nairalanda1:


1.Subsidy is not bad, but you have to have the money to pay for it. Here in NIgeria, our tax to gdp is too low to pay for subsides. As for the oyel money....90% is going on debt servicing , and we produce as much as Libya, which has 8 million people, and which can afford to subsidise. We have 200 million people, and far more needs than LIbya. Wey the money go come from.?

2.US, UK, Russia, China, and Europe pay what is called production subsides. In other words, they pay money to the refining companies to see if they can reduce costs.The refineries and market still set the prices. Also, US Has some form of financial aid to the poor re fuel, but you have to be means tested to see if you deserve it.(and if the government thinks you earn above a certain level, ye don't qualify).

US by the way, fuel prices vary from place to place. Some states eg California, are very very expensive.

(Also spend some time on US sites like reddit...someone posts a thread showing a fuel station where fuel costs 50 cents a gallon, and people would be complaining like NIgerians, lol).

Here, we made the refining companies sell fuel below production cost, and paid them a subsidy that doesn't adequately cover the production cost. That is how we went from 40000bpd capacity in 1986 to 92000bpd in 2011, to 6000bpd in 2019. And because domestic refining was not profitable, the refineries all collapse.

Venezuela also does subsides like we do. Fuel costs N40 there. Meanwhile they have lost refining capacity so badly it is sad.

NIger is poorer than we are, they have a refinery, they have domestic crude production, and fuel there costs 1000 naira per liter or more. NO subsidy. DItto Ghana. Two working refineries self in Ghana.

You are still parroting this your angst with subsidy. Thought you abandoned it after our last dialogue.
You should be asking yourself why 90% of "our oyel" money goes into debt servicing. It is so because those loans were not used for anything meaningful but looted. If those loans were self servicing, you'll not be talking about 90%

And what's your obsession with the narrative that Nigeria does not have money. I'm beginning to think you are a politician directly or indirectly.
Senators, Reps, Presidency, and government at lower levels budget billions for frivolities and you still believe Nigeria does not have money. It is absurd that it is what affects poor people that y'all always remember that Nigeria does not have money.

All your other points, I need not address them as we've been there before.

Zonefree:
Nice one Angola.


But, why dem add cutlass for their national flag?

Na warning make nobody use them play

Righteousness2:
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The Bible speaks of the destruction of all nations that come against Jerusalem in the book of Zechariah chapter 12!
The Bible very clearly specifies that destruction will come upon the nations that try to divide ISRAEL!

This is direct defiance of the Holy Scriptures going against the everlasting covenant between GOD and the Apple of HIS eyes, ISRAEL.

This would draw the Wrath and Judgement of GOD against Britain, the USA and every Nation involved in the Process.

Look up! Time is Up! It is RAPTURE count down

Sit your old ass down man

Stargangz:
Like Oshoala, like Osimhen, both na onekind overhype players, na luck just dey carry dem.

Yes. A conversation most people are not ready to have.
They may even say you say this because of envy

eagleu:
Sadly, this confirms the speculation that the asupreme court is indeed a part of the presidency.

The point most people are not getting. The Supreme Court is the most rubbished institution in this country.

When a politician wins a litigation and they go to the president to thank him, they are by other means announcing that the president is the owner of the Supreme Court, that they can and will only do what he wants.

Putin the dictator.

The level of political patronage enjoyed by Putin in Africa may even be greater than inside Russia.
Some Africans only hate ruthless and sit tight leaders only if they are black Africans like them but love Putin the sit tight ruthless leader of Russia. A man that has made himself bigger than the constitution of Russia

4reala:
Hope is not the christians and owners of the land they are killing again, calling them bandits

Exactly what most people that are commenting don't seem to get.

The military responded in less than 30 minutes, that's a huge suspicion that it is the usual victims, the very owners of the place they may have dealt with for organizing themselves to protect their land and lives

I don't think a governor can be disrespected more than this by the very people he is supervising

Tayomi37:
Did penalty for rape is life imprisonment in Nigeria?.

I'm just asking for the last time I heard was 6 to 14years

It is not life imprisonment bro

In Nigeria, don't just try to offend people with the power to Bleep you up and most especially, one should stay away from crime so "those people" don't use it to Bleep you up

1Alex:
I did not vote for Tinubu but truth be told, he seems to have good intentions. I am 100% obidient but since court has decided, I have to support him, if he succeeds, it's for the good of all of us. I have entirely nothing to gain if he fails.

After six months, you still think he or his government has good intentions, the joke is on you.

With the thievery and profligacy that this administration has inflicted on Nigeria in six months alone, not to talk of the almost zero security, you still talk about good intentions. The only intention Tinubu had and still do is was to become president and it ends there.

