₦airaland Forum

TiredLividSoul:
What if I do? Have you thought about that as well?

Thats the problem with your view point, you only try to look on the possible good outcome, but not the 'other' possible outcome, and those that try to point to you the 'other' possible outcome you label pessimists. Like they say look both sides of the road before crossing.

Op sounds like someone who can justify unwholesome and nefarious activity all in the name of 'life is tough'

toyini1234:
where are the America has systems that work gang. where were the fire fighters?

This statement must have emanated from a place of abundant ignorance, deliberate delusion and cognitive dissonance. No one has to be this unfortunate!

TiredLividSoul:
Life itself is a risk. I get to see another day richer if I made it through

And if not?
Then RIP

The women will argue that they are looking for daily bread. What about the bandits and boko haram who are fighting the course of Allah?

Imagine those women getting bombed by the military together with the bandits while providing such 'pleasure service' in the trenches. Collateral damage!

Ovamboland:
Lets stop harping on semantics, that's not the subject of discussion.

One thing govt can do is introduce another form of subsidy or withdraw VAT in imported LPG, 7.5% which won't reverse the 200% price increase and will discourage local investment in LPG production.

So, in 2021 government reintroduced VAT on imported LPG and requested importers to pay the tax on imports going back 3 years, yes cargo that has since been sold. So importers are now gradually trying to offset the outstanding VAT, with the attendant cost transferred to buyers. So the 7.5% VAT importers are paying at the moment is effectively much more than that and is being transferred to Nigerians. You probably never heard of this thats why you argued that removal of the VAT would not change the price much.
On the lighter side, i wonder what you make of that fellows argument of 'manufacturing' LPG?

Very educative thread with video demonstrations showing safety advantages of composite fiberglass LPG cylinders

mfm04622:
Why are you calling on govt to do something when the market is deregulated? Deregulated mean govt is NOT involved! Market forces is left to determine price and quantity supplied to the market.
For VAT on gas, it was even removed!
For exchange rate adjustment, so Naira should be manipulated just because has is going up? We are in this mess today because of the way we manipulated Naira in the past! If CBN manipulates Naira too much, there would be scarcity of foreign currency! CBN is working very hard to ensure we get enough foreign currency to meet demand for them already and they should jeopardize their work because of gas price?

When situations spiral out of control government cannot fold its hands and say that 'it is a deregulated market', thats not how it should play out please. On VAT, it is fully in place for imported LPG this very moment, you must know.
Finally, not everyone can be decieved about 'Naira manipulation in the past'. Now that CBN 'no longer manipulates it', is forex readily available, and has foreign reserves grown reasonable more than in the past? Are you saying there is no forex scarcity today or what? I still maintain that government can still do something to make LPG more affordable to Nigerians, if the mean it. Its not totally out of there hands.

Ovamboland:
Processing and blending is what sir using multi million dollar equipment?

We are not talking of picking stones out of beans.

VAT on imported LPG is the position of the tax law every dealer was aware of 2-3 years ago. Locally produced LPG are still tax exempt, but why is it not selling cheaper? Simple law of demand and supply in a deregulated market.

If you have the acumen and better idea on how to supply LPG at cheaper price to the market, this is your chance to hit it big.

There is no 'manufacturing' of petrol from crude oil (thats what you are saying), but processing (refining) crude into petrol, please! Enough of this!
I maintain, there is what government can still do to make the product more affordable in the local market. Government makes laws hence can review the VAT to ease the burden on Nigerians. I see you have nothing to say about the exchange rate adjustments I mentioned by the government which badly impacted on the price of domestic LPG

Very interesting interview. Please watch to understand the context from which mummy G. O. has been trending lately

COMPAQ:
Dude there is a difference between LPG and LNG, however subtle. We export LNG but not LPG. NLNG plant in Bonny produces some LPG, but insufficient for local demand. The rest is imported. And that imported bit is what has been affected by sharp increase in has prices in 2021. NLNG company in Bonny was never set up to produce LPG. No matter the volume of gas that passes through NLNG, if they never had the capacity for LPG, then so be it.

Go through my writeup again and you would see that i did not mention LNG anywhere, so I don't see your point about LNG. And, don't be decieved, if you don't know, LPG cargo has already been exported out of Nigeria this 2022

backbencher:
Not exactly

Porn's problem is that it gives an unrealistic view of sex. What turns a porn star on may not turn your woman or man on, and also porn stars have bodies that are to some extent very unrealistic as well (a porn film is a film, and films have characters who don't look like most people in real life.)

I suggest it is better a married couple work together to find out what turns them on.

Also, good sex begins with good relationship. If your relationship with the spouse is not good enough, no amount of porn is going to fix it.

Good sex also begins with good diet, hygiene, exercise, etc etc....

