jimyjames:

We igbos have everything it takes to live on our own, let this country be restructured to regions and everyone to his own tents , we have enough natural resources to grow our economy , the biggest beneficials of one Nigeria is the yoruba's, yoruba's have nothing all the investment yoruba's are benefiting from belongs to outsiders

You are wrong. They will be the ahead of ALL REGIONS if Nigeria is restructured. This continued boasting is causing more problems for Igbos and you need to put an end to it and also make sure that your kids do not inherit it.

For an instance, the Nigerian tech sphere is dominated by them... we Igbos don't even come close there. They are the biggest exporter of tech programmers. There are more Yoruba entrepreneurs than you can imagine. Just because they don't boast as we Igbos do does not mean that they are not up there.

Two of Nigeria's tech unicorns are led by Yoruba sons. Stop this bragging. It does not paint us in a good light.

Christistruth00:

think about that

Make nobody try wike ooo!!

This is good.

It is up to the southern leaders to negotiate a better deal for themselves and others.


I really don't hate my northern brothers and sisters, I just hate that they bow to arabs and try to outdo the bloody Arabs in their satanic religion. I just wonder how a 419 that collaborated with Saudi kings, formed a demonic religion. Now, it has put enmity between siblings.

In the South they drink Beer to generate IGR..In the North they destroy Beer and ask for BROTHERS KEEPER......INDI ALA...

let each region have total control

Let’s Be Our Brothers' Keeper – Gombe Governor Begs Southern States To Reconsider Stance On Value Added Tax | Sahara Reporters

Mee:

The Governor of Rivers state, @GovWike, and other Southern Governors are insisting on collecting the VAT in their states.

The North is being disgraced in public. More than 90% VAT comes from Southern Nigeria. Nigeria is changing and not in favor of the extremely wicked and corrupt Northern Oligarchy.

The leaders and people of Southern Nigeria have realized that Northern Nigeria is the biggest liability to the Nigerian state. A Southern Journalist recently told me that the North is only good in the production of BokoHaram, armed bandits and Almajiri. I was silent.

Just as Trump successfully UnCloth US imperialism in the market place so has Buhari successfully UnCloth the Northern empty arrogance in the market place.

The wicked Northern Oligarchy has had a free ride for long. These notorious treasury looters and economic terrorists knows nothing but to corruptly enrich themselves, families and cronies. They are the biggest enemies of the Nigerian state.

#ElbinawiTweets

Governor Magaji, now is the time to put on your thinking cap and find a way to generate income for your state. Stop being a parasite. This tells me that without Southern Nigerian States, northern Nigeria will be toast. Yet, northern elites tend to resent southerners. See all the killings going on in Southern states by the Buhari-led Nigerian army and Fulani herdsmen.

If it's where the North that has the Wealth South has...This country for done Divide since..

Modrov:
Infact the humor of the situation is simple when you wake up to the fact that

1. All states in Nigeria have the same problem...low tax to gdp ratios, low percentage of the taxable population paying taxes.

2.Most state governors know what to do, ....tax everyone including the majority in the informal sector, the farmers, the laborer's, the herdsmen, etc.

3.They won't do it...because it means they all get voted out.

4.Southern state governors thus hit on seizing VAT...as a smart way of getting out of their predicament. It helps them in these ways

FIRST: they get some extra money for the state coffers without having to raise taxes on the majority who don't pay taxes.(even though long term it may not be enough, but that's not the point)
SECOND: it helps them politically; gives southern nigerians an enemy to focus on (the evil North)...and also shows them as defenders of the South vs the parasitic, evil, North. It also enables them to get voted into office forever and ever....after they finish being governors. (Just as one Alhaji Sani got himself a permanent seat as A SENATOR after retiring as a GOVERNOR because he introduced Sharia)

5.Northern governors are in a quandary

FIRST: They lose the extra income from vat..which worsens their allocation from Abuja...especially as oil is low...and still low.
SECOND: They then may have to do what their southern governor counterparts are not going to do...raise taxes on the majority of their population that like the South does not pay taxes. Which means they cannot have any polticial benefits...and anyone of them hoping for bigger things after governor is in trobule.


That's why when I tell people I don't like APC or PDP....they think I am lying. Well, this whole VAT thing is one of the ways both sets of politicians pull wool over our eyes. Now it is the turn of our Southern governors. Meanwhile....the money from VAT would not be enough long term. And the problem still remains....30% of taxable Nigerians actually pay taxes, and our tax to gdp ratio is 6.1% and we are still dependent on oil.

