IfnobeGod20: There's a systemic failure of governance all over Nigeria. There's no state that can conveniently say they have adequate and complete pipe borne water supply to her state. No state in Nigeria and if you think it is a lie, let us do a research on that. I can tell you the number of boreholes overweigh pipe borne water in Nigeria.
How is this an excuse for Peter Obi's failure in Anambra for eight years
Kaiser20: Did Tinubu build only Motor Parks for Agbadorians Agberos without good water system?
That must be what his Chicago master plan is all about- empower thugs and agberos to squeeze more money from the masses in addition to the huge IGR he is raising from them as government. Such a shame that we allow him to be our political leader.
sheriffden: “If Lagos Agberos were to constitute themselves into a state, they would be richer than 35 Nigerian states, second only to their home base, Lagos state.” – Anonymous
‘Agberos’ in Lagos generate an estimated annual revenue of N123.078 billion amassed from daily road use taxes levied on bus drivers, tricycle riders and motorcycle operators in the state. This is according to a recent research report by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR).
An overview of the figures Levies on commercial buses (danfo) Each commercial vehicle driver pays at least N3,000 to Agberos as ticket fee. There are an estimated 75,000 commercial buses operating in Lagos, according to the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA). Estimated daily total collection: N225 million Estimated monthly total collection: N6.75 billion Estimated yearly total collection: N82.125 billion
Levies on Tricycle operators (keke napep) Each keke napep rider pays at least N1,800 to Agberos per day. There are an estimated 50,000 tricycles operating in Lagos, according to Techcabal. Estimated daily total collection: N90 million Estimated monthly total collection: N2.7 billion Estimated yearly total collection: N32.85 billion
Levies on motorcycle operators (okada) Each okada rider pays at least N600 to Agberos per day. There are an estimated 37,000 okada riders operating in Lagos, according to Motorcycle Operators Association of Lagos State (MOALS). Estimated daily total collection: N22.2 million Estimated monthly total collection: N666 million Estimated yearly total collection: N8.103 billion
The total annual revenue from the three major modes of transport in Lagos state amounts to N123.078 billion. The ICIR report admitted that these figures may yet be underestimated as daily levies on the transporters are much higher in some parts of Lagos including Mushin, Isolo, Itire/Ikate among others. Nigerian states with the highest Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 2020 Lagos State recorded the highest Internally Generated Revenue of N418.99 billion, accounting for 32.1% of the total, closely followed by Rivers State with N117.19 billion. Other states with the highest IGR in 2020 include Abuja (N92.06 billion), Delta (N59.73 billion), Kaduna (N50.75 billion), Ogun (N50.75 billion), and Oyo State (N38.04 billion). As the data shows, Lagos Agberos surpassed all other states besides Lagos in revenue generation beating oil-producing Rivers State by a handsome N5.89 billion naira.
Where is the money?
The report found no trace that much of this revenue gets into government coffers as the money was not accounted for in the state’s annual financial statements. Also, the report revealed that “although the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) says on its website that ‘road taxes’ are among the 25 taxes that are collected by the state government….the government agency provides no evidence on the website that road taxes are being collected by the state government.”
The report further revealed that although some of the revenue was being remitted to the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and to the rival union RTEAN, the bulk of the money being generated was most likely completing its journey in private pockets. “The [motor park] chairman takes the huge chunk of the money, shares the rest to his subordinates and leaves little in an account operated by his union,” it stated. Why is the government looking the other way? The general consensus is that the ‘Agbero-industry’ thrives so well in Lagos because it is backed by powerful politicians who call in return favours to bully opponents and perpetuate violence during elections. It has also been alleged that many of these ‘godfathers’ are direct beneficiaries of the scheme.
Bottomline
The Lagos state government loses a great deal of revenue annually to these non- state actors. Suffice to say that these monies could have been channelled into critical infrastructure projects in the state. From the research data, it is also clear that Lagos and indeed Nigeria can function effectively without the need to borrow as much if the nation took the issue of taxes more seriously and plugged holes through which corrupt elements in the system syphon government revenues. Advanced countries with no crude oil resources function efficiently on tax revenues and even give financial aid to Nigeria. Why then is Nigeria’s case different?
Orch1981: Are you stupid to say is propaganda is the cso not a Yoruba man or are we not living in lagos just name one local government in Lagos that have clean treated water
Maybe some people are born to suffer in Stockholm Syndrome mode. Maybe, just maybe.
Lawmaker scores Lagos Water Corporation low
A Lagos State lawmaker, Mr Saka Fafunmi, on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction at the performance of the state Water Corporation.
Fafunmi, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), said in Ikeja that the corporation had not been able to justify statutory allocations to it.
