Africa sub-region. Granted, prices of petroleum products would increase in the short run, in the medium to long term, investments in development of infrastructure would go up owing to the large volume of human and vehicular traffic, jobs would be created, technology would be domiciled and under such circumstances, the gross domestic product, GDP of the country can only go up. But, Nigerians say removal of fuel subsidy will only aggravate poverty, increase hardship and above all, increase the level of joblessness in the country. Those who spoke to Saturday Vanguard suggested that government should focus on other resources that have been abandoned for long and invest in them to make the country better for everybody. ]