Marine54:
I m just stating the Obvious. Go to my state and see things for yourself !

if you know the type of money coming in to that your state ehh... You will know you have greedy leaders too,, just some leaders are greedier than others

Dickeyrider:
Every Nigerian owns the oil. We say no to resource control. Southwest once fed the whole country with proceeds from cocoa exports likewise north with agriculture. As long as we remain one Nigeria and i pray we never break up, we all own the oil. You are even lucky to get 13% derivation. What else do you want?

Fed the whole world with proceeds from rotten cocoa

Dickeyrider:
Every Nigerian owns the oil. We say no to resource control. Southwest once fed the whole country with proceeds from cocoa exports likewise north with agriculture. As long as we remain one Nigeria and i pray we never break up, we all own the oil. You are even lucky to get 13% derivation. What else do you want?

Women are going to school and getting educated, you're still here talking like a kitchen utensil

nazicartel:
if you know the type of money coming in to that your state ehh... You will know you have greedy leaders too,, just some leaders are greedier than others

Oga relax.
Akwa Ibom started enjoying oil money from just 2007. If u have been to Akwa Ibom pre 2007 and compare with what we have on ground then we have gone a long way for a young State.
We still need to keep our leaders on their toes so they can perform more.

ggood:
Governor condemns push for resource control

By Clara Nwachukwu, Business Editor |   22 September 2020   |   4:20

• Promises tax incentives, others to investors.

As Niger Delta governors continue to push for resource control, their counterparts in the northern region believe current structure, which confers ownership of all natural resources on the Federal Government’s and prescribes the allocation of 13 per cent derivation is most suitable for Nigeria.

Speaking with select editors at the Government House in Lafia, Nasarawa State Capital, Governor Abdullahi Sule, reiterated that he will not support any move toward resource control, while responding to whether he will support a bill to that effect.

He said: “Nasarawa State will not be at the forefront of encouraging the Federal Government to relinquish its ownership of minerals for the states to take ownership. Nasarawa State will not do that. We believe very strongly that it would be disadvantageous to the interest of the nation for Nasarawa State to push for such a move that states should take control, and that is what they call resource control, and Nasarawa State will not be at the forefront of resource control.”

Rather than resource control, Sule advised state governors to push for local content development for their respective resources, which would impact Nigerians and the economy more.


He argued that it was selfish for governors to want to control the natural resources in their domain, saying: “If for our own selfish interest we say: yes, we push for resource control, then how would our neighbours survive? That is the reason why the Federal Government needs to keep the ownership.

“Nasarawa State believes in local content development and local participation and that is what we are trying to drive when it comes to that aspect. And the reason why it (resource control) is bad is because Nigeria is endowed with mineral resources, but they are not in every state. So, if we allow the states, because Nasarawa also has some oil deposits by the way, and so far it has been certified that it is of commercial quantity, and all the minerals you have mentioned. If Nasarawa would say that, how about other states like Taraba, Plateau, and Benue that probably don’t have that, how would they gain?”

As a result, Sule insisted that “It’s better to continue with the federal allocation. Already, the Federal Government is doing a lot by saying there is 13 per cent derivation for the states. Whatever comes from the minerals in your own state, you get the 13 per cent derivation, and that is the reason why today, some of the states, their federal allocation could be as much as N20 billion, and the other states would be as low as N3 billion, because they don’t have the minerals. Those are the kinds of things that I believe we can do. Now, you mentioned the various ones that we have, and I strongly agree with you that we should try as much as possible to develop them, which was why I told you I am participating in the local content seminar, that way, Nigerians should have ownership.”

Meanwhile, the governor has promised investors of many incentives, including tax holidays for investing in Nasarawa State. He also assured them of adequate return on their investments.

Given his background of coming from the private sector, having resigned as the Managing Director of Dangote Sugar Refinery, Sule said: “I come from that background, and understand that background, and would not make life very difficult for an investor. I would make life easy for an investor. I would not allow any investor to stay that number of years without making money. We would find a way for him to make his money, because it is only when he makes his money that we would make our money.”



