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This aboki doesn't even understand what subsidy means

Nevertheless, Nigerians faced unprecedented levels of hardship. What is the point of generating substantial revenue if the government fails to deliver essential services for the population?

No wonder Tinubu and his corrupt associates are the reason behind the setbacks faced by the Dangote refinery initiatives. They are taking every measure to maintain the existing flawed system.

We need to forcefully pull this devils out of movement ah swears

Zwooks:
No. It is crucial to function like oil companies of other sane countries not to hand over Nigeria to Dangote. Dangote is a private investment not a national one

How is Dangote being the major fuel supplier to Nigerians a monopoly?
Meanwhile NNPC can decide not to do büsiness with him if he doesn't meet thier agreed demands

illicit:
Since I have been hearing about this Ajaokuta I don't think it has ever produced iron rod or common nail....

Ah don die. This is so hilarious but true

Zwooks:
Good. Because the nation will not terminate hundreds of crude contracts to please Dangote


Two, the nation is a bigger entity than Dangote and he can't dictate the pace and policy direction of the country. He has been doing it forever. This is where it stops


Three, refineries all over the world buy crude from so many sources. Dangote is free to go to Libya, Algeria, Malta, Iran to source his crude but the nation will no longer be subservient to him

To tackle inflation and reduce fuel prices effectively, it's crucial for NNPC to provide Dangote with the necessary crude oil and regulate the selling price to marketers. This should be a top priority for any responsible nation.

What proportion of the cost price will be mitigated as a result of this action? At this juncture, it is imperative to maintain transparency; otherwise, the objective will be compromised.

[quote author=smokinloud post=131513820]They're broadcasting it already on NTA[p/quote]

Its a welcome one than. Let's hope this subsidy hits the market ASAP

robinso01:
Still won't surprise me if the price of those items still don't come down. Wholesalers and retailers are also major problem of the increase in price of goods also, the higher the price of goods, the higher their gain.

If the president is serious about this, he will make a national broadcast on this matter and instruct the Federal Ministry of Agriculture nationwide to report the progress to him. State by state

Aldol:
If we are to be fair without bias, Tinubu is doing everything possible to alleviate the suffering economy but our problem are the handlers and the Middlemen , they may not allow Nigerians to get these benefits after all they know Nigerians will heap all blames on Tinubu

Not everything possible bro. One thing is to give a directive it is a different thing to monitor and ensure it is followed. He knows his directive are nót 100% same thing happened during Buhari tenure. I want to believe some announcements he made are intentional audio announcements nothing else

RITUALS, BLOOD AND DEATH, THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF ASO VILLA

