₦airaland Forum

I know on Nairaland and other forums there will be accusations, Justifications and counters, but wait a minute let us look from the Nigeria that made Mr.  Farouk Abdul Muttalab. The Nigeria that this young man came from is one that has hatred in the heads, heart, eyes and hands of the citizenry( The Militant few).  He was born into a country that tribes hate each other so how did hatred grow so powerful and found its expression in suicide bomb attack?

Abdul Farouk went to school like most Nigerians and saw the poverty in the northern part of Nigeria and thought to himself that there must be an explanation to reason behind this poverty and stagnation. He is told that it is because of the Infidels and the sins of others. His mind as a Youngman swings into problem solving mode and seeks to find a solution to this. He is frustrated by no answer because dad was working in bank and had to face his career.  He finds that there is poverty in other places in Nigerian but sees that there is massive wealth in the hands of people that are not from the Northern Part, Igbo Yoruba and etc.

He tries to fit into the social life of the southern elite but is seen as a cow chasing ABOKI that his forefathers were to be blamed for making Nigerians poor or backward. He tries to fit in and he is told that he is the cause of Nigeria’s problem that his father stole money and that northerners reap where they did not sow Ok he is told that if he becomes an engineer or is successful academically he will be able to solve the problems, in his heart he knows that he being an engineer can’t solve this problem, there is hatred piling up in his heart as he is confused because there is no communal spirit in Nigeria.

He finds solace that there is perfection in Islam with the quest for perfection he is told by Islamic scholars that until the entire world is Muslim there cannot be perfection.  He begins to seek the “truth” and the emotion of hate is now made to see a solution that killing the infidel and leaving this world whilst doing with the promise of seventy two virgins in the Islamic heaven. Why should he not take this opportunity and find the easy way out when there is no love amongst us Nigerians.  We make mockery of ourselves.

The same hatred that leads our youths to, kill themselves in schools before the turn 20 engage themselves in yahoo yahoo and other evils is the same hatred that was in Abdul Farouk. There are many Abdul farouk in the south they are destroying lives or many but they will point to others so easily. They live in their houses with gates high up to heavens there is no play park for children there is no communication there is suspicion there is no love there is fear because they have great possession in their houses, they have forgotten the greatest possession is man.

We Nigerian made Farouk we are all guilty we made every criminal that left Nigeria we are all be punished we did so on Nairaland when we spew hatred we did so when we did not greet  an Aboki on the road and saw him as the problem of Nigeria. He knew you hated and it was that hate that he was bombarded that he decided to take his life with others with him after is that not want you wanted? Did you not want that they were extinguished? Your fake Churches that have never preached true christ to the north would be happy that finally that Islam is not a marketable product that "Christainity" is a better product. The Christianity they preach did not Answer Abdul farouk's questions. Christianity is never a product it is the source.

We need to start catching our youths young to love our country we need to start recruiting an army of lovers of our great country. we need to make sure that if you are not 20 you cannot leave Nigeria and when you leave school you must have serve Nigeria for 2 to 4 years of military service with evidence of something tangible that you and I can see that you contributed your quota of love to Nigeria.

The intelligence service will be reading some of your statements and they may be trying to key this into the stereotype classification that Nigerians will be put to We must reject this as Nigerians in unison, It is not a Northerner that tried to blow himself up it is a Nigerian and we don’t agree with It but we are Nigerians and we are sorry simple end of matter.



God bless Nigeria

using your head makes you a coward?

Ok Jonathan must be a yoruba man.

With all due respect I am sorry for the father of the Child but there are a lot of Farouk in the making.

The Elite

We need to build nigeria for the sake of ourselves and our kids. There are alot of kids Schooling outside for no reason that our schools are just a waste of time. The Elite know this and that is why we send our children outside nigeria thinking they will be safe. The habits the pickup outside Nigeria is incredible. Some of your kids smoke weed and take hard drugs. So have done abortion and you will be surprised some of our ladies and young men have kids with the locals.

Our Universities have become a killing ground and where people pick up very bad morals. I have had people that schooled in nigeria you wonder why they went to school in the first place.  Nigerians are schooling in other neighbouring countries that will never employ them. We are blowing so much on education and our Jamb or University board is sleeping.  On the average the countries arround us are making a kill on Educational tourism with an average of $3000 person a semester for just university.

