₦airaland Forum

Sometimes you just have to be a realist, everything shouldn't be about religion. The west and Arab who introduced the religions(Islam and Christianity) to us don't pray to God to fix their country, they hold their leaders accountable.

Let us pray😩.Only a 40days marathon prayer can crush this lalakukulala abi wetin dem dey call them

Flangelo12:
Shouldn't have beaten her.

He never knew her nature?

Yeah my thought too. He just beat her for no reason. He can't claim he wasn't aware of character of a woman he is dating.A slay queen will remain a slay queen even if you put her in the family way.Na hm wan date slay queen,so why beat her for exhibiting her slay queen trait.

You are leaving obi's camp to join Tinubu's camp.How logical is that.This people are just too fickle.

If the country is functioning well,this pastas won't rely on pastoring as a full time job. December is approaching, their cashout month, crusade and vigil here and there.

McDoe:
So cheering. Need to walk the talk

Asiwsju is trying. Additional 4 years loading...

Can we just make him life president?

This thing is getting embarrassing.How can national grid be collapsing like it's suffering seizure.

This is one of the reason you can't blame some foreign Nigerian players who chose to play for their adopted nations.

This should be the joke of the day even tho the day is still young. 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩. Anyone having a bad day will definitely have a good laugh when they come across this post🤩. INEC🤭🤩🤩🤩

Nairaland needs a thumbs down/ dislike button cos of posts like this.

nairalanda1:
It's like the op, and most nairalanders do not get why we cannot afford subsidy anymore.

For starters, it costs a lot of money to refine crude into petrol, and yet, at the end of the day, people want cheap fuel because 'economy hard'

Well, if we want crude to be 200 naira per liter, that means that for every liter, government would pay at least 800 naira. Assuming a fuel consumption rate of 60 million liters a day, that's about 48 billion naira a day, which equates to about 17 trillion naira a year.

Well, I haven't included transport costs...so including them could lead to something like 20-25 trillion a year....to be spent on subsidies.

Remind me what our budget for this year was...35 trillion. 20 trillon of that would go on subsidy to get cheap fuel.

At the end, we would have to take a loan of at least 20 trillion naira per annum to pay for the deficit that results from subsidy. That is on top of the loans that we are still paying off.

You know what that meas for our economy.

Oh, and the above calculations assumes there is no smuggling. With smuggling, consumption goes as high as 90 million liters per day. I don't want to calculate the cost implications.






I know people have abused me, and called me names, but with the above cost implication of manitaining subsides as they were in Jan 2023, I doubt that we would want to go back to those days.

The fact is, Dangote is a businessman, and he took loans to build that his refinery. He cannot sell fuel to you at 200 naira per liter and expect to have a working refinery in five years. Remember he has to pay loans, pay his workers an internationally competitive wage, and pay for maintenance and upgrades if neccesary, and also still pay taxes. (Even if he is being forgiven tax on the refinery, his workers still have to pay tax out of their salaries self.).

Infact selling fuel at a loss in the name of subsidy is why we lost 4 refineries, and went from 400000 bpd in 1987 to 92000 in 2012, to 6500 in 2019. (Same issue in Venezuela, whose largest refinery went from 900000 bpd, to 100000 bpd over 2-3 decades of subsides...and last I checked no NIgerians was running the country). Refining petrol is a venture that needs a profit to survive.


Yes, I believe that subsides are necessary. But the thing is, as our budget is, we cannot pay for subsides without borrowing and borrowing. I also have heard repeated comments that 'in saner climes they pay subsides'...when what they do is heavily tax incomes to pay for subsides that go to the poorest of the poor....or maybe they pay the refinery a production subsidy, which might reduce prices a bit...but by not much.


All in all, the era of cheap fuel is at an end.

What does the government do with income generated from other byproduct of Crude oil such as bitumen, jet fuel,asphalt and the likes. We only focus on petrol and diesel . Can't income generated from these byproducts be use to subsidize petrol?

Doyin okupe, Lai Mohammed, femi adeshina, onanuga. These guys all have a trait in common.

DJ cuppy own go loud pass this one.

