GloriousGbola:


I should have realized. But when we see this

https://www.nairaland.com/7722429/damilola-adeparusi-turns-off-gas

It is actually a Nigerian problem,imho.we have very little imagination or desire to put in original work. Linda ikeji sweated at her blog for years. Once she hammered everyone started gossip blogs. Same thing with iyin and flutter wave. Now everyone is doing or attempting fintech. Now we have the same with Hilda. While Hilda knew what she was doing, why she was doing it, and took time to plan the whole thing out, these copycats will simply bastardize the whole thing

Ibukzy:
Always profiling, Smh

Donjazet2:


E heee. That explains it better.
It's extremely rare to encounter an obidient Yoruba Muslim because the cognitive bias would be extremely strong and most likely effect his judgement.

Alas, Edo\benin Muslims are the most liberal moslems in this country. They're almost largely irreligious sef.

Klington:
"1st son, 1st daughter"...... Nigeria has finally been reduced to absolute joke.

Imagine elected officials celebrating meeting with Tinubu's son

VinnyBaba:


All sorts of ILLEGALITY will be carried out by this APC/Govt. :🤨
Imagine if Goodluck or Obasanjo as President did something like dis? 😒😕
Wole Soyinka and Co would have Barked and cried Wolf!
This Govt should be checked, Otherwise we will have Civilian DICTATORSHIP in Nigeria soon.

Rayban25:
In less than two weeks a family of wild animals disguised as human beings are already showing Nigerians how ready they are to devour the Nigerian treasury.

Kukutenla:
To all the wretched nitwits defending this, I'm sure if it was a northerner doing this, y'all will be on their neck claiming they've privatised Nigeria.
I remember how Abacha family was vilified due to the level of influence he allowed his son and wife have in his govt.
We all should be mindful of how we're setting up this country for desecration.

Ihateheadslamer:

Lol
This can only happen where father and son are set to run the entire country people streets

DeAdvokate:
Getting crazy...every member of Tinubu's family is perfecting ways to be a cabal using the 'youth' as an avenue

YouandiAllofus:
Office of the president, office of the first lady, office of the first son, office of the first daughter (iyaoloja), with office of last son, last daughter, uncles, aunties and co. incoming... National affairs turning into family affairs!

Amoto94:


Go after them Mr. President. It is not that difficult today as it was in 1984.
Fighting corruption is an inescapable duty of any responsible government. Corruption is the clog in the wheel of good governance, not subsidy—the purpose of governance. The new government must reject the fattest and the most dangerous lie often told in this country. Fighting corruption is possible. Fuel subsidy in a regime of a responsible government is also possible.

Donjazet2:
Nigerians are highly alarmed by what they're seeing from this family in its early days.

HIGHLY ALARMED!!!

What we have in Lagos today is essentially a civilian dictatorship where one man has the final say over every single political appointment in that state.
May we never see that happen at the federal level with what this family is up to.

Donjazet2:
Nigerians are highly alarmed by what they're seeing from this family in its early days.

HIGHLY ALARMED!!!

What we have in Lagos today is essentially a civilian dictatorship where one man has the final say over every single political appointment in that state.
May we never see that happen at the federal level with what this family is up to.

hopefulLandlord:


This is reality everywhere and it's not unique to Nigeria

we should stop putting down our -dear- country for something that happens -almost- everywhere else just because we want to make the county appear worse than it already is

airmark:


What's your position on your party, LP, condemning the suspension of Emiefele? You have been avoiding this since, yet you claimed you only have the interest of the country at heart. Let us know if you support the stupid position of your Labour party.

Donjazet2:


I actually haven't seen this yet. Please share a link to this let me read. That's, labour party's position on emefiele.

Emaprince:
But this presidency really be like " we have finally arrived, and the time is NOW!!!" to the Tinubu family.

I though na excitement make the daughter dey title herself first daughter..I didn't know it was a family thing.

First Daughter, now first son... tomorrow, we go dey hear first nephew and first neice. Lol.

airmark:


https://authorityngr.com/2023/06/10/lp-condemns-emefieles-suspension-demands-probe-of-inec-instead/

airmark:


https://authorityngr.com/2023/06/10/lp-condemns-emefieles-suspension-demands-probe-of-inec-instead/

Ifoh recalled that Tinubu’s ally and now Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, had in 2014 as the then Minority Leader, had condemned a similar action by President Goodluck Jonathan against then CBN Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, wherein he questioned the powers of the President in sacking the CBN Governor.

