NewStats: 3,265,443 , 8,186,765 topics. Date: Sunday, 15 June 2025 at 01:36 AM 1l1c53

AdesegunSanni89:
Dangote carry your monopoly to Garbon. Nigeria has subsidized you enough. Let other businessmen also grow.

Are you talking about a country that is choking because it has to subsidise imported fuel since it cannot refine its own fuel despite being one of the biggest crude oil producers in Africa? Are you talking about a country where the teeming youth population are unemployed because the industries to absolve them are too few? Are you talking about the same country that have more firms leave its shores in the past few years than it has gained in more than 10 years?
If you're talking about the same country, then you're likely not well-informed or you're just one of the enemies of the country.

CyrusVI:


Is Dele Momodu a PDP cheiftain? If Yes, then that political party is second largest congregation of dullards anywhere in the world

Lagos is by far the most industrialized State in Nigeria, The population is like 1/10th of the total Nigerian Population which makes it the best sample size to experiment whatever hypothesis and project u believe in


If a former Lagos designer should fail, then there's no hope for one Adamawa tourist with a golf-club head

He's done it before in Lagos, He will do it again in Nigeria

You should stop using this Lagos designer term except you're referring to others that have led Lagos state prior to 19999. The Lagos of today isn't unilaterally built by one man even though one man has influenced successive governors.

Meanwhile, Nigeria is different from Lagos and if all your knowledge of Nigeria ends with Lagos, you don't know what's really going on.

Naturally, Nigeria is hard to govern and to now imagine that those at the elms of affairs are not sincere?

malali:
Akinwunmi Adesina,

Your ionate defense of Dangote’s monopolistic tendencies is misplaced and ultimately detrimental to Nigeria's long-term economic health. Let’s be clear: the open free market should determine winners and losers, not subjugation or forced patronage.

Monopoly and Market Distortion

You argue that monopoly exists due to high barriers to entry or high capital costs. While this may hold some truth, it does not justify the creation or maintenance of monopolies, especially not through governmental favoritism. Dangote has benefitted immensely from the Nigerian state: free limestone, free land for cement factories, some of the cheapest non-unionized labor in the world, unlimited tax concessions, and numerous import waivers. Despite these advantages, what has been the result? The cement business remains a monopolistic cartel. Do Nigerians enjoy cheap cement today? The answer is a resounding no. Dangote was one of the first to hike cement prices, exercising his market dominance at the expense of Nigerian consumers.

Dangote Refineries and Energy Sector Monopoly

Now, you suggest we should hand over the energy sector, crucial for 300 million people, to a single man. This is both dangerous and short-sighted. Dangote’s decision to build a $19.5 billion refinery was his own business choice, and with any business venture comes inherent risks. He should have anticipated the possibility of buying crude at market rates and selling refined products in an open market. Expecting the NNPC to capitulate to his demands reeks of entitlement and undermines the very principles of fair competition and market dynamics.

Misplaced Sympathy and Entitlement

Your attempt to elicit sympathy by emphasizing Dangote’s massive investment ignores the fundamental fact that he should have considered market contingencies. Dangote should compete on equal footing with other businesses, not seek special treatment. Throwing a tantrum and trying to manipulate crude sales and petrol procurement from the NNPC signals a disturbing sense of entitlement.

Economic Independence and Fair Competition

Nigeria’s energy sector, like any other, must remain open to fair competition. Your call for protectionist measures to favor Dangote is a call to undermine the very fabric of a free market economy. The energy sector should be driven by innovation, efficiency, and competition, not by monopolistic practices.

A Call for Economic Justice

The days of allowing a few individuals to dominate critical sectors of our economy must end. We have seen what happens when monopolies are allowed to flourish – prices soar, quality suffers, and innovation stagnates. It’s time for Nigeria to embrace a truly competitive market, where every player has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Adesina, you call for and protection of local industries, but true lies in fostering a competitive environment where no single entity can dictate . We must not surrender our economic future to a few individuals. The Nigerian people deserve better – they deserve fair competition, better prices, and improved quality of goods and services.

