₦airaland Forum

Igboid:
Cool.

They are talking about the highest contributor to the economy.USA is one of the most indebted countries in the world but they are up there as a first nation.That is for another thread.If you can not disprove all the facts shown that the SE is the the least contributor to the economy then I would advise that the SE should tender an apology to all Nigerians that they are really the parasites..

FACTS CAN REALLY DISGRACE PERSON O.THESE FACTS SAID IT ALL.

Ofemannnu:
According to facts and figures,I think Yorubas are the most achieved and most successful black race in the world.I am not a bigot or tribalist but systematically using this forum to find out if there is any black tribe in the world that is or are more successful than the Yoruba race.
All African/black tribes are invited....Kenyans inclusive.God bless you all as we try to galvanise the African tribes to be competitive positively.
GOD BLESS AFRICANS AND THE WORLD.
These are a few of the successes and achievements of the Yoruba people:

Coupled with the facts that Yorubas lead in Education,Science and Technology and ICT,Music,Business,Infrastructures,Economy etc,they have broken the world records by being only the blacks who had gotten 5.0 cgp both at home and abroad in the higher institutions.

They have the highest numbers of the best black mathematicians in the whole world.....

K. Okikiolu: Born to Nigerian and British parents, but educated in the U.S., Katherine Okikiolu (was once on Princeton's faculty) received special distinction in 1997 when she was the first Black to win a Sloan Research Fellowship. Later in 1997, she won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for "Innovative research in geometric analysis, particularly the determinant of the Laplacian under smooth perturbations, and developing student workshops and mathematics curricula for inner-city children." This particular award is worth $500,000 and is only granted 60 scientists and engineers in the U.S. per year. Okikiolu's work on elliptical differential operators is considered a major contribution, going well beyond what experts had considered feasible, given the current state of knowledge. Her 2001 publication Critical metrics for the determinant of the Laplacian in odd dimensions in the Annals of Mathematics, is receiving high acclaim. She is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego.

Farley: Born in an extremely successful academic family of Rochester, New York, Jonathan Farley, graduated second in his class with an A.B. from Harvard University and obtained a mathematics Ph.D. from Oxford University where he was awarded the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson Prize for his research. During a two year visit to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute [MSRI] in 1996, Farley solved very important old problems in the Theory of Ordered Sets. He also works in Lattice Theory. He is currently publishing at an average of more than three papers a year, and in 2003 was a Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University in England. Currently is Visiting Professor of Mathematics at Massachusettes Institute of Technology.

Gangbo: In just nine years from a Ph.D. to a Full Professor - this is incredible. Wilfrid Gangbo was born in Benin and in 1992 earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federale Institute of Technology. Among his twelve papers is his 1996 The geometry of optimal transportation remains the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Acta Mathematica, one of the world's strongest mathematics journals. In 2001 he was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology.

Agboola: In mathematics, one does not always know of young persons working in fields outside their own, and it is a great honor to the individual if the case is otherwise. Adebisi Agboola's work in Number Theory and Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry has been mentioned to me as very good by Kevin Corlette and two of my non-Black colleagues whose area of research is mutually exclusive with Agboola, Corlette, and each other. Agboola is Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Santa Barbara

Gumel: Born in Nigeria, Ph.D. in England. Abba Gumel is an extremely prolific in the areas Mathematical Biology, Non-linear Dynamical Systems, and Computational Mathematics. Currently he is a Full Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada.

Jackson: American Trachette Jackson was a mathematics major at Arizona State in Tempe. Four years later she earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Biology. Five years later she had ten articles under her belt and a Sloan Fellowship. Currently, Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics University of Michigan

Johnson: British born Mathematical Physicist Clifford V. Johnson has over 60 publications since his 1992 Ph.D. Since that time he has immersed himself within String Theory (also see Sylvester James Gates) with papers and books. He is currently on leave at USC.

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/madgreatest.html

Stop this nonsense.

Ritchiee:
GEPM HW revision for display test
The company, for a start, is looking at servicing the business sector — hospitality, banking and telecoms — with a projection of hundreds of devices in 2016, and scaling to thousands of devices in 2017, by which time it must have reached a collaborative agreement with the distribution companies to make the technology available to households. Furthermore, the abundant presence of solar resources in this part of the world could have Grit Systems potentially pioneering a revolution marked by increase in solar hybrid power installations, as the company is looking to set up a solar power system for the offices, and use data from these devices to create a hybrid solar power system design.

