Thanks mod for explaining partly but why do pro government topics, and especially ones by that thing called 'Beaf' get disproportionate coverage on the front page?
I mean anyone who makes the mistake of only checking the front page (something i use to do) will come out with a skewed perception of things in Nigeria. I mean take the fuel subsidy for instance, pre 2012 NLs frontpage made it look like it was 50-50 support, which was clearly deceptive once i checked the full politics section. Why such favourable publicity for such an unpopular policy?

Remii:

Lagbaja, I am sorry to say that almost all your answers are based on ceteris paribus but in Nigeria all things are never equal. Only Yar Adua have ever reduced price of fuel, and Naira is not getting stronger anytime soon, not with so much importations by all and every sectors of economy.

His analysis is so laughingly naive that it's pretty embarrassing, but i'm sure his secondary school economics teacher will be proud somewhere. But instead of waisting keystrokes taking his simplistic theory apart, i think we should exercise Patience Jonathan and agree to convene back at this spot in 3 months time. Remember, cheaper fuel and stronger naira in 3 months time, bump.

'These are necessary shortterm sacrifices we must make to reach paradise'- that is what they will say, since that is what they have been fed .
Funnily this is the same line a babyfaced Boko bomber is being fed by his cell leader, probably while the latter is contemplating the next wife he's going to marry.

alj_harem:

the country and nairaland are JOKES and as such people need to start acting like jokers.

gbamm but why

a beg remove the subsidy and let fuel rise to 200 naira a litre, we need it for the FG to build more schools, roads etc

I hate this government with a passion, but i think despise nigerians even more! A people who God has given so much but are so intrinsically petty, that they seem unable to ever make the right decision no matter how many chances they are given, due to the same jealousies of the 60s. We never learn, we have no standards and thus our merry-go-round continues. And while slumbering another beacon of the black race, Brazil, overtakes UK as the 6th largest economy in the world. should a Brazil be more united than us?

Obiagu1:

We are over 1 million people living in Abuja. They can do their job if they want to.

Let there be a revolution but not about subsidy removal. Subsidy removal is essential for the survival of our economy; we don't have more to 3 years to survive with subsidy still in place.
IBB is there, burn down his house and kill him.
OBJ, Atiku, Tinubu, Mbadinuju, Odili, etc. We all know where they live!

Oh, but people who budget 1 billion naira of our money to buy akara are not corrupt and should be spared eh? May God remove the mote from our eyes in 2012.

Obiagu1:

Now is the time for everyone to come out and fight against corruption in the government, in the senate, everywhere in Nigeria and not fight over things that are necessary like subsidy removal and forget things that are more important like corruption!

Abeg oga, which fuel u wan use reach Abuja?? Okaaaay,  no be return journey

Can you see the stupidity of this government, they can't even afford to pay 18000 and by the time Labour have finnished with them this year, minimum wage will be substantially more. This is where our subsidy savings is going to go to . . . but don't worry we'll find that out at the end ofthe budget year. . . and we've not even started talking about the devaluation the naira will go through this year. . . to think any secondary school economist could have predicted this. But i bet you they will be blaming everyone else, including the pope for their failings.

I can't really understand Nigerians, just look at the list!! For a country known for our prowess in 419 and all things associated with deception, you'd think we'd be able to spot a scam artist a mile away . . . .look at that list. . . .Practically everything their is cosmetic, very little policy thrust . . . . and these are the same people that watched all the Obama debates spellbound. . . . educated illiterates
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It's practically been 8 months, and not one of those over 30 promises have been met yet.
This is what happens when any people are stupid enough to vote on predominantly ethnic and religious sentiments. Goodluck Nigerians, goodluck.

Villain= GEJ
Heroes= Those corpers that served in the north for an inherently ungrateful country

@ Lagbaja
What needs? What needs did the farmer need to borrow for that surpassess the need for food? I ask would the farmer's family die if he doesn't pay school fees or buy them new clothes? So your advice to him is to keep the money, let his family starve to death first and then educate and clothe the corpses.
And this is what people like you don't get, we are not angry about paying more for fuel, we are angry about what paying drastically more for fuel is going to do to the price of bread, garri, unemployment, a simple haircut at the barbers etc. This policy will definitely be more fatal to the majority of poor massess with overwhelmingly fixed incomes than the fairytale obese middleclass brothers that you dream about.