“One wonders what has changed between that time and now”, said Ifoh as he stressed that Gbajabiamila had then argued that the law requires the President to seek the approval of two third of the Senate to be able to sack the CBN Governor in order to enforce the doctrine of Checks and Balances and to avoid the abuse of powers of a capricious and arbitrary President, while at the same time guaranteeing the autonomy of the CBN.

“But under Gbajabiamila’s watch, Emefiele was fired in a most unconstitutional and vindictive manner.

“It is only in Nigeria that we find people that approbate and reprobate at the same time. People say one thing from one side of their mouth and another from the other side, especially when it favours them politically and otherwise.

“That explains why the country is in shamble: no rule of law, no equity, no justice, and no fair play. People don’t follow standard rules and procedures. That is why every aspect of our live, be it our economic, political and social live, is challenged.

“Gbajabiamila because he was in the opposition at that time, he saw everything wrong with President Jonathan sacking Sanusi, today he is on the other side of the divide, he doesn’t see anything wrong with it. This is what Nigerians will face in the APC government, where perceived enemies are dealt with, perceive opposition parties and their members are dealt with, even when they are protected by the law

Emaprince:
First off....Every Nigerian are happy and wants Emefiele punished.

But in the article, you can see that LP were clearly criticizing them for doing that which they condemned during GEJ administration. How can you condemn something and then turn around to do the same thing? You are a two faced individual.

We all understands that subsidy needed to be removed...but the fact that the same Tinubu that orchestrated a protest against GEJ for the removal announced it on his inauguration day, made him a two faced devil, who only had an ulterior motive all along

They are abusing the same power they criticized GEJ for.

Amoto94:
THE FATTEST AND MOST DANGEROUS LIE EVER TOLD IN NIGERIA
By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde. 11 June 2023

“Subsidy serves the rich”—meaning that the poor do not enjoy subsidy—has been the fattest lie I have ever heard in the past six decades of my life in Nigeria.

It is told by a group of elites who will never suffer deprivation due to the privileges accorded them by decades of corruption. The most annoying thing is that they have told this lie time and again without blinking an eye whenever the Nigerian government, at the behest of our masters—the IMF, World Bank and international banking institutions—wants to withdraw a service it offers the generality of its citizens.

What will they lose by telling this lie? Nothing. They have homes in world capitals, billions in their accounts, families living overseas and spending holidays there. Their perception of reality and sense of danger is completely different from those of 99% of our citizens who are always living on the brink of poverty and insecurity.

Incapable of good governance and afraid of what it will deprive them of their privileges, they advise every leader to take a short cut: remove the subsidy. Then they hurriedly coverup their treachery with another fat lie: because it is impossible to fight corruption. How can they allow any leader fight corruption since they are its direct beneficiaries?

In the end, the subsidy will be removed and the leeches are all happy because they are allowed the opportunity to further suck the blood of our citizens through the criminal profits they will be making on essential commodities. The resultant voice of suffering does not move them one bit.

Two examples here would suffice. Fertilizer and fuel.

Fertilizer

The last administration was the first to adamantly remove every subsidy on fertilizer in 2016 under the pretext that it benefits the middlemen. Many of us argued then that it was the responsibility of government to protect its citizens from the activities of such middlemen, be they civil servants or businessmen. Abdicating that responsibility and punishing the citizens instead by removing the subsidy completely negates the trust given the government by the electorate.

The tragic side of it was that the people were clapping for the government, which they gave a blank cheque to do as it liked. 2016 became a year of hunger. Today, the high cost of fertilizer has crippled the productivity of most farmers and if it were not for the ban on importation of rice and some other items, nothing would have been left.

The price of food is unbearable to most families and consumers are crying “open the borders”, as I can see from a survey on my Facebook page. When I asked if the ban on importation of food can be lifted regardless of whether farmers and agriculture would be killed, the majority rhetorically asked, “How many times have we died in the hands of the farmers?”

Fuel

I know the new government which I side with on other matters has taken a final decision on the matter of fuel subsidy. Unfortunately, the enchanting leadership style of the President has blinded the common man from seeing the evidently unbearable difficulties associated with the decision, as usual. But the evidence is here. Each of us can see it, touch it.

Movement—the conveyor of life and the economy—has been impeded so severely that crucial activities like education have for the first time been threatened. States are reducing working days, including schooling days, to just three a week, in a country where e-learning is yet to pick up in majority of families that patronize public schools. Streets and highways are half empty. It is like another pandemic.

