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Imagine Nigeria that should be partnering with countries like Israel and the US to wipe out these menace called banditry doing cho cho cho here

Shaki wey dey do like ora 😕😃

Man can't even run a decent recruitment exercise but welcome to Nigeria when one good thing from a Minister is enough to grade him as being good

Had an encounter with some state tax operators last year, when I sat them down and told them my plight and why I don't ever think the government deserves my tax, they were nearly on their knees begging me.

It's never about payment but it's about what you guys do with our taxes

WizardOfNG:
Good post and utterance from a progressive and well-meaning Nigerian. Very different to the post of the nuisances above yours.

Sure that is always a worry but we have never had a decent culture of proper collection of taxes from those who can and should pay it.

I feel we should begin from that point at least and then play our part challenging Government to spend what is collected judiciously.

What we have now is condemnable i.e a situation where tax collection is lax and virtually non-existent because Government is too focused on oil income to care about other legitimate avenues of raising money to use developing Nigeria. The principle of collecting tax efficiently is sacrosanct to all serious nations of the world.

Let's first talk about corruption of government and his workers

Those who are paying now are they managing that one??

And why are their staffs aiding others that are not paying or paying what's due??

This is not rocket science, a government that have a penchant for unaccountability can never and will never be trusted with peoples taxes

Themanleshey:
Be deceiving yourself, until when opposition present a better candidate. If na all those ones wey still Dey parade theirselves, well am sorry to tell you that there’s no vacancy in Aso rock till 2031. Amen

Even your own party had a better candidate that Tinubu last election, what did you guys call him??

Ice cream Seller😀

Burob:
Dey play with your existence, no go help yourself.

Make Tinubu & APC from Abuja come help u? just wait, they will soon arrive with your aid package.

The question here is have you helped yourself??

If you're truly helping yourself, no be you go talk that one sha

Burob:
Nostalgia is sweet, 2020 hindsight is perfect, under Babaginda & Obasanjo, weren’t u still suffering?

If u like don’t go & help yourself to prosper, they wait for The FG that cannot do anything for u.

That's a lot of lies here now

Under Obasanjo, you can actually get a federal government job without knowing practically nobody

But today all federal jobs are being bought

People eat very well under this leaders too compare to now

So shush it already

Ttalk:
This is not the kind of news Obidients wants to hear.
Give then the news of killing in Benue and see them swing into actions

So Benue is not part of Nigeria??

What sort of humans are we in this country sef?

Smartjeezy01:
People donate money to build library or hospital throughout the world. American do this all the time.

But they also publish names of the donors, is it the same here??

Racoon:
Hehehe! See as FIRS dey disgrace Tinubu useless government and his zombified supporters. Una no dey tire with lies and propaganda?

I don't even understand,.is it the job of FIRS to tell us this or the Minister in charge of finance??

Theirs is strictly revenue generation mainly through taxation and remit same to the government

Igbek76:
The people that are decieving you with borrow borrow slogan in ADC and elupee will still borrow if they ever get to power ( ask Alex otri and co).

Economics is a social science with basic principles and law.
Your politics ,tribal sentiment ,bias or feelings cannot alter it.

@ Tinubu's administration is following the path of all these basics economics principles and that's why we are seen massive positive results on the macro economics indices.

If your macros are robust enough with reliable figures, it will surely get to the streets gradually ( the micro economics ). Honest people in the country can allude to this gradual easing but the haters and tribal bigots stalk to the old narratives of hunger and all that.

The past govts have operated the systems to patch up the micros by pleasing the streets with no solid macro economics foundations to support it because political leaders just want to win elections by avoiding hard choices or the needed reforms to spark the Nigeria development revolution.

But Una say he don already pay all the loans from previous government now, so why should we still dey borrow?

kelvindj98:
There is no country in the world that doesn't borrow to run their government. Even Countries with great economic indices like the Scandinavians. Only illiterates in Nigeria think borrowing is bad.

These countries have better structures in place, they even still have subsidies in place, but ours have removed all shocks absorbers and yet he still wants us to believe we must be borrowing every now and then

No one says borrowing is bad but when it becomes reckless as we are seeing right now, then there is a problem, you borrow to share to imaginary poor households

Riskymarvelous:
Where is lere Olayinka? If it was ÒBÍ that brought out all this matter now Reno and lere Olayinka for don dey talk say OBI dey lie

They are still fact checking their lies now 😀😀😀

Basic123:
Let me save this page till the day sowore will attack Peter OBI again to expose OBIdients hypocrisy.



What stops WIKE from owing an hotel

That hotel would be worth billions of Naira, how much is the four year salary of a Governor??

Many of us just like our oppressors, the same us that will praise EFCC for arresting someone will still find a way to exonerate anyone that we think is working for us.

SamuraiXXX:
When you ever find yourself in this position when they pay you millions please reject it

Of course your job is to defend your oppressors now

How does working well for your nation relates to this your response??

The Nigerian Senate and her House of Representatives counterparts in collaboration with the presidency have not been able to find just one singular solution to our multi-faceted problems in the two years they've wasted and here you're talking like a mugu that youre

See what a country's Senate that's in critical times doing

Yet these guys want to be pampered and paid like gluttons that they are

So bad

You guys sent me a link to join for interview and on the day, you never came online

nairalanda1:
Yeah, the fact that tinubu supported someone like buhari and is following in his footsteps...that's enough reason not to support him

We are saying the same thing, it's just that you misread my post.



