mikejj:
how about we as a country going back to God.

trillville:
Nigeria is already on the right track.

Most developed countries are run on taxes from their citizens. In the Eurozone, the average tax to gdp ratio was about 35 percent last year. What I mean is that if a country produces 100 billion dollars worth of goods and services in a year, the government of that country collects 35 billion dollars as taxes. Such money is used to provide shared services for businesses such as roads, electricity and security.

Nigeria had a gdp of about 400 billion dollars, yet had a tax to gdp ratio of about 6 percent as at last year. This implies the government only had about 24 billion dollars to provide services.

Taxation in nigeria has always been challenging. Most Nigerians rightly feel that since the government is not doing well managing their oil resources, why should they pay taxes. If nigeria sold about 1.8 million barrels of crude oil last year at an average price of 48 dollars, after profit sharing with the oil majors, nigeria earned about 50 billion dollars. Adding the two figures together gives nigeria an earning of about 74 billion.


If nigeria had a tax to gdp ratio of 30 percent, the government would have earned 120 billion dollars last year.

Now back to taxation. A major issue with taxation was that the government could not determine how much people are worth. The former CBN governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi revealed that 5 percent of nigeria's own 95 percent of money in the country. This means is that 10 million nigerians own about 380 billion dollars out of our GDP of 400 billion, whereas the remaining 180 million nigerians own a paltry 20 billion.

With the implementation of BVN, the government is able to tell who is worth what. Government's whistle blowing policy has made it harder for people to hide their money outside of the banking system.With VAIDS starting by mid next year, government will surely increase their taxation income.

Government still has work to do. The government must reform our prison system by building livable prisons. This will enable the judiciary to imprison tax defaulters without feeling that they are sending people to an early grave.

Finally, when people pay taxes, they demand more accountability from their government. After all, he who pays the piper dictates the tune.

In conclusion, vote Buhari for a second term to ensure the future of this great nation.


PS
Sorry for any typos.

GodDeyCraze:
Nigeria is not a Nation

GodDeyCraze:


Zombie

As we March on to 2018 with great anticipation and joy, let's all not forget how hard we struggled this 2017 just to live a normal life; from struggling to buy food at affordable price, to struggling to find job or startup a business to the latest one now which is struggling to buy petrol to fuel our motorcycles, cars, generators, etc, which made most of us postpone our usual travel to our respective villages to celebrate the Christmas or New Year.

These pains are living witnesses that the people we fought to vote into power are indeed failures! They have all failed us; from president to governors, to senators, to reps, to assembly members to ministers and what have you. They are all failures judging by their performance in past years.

It proves that our leadership and government as a nation is a total mess!

Nigeria is now one of the most difficult countries in the world where youths find it difficult to even get an average paying job to feed themselves.

Graduates have become worthless in Nigeria because if you graduate, you won't get job or anything to do. And the educational system is so destroyed that it only produces job seekers and not job creators.

If we continue like this, its just a matter of years and Nigeria will collapse finally and we all will be living like slaves and refugees in our own nation.

If you are a Nigerian living abroad, don't feel you have escaped the Nigerian problem because one day, someday, these European, American, Asian and Arab countries we are running to en mass to hide or take as second home can wake up one day and tell all Nigerians to leave their nation whether you have their citizenship or not, so you have just one country you can proudly call your home and that's Nigeria, so please come and join us let's make it a better place for our future generation.

Anybody that has traveled out of Nigeria to countries in Europe, America, Asia and even Middle East will agree that Nigeria is a mini hell fire and anybody who survives in Nigeria can survive even in hell fire!

To this effect, I challenge us all irrespective of our tribe, religion, location or class to please wake up and let's begin a new chapter for Nigeria through voicing out our pains and by ensuring the same old, recycled politicians do not lead us again come 2019. They have done their part, let them go and rest let the youths take charge of their future now!

Nigerian youths arise! Stop allowing these recycled old politicians to be using you and be dividing us using tribe and religion whereas amongst them they are one irrespective of their tribe or religion. Their children intermarry irrespective of tribe or religion but they sow so much hatred in our hearts to hate those who come from another tribe or religion just so they can continue to rule us and loot our future for their kids and unborn generation.

How can we achieve this

Stand with ANY (Arise Nigerian Youths) political pressure group now. Join our over growing Whatsapp groups....join our Telegram group...join our Facebook group and like our page.


Tell your friends about ANY, invite them to join us on Twitter by following us via @NYRP3 and on Instagram via https://www.instagram.com/arisenigerianyouths.

We will soon start massive campaign and youth mobilization on Nigerian TVs, Radio stations and also will be organising university campus walks nationwide.


Get ready!
ANY is coming to your door!

Wishing us all a prosperous New Year ahead!

gidgiddy:
You want to make Nigeria great? First determine who a Nigerian is.

First conduct a referendum to determine those who subscribe to this colonial identity called Nigeria.

Who indeed wants to be a Nigerian?

Certainly not me and most of my fellow Igbos.

Nigeria is a sham and a scam and I wish for the independence of my fellow Igbos and the minorities who are comfortable with Igbos as a separate state.

So as long as Nigeria decides to hold people against their will, there will be no path to greatness.

NYRP:
Each day I wake up, I feel bad seeing the situation of things in Nigeria.

Remember, Buhari is not the problem, the problem outdates Buhari and even Goodluck Jonathan.

The problem of failed leadership in Nigeria dates back as far back as 1960, we have never gotten it right from the day we had our independence.

Don't be deceived, Nigeria has never been a great country, Nigeria has always been a mediocre when it comes to leadership and national development. But we can change that status quo, but only the youths can achieve this through total determination.


Sometimes I just feel its a fundamental problem with the black Africa, but even if it is, we can make a difference through sincere determination to change things in Nigeria.

