VictorRomanov:



The subsidy removal is a welcome development. It is much like the deregulation of telecommunications sector. At first people bought lines for 50k+ but now line is free. You only pay for recharge cards. I believe the same thing would happen to petrol, hopefully. My only annoyance is that we are 4 years late. Because the same people who are championing it now, were the same people who instigated protests all over the country. What was their motives back then? What has changed now? You talked about conditions, what conditions has changed?

Looking at it carefully, I've come to see that politicians care little or nothing about the masses. Their only concern is to wrestling down power from their opponents, even if this means being unreasonable. And my friend, its so unfortunate that u have refused to see this!

JoeBlocks:
Its now obvious that whoever will lead Nigeria out of this nonsense she finds herself, its not the present crop of politicians.

Almakura:
Am sick and tired of hearing this comparison. Many Nigerians could do without a cell phone then, same can't be said about petrol. Just swallow your pride and admit y'all went back to your vomit simple!

Ijaya123:

Was APC in existence in 2012?
Reason with your head, that is what it is meant for.

diagro:
You are d one that need to reason with ur head. APC is just a name. If u truly don't know the elements that constitute today's APC has been there all along, u need to ask for the refund of all ur school fees.

Goke7:


there is no opposition in Nigeria but those who have chosen not get over with the loss of GEJ, I understand their pain, they had never been in opposition from their political history, they are like fish taken out of its natural environment [water] and keep struggling to come to terms with its new environment.

Let them wail on, FG is broke, almost 30 states can't pay salaries, yet they want subsidy to remain. The same subsidy they supported their beloved GEJ to remove way back.

LoveMachine:


Dubai, Saudi Arabia and other countries just cut their subsidies as well. The oil glut is hurting all of OPEC but it's easier to blame APC. Luckily, Nairaland doesn't determine gov't policy.

LoveMachine:


C'mon fam no need for all that. Hypocrite? Not at all.

During the high crude season to deregulate would have been a problem. At present with the fall in price of crude coupled with the shortage of forex due in large part to the jamboree of looting the continuation of subsidy seems impossible.

Buhari said he would end subsidy and he has. That would seem to me as though he has made good on a campaign promise.

I'm not pro-APC nor pro-PDP. I'm pro-Naija! I love my people and I want to see us win. I supported the last gov't just like I will support the present gov't and the following. If and when they misstep I'll do my part to help them get back on their feet and provide good governance. I can't play opposition politics because I'm not a politician. I pray every elect official does an amazing job!

GEJ did some good things while in office but not enough to retain the presidency. At present, APC is in the Villa. I'd prefer to see them make good on their campaign promises. This past year has been rough but won't lie the GEJ years were bar none the roughest time of my life.

omenka:
iPod yoots and confusion..

Which Osinbajo in 2011??

Even if Baba said so then, so what?? Are the conditions the same?? Una dey too damn emotional, these shildrens (apologies to Mama Peace).

Vveni:
Deregulation is good but I'm not sure we are ready for it right now. Refineries are supposed to be all functional and several other palliative measures put in place first.

LoveMachine:


Dubai, Saudi Arabia and other countries just cut their subsidies as well. The oil glut is hurting all of OPEC but it's easier to blame APC. Luckily, Nairaland doesn't determine gov't policy.

VictorRomanov:



The subsidy removal is a welcome development. It is much like the deregulation of telecommunications sector. At first people bought lines for 50k+ but now line is free. You only pay for recharge cards. I believe the same thing would happen to petrol, hopefully. My only annoyance is that we are 4 years late. Because the same people who are championing it now, were the same people who instigated protests all over the country. What was their motives back then? What has changed now? You talked about conditions, what conditions has changed?

Looking at it carefully, I've come to see that politicians care little or nothing about the masses. Their only concern is to wrestling down power from their opponents, even if this means being unreasonable. And my friend, its so unfortunate that u have refused to see this!

Image123:


We do need quality opposition, as that is what develops a good democracy and stops a reoccurring PDPism.

omenka:
iPod yoots and confusion..

Which Osinbajo in 2011??

Even if Baba said so then, so what?? Are the conditions the same?? Una dey too damn emotional, these shildrens (apologies to Mama Peace).

