₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
They import it because it's the only way they can compete with Dangote.

If they imported the quality stuff, it would cost what Dangote costs plus.shipping costs.

Tinubu is the Minister of Petroleum; if he cannot manage the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) then he has no business being president.

This is how Africans sold their ignorant people into slavery to the Arabs for 1,000 years, and then blamed the Arabs and Europeans for slavery. Africans sold Africans into slavery for profit.

matrix199:
When a dog refuses to concede defeat to a lion, it will keep losing her pups!

You think Iranians are slaves like Nigerians. If the Vietnamese had surrendered instead of losing 3.5 million people during the Vietnam War, do you think that their economy would be growing today if they had surrendered in 1973?

Dogalmighty17:
These road projects are the reason why the price of cement is shooting up. I think government needs to liberalise the importation of cement. A bag of cement in China goes for 4k to 6k. There is no reason for a bag of cement in Nigeria to cost almost as close to how much it is sold in the US.

There is no component used to make cement that Nigeria imports. The price of cement in Nigeria is outrageous and is nothing but price gouging by cement manufacturers in Nigeria.

Why do stupid Nigerians always default to imports?
Why not invite more companies to produce cement in Nigeria?

SixSeven:
Foreign Investor Obsession

I get tired of this trope of making it look like foreign investors are more important than local investors, local residents or local citizens. It is a phantom idea that money will come from outside as if those people coming from outside your country care about you. What are you in government for? Foreign investors or local residents?

Nigerian administrations frequently engage in costly international investment summits and globe-trotting missions to woo foreign capital but these jamboree rarely yield any noticeable changes to the people. Government officials will mistake short-term, speculative foreign portfolio investments, which can be pulled out at the first sign of any crisis for sustainable, long-term capital that builds factories and creates local employment. They end up shortchanged. The foreign investors are like patrons of the red light district. They just want to have fun for the night and wake up in the day with their wives. We don't think about building the capacity for local investors and making it easier for real Nigerians to do the building, we want the so-called foreigner. Wake up Soni, no one is coming to save you.

Nigeria need FDI from both local and foreign investors to build industries that will lift millions of Nigerians out of poverty. We must support local investors. First, but where is the capital to import technology and skills to build these industries?

Gerrard59:
That is not just a Nigerian issue. Japan depends on China for its API. BTW, there are collaborative investments by Chinese and their Nigerian counterparts in addressing that issue. May&Baker is into that; ditto Emzor.

Nigeria doesn't have a single API yet the countries

Nigeria has around 115 to 150 registered and licensed pharmaceutical manufacturing companies and plants but not a single local vaccine and API manufacturing initiatives.


Yet Nigeria gas , agriculture and petrochemical is the foundation of


[quote][Main Categories of Products Used in API

Manufacturing Starting Materials / Building Blocks: The foundational, high-purity chemicals that undergo structural changes during chemical synthesis.Intermediates:

Chemical compounds formed during the intermediate steps of synthesis that must transform further before becoming the final API.

Solvents: High-purity liquids (such as ethanol, methanol, acetone, and purified water) used to dissolve, extract, suspend, or crystallize reactants during processing.

Reagents and Catalysts: Substances added to initiate, facilitate, or control chemical reactions (such as acids, bases, or specialized metal catalysts)./quote]

Osgilliat:
Yeah! Foreign rice was banned by Buhari Administration, he then pumped huge funds to help the farmers.. give massive incentives to rice millers so we could be free of foreign rice importation. We endured for years and years.. in return rice became gold. Our farmers became the Midas hand that turned mere rice to gold.
What can be practical than that? Seems Hundeyin is losing his mind

Buhari is a fool. This is the man that supported Fulani cattle herding in 2020.

Any nation supporting local farmers in the age of mechanised farming will fail. Small-scale farmers cannot deal with the shocks of insecurity, currency fluctuation, and access to logistics and fertiliser.

Nigeria cannot survive on support for industrial mechanised farming.

WantsandMore:
Hundeyin the problem isn't importation, the problem is balance of trade; An actual exporting economy competing with actual importation on par. like China and other industrialized counties.

