₦airaland Forum

Raiders:
is it the job of NLC to pilot the affairs of the masses? Did Nigerians voted for this NLC in the last elections? What are your senators and representatives doing? It is their job to check mate the executive government and be the voice for masses. NLC should focus on the welfare of their members.

They should disband if they have become useless
This ajero has disappointed the past heroes of NLC

Standing5:
NLC need a dictionary to lookup the meaning of DEREGULATION.

And the government was interfering on dangote fuel pricing, because they don't want dangote to cast them, that all this fuel subsidy thing is a scam, each government put prices depending on the profits it wants to take out
Tinubu is just a heartless greedy fellow who wants maximum profits for his vanities
From 197 to over 1000 ,can only be from some on unstable

Godjone:
You said refinery will start working and when that is achieved, the price of PMS will drop significantly. Today, two of the refinery are already active but the prices keep souring higher.
Their next skit is to divert attention to how crude please price have increased in the international market yet we are a country that have crude and by virtue of the two activated refineries, international prices should not affect us.
The man tinubu and his gangs of tribalists have come to kill Nigeria and Nigerians . Very very insensitive animals

My brother there no any reform anywhere,it is just pricing
Because the government is a monopoly in so many products it just increased prices arbitrarily to arrive at its projected revue at the expense of the people, the government increased taxes, increased interest rates ,increased forex price,increased fuel price in an insane manner never witnessed before,increased school fees beyond what parents and students can afford,he increased the price of electricity
In all these you can see that the driving force is revenue,which they will squander on luxurious living, such as suv, limousine, bogous jet,yacht etc
This administration is a self centred, insensitive one
Which is like a weapon fashioned against Nigerians

helinues:
The economic benefits should be the focus not the pettiness

what is /are the economic importance

can someone please send this well written piece to Emir Sanusi
The Emir over exaggerated his importance or intellectual capacity or knowledge of economics as beautifully captured here

MASTAkiLLAh:
Do you want them to run mad ni The APC has been running Lagos under various disguises since 1999, have they been able to provide ordinary potable or even decent sewage services to the highbrow areas like Victoria island, Ikoyi and Lekki talk less of the entire tiny state ? Yet, you're here talking of an entire country. Locusts destroy, they don't build

I don't know what juju they use to hold Nigerians for 24yrs, they can't figure out that APC are a very unproductive party,corrupt and very wasteful, they even gave them the centre twice,and now every thing is in a decadent state
You can't give what you don't have, check out fashola,he got to the center he was exposed, aregbesola, too, even their oga pata pata is behaving like a kindergarten in power

mannobi:
Prices will become very unstable again

stable at what price,the method they are using cannot stabilise prices and 2 no reasonable government would move prices from 197 naira to over 1000naira it is too steep and will have consequences, price increase are usually gradual but Tinubu own is massive and all encompassing reflecting a reckless man playing ludo with the lives of people under him
Hoping to navigate the chaos he has unleash with propaganda and bribing of the elite
He will fail spectacularly

Thundafireseun:
God bless President Tinubu

The only reason why most Northern leaders including El Rufai dislikes this present government is because they know that they can’t Boss PBAT around like they did to Jonathan…

Why didn’t any of them complain when Buhari was President…. Buhari’s had no plans too but because the North was benefiting both from nepotism and unmerited contracts, they were all quiet….

Bunch of Tuface idiots

You can't play any ethnic card and it will work for you , buhari was better,we elected Tinubu to make our lives even better but he is doing a poor job of it
The fact that the market doesn't ask for our tribe whenever we go there ,means when the time comes we won't want to know the ethnicity of the president but what would the market say under him
We would use every thing and everything to shoot down these ethnic rethorics at the right time, we are looking for a competent leader with emotional intelligence that can better our lives,not all these greedy con artist

zero8zero:
If he leave everything the way bubu left it , maybe by now you would be selling your kids to have money to eat.

liar, it's not true

Nnamdipapa:
That is a little bit incentive and I do not expect that from a pastor.

What are his background and what does he know by the way?

Wr are suffering today because of the cumulative bad choices made made by all past leaders, president's, Governors, Senators and our local legislative representatives.