You are a good and nice and rich person.



Problem with subsidy was by August 2022, it was eating over 90% of our revenue. That means keeping it would have meant eventually government won't have been able to pay salaries, and meet its obligations (and those corrupt politicans won't be able to loot, lol)...and eventually we would have run out of money and been in severe debt.

Like I always say, subsidy should have gone since 1993. 2012 was the last chance to remove it without pains, but you guys said no.

Who said No??

Is it not the same Tinubu that mobilizes you his foot soldiers 😀😀😀

And we could have done it in a different manner, an economy that's battling high unemployment and underemployment doesn't have any business removing all subsidies, cos people will find some means to stay afloat

Mortgage system is non-existent, we run a debit economy, it was always gonna be hard on people but boom instead of calling the people together, fashion a way out, he took out subsidy without knowing exactly what to be done

The government has since spent more money on frivolities, creating lesser number of jobs than every other president, did lesser social safety project than every other president but yet you guys want us to believe that he's doing fine

Is that it?

You wan to dey arrest President boys, una too dey play for this country Sha 🤣

Kemetian:
Stop lying... Hardship has eased, NOT 'worsened' in the last few months.

The worst period was when the fuel subsidy was ended and naira floated, and inflation sky high.

Many have adjusted from that, and the effects are easing, and prices of essentials are falling.

And the great thing is there is now more money for development as seen in the fact that EVERY STATE IS A CONSTRUCTION SITE NOW.

So because many adjusted from that now means things are at ease?? 😀😀

Is this the same Nigeria that me and you dey Sha??

lionshare:
Ok, assuming you’re correct in both instances, do you still prefer a further decline in the GDP per capita of Nigerians?

You're obviously speaking in the nonsense

Is this what he's voted for??

Baba don wan use statistics kpai the whole country now, get standard of living keeps on deteriorating

Imagine the kind of leaders we have, na just the budget and how to loot be their own work Sha🤔

nairalanda1:
(DISCLAIMER; I am not here to defend tinubu, and I never have voted for the man. Period.)

This year's budget was based on oil being at 75 dollars per barrel throughout the year at least. INSTEAD ....oil fell below 70 dollars from the end of January...and it got worse

So, we got two options now...borrowing, and or raising taxes.

Note my disclaimer above....tinubu is being forced to borrow because in 2015 he helped buhari into power, and buhari did not diversify the economy, and right now he is following the footsteps of buhari in not diversifying the economy. Tinubu is a failure because there is no plan to make more money for our country.


By the way, if it was not for subsidy removal, things would have been worse. Subsidy removal meant that percentage of government revenue spent on debt service went from 97% to 68% (some say it has dropped to 50%). But that does not translate to an overall increase in revenue, just an increase in available revenue for government to share.

You're just going back and forth

The fact that Tinubu knew Buhari never diversified the economy and still praised him to high heavens and still even fraternizing with his family says a lot about you and him

Una no dey everly stable

You took out subsidy on virtually everything, and we met our revenue target in August, but na still mad borrowing we dey talk about

Make it make sense abeg

With what happened in Rivers recently and his quest for absolute power couple with the fact that he has held Lagos by her balls infact since return back to democracy

It wouldn't be out of place for him to try to impose his successor or even try to be a life president

The fact that the presidency can even come out to debunk this says a lot already

oyatz:
Why do many Nigerians on Social Media have this incurable urge to insult or curse anyone who espouse a contrary opinion such that it has become almost impossible to have meaningful discussions (which often involve exchanges of different views) in the Nigerian cyber space without insults,curses and abuses?

I regularly visit the Social Media sites of South Africa, US,UK, India,Morocco and several other countries. Their citizens discuss ,far more intelligently than what we see on Nigerian Social Media with citizens, permanently transferring aggressions on other citizens they perceived are different from them.

I only responded to your comment cos you're gratifying your oppressors

Those countries you mention don't pamper anyone who looks like an oppressor
But here in your own country, a man will steal large funds to go build mansions abroad and he would hire people like you to praise him to high heavens

helinues:
The drowning Yele is not interested in relaxing.

With projects, what do you need propaganda for?

Quickly apply for the position mugu 😂😂

Abbeytoy:
If you're not lost or need help like el Rufai, you'll know that everything he said is not achievable in Nigeria settings.

But your hate won't make you reason like a human but zoneB.

You say it's not achievable??

Who and who will stop it in the case he decides to do that??

So you actually Tinubu gives a hoot about you and other asslickers

Dey play, person dey corner every institution of the country to his side, you dey here dey yarn opata.

Alliswell248:
Sore loser.
If you are important, no matter how busy someone is, she/he would attend to it.

First, work on your relevance.

I guess Nigerians that he claimed voted for him are not as important that he needs to do something about the killings going under his nose

SarkinYarki:
Black people never treat anything well , just look at how corpse of those who died on duty are being treated ...Below is how a police dog that died in active service is being treated in America

A country that doesn't value life cannot value the dead also now

Look at how officers of the law are packed 😭

Can we actually find a Nigerian leader/Elite whether past or present that his/her children no dey school or schooled abroad?

And yet these guys tell the common masses that they love the country, how can you not make your own country work and keep telling others you love the country ?

oyatz:
False, majority of their children return to Nigeria. They can't live as elites in the US,Europe or Canada

They don't mind being law abiding citizens outside but once they feel like going above the law, they come to Nigeria and wipe you slaves asses and you will praise them for wiping you softly😅