gully erosion as depicted in this news.

Edo State has a much more low lying topography thus water runoffs are less erosive. The gradient off the Niger River going eastwards and northwards is much more acute.

9jatriot:
Beyond politics, who can explain why Anambra seems to be very prone to erosion?

The soil that I see there is red soil which is claylike in nature, so why then does it wash off so bad to the point that the report says up to 100m? 100M is too deep to be filled back, so what really causes it?

The topography and geology, simple. The lack of rocky materials particularly in elevated formations. It happens.

Another racism post masquerading as intellectual.
No time for nonsense.

Told you folks where this 'world record' madness was headed. Silly people will call one a hater. Since reading my first edition off my dad's library in the early 80's I've learnt of the good, the bad and the ugliness quests for the world record had brought to people and their communities.

Yes, the fame (or infamy), but it has cost a lot too, from lives to limbs. And that is why the 'World Record' organistation has often expressed reservations and has a strong caveat because 'quests' are contagious and can often descend into chaos and tragedy.

And I know that since the summary of the whole world of records is a book, Nigerians are bound not to see the whole picture, know the history and so avoid the dear pitfalls because we are a society built largely on ignorance.

Akinfemmy:
Na wa for you people

This hatred you have a place that your people come in droves to. I'm amazed.

What the man is saying is pure science and is true. Lagos Island has no viable long term future due to ocean rise. The cost of protecting the entire island and peninsula from ocean surge will become too high for the taxpayer such that people will rather relocate.

Already sold almost all my holdings there over the past five years and it will all be gone if not the slow down in the economy. I can only speculate on property there now in the most cautious of manners.

murtalaa:
Sokoto should not be there. We have seen rainfall only two ot three times this year. Right now, common rain we have not seen let alone flood and our crops are drying up.

Really?. That is worrying. Why?
This is July.

AjaoEstater:
Good to see Osun is not on there. As the most geographically, ethnically, and culturally diverse country in Africa, we get everything except for snow and earthquake. Nonetheless, we will always have the Best weather in the world when it dry. I am already sick of the rainy season.

Rainy season, our own winter, is my best time of the year. I can't stand the heat global warming has brought on the earth.

The club fits him and I have this sneaky feeling he may as well go on to be a legend there. He's too English to fail and United is the most British of all the Prem teams to have won multiple titles.

Hmmm..... everyone is busy withdrawing subsidies....

lordimmaogidi:
What is happening in this country. Is Nigeria curse? Or we are the cause?.

Of course we caused it. Living beyond our means for decades. And by means I mean everything from economics to politics.

Johans2023:
this is the first country that sees their population as a liability instead of access.
UK don't even have oil but they make used of their human resources to grow their economy. Now you are telling us that we deserve to surfer because we have more than 200 million people while Egypt deserve to enjoy because they have less than 40 million people. How dumb is your narrative is what iam still thinking.
If our population is the problem why didn't him divide the country into 6 different countries.
Some of you are supporting tinubu just because he is a Yoruba man or a Muslim.

This is wrong. The United Kingdom is an oil and gas producing country though production has been steadily declining since the peaks of the 80's. But as a top 10 economy it consumes all that it extracts and requires North Sea oil from Scandinavia to meet the huge deficit.

If Nigeria could raise its levels of industrialization, grow its economy and prosper its citizens we will become a net importer of energy products just like Indonesia did and left OPEC as a result.

There is no pride in continuing to export primary resources. It smacks of under development. I was telling someone the other day to his surprise that the United States is the largest oil producer in the world yet it imports oil.

worksmart:
So they not gonna explain to us the reason Nigerian president is meeting with an American bank?

Buhari abeg, all is forgiven !

This is exactly what I was saying yesterday about the opaque nature of government in Nigeria.

No one knows anything about what they do and why they do what they do.

Democracy in other climes is more collaborative like a chauffeur and the boss. Both know where they are going and need each other to get there.

Here it the vehicle is a school bus filled with noisy kids supposedly on their way to kindergarten. They are not interested in how they get there and the driver owes them no reasoning. Everyone just assumes it will work out everyday.

I really think we need to elevate the level of our citizenship particularly when it comes to governance to realize the true merits of democracy.

It is alarming that after failing to properly supervise the out going government and paying such a hefty price we are comfortable with rolling the dice and going to sleep again. Elections is NOT the A to Z of democracy.

AfonjaConehead:
If president Tinubu is ok with the list then he should go and sit down somewhere...
If they didn't dictate to buhari,they shouldn't also dictate to Tinubu...after all, nobody will mention Adamu when things go somehow for Tinunu's govt

See what I was saying. An admission that the Legislature in Nigeria is just a parastatal of government responsible for approvals instead of it's proper function of supervising government.

And if there is no distinction between the supervisor and the executor who do you blame for a collapsed building.

Tzar:
Wetin dey do this old man?! The National Assembly is an independent arm of government!

Has it been independent of Mr. President the past eight years.... And who influenced the present one...

If Great Britain was influencing the elections here and our candidates were in cahoots with No. 10 Downing Street will you have called Nigeria an independent nation.

Beverages:
Guy rest, I dey dining, no let pepper enter my head abeg 😆 😂

You should not be eating at this time. It's too late in the day.

nairalanda1:
I know all that, yet at the end the same populaiton wants what the West has...without the sacrifice.