While it is uncertain what Grit Systems will pitch at the regionals in Nairobi, Kenya, we can be certain they’d do more than enough to leave Nigeria proud at the end of it all.


https://techpoint.ng/2016/02/02/grit-systems-internet-of-things-nigeria/
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This is very good.
Internet of things looks a little complex if one does not understand it..nitty gritty.
Thumbs up for Ife and his team.

cjrane:
Abooki and violence.

This is the story without the exaggerations..
dailypost.ng/2016/08/13/three-dead-scores-injured-igbos-hausas-clash-imo-photos/


Three dead, scores injured as Igbos, Hausas clash in Imo [PHOTOS]
By Daily Post Staff on August 13, 2016
@dailypostngr
In another inter-ethnic flare-up, the Imo State Police command, in eastern Nigeria, has confirmed the death of three persons amongst them two women and a man at Akokwa community in Ideato Local Government Area on Friday.
DSP Andrew Enwerem, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) who confirmed the incident in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Owerri, said some others sustained injuries.
He explained that an unidentified man, said to be from the northern part of Nigeria, had run amok and killed a girl and a woman and thereafter killed himself.
He said some aggrieved youths immediately went for reprisal attacks. This he said led to some other persons sustaining various degrees of injuries.
According to Enwerem, the report came to the Imo police headquarters not long after the incident occurred and the commissioner of police deployed anti-riot policemen who stopped the incident from spreading further.
“Report to police showed that a yet to be identified northerner ran amok at Akokwa community and used weapons to attack and kill a girl and a woman and thereafter killed himself’’, he said.
Enwerem said the problem has been brought under control, adding that normalcy has returned to the area.
A witness had told NAN that the girl killed was hawking snacks when the northerner suddenly chased her till she ran to an elderly woman for protection.
The witness added that the man attacked both the girl and the woman with shovel resulting to their immediate death.
He said that the killing sparked off reprisal attack by the youths and the killing of the attacker, while some others sustained various degrees of injuries.
NAN learnt that Police and other security agencies deployed to the community are still there as at press time to prevent the clash from spreading (NAN)

sammystick:
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Wow!!!!!

I am not surprised.Sebi na Yoruba?They have the greatest number of the best black mathematicians in the WWW...whole wide world.Yoruba in the same sentence with brain,intelligence,wisdom na like bird and fly....INSEPARABLE.

cjrane:
Abooki and violence.

Clean and unclean—that can be a matter of great importance to us, but it is also a matter of differing definitions. In third world countries, “clean” means “free of large clumps of contamination.” In our children’s bedrooms, clean has a definition which means that everything has been kicked into one general pile and if given enough time, they can find what they left in that pile.
Clean means something different when we come to the definition of clean versus unclean in Leviticus. It is important for us to understand the meaning of clean and unclean , as it is used in the Old Testament, and its application for us in the New Testament.

ikechu1:
You clean your Anus with your hands and water.

Nigga bacteria exist, illness exist.

Yes and clean my hands with soap or sand thereafter.

Ezekiel 36:25
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean : from all your
filthiness, and from all your idols, will I ...

betterABIAstate:
did they also decide to start killing people of Yoruba extract in the west? Why are you defending animals? killing to Hausa is like using bear hands to clean anus to yorubas.

Its like part of their culture and religion

lol..I saw this and I was laughing.Naturally and culturally dirty Igbo saying that other people are dirty..lol.Go read and learn about dirtiness in the sight of God.I am a Yoruba muslim and follow cleaning of my anus and any dirt on my person with water starting with toilet roll at times.Anybody that cleans with water is far far more a cleaner person than a person that uses paper.No wonder a lot of Igbo people have this stenchy smell without perfume.Assuming you were pushed into a soakaway jammed with excretion.Will you use paper or water?All clean people including Moses,Mohammed,Jesus used water and they were the tidiest,cleanest of people in history.DONT DIE TAKING THAT STENCHY SMELL WITH YOU,MAN...USE WATER.

bombay:
Look at the way your prominent leaders have died.
Abiola died like a chicken
Bola ige died like a chicken
Awo died like a chicken
Tinubu same thing will happen he will die like a chicken.
Quote me and die

