Ibkhaleel01:
When you see the Southern governors, politicians, elders, elites, traditional rulers, cashivists, freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets & their hate doped retards on social media especially those from the Niger Delta talk about restructuring & resource control, you will think they genuinely love Nigeria & their region.
Sure No!
What they want is more money, more power & more control over the money without no one querying them.
Those governors, politicians, elders, elites, traditional rulers, cashivists & freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets that swallowed the 6 trillion naira in NDDC over the past 18 years meant to develop the Niger Delta in addition to squandering trillions of naira & billions of dollars that accrued to Niger Delta from federal statutory allocations, 13% derivation funds, ecological funds, Ministry of Niger Delta funds, taxes, royalties rents etc with only poverty, deprivation & backwardness to show for it every 4 years are the same governors, politicians, elders, elites, cashivists & freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets that will manage a restructured Niger Delta controlling all the resources there.
If they truly want restructuring, they would have welcomed & implemented by now Buhari's executive orders granting financial autonomy to local governments, state houses of assembly & state judiciaries instead of rejecting it & going to court to challenge the orders.
Those that are fighting for restructuring don't want independent local governments, state houses of assemby & state judiciaries because these are arms & organs of government, that if truly independent, will effectively check the excesses of the state governors & those embezzling the resources of the states in the region.
Those governors, politicians, elders, elites, traditional rulers, cashivists & freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets that want resource control are not ready to invest the billions of naira & dollars they stole from Nigeria & Niger Delta in prospecting for oil & building the massive oil infrastructures required to explore, manage, store & transport crude oil & gas.
That's why at the expiration of the oil leases held by some Nigerians & foreign companies, Buhari refused to renew them but rather passed the opportunity to own them to states so that they can control the resources & use the huge profits to better the lot of citizens of their states.
Many states in the Niger Delta & their governors, politicians, elites, elders, cashivists, freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets rejected the opportunity because it involves huge investments & rather opted to sell this opportunity of thier states owning these oil blocks to private individuals & firms for immediate cash from 10% commisions, kickbacks & convenient taxes.
They don't want the restructuring & resources control that will give the states more responsibilities, that will benefit their people or promote transparency, growth & development in their region. What they want is the restructuring that will give them more powers, more control & more money to squander.
That's why they talk about devolution of powers to states that will allow the governors absolute powers to make decisions on a lot more wide range of portfolios presently under the purview of the federal government.
That's why they are appropriating to themselves through their zombified state assemblies the powers to collect all taxes in their states including VAT.
That's why they are rejecting financial autonomy to local governments, state assemblies & state judiciary so that they can have the additional local government billions of naira to squander, pass any selfish law they want & obtain any court order they want against their opponents while eliminating scrutiny from the same institutions constitutionally empowered to query & sanction them.
That's why they are bent on having state police to intimidate, brutalize & put away any opponent or dissenting voice.
Sadly, the citizens of these states have their brains & minds so wickedly twisted by the ethno-religious hate opium they are doped daily & can no more comprehend who their enemies are.
A pathetic shame indeed!!

boy shut up and sit down! Let power devolve from the presidency and states achieve financial solvency first, then we will fight for the local governments against the state government until freedom and power is firmly embedded at the roots. Enough of your northern parasitism

Ibkhaleel01:
Unjust hatred for people will consume you. We see the obvious in the very hilarious VAT battle that is happening. I just dey observe.
Many supported Governor Wike's decision to be collecting VAT because they say "the North contributes nothing and they want to be collecting". But if they know their facts they will understand that they are digging a hole for themselves. They will realize it is all of us that will suffer when States collect VAT.
First of all, after Lagos, the next place that contributes the highest VAT (20%) is the FCT which is in the North. Yes this is followed by Rivers at 6% but Kano is next with 5% and this is followed by Kaduna. So no, it is not as you have been misinformed. The only special case is Lagos. So your State will suffer. Even Lagos will suffer with much more people migrating there. When resources are shared among Federating Units, it is shallow to always think it is injustice. Give Lagos 100% of it's VAT, Mukaila from Sokoto, Chinedu from Aba and even Lasisi from Osun will all migrate there. So what is the point again?
Secondly, in the federal system, companies with less than 25 million were not VATable. You think you are doing Northerners but your company will become VATable once Wike's law is replicated in your State. Why do you think commercially massive States like Abia and Anambra do not top the list of VAT contributors? Because those boys in the market were not exactly VATable, wait until what you are blindly supporting takes effect. VAT will be collected like motor park tickets. Then you will see where hate has led you.
Third, people will most likely pay VAT twice across different states with different laws because Wike does not know what is input and output VAT and did not listen to Nojeem Olasubomi Yusuf and others who politely asked him about it.
Some have even termed Wike the leader of restructuring in Nigeria. A gullible people in search of heroes. Being used and misled by every opportunist. Stop allowing yourself to be used by politicians to settle their personal scores while they tell you they are fighting for your interest.
You need to first know what your interest is to know who is actually fighting for or against it

and the hatred for military imposed pro northern policies is not unjust, the entire north was one single administrative region before independence while the south was made up of three different administrative regions, fast forward to today after decades of northern dominated military leadership, states creation was done in such a way to perpetuate northern political dominance numerically while the other three combined zones accounts for less than the dominant one meaning even if they combined together politically they'd still fall short of the numbers needed to rival the North and as such the country is forcefully shackled to the north's backwardness, primitiveness, religious fundamentalism and opposition to progress as against the south's competitive progressivism. The north played the numbers game so much so they created many economically unviable territories and tagged them states just so they can stay in control of the country's affairs whilst they subsist on the more economically viable south parasitically, any effort to redress this injustice is applauded and it is not hate, it is simply justice! Many states shouldn't exist in the North and some in the south! Those that can not exist independently should merge back with others, enough of the feeding bottle unity by force

