₦airaland Forum

Gerrard59:
Sure and there is nothing wrong with that. However, what is wrong is when institutions at home rot away and are not up to the standards of schools these politicians send their kids to. Lee Kuan Yew's children schooled abroad; in fact, his son - Lee Hsien Loong (current Singapore's prime minister) - studied in Cambridge - Yew's alma mater. However, universities in Singapore are amongst the best with the National University of Singapore being in the top 20 globally and the Nanyang Technological University being in the top 50. So it is not mutually exclusive to send your kids abroad for studies as a politician and develop your local institutions.

Witchersunited:
you would do the same thing, so hush it

dalaman:
If she is qualified then there is no problem. . .

Witchersunited:
Maybe it's me or somtin

Do people bother to check things

The crisis affects the north more, they kill their own people more than Christians


I'm not a Muslim but Christians over do things


False alarm and panic everywhere, see south west that nothing happens to talking about regional Police, how many people died in South West? Look at the case well and u will see that the vigilante group is a tribal affair, benue that has suffered alot aren't even talking about policing, it's Lagos with only 5 deaths

Bolustical:
These two governors are one of the most underperforming governors in this present dispensation, considering the disposal of resources.

But their subjects are more interested in Sanwo-Olu, Ganduje, Tinubu and El-Rufai.

They are mortgaging your(Niger-Deltans) futures of the altar of petty politics.

Funny enough, they are from the same party.

In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

After years of hopes and delays, Aliko Dangote’s 650,000 barrels a day refinery – one of the world’s second biggest – is due to start operations in just over a year’s time.

Government officials and citizens are united in the hope that the Dangote refinery complex, which will also produce fertilizer and petrochemicals will do for Nigeria’s stalled economy something comparable to what signing a 26 year-old Cristiano Ronaldo would do for a premier league team facing relegation.

The Nigerian government’s well-documented import substitution policy direction has Dangote Refinery front and centre of it.

Once onstream in early 2021, the refinery on the coast of Lagos is expected to reverse the decades-old system of exporting crude oil and importing refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and lubricating oil.

Forex savings
This should ease pressure on the naira by freeing up some $8.7bn used to import refined petroleum products each year as well as create jobs in services and manufacturing around the project.

The real estate boom around the refinery points to the optimism about the project. It is meant to be a catalyst for local development plans in the Ibeju-Lekki area such as a new international airport, a deep sea port and a free trade zone.

DO THE MATHS
Behind the hype, is Dangote’s refinery a game changer?
Posted on Friday, 10 January 2020 16:07, updated on Monday, 13 January 2020 10:47


A worker walks past structural parts of an under construction oil refinery plant at Dangote refinery in Ibeju Lekki district, on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria August 7, 2019. Picture taken August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

After years of hopes and delays, Aliko Dangote’s 650,000 barrels a day refinery – one of the world’s second biggest – is due to start operations in just over a year’s time.

Government officials and citizens are united in the hope that the Dangote refinery complex, which will also produce fertilizer and petrochemicals will do for Nigeria’s stalled economy something comparable to what signing a 26 year-old Cristiano Ronaldo would do for a premier league team facing relegation.

The Nigerian government’s well-documented import substitution policy direction has Dangote Refinery front and centre of it.

Once onstream in early 2021, the refinery on the coast of Lagos is expected to reverse the decades-old system of exporting crude oil and importing refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and lubricating oil.

Forex savings
This should ease pressure on the naira by freeing up some $8.7bn used to import refined petroleum products each year as well as create jobs in services and manufacturing around the project.

The real estate boom around the refinery points to the optimism about the project. It is meant to be a catalyst for local development plans in the Ibeju-Lekki area such as a new international airport, a deep sea port and a free trade zone.

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Despite the positive sentiment towards the refinery however, few people have tried to calculate the measurable impact of the refinery on Nigeria’s economy and the Ibeju-Lekki area in particular.

How far will the refinery cut Nigeria’s fuel import bill and boost exports? Beyond the cash, what will be the effects of siting the new nexus of Nigeria’s downstream petroleum industry in a fast-growing and densely populated area of the country’s commercial capital?

READ: Andrew Alli of SouthBridge believes the savings in foreign exchange from importing oil products would be more limited than many expect.

