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I believe if the govt can adjust the pump price to around 200 Naira and keep smuggling to nearest minimum to get around 30m-40m litre per day consumption, then the burden will be manageable.

PROPEACE:
That's quite smart of you. Going by your argument, America won the Vietnam war.

you mean Vietnam invaded america? Never heard of that before. Please shed more light. Lol.

Teazer4:
Most of these hungry kids have no clue, best to ignore em ….. e get why

Taken.

olugabbie:
Shipment of weapon to Ukraine and the training of Ukrainian troops started in 2014.

You should be smarter.

Putin should realize the number of silent Russian dissidents alone can help Ukraine turn the tide.

Kastonkastroll:
How can Russia ever run out of weapons? A country that sells numerous weapons to other nations Like I said in the beginning of this unnecessary conflict in Ukraine, lies and propaganda can never win you war.

After all is said and done; Ukraine and Ukrainians will be the number one losers in the conflict...

Ukraine was always going to lose even if they kill 10 million Russians. Reason is Russia is invading and doing the destroying. If I attack you physically and in defence you were able to give me a bloody nose, I believe that will be a commendable effort given the giant size of Russia.

seunny4lif:
;DThey said it in March then April and now May again

what was said in March is different. Then it was about the initial warchest of around €15 billion being used up within 10 days. Then it changed to Russia running out of logistical supplies. That like the first also happened. There may be some element of truth in this one after all.

This is the cheapest of form of propaganda I know of. Putin is claiming he knew the west will loan Ukraine weapons and that wàs why he attacked. There was no sign of the west shipping weapons to Ukraine before Putin invaded and started killing civilians. May be dementia is catching up with him. He should be able to remember how the west started with sanctions and offered zelensky the chance to escape before it became clear there was no attempt to liberate anyone but to grab as much of Ukraine that was available.
I like the fact he didn't continue with the propaganda of saying everything is going as planned. Saying that would have been too insulting to the almost 30,000 dead Russians.

Vicious cycle. What about refineries? Educational indices, poverty indices, and health?

subsidywise18:
Nowhere awful

This is happening because Nigerians insist on selling something at N165 , which costs N300 and above to refine. (even if we refined all our petrol at home, even if Dangote started refining).

NNPC gets paid something called a subsidy to keep it from collapsing under the contradiction. That subsidy has been hard to maintain for over 30 years now, because, unlike other countries, we pay for it from oil revenue (and thanks to higher crude prices, and higher prices of petrol as a result, the subsidy has grown so large that it is eating into government revenues.).

We have been told, several times, since 1993 , and even earlier to remove this thing called a subsidy. But since most of us think that it is better, it remains, and it drains our economy. It is also a big reason why domestic refining, until recently...is in a bad state here.

All this will end if subsidy goes. But because it means that fuel would cost above N350....and since we are too 'poor' to pay it, we keep on keeping it. At our expense.

subsidy shouldn't go. It is the only thing that truly trickles down to the average Nigerian from the govt. It is also done on a enjoy as you use basis unlike other welfare packages. Let them block smuggling and bring daily consumption back to 30 something million barrel a day.

What is causing it again?

jmoore:
Common sense should have told you some people earned money in the old testament.

Common sense should have told you currency existed in the Bible.


But the spirit of scammers in pulpit has beclouded you.


You deliberately forgot to respond to "Eating tithe". You never knew the Bible instructed you can eat your tithe.

Your are more funny than cunny. So you want to eat tithe but don't want to kill a goat for sins. Contradiction.

The mosques was used to promote Buhari as a Muslim. This is nothing but a reverse case. The RCCG cannot pretend not to prefer a Christian because he belongs to a part that has failed. It is a question of whether the party or the candidate determines the performance of any government more.

jmoore:
Animal sacrifices started before the law. So, start sacrificing animals to God



Tithe was never paid with money anywhere in the Bible. Scammers in the pulpit have changed it to money.

Deuteronomy 14:22-23 gives instruction for me to eat my tithe. That's the best option. God will rebuke the devourer if I EAT MY TITHE.

If you understand money and its purpose, you won't be talking like this. So you expect a tomato seller to bring her tomato tithe to church instead of money. If everyone does that then the church offering basket will be a mess. Money answereth to thing or, to put in a simpler form, facilitates the exchange of things. That makes tithing money a commonsense issue.

jmoore:
Animal sacrifices started before the law. So, start sacrificing animals to God



Tithe was never paid with money anywhere in the Bible. Scammers in the pulpit have changed it to money.

Deuteronomy 14:22-23 gives instruction for me to eat my tithe. That's the best option. God will rebuke the devourer if I EAT MY TITHE.

the purpose of animal sacrifice has been perfected with a human sacrifice for all with Jesus. Tithe too like sacrifice for sin went through about 4 or 5 modification in its form of payment. Going back to eating of tithe without reserving animal sacrifices for sins committed is contradictory.

Tokskob2008:
Honestly which solution has the church ever offered before one can even rate Western churches much more than the ones we have in Africa especially Nigeria because they carry out humanitarian services from time to time but the ones we have here are out to milk the poor congregation dry using the Bible as a cover up.

I always wonder if it's not the same Jesus Christ in the Bible they pretend to emulate yet they do things directly opposite what is clearly written in the same Bible.

Stop generalizing when talking what you know not. Same bible that asked the church to be charitable also admonished that the right hand shouldn't know what the left hand is doing. It means your charitable deeds need not be publicized.
For the fact that a church preaches a doctrine is clear indication it could be practicing same.