You can pray for him to succeed which is a noble thing. However, those prayers will not do anything. You don't have to pray for someone that has good intentions to succeed especially the president of Nigeria. In terms of "Political Power" the Nigeria president may be among the top ten most powerful in the world as he can virtually act without restraint. Tinubu has the National Assembly and the Judiciary on his palm so what are you praying for him to succeed again. He already has everything he needs to succeed

spiSeyi:
Wetin be PBAT own call out your brother bubu to come and explain because the loan was borrowed during PMB tenure Atiku will just open his mouth from his exile in Dubai to spew thrash

This particular one is under Tinubu not Buhari

Even SANUSI is playing the same politics he is blaming with this take.

If there are certain people in the CBN that only see it as an address in Abuja, why not sack them for incompetence instead of creating another burden on already troubled national treasury.

Same like Tinubu subsidy removal logic. Arrest the thieves and punish them, NO. We'll kill everybody so nobody can steal again.
We will punish all Nigerians by removing food from their mouth because some people are stealing food.

Winning123:


How else do you describe burning down a House of Assembly. You are the one who is ? not Nigeria.

It is "Arson"

They committed arson and there is a punishment in law for that if they are proven guilty.

If our courts are not controlled by politicians, that case will be struck out for overstating their offence as the prosecution will find it difficult to prove their case of "terrorism". It is exactly how government lose cases in court because the intent is not to correct and punish but to crush dissent.

Again, I'm shocked you have a problem with me calling out government for naming terrorists - bandits.
If you are serious, you ought to have a problem with government doing that too instead of coming after me

The only true succor that can come to that family is apprehending those kidnappers that killed their child and meting out the right punishment to them.

Governor will visit, make political statements and return to business as usual with the usual being that they do absolutely nothing about the security of ordinary people except for their immediate family and friends.

lonelydora:


Calm down. That was the agre that made Supreme Court not to remove him.

So the suspicion that the Supreme Court is a political party and rubber stamp is true?

Splashme:
All the same, Fubara was foolish to have withdrawn court cases that gave him advantage.

He even asked his reliable eye in the Assembly (Edison Ehie) to resign ... further depleting his numerical strength in the Assembly.

I know he was tricked, but it was stupid of him to have accepted such agreement.

He is now very vulnerable to Wike
.

@bold

The single biggest mistake that man has done. The presence of Edison Ehie in that Assembly was the equalizer as he even had a court judgment authenticating him as the rightful speaker whether opponents agree with it or not, coupled with the other pariah members moving to another political platform that appear to be against the law that prescribe movement from one party to another

BarrElChapo:
We use the word terrorism for instate matters, yet the real terrorists' are causing havoc to lives and properties daily and they’re named bandits and all sorts of patronizing names.

That's how you know a country and leadership that is not serious with anything.

Terrorists = Bandits, so the outside world don't view Nigeria as a security threat

Political opponents = Terrorists, so they can use state apparatus to crush dissent

richiemcgold:
It is like trying to stop a president from doing his job. If a president can't intervene in a crisis, tell me why is he a president then?

No, that is not correct.

A president and anybody can intervene in any crisis but they cannot appropriate powers to themselves that the constitution does not bestow on them.
What you are saying is; a president can come and assign your family house to any body he likes because you have a crisis of ownership of the said house with another party under the pretense that it is likely to cause crisis in the neighborhood. To avoid that is why we have a rule book in every country.

Even the Supreme Court of Nigeria don't have jurisdiction to hear every litigation in Nigeria

Wallade:


I don't think so, I could withdraw my case to pursue a better option, settle out of court, or to restate my case in the light of other information, prior to commencement of argument in court.

Thank you very much. Exactly like I thought...

I understand every bit of it but sometimes the level of absurdity makes one ask certain rhetorical questions despite knowing the outcome from the beginning. I read the full report and all the injunctions and interpretation the honorable court gave look more like a judgment extracted from a partisan political book

Zhunnurayn:


You boldly said Islam is at it, citing the main incidence in the post.

Look at this post below, all other reports there are hearsy intended to tarnish iran

Clearly, you don't know what you are talking about.

How is "a regular day in the Islamic Republic" mean Islam is at it?

Is Islamic Republic now Islam in the general context of religion and not what Iran calls itself?
The post was about Iran, my comment was about Iran but you decided to react impulsively

lexy2014:


de there now. do you actually think Tinubu was interested in justice or restoring Wikes hold on Rivers state?