Is the refinery a cure-all?
To understand why Dangote’s Refinery may not deliver the hoped for structural changes, we must first run through the basic figures that tell the story of Nigeria’s trade balance and its internal petroleum consumption:

According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the country’s daily petrol consumption comes to 51 million litres.
Using the standard measure of 47% petroleum motor spirit (PMS) per 159-litre barrel of crude oil according to the U.S. Department of Energy,
This means that Dangote’s Refinery must process about 471,500bpd to satisfy Nigeria’s internal demand.
What happens to export earnings?

The problem is that if the feedstock for Dangote’s refinery comes from local oil production, as the chief of the state oil company has promised, then it will eat into Nigeria’s export cargoes and revenues.

Nigeria’s 2019 crude oil production averaged 2,037 million barrels a day (b/d)

The 2019 average international crude oil price was $64 per barrel.

If the refinery satisfies Nigeria’s internal demand, it would save over $8.7bn. That’s how much the country spent on fuel imports in 2017.
That sounds great, but what about the opportunity cost?

By allocating over 470,000 b/d of locally-produced crude oil to the refinery, the state oil company is losing about $11bn of forex earnings a year. That’s almost a quarter of the country’s current forex earnings. Nigeria would be losing $11bn to save $8.7bn.

That’s not the end of the story

If local refining output meets all local demand, Nigeria will no longer need it’s often opaque and costly fuel subsidies.

Ending that system would mean that the estimated $3.85bn paid to subsidise fuel in 2019 would be saved.

Adding the import savings and the subsidy savings would mean total savings of $12.55bn – slightly over the estimated $11bn of lost forex earnings.

Two difficult roads to a refinery revolution
There are still policy options which could mean the Dangote refinery would radically change the state’s finances.

The Dangote Refinery could pay for its 650,000 b/d feedstock from Nigeria at the international market price and in foreign exchange.

That would mean it would be paying over $15bn a year in raw material costs alone.

That exceeds the stated construction costs of the refinery and is more than the net worth of Dangote, still the richest man in Africa.

The other option is more radical still and would require a determined policy shift in government.

Nigeria could boost its crude oil production by 650,000 b/d, supplying all the increase to the Dangote refinery.
Then it could export all 2.03mn b/d of crude to its foreign customers and retain the forex without having to budget for fuel imports.
This would be within the OPEC rules – the cartel’s limits on production do not include crude allocated to local refining nor do they govern exports of refined products.

This would allow Nigeria to use all its OPEC quota for exports and at the same time meet all its local needs for petroleum products, then would be able to export over 100,000 b/d of refined products for forex to the region and beyond.

That would be a game-changer. And would be in a different league from the estimated savings of $1.5bn a year under the current financial structure.

The tough question is whether Nigeria could possibly ramp up local crude production by 650,0000 over the next five years.

No question that it would be technically possible. The NPPC insist its medium-term target is 3mn b/d production.

But while Nigeria has the reserves to sustain 4mn b/d but it hasn’t made the necessary investments. Lining up the deals and the new partners – whether China, India or western IOCs such as Shell or Exxon – could take five years alone.

It is also highly significant that there has been no public discussion of a credible way for Nigeria to boost local production to maximise the benefits of the refinery project.

How will Dangote make money from the refinery?
In the absence of any discussion about coordinating strategy, we are thrown back on the tricky but vital question for Dangote – how can the refinery make a profit?

It may be that the refinery could end up being subsidised by the government – an accusation that has trailed Dangote’s rise to business supremacy.

For example, if the refinery is guaranteed 650,000 barrels per day at a fixed and favourable (naira) price, there is nothing stopping it from satisfying the local consumption quota, then selling the extra circa 179,000 bpd worth of product to buyers anywhere in the world – at higher international prices.

In other words, Nigeria could end up exchanging a corrupt and opaque fuel subsidy programme that purports to assist ordinary Nigerians with a hidden corporate subsidy that assists a multibillion-dollar business entity.

And that is just one half of the bigger picture.

Ibeju -Lekki’s Infrastructure Problem – Another Elephant in the Room
Speaking at the Offshore Trading Logistics Expo in October 2019, Dangote Group Executive Director, Devakumar Edwin said there was no plan for refined products to be moved to market around the country by rail.