BY REUBEN ABATI

People tend to be alarmed when the Nigerian Presidency takes certain decisions. They don’t think the decision makes sense. Sometimes, they wonder if something has not gone wrong with the thinking process at that highest level of the country.
I have heard people insist that there is some form of witchcraft at work in the country’s seat of government. I am ordinarily not a superstitious person, but working in the Villa, I eventually became convinced that there must be something supernatural about power and closeness to it. I’ll start with a personal testimony. I was given an apartment to live in inside the Villa. It was furnished and equipped. But when my son, Michael arrived, one of my brothers came with a pastor who was supposed to stay in the apartment. But the man refused claiming that the Villa was full of evil spirits and that there would soon be a fire accident in the apartment. He complained about too much human sacrifice around the Villa and advised that my family must never sleep overnight inside the Villa.
I thought the man was talking nonsense and he wanted the luxury of a hotel accommodation. But he turned out to be right. The day I hosted family friends in that apartment and they slept overnight, there was indeed a fire accident. The guests escaped and they were so thankful. Not long after, the President’s physician living two compounds away had a fire accident in his home. He and his children could have died. He escaped with bruises. Around the Villa while I was there, someone always died or their relations died. I can confirm that every principal officer suffered one tragedy or the other; it was as if you needed to sacrifice something to remain on duty inside that environment. Even some of the women became merchants of Love Machine because they had suffered a special kind of death in their homes (I am sorry to reveal this) and many of the men complained about something that had died below their waists too. The ones who did not have such misfortune had one ailment or the other that they had to nurse. From cancer to brain and prostate surgery and whatever, the Villa was a hospital full of agonizing patients.
I recall the example of one particular man, an asset to the Jonathan Presidency who practically ran away from the Villa. He said he needed to save his life. He was quite certain that if he continued to hang around, he would die. I can’t talk about colleagues who lost daughters and sons, brothers and uncles, mothers and fathers, and the many obituaries that we issued. Even the President was multiply bereaved. His wife, Mama Peace was in and out of hospital at a point , undergoing many surgeries. You may have forgotten but after her husband lost the election and he conceded victory, all her ailments vanished, all scheduled surgeries were found to be no longer necessary and since then she has been hale and hearty. By the same token, all those our colleagues who used to come to work to complain about a certain death beneath their waists and who relied on videos and other instruments to entertain wives (take it easy boys, I don’t mean nay harm, I am writing!), have all experienced a re-awakening.
Every one who went under the blade has received miraculous healing, and we are happy to be out of that place. But others were not so lucky. They died. There were days when convoys ran into ditches and lives were lost. In Norway, our helicopter almost crashed into a mountain. That was the first time I saw the President panicking, The weather was all so hazy and he just kept saying it would not be nice for the President of a country to die in a helicopter crash due to pilot miscalculations. The President went into a prayer mode. We survived. In Kenya once, we had a bird strike. The plane had to be recalled and we were already airborne with the plane acting like it would crash. During the 2015 election campaigns, our aircraft refused to start on more than one occasion. The aircraft just went dead. On some other occasions, we were stoned and directly targeted for evil. I really don’t envy the people who work in Aso Villa, the seat of Nigeria’s Presidency. For about six months, I couldn’t even breathe properly. For another two months, I was on crutches. But I considered myself far luckier than the others who were either nursing a terminal disease or who could not get it up.
When Presidents make mistakes, they are probably victims of a force higher than what we can imagine. Every student of Aso Villa politics would readily admit that when people get in there, they actually become something else. They act like they are under a spell. When you issue a well- crafted statement, the public accepts it wrongly.
When the President makes a speech and he truly means well, the speech is interpreted wrongly by the public. When a policy is introduced, somehow, something just goes wrong. In our days, a lot of people used to complain that the APC people were fighting us spiritually and that there was a witchcraft dimension to the governance process in Nigeria.
But the APC folks now in power are dealing with the same demons. Since Buhari government assumed office, it has been one mistake after another. Those mistakes don’t look normal, the same way they didn’t look normal under President Jonathan. I am therefore convinced that there is an evil spell enveloping this country. We need to rescue Nigeria from the forces of darkness. Aso Villa should be converted into a spiritual museum, and abandoned.
Should I become President of Nigeria tomorrow, I will build a new Presidential Villa: a Villa that will be dedicated to the all-conquering Almighty, and where powers and principalities cannot hold sway. But it is not about buildings and space, not so? It is about the people who go to the highest levels in Nigeria. I really don’t quite believe in superstitions, but I am tempted to suggest that this is indeed a country in need of prayers.
We should pray before people pack their things into Aso Villa. We should ask God to guide us before we appoint ministers. We should, to put it in technocratic language, advise that the people should be very vigilant. We have all failed so far, that crucial test of vigilance. We should have a Presidential Villa where a President can afford to be human and free. In the White House, in the United States, Presidents live like normal human beings.
In Aso Villa, that is impossible. They’d have to surround themselves with cooks from their villages, bodyguards from their mother’s clans and friends they can trust. It should be possible to be President of Nigeria without having to look behind one’s shoulders.
But we are not yet there. So, how do we run a Presidency where the man in the saddle can only drink water served by his kinsman? No. How can we possibly run a Presidency where every President proclaims faith in Nigeria but they are better off in the company of relatives and kinsmen. No. We need as Presidents men and women who are willing to be Nigerians. No Nigerian President should be in spiritual bondage because he belongs to all of us and to nobody.
Now let me go back to the spiritual dimension. A colleague once told me that I was the most naïve person around the place. I thought I was a bright, smart, professional doing my bit and enjoying the President’s confidence. I spelled it out. But what I got in response was that I was coming to the villa using Lux soap, but that most people around the place always bathed in the morning with blood. Goat blood. Ram blood. Whatever animal blood. I argued.
He said there were persons in the Villa walking upside down, head to the ground. I screamed. Everybody looked normal to me. But I soon began to suspect that I was in a strange environment indeed. Every position change was an opportunity for warfare. Civil servants are very nice people; they obey orders, but they are not very nice when they fight over personal interests.
The President is most affected by the atmosphere around him. He can make wrong decisions based on the cloud of evil around him. Even when he means well and he has taken time to address all possible outcomes, he could get on the wrong side of the public.
A colleague called me one day and told me a story about how a decision had been taken in the spiritual realm about the Nigerian government. He talked about the spirit of error, and how every step taken by the administration would appear to the public like an error. He didn’t resign on that basis but his words proved prophetic. I see the same story being re-enacted. Aso Villa is in urgent need of redemption. I never slept in the apartment they gave me in that Villa for an hour.

