Today, it was my great honor to sign an Executive Order banning the chemical castration and medical mutilation of innocent children in the United States of America. Our Nation will no longer fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support so-called “gender affirming care,” which has already ruined far too many precious lives. My Order directs Agencies to use every available means to cut off Federal financial participation in institutions which seek to provide these barbaric medical procedures, that should have never been allowed to take place!
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Those who said protesters are blocking their right to move around freely have been blocked from moving around freely by the fuel scarcity.
Some had to stand all day like protesters at the petrol station!
Las las, kowa sai ya hi kaniyarsa
We have not fixed Petrol Price
Our attention has been drawn to headlines announcing “Marketers Project N600/litre for Dangote Petrol” published in Punch Newspapers of Tuesday August 13,2024.
We would like to clarify that Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) is not our business partner yet. We have never discussed price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) with them, and they have no mandate or authority to speak for us, either for good or with hidden transcript.
We urge the public to desist from such speculative announcements. We have our official channels through which we make our views known to our stakeholders.
Anthony Chiejina,
Group Chief Branding and Communications Officer
13th August, 2024
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The fuel queue this morning at the NNPC station on Kingsway road, Ikoyi extends all the way to defence house at the end of Glover road!!
This is just crazy!!😫
Some ‘protesters’ can refuse to notify the police, have no ‘leaders’, assemble in the Eagle Square, and their protest wasn’t ‘hijacked’.
No intelligence was received by Nigeria Police.
DSS hasn’t invited any of them.
While other protesters can’t avoid these?
#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria PROTEST HAS NO LEADERS, NO REPRESENTATIVES OR SPOKESPEOPLE.
Beware of people putting their faces on the protest and calling for “Rage.”
THE PROTEST I AM CHAMPIONING IS NOT ABOUT “DAYS OF RAGE.”
SOWORE IS NOT THE LEADER OF #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria PROTEST!
NIGERIANS, BEWARE!!!!
PLEASE REPOST.
This whole issue on Dangote is shocking and creating bad waves for Nigeria globally. - Akinwunmi Adesina
Monopoly often exists where there are high barriers to entry or high capital costs.
How many individuals or companies can do railways? How many can do refineries of the scale of Dangote Refineries?
In a nation that has been importing refined petroleum products for several decades, the abnormal simply became very normal.
No smart investor would make a $19.5 billion investment and want it to be undermined by importers.
To manufacture is extremely expensive and risky. This is even more so in Nigeria, given the very challenging business and economic environment, fraught with policy uncertainties and policy reversals, and where the self-defeating default mode of “simply import it” is always so easily rationalized and chorused to solve any problem.
Competition is good for everyone. But is Dangote refineries anti-competitive? What is the evidence?
Has Dangote refineries prevented any other company from setting up refineries? Why have others not done so? How come they have not done so for several decades? Was it Dangote that held them back?
But Dangote refineries surely cannot be asked to ‘compete’ with importers of petroleum products.
That is not competition. Let the importers set up local refineries and compete by refining in Nigeria. That is fair and justified competition.
We cannot and must not undermine, disparage or kill local industries, talk less of one that is of this scale — a jewel of industrialisation in Nigeria.
It is more than simply delivering the cheapest product to the market. It is about domestic supply security, driving (and yes, protecting) globally competitive industries, maximizing forward and backward linkages in the local economy, job creation, reducing forex expenses and shoring up the Naira.
We must not be myopic.
This whole disparaging of Dangote is uncalled for. It is self-defeating. And it is very bad for Nigeria. Who will want to come and invest in a country that disparages and undermines its own largest investor?
Investing is tough. Pettiness is easy.
It sadly sends a signal that the price for sacrificing for Nigeria is to get sacrificed.
Akinwunmi Adesina
We got it done!! Our very own @NGSuperEagles did it. Congratulations!! You have put a smile on all our faces. Let me also congratulate our South African brothers in @BafanaBafana for a valiant showing. Let’s now march forward.