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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Mikaeltomz(m): 1:55pm On Sep 10, 2020
EyezofGod120:
We warned u then,,una no hear,,now e don dey happen,and na freestyle be did,more is still coming
If hin still go for third term,them go still vote am, nigerians wey I sabi.. them no fit change
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by OlawaleBammie: 1:57pm On Sep 10, 2020
daddytime:
Must it be by a protest that seems easily so quellable particularly by this oppressive administration?

How about thinking out other quiet none violent approach where the lives of the willing aren't put on display for a shooting practice?

Suggest one pls

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Bennycollins: 1:57pm On Sep 10, 2020
Did you say this in 2012? Or you just realized lower fuel price is detrimental to the economy?
kikero:


Okay ,let's make fuel 40 naira per liter, at the expense of our economy...

Yes, they should not have been arrested, but Subsidy is theft by another name....

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Perfecttouchade: 1:58pm On Sep 10, 2020
See wahala o..sai wahala cheesy
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by lifenija: 1:59pm On Sep 10, 2020
daddytime:
Must it be by a protest that seems easily so quellable particularly by this oppressive administration?

How about thinking out other quiet none violent approach where the lives of the willing aren't put on display for a shooting practice?

like which other way?
online shey
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Angelfrost(m): 2:00pm On Sep 10, 2020
As pointless as the protests are, arresting them is an infringement on their rights...

Subsidy is a dead, retrogressive, and moribund thing that can never be returned. Everyone needs to tighten his belt and get with the program.

Where God will punish them all is when they come back in the near future to tell us no real money was realized.
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by rollandben(m): 2:02pm On Sep 10, 2020
Like i always said, this present administration has nothing positive to offer. Buhari and his government is a total mess for this country. They keep pushing us to the wall but they never knows where this will result to.
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Skyfornia(m): 2:04pm On Sep 10, 2020
Shortyy:
Nairalanders please I need a job. I don't mind the location. Please before depression kills me.

You wey dey sell houses in Lagos and Abuja? Anyways..how much job are you looking for?
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by MajohBankz: 2:06pm On Sep 10, 2020
Things are falling apart, wahala ya zo, yawa don gas, nsogbu di
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:06pm On Sep 10, 2020
ONE NIGERIA LETS LEAVE THE PROTESTS AND WORK ON MAKING OUR NATION GREAT


LETS BE PATRIOTIC BY NOT COMPLAINING


LETS STOP MAKING NIGERIA A LAUGHING STOCK INFRONT OF OTHER NATIONS BY EMBARKING ON A PROTEST


PLS NOBODY SHOULD ALLOW HIM SELF TO BE USED TO PROTEST BECAUSE THE ARMY AND POLICE WILL ARREST AND SHOOT YOU O! AND YOU'RE TO BE BLAMED NOT THE ARMY NOR POLICE NOR THEIR OGA THAT GAVE THE COMMAND.

PLEASE LETS ENDURE AND DIE IN SUFFERING FOR OUR DEAR NIGERIA grin
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Sunnyja: 2:07pm On Sep 10, 2020
kikero:


Okay ,let's make fuel 40 naira per liter, at the expense of our economy...

Yes, they should not have been arrested, but Subsidy is theft by another name....
Did you say this in 2012 when you ran to Ojota park without thinking?!
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Valyoung(m): 2:07pm On Sep 10, 2020
oshozondii:

https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/1304005980393480192?s=19


https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/1304025200065945606?s=19
Is this the change Nigerians voted for
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Enn214(m): 2:08pm On Sep 10, 2020
#LockdownNigeria911

Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by iswallker(m): 2:09pm On Sep 10, 2020
kikero:
They should not have been arrested

But the problem is, fue subsidy is why we cant have functining refinereiss and investment in our downstream sector....

GEJ tried to remove it in 2012. Yes, he was corrupt, yes his regme was as bad as bubu, BUT if he had been left to remove it in 2012, we would have been benefiting by now.

SUBSIDES DONT WORK. And in Nigeria's case , it has become a means by which people loot. But because of low fuel price, people prefer it remains. Meanwhile we are spending more on the thing than we are on education, health, etc.

I don't back them protesters. They re part of the reason why we are in this economic mess in the first place, why we have had to borrow because every penny we earn goes on the useless subsidy, why our refineries don't work.

The whole system is nkt working - §how many people that looted are in jail. Or they don't have names. If subsidy works in another country - why nkt Nigeria. How do tankers smuggle fuel across the border - are tankers that small and can't be seen.

This marriage of convinence where one part brings resources and another part control's it is nkt working..

undecided
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Kingrefreshed: 2:10pm On Sep 10, 2020
oshozondii:


https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/1304005980393480192?s=19



https://twitter.com/SaharaReporters/status/1304025200065945606?s=19

Sai Baba till Rapture Day!!

Una never see anything
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by MansoryMX(m): 2:11pm On Sep 10, 2020
Shortyy:
Nairalanders please I need a job. I don't mind the location. Please before depression kills me.

You don’t need it. Continue watching big brothers Naija.

Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Franklyspeakin: 2:12pm On Sep 10, 2020
Hope they haven't arrested manna
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Franklyspeakin: 2:12pm On Sep 10, 2020
Hope mannabbqgrillz wasn't arrested ooo
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:15pm On Sep 10, 2020
Sunnyja:
Did you say this in 2012 when you ran to Ojota park without thinking?!

Well , I did back subsidy removal in 2012, and while I was in Lagos briefly that year, I was never near Ojota park.