The lawmaker, who represents Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency 1 at the assembly, spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said that the corporation had the capacity to generate much fund internally through water rates but had relied solely on government funding because of poor performance.
'' Anyone that is using water will be willing to pay for it; the corporation has not been giving us water.
"Is there any new community that Water Corporation has given water? People depend on boreholes; even government estates have industrial boreholes.
"Why do we keep pumping money into an agency that does not give us the desired results?'' he asked.
He noted that the Adiyan Waterworks was located at Ifako-Ijaiye, where many of the residents had resorted to digging boreholes as a means of getting water.
''A lot of people are falling sick because they don't drink clean water.
''In the same compound, where you have sewage, is where you have a borehole.
''There is no way you can manage the sewage that it will not leak and pollute the water; everyone drinking such is drinking contaminated water,'' he said.
The lawmaker urged the corporation to increase water reticulation and supply to residents.
Sonnobax15: But if somebody dey philanthropic enough to provide dem with clean water now,the same set of werey go say na low budget project the person do...
How much water did Peter Obi provide in Anambra for eight years before doing ofege philanthropy upandan to scam his Yes daddy worshippers
NaijaCowFarm: Why are we still buying foreign-made SUVs for Rep members? Tinubu should stop patronizing foreign doctors, afterall we have doctors at home, both native and orthodox doctors.
Sammysolution: This is getting messy now, because if olakulehin isn't fit medically for the throne, will the balogun, the warrior's line forfeit their turn, for the agbagba's, the elder line, which has ladoja as the most senior in that line, or will it be given to the next most senior in balogun line, which is ajibola.
Is it as messy as the Alaafin succession that is yet to be concluded after almost two years? Or that of Soun Ogbomoso?
Was that not how Fayemi and co frustrated Jonathan's government by playing politics with petrol market deregulation
Na you dey play.
hisexcellency34: A former Governor of Ekiti State, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Tuesday, said the protest that trailed the fuel subsidy removal during the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2012 was due to political interests.
Fayemi said this in his keynote address delivered at a national dialogue organised to celebrate the 60th birthday celebration of the founding National Secretary of Alliance for Democracy and Fellow, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Professor Udenta Udenta in Abuja.
The programme was attended by Jonathan, former Minister of Education, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili; former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, among others.
According to him, the last time Nigeria experienced economic development was during Jonathan’s administration
Fayemi said, “Today, I read former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s interview in The Cable saying our liberal democracy is not working and we need to revisit it, and I agree with him. We must move from the political alternatives. I think we are almost on a dead end of that.
“What we need is alternative politics and my own notion of alternative politics is that you can’t have 35 per cent of the vote and take 100 per cent. It won’t work! We must look at proportional representation so that the party that is said to have won 21 per cent of the votes will have 21 per cent of the government. Adversary politics bring division and enmity.
“All political parties in the country agreed and they even put in their manifesto that subsidy must be removed. We all said subsidy must be removed. But we in ACN at the time, in 2012, we know the truth Sir, but it is all politics.
DankemzI: Bola Ahmed for try well well because I know lots of SSANU' members starving already
Do you mean that they have joined the ranks of Emilokan wailers who are experiencing Enikanlomo shege ebiNpawa extreme poverty due to ThiefNuibu's Lagos looting and governance cluelessness that has been elevated to national level.
Propaganda is truly different from proper agenda provision of common utilities, services and facilities by employing civil servants and paying them well relative to politicians. Truly ariwo yato si music.
Was this not how Obasanjo withheld a portion Lagos LGA allocation because Thiefnuibu and Osinbajo thought they were overwise in creating unconstitutional LGAs, but ThieNuibu's propaganda machine said it was all of Lagois allocation that was withheld
Otherwise why was this senator and former governor husband of several wives including a minister not stoned to death after cutting off his philanderer's preek
Jajayi: A former Governor of Yobe state and current senator, Bukar Abbar Ibrahim has allegedly been caught having sex with two ladies, according to Sahara Reporters.
Which one was the child abuse and molester governor doing then
naijaking1: Abe Linclon said something to the effect that slavery was the big stain on the soul of America, today, child abuse despoil, and molestation in the name of religion, politics, or even culture stands out as the big, dirty, and ugly stain on the soul of Nigeria. For a man who first preached islamic purity via sharia in this country, Gov. Ahmed Sani Yerima should be ashamed of himself, he should undergo treatment for pedophilia, and the authorities and images makers of Nigeria should take note.
