₦airaland Forum

Economic impact is the key word but these politicians are not that exposed to know what that is. All they know is widen the tax net so they can boast of increased IGR.
They are not talking of Job creation and poverty alleviation. No plans to recover wild and waste lands and process it raw materials and natural resources.

As long as there is someone singing their praise, they are on the right path.

See that coconut candy eh, leave am for me. That thing chop my money

Organ harvesters.

Funnydagreat:
Renewing cable TV subscriptions or any other subscription works on any app, but PalmPay doesn’t make you jump through extra steps like some other platforms can. Besides, has anyone noticed that PalmPay doesn’t charge VAT? Na there them finish work.

VAT is charged on charges. Palmpay premium doesn't charge customers so no VAT to deduct.

It's a pity you have to use direct word 'Mad!'.
It takes a very bitter/angry person to boldly call another person mad.

But you may be right if you consider him a useful nuisance to Nigerias political space. He is the downfall of many and the lifting of a few. But the few appear to be more powerful than the many.

jmoore:
You should be asking if Nigerian Army said they captured Gentle Yahoo.

I heard they said he was KIA.

His appearing again is only a prove that they needed someone urgently to deface the south east with terrorism threats to attract the American dollar security votes in south east to.
unfortunately the script was not well played.

No Huawei phones listed. Should I act like I understand why?

fineboynl:
The us dollars is crashing worldwide. And the price of phone to hit a record high in place like Nigeria. The price of phone is going down worldwide but the price keeps increasing in Nigeria. The price of phone Last year December have increased with about 25-30% in January and February.

Why is the dollar not crashing in Nigeria. But have crashed in all other countries?

Due to dollar crash phone manufacturers will increase there price in dollars due to inflation. The price will balance in other countries but will go higher is some countries like Nigeria because the dollar didn’t crash in some countries.

Dollar doesn't rise or fall. It's the demand for it that rises and falls which determine it value.

In most countries where dollar crashed, they use dollar mostly for tourism. But because of current US policies on immigration, tourism is limited making demand to be far below the supply. That is making people to request for lower amount to offload the excess dollar in their possession.

But in Nigeria, Demand for dollars varies. It's for goods importation, for equipment importation, for Hajj and other pilgrimage, for vote buying, for tourism, and for holding to sell at a higher rate.
Supply can never exceed demand in Nigeria making it impossible for it to crash.

If it dare crash, everyone will be trooping to different embassies to leave this country for our politicians.

El-Rufai is one diversionary person you should not take his words upfront.
He alleges import of Thallium Sulfate, people should be looking for something else more deadly.

Foreign troops better get their own water and food.

I do not trust both El-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu with their life. I heard he has trained Fulani herdsmen with special ID issued by his office caught in terrorism acts but no one is talking about it now.

miracle002:
I have come to realize the influx of new and strange Monica's or usernames lately on Nairaland. Usernames with no meanings.

Where did they come from, the intriguing part is that 90% of them are pro Tinubu. They insult and attack anyone that is opposed to Tinubu.

Are they new 30k recruits or are they Tinubu's attack dogs that have been unleashed on Nairaland

More learned crews. Definitely not the 30k gang. It's going to be fun.
I saw one that registered same day to defend the richest man in Africa. It's a welcomed development.

weslay:
Did I just read high tariffs on exports from dangote to subsidize imports? What happened to NNPC, the marketers, and other Nigerians building their own refineries to compete with dangote refinery.
In 2001, people bought GSM SIM for over 20k. Today, it's less than 200 Naira. Some Telco's even give it out free of charge. That's the power of the market.

Thesolutions, your solution here is a problem.

There are several refineries currently being built by private individuals. They are not getting the type of support dangote got.
NNPC has proven they can not manage our refineries. So that is not an option.
Before dangote refinery, we have been importing fuel. If dangote refinery prove not to be a solution to this importation, we are not supposed to wound ourselves supporting it.
The government has made sacrifices so that dangote can help the economy but he is becoming a challenge rather than solution.
How can he compete with international refinery when his price at local market that has no logistics cost, security cost, custom duties and tariffs be the same as prices if same product were to be imported while bearing those charges.
Definitely not right.

chinchum:
There cant be fixed local price; the price of crude oil keeps adjusting. there may be stability for a short period of time like 2weeks or thereabout if changes in crude oil prices are minimal, but i doubt price can be static. If Nigerias are ready to see price come down like now, they must be ready to see it go up as well

He get crude oil at fixed naira value.
Again, foreign refineries are not getting those benefits as he is getting yet their products is only affected by naira to dollar conversion rate.
There is no private company that gets benefits from government like dangote has received yet we can not overcome this constant stories and competition that only arizes when marketers complain about the price of dangote products in relation to importation.