Nigeria is supposed be the place where others should come and learn but how can they learn when our tommy is our God, we hate each to the skies hence no social security. Everybody locks the door on every body our gates are so high that we wish we all had our own country.  Now you have just been added to Terroristic Tendencies. And notice he was not from a poor home.


Nigerians love yourself.

Nigerians want development but they want it cheap. They want power cheap they want housing cheap they want water cheap. They live in astronomical expensive towns outside nigeria but when it comes to Nigeria the Elites want a new Law.

but look they will compare Nigeria to south Africa and other places. There are somes places in south Africa that the pay $1600 a month for an apartment those people pay taxes, some of our landlords never pay taxes.

I support any thing that will make people pay taxes this gives a feeling of ownership to the state you live in. A citizen that pays taxes owns the state. people should never be given licences to build is there are not ready to utilize the land well.

you can run out of lagos if you dont like.

all other governors should learn from Fashola the way to deal with a political godfather

http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=161303

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size=20pt]FG: Our Hands are Tied on Gas Flaring for Now[/size]
From George Oji in Abuja, 12.07.2009

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The Federal Government has said that any attempt at stopping gas flaring through legislation now will lead to very unpleasant circumstances, which the nation can hardly cope with.

[size=16pt]Such action, it said, would lead to the loss of billions of dollars derivable from carbon credit.[/size] My comment >>> [size=18pt]And what have we benefitted for 40 years of flaring!!!!!!!![/size]Minister of State for Petroleum, Odein Ajumogobia (SAN), disclosed this at the weekend in Abuja while fielding questions from some State House correspondents.

He said 80 per cent of the nation’s current revenue comes from the production and export of crude oil and as a result, legislating against gas flares would mean the loss of huge revenue from the carbon flare penalties. [size=18pt]We cannot because we want to eat goat call goat our father>>>> the companies should stop the flaing or pack up get out f Nigeria.[/size]

In an apparent reference to the December 2010 deadline set by the National Assembly to halt gas flaring by oil companies operating in the country, the minister stated that the best approach at dealing with the problem is to work out systematic framework to ensure that gas would be used to power electricity generation and other forms of industrial uses.

Ajumogobia said the Federal Government had in the past opposed legislation against gas flares because such actions could lead to the shutting down of crude oil production and ultimately loss of revenue to the country.

After several threats to shut down oil fields that flare gas, the government might have realised that this could collapse the country's crude oil production.

The minister regretted that gas flaring had continued in the country because of the limited use of the gas being flared.
“For one, you can’t legislate flares out other than shutting down production. If you legislate it as a law abiding citizen, I will have to direct DPR on the date the law takes effect to direct these people to shut in their wells so that there will be no more flaring but there is no fundamental reason if you legislate an activity for which you can get carbon credit otherwise you deny yourself the carbon credit.

“So if flare out becomes a legal obligation, you can’t get any benefit from the carbon credit scheme. So we will be losing billions of dollars potentially in carbon credit that we can derive,” Ajumogobia said.

According to him, one of the short-term measures embarked upon by his Ministry to address the problem was to direct the shutting in of the oil fields where the gas being produced and flared was considerably more than the crude oil produced. Through this means, he said, the nation has been able to reduce gas flares from 2.5 billion cubic metres to current 1.5 billion cubic metres.

As a long-term measure Ajumogobia disclosed that his Ministry was currently working hard through the gas master plan to ensure that by the end of the first term of the current administration gas flaring would have been a thing of the past.

Speaking on the planned probe of the downstream sector of the economy to unearth the huge resources spent on petroleum subsidies over the years, he said he was positive not much would come out of from the planned probe.

“I personally felt it is going to be a futile exercise because people are dealing with documentation. When you bring in oil and it has been consumed what you have is paper work and if the paper works look right it is going to be difficult. I don’t expect the audit to disclose that this is the situation. If you tell me to go and bring petrol and I bring, just take a number say N5 billion and distribute it and you haven’t paid me and you tell me to go and bring more, I think a normal person that is making normal profit would say what about my N5 billion before we start talking about a new one.