Nigeria's economic landscape should be determined by open competition and market forces, not by entitlements and monopolistic control. It’s time for a new era of economic justice and fairness, where the interests of the many are prioritized over the privileges of the few.

Sincerely,
Malali.

The summary of your post is to frustrate Dangote's refinery so that we can stop him from monopolising the energy sector (which had been in perpetual instability for decades).

I'm really curious to know what inspired your writeup. Is it the love of Nigeria or the of Tinubu or basic for economics? Whichever it is, it is misplaced.

Dangote has eaten from Nigeria's corruption no doubt but imagine Nigeria having 10 Dangotes with the number of employees that he has and the value chain that profits from that. For now, Nigeria doesn't have a choice because we don't have a stable energy industry and someone pumped that much money while the government gallivanted that it was their doings, they start frustrating the same firm when it is completed.

The politicians alone are not the ones destroying Nigeria, they can never destroy it unaided. They need instruments like you but very soon, all that will be dealt with and Nigeria will overcome her problems.

Racoon:
The man has been part of the rot of the Nigerian state. Now even his entrepreneural expertise is not helping him anymore despite benefitting hugely from the corruption thereof.

Now, why would a highly noised Dangote Refinery be sold to the corrupt Nigerian government under Tinubu when the NNPC denied investing in same. Another massive corruption scandal is brewing up. No sane foreign investors will think Nigeria.This country is sickeningly nauseating.

What you wrote in the first part us baffling and unsettling at the same time. Just imagine we have 10 Dangotes in Nigeria (even if they are part of the rot). Imagine the number of individuals that would be employed, the number of families that would be fed and the number of taxes the government would make.

You think Nigeria can easily produce another Dangote in the next 10 years with the ways some Nigerians and politicians are demonising the man? He's a capitalist of course, but trust me, Nigeria is not going anywhere until we have more highly driven people like him.

RealityKings:


Look let me explain this to you in a simple way.
First satellite lunch into orbit was 4 October 1957, then later came the Hubble Telescope in orbit. How do you think they learnt to transmit and receive information?

Technically, what that means is, you shouldn't need to pay to send and receive information...
Basically, the internet is about receiving and transmitting information.
But it's not made free, they Make you pay for data subscription and make you buy a phone. That's "control" and business secrets

So when you buy that phone and pay for data, don't think your money stays in Africa. It goes back to the people that owns the internet.

At a point, I started wondering how someone figured out stones or rocks have frequency that can transmit information. You grind it with the right elements and you can communicate through space and time

Well this is another point entirely and I get what you're saying here. The world is always controlled by those who have mastered how things work and continues to do so. Whether it cost them or not, they'll profit from their knowledge. It's why capitalism will always win.

RealityKings:
There is a misconception about the internet and some other technological inventions. They have been in use long before it got to Africa. The internet goes beyond yahoomail, Facebook, Twitter and blogs(several of its kind)
Folks older than 1985 owns it all. Also the internet belongs to the united state of America


I don't expect you to believe me, but that's what it is

I beg to differ. As much as Europeans have a lot of evil things they've done in the past and how they still champion a lot of things that become problematic for the world today, they are still pioneer for many things including the Internet.

For instance, internet was invented by CERN (you can look it up). And you were right, it existed since the early 80s if I'm correct.

@InsaneTV

I just logged in to come and say "I love the writeup and its flow".


Meanwhile, millenials aren't finding it easy too even though we are a balance between the previous generations and the succeeding generations because we've seen the world without tech and the saturated world.

NOwazobia:
I like Trump than Biden.


But this whole shooting event seems to me like a charade.


I don't believe that sh!t to be an accident.


Politicians; I fear them than the devil.

You've not seen any videos of the scene right?

Things like that can't be staged, not for any political points except the individual wants to die. I mean, he was in the middle of a speech and you could hear his voice loud and clear as if it was a TV live coverage and in a split second, he tilted his head to the right and the next thing was a sound and Trump was holding his head.

Except you want to tell me it's possible to see bullet coming for you.

sreamsense:
Human being self! Because somebody does not talk in one can't talk in other. Pastor Adefarasin is closer to Trump; Trump daughter (Tiffany) is or was a member of his church. He attended her wedding not too long ago. That closeness is what made him feel concern, but many people are deceitful, they just like looking for avenue to abuse pastors whereas they are full of rotten dirth inside

One sad truth about the Nigerian twitter space is how easy to the herd without knowing you're a part of them.