In regards to the tax holidays, he said his government is willing to negotiate on agreeable terms with investors based on the investment proposals in terms of: “What kind of employment are you going to generate? What kind of corporate social responsibility (CSR) are you providing to the people? In your business plan, you don’t have to tell us your profit; we don’t need to know the exact money, just give us an idea. Then how are you going to affect the environment? What kind of pollution would be there and how would the people be affected.”

He added: “We tell the investors that we know what we are doing, and we tell them that definitely we are interested in their return on investments. If the investors understand that you understand them, and that you are willing to work with them, I think that is an attraction for investments and that’s what we have been doing. We have been able to attract few investments so far, and we believe that we would attract a lot more by the time they know directly where we are going. Recently, I saw on the news the five states that have the highest foreign direct investments, and we were lucky Nasarawa was one of the states that were mentioned. Indeed, we are working to see that we attract some of these investments by providing the investors with what they need because we know what they need.


https://m.guardian.ng/business-services/governor-condemns-push-for-resource-control-2/amp/

proper illiterate which the people are suffering of poverty

The same IPOB abusing them will still vote them 2023 so why the waste of time

Osaze007:
The same IPOB abusing them will still vote them 2023 so why the waste of time

You know what you're doing...you re just cleverly muddling the issues ...

Rugaria:
Division is the ultimate answer! These people pratically dictate the quantity of beef on our table every meal through a government policy that banned the importation of beef therby making the fulani herders the monopolies in this area. Nigerians are underfed as a result! They have raked in billions from all parts of West Africa as a result of these extreme government measures that favour them... They don't pay taxes! Their brothers from other parts of West Africa come in and go out freely from our porous borders, selling millions of cows while draining the country of foreign exchange! They pay no tax! They answer to nobody! Yet they will be the ones to drag revenue from oil with oil producing States! States like Kaduna and Kano even get more oil money than some oil producing areas! Separation will be the only way to stop this!

Because of this cursed country, imagine a state like Kano receiving more federal allocation than Imo that has oyel and gas!? And i'm talking of a Imo state that this same cursed 'one Nigeria' removed a large part of its hydrocarbon rich territory and placed in Rivers state!

Imagine Imo (with all its stolen territory still intact) being a independent country.....or at the very least, have 100% ownership of resources within its territory!? Imagine such a Imo state being governed by a responsible and visionary ruler like a Dee Sam Mbakwe.....imagine where they would be by now?

Nigeria is holding us back, and we need to free ourselves from this hellhole if we're to have any hope of reaching our full potential as a people!

IGBOSON1:


Because of this cursed country, imagine a state like Kano receiving more federal allocation than Imo that has oyel and gas!? And i'm talking of a Imo state that this same cursed 'one Nigeria' removed a large part of its hydrocarbon rich territory and placed in Rivers state!

Imagine Imo (with all its stolen territory still intact) being a independent country.....or at the very least, have 100% ownership of resources within its territory!? Imagine such a Imo state being governed by a responsible and visionary ruler like a Dee Sam Mbakwe.....imagine where they would be by now?

Nigeria is holding us back, and we need to free ourselves from this hellhole if we're to have any hope of reaching our full potential as a people!

What the evil ones did with the boundaries of Imo state will go down in the record books as the biggest evil perpetuated against a people by their supposed government. That is why the likes Obasanjo amuse me when they start all their schemes to outflank Buhari. He easily forgets how he recruited the like of Mamman Nasir to mess up communities just to get at igbos...How could a government slice off the oil producing parts of a state and fix those to another state just because you hate them?

Folks don't know that most onshore oil production in Rivers State happens in these areas. Like I said in an earlier post on this platform;the Nigerian state has now made thrillions of dollars from eastern oil with nothing to show for it. They are now preparing to loot the gas deposits with a strategy to misuse the funds with all sorts of wild projects in the north and in niger republic. It's left for easterners to say "enough is enough"! If we allow these vandals to waste our gas deposits the same way they did oil, then we should consider that a generational failure!