Importation is a big problem in Nigeria. Nigeria import stuff that even Bangladesh produces. 70% of drugs are imported and even the drugs produced in Nigeria depend on imported API.

jmoore:
Dude is a clown. Nigeria is not importing electricity. There are no sanctions against Nigeria importing electricity but Nigeria is still struggling with 5,000 plus megawatts for a population of 180 million.

You are unintelligent. A sanctioned country will develop the skills to manufacture transformers and components for electricity grid systems.

triple996:
Nigeria is a huge mess at this point. Don't get me wrong, northerners are part of the problem but tinubu administration is hell,
Insecurity,
Horrible economy
Hunger
Poverty
No subsidy but the funds were stolen
and we keep borrowing with nothing to show 4 it

You think this didn't happen before Tinubu and will not happen after Tinubu.

Children's education is the responsibility of their LGA and State government. Nigerians needs to focus on local and state development

“Nobody has asked us whether we’re going to publish the money we took from the World Bank, whether we publish the one from Eurobond, whether we publish the one from Sukuk. Why is this one special?”

Maybe we should have asked how you are spending. World Bank and Eurobond loans.

This is irresponsible; Oyedele need to ensure transparency

I did some architecture work with Border Force; we now have technology that uses X-Ray and AI to scan items at the border. If you are thinking of smuggling into the UK. Think twice; you will be caught and prosecuted.

Gotocourt:
Tinubu must go, if not, Tax will make us regret. There's no single common wealth we are benefiting as Nigerian citizens, our condition is getting worse.
Zero subsidy on fuel,health, transport, food,education (primary &secondary),insecurity, debt is after Nigerians life.

How do you expect Nigeria to fund the country's services without taxes?

AndroBlaze:
So every black person that achieves something in the Western world should be afraid of the media abi.....

I wonder, if someone like Obama had taken this advice, would he have ever had the chance to become a Senator, let alone the first minority President in a modern America!

This thing is not as complicated as people are making it out to be. My advice to fellow immigrants is no matter what you achieve, stay true to yourself and the community that you know birthed/molded you....if you keep this rule, it will guide you and save you from most of the invisible traps that are being set.

The media comment is that Jason benefited from DEI.

It's always good to succeed in silence.

Lithiumite:
Thats why you need to always have your books in order and up to date......many people will now need to start hiring finance and tax advisers.

Thanks for highlighting Nigerians ignorance.

Nigerians are accustomed to chaos and indiscipline. Many do not want change and would rather continue with the chaotic political system that has become the hallmark of a corrupt state.

Tax reforms provide a single tax code that is easier to manage. The expectation is that businesses and employees will properly manage their income and financial records with the assistance of an accountant, bookkeeper, or accounting software. This would improve compliance, transparency, and accountability within the tax system.

Mitsurugi:
The reforms were a waste of time, resources and much ado about nothing. I knew Oyedele was a joker when he mentioned agberos would pay tax

Nigerians are confused people; they want schools, security, health care, clean water and the material that makes up a nation-state. The country has limited productive industries beyond exporting rent fuel and gas resources.

How can a country function if it doesn't collect taxes from its people

SocialFinance:
See mentality, so it's cool to use subsidized FX to import pizza. What value does that to national economy.

Nigeria should continue borrowing money to finance nonsense like this? PDP is a waster Indeed

PDP under GEJ wasted the high oil price of $150 p/b, the debt write-off, and stability in the country. Nigeria imported everything and produce nothing. GEJ rebased Nigeria's GDP on services, telecom and high oil prices.

SarcasticWords:
I have told you to stop making such posts.

You know Nigerians don't like reading what is true.

They prefer hearing lies that they are in a democracy and they are the ones that will decide who their leaders will be if only they unite and come out to vote.

Please stop telling them the truth and allow them to exercise the democratic rights that their colonial master set-up for them to have before granting them the so called independence.

Continue complaining on the internet

Resurgent2016:
The reason why APC will cintinue to dominate is the opposition is too fragmented and driven by self interest.

Loss for Nigerians, as APC operates with the knowledge that there is no one to hold it accountable

The opposition leaders are useless.

PO - in 4 years |I will implement 10,000 MW, Rufai Oseni, how? I will show when I am elected

Sowere - I will borrow to reinstate the fuel subsidy if elected. Rufai didn't even bother to ask him how?