Pastor Adefarasin is not a politician, he is free to do whatever he wants to do as long as the law allows him. It makes no sense that we want everyone to be able for our lives just because they're a popular figure.

Angelfrost:


Lol... Please, don't start what you can't finish abeg!

You and help elect imbeciles with money who call themselves politicians.

After they mess up (as they surely do since they have nothing to offer in the first place), you start throwing tantrums and looking for who to blame.

People like you are the main reasons Nigerian and African leaders fail to sit up and LEAD!

Quit embarrassing yourself, and grow a brain!!!

Someone like him doesn't deserve your response.

I'm sure the guy is seeing the pictures of North Korea with all their problems and their dictator that stifles them to the neck. He should perhaps compare their cities with Nigerian cities even though South Korea is the most cut-off nation in the world.

The West doesn't necessarily wants any country to prosper as long as you depend on them. But if the leaders are good and the followers are good and the country improves, they will respect you.

South Africa is not perfect but compare the leadership of black men in SA with the mediocres we have in Nigeria.

If the current system is not working, then change it. But why would they change it when it favours them and their cronies?

casualobserver:


Slave mentality is the reason we are backward.

It is Nigerians with slave mindset that will sign agreements with west that impoverish us because you are happy to have western partners.

Olisa Agbakogba was on TV yesterday talking about the oil industry. People like you will sign agreements with the oil companies such that everything they do is done with foreigners even down to catering. Are there no Nigerian caterers? And they will charge $2,000 per meal. Money that should go to the Nigerian economy and Nigerians. It is eeediots like you at the root of our underdevelopment. God bless America my Arse!!!! Eeediots!!!

Why won't God bless America? Do you think God tolerates wasters of resources like Nigeria.

When Nigeria is ready, ten America can't stop it. For now, let's keep shouting "emilokan, obidient and artikulate and let's see where that gets us.

Litmus:
The following implication in regards to Biden unfortunately also applies to Trump (the argument may be made to diminish his, Trump's, threat): there's an extent to which governments in more advanced nations such as in the US and UK have evolved over time and become a sort of autonomous mechanism. Become an entity onto itself so that the president and the prime minister respectively are arguably mere figureheads or even mere guilded Labels stamped to the side of the machinery. In other words, the system of rule may function adequately without the Figurehead or label item. The system is efficient to the extent of plug-and-play. This may for why men such as Obama and Rishi Sunak (men diminished in those nations by epitaphs such as ethnicity) could be tolerated. Biden too if left in place by the Democrats.

Obama is diminished even though he didn't experience the kind of hatred and insults Trump experience during and after office? Sunak is diminished even though the British media insults Boris Johnson and Liz Truss more and more everyday?
Okay o. Perhaps ethnicity and racial differences automatically signals being "diminished".

Ikumapkayi:
Another Black woman who wants to be more British than the British. These woman and Sushi are very mean.

As far as they're concerned, they're protecting the environment that nurtured them. What Nigerians? Fanning the embers of tribalism while the least qualified rule us and make our country ungovernable.

If for anything we want to be angry, it is a displaced anger when it's targeted at people like Kemi (who made her personal choice and good riddance whatever comes of it). What about the ones leading our country into ruins and we keep ing them with tribalism and self-hatred, thinking that those from other regions are the problems?

Rexymania:
I thought Abuja was up hill

Proper drainage should be done in that area

Downhill is the way uphill. The estate must be in a downhill part.

OneCandleAway:


They look out for opportunities and bring in their people.
But Africans don't do that.

And when Africans do that, the people they bring in turn their backs against them and make the benefactors regret ever bringing them in.

We are our own problem and it's mutual.

ElSudani:


You mean obey the law all the time?

You dey mind am.

We love how lawless our country is even though we're complaining that the country is bad. Nigeria will be tougher than those countries if the laws are put in place and strictly followed.

JoeEeL:
First of all, you have a picture of a white skinned jesus as your saviour and a white host.