I read this thread from the beginning and I really felt your pain.I am going to answer you with points and maybe some links.
First...I think you are either an Igbo or Niger deltan especially Ijaw.I and others know that you felt very bad for losing the last elections..who would not?What you failed to realise is that not all Yorubas voted for PMB...
The ratio was like 55 to 45..PMB to GEJ...or thereabout.
I voted for PMB just like all Yorubas would have loved to vote for him but what you started your thread with and some articles that are written by Yorubas that you have posted prevented this..so that you will understand that they know these things more than most of you but..
THE FIRST THING YOU TOO KNOW IS THAT JONATHAN CAUSED HIS DOWNFALL BY SIDELINING THE YORUBAS..
1.YORUBAS ARE USING THEIR GOD GIVEN WISDOM TO REMAIN AT THE UTMOST TOP meaning...it is a survival of the fittest in Nigeria. WE ARE IN A JUNGLE(Yes, Nigeria is a jungle not zoo.Zoo has decorum but a jungle does not..almost anything goes)WITH ABOUT 240 ETHNIC GROUPS..THE MAJOR ONES BEING...YORUBA,IGBO AND HAUSA...THEN THE FULANI CAME IN.

2.THE FULANI WERE LUCKY INGRATES WHO CAME IN AND CONQUERED ALL OF HAUSALAND AND ARE USING THEIR(HAUSAS) POPULATION TO MAINTAIN THEIR OLIGARCHY OVER THE OTHER ETHNIC GROUPS.

3.HAUSAS HAVE BEEN TURNED TO SLAVES,ETERNAL SLAVES IN THEIR OWN ANCESTRAL LAND BY THE FULANIS.

4.FULANI TRIED TO COME INTO THE WEST BUT WERE AFRAID BECAUSE YORUBAS WERE WARRIORS WHO WERE CONTROLLING THEIR EMPIRE UP TO DAHOMEY,TOGO AND GHANA UNTIL AFONJA GAVE THEM THE LEEWAY BECAUSE OF HIS MISUNDERSTANDING WITH THE ALAAFIN OF OYO.TOGETHER WITH AFONJA THEY SACKED OYO AND WERE LATER DEFEATED DECISIVELY BY A SUB GROUP OF YORUBA...IBADAN...BECAUSE OF THEIR TREACHERY,THEY KILLED AFONJA AND TOOK OVER THE KINGSHIP OF ILORIN.IF THEY HAD BEEN ABLE TO PENETRATE YORUBALAND,THEN ALL SOUTHERNERS WOULD HAVE BEEN RULED BY EMIRS BY NOW BUT YORUBAS PUT PAID TO THAT AMBITION.

5.THE WHITE MEN CAUSED THE WHOLE WAHALA BY MAKING SURE THAT POWER WAS GIVEN TO THE NORTH WHO THEY KNEW DID NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO STEER NIGERIA TO GREAT HEIGHTS.


YORUBAS ARE NOT REALLY AGITATING BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT GOING FOR THEM AND THEY KNOW IT IS A CASE OF SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST..

1.THEY ARE CONSIDERATE WARRIORS WHO HAVE FOUGHT FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY AND HAD WON THEIR WARS.

2. THEY HAVE THE MOST BUSINESSES BOTH HOME AND ABROAD...(I DID NOT SAY TRADE BUT BUSINESS)

3.THEY CONTROL THE ECONOMY OF NIGERIA.

4.SW IS THE 3RD ECONOMY IN AFRICA.

5.THEY HAVE THE MOST INFRASTRUCTURES IN NIGERIA.

6.THEY ARE THE MOST EDUCATED...(Higher institution wise)They have taken almost all the HIGHER educational laurels home and abroad.

7.THEY HAVE LAGOS WHICH IS THE 6TH ECONOMY IN AFRICA AND THE LARGEST CITY IN WEST AFRICA.

8.THEY HAVE OGUN STATE WHICH IS THE MOST INDUSTRIALIZED STATE IN NIGERIA ETC.

I am giving you these because of some peeps who said SW had never agitated against the federal govt.SW had always agitated for the good of all Nigerians.Do you still remember?;

The Democratic Alternative (DA)

The National Democratic Coalition of Nigeria (NADECO)

The United Democratic Front of Nigeria (UDFN) ETC.

