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Its not as if we Nigerians dont know how to force demand change, our only problem is just that the largest region in the country are super comfortable with poverty and they are comfortable with their mediavalist ways. What can we the minority do?

Before you vote for Tinubu again, remember he is a Muslim and it’s clear he has no qualms with the killings been carried out by his fellow Muslims under his government . Remember you are a pig and an infidel to them

@renoomokri Comparing Nigeria to America or Ethiopia ignores the reality of Purchasing Power Parity. In the US, a minimum wage worker works 20 minutes for a gallon of gas; in Nigeria, it takes days. Global price trends are no excuse for local misery when the income gap is this wide.

In One Week, I Visited America, Tanzania, And Ethiopia, And Fuel Prices Are Up Everywhere I Traveled To

@BashirAhmaad @RepRileyMoore Facts are not partisan. When thousands are murdered specifically for their faith and identity, it is not a complex situation. It is a human rights catastrophe that the world chooses to ignore. Stop hiding behind the word criminals to mask a targeted slaughter. #Nigeria

@BashirAhmaad @RepRileyMoore Calling this simple banditry provides a shield for a system failing to protect its citizens. When you ignore the identity of the victims and the religious motivations of the attackers, you are not being objective. You are being complicit in the silence.

“Representative @RepRileyMoore of West Virginia is one of several U.S. congressmen who have falsely claimed that there is a Christian genocide happening in Nigeria. Analysts say that the situation in the country is much more complex and that Nigerians of many faiths have been killed. Much of the violence, they say, is fueled by criminals, rather than religious or ethnic tensions.” – New York Times

@renoomokri Stop using books to confuse those who are feeling the hunger. Economics is about people, not just balancing ledgers for foreign lenders. If you cannot demand accountability for stolen crude and wasted trillions, do not demand critical thinking from a starving nation. Ire o

@renoomokri Conclusion: You claimed the economy will collapse because of subsidies. It is actually collapsing because of a lack of productivity and a currency in freefall. True accountability means fixing refineries and stopping oil theft, not just taxing the breath out of the poor.

Dear Mansur, Thank you for your feedback. The answer is because we cannot afford it. For the last fifteen years before the subsidy was removed in Nigeria, we were not paying for it with money we earned. We were paying for subsidies by taking loans, mostly foreign debts. That is why, even though President Obasanjo paid off our debts in 2003, they rose to $113 billion under General Buhari. Please fact-check me: It is partly because General Buhari spent $26 billion on fuel subsidies alone, and even more on subsidising the Naira. In Buhari's final year as President, Nigeria was spending close to 90% of its revenue on debt servicing. Not debt repayment. Debt servicing. And when debt goes up, and foreign reserves go down, people like you will come here to attack the government of the day for ruining the country. The issue is that, sadly, many of our people (not all, but a critical mass) are not very sentient. We tend to be governed by emotions and do not engage in critical thinking to understand the consequential relationship between cause and effect. With regards to Australia, that nation is not subsidising fuel. They simply reduced governmental tax on the commodity, which has already been done in Nigeria with the Naira For Crude deal with the Dangote Refinery, which is meant to benefit Nigerians. Without that deal in place, the Iran War would have led to even higher prices than we have today. Further on Australia, that nation has a 45% income tax. Will you be willing to pay 45% income tax if the Nigerian government agrees to bring back fuel subsidies, Mansur? Nigeria's economy will collapse if fuel subsidies return. Thanks again, Mansur, and may God bless you. Reno Omokri Ambassador Designate to Mexico. Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year, 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.

@renoomokri You see, It’s easy to sit in ivory towers and call the cries of the hungry emotional. ​But an economy is a social contract, not a laboratory experiment. You cannot run a 21st-century nation on 19th-century survival of the fittest rhetoric. Stay discerning sir.✊️ #NigeriaEconomy

@renoomokri Your claims that the only way to lower prices is through direct subsidy show a lack of imagination. What about: * Refining efficiency (ending swap model costs) * Monetary stability (so landing costs don't jump daily) * Infrastructure (so petrol isn't the only way to move goods)

Dear Citizens of Nigeria, On this issue of fuel prices, it is mental laziness to compare the minimum wage in America to that of Nigeria. A country's minimum wage has absolutely no bearing on petrol prices. It is like expecting Apple to sell iPhones cheaper in Nigeria because the minimum wage is lower there than in America. That is not how economics works. Economics does not concern itself with your emotions. The cost price of petrol is governed by how much it takes to refine crude oil, not by how much a nation's minimum wage is. Please fact-check me: Sudan is an oil-producing country, like Nigeria, and Nigeria has a significantly higher minimum wage than Sudan. Yet, petrol sells for about the same amount in Nigeria as in Sudan. Fuel is what is known as a fungible commodity in economics. This means that, aside from shipping and transportation costs and government taxes, the price of the product is generally the same anywhere on Earth, regardless of minimum wage, with only one provision, which I explain in the next paragraph. The only way to reduce the price of petrol and make it lower than the cost price is by subsidising it. Other than that, it is not possible! But of course, it is easier to get emotional and insult than to engage in critical thinking.