If you understand how a subsidy works, you would support its removal, whoever espouses it
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Prechy08(m): 2:19pm On Sep 10, 2020
kikero:


Okay ,let's make fuel 40 naira per liter, at the expense of our economy...

Yes, they should not have been arrested, but Subsidy is theft by another name....

was this your position in 2015?

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by FullBlastLight: 2:20pm On Sep 10, 2020
kikero:


Okay ,let's make fuel 40 naira per liter, at the expense of our economy...

Yes, they should not have been arrested, but Subsidy is theft by another name....

Oga, wich economy exactly are u talking abt?

Are u stil myopic in thinking 2 realise dt after all d hikes nothing wil stil change in d country except 2 make life harder & more miserable 4 d dying masses?

All d hikes dt d Nigerian govt(past or present)has imposed on d citizens has neva redound 2 economic buoyancy, rather we've been having economy bankruptcy!

Bro, do a quick flash back on d various govt economic hike policies & find out if they hv ever brought abt improvement in d living standard of masses!

All d hikes policies hv neva dismally failed 2 get d pple immiserated!

Ruminate on dis, my broda!

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by MansoryMX(m): 2:20pm On Sep 10, 2020
wale377:
Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buIsBFyFBME

This is painful and sickening to watch at same time. So people can no longer protest again in peace? Are we in Military era? Na wa oo

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:23pm On Sep 10, 2020
Bennycollins:
Did you say this in 2012? Or you just realized lower fuel price is detrimental to the economy?

Ok, time to tell my testimony

I first heard about subsidy back in the early 90s when I was a teenager. Back then the sensible media and people said that removing it was bad for Nigeria , and I believed them

And kept on believing through the time till 2011 when GEJ came with subsidy removal.

Since this was the nth time I was hearing that mantra, I decided to look into how subsides work. And let's be frank, I didn't like the idea

What convinced me eventually was

1. When GEJ reduced prices from 140 to 97, landing cost was 99 per liter. That meant that for every liter of fuel government sold, 2 naira then was paid on subsidy. That rose to 50 naira by 2015, not because corruption, but because the landing cost rose too

2. Also, the trial of the subsidy thieves in 2013 led me to the fact that people were lying on the amount of fuel imported so that they could collect cheap money. Then I found out about the smuggling bit....

3. Finally, I understood finally that subsidy limits profits and so on

4. The ex emir of Kano. Someone in GEJs bad books, yet still backed subsidy removal in 2012

There is a time when APC and PDP have good ideas. And you have to say they are right
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Tochi3(m): 2:23pm On Sep 10, 2020
Rgade:

Fuel na N160/litre; electricity tariff has doubled and you still dey ask am if he's okay?
A lot of people were on the verge of madness in this country, now buhari has given them the final push.
Lol. grin grin. That type of Person voted for APC back to back. You can bet Tinubu's balls on this and still cash out.

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:27pm On Sep 10, 2020
FullBlastLight:


Iga, wich economy exactly are u talking abt?

Are u stil myopic in thinking 2 realise dt after all d hikes nothing wil stil change in d country except 2 make life harder & more miserable 4 d dying masses?

All d hikes dt d Nigerian govt(past or present)has imposed on d citizens has neva redound 2 economic buoyancy, rather we've been having economy bankruptcy!

Bro, do a quick flash back on d various govt economic hike policies & find out if they hv ever brought abt improvement in d living standard of masses!

All d hikes policies hv neva dismally failed 2 get d pple immiserated!

Ruminate on dis, my broda!

Subsidy means that

1. People can buy fuel at 140 here and sell over the border at 377 in Niger,300 in Mali

2. No one wants to build refinery because under subsidy you would be refining your fuel at 165 per liter and selling it at 140 per liter. So no jobs and no investment, because unless you are dangote,no one is going to lend to a business that is operating at a loss

3This year alone we have spent far more on subsidy than on education and health.

4. It is a conduit for looting and stealing. And why out refineries are scrap (see no 2)
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:28pm On Sep 10, 2020
Prechy08:


was this your position in 2015?

It was my position in 2012.

Not everything is politics.
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by leketon: 2:29pm On Sep 10, 2020
Shortyy:
Nairalanders please I need a job. I don't mind the location. Please before depression kills me.

Where's your location and what are the skills you have?
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:31pm On Sep 10, 2020
iswallker:


Use your brain - building and operating refineries is nkt rocket science - there are entities in Nigeria that generate all thier power needs e.g private universities, IITA etc.this arrangement of controlling everything from the center i. E the north will nkt work. Unbundled power assets of this country, let states control thier resources and focus on thier areas of comparative advantage - state A can buy power from state B if it can't generate

But they won't do it - it can't favor the northern oligarchy..

It's a doomed country

So stop spewing trash

undecided undecided

If you refine fuel at 160 and above and sell it at 87 naira , losing 53 naira per liter sold, would you have the profit to invest in refining? Or sustain it? Or pay for it.

That's the main reason. So long as people want to buy fuel below its cost of production, and so long as government pays a subsidy that only covers the difference and doesn't let one make enough profit, that's why we have bad refineries,and people smuggling fuel next door
Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by 9gerian: 2:33pm On Sep 10, 2020
The history of this government is being written, and would be concluded soon!

Roughly two and half more years, at most three!

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Re: 18 Anti-Fuel Hike, Electricity Tariff Protesters Arrested By Police by Nobody: 2:36pm On Sep 10, 2020
MrALIVE:
May God punish the leadership of NLC

Punish is an understatement, Destroy is the right words. NLC to me is non-existent.

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