“But if I go and bring some more then there is something odd to it to a point that I keep on doing it to a point you accumulate N30-40 billion and then I come to you and say I can’t pay this 40 billion and you say okay pay me 25 billion. I mean it suggests that something is wrong but when you look at the paper work, it is calculated, the exchange rate, volume, fright rate. Everybody would give the highest exchange rate even if it happens under a different excha-nge regime. that is why they can give a discount because they know how much they bought it. So when they use the highest, that highest exchange cost can represent N5 billion given the volume when we argue and argue they say we can give you N5 billion discount,” he said.

Nigeria was among over 160 nations that met in Kyoto, Japan, from December 1 to 11, 1997, to negotiate binding limitations on emission of gases, pursuant to the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change of 1992.

The outcome of the meeting was the Kyoto Protocol, which came into force in February 2005, and in which the countries agreed to reduce emissions from 1990 levels by six per cent during the period of 2008 to 2012.

Consequently, the Federal Government gave 2008 as the deadline for all the oil companies in the country to build gas-gathering projects to stop gas flaring.

However, the companies could not meet the deadline as they argued that the Niger Delta crisis and inadequate funding could not allow them build gas-gathering projects in the oil-rich region.

The oil companies have insisted on 2012 as the new deadline to eliminate gas flare from old oil fields, and pledged to put measures in place to ensure that no gas is flared in upcoming fields.

Following the failure of the operators to stop gas flares in the old oil fields, the government recently increased gas flare penalty from N10 for every 1,000 standard cubic of gas flared to $3.50 per 1,000scf.
After several threats to shut down oil fields that flare gas, Acting Director of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr. Billy Agha, said recently that the Federal Government had not given a new deadline but was trying to look at all the fundamentals that would enable the operators to flare down or flare out

This man should resign now how can he be excusing the compnanies this is fraudulent.

@ bakare

I am not surprised at your position but dont you know the bible that you quote talked about the rejection of saul and that those that claimed to kill him was killed by David.

Why have you become a false prophet, theme of scripture is the salvation of the soul with a PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP GOD.

@skyblue

My Idea of selling is different. Anyway you and i know that for the contractors need to maintain the road there will be variable cost, where does the funding come from?

If I gave Sky-blue Nigeria Limited to build and maintain the road for say 20 years how do I gaurantee funding?
I am not a road scientist but I know the contractor will make sure they maximise profit. The money would come from taxes and since it will always be there it is just opportunistic for the contractor inflate the cost of road maintenance.

Another issue I mentioned was about the creation of bus terminus. The road company could be in charge of the terminus.

@mikeansy

So that will kill him that is why they want him to come to Nigeria

@sky blue

I was talking(thinking) of solving the Road component problem of transportation in lagos state. BRT. I lived in Singapore but the LAGOS STATE GOVERNMENT IS MISSING THE ROAD COMPONENT OF THE PROBLEM.

Posted by: Onlytruth
Posted on: Yesterday at 10:02:06 PM

I want action! I want completed projects, not project designs and concepts

What this means is that I dont want you to imagine again just act that is dangerous. WE MUST IMAGINE UNTILL WE HAVE NO MORE SPACE TO IMAGINE.

A MAN THAT STOPS TALKING BECAUSE HE IS TIRED OF TALKING WILL GO TO WAR

A MAN THAT STOPS THNIKING OR IMAGINING BECAUSE HE IS TIRED WILL START ACTING


Now to babapupa and sky blue

The management of state road is where the problems stems from. We need to sell out the road in block to those that can manage it. We also need to create bus station that the road managers would build and maintain.

reason for this is that when private firms manage road they will cut cost and make it easy for movement of traffic, I will give an ensample.

You have a road that could save alot of money and free traffic but there are houses and other structures on the road's path.

SCENERIO 1

If the State government was to take charge of this the cost will be skyrocketed because the agents and the compensated would ask for so much that it would be better for the state government to abandone the cause

SCENARIO 2

If it was private company the cost will be minimal and beside there will be alot of bus terminus springing up even houses where people live would be mad bus terminus. The road business is a business just like any other business we must make sure that we sell off the state road to road companies. We need to free our roads

[size=16pt]I think the Army of the Parasitic Elite Are at work.

I have always said it that the NNPC are the enemy of Nigeria.[/size]


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/article01//indexn2_html?pdate=031209&ptitle=Oil workers threaten strike over petroleum bill

Oil workers threaten strike over petroleum bill


Rep vows to lead protest over Lagos-Benin road
From John-Abba Ogbodo (Abuja) and Kelvin Ebiri (Port Harcourt)

THE Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) has threatened to shutdown the country's oil and gas operations indefinitely if the National Assembly proceeds to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law without making the authentic version of the bill public for national discussion.