Atiku: busy searching for Tinubu's certificate.

A bunch of useless people. The opposition had 4 years to prepare and they have prepared to fail.

RIP Jason Arday

This is where the problem started!

A Cambridge philosophy fellow has caused outrage after claiming that in a meritocracy black people would only be famous for sports and entertainment.

Writing on his blog, Nathan Cofnas, who researches the philosophy of biology, said that in a truly meritocratic system: “Harvard faculty would be recruited from the best of the best students, which means the number of black professors would approach 0 per cent.”

In such a system, black people would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment”, he wrote.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/08/cambridge-fellow-black-people-famous-meritocracy-sport/

Jason Arday and other black intellectuals protested and forced Cambridge to sack the racist Nathan Cofnas.

he report followed a Substack post by Nathan Cofnas, an academic who was previously embroiled in a free speech row at Cambridge after he suggested in a blogpost that, in a meritocracy, there would be “close to zero” black professors at Harvard. The British politician and activist Simon Woolley called the post “abhorrent racism, masquerading as pseudo-intellect”.

Cofnas, a self-defined “race realist”, was sacked by Cambridge’s Emmanuel College in 2024 and underwent a disciplinary investigation into the blogpost about black academics. The investigation concluded that Cofnas was not guilty of “discrimination or harassment”, and that his views, “while seen by many as offensive, did not breach the law and did not contravene university regulations designed to uphold free speech”. He now works at Ghent University, in Belgium.

Cofnas claimed he had put Arday’s PhD through plagiarism detection software, which found that “many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source”.

Another critic of Arday was Dr David Harris, professor emeritus at Plymouth Marjon University, in Devon, who had previously written to Cambridge with claims about Arday’s work.

Last year Harris, who in 2024 published a book about critical race theory, was stripped of his professor emeritus title following an administrative dispute. He was reinstated earlier this year but in the meantime learned his work had been deemed “controversial” by the university. After Harris’s earlier queries about Arday’s work, two corrections were made to papers released in 2018 and another in 2020.

The fact that the two most vocal critics of Arday harboured controversial views on race appeared to inform Cambridge’s response, which was a robust defence of Arday. The university called the claims a “vile smear campaign to undermine his credibility”.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2026/aug/01/playbooks-plagiarism-pigs-head-new-claims-surrounding-cambridge-professor-jason-arday

olayinka63:
What would EU do?
To stop Tinubu from further constestijg due to the certificate issues? EU doesn't have that power.

Tó compel Tinubu to provide the certificate? EU doesn't have such power.
So nothing they would do.

The EU has already stated that it will not monitor the 2027 election due to insecurity across the country.

Kushites:
WHY DO WE PRODUCE SO MANY WHITE-WORSHIPPING SLAVES IN THIS COUNTRY?

THIS LITTLE PEABRAIN BYPASSED HIS OWN AU COMMISSION AND WENT TO APPEAL TO THE EU COMMISSION.

FOR GOODNESS SAKE, WE NEED TO GATHER ALL THESE SLAVES AND GIVE THEM COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL RE-ORIENTATION TO RESET THEIR HEADS, FAILING WHICH WE THROW THEM IN JAIL AND THROW AWAY THE KEYS.

CHINA MUST LOOK AT US AND THINK ''DAMN..THESE PEOPLE ARE STILL SLAVES...REPORTING THEMSELVES TO THE EU''.

DISGRACE.

He is a complete slave, that cannot deal with his local problem

If Obi is donating money to build Mosque , then Tinubu is justified in using money to bribe the electorate. All Nigerians political use money to fund patronage. The lack of ideology and policy is the reason why Nigeria is now a failed state.

AMINDA:
Buhari was the best civilian president who governed Nigeria as far as tangible infrastructural projects are concerned. He did all that while still paying all forms of subsidies and battling two recessions with covid 19 pandemic. Facts! It's Tinubu's lackeys who spent 8 years defending Buhari only to turn 360 to begin insulting him for 3 years. It's few months to elections and they are now back loving Buhari again while campaigning on his achievements. At least, other regions have stayed consistent in their opinions about Buhari.

