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I see no one here is complaining about so-called "double taxation" (in SA)...
If it was put up in Nigeria, these same folks would be B*tching ang whining!
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Here is an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Nigeria (Chioma Ajunwa)....

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yarimo:
This is very commendable from the FG.

What utter nonsense...
The FG should have done it 4 YEARS AGO!

'Rankadede' Nigerians...
Praising govt for doing LESS evil than usual
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MrBrownJay1:
what is he complaining about....?! the US police does exactly the same thing, duh!

EXACTLY! BLESS YOU BROS!!

Doesn't make it right...
But rather rich when he works for an institution that invented profiling!
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WHICH WAN CONCERN US WITH 2 FOREIGN RELIGIONS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY...SMH
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Racoon:
In so much that the brutal treatment meted out to Deji Adeyanju is condemnable, true activism as charity should start from home.Treatment should be in Nigeria here pls.

If not for the spirit of the Christmas season...
I will return this drivel you wrote with a slap attached! SMH

Merry Xmas!
And try to do better in the New Year!
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OBUKSBAYELSA:
The fear of America & President Donald Trump is the beginning of Maj General Buhari's wisdom. The tyrant end is near.

Which Trump? The Lover of Tyrants or another one?!
Dotard Trump is a Tyrantsexual, in love with Kim, Putin, Erdogan, Salman, etc.
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rusher14:
Just the other day, I suggested we don't have to wait for Ajaokuta.

Smaller and even diverse steel companies can rise up.

I've been vindicated.

Congratulations to Nigeria.

Only rent-seekers are waiting for Ajaokuta...
Privatized Aladja Steel has been up and running for a while as Premium Steel Co. (even exports some products).
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ZOO!

Both the Criminal and the Jungle Jurists. SMH
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EKO ONI BAJE!
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Magicians:
And one PDP bastard hyping Makinde N Iheadioha claimed 6 month is not enough time to complete talk less of commissioning any project but the Sanwo they insult as pointing governor as been commissioning project up n down within this 6 month but the lunatic they praise are yet to embark on any meaningful project. Shame #

You think this station was proposed, designed, bidded, procured, built and furnished in 6 months? SMH
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eduman365:
Should we be giving out what we don't have enough in the first place?

It might interest you to know that Nigeria has been the one shouldering the burden of the entire West Africa when we should be focusing on ourselves. Even Ghana's electricity is powered by Nigeria's gas. If something happens to the West African Gas pipeline powered by Nigeria, light drops significantly in Ghana.

The earlier we started redirecting our resources inwards the better for us. When we get it right, then we can start exporting energy again.

Omihanifa:
Person way never chop belle full dey give another person food to chop

As if Nigeria won't make more than that amount of money if Niger Republic dams the Niger River and Nigeria channels the exported electricity back to its economy.

Jestin:
How can we be supplying Benin Republic and Togo energy when we are yet to experience improved power supply in Nigeria ?? That country Nigeria dey tire person self seriously .

VillageHead:
Nigeria is likened to a herbslist that cures dysentery while its household is dying of that same ailment.

The reason that we have an agreement to supply Niger Republic (not sure about the other countries) with electricity is so that they do not dam the River Niger upstream, which will severely affect the flow of the river into Nigeria. That will not only affect the hydro stations up North (in Kainji and Shiroro), but will also drastically affect the farmlands and agricultural production (including fisheries) in Nigeria.

PS: Also the electricity is paid in forex for at COMMERCIAL RATES (unlike in Nigeria, where tariffs are not cost-reflective)
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jidxin:
Enlightenment is different from educated... We need to be both in this country.

Do you understand what double taxation is? Even our so called government are not accountable for our little tax we pay. So we should expunge this your notion from our mindset and let the government do what they are supposed to do. Era of mediocrity should be done with abeg

Perhaps you should follow your own counsel on the highlighted...

Nigeria is NOT be the first country to have tolled roads and/or bridges. Even in most (if not all) of the advanced economies where tax compliance is actually much GREATER than in Nigeria, toll roads (and all manner of usage taxes) exist.

Meanwhile, this bridge currently does NOT exist and if a private entity takes the investment risk of raising the capital (most of which will likely be in the form of DEBT from banks, etc.), it deserves to recoup its investment by tolling the road.

Not sure where you got the "double taxation" theory from. If the FG charges for the new trains being put into use, would that be double taxation? If Lagos charges for the new Light Rail or LagFerry or BRT, is that double taxation?

A NEW tolled road is substantively no different from VAT (or other consumption/usage tax). You don't buy VAT-covered goods, you don't pay VAT!
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Skyfornia:
Been hearing about the refinery close to 5years...how long do we wait to see it functioning? Or by the time it is ready, oil will be phased out on earth... everything is currently going electric and solar.

You think building the world's biggest single-train refinery is like building a mud hut in your village?
Nigeria is so backward, it does not even have the necessary port infrastructure ti receive most of the components.
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Designer123:
This is Nigerian-class not world-class

Below is a world-class hostel in Germany.

Why are people above saying this is a philanthropic gesture when the rent is 300K per annum? There is difference between philanthropy and investment (business).