Abragidi:
They Destroy Beer Worth BILLIONS and are Happy in the name of Sharia and Hisbah and other states Generate VAT from it and Feed them what they would have used to generate IGR....... Enough is Enough....

They said change and do the right thing,Wike is doing the Right thing....Very Transparent..


Wike dey come o,If you no gree,stay for your house oo!!

WIKE for President

Safyqueen:


This is a lie my man. Where did you get the statistics that shows that the least employed in Federal government job is the South?

The guy is correct, he doesn't need any further statistics you know why? The North has 19 states plus the FCT while the South has 17. Federal Charcter law stipulates even distribution of employment equally to all states of the federation though this is not always followed to the latter. Lets assume it is follwed judiciously, it means the North took 19 proportions plus slots given to the FCT while the south took 17 proportions meaning the North has more Federal government employee than their Southern counterparts.

WE LOVE THEM ALL WAO (WIKE AKEREDOLU ORTOM). THEY'RE HEROES OF OUR REVOLUTION. GOD BLESS THEM.

chatinent:
Weak eh.

WIKE NA SUGARCANE.

It's a very welcomed development. But if States like Enugu, Ebonyi, Zamfara and so on fail to improve on their IGR, I am afraid it won't go down well with them. The earlier the better.

MoIbrahim:


Least employed federal jobs indeed. Be deceiving yourself.

STATE BY STATE NUMBER OF FEDERAL CIVIL SERVANTS:

Imo & Kogi States have the highest number of Federal Civil Servants in country.

Take a look at this & see for yourself������

1: Abia 3579.
2. Adamawa 1727.
3. Akwa Ibom 4416.
4. Anambra 3576.
5. Bauchi 1172.
6. Bayelsa 957.
7. Benue 3951.
8. Borno 1822.
9. Cross River 2681.
10. Delta 4419.

11. Ebonyi 865.
12. Edo 3890.
13. Ekiti 2613.
14. Enugu 2695.
15. FCT 533.
16. Gombe 1218.
17. Imo 5825.
18. Jigawa 675.
19. Kaduna 3199.
20. Kano 1545.

21. Katsina 1237
22. Kebbi 875.
23. Kogi 5186.
24. Kwara 2537.
25. Lagos 2180.
26. Nasarawa 1452.
27. Niger 2193.
28. Ogun 4669.
29. Ondo 3393.
30. Osun 3321.

31. Oyo 3244.
32. Plateau 2542.
33. Rivers 1675.
34. Sokoto 732.
35. Taraba 1112.
36. Yobe 744.
And
37. Zamfara 543.

This Number,518 Was Not Specified.

TOTAL: 89,511.

By Dr Joe Abah - DG, Bureau of Public Service
Reforms". (C): Johnson Andrew, this is the Analyzed data based on population figures of each state.

From the wall of Akin Omoz-Oarhe:

THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF PUBLIC SERVICE REFORMS, RELEASED STATISTICS OF EMPLOYMENTS INTO OUR PUBLIC SERVICE.
THE RAW FIGURES PER STATE ARE ALL OVER FACEBOOK.

THIS GOT MY ORIENTAL BROTHERS TALKING AGAIN. KNOWING THAT NOT SO MANY LIKE FIGURES, I HAVE TRIED TO TIDY THEM UP FOR EASE OF UNDERSTANDING.

(A). EMPLOYMENT INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE

NE with a population of 19.0m has 7,793

NW with a population of 35.8m has 8,806

SE with a population of 16.4m has 16,540

NC with a population of 20.3m has 17,661

SS with a population of 21.0m has 18,038

SW with a population of 27.6m has 19,620

To appreciate this figures, it is necessary to find out how many employees are taken from every 1 million people in each of the geographical zones.

The result is:

1st. SE has 1,009 Employees per million

2nd. NC has 970 Employees per million

3rd. SS has 859 Employees per million

4th SW has 711 Employees per million

5th NE has 410 Employees per million

6th NW has 246 Employees per million

Here we can see that South Eastern Zone has over 1000 people engaged in the public service of Nigeria in every 1 million Igbo people, whereas only 246 people are engaged in North West!

Ado Abubakar Presidor
MKT Chairman TASMECI.