At the end, it isn't possible.

But pointing that out, gets me labelled oppressor, and gets me told that I would be beaten up if I speak in public.

Anyway, no danger of that happening. I keep my counsel.

But the truth is, we are a poor naiton. Development starts by accepting that. It is no excuse of bad governance, it is an acceptance that we need to start from that, and do something.

Or we can take another loan, and keep pretending till it gets too bad.

I have spoken enough for tonight.

And I am telling you this and you can bookmark it.
Without cleaning up its act you can tax the Nigerian citizen 100 percent of his paltry, shameful income (N30,000 or 40 dollars per month or $1.33 cents a day or 17 cents per hour..... minimum wage which is just disgusting), it will still not shift the developmental needle one bit if Nigeria continues with its lack of transparency, ridiculous budget templates and villainous theft in execution.

The Nigerian government can collect all the money on earth, as long as it does not reform itself Nigeria will develop as fast as a drum can be filled by fetching water with a wicker basket.

All you will be hearing is the billions and trillions this Minister and that DG and that Perm Sec has stolen, never to be recovered.
All you will be hearing is this Contractor and that Consultant who could not afford three square meals prior is now on the Forbes Rich List.
This has been our unending experiences since the British left and until Mr. Buhari followed to London and all the antecedents left with us today in the name of government are exactly alike and have started on the same wasteful and corrupt note.

I refuse to be blackmailed by a government completely lacking the moral right to ask for more.
So they are free to use coercion.

nairalanda1:
Actually, we don't have enough money.

With a tax to gdp ratio of 10.86% , and an economy reliant on oil, plus looting after the fact.....

That's how bad it is.

You don't seem to get it.
The Nigerian citizen has no more income to be taxed.
The Nigerian citizen is presently being over leveraged for the failure of governance and should resist any more subsidy for bad governance. And here you are bandying figures of whatever....

We have accepted that fuel subsidy should go because the government cannot secure our borders to prevent gasoline going to our neighbors while the State pays a huge amount to finance the Customs Service.

We have accepted that fuel subsidy should go because government cannot clean up its books with persistent over invoicing and subsidy theft and has not brought a single person to book despite losing trillions to graft.

We have accepted that naira subsidies have to go because government through its agency, the CBN cannot keep its filthy hands off pilfering our dollar income and washing it at massive losses through villainous third parties for a profit popularly called round tripping.

We the citizens are paying for lack of good corporate governance, lack of political will, lack of functional institutions, lack of security and a dysfunctional criminal justice system deterrent.

I repeat again. Exactly what is the SUCCESSFUL FUNCTION OF GOVERNMENT in Nigeria. What are they doing well to further this country when the citizens are PAYING FOR EVERYTHING directly as you want from taxes or indirectly as we have accepted to scrape out a living without subsidies.

Oga, WHAT IS GOVERNMENT DOING FOR NIGERIA in the real sense of it.
The removal of subsidies IS TAXATION. For the countries you are apt to compare all have effective social programs which in truth are indirect tax breaks. Government takes from the richer to aid the poorer. Here government takes from everyone and gives nothing. In fact they are even giving us their jobs, their responsibilities on top. Haba.

nairalanda1:
I respectfully disagree

The problem is, Nigeria does not have enough money. And oil is no longer producing enough cash to sustain us, and hasn't for decades. Our population is large, and our tax to gdp ratio is low.

And our productive capacity is hindered by bad power, which is hindered by discos and gencos not being able to raise enough cash to fix power.

And I also respectfully disagree with you with the facts that,

Until Nigeria operates the FOI Act without equivocation to thoroughly x-ray public finances from income to expenditure in the most transparent and accountable manner.

Until the preparation and execution of the Federal Budget is made to tally with the true position of our income and expenditure addresses our express developmental needs and NO MORE,

Until the overbloated, inefficient government apparatus is constituted with the efficiency of the private sector and the cost of administering this country is fixed at a set percentage of our income and NO MORE, such that lavish and ostentatious living amongst top civil servants and politicians is ground to a halt.....

Then I will never accept that Nigeria does not have enough money. For we can all pretend and join government to live a lie. Leadership is not more important than the citizens, period.

They say Nigeria is broke and Nigerians should live an austere life but not them.

4 trillion will be saved over the next 12 months. That is enough to make a substantial difference in the finances of Nigeria and enough to kick start any developmental program. They don't need to draw more blood from the fainting citizens in the form of taxes. Let us see what will be done with the trillions saved first.

I have never seen a developing or aspiring country where government is many times larger than the rest of the country. Here government commandeers every single resource out of the ground, out of the air and out of the minds of the citizens yet is relinquishing almost every corporate responsibility is has. Where is all the money going.

lexy2014:
What has the nigerian government done with it's 10.86% tax to GDP?

Ask them..... about what is left, after the former Accountant General helped himself to 30 billion and till today no one knows where he is and what has become of the case.

A country where budgets are made without citizen input to deliver projects they don't need or will not benefit from and at costs that are out of this world....

Give them 101% Tax to GDP ratio and Nigeria will not change one bit just as dipping a basket in the ocean will not retain a teaspoon of water.

The structure of the Nigerian state is not geared towards progress.

Primitive people. Simple application of technology will have prevented this barbaric drama.