Also, member representing Oredo Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Patrick Obahiagbon, has pledged to lead a public protest over the current state of the Lagos-Benin Highway if the road is not promptly fixed.

Addressing a media conference yesterday at the National Assembly, Obahiagbon recalled that two years ago he sponsored a motion drawing the attention of the House to the state of the Lagos-Benin road, especially its Ore-Benin City portion, urging the Federal Government to repair it, which members passed.

He also recalled that former Minister of Transport, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, wept and apologised to the nation while inspecting the road, raising expectation that the highway would be fixed immediately.

PENGASSAN in the Upstream Sector, also known as "Producers Forum" also said a situation where some oil and gas companies act with alleged impunity and in total disrespect for the extant labour laws, principles of natural justice and equity in their approach to labour and industrial relations matters, would soon plunge the nation's oil and gas industry into a series of avoidable crises with huge implications for the economy.

The forum's Chairman and Secretary, Victor Olley and Peter O. Akpenka, condemned alleged circulation of different versions of the Bill by the executive, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and other government agencies, saying "it is all calculated to mask the true intent of the bill and hoodwink the general public into accepting it."

PENGASSAN also condemned alleged reluctance of the Clerk of the National Assembly to furnish the public with the true version of the bill.

"The Producers' Forum viewed this as "a deliberate act to confuse and mislead the public, thereby effectively denying Nigerians their constitutional right to participate in the debate on this very important but contentious Bill."

The oil workers also alleged "a deliberate transfer of the oversight functions of the National Assembly to an unelected office of the Minister of Petroleum who is not directly accountable to the Nigerian people."

It viewed this as "an attempt by some powerful persons in high places to corner the commonwealth and foist their will on the silent but helpless majority."

The Forum condemned "the indecent haste of the Executive and the NNPC to hoodwink and pressure the National Assembly into passing the Bill before Christmas so as to present Nigerians with a fait accompli situation before they get to know the whole truth about the Bill."

PENGASSAN demanded "an immediate cessation of all debate and consideration of the PIB by the National Assembly" until certain conditions were fully met.

These included a demand that the Clerk of the National Assembly should make available to the public and all stakeholders in the oil and gas industry, the correct version of the PIB through publications in national dailies, on the Internet, and by direct correspondence to stakeholders.

The oil workers also called for another public hearing to assure Nigerians that the true Bill was being debated and considered by the National Assembly.

Olley and Akpenka said: "The Forum hereby puts the federal and state governments and the Nigerian public on notice that any attempt to continue with the passage of this Bill without complying with these minimal conditions will result in an immediate and indefinite shutdown of all oil gas operations in the country.

"The Forum notes with dismay the rising cases of industrial relations issues in the companies like Moni Pulo, Mobil, Conocco-Philips and Belbop and calls on all parties to be guided by the rule of law, fair-play and social justice in the day-to-day handling of industrial relations matters."

In a speech entitled: "The collapsed state of Benin-Ore-Lagos Road: A call for Federal Government's genuine action to avert mass protest," Obahiagbon said: "It has been over two years now that I got a House of Representatives Resolution, consequent upon a motion I sponsored, calling the attention of the Federal Government to the deplorable state of the Benin-Ore-Lagos road. It is sardonic to observe that two years afterwards, a drive through Benin-Ore-Lagos road is still like engaging in a macabre dance.

"You will also recall that sometimes in 2007, the deplorable state of the Benin-Ore-Lagos road had forced a former Minister of Transport, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke to weep. In a chat with journalists after inspecting the road, she had reportedly said: 'I am actually very, very unhappy today at what I have seen. I am very displeased that this road was allowed to degenerate to this level,  I want to apologise to Nigerians for the deplorable state that I found this road. This is inhuman and unacceptable.'"

He said two years had passed since the former minister made that remark but nothing had changed.

Obahiagbon added: "I ask the question: What happened to the budgetary provisions for the rehabilitation of the road over the years? Allison-Madueke had on October 21, 2008, when she appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Works, blamed government's inability to execute new road projects and renovate existing ones across the country on the non-passage of the 2008 Budget Amendment Bill by the National Assembly. What happened after the passage of the budget?"