Yeriman Bakura Marries 13-year-old Egyptian Girl
Written by By Emmanuel Bello, ABUJA Friday, 26 March 2010 22:41
Former Zamfara State governor, Ahmed Sani, Yeriman Bakura, has married a thirteen-year-old Egyptian girl. LEADERSHIP WEEKEND learnt that the marriage took place at the national mosque, Abuja, two weekends ago. The former governor, now a senator, paid a bride price of $100,000, the equivalent of roughly N15m. He also divorced one of his wives to facilitate the marriage. In Islam a man is only permitted to have four wives. Yeriman, who popularised the Shariah code of Islam in Nigeria, could not have the wedding in Egypt; the Egyptian authorities would not put up with such a marriage as their laws forbid that sort of union. Yariman Bakura is well into his 60s and the laws in Egypt consider his bride a minor.
The former helmsman of Zamfara State, however, in a deft move relocated the venue of the event to Nigeria, where he believes “anything goes”, said a source. The marriage was held in Abuja. The bride moved 30 members of her family over to Abuja where they were lodged in PROTEA Hotel in Asokoro.
An Islamic cleric who spoke to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND said that the whole thing goes counter-cause to Islam. He said that though there were no limits to how much can be paid as bride price, Islam still preaches moderation. According to him, the former governor flouted this caveat. Besides, said the cleric, Yeriman being a public office holder, should not have made such an ostentatious show of wealth.
Those who attended the wedding in Abuja include Sen. Kabiru Gaya, Maina Maaji Lawal, deputy governor of Zamfara State, Mukhtar Hanka, and the Emir of Bakura.
AustineE1: Even when the thiefing governor was caught on camera,he is shamelessly still in the corridors of power,our financial police has turned a blind eye and he still moves around as a VIP with all the paraphernalia of govt. This man should be doing time behind bars.
Ehn now, shebi Gandollar is a member of Oshiomole's Association of Past Crooks, APC
The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said politicians’ sins are forgiven when they join the ruling party.
Oshiomhole made this statement on Thursday, while welcoming new members to the party, at the APC presidential campaign in Benin.
As he reeled out names of those who have defected from the PDP to the APC, he said: “I am told that there are a lot of very very senior people from PDP who have decided to join forces with President Buhari to take the broom to sweep away PDP and to continue to ensure that APC continues to preside all over Nigeria.
“It includes my own brother, my friend who comes from my own clime, Henry Duke Genebe. He is the former organising secretary of PDP and we also have former vice chairman PDP and leader of Edo North of PDP. We also have my brother Chief Esheshi Godwin. He is also former council chairman and my very dear friend. We have quite a number of other leaders who have come.
“We have quite a number of other leaders who have come… in fact, once you have joined APC, all your sins are forgiven.”
You should have shared verifiable data on the increased volume of water supplied and areas covered since Soludo became governor to remedy Peter Obi's gargantuan failures.
Are you able to do this to show that you are not the ignorant one here
Bookhub: This reno man Yoruba should be careful of this sudden love reno has for them.
Anything to asslick the drug lord in Asshole Rock is fine for the table-shaker pastor of a hypocrite.
AntiTerrorist: I can prove Tinubu is a known drug lord – Reno Omokri
A former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has stated that the All Progressives Congress, APC presidential aspirant, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a known drug lord.
Omokri also said that he can prove Tinubu truly has a drug case in the United States and he went to the court where he was tried in Chicago.
TheNewsGuru recalls that the United State District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently released fresh documents detailing Tinubu’s encounter with American authorities, over allegations of narcotics trafficking and money laundering.
The US court records showed that the former governor of Lagos State had forfeited up to $460,000 to the United States authorities in plea bargaining.
Omokri who is a critic of the APC flagbearer wrote on Twitter: “Tinubu is a known drug lord. I proved it by going in person to the Chicago court where he was tried. But I won’t slander him and say he did not go to a school I verified he attended directly from the horse’s mouth. If you must “take me out” due to that, be my guest!”
Those who brought religion to us have moved pass it.
Why do we still get stuck in Africa?
Religion na scam from onset
Majek Fashek got it right in his song:
Religion na politics.
(Christians no dey fight Muslims) Religion na politics Lots of people know all the tricks Religion is politics Lots of them be Pharisees Religion na politics Them are hypocrite na Pharisees Religion religion is politics Them are fanatics Pharisees Some claim them are Muslims Them claim them be Christians Some are say them are Rastafarians Them say them be Ogun Servers But I and I and I is one We all are one people I and I is one Let′s unite and build the nations (Muslims no dey fight Christians) (Christians no dey fight Muslims) The beginning was the Light The Light was the beginning of Creation Light was in Bhuda Light was in Emperor Selassie Light was in Muhammad Light was in Jesus Christ From Creation oh oh From Creation can you hear my cry now (Muslims no dey fight Christians) (Christians no dey fight Muslims) Religion na politics Lots of people know all the tricks Religion is politics Some of them be Pharisees Religion na politics Them are fanatics na Pharisees Religion religion is politics Them are hypocrites naa Some claim them are Muslims Them say them be Christians Them are say them are Rastafarians Them say them be juju Servers I and I and I is one We all are one people I and I is one Let's unite and build the World (Muslims no dey fight Christians) Religion na cause a lot of problem all over the earth All over the world (Christians no dey fight Muslims) Iraqi man go dey fight Irani man India man go dey fight Ikumasi man Yoruba man go dey fight Igbo man Igbo man go dey fight Hausa man Uh wey oh oh Wey eh oh oh Yey eh woh oh (Muslims no dey fight Christians) Eh eh eh Wey eh oh oh Uh wey oh oh
Donedeal1: The areas around that region is a theatre of war.
