blackmantis:


Do you know all Taxi cabs pay tax everyday?
Do you at all motor parks money is collected? What is it used for?
Do you know that all signboard displayed in the fct must pay tax?
Do you know that every shop in all markets, plaza, etc pay tax to the fct?
Do you know tenement rates is collected from landlords in the fct?

The fct generates revenue, the question should be what is the revenue generated used for?

Yungmil:
Did you just say we are poor....Nigeria?

Go back to sleep then wake up and modify

Beancounter94:


This is a sentiment I agree with...but at the end of the day, we would have a million and one things to spend the money saved on...like primary school education for example.

Beancounter94:


At the end of the day, it isn't enough.

Probably not up to half of what we need to run a first class capital city.

Keep in mind that the tax rate is not as high as in other countries...where they can collect half your income in taxes.

Beancounter94:


It is one thing to set up street lights, another thing to keep them well maintained and functioning...which requires things like taxes, taxes, taxes...and more taxes.

Kay25:

that's true but naija has never been good at anything

Beancounter94:


More like FCT does not have enough money, and there is looting too.

FCT used to raise money from parking meters to supplement its income some 8 years ago, until someone got a court order to stop it.

Also, we don't pay something called a council tax. Many cities in the UK...residents pay something called a council tax which can be as high as 85,000 to 100000 naira. (I know, Nigeria cannot be compared to the UK eh, we are poor)...but that money goes into providing essential services such as street light, transport, etc.

The oyel money that we all rely on is not enough for all of us. Which is why you that is shouting Hausas and Fulani...is your state capital well lit all over? The reason is simple...there isn't enough money to do the job.(apart from Lagos maybe, and even Lag is not well lit all over). Because your tax to gdp ratio is too low and because the oil price has not been high enough to sustain us for nearly 9 years, if not longer.

States and the FCT need to be innovative in raising money not just for streetlights , but for public services, especially in the cities. And Nigerians too need to put pressure on their leaders to make sure the money is used well to ensure that their cities are run well.(The court case I referred to earlier may have stopped corruption in the parking meter system, but then it also threw out the baby with the bathwater)

(This is not a supporting Buhari message...personally, I think the minister of FCT should be more of a professional than a polticial somebodi. APC continued with the same old same old.Ironically, the last really good FCT minister we had was El-Rufai.)

eldoradoxx:
The revenue FCT generates from land administration alone when u hear of a piece of land in choice location going for billions of naira alone can fix all the street lights in Abuja
Abuja's problem is very simple, in 2015 Buhari replicated his incompetence in Abuja by appointing a man that has no business being a Minister of FCT, since then the city has been in a sorry state. It is not money issue that is disturbing FCT, it is the Buhari brand; incompetence

Beancounter94:


Depends. We can have good essential services if we are ready to pay the high price for them

Beancounter94:


Maybe, but Abuja had street light issues even before APC took over...and the current guy's predecessor was not too impressive either (apart from the parking meter idea)

Also, Abuja's problems go way beyond street lights...we need better public transport, better traffic lights, and so on. That's where improved tax revenue should come in.

As much as i don't like the APC government (you will soon see why), revenue from oil under their regime has been ver very low...even as low as us losing over $90 per barrel ..due to prices for oil being low. (APC government knows that, but won't diversify, nor raise the taxes revenue.).This affects money coming to the FCTA for development.

abeloureal:
They’ve seen capital cities and how they are not moved by those ones to actually implement a change in their own cities still baffle me

stephanie11:
BY WALE ODUNSI



https://politicsnigeria.com/abujas-poor-lighting-what-buhari-bello-fcta-must-know-by-wale-odunsi/

zanshi:
You put Hausa Fulani in vital ass positions and you expect to see development

FamTomx2:


Abuja Is A Shadow Of It's Self Since PDP Left Power,
No significant development since APC took power, if you are in Abj in the past fifteen years or so you will understand what am insinuating...

Most infrastructural developments in Abj today are from the former ruling party..

APC has no clue of what good governance is all about... not ready for it yet, no single overwhelming project from them, unstable folks,

Gone are the days when one is proud of coming and living in Abj.

A lots of government enforcement agencies everywhere making the lives of people miserable.

hedonido:


You have no idea how badly our beloved Abuja has deteriorated under the demonic regime of this idiot called Buhari and his band of les incompetents. It is beyond sad. Abuja that used to be the closest thing to heaven on earth in Nigeria during those glorious Obasanjo, Yar Adua and Jonathan years, has now been reduced to a cesspit of crime, filth and decay. The current FCT Minister, whose name I would never care to memorise, is more useless than a used tissue paper. The worst there can ever be.

I can only desperately hope things don't get even worse.

Beancounter94:


More like FCT does not have enough money, and there is looting too.

FCT used to raise money from parking meters to supplement its income some 8 years ago, until someone got a court order to stop it.