AS FOR THE SOUTH NOT BEEN UNITED AGAINST THE NORTH,IT WAS AND ALWAYS BEEN CAUSED BY OUR SOUTHERN BROTHERS WHO HAD ALWAYS GONE AGAINST YORUBA.AZIKIWE DID IT WHEN AWOLOWO SEEKED FOR UNITY BUT AZIKIWE PREFERRED TO JOIN THE NORTH.

THE ONLY TRIBE THAT HAD NEVER OR WOULD NOT DISCRIMINATE WHEN IN POWER HAD BEEN YORUBA BECAUSE THEY ARE VERY LIBERAL... READ ABOUT THE MAGNANIMITY OF OBASANJO...

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/time-to-end-the-bad-blood-between-the-yorubas-and-ndigbo/

Indeed, Obasanjo favoured the Igbo more than his native Yorubas. He appointed an Igbo, Thomas Aguiyi-Ironsi, as the Minister of Defense and another, Air Marshal Paul Dike, as Nigeria’s first Igbo Chief of Air Staff. While the Igbo visit the transgressions of Awolowo on the Yorubas, they do not visit the favouritism of Obasanjo on the Yorubas. The sins of Awolowo were brought again to the fore in 2012 by Chinua Achebe in his book: “There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra.” The blogs came alive as blame was traded on both sides of the East-West divide. Awolowo was now cast by the Igbos as the father of the Yorubas; and they were determined to visit his sins on his Yoruba sons to the third and fourth generations.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/01/time-to-end-the-bad-blood-between-the-yorubas-and-ndigbo/

A modern maritime training facility has berthed in Lagos with a promise to address the capital flight associated with overseas training of manpower required for the maritime industry over the years.

Called Hudson Trident Training Centre (HTTC) and situated in Lekki, the facility has state-of-the-art maritime training equipment to meet the requisite needs of maritime practitioners in line with the requirements of the global maritime watchdog, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

Speaking at the open day event to mark the formal unveiling of the facility in Lagos, the Managing Director of HTTC, Mr. Lai Are said the firm is a Nigerian registered company providing specialist services to the maritime and oil and gas industry in the country.

Are disclosed that the training facility is equipped with many simulators to meet the needs of various kinds of manpower in the maritime industry. These include tug boat simulator, offshore supply vessel simulator, GMDSS simulator, engine room simulator and liquid cargo handling simulator.

According to Are, HTTC provides mandatory and non-mandatory training that complies with international and local standards and regulations such as the International Convention of Training, Certification and Watch Keeping for Seafarers (STCW) 1995 as amended, Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) Convention, the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) requirements, Nigerian maritime and oil and gas industry requirements, DNV-GL and the Nautical Institute.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201608050868.html

decency123:
Very fine sha buh i think the title should be "the most handsome brown roof afonja in town"

He could as well be an Ojukwu

HE IS NOT ANY HANDSOME MORE THAN THIS YORUBA DUDE

decency123:
Very fine sha buh i think the title should be "the most handsome brown roof afonja in town"

I thought he was an Ojukwu

Aisha, the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday said her ongoing trip to the United States was not being funded with public funds.

Speaking in an interview with the Hausa service of the Voice of America, Mrs. Buhari said the trip was being funded with personal funds and sponsorship grant.

“We sponsored even the government officials that came with us on this trip,” she said.

The president’s wife explained that the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration was not funding her office and that her role was just a supportive one to complement her husband’s services to the country.

Mrs. Buhari said the office of First Lady had become a tradition in almost all nations of the world, not just Nigeria.

“All that we are doing is to help our husbands,” she said.

“For instance someone can decide to give me Indomie or Maggie, which he cannot give to the president, women need these things.

“In any state where a governor’s wife is irrelevant such as Yobe, you will notice that the women are suffering.

“Whenever we get such gifts, we don’t keep them but share to those in need.”

The president’s wife also explained that the Nigerian government had put in place a special programme to help women.

She said she held a meeting with the Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, before embarking on her U.S. trip on how to sensitize women on ways of taking advantage of the new policy.

“Very soon our women will get help,” she said.

Mrs. Buhari also responded to a question on why Nigerians are suffering at this time.