According to him, a transport solution made up of “shuttle boats” and expanded road networks would do the trick.

This implies the existing traffic nightmare and safety hazard – thousands of 40-ton 12-wheeler road tankers loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol – will simply be moved from Apapa Port and Port Harcourt to the Lekki corridor, on the eastern flank of Lagos.

The Lagos State government says it has plans to build a “7th Axial Road” linking Ibeju-Lekki to the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, so as to bypass the residential Lekki-Epe corridor.

The new road could take more than a decade if it ever gets done.

For example, 12 years into what was supposed to be a 4-year project, only 30KM of the 49.4km Lekki-Epe expressway has been completed.
As at 2013, 15KM was completed at a total cost of about N50bn ($423m), whereas the entire project was initially projected to cost $460 million (54.2bn), meaning that as much as 70 percent of the initially proposed project sum was spent constructing only 30 percent of the project.
Further information on money spent on the road since 2014 is obscure. Lagos State has refused to open its books to scrutiny, even after a 2017 Appeal Court ruling held that all Nigerian states must abide by the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Exactly how much it has spent on the still-uncompleted expressway is anyone’s guess.

Knock-on effects
Against this background, the idea that the proposed 7th Axial Road intended to rescue Lekki from its impending tanker traffic doom will magically come into into existence between now and the refinery’s January 2021 opening date is fanciful.

Instead it looks likely that the Lekki-Epe expressway will become ground zero for an unwelcome and terrifyingly dangerous new tanker traffic problem, which is currently confined to Lagos Mainland.

One of the very few decent and affordable residential districts in Lagos is about to follow Apapa – a once prosperous middle class Lagos neighbourhood that has deteriorated over the past two decades into a miasma of degraded infrastructure, burnt-out vehicle carcasses and fallen shipping containers.

If the trucks do not have an alternative route, it will spark an inevitable demographic and capital flight Lekki will suffer as thousands of road tankers tear a predictable path of accidental infernos and human misery en route to the Nigerian downstream oil industry’s new Mecca.




David Hundeyin
By David Hundeyin
Nigerian writer and journalist


https://www.theafricareport.com/21854/behind-the-hype-is-dangotes-refinery-a-game-changer/

brainhgeek:
Criminalize almajiri system in the north, you have solved Boko Haram palava by 50%
You have to see the out of school kids in ibadan too. Their parents have just one mission, give birth to as many as possible, inaugurate them early into the begging system. Northern illiterate Muslims are a curse on this nation.

Ekemeze:
"Nigeria is not poor", Northern Nigeria ALONE is poor

FemiMaduka:
In Ajaokuta, literally or metaphorically, lies our industrial and technological breakthrough. Metallurgy is a strategic sector in every developed economy.

In the early eras, if a nation conquered another nation and wanted to make sure that the conquered nation remains subjugated under its vassalage, IT IMMEDIATELY BANISHES THE PROFESSION OF BLACKSMITHING. It hasn't changed much even in this 21st century.

Ajaokuta remains the biggest industrial complex in the whole of the subregion (W.A.); its misery is indeed our misery. If we were a people 'blessed' with strategy, we wouldn't eat our next bread till that plant (or another of its kind) starts running.

We are heating up the wrong 'furnace'—the oven.

dalass:
The Western world knows this, so I'm not pessimistic here, but kolework! Why? Until we can fix such things ourselves, no hope!
These monies just go down the drains....
Too bad our engineers are not trained well enough to fix our ailing technology.. We always have to go countries that don't speak English. All their manuals etc will be useless once they leave...all will still be moribund... Our refineries are great examples..

omohayek:
That is actually the biggest paradox about the excitement over this announcement, bigger even than the failure to understand how much has already been wasted on Ajaokuta over the decades. Why on earth would any sane Nigerian expect a government which can't even maintain basic roads - to the extent that a private actor like Dangote is now doing the FG's job for it in Apapa - to be able to manage a steel plant, even the most efficient and modern one? Don't we all know by now what happens when Nigerians get their hands on a parastatal, how they staff it with incompetent "federal character" appointees who in turn pull in their relatives and cronies to sleep on the job when they aren't asking for bribes, embezzling funds and selling off equipment? It's as if Nigerians think Ajaokuta would be staffed with a special new breed of Nigerian civil servant entirely, rather than the same lazy, crooked, tribalistic, incompetent deadweights they see in every government office across the land.