Every discerning mind knew he was not interested in any of that.
Sometimes when it happens, because of the level of absurdity one is constrained to ask certain questions despite knowing the outcome from the beginning

Zhunnurayn:


Idiot
What else should be reserved to someone who kills others if not death penalty. When such is not done here you complain of rising insecurity as a result of no consequences for capital crimes.
But it is being done in iran you are blaming Islam instead of commending it
Hypocrite!!!

I don't want to insult you even though I am compelled to.

There are more than one issues reported in the post and again, how does my comment absolve the culprit from serving his punishment.
You decided to tie my comment to your feelings while relying on that to insult me

Nyouth:
This governor is another idiot like Jonathan, why ijaw people don't have sense

You are the one that is bereft of sense for insulting a whole ethnic group because of your personal opinion about certain individuals

Withdrawing a case I brought before a court of law myself is an admittance of guilt in another court?

All the injunctions look like something that was read out from a political book.
I thought Tinubu asked all parties to withdraw court cases, it did not apply to the Wike side apparently

A regular day in the Islamic Republic

dominique post=128044823:
Have they ever factored what will happen if the guns land on the wrong hands? The mass shootings in the USA will be a child's play if the average Nigerian is permitted to have a gun

Now that there is no private gun ownership, are there no guns and wrong hands?

An "average Nigerian" is a savage I guess for you to come to this conclusion

elasticlala:
There is no sense in what he said.
How many people can become governors or ministers in Nigeria ? What is the population of Nigeria ? What is the probability that someone drawn from a million population can be a governor or a minister ?

If I have to become a governor or minister in a country before I can live a good life or say I have achieved something in life then, that is not a county..

He is just saying nonsense.

He even said "you can wake up one day"...like that's how ministers and governors are made

JealousCobra:




Religion has dealt with my people, see them above , 🤔🤔🤔🙄


All these are the reasons why we are like this today.


Did prayers brought them out from there?

Exactly what I wanted to say.

Now it is Allah Allah Allah after people contributed 100 million to pay the ransom to secure their release.
Now, everybody will move on as God has done it while kidnappers will go on to kidnap other victims since they have a huge war chest now

seanfer:


How is this a terrorist attack? Are you saying the explosion incidents that happened in some parts of rivers state last year due to the activities of bunkering is also a terrorist attack?

Stop creating false symmetries even if what he said may not be the actual cause responsible.

You should be asking yourself what were they mining in a residential area that could create that level of destruction if you believe illegal mining is what is responsible. Illegal mining that none of the surrounding people know about

That surrounding looks like a place someone dropped JDAM

Pathetic

Buhari will handle skuriti
Osibanjo will handle ekonomi

Tinubu will handle ekonomi
Shettima will handle skuriti

All of them them ended up handing over security to terrorists and bandits

By this time, defence minister is suppose to be warning potential kidnappers while parading the evils ones that he already arrested.
But it is Nigerians he is warning

madridguy:
I am sure you're getting the wrong information about the Houthis and their mission.

Their point is simple and direct. If you cannot allow medical aid to come into Palestine, then we are also blocking our own water way from every ship bringing anything into Israel. It is not their water way the only way into Israel, they can sail their ship through other sea.

It is international waters that guarantees freedom of navigation. Then again, the Houthis don't have any water and the areas they occupy even is illegal. The Houthis are not the representative government of Yemen so does not have the locus to decide which ship or not should sail in the Red Sea.
The Houthis are non state actors, and I say again using the logic from your earlier comment. The Houthis should attack Israel directly as that is the root cause of their grievance.
They should not go about attacking children and grannies while the brother they have problem with (Israel) is right there.

madridguy:
Truly the Houthis are the heroes of our time. They are proven to the world what they're capable of doing.

I expected the US/UK to take the fight to the Red Sea, fight the Houthis soldiers there and not taking your fighter jet to be bombing civilians sleeping at home.

If you have differences with your fellow man, fight him at the spot, going behind to fight his aged mother, wife and children is nothing but being coward.

The Houthis have been blocking any Isreali own ship from passing the Red Sea, I expected the US/UK to take the full fight to the Red sea and not to Yemen.

Now we all can see Israel is just a light weight fighter claiming heavy weight.

I think it is more proper that you direct this to the Houthis you support if you are not trying to be hypocritical.

The Houthis claim their attacks on commercial ships in international waterway is to stop Israel in Gaza. Now according to your logic, is it not more effective and a sign of boldness like you claimed about the Houthis that they shoot missiles to Israel and not commercial ships going about their business.

You say it is a sign of weakness for the US to attack Houthi military infrastructure right inside their stronghold but you consider the Houthis to be brave when then attack random civilian ships. The Houthis should attack Israel to test the limits of their courage as Israel is the one they have issues with.
Your request better fits the Houthis than it does the US

Houthis should shoot a missile into Israel to stop them from attacking Palestinians