The use of threats will ultimately prove ineffective. Given that Nigerians have become increasingly aware of how certain individuals exploit religion for manipulation, it is not surprising that these parties are now resorting to intimidation tactics. However, one can anticipate the emergence of additional protests as a response to these actions.

It's evident that our leaders are fully aware of what needs to be done to retain our top health practitioners, but they choose not to act. Their indifference to whether we live or die is unmistakable.

A government of lies, propaganda, deceit, and poor performance. How can you claim to have met a lesser power production when the Nation had overall a better power supply during the Buhari-led government? Instead of channeling their energy towards making the less expensive but more effective solar power plants, they are here lying to Nigerians

This is most definitely gonna be dope

When Nigerians begin to protest, some devils in leadership will come with lies saying the protest was politically motivated. The funny part is, some people will believe and defend them. Our brains are there for a reason

TimeManager:
OBJ cleared our debts only to take another round of debts with the help of Okonjo Iweala as the errand girl. They kept it a secret from Nigerians yet same man saying some leaders ought to be behind bar, whereas in a saner clime, he'd be spending the remainder of his life in jail. Jagaban has come to carry a heavy burden and only the brave could throw himself into a deep ocean to rescue a sinking nation. Only the wise would understand, not the gullible and emotional nitwits. So far, Jagaban has been able to reduce our revenue-debt ration from 98% to 67%. There're only better days ahead.

-Kiss the truth!

Dont be suprised that few months after his tenure, you will begin to hear how he used loans from China to clear some debts. Trust jagqban on your peril

humilitypays:
You guys are wasting time, just get ready to fight it out in 2027. Save your energies for 2027 and make sure you stand your ground that no rigging, whoever wins should be the popular will of the people and not the will of INEC or corrupt Judiciary

And if the judiciary is corrupt we will come for the judges head. We are in the jungle already

Codepain:
We all know the protests is sponsored by failed politicians in their futile attempts to come to power through backdoor

The current inflation was fule the your so-called failed politicians right?

Is it better for the government to provide students with student loans or grants? Also, it seems like werey Tinubu, also known as Taskmaster, is making inaccurate calculations while hoping for positive outcomes.

Risingblue008:
Na it shall never be well with apc
4k mehh
1trn
Money that can get a good armed drone with heavy camera,use it to k..l those murder4"ass be it
Unknown gun men
Boko haram
Iswap
Militant from dier hide out

They are just using our resources to fill their pockets. A reason why every Major general in Nigeria is stinking rich is that they loot money meant to fight insecurity

EponObi:
See how Baba Iyabo dey talk like say the rot and mess we are experiencing today didn't start with him.