“This may be because of the existence of the Treasury Single Account, TSA, and the activities of Boko Haram which prevented people from farming last season,” she said.


http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/208165-trip-u-s-funded-aisha-buhari.html

Johnnyessence:
upon the economic meltdown people still stand by him. they understand what's going on. as far as this country is concerned ogbeni will finish his tenure. and i hope he finished all his project before he handover to the next governor in 2018.

He really has a very big dream for Osun and most Osunians know this but unfortunately Osun does not have the financial strength coupled with the last elections which really affected a lot of APC states.None of them would tell you that they contributed financially to the emergence of Buhari.
I am sure that Aregbe would pull through safely and he would be remembered positively for a long time in Osun,politics aside.  
If you really believe that you're making a difference
and that you can leave a legacy of better schools
and jobs and safer streets, why would you not
spend the money?
The happy part is that he has a lot of projects to show for Osun state indebtedness just like USA which is one of the most indebted countries in the world but has a lot to show for its indebtedness.
But he should soft pedal as things are now.More grease....

arresa:
I'm not interested in your empty and shallow chest beating nonsense.

The fact that you toured your villages means you should be able to show us what your governors in the whole of SE commissioned since 1999.


For 1 SE commissioned project you showed us, I promise to reply with 2 projects for Osun state.


Put your money where your mouth is or keep quiet...

I went through the thread and thank God for those open eyes pix...
In my own view,Aregbesola did more projects than any governor in his class in recent time(I may be wrong) but he seemed to have chewed more than he could swallow.I went to Oshogbo last year in december with an elderly man and he was all over me with the praises of Aregbe when he showed me some ongoing projects.
With what I saw...I think the case of Aregbe would be Who Laughs Last Laughs Best..

I FEEL HIM AND UNDERSTAND WHY A LOT OF OSUNIANS STILL LOVE HIM IN SPITE OF THE FINANCIAL MESS..

Hmmmm....It is really No Pain No Gain.

W for .............

Ofemannnu:
President Muhammadu Buhari has identified the
unique contribution of the Lagos Deep Offshore
Logistics base (LADOL) as one of the strategic
investments in the country that currently drives the
nation’s economy.
Buhari made the statement when he opened
proceedings at the sixth African Petroleum
Congress and Exhibition (CAPE VI) in Abuja
organised by the African Petroleum Producers
Association (APPA).
The President, who was represented at the event
by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), identified
LADOL, which has invested over $600million in
private investment, as one of the companies that
currently adding the most value to the Nigerian
economy through their ingenious investments.
This is coming as the Managing Director of LADOL,
Dr. Amy Jadesimi, outlines plans to further attract
$5billion investments into the country through the
LADOL Industrial Free Zone located in Lagos within
the next few years.
Dr. Jadesimi gave the indication, Thursday, while
delivering a presentation at the event under the
topic: Driving Economic Growth Through Local
Private Sector Investments in Nigeria.
She noted that given the spate of growth at the
zone, “the success of LADOL has attracted new
investors to Nigeria who partner with credible
Nigerian investors leading to the creation of dozens
of similar facilities”.
She noted that in 2010 alone, 130 oil rigs were
towed from West Africa past the tip of Africa across
the Indian Ocean to the Far East for repair adding
that “with LADOL and similar facilities now on
ground, more of such ventures would be done in
Nigeria.“
While lauding the efforts of the indigenous
organization in building economic growth, the
President similarly gave accolades to Samsung
Heavy Industries (SHI), which is currently building
one of the world’s largest oil platforms at the
LADOL base in Tarkwa Bay, Lagos.
The LADOL/SHI project commonly referred to as
Egina Floating Production Storage and Offloading
(FPSO) platform valued at $3.8billion, is said to be
first of its kind to be built in the sub-Saharan
Africa.
According to the President who urged other
investors to emulate the LADOL example, African
countries should develop ingenious ways of
promoting value addition and investments through
sustainable policies in local content.
Reports indicates that through the LADOL/SHI
FPSO project, the industry has been boosted with
5,000 direct jobs and 0ver 50,000 indirect
employments by leveraging on the Local Content
Act 2010.
Appraising the local content achievements of the
organization, the President noted that, “A common
approach to local content will ensure that the
whole of Africa benefits from economies of scale
associated with our vast resources.”
President Buhari noted further that ongoing mega
projects like the LADOL/SHI Oil Platform; the
General Electric service centre for manufacturing
rotating equipment in Calabar; and the Dangote
Refinery in Lagos are some of the most strategic
investment to an emancipated African economy.
The President who described LADOL industrial free
zone in Lagos – a wholly indigenous, privately
developed and hosting the largest shipyard in West
Africa allied with the Samsung FPSO integration
yard at the base, said the joint venture will aid
Nigeria’s quest for her pride of place as a leading
world economy.
The President stressed that the continent must
recognize that the development of domestic
refining capacity in the oil and gas sector would
remain critical to sustainable economic growth. He
also noted that Nigeria, which recently announced
a new timeline to end gas flaring at her oil fields,
was on course to see this out.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/03/buhari-names-ladol-one-strategic-investors-nigeria/