Goke7:


for now, there is no opposition as pdp still see themselves as the ruling party, do you think an average pdp fan or member believe they are in opposition? This is the problem we have right now. what we have as so called opposition are bitter fellows who are trying to incite the masses against the FG.

They talked about islamic agenda, that's not working anymore

They talked about exchange rate or shortage of forex as if PMB determines the value of the dollar

They can't hinged boko haram on PMB anymore as they now use the fulani herdsmen attacks as if it started today

Fuel scarcity never happened under pdp they claimed

They are very happy with the pipeline bombings and complain about power at the same time.

We can't have quality opposition right now, reason they are called wailers.

omenka:
What do these guys know. They are just inconsolable Wailers. These same people that have been coming here to shout "we've been buying fuel at N400 a litre" are now making so much noise it would be sold at 145. What sense is there in their position?

VictorRomanov:



The subsidy removal is a welcome development. It is much like the deregulation of telecommunications sector. At first people bought lines for 50k+ but now line is free. You only pay for recharge cards. I believe the same thing would happen to petrol, hopefully. My only annoyance is that we are 4 years late. Because the same people who are championing it now, were the same people who instigated protests all over the country. What was their motives back then? What has changed now? You talked about conditions, what conditions has changed?

Looking at it carefully, I've come to see that politicians care little or nothing about the masses. Their only concern is to wrestling down power from their opponents, even if this means being unreasonable. And my friend, its so unfortunate that u have refused to see this!

VictorRomanov:



The subsidy removal is a welcome development. It is much like the deregulation of telecommunications sector. At first people bought lines for 50k+ but now line is free. You only pay for recharge cards. I believe the same thing would happen to petrol, hopefully. My only annoyance is that we are 4 years late. Because the same people who are championing it now, were the same people who instigated protests all over the country. What were their motives back then? What has changed now? You talked about conditions, what conditions has changed?

Looking at it carefully, I've come to see that politicians care little or nothing about the masses. Their only concern is wrestling down power from their opponents, even if this means being unreasonable. And my friend, its so unfortunate that u have refused to see this!

Quakertellicus1:


Good point...BUT....thanks to the drop in crude oil prices....we no longer have the revenue to do subsidy.

Even under GEJ.... removing the subsidy would have led to savings. Now...we even need the savings even more.

Oz4realsss:


Your claim is ridiculous. How dare you compare the petroleum industry to the telecommunications sector? Although there may have been noticeable gains, but its effect on the common man is never the same as the petroleum product would.

The telephone is not an essential commodity as the petrol. The common man depends on the latter for transportation and electricity. It is also an essential factor that determines the prices of goods and services in Nigeria. It further determines the cost of running small scale businesses in this era of epileptic power supply.

Same cannot be said about the telephone industry and its associated products and services that you provided as an analogy. Even when the telephone sector was deregulated, only those that could afford the high cost owned telephones. Till date, only those that can afford it are still patronizing it. There are very expensive android phones also, but not everyone owns them. Infact, very few Nigerians own and use android phones. This simply tells that the telephone ownership and usage is not an essential commodity that affects the general wellbeing of an average Nigerian.

Having said these, stop comparing oranges to mangoes!

Vveni:





Hahahahaha leave my daddy in the lord o

monex:


well Fashola's analogy then was that the oil price glut is supposed to bring down the price of PMS. Now your analysis says the opposite. Who do I believe? You or Fashola?

I thank God peeps like Gimba Kakanda and Pius Adesanmi (who have no GEJ or PMB bias) exist. You lots (including the Omenka I used to respect b4) would have made it difficult for one to get objective political analysis.

VictorRomanov:



The subsidy removal is a welcome development. It is much like the deregulation of telecommunications sector. At first people bought lines for 50k+ but now line is free. You only pay for recharge cards. I believe the same thing would happen to petrol, hopefully. My only annoyance is that we are 4 years late. Because the same people who are championing it now, were the same people who instigated protests all over the country. What were their motives back then? What has changed now? You talked about conditions, what conditions has changed?

Looking at it carefully, I've come to see that politicians care little or nothing about the masses. Their only concern is wrestling down power from their opponents, even if this means being unreasonable. And my friend, its so unfortunate that u have refused to see this!

Emekamex:
Some zombies are irredeemable, the hypocritical APC government killed our chance of full deregulation of the petroleum sector when conditions were way better by sponsoring senseless protests, only to lick their vomit later.