He's talking about Nigeria putting all her eggs in one basket. Lol. What did he do to diversify our economy as a military head of state and the first and a two-term president after 1999? The man even pushed a third term agenda.

Didn't everyone of them since 1960 abandoned agriculture and chased after oil money?

"I believe we made a very, very deadly mistake" - No sir, I believe YOU made a very, very deadly mistake.

When you invited Shell and they told you about the corruption ruining our refineries, sir, what did you do with the power given to you by the people to crush the cabal and rot in our oil industry? You were president for 8 years, what did you do to put the interest of the people as priority? What efforts did you make to change the trajectory of the NNPC for the benefit of the common Nigerians?

OBJ is saying shit, with all due respect. This is the person some idiots are rallying around because the man they hate so much became president.

Tinubu's bad policies implementions aside, at least for the first time since 1960, we have a brave president who has the political will, muscle, and clout to repurpose our economy. And if the APC had allowed the GEJ the weakling remove the subsidy in 2011, we would have moved past this pain.

There's no going back from here, inshallah. The economy must be rejigged, no matter how pain and strenuous tbe process may be. History will remember Tinubu for not taking the easy route of padding our economy.

What are you saying? You can't bring hard policies that kill the masses and think it is the right thing. If he plans to remove subsidy all along. He should have also planned to employ or deploy more security operatives in those places especially where Herdsmen and kidnappers operate so Nigeria can have enough food. He should have bring favorable policies for food importers. Once we have an overflow of food, the prices will naturally crash. That's all Nigeria is saying, lets live first before we talk about any other thing

This is a flawed idea. What happens to private workers, students, the retired etc. Public servants don't constitute 20% of Nigerians. You can just imagine his personal gains on this fuel subsidy thing. We all know the only way to curb this inflation is to reverse subsidies while also ensuring massive production of food.

The old cargo thinks Nigeria is Lagos. This shit is definitely gonna hit the fan. It's a desperate time already

westside365:
E be like say your head dey smell MuMu. People bragging about devilish things has become Norms of the society but when people talks about God, bible they say it's an act of extremism. You need jesus.

This is not about Christianity. Are there no gays in the times of Jesus. Did the Bible tell us that they were jailed for no just cause??

To me Bobrisky is an artist, people need to understand that he is just selling his brand and making money from it. There is no record of where he raped , forced or coerced someone to doing certain immoral stuff. He has every right to walk naked, change his head to a lion's etc if he wants to. He's got every right to life. But Police be using him as a scape 🐐

N2500 per day is a lot. That's approximately N75,000 monthly. note that if they charge it this expensive, they would definitely charge their customers very high too. I think N1000 daily should be okay though

Chinkoalhaji34:
Is it not funny how some people thrive on predicting doom and gloom?

Four years of hardship? Na so dem go dey talk because dem no fit see beyond their noses.

Meanwhile, Peter Obi is still searching for solutions in his endless rants.

Instead of focusing on the progress being made, they prefer to wallow in negativity.

How about we give Tinubu a chance to prove the naysayers wrong?

Or are they just scared that he will succeed and put their empty promises to shame?

What chance does he need? A president should know that this kind of broadcast will only increase the protest. He was giving reasons why some decisions were made instead of giving solutions. The least he could do was tell us that he would look into the subsidy matter. He can even say 25% of fuel will be subsidized. He thinks giving huge FAAC to governors will solve the hunger crises? Hell no it won't. Huge don't mean a thing when inflation is sky high

As it should be

Bed bugs vs Ticks. Which one is more stubborn

Does this clown think this stupid epistle will solve the hunger and inflation this country is facing?. I see no ambition towards solving the people's problems here. He should wait and see how the protest continues tomorrow