I SAW THIS AS A THREAD AND I THINK IT IS AN ATTESTATION TO THE FACT THAT LAGOS IS THE 6TH LARGEST ECONOMY IN AFRICA:


Lagos Global, Taxation And Lagos Economy
Tayo Ogunbiyi
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State
Lagos, no doubt, has enormous potential for
economic growth. Despite not being an oil
producing state, it remains one of the few states in
the country that is self sustaining. Its growing
economy derives its strength from commercial and
financial activities. Lagos accounts for 20.2
percent of Nigeria’s nominal Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) and 50.7 percent of non oil GDP as
well as being home to about 2,000 industrial
complexes, 10,000 commercial ventures and 22
industrial estates. Aside this, Lagos alone
consumes about 45 percent of petroleum products
in the country.
It is in order to effectively leverage on the
potentials of the Lagos economy for optimal
efficacy that the state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode, made the establishment of the Office of
Overseas Affairs and Investment, generally known
as Lagos Global, one of his earliest tasks. The
office, which was set up to help achieve the vision
of Lagos State as Africa’s Model Megacity and
Global Economic and Financial Hub that is safe,
secure, functional and productive, is designed to
be a one-stop shop for foreign investors. Drivers
of the Lagos Global initiative, are to, among others,
initiate, formulate and evaluate policies relating to
the promotion of inward and outward investments,
liaise with embassies, chambers of commerce,
ministries and agencies on foreign relations,
promote state export potentials, facilitate foreign
direct investment and inter-ECOWAS/African Union
commerce and trade as well as facilitate export
promotion, fairs and exhibitions to showcase the
economic potentials of Lagos.
Since inception, Lagos Global has been providing a
boost for investment drive as well as the general
growth of the state’s economy. Recently, German
manufacturing firm, the Knauf Group International,
expressed its readiness to commence work on a
N14 billion manufacturing firm in the state. This
came to fore when the German Ambassador,
Michael Zenner, led a group of German diplomats
and investors on a courtesy visit to Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode. Other local and international
investors have since been signifying their interests
in doing business in Lagos. In recent time, the
state government has played host to investors
from Dubai, United States of America, Namibia,
Middle East, Europe as well as our own Dangote
Group of Companies. With the state already having
various investments commitment in the region of
about N500 billion from both local and foreign
interests, it is safe to affirm that Lagos would
surmount the present global economic downturn.
It is, however, important to stress that it is in
entrenching the right culture of taxation that the
Lagos’ economy could essentially thrive better. All
over the world, governments rely on taxes paid by
the citizens to finance their activities. Revenue
accrued from tax is used to provide jobs, upgrade
public infrastructure and provide medical care
among others. Taxation helps in maintaining the
stability of any country’s economy. The
significance of taxation to the development of any
economy cannot be over stressed as it is a major
tool for socio-economic advancement. In Lagos
State, it is rather regrettable that only about 3
million Lagos residents out of a taxable adult
population of about 8 million that pays their taxes.
The reality of this development is that only 3
million people bear the burden of over 20 million
Lagosians. It is crucial to stress that, with
dwindling oil revenue, the only way forward for a
growing mega city like Lagos, where peoples’
expectations of government are always high, is to
establish an efficient system of taxation.
This is why the recent announcement that the state
government had widened its tax net to include
more groups and individuals is a welcome one.
Accordingly, the state government has started the
process of overhauling the informal sector with a
view to ensuring voluntary compliance by all tax
payers. Towards this end, three categories of tax
payers, namely market men/women, artisans,
micro, small and medium-scale enterprises and
domestic staff had been classified in the sector.
They are expected to remit one per cent of their
earnings to government’s coffers.
To ensure optimal success of the new tax system,
in addition to the traditional bank portal, new
payment platforms, including POS, online and
other electronics multi-modal system had been
introduced to make it easier for residents to remit
their taxes. Similarly, a review of the tax Form A of
the Personal Income Tax Act had also been carried
out while the guide notes are to be translated into
more indigenous languages and pidgin for effective
understanding. In order to guard against
corruption among State’s Tax Officers, stringent
disciplinary measures have been put in place.
Being a melting pot of people from diverse parts of
the world as well as the commercial and economic
hub of West Africa, Lagos has peculiar
infrastructure needs. There is, perhaps, no other
state in the country that contends with as much
pressure on its infrastructure as Lagos. The
financial force required to promote Lagos
infrastructure to the standard of developed mega
cities of the world is, undoubtedly, enormous. This
is why taxable Lagos residents must partner with
the state government through prompt and
voluntary payment of taxes in order to attain the
Lagos of our collective dream. This is the path that
is toed by all advanced democracies of the world.
This is the only way for Lagos to achieve a stable
and prosperous economy. This is the right thing to
do.
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2016/03/16/
lagos-global-taxation-and-lagos-economy/