That is not true, Nigerians are suffering because they have a president who is not brilliant but just worldly and materialistic, he does not care about humanity and higher ideals
But crass opportunism, which has defined his choices resulting in unpleasant situation for the people
He was a wrong choice by wide margin going by his performance

Inflation is nothing revenue is everything
Inflation affects the people, which is not bad
But revenue is important because it is the live wire of the luxury life of the leaders
Don't forget the lives and comfort of the leaders are important and the masses must provide that even with their lives
From the reports it seems Nigeria leaders are more wicked putting maximum inflationary pressure on the people while they themselves live in style
Though Nigerians don't mind,which sort of absolve the leaders

elasticlala:
This is exactly what would happen in 2027: you will begin to see some good things that would make you feel things are getting better and there is light at the end of the tunnel…. Then you vote again for your oppressors. Suddenly after election, your oppressors take away the seemingly ray of hope and increase hardship by 2000% and then you realize that there is even no tunnel anymore …. It goes on and on until “una mumu don do”

Any one that will fall for that is not worthy of being called a sane man ,it will take a certain level of insanity ,it would be more than stupidity to still trust these people with another term, Nigerians even tried to tolerate this highly, insensitive, clueless, incompetent and corrupt government this far,anything beyond 2027,is madness and suicide

shortgun:
The country is crumbling before our eyes—the economy has collapsed, record-breaking unemployment never seen in the country before, businesses are closing down leaving families they support in despair.
Parents are forced to endure the agony of seeing their children starve day after day.
Tinubu’s presidency will forever be remembered as the epitome of incompetence, corruption, and failure.
We once believed no leader could surpass Buhari’s ineptitude, but Tinubu has shocked us all by doing just that.
What makes this tragedy worse is the utter absence of hope for change or improvement.
Since the wicked son of lucifer removed subsidy there's nothing of benefit the average Nigerian can point to as the gains of subsidy removal

He is just a dumb leader, whose low class supporters has promoted beyond his level of competence ,it is very glaring that he does not possess the credentials for which he use to seek office ,he has gotten the job now but it is obvious he has no skill set to perform the required task
He can forge everything but can't forge performance ,he has been exposed for whom he is a fraud

ogelekpomgam:
Stop spewing rubbish.Here in UK,a litre of fuel is around £1.45.
Around 2010 it was around,£1.20..thats about 14 years ago.They don't produce crude oil ooo.You people keep supporting a failed system in Nigeria.Till these evil politicians kill all of una kpatakpata with severe hunger..una no go learn.

The guys you responded to and his type in Nigeria are those people who had given up on themselves that they can't amount to anything in life or deserve anything better except they worship money or the holder,the actually see themselves as a third class citizens whose existence is at the pleasure of the leader
That's why they reason the way they do and they are a danger to the society
They are the thugs that lay down their lives for politicians, thinking the politicians lives are more important than theirs because of their poverty, which is actually because of their mindset

Jorussia:
I have been vindicated again.Forget all the noise,there is no way we as country can get the full benefit of full deregulation,if the govt don't address the current exchange rate.for Christ sake #1600 is too much and it doesn't have any Benefit to this country.The reasonable exchange should be around #800.

ilitrates in power

Tochi3:


.. one thing i really dislike this Apcshit Nairaland bias site is this.. this truth, this fact which is true will never make it to the frontpage..the Pro Apcshit mods will probably hide this thread or ban us who dare to challenge their failures & hopelessness..

..fake threads like propaganda revisionism thread against those who never supported this demonic party Apcshit always will be pushed lmmediately to the frontpage..while looking away as rabies infested digs insult the hell out of those who refused to be deceived by their lies & propaganda..

The owner of the site is playing politics with his future and source of income ,he will end up being the looser at the end of the day if he leaves the people and continue to side with the oppressors who will not be forever be in power

bewisemasses:
To be honest during that election, alot of sensitization to enlighten majority of Nigerians esp the many illiterates on d danger of voting based on religion and ethnicity was massively done. Nigerians seemed to have gotten smarter. Unfortunately we were outsmarted by high class criminality and an abysmal electoral system.
Though there are still lots of ground to cover in terms of reversing d trend of voting based on religion and tribe by slower Nigerians, the tax bill shud overtime force d hand of the northern govts to address this overpopulating Nigeria with humans that cannot be taken care of or fed. Its terrible.

my brother all eyes and everything will be on inec this time, that was the mistake in 2023,if he likes let him put seyi or folashade Tinubu as inec chairman, they will never have the liver to announce any fake results like Yakubu because the consequence will be too grave

adexpa:
Can you listen to the video well

He was trying to say that Tinubu needed guys who can audibly, clearly, articulately preach robust message around the Reforms. He acknowledged the need for the reforms because he propagated it during his term as CBN governor.


But, we need to understand that politics is a game. There many silent words he used in between the message; he said the government is his friend but they are not behaving like his friend. He expected the government to consult people like him to help model strategies on how to sell the reforms to Nigerians for them to calm down and support the reforms.