He is more concerned about the profits of marketers than the price of the product.
He gives discount to those that buys more quantity and limit the number of marketers that can access the product from his refinery by his minimum quantity order rule..
Those who paid for 5 million liters just before his price went from 699 to 799 received only about 4.4 million liters. That is one disadvantage that can only happen in Nigeria. I can't place an order online and they withhold the product because of price adjustment.

There is no reason to defend him for now.

bestofthebest90:
Silly moves like these got us to where we are in the first place. What message do you think the Nigerian Government would be sending to investors if your suggestions are implemented?

Dangote is the first indigenous refinery in Nigeria. I don't see how this makes sense.
I have not seen where government has made such moves on any other local or foreign companies. I would like to be educated if you have them or any.
Talking about investors, are you talking about national companies like BUA, RANO, and few others with known progress in private refinery building in Nigeria or foreigners who have not taken the bold step to build any refinery for over sixty years of independence?
Foreigners will only go where there are either surplus flow of Foreign exchange or where mineral resources that they can trade in abound and is accessible without security risk.
So what most countries are looking for is transfer of knowledge to grow or produce items locally rather than import.

But if any local company decide to deride the government that has given it everything, it should be regulated stiffly.

ogene007:
This is the wish of all the foreign owned refineries whose aim is to kill local refineries in Nigeria. It will never happen! What will help our balance of trade is killing of every form of importation, and increasing local production of everything, if possible. We need to put an end to every form of importation of petroleum products while supporting more local refineries to come on board. All these people who want to be importing petroleum products should pull funds together and build their own refineries, or forget about the business. We need to protect Dangote refinery and other local refineries because that is the right thing to do for job creation, increased FX inflows, stronger naira etc.

I would say this is taqiyya if this is religious post.
First, this is a private refinery built for profit like every other refinery.
Being located in Nigeria, it is expected to be cheaper than imported product by a wide margin because no logistics cost, no security cost, no landing cost, no tariffs. How is it so expensive to be competing with imported products with those costs factored in in the imported product. That is not right.

Do you think other foreign refineries that Nigerian marketer import from do not pay these tariffs and still makes profit?

He has everything free because of government ineptitude to run our refineries. Now he is oppressing the government who forfeited the fx they are getting from sales of crude oil so he can compete with the world refineries.

If he is exporting to other countries at the current price, if they factor in logistics cost, security cost, landing cost and tariffs, will any country be able to buy his product?

It's time he learn humility.

Inspirer1:
if this is possible, them it's good!
The back amd forth is tiring

It's very easy. It's the only language dangote will understand.

Nigeria government will loose nothing.
He will have to buy our crude in dollars.
If he prioritize export, fx will be flowing in as tariffs.

A portion of the sales of crude and tariffs will be used to subsidize import to make it cheaper. That will mean him competing with other foreign refineries in price battle.

He will be the one begging.

Why not reduce it before the complain becomes louder. He will wait for marketers to import products before he will
Marginally reduce his and engage his media warriors in defending his ego.
Government has given him everything but he is riding the government.

Dangote is not straight forward.

He brought down his price to 699, marketers stop import and switch to dangote product. After making payments for millions of litters, he revert to 799 per liter.

The catch is you would be supplied the quantity that the current price can buy with the already made payment.

He has proven that he can not be trusted.

It's time for government to place high tariffs on export of Petroleum products by dangote while using it to subsidize import and cutting off completely naira for crude sales by NNPC.

He will have no option than to negotiate fixed local price for the product or drink it if no country is willing to buy from him.

It's about time Nigeria government begin reaping foreign exchange from that refinery or render it useless should dangotes greed persist.

