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iCauseTrouble:
Seun, how much did Updating9ja.com pay you to be updating all these fake news to Frontpage?
I believe its a gross disrespect to the users of this forum.

Stop spamming.

simpleseyi:
Don't say we can't producing anything. We are producing Kayamata Sexual Enhancement Drugs and Penis Enlargement Drugs.

I never said we aren't producing anything.

Babinski:
Global Fleet Oil claims nor to have collected a single kobo of subsidy.
https://dailypost.ng/2012/01/12/my-oil-firm-got-no-kobo-of-subsidy-from-fg-jimoh-ibrahim/

That is a misleading headline.
They didn't collect subsidy because they never merited it.

Here is an excerpt from the article explaining why they didn't get subsidy:

in addition, I have never collected any allocation from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company or imported such. We only buy and sell.

Any importer who claims not to collect subsidy is lying.

LaboPolitics:
NBA has been divided since Walter Onoghen was removed. Let's stop deceiving ourselves.

Perhaps "division" means something different to you.

Let us see if Malami will sponsor an ammendment.
Those "lawyers" should have known that Malami has no unilateral power
to recognize a new NBA but I guess being a functional illiterate has its perks.

Babinski:
Subsidy is a big scam! .

You will be surprised to know that not all oil marketers collect subsidy. Examples are Global Fleet Oil and Obat Oil. So how are these non-subsidy collecting marketers able to sell at the same price and still gain?

If Government removes so called subsidy, the only reason the price will rise is because of the cartel in the industry. Capital Oil has said that repeatedly. When Governments allow cartels to form, the cartels dictate pricing to the detriment of the populace.

All marketers involved in fuel import collect subsidy.

kikero:
The reason why government refuses to remove subsidy is because if they do, the price of fuel would be above 300 per liter, like it is in Niger, Benin and Sierra Leone, where there is no subsidy

Removing subsidy is politically expensive, despite the fact that there are long term benefits of lower oil prices, more investment in oil, more jobs , and more refineries and no more scarcity

But APC does not want to be put out of office , so they keep on paying the useless subsidy

Stop giving excuses and justifying lies.
APC knew the function of subsidy before they called it a fraud
and Buhari even asked that what is subsidy as if it serves no purpose.
Perhaps we can forgive Buhari for his ignorance for obvious reason, but
not APC.

They continously lie to Nigerians taking advantage of the widespread illiteracy.
They were gaining goodwill on an issue they didn't even address.
And here you are explaining why they can't remove it.

Complete trash.
This sort of paranoia only applies to country with real defense research and capabilities.
Nigeria that can't manufacture an ordinary gun and couldn't fight bandits shouldn't be worried
about another country spying on it.

If the Chinese really need some landscape information, they just need to pay the right government
official to hand it to them.

Kobicove:
Why did you not say this when Sanusi Mohammed was deposed and banished from Kano recently by the government of Kano State?!

Banishment is illegal.
It is Sanusi's choice not to fight it.

I won't be surprised if this is true.
Obaseki would only be acting according just like his grandfather.

bimbax:
That's waste of time.
Don't we have more pressing National issues that should matter to us?
It's simply a religious doctrine, and the state authority approves of it.

It's important we respect people's belief and approve of their decisions so long it appeases them.

Who are the people?
Who took a survey of this "people" and where is the result that shows that they are all bloodthirsty thugs?

I supposed it will be okay if some mob grabbed you and set you ablaze for some flimsy reason because
they want it.

Banishment is illegal.

ImageDoctor:
Innoson and NORD are good products, and they are doing great. Let's not see it as competition; but collective development that would enhance automobile future of Nigeria among other African countries.

One Love Humanity

They are competitors.
Businesses are not run on sentiments and competition is a good thing.

Bitchlover:
Fighting a lost battle.

If the whole of Nigeria don't have sense, Edo/Benin must surely have sense. Quality leadership over tribalism since 15BC.

Yes, we remember how the Igbinedions brought the best quality leadership to Edo state.

I always knew the ritual part of the story was a lie.
The police are yet to release the full story.

Wantedmiller:
Only headline is enough for me.

I can't even open my YouTube because of that shit.

You are not the target market.
One viral video can garner thousands of views per day.

Expect more of these proposal videos as other bloggers catch up to the trick.
They are staged to make money on YouTube.

TheGodlessGod:
dumb question

Now, you see how illogical you are.

0balufonlll:
A deluded individual.