He was just pouring his anger because the current government did not invite people like him for him.
Government can not always invite everybody

The government has replied him,they did not see it the way you saw it
Besides what other advice does he have that the government has not carried out,he is an apostle of subsidy removal and government has done exactly that but he did not think through the consequences of his advice now that the unpalatable consequences are here he wants to distance himself by trying to make the government feel that he posses other way to make the people reaction to be different but will not tell,that's a big lie,he has no such skills

RhinoChest:
Your analysis isn’t smart nor economically sound.

You are aware you need forex to prop up your currency if you peg it to dollar.

Imagine your forex is dwindling due to;

A) Low oil output because the previous gov didn’t do much to raise output or bring new investment into the sector.

B) The little forex you have, you returning it back to the owners because you paying subsidy.

C) Lots of debt accrued, to both service debt and meet other financial obligations.

Even if you want to peg your currency, where would you turn to bring in more forex?

What this government has done is smart. Oil production is up, subsidy is gone, so they have more money going to states and for projects.

They plugged the leakages and raised the revenue.

If oil output goes up together with other exports at quick rate, we should see the value of naira rising, and the rise at this moment in time will be sustainable, stable and long term without any costly intervention from Central bank.

Once naira appreciates, fuel prices at the pump will go down, and you should be seeing inflation easing. Right now, government is at the right path.

subsidy is not a bad thing to give to the ,serious government all over the world subside one thing or the other for their people
Tinubu just punished Nigerians for the corruption and inefficiency of government and they find good company in people like you, who think they are smart and try to justify the stupid wicked actions of government
If government had stopped importation of fuel before Removing subsidy, there maybe no subsidy to remove,and prices maybe bearable,forex may even not be as high as it is because more than 40% if not 60% were used for importation of fuel , that would have been freed for other sectors
If the government has also followed the suggestions in senator ned nwoko bill's before floating the naira, you will find out the actual demand for naira is far less than it is because of loop holes so the current value of the naira is false over exaggerated, if the we have the true value ,the economic activities in the country will reflect it but now it is subdued,
Bottom line Tinubu put the cart before the horse,it doesn't portray him and his supporters as been smart

sulaak:
Removing oil subsidies and FX control saved Nigeria from total implosion. The country was borrowing nearly $30 billion annually on a budget of $30 billion with debts of $100 billion.

Do the maths.

Tinubu is not Nigeria's saviour because he has refused to cut recurring expenditures and investigate mass corruption.

This are all retrofits to save face ,each successive governments has been saving Nigeria from implosion, from going to extinction whenever they made poor economic decisions and we've never seen any improvement, Nigeria is a going concern that is not about to liquidate
Tells us if your government has stopped borrowing because of their 'genius ' policies
The revenue you are talking at what cost,it is just inflated by the high exchange rate
Removing subsidy at that time and increasing how much the government sells forex was not a smart move
It is clear the policies have no positive impact on the lives of people except the imaginary achievements that are not visible to anyone

Wallade:
First class - where?

That's part of the lamba ,they gave us including that he is an astute builder ,who built lagos ,only for cement to finish when he got to centre and he couldn't show us his prowess, instead he is showing us shege on a steady

He has nothing to offer ,he is a twin of bismark rewane,they are both voodoo economist, they don't have solutions to current self inflicted damage that Tinubu has arrogantly foisted on Nigerians
A first class accountant that is devaluing when his country is import dependent, without plans to ramp up production and export

MARKETfund:
Mr. President's action is strategic.
Those (SUG Presidents) are their election rigging prospects.
The courtship has just begun ahead of 2027. Expect more, like market association leaders, senior prefects of secondary schools, etc.

Modify:
If you think it's only rice they were given, you are naive. They were given cash and it would be a constant exercise. See, if anyone makes you stand afloat financially during this economic downturn, you owe they a lot. Even your life. That's the strategy.

you gerrit,that is the only strategy he has and they call him master strategist, buying people's conscience

Sheuns:
Ricekimono

Palliatives government.

Injure the people with poverty and help them put rice over the wound as palliative, will the pains remains,how the injury gets healed becomes their problem from there on

Kemetian:
Ewu.

Your own “choice”, be it Obi or Atiku, also promised to end fuel subsidies on his first day in office, so shut it.

The situation would have been the SAME today regardless of who is in power.

I don’t know what Seun is talking about, blaming Tinubu for inflation and hardship.

Does he want fuel subsidies back, with dual currency exchange rates?

Is that what he wants?

Who is he shouting at?

Is Tinubu alone responsible for the country?

What about the STATE GOVERNORS?

Those states receive 65% of the budget and FG 35%, so how come everything is ALL on Tinubu’s head?