Reiterating that the road's repairs were captured in the budget, the lawmaker added that some funds were released but yet no tangible results. He said: "In May this year, for instance, the Minister of Works, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal, had announced President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's approval of the release of N21 billion from the N140 billion budgeted in the 2009 Appropriation Act for the rehabilitation of 34 roads nationwide.

"The Lagos-Ore-Benin road benefited from the approved rehabilitation. The rehabilitation of the Shagamu-Ajebandele-Ore-Benin Road Section 1 (Ajebandele-Ofosu Road in Ondo State) was awarded to Messrs Reynolds Construction Company Limited (RCC) at the sum of N9,745,402,329.89, with a completion period of 30 months; and rehabilitation of the Shagamu-Ajebandele-Ore-Benin Road, Section II in Ogun State was awarded to Messrs Borini Prono and Company Nigeria Limited, at the sum of N2,498,934,091.50 with a completion period of 18 months. Yet nothing has happened to the road.

"Now in the 2010 budget, N972.09 million is earmarked for the completion of the rehabilitation and upgrading of Lagos-Shagamu road. I have referred to this because I am talking of Lagos-Ore-Benin Road and the Lagos-Shagamu road flows or dove-tails into Lagos-Ore-Benin road up to a point.

"Under the Presidential Initiative Projects (PIPs), rehabilitation of Shagamu-Ajebandele-Ore road Sections 1 and 2 are earmarked to gulp N4 billion and N1.5 billion respectively. Even though the larger issue of the longer Lagos-Ore-Benin road as described is not captured in the budget as a specific item, these little interventions could be salutary to the bigger picture of deplorableness of the road."

The lawmaker observed that "for over a decade now, the Benin-Ore-Lagos Road has suffered incremental neglect by each government of the day" and "has collapsed by reason of the aforesaid decade of incremental neglect by the Federal Government."

He argued that the "Federal Government needs a Marshal Plan to totally rebuild and reconstruct the Benin-Ore-Lagos road."

Obahiagbon added: "I have resolved as the representative of the good people of Oredo Federal Constituency in Edo State who suffer a great deal on account of the collapsed Benin-Ore-Lagos road to take up the gauntlet posed by the exigencies of the time to lead a crusade to compel the Federal Government to act expeditiously in fixing the road once and for all, and that I hereby on this date and time, through this press conference, serve notice to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Honourable Speaker of the House of Representatives and well meaning Nigerians of my resolve to lead a mass protest of my constituents and patriotic Nigerians who are daily macadamized by the macabre dance that has become the Benin-Ore-Lagos road.

"This I shall do if the Federal Government does not dance away from the realm of sermonisation within a reasonable period next year. Enough is enough."

Now we can see who really runs Nigeria.

@gbawe

Decree 13 is the one that does not give the power to state government to generate power

@post

I am Nigerian first and from the south west. I subscribe to fashola but i want soludo to be the president. that is my God given unallienated right.

There is no need for the state government to build a light rail. if the transport companies are doing well they should be making alot of money by now. In future they would be given the right to run a light rail but then if the government has already started it they should continue.

@kay17

Posted on: Today at 06:39:34 PMPosted by: Kay 17
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/just another fashola lover/ this idiot thinks

This is what I have been saying what we imagine is what we get. We can never get a leader that we dont imagine. If you ask some people what a good leader should be they have no idea. Their imagination has been locked out.

Kay 17 also thinks that Fashola is a thief yet another thinks he is doing well. 2 different thoughts one negative the other positive.

@poster such as debosky and Nex

By following capitalist doctrine that[b] if there is no money to be made no need to invest is very dangerous[/b]. Our farmers that plant in the village loose money and sometimes die of poverty they grow what we eat. We must force or make them invest in the refinery business. The gas flaring by the very reckless oil companies for decades was not deal with because they claimed the cost/profit did not go hand in hand at that time. We should be exporting Fuel not just Crude oil.

The oil campnies will make money from the refinery because there will be deregulation and moreso competition for pricing.

@pcicero

The fact is that OK what were we before you were Niger delta western (yoruba) south east(igbo) Northern(hausa)? Why have we not become Nigerians is the question that Mr Sanusi seeks to answer.