9jaRealist:
QUIT LYING!

Dangote Cement is a publicly-listed company and therefore publishes each of its AUDITED quarterly, half-year and annual reports as per regulatory requirements (both the SEC and stock exchange rules and regulations) for the benefit of shareholders and the investing public. In the last available quarterly results for the year ending Q3 2019 (full-year results usually are published within 90 days following the end of year), volumes, revenue and PROFITS (not loss) of the company's Pan-African operations all INCREASED from the previous results. SMH at your Beer-Parlor reports.
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to save cost as the prices of firewood, kerosene and cooking gas hit the rooftop

In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

After years of hopes and delays, Aliko Dangote’s 650,000 barrels a day refinery – one of the world’s second biggest – is due to start operations in just over a year’s time.

Government officials and citizens are united in the hope that the Dangote refinery complex, which will also produce fertilizer and petrochemicals will do for Nigeria’s stalled economy something comparable to what signing a 26 year-old Cristiano Ronaldo would do for a premier league team facing relegation.

The Nigerian government’s well-documented import substitution policy direction has Dangote Refinery front and centre of it.

Once onstream in early 2021, the refinery on the coast of Lagos is expected to reverse the decades-old system of exporting crude oil and importing refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and lubricating oil.

Forex savings
This should ease pressure on the naira by freeing up some $8.7bn used to import refined petroleum products each year as well as create jobs in services and manufacturing around the project.

The real estate boom around the refinery points to the optimism about the project. It is meant to be a catalyst for local development plans in the Ibeju-Lekki area such as a new international airport, a deep sea port and a free trade zone.

DO THE MATHS
Behind the hype, is Dangote’s refinery a game changer?
Posted on Friday, 10 January 2020 16:07, updated on Monday, 13 January 2020 10:47


A worker walks past structural parts of an under construction oil refinery plant at Dangote refinery in Ibeju Lekki district, on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria August 7, 2019. Picture taken August 7, 2019. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja
In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

In December 2019, an ambitious refinery project in the remote Ibeju-Lekki suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, took delivery of the world’s largest single crude distillation column, to much fanfare.

After years of hopes and delays, Aliko Dangote’s 650,000 barrels a day refinery – one of the world’s second biggest – is due to start operations in just over a year’s time.

Government officials and citizens are united in the hope that the Dangote refinery complex, which will also produce fertilizer and petrochemicals will do for Nigeria’s stalled economy something comparable to what signing a 26 year-old Cristiano Ronaldo would do for a premier league team facing relegation.

The Nigerian government’s well-documented import substitution policy direction has Dangote Refinery front and centre of it.

Once onstream in early 2021, the refinery on the coast of Lagos is expected to reverse the decades-old system of exporting crude oil and importing refined petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel and lubricating oil.

Forex savings
This should ease pressure on the naira by freeing up some $8.7bn used to import refined petroleum products each year as well as create jobs in services and manufacturing around the project.

The real estate boom around the refinery points to the optimism about the project. It is meant to be a catalyst for local development plans in the Ibeju-Lekki area such as a new international airport, a deep sea port and a free trade zone.

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Despite the positive sentiment towards the refinery however, few people have tried to calculate the measurable impact of the refinery on Nigeria’s economy and the Ibeju-Lekki area in particular.

How far will the refinery cut Nigeria’s fuel import bill and boost exports? Beyond the cash, what will be the effects of siting the new nexus of Nigeria’s downstream petroleum industry in a fast-growing and densely populated area of the country’s commercial capital?

READ: Andrew Alli of SouthBridge believes the savings in foreign exchange from importing oil products would be more limited than many expect.

Is the refinery a cure-all?
To understand why Dangote’s Refinery may not deliver the hoped for structural changes, we must first run through the basic figures that tell the story of Nigeria’s trade balance and its internal petroleum consumption:

According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the country’s daily petrol consumption comes to 51 million litres.
Using the standard measure of 47% petroleum motor spirit (PMS) per 159-litre barrel of crude oil according to the U.S. Department of Energy,
This means that Dangote’s Refinery must process about 471,500bpd to satisfy Nigeria’s internal demand.
What happens to export earnings?