VirileNelly2420:
Wen u're sick, u're expected to take a healing oil from ur pastor which is not given on gratis(payable, not free). But wen d so called men of God fall sick, dey fly out of d country to seek excellent medical attention.

So tell me, isn't church our prime problem?

Stop generalizing all churches and pastors.

Regardless:
Nothing more than the lack of power in the church. In the days of the Master Jesus, you cannot encounter Jesus without something changing in your life. No power in the church again bro!!!!!

and if I may ask, who bestowed the responsibility of Jesus solely on church leaders? Every Christian is suppose to be Christlike and not just the pastor. If your faith in God through Jesus is alive, pastors cannot deny you an encounter for long.

One major reason I figured out is lack of emphasy on the state of the human spirit. If they follow the spirit trail of Gods word and not the physical body, there will be greater appreciation of the what a true church of Christ attempts to offer them.
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

Making A biblical sense of Love

I have come to realize that love isn't easy to define or comprehend without a clear picture of man's nature and his state. Let me try and explain.
In the bible, we see that man is basically an eternal spirit in a temporary body and connected by a redeemable soul.
To understand actions that constitute valid expression of love(agape love), one has to look at the effect at the spirit realm and realize that though some actions or lifestyle may appeal to a living soul, they aren't always valid expression of love. An example is Abimelech and Sarah in Genesis 20. He took, out of ignorance, a woman who happens to married but God clearly disapproved of it. Though he did in error, God called him "dead" in verse 3.

Many actions we take may look appealing and enticing to and in the flesh but ultimately destroy the permanent part of man or the spirit of man. Looking at many other biblical illustrations I cannot exhaust here, it becomes clear that love in its pure and balanced form is suppose to enhance the spirit. Any other love or form of love is at variance from Gods will for us.

helinues:
Now you are becoming more illogical... Both South Africa and Egypt have been presenting richest people in the world for decades.. Abi no be same Egypt that there stories are all over the bible or the South African once coal mining region..

And to burst your head, I have been to Kenya severally, The likes of Jimi Wanjigi are the richest which has no level in East Africa alone not to talk of Africa.

And to say you relate this discussion to racism speak much about your reasoning

Stop trying to win argument and be more reasonable. The bold is like saying because Dangote and BUA or Adenuga are not Igbo's, Igbo's in the middle class of wealthy people are suppose to be lower than for Dangote's and BUA's tribe or region.

Kenya is not disorganised like Nigeria. It shows black man has the potential to rise if backbiting can be checked.

The increase is down to smuggling and not usage. Any time price increase for a commodity, demand is suppose to drop and not increase like we are seeing here. It means the profit margin for smugglers has increased due to increase in Intl petrol prices. The number one task ahead of us(Nigerians) is blocking leakages and not increasing the hardship the masses are suffering.

helinues:
See where you carry your mentality go? Is using Kenya as my basis of argument not logical? Whats the population of Egypt , whats the population of kenya?

Now you are trying to save face but only succeeding in getting more illogical. You left white man's Egypt and SA with lower population than Nigeria yet with more millionaires to attack black man's Kenya that's lower than Nigeria's in both metrics. That's highly illogical.

helinues:
Believe this at your own peril

What's the population of Kenya that they have 8,000 dollar millionaires while Nigeria with 200m population only have 10k dollar millionaires.. Who conducted the reasearch?

The black man and shellfish-in-a-bucket mentality.

You didn't dispute the figures for Egypt or South Africa with many white people but you are so quick to cast doubt on that of fellow black man's Kenya. Kenyan herdsmen don't do our outdated grazing but use fodder and forriage.

olas24u:
Are you at the war front at the moment?

I am. You need something?

olas24u:
The plans are going on as planned xdont use emotions .

Okay. I hear you. 20,000 souls and counting, all planned out.

Heathrow44:
the Z invasion is going to plan, special operations is going to plan, Russia has moved over to the 2nd phase of the special military operation, the liberation of the Donbass, Luhansk region east of Ukraine and seizing military facilities in mariupol, Dont let the west deceive you anymore!

so you mean those thousands of Russian souls perishing are part of a plan approved by a supposed world power nation? I understand the need to win an information war, but you can do better than this comrade.

WriterNig:
TASS || Yahoo News

I refuse to believe this news yet. How possible that Ukraine that's begging for arms and ammunitions will give up such colossal amount of ammunition without a serious fight. It means Ukraine actually bombed Mariupol to oblivion and handed their remaining people there to Russians to encircle.

Russians are pathetic.
So Ukraine was responsible for the constant shelling of Mariupol and execution of civilians with hands tied also. What about the mass graves everywhere that is being discovered after Russia's withdrawal?
If the depot was trully for Ukraine, they won't be begging for arms and ammunition.

It also means the russian manage to encircle it and drive out Ukrainians without accidently setting it off too. I am not surprised if this comes from a man who said the war is going as planned after losing 20,000 men. It means he planned for the loss of 20,000 souls and counting.

i suspect this is in preparation for amnesty to terrorist in kaduna.

Pierocash:
Ukraine is winning. 100,000 Russian troops have died

not funny. Russia is an unprovoked aggressor. They are killing those they say want to liberate and cremating them in mobile crematorium to wipe off traces of their atrocities. Putin is just after former USSR recreation and will fail.