It suites the Elites to speak from different sides of there mouths. IS IT NOT AMAZING THAT WE BLAME THE "NORTH" FOR OUR WOES WITH VERY LITTLE EDUCATION WHEN THE REAL PEOPLE RULING LIKE HE MENTIONED WERE NOT NORTHERNERS?

Tell me, how many governors has South West produced after Awolowo that are role models of leadership? How many governors has the East produced like Nnamdi Azikiwe that can be role models of leadership? How Many governors in the Niger Delta are role models of leadership? Tell me. There is no evidence statistically that any past of this country has produced good leaders.

^^^^^^^^^^
Is this the fault of the northerners?

We are so foolish, we the lead and some of the elite pray that we remain fools for ever. That must stop now we are nigerians first. I dont care if you live in a house made of pareparts or you drink soup or you are a cow chasing man can you do the job can we trust you. Our eyes should not see people through the tribal glass.

Some Nigerians have very low expectation of what the leaders should do WE MAKE A DIRECTORY OF EXCUSES FOR OUR LEADERS. IT IS IN OUR SCHOOLS, IN OUR FILMS AND EVEN ON NAIRALAND THIS MUST STOP NOW. The elite are getting away easily with this no expectation from the citizen.

THIS EXPECT NOTHING NEW MUST STOP
WE ARE CONDEMN TO IMAGINE GOOD OR WE ARE DOOMED

WE MUSTSTART WRITING WHAT WE WANT OUR LEADERS TO DO IF NOT THEY WILL GET AWAY WITH IT

@all

Is it not strange

The police
The navy and other parts of the armed forces have Id cards. Even some of you in your compannies are issued Id cards

but when it comes to state government ID card we quickly run to the constitution hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

@QUOD

Please qualify the "WE" very well. I was happy when the dead refinery was sold to dangote. Those refinery should be dashed to Ojukwu and the Niger delta militants i dont care that is a scam tool of the NNPC.

The NNPC are lying through its teeths when they said they would refine the crude oil. Can you imagine it is Cheaper to import crude oil than to refine crude oil.

If we were gorillas living in the jungle some leading gorillas would have been executed but thank God it is not so. The NNPC will live to see that they were criminals their sin will ever be infront of them.

The NNPC are the ones that hide under all sort of names they are the ones. The NNPC is a fraud university take away the refinery from them and give them the power to regulate the private companies alot of people will leave the NNPC.

@Nex

With the removal of subsidy, it is the Oil Companies that will be begging the government and paying huge license fees to build refineries. Let's stop this dictatorship attitude where we just wish the government will pass on all of out needs to the oil companies.

Nex I thought the same sometime ago but when i saw that the oil companies dont care about Nigeria. Now understand this the NNPC and the cabal will never agree. They have been programmed to rob Nigeria dry.

Please I will ask you
The NNPC since its inception which oil field/block does it have?
The refinery 4 of them what happened that they ran down?
Just say you want to sell the refinery see what will happen.
Dangote had to return the refinery back.
The only Credible stranglehold the NNPC has on NIGERIA IS THE REFINERY AND THE PRICING OF OIL WITH THE SUBSIDY COMPONENT .

Notice that the want to remove subsidy the NLC is active
Notice if they want to sell refinery the NLC is active
If the companies could make the NLC strike they would.

We need to remove the subsidy but at what price would they sell?

NLC that have members that are millionaires from oil subsidy will swing into action when you remove subsidy. i just cant imagine a government like Nigeria paying for oil for the rich this is fraud and robbery.


yes remove subsidy by deregulization but be ready to face the Parasitic elite that all they life they have made free money on Subsidy.  If people in the NNPC were righteous people there will be no need for all this thinking.


JUST TELL ME WHICH OIL FIND HAS THE NNPC ACHEIVED?
YOU THINK THE NNPC ARE ANGELS? THEY WOULD GET OIL FIND AND FLOAT PRIVATE COMPANIES AND GO INTO JOINT VENTURE WITH NNPC THAT WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR FINDING THE OIL, WHAT DO YOU WANT THE FG TO DO SHOOT THEM? NIGERIANS KEEP SAYING OUR LEADERS ARE BAD BUT WE THE CITIZENS ARE THE BIGGEST THIEVES AND UNLESS WE REPENT THERE IS NO WAY OUT!