Since you are Nigerian then you must begin

To speak Nigerian apart from English Language.

To dress Nigerian apart from Western outfits

Have a Nigerian name apart from a foreign name

You already did all the above.

Charmingrascal:
Where is he getting money from?

Is he not collecting allocation and what about IGR?

You probably need an economics, political and budget education.

These are the dunderheads that make public office holders think they are doing the masses a favour by doing projects that they are meant to execute.

They aren't dunderheads.
No, they are not elected to "do projects".
Yes, that is what many of them campaign with but it is not their primary function.
A governor may not "do project" for their entire tenure without violating any law.

Your Governor constructs roads, gives you water and light and you re praising him like he has done you a favour, why did you vote him if not for him to provide social amenities for you as citizens.

Everyone in every part of the world praise the leader they like.
Maybe aliens don't praise their leaders but we don't even know if they exist.

BOFA2020:
Dummy, as if you won't be wailing and crying if the person involved happens to be TINUBU.
IN FACT THE WAILING AND CRYING WOULD HAVE BEEN OUT OF THIS WORLD IF TINUBU HAD BEHAVED THE SAME WAY THE CRACK HEAD FANI DID.

It is not my fault that my simple submission flew past over your head.

Here is how to reason if you still can't get it.
If there is a problem with the security of the state, you blame the governor, IG and the president.
There is nothing controversial about it and any citizen or even resident of the country can criticize
them regardless of the party,tribe,religion they belong.
They are elected or appointed and are free to resigne if they feel overwhelmed.
They are not some emperor to be worshipped and fauwed over.

When they are out of power, they become private citizens and can criticize whoever is in charge on
current issues.

It is illogical to compare a private citizen to a current office holder.

You see, it isn't that complicated to figure out where to direct governmental criticism.
I didn't even have to mention a single name to make my point.

anonimi:
If he is a private citizen why is he occupying public space frequently, as in permanently?
You fit reason that one

Before I answer, what is public space according to you?

BOFA2020:
[[s]quote author=thesicilian post=93311623]To be frank I don't blame FFK for reacting the way he did, though he took it too far. Some journalists deliberately ask you annoying, almost insulting question just to have something sensational for their bosses.[/s]

What a lame excuse. If it was Buhari or El Rufai, you will be saying something different.


#HYPOCRITE

Perhaps you need a dictionary.

In what country do people compare private citizens to elected officials?
Do you think anyone will give a damn if ell rufai or Buhari are not in power?

SMH

DexterousOne:
You got this all wrong


One, Bernie Sanders is saying the absolute truth
But let's leave Bernie out of this first

Bernie is lying.
I would have given him the benefit of the doubt if he was one unenlightened but
he knows exactly what he is doing just like the communist of the old.
Either I am in charge or I tear down the system.

The Feds are pumping the markets with excess liquidity, and they are intervening in every way possible in the market
So the person you are quoting is right !

The Feds makes independent decisions on the best way to
stabilize and improve the economy.
Nigeria's CBN has been spent millions of dollars to defend the Naira.
They are doing their job even though I am against such methods.
It will be folly for someone to blame people that benefits from such intervention
while also claiming the economy is fake. At least, I don't expect any educated person
to make such a charge unless they are lying like Sanders.
At no time in recent memory have the economy been left to function on its own.
There has always been intervention.

When I knew america was finished
Was when the Feds started buying junk corporate bonds by the billions
That's when I knew capitalism was dead and buried
And what we have is a mix of corporate socialism and crony capitalism

This is laughable.
The Feds buying junk bonds has nothing to do with Capitalism being dead.
Capitalism can never be dead as long as humans exist.
Even if some do-gooder communist were to take over by magic, it wouldn't be long before
such system implodes.
Perhaps, capitalism means something entirely different to you.

When record number of Americans are suffering seriously due to the failure of both the White House and both houses of Congress (both party leadership actually)

Instead of the treasury, and congress to bail out people and small businesses
They bailed out corporations and gave them all they wanted

I am against all bailouts even for the "people" as they are just ploy to buy votes.

Now they are taking it so far as to saying that employees may not get to sue employers for creating unsafe working conditions if they catch covid at work....


America is descending into Brazil before our very eyes
And that's what Bernie is complaining about

Any employee can sue if they like but that is not what you are asking for.
No. Bernie has been a totalitarian marxist for a long term, his complain has nothing
to do with Brazil.
It is funny to compare America to Brazil when they aren't even close in any indices or
style of government.
What specific recent legislation has made America become like Brazil.