Now to all my true brothers and sisters, understanding the price of petrol is not rocket science and doesn't take a phd. The authentic physical cost of petrol remains the costs of all that is needed to bring what God has given us in our land, to the fueling stations- and yes after dividing that by the amount of barrels that we produce it won't take a genius to realise that it is probably less than N40. In fact any economist worth his salt will tell you that the real price of fuel would still be lower than the lowest price you have ever seen quoted for it in the international market- so lets say something like 15 dollars a barrel. So the fact that fuel is currently trading at 100 dollars plus in the international market is not the physical cost of fuel but the opportunity cost to the whole of Nigeria, note i did not say nigerian government - so we can choose to accept that price or not. Finally with a simplistic example, imagine one is a farmer and you grow the last yams in the world. There is a famine, no other food available but your yams and thus the market price is now a 1000 dollars for them- was that the physical cost you incurred in bringing forth the yams? Anyway you decide to sell them all because of greed and then realise your family is starving because their is no other food available- you go back to the market to purchase the yams and obviously you end up spending more or getting less than what you initially produced. This inefficient clueless farmer is our government, the only difference is our government does it on purpose because it despises it's family.

Now to all my true brothers and sisters, understanding the price of petrol is not rocket science and doesn't take a phd. The authentic physical cost of petrol remains the costs of all that is needed to bring what God has given us in our land, to the fueling stations- and yes after dividing that by the amount of barrels that we produce it won't take a genius to realise that it is probably less than N40. In fact any economist worth his salt will tell you that the real price of fuel would still be lower than the lowest price you have ever seen quoted for it in the international market- so lets say something like 15 dollars a barrel. So the fact that fuel is currently trading at 100 dollars plus in the international market is not the physical cost of fuel but the opportunity cost to the whole of Nigeria, note i did not say nigerian government - so we can choose to accept that price or not. Finally with a simplistic example, imagine one is a farmer and you grow the last yams in the world. There is a famine, no other food available but your yams and thus the market price is now a 1000 dollars for them- was that the physical cost you incurred in bringing forth the yams? Anyway you decide to sell them all because of greed and then realise your family is starving because their is no other food available- you go back to the market to purchase the yams and obviously you end up spending more or getting less than what you initially produced. This inefficient clueless farmer is our government, the only difference is our government does it on purpose because it despises it's family.

dmainboss:

You are a funny guy, really! What 40 head start? Have you been living in Ukraine? We are on minus headstart! With refineries nearing 40 years and no proper turn around for same period, you say we have a headstart? You must be in dreamland. The truth is, it might be cheaper to actually start from scrath right now than to rely on the silly infrastructure we have! Haba!!

It's not your fault,  It's the people who sent you that i blame, but i continue to pray to the Almighty that you all and your children will reap what you have sown and hopefully Nigerians as a whole get a glimpse of it.

otokx:

So how come Ghana's price went up?

I don't know why nigerians are so unbelievably intellectually lazy, why do you keep comparing yourself with a country that JUST STARTED PUMPING OIL LAST YEAR- WHAT ABOUT OUR 40 YEAR HEADSTART ON THEM? Does common sense not indicate to you that having just started pumping oil they should not have as much infrastructural capacity as one who has been doing it for 40 years+? Or did your own history books indicate to you that Nigeria started pumping 2 million barrels per day immediately we found oil in the 60s??!! What is wrong with us gan sef.

Original poster seems to contradict himself probably due to haste but lets slowly reason now- Rationally all OPEC should produce enough oil to meet local demand, thus the reason why they sell the excess. The only question that Nigerians should bother about is do we have enough oil to meet our own local demand? The answer has always been a generous yes. So until that changes there is no reason why A developing country like Nigeria should not be paying the same for a litre of petrol like our fellow OPEC brothers. There is no reason why logically anyone should be comparing us to the USAs and Chinas that don't have surplus capacity and cannot meet local demand, Unless one is a lazy brain dead corrupt nigerian official.

BTW anytime i see a woman unclad or scantilly dressed, no matter what the circumstances we met in ( peeping through curtains included), that familiar voice at the back of my head that has been around since age 11 says 'you can have her if you really wanted to'- and TBF it's usually correct.

Whether my wife had the body of Beyonce or Patience Jondull, as a man i'm a security guard first and everything else second.
And you ladies, how do we win with you? It is only when we show you love and affection the way you've seen it in popcorn movies that you are satisfied, but when we express it in the way we've been doing it for thousands of years we get certified paranoid, na wa o!

Some people are so lazy, are there men bearing Chidinma nowadays??

Everytime i take a peek at your balancesheet, i'm struck by how appealing  your assets seem and thus giving a fair representation is always mission impossible for me. I know you think i'm in this solely for the returns i'd get from stripping your asset base , and the possibilty of practising my much heralded skills of double entry on you and yes, i cannot deny the thought of debiting your recievebles account a required minimum of three times daily, over and over again, keeps my dreams permanently liquid and solvent, but YOU and ME means a merger of all things, tangible and intangible, substance over form. So i know atm it looks like i'm making all the abnormal profits, seeing as neither my final accounts nor my statement of cash flow is impressive yet i'm asking you to keep giving to me without providing you any security, making my liabilty to you even look more limited than it already is. But baby you are the one who holds a fixed charge over my heart, you're the one who launched a hostile takeover when i wasn't paying attention, you're my sole shareholder, my chairman, my M.D, my only going concern and if you'll have me i promise to stick to my fiduciary duty and willingly remain your debtor, forever.

