- You know what I did today? Well, I’m sure you know already. I and many others suited up and faced this cold. It was soooooo cold! And windy, too. My gloves felt useless, so I took them off. At a point, my hands and toes were so numb that I had to go back into the car, warm up a little bit, and come back stronger. It was all worth it. I pray that what we did today will make a difference back home. That said, I’m still waiting for Boko Haram to claim responsibility for today’s cold. It could not have been natural! Enjoy the pictures below. There are a lot more in the gallery at the end of the page.
- Mee!
Speaker: Seun Akinsanya of The Seun Akinsanya Project
Supporters
Crazy Funmie. Yeye girl wrote #OccupyNigerians instead of #OccupyNigeria ... which is why she had to scratch the extra letters off.
Me next to the crazy girl
Speaker
Seun Akinsanya of The Seun Akinsanya Project
Engineer Ayo Adekolu, passionately singing
Harrison "Harry Baba" Nwozo
Ifeanyi Awkada
Protesters
Speaker
All i could focus on was the ring on your finger. Now i have to figure out if that’s the right finger or not. Are u keeping secrets?
Sting your eyes dey sharp!!!! i had to go back and look again yep saw it and it is the right finger!!!! Vera start talking!!!!!
Eagle eyes. Thumbs up joo!
Picturesssssssssssssssss…hehehe well done dear!
“Nigerian is broke”, not because of fuel subsidy, but because of the looting going on in government. We are merely being asked to pay to subsidise what our politicians, their cabal and officials of the NNPC are recklessly squandering on daily basis. Can someone do this simple arithmetic = M2.4 barrels of crude x $113 x 365 days x N160. Am told this amounts to over N60 trillion Naira. Our annual budget is just N4.3 trillion Naira. So where is the rest. And this is just revenue from one source alone, oil. It is sad.
@Ifeoha Azikiwe
The Nigerian government is not involved in oil drilling. Companies like Shell, Chevron, etc drill and sell the oil and pay tax to the Nigerian government. So your calculation doesn’t really work (The oil tax is the revenue for the government, not the proceed of the sale itself). Unless you calculating why Shell is bigger than the Nigerian government, or why Shell controls the Nigerian government, or why Shell oyibo director boasted that they have placed people in every department and ministry in the Nigerian government (according to wikileaks), or why shell can pollute drinking water, pollute fishing rivers and destroy farming lands and not suffer the fate that BP suffered in the gulf of Mexico.
Great post you have here. Will share this on my fb page. Abeg, please give Funmi a break jor, she was passionately anxious to let share her views on the matter.
“Verastically” speaking, I am trying to make sense of the whole scenario. I have tried to argue with some Nigerians here in the US (who insist the oil subsidy has to be removed) that to my knowledge, there’s no oil subsidy in Nigeria! I challenge any literate person to do the math. What the government is trying to do is simply pass the cost of smuggling, waste, corruption et al to the people, rather than plug the loopholes and waste in government.
Having said that, I think the protests, strikes and bad blood could have been averted if the government had announced a gradual subsidy removal (say 25% each year), taken time to come up with an adequate plan for spending the accruing revenue and sensitize the people accordingly before plunging headlong into an outright “removal” that was sure to promote nothing but public brouhaha.
Well done Vera!
Belated happy birthday wishes.
p.s. like the new look..(hair)