BLINGZ88:
Sometimes, people will just come up with silly statistics about thing and not care to use common sense to know if d thing is possible.... Minus Niger delta, which other state is an oil producing state. So Lagos non oil revenue is bigger than the revenue of kano, kaduna, onitsha, aba, benue, abuja, sokoto just to mention a few COMPINED. Have u eaten today cos hunger can do and undo

You are very funny.That Lagos controls 50.7% non oil GDP is nothing but truism.Lagos happens to be the 6th largest economy in Africa.Stats mostly don't lie but what you think is reality sometimes falls your hand.If you have your stats in contrary of this,post it.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos_State


http://m.guardian.ng/features/focus/can-lagos-peoples-budget-deliver-peoples-expectations/

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Let’s face it – doping has sadly become the main
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Almost every day we are bombarded by news of
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and it’s becoming more and more difficult for the
media to enjoy doing
their work.
Fighting the dopers is not cheap. WADA president
Sir Craig Reedy
yesterday appealed for donations and suggested
that broadcasters and
sponsors put their hands in their pockets to “help
fund clean sport”.
The world was shocked by Maria Sharapova’s
recent admission that she
used the banned medication Meldonium. No doubt
sales of this drug will
increase as the so-called amateurs become more
and more fascinated by
its properties – just as when Ben Johnson was
caught for the use of
Stanazolol in 1988 there was an incredible spike in
sales of the
synthetic anabolic steroid.
In an ironic twist the pharmaceutical companies
are the ones who
benefit when a top champion is caught doping. It’s
the “best” kind of
advertising. Scientists are not only pushing the
boundaries to find
cures for disease; they are also focussing on
increasing stamina.
Most recently in Nature Magazine I read with both
fascination and
skepticism about how ‘Brain doping’ may improve
athletes’ performance:
“Working with Halo Neuroscience in San Francisco,
California, the
sports group (US Ski and Snowboard Association,
USSA) is testing
whether stimulating the brain with electricity can
improve the
performance of ski jumpers by making it easier for
them to hone their
skills. Other research suggests that targeted brain
stimulation can
reduce an athlete’s ability to perceive fatigue.
Such technologies
could aid recovery from injury or let athletes try
‘brain doping’ to
gain a competitive advantage.
“The USSA is working with Halo to judge the
efficacy of a device that
delivers electricity to the motor cortex, an area of
the brain that
controls physical skills. The company claims that
the stimulation
helps the brain to build new connections as it
learns a skill. It
tested its device in an unpublished study of seven
elite Nordic ski
jumpers, including Olympic athletes.”
Should we be scared or it this normal? I would like
to know your
opinion because we cannot be complacent; we
must find the right way
for the future of sport.




http://independentnig.com/2016/03/brain-doping-newest-weapon-quest-athletic-performance-gianni-merlo-aips-president/

mynd1:
Ali modu sheriff da kai da Fayose,WIKE,METUH and sauran,duk zakuci Ubanku ai.

God bless Nigeria.

What is that?