Also, we don't pay something called a council tax. Many cities in the UK...residents pay something called a council tax which can be as high as 85,000 to 100000 naira. (I know, Nigeria cannot be compared to the UK eh, we are poor)...but that money goes into providing essential services such as street light, transport, etc.

The oyel money that we all rely on is not enough for all of us. Which is why you that is shouting Hausas and Fulani...is your state capital well lit all over? The reason is simple...there isn't enough money to do the job.(apart from Lagos maybe, and even Lag is not well lit all over). Because your tax to gdp ratio is too low and because the oil price has not been high enough to sustain us for nearly 9 years, if not longer.

States and the FCT need to be innovative in raising money not just for streetlights , but for public services, especially in the cities. And Nigerians too need to put pressure on their leaders to make sure the money is used well to ensure that their cities are run well.(The court case I referred to earlier may have stopped corruption in the parking meter system, but then it also threw out the baby with the bathwater)

(This is not a supporting Buhari message...personally, I think the minister of FCT should be more of a professional than a polticial somebodi. APC continued with the same old same old.Ironically, the last really good FCT minister we had was El-Rufai.)

sulaak:


Nigeria VAT is very low should be around 20%, there is no cattle tax, council tax, housing tax and road tax all these taxes are collected every month by UK local council to provide local services

27Pushing30:


Please list the Hausa/fulani’s in vital positions in Abina, Enugu, Ebonyi , anambra and IMO states

Add SS and SE states as well.

Where are the fulani’s there?

Beancounter94:


More like FCT does not have enough money, and there is looting too.

FCT used to raise money from parking meters to supplement its income some 8 years ago, until someone got a court order to stop it.

Also, we don't pay something called a council tax. Many cities in the UK...residents pay something called a council tax which can be as high as 85,000 to 100000 naira. (I know, Nigeria cannot be compared to the UK eh, we are poor)...but that money goes into providing essential services such as street light, transport, etc.

The oyel money that we all rely on is not enough for all of us. Which is why you that is shouting Hausas and Fulani...is your state capital well lit all over? The reason is simple...there isn't enough money to do the job.(apart from Lagos maybe, and even Lag is not well lit all over). Because your tax to gdp ratio is too low and because the oil price has not been high enough to sustain us for nearly 9 years, if not longer.

States and the FCT need to be innovative in raising money not just for streetlights , but for public services, especially in the cities. And Nigerians too need to put pressure on their leaders to make sure the money is used well to ensure that their cities are run well.(The court case I referred to earlier may have stopped corruption in the parking meter system, but then it also threw out the baby with the bathwater)

(This is not a supporting Buhari message...personally, I think the minister of FCT should be more of a professional than a polticial somebodi. APC continued with the same old same old.Ironically, the last really good FCT minister we had was El-Rufai.)

Beancounter94:

https://www.nairaland.com/6684640/outcry-abuja-fcta-asks-business. Mugu, any defence 4 this one?

More like FCT does not have enough money, and there is looting too.

FCT used to raise money from parking meters to supplement its income some 8 years ago, until someone got a court order to stop it.

Also, we don't pay something called a council tax. Many cities in the UK...residents pay something called a council tax which can be as high as 85,000 to 100000 naira. (I know, Nigeria cannot be compared to the UK eh, we are poor)...but that money goes into providing essential services such as street light, transport, etc.

The oyel money that we all rely on is not enough for all of us. Which is why you that is shouting Hausas and Fulani...is your state capital well lit all over? The reason is simple...there isn't enough money to do the job.(apart from Lagos maybe, and even Lag is not well lit all over). Because your tax to gdp ratio is too low and because the oil price has not been high enough to sustain us for nearly 9 years, if not longer.

States and the FCT need to be innovative in raising money not just for streetlights , but for public services, especially in the cities. And Nigerians too need to put pressure on their leaders to make sure the money is used well to ensure that their cities are run well.(The court case I referred to earlier may have stopped corruption in the parking meter system, but then it also threw out the baby with the bathwater)

(This is not a supporting Buhari message...personally, I think the minister of FCT should be more of a professional than a polticial somebodi. APC continued with the same old same old.Ironically, the last really good FCT minister we had was El-Rufai.)

Beancounter94:


Thanks for the kind and generous words, and do have a good and prosperous rest of the week.

Beancounter94:


Maybe, but Abuja had street light issues even before APC took over...and the current guy's predecessor was not too impressive either (apart from the parking meter idea)

Also, Abuja's problems go way beyond street lights...we need better public transport, better traffic lights, and so on. That's where improved tax revenue should come in.

As much as i don't like the APC government (you will soon see why), revenue from oil under their regime has been ver very low...even as low as us losing over $90 per barrel ..due to prices for oil being low. (APC government knows that, but won't diversify, nor raise the taxes revenue.).This affects money coming to the FCTA for development.