As a black man, can't you just hold the mirror and look into it and ask yourself when you will ever choose to be useful to your race? The religio-folks in different races from arabs to whites, jews, chinese, indians, even if they believe in superstitious beliefs, at the very least have their saviours or their gods look like them.

On these grounds alone, can't you people pause for a moment and think deeply? Like the gross stupidity. You have a so-called heavenly host of white people and u somehow think if they'd come, your black ass would be of interest to them. You have grey matter stuffed between ur ears for a reason. Use it!

Rapture is not happening anywhere. Why? Cos in the bible, it was likened to a period of world deluge during the time of noah. And since noah's flood is a pure fairytale, then the rapture story becomes automatically invalidated. I think by now, if you're thinking there was a rain "all over the earth" that caused worldwide flooding, then you don't need a brain again. You'd see black nigerian grownups believing fairytales like kiddos. Some of them probably think if you throw your tooth on a pan or rooftop, it'd grow after 7 days. Or if you spit on the floor and someone steps on it, you'd have sore throat.

This is the kind of country I share with brainwashed folks. Especially the women. Once they are brainwashed from birth, its over. They go just deh zombie deh zuzu till death. I still have to give credence to that guy in one thread last week that said he beat shege out of his mother for waiting for a lord chosen pastor to arrive from traffic to lay hands on his dying sister.

All of you that keep believing in these fairytales, we go soon comot pankere for una. A few strokes of pankere for una back go reset that una fermented black brain.

What has your knowledge of your traditional religion, folk tales, etc, translated into for you as an individual and for your soceity?


One thing about religion is that it's always acculturated, except you're deceiving yourselves. You think Nigerians practice Christianity in the white man style? No, they've Africanise their system. Same thing Islam was African Africanise.

Meanwhile, not only does the traditional religion itself brainwashed, it contains most fairy tales ever found anywhere else. Not to talk about the fact that ancestors who adopted those religions didn't do so out of loyalty to the tribe, they did it out of necessity.

One day, you'll find Jesus and you'll understand the idea of necessity of a man seeking God. Until then, history is longer than you can read and your justification only stretches to your level of understanding.

Kaa4:
Is it by number of years now? Something is obviously wrong here. Firstly, it's being due two years back. Secondly, is she at work presently? Thirdly, a subtle blackmail for professorship.

Professor should be made on the basis academic output which should in some form of service so recognised.

This charade should stop.

Being the First Lady is a qualification?

You don't know much about their system and so you shouldn't be bold in your accusations.

In that same faculty, a particularly hardworking female lecturer died around March and her professorship was announced in July because she ought to have been promoted 2 years prior.

It happens a lot in UI that promotion is delayed for only God knows. In fact, two of my lecturers became professors in my 3rd year and it was backdated since everything is slow in the system.

They can be political to some extent too but trust me, professorship or associate professorship is not a joke in UI.

amaridigital:


Junkie or whatever you call yourself, it's like you just found something that ignite your miserable life in the news that the old man migrated to the UK. May I ask wetin your lowlife papa don do to impact others? Kumuyi like other christians got a universal mandate to preach the gospel to all men and women and to all nations. Thus, living in Afghanistan or Serbia doesn't really matter because he's getting the job done each day. Kumuyi will never advice against legitimate japa but against those traveling without solid migration plans or those who might expose themselves to human traffickers. You move from comment to comment shouting Kumuyi migrated to UK up and down. Na your migration? If a man who have spent 82 years in Nigeria decided to continue his ministry in another country where his messages continues to reach the whole world what is the crime or sin there? An 83 year old man still traveling from one crusade to another almost every month. Instead of you to think of how anyone in your entire miserable generation will become important on earth to be recognized by Presidents and still have their name in the book of life, you stay there hating whom God has blessed. Who is telling you that the UK doesn't need a fire preacher like Kumuyi nowadays with their apostasy and empty churches? I'm not a deeper life member but Kumuyi is one of the three African Christian leaders I respect a lot. Kumuyi, DK Olukoya and the late Zacharias Tanee Fomum of Cameroon.