This unbridled greed will destroy the country...

I am sorry, this statement is meaningless.

The companies made so much money during the pandemic and they should be taxed more to at least help out in recalibrating things
Bernie is also right on that one

Which companies exactly.
Equivocating is another Bernie strategy to bamboozle his audience.
Some companies were destroyed by the pandemic while others mostly internet giants
saw an unprecedented growth.
Even our previously struggling Jumia shared from the windfall.
"Tax the rich" is good for campaign but not in practise.
How much tax is Bernie proposing and who exactly is the rich?

What he advocates for is what every developed country enjoys, but the greed of the corporate elite and the media that they control continue to deceive americans into believing all is well.....

Bernie fails to mention or he was ignorant that most of those developed country "enjoying" has had lower corporate tax than
the US for decade; about 20% as opposed to US' 35% until Trump cut it.
They also have a much higher income tax.
It turns out that the socialist European Bernie claim to admire are actually
much lax on corporate tax while simultaneously taxing individuals at a very high rate.
Who would have thought?

When they are being ripped off.

Who is being ripped off?

What kind of economy gives all manners of loopholes for corporations to escape paying taxes
Then use tax payer money to bail them out when they get into trouble for their own foolishness (eg. Using your Free Cash Flow in the good years for stock buybacks to inflate your share prices ) and when the rainy day comes you are cash negative

They are not loopholes.
Those laws were specifically designed to boost reinvestment and they have largely delivered.
As I stated before, I am 100% against bailout or subsidy but I am damn sure that communist
and socialist will also favor bailout if they are in charge.
It is no accident that every country that can afford it bailed out critical part of their sector
during the 2008 and now this pandemic.

And btw, anti trust laws are in place to prevent behemoths like this from getting so big
But greed
And more greed

This another misleading point.
Anti-trust laws were enacted to foster healthy competition and not prevent behemoths.
Thanks to behemoths, we have had cheaper products and better quality of life.

Thankfully the American youth (at least s sizeable percentage of them) are waking up to see the shitshow going on and are taking their destiny into their own hands by running for office and they have been winning so far

There is no such thing as American youth.
Some subsections of subsections with particular political leaning are making noise
as if they are in the majority.
If we are to believe their noise, Trump, the buffoon's support would have dropped far
below the 40% that he held since 2016.

Corporate Greed eventually will be slain

I don't know what you mean but if it is anything remotely related to sweeping socialist
takeover. Then, it can only end in disaster. There is a reason that communist countries
are opening up instead of doubling down.
Vietnam is doing it, even Cuba, the socialist paradise is now on board.

Hugo Chavez "slayed" the "greedy" capitalist in his country and end up
destroying venezuala's economy.
India suffered in backwardness for years under socialist and protectionist principles before it reformed.

In fact, you can pick any random country and predict its economic development
based on the level of restrictions it places on business and their government's hatred
of corporation. Of course, some people cheer such moves because they want revenge.
Just as some cheered while Stalin slayed greedy bourgeoise and simultaneously slayed
millions of proleteriat.

Yes, that a system isn't perfect and requires tinkering does not mean the alternative should
be considered.

9jatriot:
This guy don buy market for journalist hand. They go torment tire. He probably will need to buy his way out of this.

There is nothing to buy from the "journalist" who are bereft of ideas.
All over the world, journalists are leading and campaigning for positive change
against their various government. But our coward journalist avoid any risky but
worthwhile goals.

How would it affect the average Nigerian if FFK were to drop dead today?
Of course, nothing would change but these brown envelope people thinks FFK
deserve national attention for insulting a journalist.

This man who some sections of the media think is some emperor have no real political
influence, does not hold a governmental appointment and does not make any law.
Yet, our journalists are wasting bandwidth and paper to make him look bad as if those
who care have not already have an opinion about FFK in the first place.

Some of them are even comparing him to Buhari, a sitting president, just to show how bad he is.
You can't make up this joke.

Sanchez01:
As at yesterday, Jeff Bezos net worth was $199.7 Billion. Today, his net worth is $204 billion, meaning he made $200 million in 24hrs; during a pandemic when the world has been halted and most businesses impacted.

Populism benefits the rich, no doubt. Amazon doesn't give warehouse workers paid sick leave. Cost for 2 weeks sick leave: $480M, or 0.6% of fortune Bezos added this year. It cut $2/hour hazard pay. Cost: $140M/month, 0.2% of fortune added.

