The Father's Love

Abba's favorite son. Christian

[Ndi Kato (Ungwan Masara's finest) @YarKafanchan]

Do not forget Southern Kaduna. Our people are being kidnapped almost everyday by these terrorists and we have known no rest. Our matter barely makes the news.

[Prince Daniel Chukwuemeka @Prince_dc21_]

If you've not moved on Kindly retweet this.

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

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[The Father's Love @darl1900]

No be wetin we ask you. Why is your fuel still selling high in Nigeria?

[Dangote Group @DangoteGroup]

Fuel markets are complex, but commercial logic is often simple.

Recent claims have suggested that products produced locally are exported to neighbouring countries and then re-imported into Nigeria. Before accepting such claims, it is worth asking a few important questions:

• Does it make commercial sense to incur additional shipping, storage, financing and handling costs only for a product to return and compete in its largest and closest market?

• Who benefits financially from such a transaction?

• Where is the value created along the chain?

Nigeria remains one of the largest fuel markets in Africa, and domestic demand remains the priority. Exports occur only for volumes not purchased by domestic marketers.

As with any market discussion, facts, economics, and commercial realities matter.

Swipe through to understand the commercial logic behind the conversation.

#DangoteRefinery #EnergySecurity #DomesticRefining #FuelMarkets #NigeriaEnergy #Industrialisation #MadeInNigeria

[Ochi @OchiJnr]

This is a civics lesson nobody asked for.

Let us begin where this piece begins: with its title: “Peter Obi cuts a pitiable figure. Needs Schooling.”

Dear Mr. Dare, that is not a headline. That is a sneer. A writer who opens with contempt has already confessed he is not interested in debate. He is interested in humiliation. The argument is merely the delivery vehicle.

You know better. You are a former minister, a seasoned journalist, a man of considerable institutional miles. You know the difference between criticism and condescension. You chose condescension. Because if you can make Peter Obi look small enough, pitiable enough, desperate enough, you never have to answer why petrol costs what it costs, why the naira buys what it buys, or why hunger statistics look the way they look.

But there is a problem you did not account for: memory.

The man whose cause this piece defends spent 2013 and 2014 in a sustained, frequently contemptuous public campaign against President Goodluck Jonathan. He questioned Jonathan’s capacity. He called the administration a failure. He agitated loudly, persistently, in the language of crisis. Peter Obi, by honest comparison, has been restrained. If the standard you are applying today had existed then, you would have had to write this same piece about your own principal. You did not write it then. Which tells us the standard is not a standard. It is a weapon, pointed in one direction only.

A call for resignation is not a constitutional filing. It is a political and moral statement, the kind leaders across democratic history have made and received without anyone rushing to print a civics primer. To argue Obi exposed constitutional ignorance, when he made no constitutional claim whatsoever, is not a rebuttal. It is a strawman in a well-ironed suit. You answered a question nobody asked to avoid the question actually posed: is this government performing well enough to retain public confidence?

The naira has collapsed from under 800 to around 1,600 to the dollar. The fuel subsidy removal was executed without a cushion for the poor. Food inflation has restructured daily life for tens of millions choosing between feeding their children and paying school fees. The World Bank has documented it. The NBS has documented it. The empty market stalls document it daily.

Growth figures that do not translate into reduced hunger are not victories. They are statistical consolations. Citing them without context is not analysis. It is comfort food for a government that cannot explain its own citizens’ lived reality.

You charge Obi with selective outrage. But this administration has been remarkably selective in its own silences: silent on the President’s extended medical absences, silent on security deterioration across multiple zones, and silent, most tellingly, on the millions measurably poorer today than on May 28, 2023. A spokesman who demands intellectual honesty from the opposition while curating his own narrative has not made an argument. He has made a demand that applies only in one direction.

What does it say about a government’s record that its most senior communications official cannot defend it on its merits, and must instead write a lengthy personal attack on the man who criticized it?

Governments that fight this hard against a single opposition voice are not governments that are winning.

You are a gifted writer. But gifted writers in service of power carry a particular responsibility: to tell the truth even when the principal would prefer a different story. That includes the truth about what their principal said and did when he was the one in opposition, when the shoe was on the other foot, and when the rules you now invoke so solemnly did not appear to apply.

This piece did not do that. The tragedy is that you may not realise it.

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@NigeriaStories They should take this matter to court. Let them decide it.

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

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[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@HAHayatu Atiku will lose again.

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@DemolaRewaju @NnamdiD90792574 No run o.

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@OPay_NG There's nothing from you guys in my DM

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Benkingsley Nwashara @Benking443]

If Prayer has ever worked for you, please retweet.

[Lekan Olayinka @lekan_olayinka1]

My brother-in-law is hospitalized. It's rather serious. A lot has been spent/sold to give him medical care.

I told them this morning that I could ask Christians here for help. We just need 500k to run a critical test now. Please, whatever you can spare.

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Kehinde Arokoyu

God bless you as you give.

[OPEOLUWA 😎😎 @OpeBee]

Any talk of subsidy right now is a NO NO for me.

I don’t think people realize the fiscal mess we are in.

There is currently a N20 trillion budget deficit. Another N15 trillion will go into debt servicing.

We haven’t accounted for subsidy !!!.

Talk about other forms of palliative but not subsidy please

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@themoneyafrica @tosinolaseinde I am not getting the OTP in my email inbox, as a result I couldn't complete the registration. Is there anything you can do to help?

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@kelvinomere @ronaldnzimora Can I send a DM sir?

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@kelvinomere @ronaldnzimora Please Sirs, I need mentorship to navigate this online business world. I am willing and ready to learn and grow fast. Take me under your wing sirs and guide me please.

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

@OPay_NG @Wizarab10 @cenbank Seen. Thank you.

[The Father's Love @darl1900]

What is happening with Opay @OPay_NG today. Transactions are not reflecting on the account and their customer service is not responding to messages. Nawa o

@Wizarab10
@cenbank