Under Buhari's government, terrorism expanded from the North East to the entire country. Nigeria's debt increased 5 folds. Buhari was a disaster.

adenigga:
https://dailypost.ng/2026/08/08/pure-wickedness-sheikh-gumi-reacts-to-scavengers-stripping-lagos-bridge-pillars-of-iron-rods

The bridge should be fenced off, and homeless people should not be allowed near the bridge.

Racoon:
-"Grab it, snatch it and run away with it" - Tinubu

-"SHUT UP! Tinubu tell those Nigerian demanding for democratic change of govt." - Tinubu.

-"Electoral act removes certificate forgery as ground for post election petition..." NASS.

-"All is fair in politics...." - Tinubu.

You do know that Thomas Jefferson was a major slave master.

franchasng:
Tinubu is one of the luckiest men in Nigeria, he gets away with every crime and illegality

Intelligent people make their luck.

Tinubu charted his career to be opposition leader in the 90s, state governor in the 2000 and now president. There is nothing lucky about that.

nairalanda1:
1.The same funding issues that I posit for the state police are affecting your army and police badly. Your defence budget for the year is not up to 20 billion dollars. Soldiers have to even buy bulletproof vests and other accesories (that's what one retired army officer said on the beeb this morning...and he even thinks the new increase in salary won't make sense because of that). It's a miracle we don't have 100 million Nigerians in IDP's!

That is why the police must be devolved to states and regions. Nigeria must return to regional government that will allow regioanla and state development that can fund government services

nairalanda1:
2. Also, since independence this is how we run our economy. Sell oil and other minerals and agric products, and share the revenue. (Oh and we do not control or set the prices, so if prices fall below what we need, tough luck!). Not use our raw materials, oil and other minerals to make products that would be globally competitive. Thus as a result no jobs, a lot of idle yuth, and then along comes the Islamist and the millitant and the secessionist and so forth...with an enchanting message of how to get the national cake with an AK.

nairalanda1:
Also, we do things like subsidising electricity, which means no investment in the power sector because it can't grow without making substantial profit.(and if you think otherwise...in April discos made 206 billion naira, their bill from the gencos alone was 330 billion naira for the same April. DIscos by the way have 80% collection efficency)..thanks to the policies of subsidy and lack of cost reflective tarrif. That stifles job growth...unemployed yuth waiting for the agents of Shaytan to give them work...insecurity..

I support the removal of electricity subsidies and the 2023 Electricity Act that decentralises electricity Generation, Transmission and distribution

nairalanda1:
A minority of us pay tax, we even eliminated things like road tolls, which at least could pay for upkeep of good enugh roads, and so forth, and we defend the corrupt leaders, and support padding of the budget....that reduces job creation...idle yuth....again Shaytan is recuriting...and SHaytan is the only one recuriting. With equipment for the job...the AK.

Tinubu reintroduced the toll road in Lagos; Nigerians tried to burn the toll gate down during the End SARS movement. Nigerians are not truly enlightened on the the importance of direct tax

nairalanda1:
State police that will be even more poorly funded than federal police.

UP APC, another wornderful decision

Then the piority is how to fund it, as part of your criticism which is welcome. The option is that we will be killed at our home by a police and army that has been captured by special interests.

2- 4 million Nigerians are in IDP camps while their home town/village has been taken over by Fulani settlers from the Sahel.

humilitypays:
This is becoming too unbecoming.

I am just worried why black people cannot govern themselves to a collective progress, its really sad

Nigeria's civil service is bloated; 95% of government workers should be sacked.

Notice that Tinubu's biggest critics are Yoruba leaders from the Ayodele, Rufai Oseni, Sowere and Cardinal John Onaiyekan and other Catholic clerics, who criticised President Bola Tinubu

Ofunaofu:
Tinubu likes to be told lies, falsehoods, and propaganda.

Tell him that his policies, masquerading as economic reforms, are inflicting untold hardship and hunger on Nigerians, and he'll tell you there was hunger before he was born.

This is someone who doesn't even know his own date of birth.

There is nothing wrong with Tinubu's policies: removing fuel subsidies, tax reform, state policing, unified Nigeria and FX- extremely important policies that should have been implemented in 1999.

The problem is not the policies but their implementation; the government is bloated with 49 ministers, and 500 MDAs are overdriven. Building new roads when the existing roads are a mess is corruption. Inflation is too high