Petrol prices have shot up this morning, a quick reaction to the news of Dangote pricing in USD, and that’s okay.
The problem is: when global prices go down, in reaction to a news/development, these guys say they can’t immediately adjust prices downward because of “old stock”.
Every single one of them is then locked in agreement. That is what market forces are in this country.
Depot Petrol Hits Highest ₦1,250 (Up ₦113), Diesel to Highest ₦1,650 (Up ₦150) After Dangote Switches to Dollar-Only Sales
Ex-depot prices of petroleum products across major Nigerian terminals surged following Dangote Petroleum Refinery’s switch to dollar-only sales, pushing petrol up by as much as ₦113 per litre and diesel by up to ₦150 per litre.
Effective July 13, Dangote Refinery began selling exclusively in US dollars, requiring marketers to pay in foreign currency for gantry and coastal liftings. All prior naira invoices were cancelled. The new reference prices are $0.779 per litre for petrol, $1.087 per litre for diesel, and $0.942 per litre for aviation fuel.
Old versus new ex-depot prices at major independent depots:
Matrix increased its petrol loading price from ₦1,120 to ₦1,230 per litre, a ₦110 increase
Sahara, AIPEC, and African Terminal: Petrol moved from ₦1,090 to ₦1,120 per litre
Matrix Depot raised the loading price of petrol from ₦1,137 to ₦1,250 per litre
₦113 increase.
Ronaldo fans say he conquered Portugal, England, Spain, Italy and Saudi Arabia.
Let's look at this legendary "conquest."
🇵🇹 Portugal (2 seasons)
0 league titles.
🏴 England (8 seasons)
3 Premier League titles.
This was at Prime Manchester United under Alex Ferguson.
🇪🇸 Spain (9 seasons)
2 La Liga titles.
This was during his prime, and an overall prime of Florentino Pérez and his Real Madrid.
🇮🇹 Italy (3 seasons)
2 Serie A titles.
The only country where he won the league in more than half of his seasons...
after joining a Juventus side that had already won 7 consecutive Serie A titles before he arrived.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia (4 seasons)
Needed four attempts to win his first league title.
So the "conquered every league" résumé is:
Portugal: 0/2
England: 3/8
Spain: 2/9
Italy: 2/3
Saudi: 1/4
That's 8 league titles from 26 seasons across five countries.
Changing clubs isn't the same as conquering leagues.🤫
I hate all these parapo stats. Mbappe, did not only make it to his 3rd semi-finals in a row, he was also largely instrumental to its success.
Person fit dey bench, dey claim collective accolade.
🚨🇪🇬 Egyptian Federation President Hany Abo Rida has filed an official complaint against French referee François Letexier and his assistants, reports @ismaeelmahmoudd.
Every team at the World cup earned their spots, including their qualifications to different stages. "Easy paths" is a huge disrespect to these teams.
The so-called easy paths, Cape Verde and Egypt almost eliminated Argentina and rightfully so if they did.
Argentina’s World Cup ‘26 path:
GROUP J
3-0 Algeria
2-0 Austria
3-1 Jordan
R32
3-2 Cape Verde
R16
3-2 Egypt
QUARTERFINAL
?-? Switzerland/Colombia
Coincidentally? they would avoid a truly elite WC country until the semis.
Meanwhile, note the paths of the other elite teams.
Hmmmnn, the things I am hearing about the Argentina v Egypt World Cup game are simply incredible. FIFA never planned to rig it until something incredible happened.
At kickoff, they used the normal World Cup ball. An upset was on the cards. 67th minute, Argentina 0, Egypt 2. Earlier, at 1-0, the Head of FIFA’s Agenda and Marketing Committee, Mr Youare Diputs, had called FIFA President Infantino to say they needed to step in. Infantino told him there was no need, that Messi would rescue the game organically.
Then the game became 2-0, so during the second hydration break, Infantino himself made the call to the Head of the Match Ball Control Centre, Mr Etelpmoc Toidi, to switch to the Magnetic Enhancer Ball (MEB). People don’t know about this ball.
The MEB is the sort of ball that, irrespective of what is being played on the pitch, the FIFA Play Radius Team (PRT) can steer ball movement however they want. Note that they don’t control the players. Only the ball.
In the 79th minute, they made the ball travel from Messi to Romero because they wanted something specific; a Messi assist would help him break the World Cup assist record. Watch Romero’s header again. His head flicked the ball towards the corner flag. The ball went into the net anyway. Watch in slow motion, you will see the ball movement defy physics.
By the 83rd minute, they steered the ball off Messi’s leg and into the net for 2-2. During the celebrations, they removed the MEB because they trusted Argentina to take it from there.
What happened next shocked even FIFA. They had banked on the game going to penalties. But Enzo Fernández, remembering he needed to score to stay in the minds of whoever will rescue him from Chelsea, scored a great goal. I must stress this: that one came off the regular match ball. 3-2. Argentina were home and dry.
So when you hear people say the game was rigged for Messi and Argentina, this is what happened. Someone said, “but it wasn’t rigged when Egypt were 2-0 up.” Well, you know now.
PS: One clarification, specifically for the global avalanche of idiots. I made all of this up, obviously. But if you believed it for even a paragraph, reverse the letters of the officials’ names. That’s you.
I support Tinubu. That is not a secret.
But this fake agency scandal is something I cannot defend and I will not try to.
A man created a fictitious presidential agency, Got office space at the Federal Secretariat. Opened accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria. Met foreign ambassadors. And somehow that same agency ended up on pages 50 and 51 of the 2026 Appropriation Act with allocated to it.
To an agency that does not exist.
Now the government is saying it was a fraudster acting alone.
Maybe that is true.
How does a fake agency open a CBN account without the Accountant General's office knowing.
How does it get office space at the Federal Secretariat for over a year without anyone noticing.
How does it enter the national budget that the President signed.
Either the system is so broken that one man can infiltrate it at every level undetected.
Or somebody on the inside helped him.
Both answers are a serious problem.