But hey, we have beaten those Northerners. Just like the North used Sharia to beat them Southerners. That's all that matters. Either way, Nigeria keeps on suffering.

Tomorrow...most of you praising WIKE will end up asking the same question.....where is the money going to? Why am I not seeing benefit? Why won't you..when the problem causing the lack of money was never really addressed?

The root cause of this quagmire is that our system doesn't encourage people with impeccable character and most importantly guys with very high intelligent quotient to mount the seat of governance.

The ills in the land have gone for so long a time that any good news is celebrated since good news is hard to get over here.
The guy has tried to set a good precedent, our hope is that visionary leaders should always take charge of governance in the land so that transformative and innovative ideas can help galvanized the Nation to a trajectory of greatness..

Let each state keep it's VAT abeg, enough of some states up north benefiting and have nothing to give than terror, restlessness and properties destruction.

No borthers keeper of a thing, let them start milking their cows, the major reason the don't want this country to separate is the consequence of them losing out.

idahme:


The root cause of this quagmire is that our system doesn't encourage people with impeccable character and most importantly guys with very high intelligent quotient to mount the seat of governance.

The ills in the land have gone for so long a time that any good news is celebrated since good news is hard to get over here.
The guy has tried to set a good precedent, our hope is that visionary leaders should always take charge of governance in the land so that transformative and innovative ideas can help galvanized the Nation to a trajectory of greatness..

The problem is, most Nigerians see government as a means to get money.

That influences the way and manner people think.

That's is good ideal from southern governors

The North has been our problem

It is Haram to take from the proceeds of alcohol, gambling and other Haram products you always destroy in your states anyway

thunder featuring ogun kill you there, Wolves in sheep clothing...

If that's the case, only economically viable states should exist. If you can't feed yourself, forget about raising children.

The northern leeches always remember one Nigerian when it come to southern money.

These states, southern states included, should begin to realize that there is no more free lunch available for any state.
The earlier the Governors begin to think outside the box, or that there is no box , in harnessing their states resources, both human and capital, to increase their IGPs, the better it will be for all of them

Whazar:
brothers keeper kee you there

are we even brothers to begin with?


bunch of leeches, its better you put on your thinking cap or resign

According to Woke, N46 billion was realised as VAT from Lagos state in June, according to sharing formula, 85% should've been given to Lagos (N39b) but they gave Lagos N4 billion.

N2b was realised in Kano and they gave everything to Kano. See injustice.

You people get all the juicy appointments in NNPC and DPR, oil wells, share from proceeds of oil Sale but mine your solid minerals such as Gold in Zamfara to yourselves. GREEDY Bastards.

PrinceOfLagos:
Brother's keeper Kill you there idiot

All this year's you've been milking the southerners dry, you didn't remember to be brothers keeper

Mad people

God bless Wike for me .

Nor mind them bastard, they should look for ways to survive on their own. So they know how to be brothers keeps and they busy killing the people who feeds them

i foresee a coup sooner that may lead to civil war in Nigeria

States that can't stand on their own should merge with neighbouring states and pool their resources together. That's why the north always run away from any talk of restructuring. Their leaders are too lazy and mentally handicapped. Any state that can't fund itself is not supposed to be a state in the first place.

After destroying bottles of beer belonging to ur so-cald Southern brothers in the North by islamic police under the watch and criminal silence of Northern leaders. you still want to shear the VAT proceeds from the same commodity,NO it wont happen,that is robbing peter to pay paul..NO it wont work,its a sin against my faith.

You want sharia,right?

kmcutez:
We need to immortalize Wike for this single act. He just wrote his name in the books of history.

Seconded.

Lolz

Even as a northerner,I condemn this public begging......I love what the Southerners are doing! Mr governor ..don't forget that the alcoholic beverages destroy by the so called hisbah belongs to the south!

PrinceOfLagos:
Brother's keeper Kill you there idiot

All this year's you've been milking the southerners dry, you didn't remember to be brothers keeper

Mad people

God bless Wike for me .

Our anger should be channeled towards our southerne govt, should incase they decided to be their brothers keeper; then we will deal with them. This is just the beginning, they didn't see it coming on time!

osuofia2:
Fake news, in real sense, the South needs the North more than the North needs South.
We feed the South, in turn what do they contribute to Nigeria aside given us problems up and down.
Lord Lugard shouldn't have joined us with those bunch of noise makers called southerners.

Ewu ugwu

proeast:
No source?
No news??

Anyways whatever, everyone should answer thier father's name.

MAI GIDA WHICH SOURCE ARE YOU LOOKING FOR AGAIN

Sit down look na dog name