The poor is paying for the rich enough is enough!

@post

This rubish must stop now. I dont care if a gorilla leader's us, what I need is the prusuit of happiness and a better life.

Let it be a


A cow chasing aboki-fulani with an accent that has Z in front or Z in back
An Yoruba Yoruba Efenmanu tribal marked yoruba man
A spare parts selling no water drinking igbo man

I dont care.

Yes I want and pray soludo to lead Nigeria after Yaradua and he if he employs all rounder Igbo when he is in leadership so be it.

@ 1forall

Our FG never wants to take responsibility for anything other than awarding contracts, why cant we run our 4 refineries in addition to the ones the oil coys 'll setup? Cant we just run anything right at all?

For the government to run the refinery you have to put all the people at NNPC in Jail !

I dont see anything wrong with naija producing refined produtcs for local use and export but no no no, our administrators 'll rather have some foreign cowboys do that while they just smile to the bank.

Withe foreign comapnies the local ones too will work besides some of the oil cmpanies that you think are foreign companies are owned by Nigerians with foreigners as fronts.

I think its just another display of irresponsible leadership. . . many policy changes have been suggested since their un-tactfully planned 'deregulation' policy introduction failed. Na God use FIFA save us. . . but for how long?

well the comapnies will have to sell at a prices that will keep them in business so the prices will be deregulated but you watch and see the Parasitic elite willlkick against this.

What'll become of the 4 refineries?

They can burn to ashes for all i care the refinery is working at 6.66% capacity. Refinery everywhere in the world is suposed to make money

I think the peeps occupying positions that matter are greedy, lacking the political will to do things right and dont care about the country's future else they'll be making policies to improve the state of things. . . not abandoning responsibility.

Same ni

The political will is coming now. Crude oil like Gold is a mineral. If you take raw Gold to a jeweler and tell him to make gold jewelry for you and you call your government to pay for the refining of the gold and making the gold into Jewelry and the government agrees to pay is that not stupid responsibilty?

@4play

This policy is clearly stupid and stories like this make you wonder whether Nigerians lack intelligence.

You can't coerce oil companies to invest in refineries when the key stumbling block to having an efficient domestic petroleum market is the myriad of regulations that distort the market.

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And what is the regulations you are talking about? there was no regulation build refinery or leave our (their) oil  alone that is simple. The fact is that there was no regulation for 40years of rapery they got the oil from the ground and ship it out, no REGULATION. Our soldiers even guide themand kill our own people. Now that must Chnage they build the refinery or our soldiers Chase them out!

If they build the refineries and they dont work kick them out after what is the oil doing for Nigeria when we are not benefiting from it.

Quite simply, if there was money to be made in investing in refineries in Nigeria's present day environment, foreign investors would not need to to be coerced. The lack of investment in refineries is merely a symptom of a greater malaise, not the malaise itself

It is because the government did not put this clause that is why the oil companies did not want to invest in the down stream sector. If i gave you Mr 4play 1 million barrels of Brent crude oil you will not need to raise a finger to make money from it. The people in the oil business will ask you to give them the account you want the money transfered. to be a Crude oil mechant you dont need primary 6 certificate just have the oil any how, that is why it is called black Gold. We have about 35 billion barrel of crude oil reserve(it could be more because I believe they could be lying)

That is why the generals and some people in Government went into crude oil Exploration. some of the companies listed have people in the army and NNPC behind the companies. The FG cannot run the oil business the civil service that deals with the oil sector are just corrupt to take the refinery and run it. The government will be paying so much because the compnaies that will do TAM and other maintainance work on the refineries will have to meet the corrupt board and the board will make you charge the government 300 times the actual cost. The government will not be able to Charge the cost of the over inflated maintenance on you the consumer so the government will SUBSIDIZE and the cost will keep increasing.

They have robbed with the help of unpatriotic Nigerians Enough is Enough!

@globalaid

yes they have renewed only for a year the senate said they will pass the PIB before christmas I just pray that they dont turn their backs on nigeria

God bless Nigeria

@mikeansy

I think the 40 thing is criminal and fraudulent not just ridiculous.

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This is not a foreigner vs Citizen issue.

if you want to renew your oil block then build refineries in Nigeria if not leave our(their) oil alone.

More oil companies and more refineries


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