It is sad that in Nigeria, someone will labor to graduate from the university or polytechnic or college of education and at the end of it all, he or she cannot find any job to take care of himself or herself, it is shameful.

We need to do some things to change the Nigerian story.

Nigerians are hardworking individually, Nigerians are creative but bad leadership is the problem.

We abandon leadership for fools, we elect the wrong people to lead us either out of tribalism, religious sentiment or sheer stupidity.

In the preceding posts I will be making on this forum, I will be posting some workable ideas on how Nigerian economy can be revived to create jobs and encourage young entrepreneurs.

Please come in and share your ideas on how you think Nigeria can be made a better nation.

We need workable ideas.....we don't want problem identification only, but we need you to also table your own solution ideas, thanks as you contribute.

NYRP:
Each day I wake up, I feel bad seeing the situation of things in Nigeria.

Remember, Buhari is not the problem, the problem outdates Buhari and even Goodluck Jonathan.

The problem of failed leadership in Nigeria dates back as far back as 1960, we have never gotten it right from the day we had our independence.

Don't be deceived, Nigeria has never been a great country, Nigeria has always been a mediocre when it comes to leadership and national development. But we can change that status quo, but only the youths can achieve this through total determination.


Sometimes I just feel its a fundamental problem with the black Africa, but even if it is, we can make a difference through sincere determination to change things in Nigeria.

It is sad that in Nigeria, someone will labor to graduate from the university or polytechnic or college of education and at the end of it all, he or she cannot find any job to take care of himself or herself, it is shameful.

We need to do some things to change the Nigerian story.

Nigerians are hardworking individually, Nigerians are creative but bad leadership is the problem.

We abandon leadership for fools, we elect the wrong people to lead us either out of tribalism, religious sentiment or sheer stupidity.

In the preceding posts I will be making on this forum, I will be posting some workable ideas on how Nigerian economy can be revived to create jobs and encourage young entrepreneurs.

Please come in and share your ideas on how you think Nigeria can be made a better nation.

We need workable ideas.....we don't want problem identification only, but we need you to also table your own solution ideas, thanks as you contribute.

Swagahyk:
The youths!

•Let's use the media constructively
•Let's reset our mindsets.
•Let's criticize every form of Corruption irrespective of the ethnicity.
•Let's take part in active politics not online politics.
•Lets stop ranting behind our phones and face reality.

[Nairaland has contributed alot to ethnic division and tribal hate within the past few months, I wonder what the modes are doing about it or are they benefiting from it??]

UncleJudax:

Thats how Nigeria deteroriated. People in power allowed the decay (Nigeria Airways, railway, Economy, etc) to continue and now we are Here.

Nairaland Claims to be against the division of the Country, but allows ethnic and religious bigotry to thrive.

To be honest, Nigeria May never Work...and Nairaland is a microcosm of how the Country is operated...so much hypocrisy!

NYRP:
Each day I wake up, I feel bad seeing the situation of things in Nigeria.

Remember, Buhari is not the problem, the problem outdates Buhari and even Goodluck Jonathan.

The problem of failed leadership in Nigeria dates back as far back as 1960, we have never gotten it right from the day we had our independence.

Don't be deceived, Nigeria has never been a great country, Nigeria has always been a mediocre when it comes to leadership and national development. But we can change that status quo, but only the youths can achieve this through total determination.


Sometimes I just feel its a fundamental problem with the black Africa, but even if it is, we can make a difference through sincere determination to change things in Nigeria.

It is sad that in Nigeria, someone will labor to graduate from the university or polytechnic or college of education and at the end of it all, he or she cannot find any job to take care of himself or herself, it is shameful.

We need to do some things to change the Nigerian story.

Nigerians are hardworking individually, Nigerians are creative but bad leadership is the problem.

We abandon leadership for fools, we elect the wrong people to lead us either out of tribalism, religious sentiment or sheer stupidity.

In the preceding posts I will be making on this forum, I will be posting some workable ideas on how Nigerian economy can be revived to create jobs and encourage young entrepreneurs.

Please come in and share your ideas on how you think Nigeria can be made a better nation.

We need workable ideas.....we don't want problem identification only, but we need you to also table your own solution ideas, thanks as you contribute.

ConsensusGroup:


Why are you still complaining? You only have a right to complain if like The Consensus Group you are making a genuine effort but not getting adequate support.

Join a local or national group and be the change you want to see in the Nigeria.

Otherwise, you need to stop complaining.

david290:
It's simple: let's reverse engineer the situation. This can be pretty difficult but I believe it's achievable.
The one opportunity that I see the youth riding on to leadership is the lack of trust the citizens have continuously expressed against the leadership of this country. And from what you saw happened in 2015, I can almost bet my left ball that Nigerians will vote anybody they have trust in, regardless of his party.
We first need to make the leadership style of these current old cargoes unfashionable. They make promises, we, on the other hand, should show results.
Let's start by using proven tactics like crowd funding to provide jobs for our youths.
If that will not work quite as quickly, with my little internet skills and business knowledge in conjunction with those of other smart Nigerian youths, we can scout and support our youths with great ideas and ventures by helping them to launch and thrive, after which we'll make them pledge their loyalty to make at least a 20% slot for Nigerian youths.
All this will add when we present a candidate who will be fielded on the platform we'll be creating - this will give us control over the leadership style of our candidate, and will as well reduce the financial obligations like the purchase of candidature forms and campaign costs.
Long and short of my epistle:
> We need our best brains
> We need to be actively involved in leadership roles
> The youth need to unite for a common cause
> Let's use this unity to build credibility and a platform, which, in turn, will be used to win the hearts of electorates during elections
Please search and join the group Fellow Nigerians on Facebook if you're interested in this v 2.0 project.