Diverse voices from the street on issues of public concern — real sentiment from Nigerians online, sorted, sourced, and set in context by our editorial team.
“The privatisation failed. The owners are billing darkness. An industry that cannot generate power has discovered it can still generate revenue by billing darkness. That is not a business model. That is a levy on a suffering people, and it is enforced with the coercive power of a monopoly the state granted them.”
“They (telecom companies) need to be held accountable. They are constantly ripping us off in this country. More of us need to come out and hold them accountable as well.”
“The intersection of fiscal policy and legislative transparency is often where a nation’s social contract is either forged or fractured. And taxation without transparency is just capture. If the process lacks integrity, the policy lacks legitimacy.”
“Standard Organisation of Nigeria (SON) has become a toothless bulldog. The 12mm steel rod has become 9.87mm. That means the steel rods in our markets are substandard.”
“So some people are using formalin to preserve fish, Meat and ponmo? God help us in this country”.
“We have so far recovered 115 bodies and more are expected to be recovered because the flood came from far distance and washed people into the River Niger. Downstream, bodies are still being recovered”.