Did Buhari not deal with them all as Tinubu said when he alone made him president nine years ago, to get his own Emilokan turn last year?
Emergingnation: Flashback: How Bola Tinubu spoke highly of Buhari in 2015, named PDP ‘Poverty Development Party
National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu had during the presidential campaign in 2015, referred to President Muhammadu Buhari as the only solution for the security and economic challenges facing Nigeria.
During a mega presidential rally, the former governor of Lagos State recalled how some powerful nations in the world returned to army generals when they were challenged, saying “Major General Buhari would revive Nigeria’s economy”.
He named the current opposition People’s Democratic Party, PDP as the “Poverty Development Party saying they had nothing to offer.
His words at the time were; “Every nation has a period of their own challenges, when America was challenged, they turned to one great man, their ex-military general, General Eisenhower. When the French were challenged, they turned to their general, Charles de Gaulle.
“When Britain was challenged, they turned to their general. Today, Nigeria is economically and physically challenged so we turn to General Muhammadu Buhari. He is the right man for the job. If you talk about military experience, he has it abundantly, he has courage, simplicity, he has it abundantly.
“If you talk about great determination, a combination of vision and ability to perform, honesty and integrity, he has it abundantly.
In conclusion, the only benefit men derive from marriage is having children within a two-parent household, as wedlock does more harm to both genders and the greater society. Also, having children from different women whom you as the man are not married to is absolutely nonsensical and financially draining. No one should mention sex, as many married men don't even get sex from their wives, and when they do, it is timetable-based. Who makes this timetable? The woman. The reason married men patronise sex workers more than even single men, and I am willing to bet that sexually active married men get less sex while being married than single men who are equally sexually active.
So, where is the benefit?
Quite interesting that wedlock can be broken down into two words- wed AND lock. Quite interesting!
Importers are also Nigerians too not only farmers. The billions made by farmers from emefiele with nothing to show for it is what Cardoso should continue?
Are the farmers of the imported food also Nigerians?
What works are you doing to produce items for export to pay for the imported food
datopaper: I have realise that africa politicians see opposition as only means to criticise the government. If you are not there, everything the government does is rubbish. Atiku was vice president, he was placed to oversee selling of public assets. It was criticised by opposition then. He supported buhari initially but after sometime they fell apart.
Somebody must be in government at a particular time. The government must have priorities. People must criticise. We should be concern about solutions at all time.
Government go and come.
Why did you fail to see the solution and alternative vision offered by Atiku
helinues: This one just dey remember say Nigeria still dey exist...
Mikano Atiku shouldn't be putting mouth about this particular issue. When Atiku was Vp to Obasanjo, the special assignment ( portfolio) that was given to him was how to revive Nigeria epileptic power.
Instead of Atiku to fix the problem, he rather invited generator company like Mikano to come and scatter the situation.
So Atiku, STFU about the electricity situation in Nigeria, you had all the power to fix it but you chose not to.
Stale propaganda lies from the clueless APC e-warriors.
What evidence do you have of Atiku’s ownership of Mikano or Obasanjo asking him to be focused on electricity when Bola Ige and Agunloye were his trusted ministers
politicoNG: Mikano International Limited, promoters of Mikano Generators, has denied any link to former Vice President and the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2023 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
The Managing Director of the company, Firas Mamlouk in a statement said Mikano is not affiliated to the former vice president in any way.
The statement reads: “The attention of the Management of Mikano International Limited, promoters of Mikano Generators (amongst other products), has been drawn to numerous articles and press statements stating that the Company is owned by/affiliated with Atiku Abubakar, GCON.
“This disclaimer is a notice to the general public that the news does not represent the true facts as it concerns Mikano International Limited. Please be informed that Mikano International Limited is not owned, affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with HE Atiku Abubakar GCON.
“Members of the public are therefore advised to disregard the news”.
Health / Re: Over Eight Million Lagosians Lack Access To Good Water – CSO by anonimi: 2:23pm On Apr 13