Depends on what you mean by populism and the rich.
For example, it takes populism for socialists and communists to take over.

A disturbing trend is the the federal reserve, which sets the precedence of inflated stock market prices, and account for most of Jeff Bezos' wealth.

Federal reserve has nothing to do with stock prices.
If you think stock prices are inflated why are you bothered?
Can you tell us the actual price?

Abolishing this will beat down inflated stock market prices and prevent this grotesque figure.

What make the figure grotesque?
How does stock price "inflation" affected you personally?

Getting wealthier during a pandemic looks like something that is realistic only in sci-fis.

This backs my concern...

- Bernie Sanders
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1298739359013896195

The champaign socialist and multimillionaire Bernie Sanders is lying as usual.
Let him name the billionaires who made $800 billion dollar.

Of course, he won't as that would expose his lies.
Part of the "billionaires" who made the 800 billion dollar includes
State government's pensioneers, elderly medicare, health insurance
holders and other "billionaires".

Sanders is doing what socialists knows best, politics of envy.

andyanders:
Exactly. Electrocution is not the best. Just by killing the idiots through the process whereby, eabh day, bring them out, cut one hand off with cutlass, sprinke iodine on it and allow it stay for 6hrs. After 6hrs, bring them out again, cut one leg off and apply same process until the person dies. The ones that participated in raping her, their manhoo should be cut off with razor blade and not knife. Slow process.

Would you supervise the process?

Those women who have poverty all written on their faces couldn't afford 1 million Naira.
I believe these suspects are involved in the murder but the police story suggest that
a bigger fish is being shielded from justice.

Did the suspects know the victim?
How did they locate her?
What's so special about her that someone needs to pay 1 million Naira for?

These are serious questions for the police to answer.

seunny4lif:
Know the full story before commenting
The guy was just separating his neighbors from fighting and he has nothing to do with it.
People were even telling the officers that the guy only came to separate a fight as the guy was been called by the neighbors.
The officers have shock gun but the choose to shoot someone at the back 7 times?
You don’t know the rules of shoot a gun.
Never gun someone in the back rules of cowboys gun fights

You are right about his innocence.

However, his reaction shows that he doesn't really believe that US cops shoots
unarmed suspects at random.
This would be like an armed robber ordering someone to empty their pocket and
they are refusing. Of course, we know the armed robber is wrong but escaping
the precarious situation unharmed should be everyone's priority.

He might have thought he is on the right because he has committed no crime
and probably also consider that his kid are in his car.

But complying would only have led to his brief incareceration and release, no shooting.
I know we all want every policemen to behave professionally, but that is nearly impossible
especially in the gun-loving American society.

What is really more baffling in this situations is that no mention is made about the person
who dialled 911 even though they bear some of the blame.

fyneguy:
empty grammar.

Per kwh of power is fixed and known to consumers. The Discos just need to meter all users, otherwise Discos will lose out. Consumers need to manage energy consumption and cut wastage, to be ableto afford it, as it's done abroad.

Was there a time when the cost of per kwh of power is not fixed?

Sensational headline.
Not even close.

Openbusiness:
someone that posed nude few times as a professional model and a short-lived modelling career is different from someone that poses nude as a permanent way of life or lifestyle.

How many times?

Melania was still Melania Knauss as a model, not yet married to Trump, but as per lifestyle, she is as classy as ever, ever since she married Trump.

She was an inconsequential slut trading her body for money until she met Trump.

Melania and Cardio no b same level. Cardi is just a street hoelosho who is just extremely lucky to be talented with rapping.

Extremely lucky!
That is poverty language.
Your role model is still a slut only renting herself to a disgusting old man.

And she is a classic case of you can take a man out of Ajegunle but you can't take Ajegunle out of a man.
When she was poor, she was a trashy rachet broke ass hoelosho, and now that she's rich, she is still a t
rashy rachet rich hoelosho with fancy clothes and expensive bling bling.

What has changed for your role model?
She was selling her body to any organizer that asks for it then and she is still selling
it to the orange clown now. She has achieved nothing in her entire life(getting married
is not an achievement).

But for Cardi B, she turned her life around in a way you can't imagine.

Nothing has changed except for her fat bank account. She's still a street thug stripper. How can you compare that to Melania

The funny thing is that people are killing themselves for that fat bank account.
Families and friends betray themselves for it.

You could solve most of Nigeria's problem if you could magically gift every citizen with Cardi B's level of account.
Yet, you think it is not important when most people consider the most important.