No dollar in banks but BDC are getting it. It's all FX to audio BDC.
CBN goons are allocating our FX to themselves legally in the guise of helping BDCs.
No one should believe this. Absolutely no one.
Even my deposit in my dom account I can not access because banks are not getting any.
My branch said I should go to Abuja. Can you imagine that.

CJStarz:
Snake no dey the list.
E no complete.

It has always been mosquitoes.
They better hold back the antimalarial vaccine so humans won't top the list. That would be shameful.

It's no longer peculiar to Honda. I've seen Toyota, Peugeot, Passat and many vehicles other than Honda that had this problem.

I can't relate.
I advise people to buy these chinko phones than opting for foreign used phones.

Get an Oale phone and rest.

Congratulations to them.
But they are not twining. Definitely not identical.

Kobojunkie:
Marriage has not changed at all. Rather, women have. Women no longer accept the standards offered by their fathers and grandfathers. And that has sent me scampering realizing that they would have to bring more than just a body, promises of financial aid to the table like their fathers before them used to be able to in exchange for a lifelong commitment to women they can use and abuse as they so chose to. 🥱🥱

I don't know where to start but is it fun that men have to struggle to maintain a decent marriage to the extent of advising unmarried men to get married and share in the suffering or avoid marriage to escape the suffering?
That should not be the case. In today's marriage, men proposes to women and they get married if she agrees. What was the woman agreeing to if not to support the man.
A vow which you detest so much was agreed to by both parties except in some countries where the couple draft their own vows.
Why should it become burden still.
The women you are speaking for has both religious and culture tolerance. Why should they heed to religious and cultural practices socially but denounce it in marriage.

There is definitely something wrong.

Marriage was cultural and religious obligation.
But it has become something else now.
The married believe responsibility starts when you are married.
Religion and culture maintain that two is always better than one. But civilization has so much destroyed both religion and culture that the statement now reads 'two good heads is better than one '!. Who spoiled the heads?

4words:
I agree with you. Ndi igbo should continue to hold their leaders accountable. Infact we should all be holding all leaders accountable

In Nigeria system, you can not hold leaders accountable. They can either choose to work or not to work.
We should be glad we have crops of governors who have traveled and know the values of development. Unlike the past where drunkards who seeks for praise singers attention just to spend states funds on frivolities.
Enugu state governor is the best there is for now. He entered with a wealth creation plan because he already has all he needed.

Samantha125:
Do you have any idea how uncomfortable bras are? And who hasn't seen breasts and nipples before? Because even children have.

Men will see Mercedes Benz and go wow! That's a fine car. But once you open the car to them they would want to drive it. It's best you let them admire the car from outside to limit their hunger of wanting to drive it.

But the bolded is not necessary. I had to delete my input about that.

If you bought it more than 100k, you have been cheated.

Good thread.

You should put it in a table and provide vehicle types for each oil codec

But Russian flags were flown up north.
No one talks about that. No one talks about the arrested people brought to Abuja for trial.
Someone must blame it on the Igbos.

The agenda is make the suffering and weak Igbos appear powerful and self reliant on media to deny them due governance and benefits of being part of the country while creating a sympathy for the oppressive government against the Igbos.

Well done though.

Federal government that is not refining petroleum is boasting that the price of PMS will go down further provoking dangote into suspension of sales. They want to claim responsibility of someone's sacrifice for political gain. Now dangote has struck and the president took off to turkey to ask them to come and take our refinery at any amount.
Dangote has Nigeria in his pocket. The price must first go up so Nigerians know who has a say in the oil and gas price in Nigeria.

Mystiq25:
Hello nairalanders, we all know that recently WhatsApp is not working on most Chinese used phones like Huawei, oppo, Gionee etc, the problem I think has to do with software tweaking which most of the these phones comes with. So, engineers in the house, is there any solution? Before you tell me say just buy a new phone, you have to consider the the fact that millions of Nigerians can't afford a brand new phones worth over 100k, and they still need WhatsApp on their phones, so once again, is any solution?

It's not about phone brand but about android version.
You can if the android version of your phone is considered obsolete by WhatsApp, just ditch it and get a lesser phone with higher android version. There are new cheaper brands like Oale with latest Android versions.