Not ONE mention by Seun of the state governors and what THEY are doing. Are they not living in luxury?

Is it only in Abuja that govt officials are living large?

Go to the states and see what they are doing.

Load of rubbish.

The truth remains constant, Tinubu is a failure and a disaster, all these problems are caused by his arrogance and it is because of people like you who almost turn a mere mortal to god because of your low intellect ,you hail him to high heavens because of IGR, he therefore thought everything starts and end with high revenue
So he increased the prices of government goods and services without consideration for the collateral Damage the move might bring,even when his speech writers told him not to talk about subsidy on inauguration day because he thought as a leader he is wiser than everybody, he went ahead to remove it,the results proved his advisers right
So you are just emotional and supporting blindly, these his policies has never worked anywhere and it will not work,he is just stupidily stubborn, punishing Nigerians unnecessarily
As for the governors ,it is not their jobs to tame inflation or provide national security or determine exchange rate or provide enabling environment including laws for foreign investments
Let's assume you are correct by saying other candidates promised the same thing, their style would have been different, buhari had awarded contract for the repair of refineries and they are now working, what stopped him from accelerating the repair ,conclude it before removing subsidies the results would have been different

Clearly Nigeripans made a wrong choice in Tinubu
And the signs were there but Nigerians ignored them

Melagros:
COMRADES, Tinubu whom I know is not enhancing the welfare of the pensioners, I am telling you tomorrow we will hear a counter narrative about this news
No be APC wei sabi lie?

What a shame

its not even, we don't know where this is coming from, except they want to start from this January ending

Elusive001:
You guys and slavery eh.

That is their destiny, they have accepted it with their full chest and are happy with it

sonsomegrigbo:
Shut the Bleep....








Infact internet and social media particularly needs to be regulated ASAP

you want to practice dictatorship because you can not take as much as you give,did anybody gag or shut the Internet against you in the previous regime ,when you were running your mouth anyhow
Brother it is too late,you cannot beat a child and expect him not to cry
Your policies are affecting us very negatively, and we will respond in a manner deserving
No amount of threat will work o

ivandragon:
It is expected.

As a special assistant, the very reforms you say the masses must endure are subsidised for you. Government pays for your fueling, your travels, grants you easy access to foreign currencies and other privileges that insulate you from the same policies you are justifying.

The questions I continue to ask are:

1. If fuel at N985 is seen as ok today, why did BAT condemn fuel at N145 in 2012 with subsidy removed?

https://dailytrust.com/flashback-how-tinubu-criticised-jonathan-over-petrol-subsidy-removal/

2. In his 2023 campaign, bat promised to bring down the price of pms which was around N175 at the time. So how come he and his supporters are arrogantly rejoicing that pms has 'come down' to N985?

https://punchng.com/video-of-tinubu-promising-fuel-price-reduction-resurfaces-online-amid-hike/

3. In 2014, bat said the foreign exchange rate of N217:$1 was too high and showed Government incompetence. So, why is he now saying that N1600:$1 is a good deal and a sign of progress?


4. In his 2023 campaign, bat promised to reduce the rate from N600:$1 to N300:$1... so why is N1600:$1 now being touted as an achievement?

https://medium.com/@FromLagosto/broken-promises-a-critical-review-of-bola-tinubus-campaign-promises-and-nigeria-s-current-reality-ce2917b7e684


Until bat explains these his somersaults, he will continue to be seen as a liar, deceiver, selfish and cunning man who prioritises his selfish interests over the good of the masses.

my brother all you wrote here are the truth about double faced Tinubu, honestly apart from those benefiting from Tinubu, its only a complete fool or buffoon that will not see Tinubu for whom he is ,a complete disaster

trendingnigeria:
All these opposition leaders that want to gain relevance.

Hmm

you this ruling party that want to continue to entrench poverty in the country
God will not allow you

MadamVanessa:



The only thing terrorist APC government introduced into Nigeria is high level of tribalism. I haven't seen a political party like this in the history of man.

Buhari started this, Tinubu came on board and did his at extreme level. This is the reason Nigeria will never ever rise or be better. Tribalism in Nigeria politics over competency is the order of the day. If you're wondering why Tinubu government is retrogressive and nothing good will ever come out of it, this is the major reason. Politics of tribalism does no nation any good.

Check out Nigerian leaders like OBJ , YAR'DUA, GEJ , who were so decentralized in their appointment, compare their government with that of the two APC buffoons that have governed this country, you'll see a remarkable clear differences.

It's a clear example why APC should never have been allowed to take power in Nigeria, they are like bandits ,they have no useful value,I just hope Nigerians have learnt their lessons