Carndidlaydid:


We all need to be patient..
By this time 2027 we all will be loving this administration cos things would have changed for the better

To make it to the mountain peak we need to endure pains

No pain no gain
And
Rome wasn't built in a day

If you don't know what to say, please go and join the prayer session with una first lady. Stop preaching patience FGS.

Someone is trying to blackmail this man.

Nuzo1:
I don’t think I’ve ever criticized Tinubu’s government. But comparing him to Lee kuan yew is a joke taken too far.

I wish it’s true but since it’s not. Please stop the joke now!

LKY in his 35 years of service to Singapore could only be accused of awarding himself a 3 bedroom flat in one of the government subsidized apartments. After investigation, it was found to be a lie.

LKY said African leaders would travel in private jets and Cadillac to UN and commonwealth meetings to beg for loan. While he travels in commercial even when his country was already rich enough to afford a private jet.

LKY said when he sent a fact finding delegation to Africa to learn about how to develop a country, they came back disappointed. He never concerned himself with anything Africa again. He said with the way African leaders were leading, that Africa will never develop in the next 50 years. It’s about 60 years ago he made that statement. Was he right?

LKY stopped open cattle rearing in 4 months. They had a worse case in Singapore.

LKY made sure he distributed resources and political positions evenly among the the major races in the country even when the Chinese were over 70% of the population.

LKY never spared his immediate family or friends when they broke the law.

LKY did not promote religious or racial bigotry while he was the president. He brought down discrimination to the barest minimum.

Etc.

No more jokes please.

Thanks for this piece, I will definitely read more about him in my free time.

Him family go don they look for am o. Dem no go know say e don enter your pot😋

Lee Kwan yew didn't tell Singaporean to be praying for him to succeed. A president here is clueless and rely on citizens prayers to guide his path.Master strategist is out of strategy and need national prayer for him to succeed.

Even the people that introduce these foreign religion to us ( Islam & Christianity) don't tolerate rubbish from their leaders. But sultan want us to overlook the misdeeds of our leaders.

In this case, I think it's the woman who should break up with the guy for his carelessness.The girl obviously has no fault in this.

franktech:
I am not trying to single out anyone, but we all need to support the government so that we rip the benefits together

Support? Are we still in campaign season. They have the modfckin mandate already.You don't beg for support, you earn it. If they put in favorable policies, people will support them, or do you expect people to give counterfeit support to government taking food away from their table?

The only people praising Tinubu's policy are the people benefitting directly from his government.Tinubu is out of his depth,he has no solution to Nigeria's problem, he will only compound to it.

Juliearth:
There is one tailing me already, but he's gonna learn. I want to prepare Afang soup with 7 lives using 500 naira.

Bullet still dey your kala?

Juliearth:
LOL! Just the 1k oh, my brother and small g*n

Lol, you'll soon be on interpol's watchlist my lady🤩

E be like say na night you dey enter market when owner don go house. You dey carry any commodity you want and drop any amount you feel like.

Almond911:
The only Klinsmann I know, is Jurgen Klinsmann. From his outburst, you'll know this one is an impostor!

Lol, what the fxck, I was just about to write this🤩

franktech:
It is mostly igbos that are in Lagos and they do not want Tinubu out of jealousy. You don't understand how these things work

No long talk bro, Tinubu lacks good governance, Lagosians had first hand info of this which prompt them to reject him in other not to bring his bad governance to national level.You don't need to single out the igbos

franktech:
His track records are there for you to see. Facts not fiction

Track record that made him lose a place he build from foundation tueh!

franktech:
Infrastructural developmentall round lagos and making lagos economically viable that peoplefrom other region across nigeria want to live there. Lagos state is richer than than other states in nigeria by far margin all becuase of Tinubu's achievements

Mr propaganda, aren't you guys tired of all these "he build Lagos" propaganda. If he did all the work, what did his predecessor and successors do then, were they sleeping during their stint in office. If he had such glorious record as governor, he should have won with a landslide margin the Lagos he build from foundation. I can't imagine the likes of fashola, ambode or a sanwolu not winning Lagos state if they have a chance to contest for presidential election.

Stockholm syndrome is real wallahi

I will rather believe the devil than believe believe this APC man masquerading as a PDP man.He and the rest of the G whatever they are will still work for Tinubu again in 2027. If we want Tinubu evicted, it's not going to happen via election, it will be a total waste of time.