Perge:
Who told this aboki reporter that Almajiri infested Kano is the most populated state in Nigeria?

....except you were not born when the most recent census was taken.....and google is not installed on your device.....

12submarine:

It is very confusing. The headline says some states pay their civil servants high despite poor revenue but the report itself compares the civil servants salaries with the states' respective IGRs. The confusion with the headline as compared with the report is that one will assume those states pay higher than other states, and that is not the case in the report.

Yes that's exactly what they want us to know. They pay higher than other states when compared with their IGR. Lagos forinstance pays lower.

Icon79:
Many of these numbers don't make sense. Let me give you one example below:

Lagos with the biggest economic base in the country, generated three-digit IGR of N302.42 billion in 2016, and it pays its directors N347,733, deputy directors N182,253, and assistant directors N147,318 per month. It is spending N72 billion annually to pay its 100,433 workers.

The oil-rich Rivers state is paying directors N285, 000, deputy directors N265, 000, and assistant directors N230, 000. It is spending N100.8 billion on its 25, 000 workers every year. It generated N85.29 billion in 2016, according to NBS data.

Lagos State is spending N72 billion annually to pay 100,433 workers; whereas
Rivers State is spending N100.8 billion annually to pay 25, 000 workers every year.
Hence, Lagos states have 4 times more workers than Rivers states; yet Rivers state spends about 25% more on workers salary than Lagos state!

Are you freaking kidding me?


O pari

Have you heard about "Ghost Workers" Rivers State could be the domain of Ghost workers. Aside from the fact that Rivers pay comparatively less than Lagos, you wonder where the remaining went. My suspicion is Militants, Cultists, Pipeline boys, political militia boys and "govt escrow"

12submarine:

mabea: :
No confussion at all. Maybe you should carefully read it again.

It is very confusing. The headline says some states pay their civil servants high despite poor revenue but the report itself compares the civil servants salaries with the states' respective IGRs. The confusion with the headline as compared with the report is that one will assume those states pay higher than other states, and that is not the case in the report.

Bros,

I guess you're probably the only one confused about this or struggling to understand. Seems your problem is you already had a fixation and as such struggles to match the body of the article with you fixation. When the headline say "XX & YY pays workers high despite poor revenue", the basis of comparison should be the next question you should ask. Where in that headline is state-by-state comparison suggested? The headline is simply a pointer that you should ask "What is the basis of comparison?"; which you can only establish if you read the article.

Odingo1:

12submarine: :
Leeches. That is why they are against resource control. Apart from Lagos, all states in the ne, nw, nc, se and sw are bloody parasites.

Who build lagos , lagos is former capital of Nigeria, FG concentrated all infrastructure there, just like Abuja is been built if not lagos will be like others.

This is the same ole rhetoric/narrative albeit lies that you people decided to pursue. It will not help development in your state. Lagos has witnessed (still is) monumental development in the last 18yrs that probably trumps what FG did when the capital was in Lagos. You are better off if you put your state governors on their toes rather than waiting for manna from FG. The moment your governors start dishing out cash for the boys or doing useless and needless projects instead of investing in long lasting developmental infrastructure projects, your children has the risk of the same story in the underlined in future

Odingo1:

12submarine: :

Oga, who built Lagos is not my business, let each state controls its resources, that is a key to national development. Let's stop robbing Peter to pay Paul.

When the Niger delta oil money is flowing and you want resource control without breakup , can Lagos survive without Niger delta oil money , Kano and Lagos receive the highest allocation from oil money.

How do you think that there will be ever resource control in Nigeria.

Humor me! (@underlined)

Which beer parlor did you get this stats from?

EternalTruths:


Open the ports in the East and let's see if Lagos will survive the tsunami that will hit her.

That is why Yoruba nation is the greatest anti Biafra nation within Nigeria.

Truth is nobody is "closing" the ports in the east, especially when Lagos is conjested. Shippers would have loved to move more inland where they probably will get incentives like cheaper landing costs. Ask yourself why are they not? Why have investors not even chosen to put money down to develop these inland ports?

Shippers will not go to the east if we don't solve the problem of security in Warri axis of the water ways. Militias and Pirates for starters.

... Or the rest went into somebody's pocket

After all, this is Rivers state .... the state that gave us *scratches head* (remind me the name of that kleptomaniac governor).


O pari

mapet:


Have you heard about "Ghost Workers" Rivers State could be the domain of Ghost workers. Aside from the fact that Rivers pay comparatively less than Lagos, you wonder where the remaining went. My suspicion is Militants, Cultists, Pipeline boys, political militia boys and "govt escrow"

Odingo1:

When the Niger delta oil money is flowing and you want resource control without breakup , can Lagos survive without Niger delta oil money , Kano and Lagos receive the highest allocation from oil money.

How do you think that there will be ever resource control in Nigeria.

Which oil money?
Lagos gets revenue from tax, investment foreign & local
...............
Go and ask J Ibori, A Diezani, Nnpc, Gej for the oil money they squandered aimlessly............