Pwayne2016:
Nne m gwara m si mu,nukwa onye igbo maka muburu onye ofe.mmanu bata na be anyi na oga akwusi ikpo mu nwa ya...... Biko nu ndi be anyi ka anyi mata na ndi na buro ndi igbo na anyi na ha enwero mmeko na ebe Nnu di na nwunye nno.. Jiri Okoroawusa maa atu ma obu nke ana akpo Peter ewu

Iya mi so fun mi Mo gbọ awọn oyibo
fun step family ndi ajeeyan lati wá sinu ile wa ati ki
o ṣe fẹ lati bori ọmọ mi ... ẹnyin jẹ wa a kọ pe
buro ti taba ninu wa Iyọ enwero ifipabanisun ati
awọn tọkọtaya to .. Lo Okoroawusa akawe tabi ti a
npe ni Peteru

medpren:
ofenmmanu woman don destroy family. Too bad!

Why doesn't the Ndi ajeeyan man divorce the Ndi ofe.mmanu woman now?

manufacturing sector recorded an increase of
N289bn in its output from N8.68tn in 2014 to
N8.94tn at the end of December 2015, figures
obtained from the National Bureau of Statistics
have revealed.
According to the NBS, there are 13 activities in the
manufacturing sector made up of oil refining;
cement; food, beverages and tobacco; textile,
apparel and footwear; wood and wood products;
pulp and paper products; chemical and
pharmaceutical products.
Others are non-metallic products, plastic and
rubber products; electrical and electronic, basic
metal and iron and steel; motor vehicles and
assembly; and other manufacturing.
An analysis of the output for the manufacturing
sector showed that despite the harsh operating
environment, which had led to massive job losses
and closure of some industries, the sector
continued to show resilience.
Apart from oil refining and other manufacturing
activities, which recorded a decline of N137.79bn
and N3.39bn from N385.81bn and N434.49bn to
N248.02bn and N431.1bn respectively, other
activities in the sector experienced some level of
growth.
For instance, there was an increase of N145.32bn
in the cement industry from N604.61bn in 2014 to
N749.93bn, while the food, textile, wood and paper
products industries rose from N4.24tn, N1.81tn,
N238.5bn and N59.92bn to N4.29tn, N1.87tn,
N259.25bn and N66.09bn, respectively.
The pharmaceutical industry recorded N35.51bn
increase in output from N154.61bn to N190.12bn
while non-metallic products, plastics, electrical,
iron and steel, as well as motor vehicles also grew
from N259.28bn, N221.95b, N5.75b, N195.76bn
and N67.14bn to N315.59bn, N267.16bn,
N6.02bn, N207.3bn and N70.05bn in that order


http://www.punchng.com/industrial-sector-records-n8-9tn-output/

This sounds technically good o.
Maleeq, skydancer fp thing. what do you think?

KOOOL.That is a big leap in the entertainment world.
Nigerians conquering the world silently. lol

Dollarchap:
This will discourage some people from engaging in bank transactions.

No,it would not because the amount is very minimal but mighty when collected together and I am sure this government would use it appropriately.It looks like something Awo did to give the SW all the firsts they had.Cross your fingers and be prayerful.

ocelot2006:
Yes, PDP DEFINITELY had a SOUND economic blueprint compared to the current APC YAHOOS and JOKERS in power.

Maybe that is why they ran Nigeria aground.

ukemeramat:
Who is this stupid Alfa making lousy noise on this thread? Thus far this is good for our defence industry. It is this same ethnicity nonsense that is killing Dicon. Proforce and innoson motors is a Nigerian project nor regional u morons. #OneNigeria

Thanks...but you should have been a little polite.Cheers.

FKO81:
Cone head you get liver? Enter road go block any Igbo man, he will use hot slap to reset you to the very day you remove mouth from your mother's breast.

Just like Scorpion reset Miss Odumegwu Ojukwu and he was helped by FFK in Bianka's life.One slap from a Yoruba man again and you will become impotent and mumu for life like Ojukwu...Yorubas are certified slayers of IGBOS...

Ugonnax:
Lol...you have a sense of humor. Typically when I come across an ugly black person 9 out of 10, they are yoruba. Why is that?

But cannibals(IGBOS) are uglier.You really have a sense of humor,too. Typically when I come across an ugly brown or black person 9 out of 10, they are Igbos and they are cannibals which make a lot of people despise and loathe them because they are cannibals...This is the proof...
http://www.heretical.com/cannibal/nigeria.html