Wow- a schoolteacher of mine use to say you could always tell truly educated people in a public discourse by paying attention to there silence, his point being that true education would allow one to know when NOT to contribute,  its only fools who think they should speak on every topic under the sun.

A lot of NLanders (some of whom i use to respect) have shown their backsides- and all because they wanted to let everyone know that they are 'educated', live abroad and thus are now experts on what we need to do to be like their white hosts. But heres where i thank my nigerian teacher, cause though i've spent a lot of my life in the two continents harbouring these 'educated' people, i'm still able to recognise that the minimum requisite for a meaningful contribution to this topic would be current and detailed knowledge of the area being discussed, and if one insists on using international knowledge or comparisons, then at least compare like with like e.g developing countries or even the BRIC ones. So again for my brothers in the whitemans land, pls stop showing your backsides, your knowledge of your current abode is not helpful on this particular topic- unless of course you have timemachines and can tell us how things were done there in the industrial revolution?

Wow- a schoolteacher of mine use to say you could always tell truly educated people in a public discourse by paying attention to there silence, his point being that true education would allow one to know when NOT to contribute, its only fools who think they should speak on every topic under the sun.

A lot of NLanders (some of whom i use to respect) have shown their backsides- and all because they wanted to let everyone know that they are 'educated', live abroad and thus are now experts on what we need to do to be like their white hosts. But heres where i thank my nigerian teacher, cause though i've spent a lot of my life in the two continents harbouring these 'educated' people, i'm still able to recognise that the minimum requisite for a meaningful contribution to this topic would be current and detailed knowledge of the area being discussed, and if one insists on using international knowledge or comparisons, then at least compare like with like e.g developing countries or even the BRIC ones. So again for my brothers in the whitemans land, pls stop showing your backsides, your knowledge of your current abode is not helpful on this particular topic- unless of course you have timemachines and can tell us how things were done there in the industrial revolution?

@ Francis-1. Don't take this the wrong way, but clearly i will only demean myself by debating you, as you lack any concise knowledge of the issues you choose to argue about. Just to be clear, the heart of the ife-modakeke is settlership and has always been, take it from an indigene lol.

Francis-1:

May be you need to attend a Govt 101 class. If he can make the law you cited above, he would not have sent it to the National Assembly but would have passed it himself. You have as much right as the president to send a bill to the NA, whose role it is to pass or not pass it into law. DUH.

OH, and in that your government class they didn't tell you that the first responsibility of every president all over the world is the safety, security and well being of all his citizens. Did they tell you the senate president is the commander in chief and the chief security officer of the country. You and all your like will always be ignorant clowns.

Francis-1:

Whose role is it to pass laws? The president or the parliament? [b]Yeah! Let's blame everything on GEJ, the shoeless president. SMH

Yes you must be right, he has no business with law making in this country- thats why when he won his reelection and Jos was burning and BH massacring innocent non-indigenes, his first course of action was to publically send a bill for term elongation straight to the house of assembly. Just keep on trying to warp reality.

And also for those who don't get it- Uncle Wole has a nobel because accomplished western writers admire his witty writting style and his body of work. While Achebe is far more read because young western literate kids and readers love his work and find something to identify with. Note that work is among the best selling not because of sales in Africa, let alone Nigeria, but because young white and coloured people in the west love it and spend money on it. As a lover of African literature, and a lover of Achebe especially (i'd take 'arrow of God' over most books to any deserted island), the impact of his works in nigeria are quite minimal to non-existent, and thus it seems he will probablly be remembered by mainly strangers- thus the Mandela comparison is absolute nonsense.

A funny thing about this thread is that the idiot and the bigots who started it have failed to demonstrate that they have ever read 2 works of Achebe let alone 2 of Uncle Wole ( who has numerous 5 min poems) for them to compare and contrast both juggernauts in a civilised intelligible manner. Maybe then they would have understood why one has a nobel and the other's seminal work is loved by so many.

Thanks a million SurveyCash and God bless you !

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Funnily I was just thinking the other day how much longer this "ideal" of relationships would last- now I've got my answer.

People need to grow up and learn to stop using celebrities as icons or examples on how to live your life- like a friend of mine once said, he never asks for fashion advice from someone whose dress sense he doesn't  respect- we have grandparents and elders, let's learn how to use them.

nice one