Subsidy is a screen saver, it is not the desktop.

Those who think this whole thing was really about subsidy are simply decieved or ignorant.

Since the discovery of the black gold, the whole of Nigerias pulse as a nation is directly proportional to that of the crude. Corruption excels where there is free money, and the flow of oil from the ND has made free money available for grabs for whosoever is fit. Free money has made Nigerians to become lazy and nothing can change that except the oil finishes or it is deregulated completely.

The ND people do not have access to their oil, and they know that only through a complete deregulation will they benefit from it. Yet, those who have captured the oil wells will not like to see deregulation.

People from the North & the West have oil wells, while those in the ND do not have. Does anyone wonder why they are angry?

Does it make sense that fuel drilled from Port Harcout will be sold at the same cost both in Port Harcourt and far away Kano? Yet the cost of Yam & Cow can never be the same in both cities.

The recent deregulation attempt by Mr. President to let market forces determine the price of fuel is a bold step in the right direction. The ND people understands this & that is why they are backing Jonathan all the way.

The threat by TUC to shutdown oil terminals was a mistske. For no sooner did they make the threat that the ND people came with a counter:

"You want to shutdown oil produuction? Ah! Thank God. Shut down quickly & vacate, so we can occupy the platforms".

TUC have no option than to backdown.

Irrespective of what Nigerians think about the labour leaders, this singular threat from the onwers of the oil was what ended the strike.

Those accusing labour leaders of betrayal & collecting "ghana most go" do not understand the oil politics nor do they understsnd the complexieties of nation that is not ONE.

Allowing the ND militants/freedom fighters (whichever you like) to tkae over the platforms would mean end the oil flow and the end of the flow, is the end of Nigeria.  

honestly, I was hoping that labour would not back down so that Nigeria would end this year. I am tired of Nigeria and please dont blame me. But those labour guys are wise and backdown quickly.

Nigerians who are calling them betrayers are simply ignorant.

Lest I foget, those who were decieving themselves that soldiers would be deployed to the platforms were only dreaming: Jonathan won't betray the trust of his people.
He is first an ND man before a Nigerian just like me, am first a Biafran before a Nigerian. Oops!, did I say that?

The war is on, and Mr. president is keen on winning it. Yes, pump price will go up, but there is more to it.

My position?
Let him deregulate even today.

noblezone:

1. Corruption excels where there is free money, and the flow of oil from the ND has made free money available for grabs for whosoever is fit. Free money has made Nigerians to become lazy and nothing can change that except the oil finishes or it is deregulated completely.


2. The ND people do not have access to their oil, and they know that only through a complete deregulation will they benefit from it. Yet, those who have captured the oil wells will not like to see deregulation.
People from the North & the West have oil wells, while those in the ND do not have. Does anyone wonder why they are angry?


3. Does it make sense that fuel drilled from Port Harcout will be sold at the same cost both in Port Harcourt and far away Kano? Yet the cost of Yam & Cow can never be the same in both cities.
 

You kept it succinct and to the point. God bless the beautiful womb that housed your rational brain for nine months.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere(MLK)