I said let me keep quiet o...
Before they brand me a hater.
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He was an American citizen the SECOND he was born...
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thundafire:
Already we know Tinubu company will win it using another name cs money has changed hands dis is a waste of time submitting bids only for dey winner to be in Abuja seizing APC books

chukwugoziegi:
FACT.
And probably use 25billion dollars to build the 35kms bridge and make people pay toll for another 200years.

pawesome:
they will end up with the company that can bribe and lobby best

AmazingELixir:
Why are they bothering themselves...wetin Tinubu company dhan win

Gforce2015:
Hitech (tinubu company) will finally get the contract with just a minute fone call. If you know you Know.
Hitech is presently doing road reconstruction at Anthony -oshodi expressway.

misterjosh:
Another avenue to loot via inflated costs, and giving of contracts to their cronies.

thundafire:
wat are u saying no contract is awarded without Baba having a say never not in Lagos wen his errand boys are der

seunmsg:
Hitech cannot get the contract. There are only three construction companies in Nigeria today that can handle a 38km bridge. They are: Julius Berger, CCECC and Borini Prono. I don’t think the contract will be given to any company outside of these three.

This will NOT be a windfall for the winner....

It's a PPP arrangement and thus Lagos will NOT pay a penny...
The entity that wins the bid has to finance it itself (and recoup from tolls).
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majamajic:
mark my words ,

sanwo olu will surpass any former governor of Lagos State including fashola

mark it somewhere

We really pray he does...
But so far, all he's done is take pictures and point!
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CsRockefeller:
Something that they should carry and give JB they are doing pubic procurement/advertisement.

Even CCECC no reach to do this one, trust me.

maybachmusic:
lol
anything outside Berger is a joke

we talking capacity and experience

We are also talking financing capacity...
LASG is not contributing a penny, so the contractor has to finance it.
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Emma1Oj:
At time I just feel like causing ambode for taking Lagos state backward with is cluelessness and bride.

With all due respect...
You sound "clueless" and "bride(?)"
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starstaz:
my small advice::: Can the The LASG concentrate their time and energy on delivering the long awaited Railway project of over 11 years to 13 yes pipe dream. Than cooking unrealistic " project Imagination " of my wonderful hero any day any time BAT. 4th MB was Tinubu campaign strategy anchor of year 2003. it goes thus , Imagine the 4th MBridge. We are still imagining.

Difference is the 4MB will be PRIVATELY financed...
While the Light Rail project is being PUBLICLY-financed!
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NGpatriot:
Lagos state is a coastal state, but water transportation is very meager and underdeveloped, even investors are not taking advantage of the huge money-making opportunities around water transportation, we just expect the government to do everything, we want the government to build everything with little or no resources and when they take out loans to execute these projects, we cry, criticize and complain.

The Lagos Cable Car people need $280 million, but they are $50 million short, so, who is going to step up with $50 million to get the project off the ground? I think the LASG should step up with the balance for a sizable stake in the operation.

This is a daily multi billion Naira operation with enough capacity to move hundreds of thousands of passengers/day.

Ultimately, it is not by force to move to Lagos, the government can not keep up with over 20 million people with less than $3 billion, the pressure on infrastructure and social services is unsustainable.

Lagos state must decongest.

Under Nigeria's bizarre "federal" system, the federal government controls all inland waterways through National Inland Waterways Authority (pursuant to the NIWA Axt). Accordingly, the states do not have control over the waterways that run through their territories and have to negotiate (or in the case of Lagos when the PDP was in power at the centre, litigate) for use of the waterways and to develop water routes (most of the routes in Lagos require some dredging). Most private investors will NOT invest in some an uncertain regulatory environment (albeit now that Lagos has reached some arrangement with the now APC-controlled FG, UberBoats and a few others have taken the plunge).
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fairfora:
And we should be prepared to pay toll hugely

jidxin:
u spoke my mind bro

That's fine...

If PRIVATE investors are paying for it...
It's only fair they should be able to recoup their investment via tolling.

The good things is it's a USAGE tax...
Those of you who do not want to pay tolls need not use the bridge.
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lonelydora:
Is that what Nigeria currently need?

Who care what the rest of Nigeria needs...
It's definitely what Lagos needs - and we are paying for it!
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superstar1:
In the voice of wailers — closure of border will make investors to run away from Nigeria and arresting a revolutionist and sore-loser of an election will make investors to run away,

How market?

And you think they started building this factory in August when the border was closed?! Buhari Worshippers na wa o...
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Did Sanwo-Olu POINT at the dude when he running?

Seriously, though, look at the sort of "bus" to carry human beings in 21st century Lagos! Where are the buses Ambode bought?!
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MasterRahl:

He can appoint all the northerners he wishes to appoint. I don't give a flying f**k about it. How many of our southern brothers and sisters who held juicy positions in the past ever remembered us or attempted to develop our region save for a handful? I'm a southerner from Akwa Ibom State but I ain't Gat no time for tribalistic nonsense

Presumably your region is now being massively "developed"?

Anyway, appointments are not about parochial "development" (eg, the NPA boss cannot build a port in the North, however much she may wish to "develop" her region), but about fairness (as in every group having an EQUAL stake in Nigeria) and COMPETENCE. Frankly difficult to believe that the only (or even the most) competent Nigerians come from the most educationally-backward (and economically-underachieving) part of the country.
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jahsharon:
And Biafrans say Buhari hates them. Well, maybe because Biafrans hate everybody, they then think that everybody hates them also.

Abegi, thank the "Biafran" owner of Nestoil...
Bubu wouldn't know what a Pirax X is even if it jumped out of the water and dredged his arse?
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madridguy:
Brother stop deceiving yourself. I am not pro nor anti any one of them but Lagos is 70% cleaner now compare to Ambode era.

Obviously you and most folks have different definitions of "clean"...
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SUPERSTITIOUS ZOO!
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