God know what is pushing that guy with the falsehood he is spreading. You can imagine how he filled the first 3 pages with his falsehood and how he's so confident in it.

Funny enough, the social media post he was referring to was Pastor Kumuyi's short stay in London many years ago. The man is busy traveling from state to state, country to country doing GCK every month. He was in Cameroun late last month and this month, he will be in Abuja for crusade. This is minus the Bible study, workers training, leadership meeting and Sunday service he holds every week in Gbagada except when he's on GCK.

They always look for opportunities to talk down om men of God. But there are men of integrity, difficult to talk down on. So, they resort to peddling falsehood.

tctrills:

In God's church. There is nothing like a top member. The same respect is given to all .
James 2
King James Version
2 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

3 And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:

4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

You're gonna do this for a long time. You should continue if you have the strength. But this Nairaland. Logical thinking is uncommon, now to talk of spiritual thinking?

oluwaseyi0:
Nonsense

So if it's Iluyomade wife that died will Herbert wigwe cancel his own birthday or his wife birthday that has already been planned and paid for?

I'm sure it's not the first time someone is dieing in that branch so why suspend pastor because a member died, is he responsible for Wigwe death? Are they family?

Now imagine if it's Adeboye that died they will simply ask rccg pastors not to breathe again

Naïve individual that can't rise beyond basal thinking, confidently showing he has no idea of what's going on even though someone reading this might think he does...SMH

Rebelutionary:

Please tell us how justice is to be meted in this matter.

What detemines whether someone should be held behind bars?

Ayo25:
Have you ever tried building anything in your life from scratch until it grows to as big a level as you have Erisco foods? Then someone just crawled out from their hole to try and rubbish all your years of hardwork? If that happens to you and you are still asking the kind of question, then we will try and answer your questions.

Their are rights and limitations to every right in a democracy. She went overboard in excersising her freedom of expression by defaming the company. Then company decides to take it up and all the time she was in detention, it was a court remanding her. So cant understand how some of us say her detention was illegal.

Even here on Nairaland and social media, some talk recklessly and carelessly not minding the consequences. People like you will watch and clap for them. Then when they are asked to come and defend their positions, you whip up cheap sentiments.

You're as emotional as those people defending the woman blindly, only that you're doing yours in the opposite direction.

The woman didn't do the right thing but I'm talking because justice is not being meted out the right way.

Semaj77:



No the question is was she right to accuse the company that their products kill people without proof

If something is not right, how is it supposed to be treated in a civilised society.

PS: I'm not standing for what she did, but I'm standing for how justice is meant to be meted.

Ayo25:
When I listen to Nigerians complain about anyhowness in the country at times, I will just laugh. We all created the kind of country we have. Nigerians are not consistent and logical in their analysis of any issue. They are moved more by emotions.

But then, the question still remains.

If the woman is as powerful and influential, would she have been treated as such? Taking the person to court is one thing, locking up someone when they've not been declared guilty for a very long time is another thing.

Is thus how democracy works in the country we copy it from or aren't we practicing aristocracy in disguise?

hybrid77:
I like that wike is doing a great job. It has to be said.

Tinubu need more than this and he knows. Improve and set your name in gold.

Hunger is biting and biting hard.

I only wish Nigeria will have all the basic infrastructures we need and then understand that good governance goes beyond building infrastructures. I wish they can even build long-lasting infrastructures that serve the common man too.

MetaMatrix:
Funny mind this old tribalist' traitor. He's never ashamed of his old age.
He's the chase of all these. Never want anyone with glory but himself alone. Been parading himself as Yoruba rather than Onitsha prince

Everything you wrote here has nothing to do with the post!

Benrosaria:


Yes souls have color. Our Color's depict our mind and attitude

Well, I leave you to that.

I'm an African and aside from the colour of my skin, my geography, history and the texture of my hair. I'm not different from a white man. He's not superior to me I'm any way and neither am I inferior by any standard.

FashionCookie:
Life no get manual.

But he get some things wey dey destroy people's lives sha.

Benrosaria:
Encouraging African parents to instill the dead lies about a god. And turn themselves against each other.

White man is enough of your deceit. Leave black soul alone.

Do souls have colour?

Just curious.