I won't dispute your figures but If you visit any federal government parastatals like immigration, you will feel that something is wrong in what you wrote

idahme:


The guy is correct, he doesn't need any further statistics you know why? The North has 19 states plus the FCT while the South has 17. Federal Charcter law stipulates even distribution of employment equally to all states of the federation though this is not always followed to the latter. Lets assume it is follwed judiciously, it means the North took 19 proportions plus slots given to the FCT while the south took 17 proportions meaning the North has more Federal government employee than their Southern counterparts.

Just to help you because I can you are arguing like a layman. See below.


Number of Federal Civil Servants State by State

1: Abia 3579
2. Adamawa 1727
3. Akwa Ibom 4416
4. Anambra 3576
5. Bauchi 1172
6. Bayelsa 957
7. Benue 3951
8. Borno 1822
9. Cross River 2681
10. Delta 4419

11. Ebonyi 865
12. Edo 3890
13. Ekiti 2613
14. Enugu 2695
15. FCT 533
16. Gombe 1218
17. Imo 5825
18. Jigawa 675
19. Kaduna 3199
20. Kano 1545

21. Katsina 1237
22. Kebbi 875
23. Kogi 5186
24. Kwara 2537
25. Lagos 2180
26. Nasarawa 1452
27. Niger 2193
28. Ogun 4669
29. Ondo 3393
30. Osun 3321

31. Oyo 3244
32. Plateau 2542
33. Rivers 1675
34. Sokoto 732
35. Taraba 1112
36. Yobe 744
37. Zamfara 543

Not specified 518

TOTAL: 89,511

By Dr Joe Abah - DG, Bureau of Public Service
Reforms". (C): Johnson Andrew, this is the Analyzed data based on population figures of each state.

From the wall of Akin Omoz-Oarhe:

THE DIRECTOR GENERAL OF PUBLIC SERVICE REFORMS, RELEASED STATISTICS OF EMPLOYMENTS INTO OUR PUBLIC SERVICE.
THE RAW FIGURES PER STATE ARE ALL OVER FACEBOOK.

THIS GOT MY ORIENTAL BROTHERS TALKING AGAIN. KNOWING THAT NOT SO MANY LIKE FIGURES, I HAVE TRIED TO TIDY THEM UP FOR EASE OF UNDERSTANDING.

(A). EMPLOYMENT INTO THE PUBLIC SERVICE

NE with a population of 19.0m has 7,793

NW with a population of 35.8m has 8,806

SE with a population of 16.4m has 16,540

NC with a population of 20.3m has 17,661

SS with a population of 21.0m has 18,038

SW with a population of 27.6m has 19,620

To appreciate this figures, it is necessary to find out how many employees are taken from every 1 million people in each of the geographical zones.

The result is:

1st. SE has 1,009 Employees per million

2nd. NC has 970 Employees per million

3rd. SS has 859 Employees per million

4th SW has 711 Employees per million

5th NE has 410 Employees per million

6th NW has 246 Employees per million

Here we can see that South Eastern Zone has over 1000 people engaged in the public service of Nigeria in every 1 million Igbo people, whereas only 246 people are engaged in North West!

Remember that this is the Zone of the President of Nigeria. Curiously South West, the Zone of the Vice President is the least in Southern Nigeria with the employment of 711 people in a million.

It is pertinent to see the trend as regards Political Office holders. Probably, those that lost out in the Public Service, are compensated with Political offices. Let's perform sample surgical operation on the political employees.

(B). POLITICAL APPOINTEES

We all have the statistics of political appointees of the current Buhari administration.

NW has 51political appointees from 7 states

NC has 47 political appointees from 6 states

NE has 45 political appointees from 6 states

SW has 45 political appointees from 6 states

SS has 45 political appointees from 6 States

SE has 41 political appointees from 5 states

These translate to:

1st. SE: 2.50 appointees in a million.

2nd. NE: 2.37 appointees in a million.

3rd. NC: 2.34 appointees in a million.

4th. SS: 2.14 appointees in a million.

5th. SW:1.63 appointees in a million.

6th. NW:1.42 appointees in a million.

Alternatively:

1st. SE: has 1 appointee in every 400,000

2nd. NE: has 1 appointee in every 422,000

3rd. NC: has 1 appointee in every 427,000

4th. SS: has 1 appointee in every 467,000

5th. SW: has 1 appointee in every 614,000

6th. NW: has 1 appointee in every 704,000

Once again topping the list of beneficiary is South East with one political appointee for every 400,000 people. As if it is an intentional act, NW, from where the President hails has the least of 1 political appointees for every 704, 000 people while the figure for Osinbajo's Zone is 614,000 and is the least in the South.

THIS IS NOT MY DEFINITION OF "MARGINALIZATION" BEING PEDDLED BY THE IGBOS THAT ARE, IN FACT THE BIGGEST BENEFICIARY IN NIGERIA. FIGURES DON'T LIE.

TOPCRUISE:

I won't dispute your figures but If you visit any federal government parastatals like immigration, you will feel that something is wrong in what you wrote

Visit the different ministries and agencies in Abuja and listen to the commonest Nigerian languages that are spoken by the workers, including many federal universities in the northern part of the country. Then you would see that some people are only being misguided to protest unjustifiably.

Mind you some of the slots of states like Kogi, Yobe and Zamfara, including even Katsina, are being occupied by some people masquerading as indigenes.