The problem is that if the feedstock for Dangote’s refinery comes from local oil production, as the chief of the state oil company has promised, then it will eat into Nigeria’s export cargoes and revenues.

Nigeria’s 2019 crude oil production averaged 2,037 million barrels a day (b/d)

The 2019 average international crude oil price was $64 per barrel.

If the refinery satisfies Nigeria’s internal demand, it would save over $8.7bn. That’s how much the country spent on fuel imports in 2017.
That sounds great, but what about the opportunity cost?

By allocating over 470,000 b/d of locally-produced crude oil to the refinery, the state oil company is losing about $11bn of forex earnings a year. That’s almost a quarter of the country’s current forex earnings. Nigeria would be losing $11bn to save $8.7bn.

That’s not the end of the story

If local refining output meets all local demand, Nigeria will no longer need it’s often opaque and costly fuel subsidies.

Ending that system would mean that the estimated $3.85bn paid to subsidise fuel in 2019 would be saved.

Adding the import savings and the subsidy savings would mean total savings of $12.55bn – slightly over the estimated $11bn of lost forex earnings.

Two difficult roads to a refinery revolution
There are still policy options which could mean the Dangote refinery would radically change the state’s finances.

The Dangote Refinery could pay for its 650,000 b/d feedstock from Nigeria at the international market price and in foreign exchange.

That would mean it would be paying over $15bn a year in raw material costs alone.

That exceeds the stated construction costs of the refinery and is more than the net worth of Dangote, still the richest man in Africa.

The other option is more radical still and would require a determined policy shift in government.

Nigeria could boost its crude oil production by 650,000 b/d, supplying all the increase to the Dangote refinery.
Then it could export all 2.03mn b/d of crude to its foreign customers and retain the forex without having to budget for fuel imports.
This would be within the OPEC rules – the cartel’s limits on production do not include crude allocated to local refining nor do they govern exports of refined products.

This would allow Nigeria to use all its OPEC quota for exports and at the same time meet all its local needs for petroleum products, then would be able to export over 100,000 b/d of refined products for forex to the region and beyond.

That would be a game-changer. And would be in a different league from the estimated savings of $1.5bn a year under the current financial structure.

The tough question is whether Nigeria could possibly ramp up local crude production by 650,0000 over the next five years.

No question that it would be technically possible. The NPPC insist its medium-term target is 3mn b/d production.

But while Nigeria has the reserves to sustain 4mn b/d but it hasn’t made the necessary investments. Lining up the deals and the new partners – whether China, India or western IOCs such as Shell or Exxon – could take five years alone.

It is also highly significant that there has been no public discussion of a credible way for Nigeria to boost local production to maximise the benefits of the refinery project.

How will Dangote make money from the refinery?
In the absence of any discussion about coordinating strategy, we are thrown back on the tricky but vital question for Dangote – how can the refinery make a profit?

It may be that the refinery could end up being subsidised by the government – an accusation that has trailed Dangote’s rise to business supremacy.

For example, if the refinery is guaranteed 650,000 barrels per day at a fixed and favourable (naira) price, there is nothing stopping it from satisfying the local consumption quota, then selling the extra circa 179,000 bpd worth of product to buyers anywhere in the world – at higher international prices.

In other words, Nigeria could end up exchanging a corrupt and opaque fuel subsidy programme that purports to assist ordinary Nigerians with a hidden corporate subsidy that assists a multibillion-dollar business entity.

And that is just one half of the bigger picture.

Ibeju -Lekki’s Infrastructure Problem – Another Elephant in the Room
Speaking at the Offshore Trading Logistics Expo in October 2019, Dangote Group Executive Director, Devakumar Edwin said there was no plan for refined products to be moved to market around the country by rail.

According to him, a transport solution made up of “shuttle boats” and expanded road networks would do the trick.

This implies the existing traffic nightmare and safety hazard – thousands of 40-ton 12-wheeler road tankers loaded with 33,000 litres of petrol – will simply be moved from Apapa Port and Port Harcourt to the Lekki corridor, on the eastern flank of Lagos.