You are one of those back benchers we use to underrate back in school, but turned out to be pretty bright. Very reasonable comment there

Nice work by the nation newspaper. What remains is for government to step in and put an end to such archaic barbaric practices against the girl child. Haba! Such practices are crimes against humanity!

alezzy13:
Hmmm. Interesting discussions

For the proponents of money ritual, some questions:

Where does it come from? Is the fake money or real (ie CBN printed money) if real, does it disappear from CBNs vault and suddenly reappear in one calabash or drum? . . . Or it mysteriously conjured by the babalawo? So where does the serial number come from. . .And so on. . .

While I agree there are dimensions of evil one may not fully comprehend, the idea of mythical ritual money, as far as I'm concerned is just that - a myth.

Interesting comment, and no answers yet for the questions posed.

Interesting comment, and no answers yet for the questions posed.

A minor simply cannot give consent! The law is that simple

Ifakiland:
In other words you wanna borrow 100k and pay back 200k in 10 months??
What property do you wanna use as collateral

There will more than likely not be any collateral as that return on investment quoted is suspect for me.

The said police man is one of those involved in illicit trade of arms and ammunitions of the force by his own account, not any mistakes. He likely has more clientele he has sold arms to that thorough investigation will reveal.
Unfortunately, the police force has many such unscrupulous and compromised elements in service

Ovamboland:
If you understand the meaning of manufacturing you will not say that. Neither propane nor butane occur naturally, they must be separated from natural gas in columns costing millions of dollars using expensive catalyst. Then they must be blended together to create LPG.

The complexity of the commercial contract that makes it possible to export LPG from the NLNG is not what Buhari can change by fiat. They have done what is possible by requesting the company dedicate more output to the domestic market. Locally produced LPG is not even subject to VAT which is supposed to be an incentive to local producers and jobs. There are many gas projects that will come on stream this year to ameliorate the situation. However the era of cheap LPG may be long gone worldwide

Oga, there is nowhere on earth where LPG is 'manufactured', please. Methane, butane and propane occur naturally as a mixture known as natural gas. Processing seperates the natural gas into its contituents, from where we get LPG (butane and propane mixture).
Despite your writeup there, i am still convinced that there is what government can do to make the product more affordable. The government is wholly responsible for costs arising from VAT on imported gas and exchange rate adjustments, so they can tinker with that for a start. Do you need more?

mfm04622:
1. Price of gas has been deregulated for long!
2. Price of gas went up world-wide! Not only Nigeria! World wide. When will we accept there is no free lunch anywhere?

Price of gas including LPG went up globally in 2021 no doubt, but it will be disingenuous for anyone to want us to believe there is nothing the federal government can do to make the product a little more affordable to Nigerians.
The exchange rate adjustment and VAT on imported gas are two cost imputs the government is wholly responsible for.

Ovamboland:
False, LPG is a manufactured product and does not occur naturally
Its components propane and butane must be separated in complex gas processing plants or from very expensive oil refinery or LNG plants.

We don't supply LPG to other countries we rather import to augment out local production.

Dangote refinery will produce LPG as by products and the ongoing train 7 NLNG plant will increase domestic production but it will still be sold at market prices but will benefit from no VAT policy on locally produced LPG

LPG is not 'manufactured' as you put it, but obtained from processing natural gas by liquefaction and separation. And, lets not be deceived, Nigeria actually exports LPG, while at the same time importing to augment local supply in a manner that defies logic!
Finally, gas price including lpg surged globally in 2021 no doubt, but no one should be decieved into believing that there is nothing the federal government can do to make the product a bit more affordable for Nigerians, especially considering it is a product produced locally.

Ronaldoguy:
no I think it was suicide first before murder, she was holding the baby in her hand albeit with rope on the baby's neck. She dropped the baby to die by hanging after she must have died too

Logically speaking, someone that has committed suicide cannot commit murder

Explorers:
They don't need fresh air, they're freezing, they need heat.

Lack of fresh air causes asphyxiation, actually. It is possible to wind the glass down momentarily for some fresh air while the car heater is still on, so they will neither freeze nor suffer asphyxiation.

Asphyxiation seems improbable since they can always wind down the car glass momentarily for some quick fresh air, that is if the vehicle itself does not have automatic climate control/recirculation.

Sunday2021:
but it is not too early for a so called friend of the death woman to make an accusation without any proof?
That NNENA is a devil, I wish the pastor can sue her sorry ass.

There is a world of difference between a friend and husband, and all of law, culture and religion recognises the role of the deceased's husband.
That you are already calling one of the parties 'devil' speaks to your closed mindedness and lack of objectivity in the matter

I feel it is rather too early for a husband grieving the death of his wife to jump up in defence of the Church, which is what he just did!

There are probably more married people struggling to make ends meet than single individuals in their thirties. The married folks might be doing better emotionally with the close companionship, but many still resort to single friends to meet some financial needs since the burden might be easier to carry as a single and easier to manage

Committed murder first, then suicide. That child must have wondered in their young mind, 'whats mumy doing?'. Just sad!

Ammishaddai:
This Nigeria so I don't see why people are complaining about this. And from my perspective, people complaining about this are not benefiting directly and are just disgruntled because they are not gaining

Does not still make it right if truly the case. This is a very serious, albeit grevious allegation that needs to be looked into by all authorities concerned