If it is true that the poor do not benefit from subsidy, why would they be so constrained by the new price of petrol which is now one of the highest in the world despite our low per capita income? And very soon prices of food and other essential commodities will respond and life for even the civil servant that may be lucky to negotiate a 25% increase on his present miserable salary will become unbearable.

Economists consistently promise that with time things will get better for the citizens if we just allow government to remove one subsidy or another. But nothing ever got better. Prices have never dropped in the long run. Diesel, we were told, had no subsidy at N260 per litre. What made it reach N880 for over a year and now sells N685? The Dollar? Then how are we sure that the Naira will not lose its value further in the near future when a common dollar exchange rate of say N635/dollar is fixed and what will the price of petrol be then—N800/litre? I am tired of these lies that have been ramming my ears since 1986.

To sum up the effects of these fat lies is the increasing number of the poor among us: 130million Nigerians now live below the poverty line if we are to believe our last President. How can this group of elites continue to be so apathetic?

Solution

I do not believe that there is anyone stronger than government. I still believe that every government has the primary responsibility of protecting its citizens from leeches and subsidizing life for them. We form governments and submit to them precisely for this reason. Continuous abdication of this responsibility is not an argument I can buy.

I, therefore, suggest that our new President tightens his belt and ride rough with those who have been stealing our commonwealth in various sectors. This is what we hoped and missed in every President since 1999. Our indefatigable Femi Falana has recently published a list of 22 cogent areas where billions of Dollars are bunkered into the pockets of thieves.

Go after them Mr. President. It is not that difficult today as it was in 1984 when we had no institutions on ground to do the job and no computers or Internet applications to track records and retrieve them from databases with the speed of light. Those billions of Dollars to be recovered and saved from the exercise are enough to permit a downward review of the current fuel price and fund infrastructural development as well. I am 100% with Femi Falana on this.

Fighting corruption is an inescapable duty of any responsible government. Corruption is the clog in the wheel of good governance, not subsidy—the purpose of governance. The new government must reject the fattest and the most dangerous lie often told in this country. Fighting corruption is possible. Fuel subsidy in a regime of a responsible government is also possible.

————

Emaprince:
First off....Every Nigerian are happy and wants Emefiele punished.

But in the article, you can see that LP were clearly criticizing them for doing that which they condemned during GEJ administration. How can you condemn something and then turn around to do the same thing? You are a two faced individual.

We all understands that subsidy needed to be removed...but the fact that the same Tinubu that orchestrated a protest against GEJ for the removal announced it on his inauguration day, made him a two faced devil, who only had an ulterior motive all along.

They are abusing the same power they criticized GEJ for.

obainojazz:
Airmark wants a lawless country but what’s good for the goose is also good for Uganda.

We all happy Emefiele was sacked but there should also be a due process before we enter another Buhari type regime of not obeying court orders.

Donjazet2:


Na true na. Edo Muslims no dey even do like Muslims at all. At least by the standard of radicalism we usually see from Muslims.

Ibukzy:
Emefiele was suspended not sacked

There is a difference between the two

BlueRayDick:


Abeg stop all these profiling and subtle tribalism na.

What do u mean by Edo Muslims don’t do like Muslims at all ? How are Muslims supposed to behave that Edo Muslims aren’t ? How many Muslims do u even know in real life sef ?

Yoruba Muslims are not the problem of Nigeria if that’s what u are trying to allude . I know tens of “Yoruba Christians” who voted for Tinubu this past election, and I also have “Yoruba Muslim” friends who voted Labour Party .

People vote for their candidates based on different reasons and not necessarily because they are “Yoruba Muslims “. The irony of ur hasty and incorrect generalization is that if Yoruba Muslims are as radical as u are trying to claim, they wouldn’t have voted Tinubu who can’t recite Suratul Fathia correctly .

Donjazet2:


Whether sacked or suspended, does the president have the constitutional powers to do that?

Donjazet2:


Mind you, what I'm pointing out is political profiling, not tribalism, please.
And political profiling is indeed a thing. In every democracy, certain demographys have similar patterns to voting due to various reasons.

For instance, in America, 90 Percent of black people in America vote democratic just like 90 percent of white envagelicals vote Republican.

So statistically speaking, just by seeing any black skinned person in America, you are seeing a democratic or potential democratic voter. Same as when you see a white Pentecostal person, you are looking at one more likely to vote Republican.
It's political profiling and it's not a bad thing actually. It's just highlighting a voting pattern.

Ibukzy:
The unsung heroes of today remembrance


Kudirat Abiola
Alfred Rewane
Major Musa Yaradua