The Lagos State government says it has plans to build a “7th Axial Road” linking Ibeju-Lekki to the Benin-Sagamu Expressway, so as to bypass the residential Lekki-Epe corridor.

The new road could take more than a decade if it ever gets done.

For example, 12 years into what was supposed to be a 4-year project, only 30KM of the 49.4km Lekki-Epe expressway has been completed.
As at 2013, 15KM was completed at a total cost of about N50bn ($423m), whereas the entire project was initially projected to cost $460 million (54.2bn), meaning that as much as 70 percent of the initially proposed project sum was spent constructing only 30 percent of the project.
Further information on money spent on the road since 2014 is obscure. Lagos State has refused to open its books to scrutiny, even after a 2017 Appeal Court ruling held that all Nigerian states must abide by the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. Exactly how much it has spent on the still-uncompleted expressway is anyone’s guess.

Knock-on effects
Against this background, the idea that the proposed 7th Axial Road intended to rescue Lekki from its impending tanker traffic doom will magically come into into existence between now and the refinery’s January 2021 opening date is fanciful.

Instead it looks likely that the Lekki-Epe expressway will become ground zero for an unwelcome and terrifyingly dangerous new tanker traffic problem, which is currently confined to Lagos Mainland.

One of the very few decent and affordable residential districts in Lagos is about to follow Apapa – a once prosperous middle class Lagos neighbourhood that has deteriorated over the past two decades into a miasma of degraded infrastructure, burnt-out vehicle carcasses and fallen shipping containers.

If the trucks do not have an alternative route, it will spark an inevitable demographic and capital flight Lekki will suffer as thousands of road tankers tear a predictable path of accidental infernos and human misery en route to the Nigerian downstream oil industry’s new Mecca.




David Hundeyin
By David Hundeyin
Nigerian writer and journalist


https://www.theafricareport.com/21854/behind-the-hype-is-dangotes-refinery-a-game-changer/

nakaman:
Get a job, then go to school, it's ur timing, there are weekend programs n evening programs, no excuse.

Nasir123:
Tinubu has tried his best. After all he's better than the rest politicians.
My point is, why can't others do the undone?

Tinubu is a smart politician. You just have to give him that.

thesicilian:
The federal government of Nigeria won't be there in England to make favorable policies for the club's monopoly.
RIP in advance to Arsenal FC.

Cantonese:
And yet he is tackling corruption?
Remember "I am called baba go slow".
Remember "I am for everyone and I am for no one".

There is God sha.

yarimo:
As long as the good people of Nigeria are concerned, MURIC is the best thing to happen for Nigeria. FG should honour AKINTOLA with GCON it's clear he means well for Nigeria.

4four:
you mean you are comparing President of country with MD or CEO of company? Mhen! Then it high time to give up on Nigeria teens (cos I known you are still in ur teen) did you known what tax payer money is? Probably you are not paying tax, when you start to pay tax then come back here to start make contributions

Adeboi14:
God bless you. Nigerians with hypocrisy, 99% of people complaining will do more than that if they find themselves in that shoe

adeniyi3971:
Really, I don't see any problem in her using the Presidential Jet. After all she's in the first family.
Educate me, but to be sincere, I don't think the presidential jet is limited to the president alone, least his family should be entitled too.



PS - I'm not a fan of the president, but I just don't see why people are angry about this.
Many people here given the opportunity will do the same.

akdjr:
This is a delusional statement I have ever seen. Power is never given it is taken. How can you sit back at the comfort of your home and tell a legitimate Nigerian not to contest for an elective post he or she is qualified for just because your want that post to come from a particular part of the country which is unconstitutional in all terms. I am totally disappointed seeing such statement coming out from someone who contested for Governorship position in one of the most populated state in Africa. Imagine if Agege people come out to say Lagos should be split if Governor did not come from their side. Instead of you to play the politics which is a game of number to get to the post, you want people with the block vote to just freely hand over power to you. Who does that?

Power is never given it is taken or lost

Nasir123:
He can't be the "best definition of Greed" if he still carries everyone along.

I agree he has greed, but not in its best definition.

Tinubu is Nigeria smartest politician.

itsme01:
ask the people using the cheap BRT he created if they were carried along or not

However, he explained that sufficient electricity for everyone could be elusive until the nation hits 11,000MW power distribution