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IlekeHD:
The dcikk does not discrimate. Ojukwu also had a child with an hausa-fulani woman.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201212101558.html

Lol. Can I then shine your Yoruba congo?

jumobi1:
The OP mentioned that because Gowon executed the Biafran war.

A smart dude you are

goldylockisbnb:
Which one be with Igbo woman again? Does that make him less a son? I tire for this country.

You are not discerning.

mazeltov:
If 1,000 people denounce their citizenship, Another 10,000 people are already in place to fill it. In one way or the other, you can't just do without it

Only poorer folks rush now to become US citizens

Andorra here I come as your newest citizen

Andyg:
OK, bye

Lol

Record Number of Americans Renounce Citizenship
Money Talks News By Krystal Steinmetz
9 hours ago
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Dear Uncle Sam: So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye! That’s the message from an increasing number of Americans as they renounce their U.S. citizenship.

According to new government data , a record 1,426 Americans relinquished their U.S. passports during the third quarter of this year. The new quarterly record for renunciations topped the previous record of 1,335, which was set in the first quarter of 2015.

It’s a growing trend. A record 3,415 individuals gave up their American citizenship or terminated their long-term U.S. residency in 2014, according to the International Tax Blog. That’s 15 times more than in 2008.

So far this year, 3,221 Americans have renounced their U.S. citizenship.

“If a new record is set [in 2015], this would be the third consecutive year with a year over year increase,” the International Tax Blog noted.

Why are a growing number of Americans giving up their citizenship?

“Many are expats tired of dealing with complicated tax paperwork — a headache that has increased lately as hefty tax regulations have kicked in,” according to CNN Money.

Unlike most other countries, the U.S. taxes its citizens based on their worldwide income, regardless of where they live. For Americans living overseas, the complexity of U.S. tax forms often means expats are forced to seek professional help to prepare their taxes, which can be an expensive annoyance.

The controversial Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which came into effect in 2014, further complicates tax matters and could be driving the surge in renunciations. FATCA is designed to help the government identify potential tax evaders.

It requires that individuals disclose certain foreign assets and also mandates that banks provide the IRS with information about foreign accounts held by Americans or risk steep fines. CNN Money said:

But the campaign is making life difficult for the 7.6 million Americans living abroad. As financial institutions rush to understand FATCA, some overseas banks, both big and small, have kicked out their U.S. clients, leaving some without even basic checking and savings accounts.

The United States has the highest fees in the world to renounce citizenship, according to Forbes, and that fee was raised by 422 percent in 2014. Bidding farewell to Uncle Sam now costs a whopping $2,350, up from $450. Forbes said the fee is 20 times the average renunciation fee in other high-income countries.

Are you surprised to see how many Americans are giving up their U.S. passports? Share your comments below or on our Facebook page.

This article was originally published on MoneyTalksNews.com as 'Record Number of Americans Renounce Citizenship'.



I am checking out too. Uncle Sam is killing me

cjrane:
Then kill off some!

Hey! I saw the material quoted below on a friend's facebook page and nothing can be apter than it, per your suggestion above.

The world's population is balloning like crazy and there is no real "solution" in sight to check the surge. Loss of lives from many natural and man-made incidents - poverty, hunger, HIV, ebola, cancer, malaria, flu, H1N1, SARS, incessant food-borne pathogen outbreaks, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, landslides, droughts, boko haram, ISIS, alqaeda, the Syrian civil war and other religious extremisms, etc, etc - have made no dent so far upon the 7+ billion inhabitants of planet earth. The human species is indeed resilient.

So how do you kill them off?

tevinsolt:
Everything will be fine or maybe not, the break would have at least solve Nigeria's biggest problem, the rest will be figured out a step at a time.
it just like a break up, it is first uncomfortable and new, but eventually the parties involve grow out of it and learn to leave without each other.

Agreed

tevinsolt:
but subtraction of Biafran population, will greatly reduce the overall population, who's to say Nigeria will continue to exist in the nearest future.

Sure, but if a large part (after Biafra has left) of Nigeria's population remains unproductive with a high birth rate how does that help? Remember also that Biafra leaving will affect the economy as well (import duties; foreign remittances; revenue from nollywood; some oil revenue from Imo, Abia and potentially, Anambra; personal income taxes; corporate taxes from companies in the SE, etc)

Meiji:
Actually China has begun to relax its one-child policy, but I get your point.

The issue here is that we have relied on "population figures" as a tool for sharing of oil money for so long. One day however, we will have no choice but to rebalance this economy from one based on sharing to one based on productivity. When that happens, those of us who like to boast using their population figures will be forced to think of how to feed and educate their people from decreased revenue. We'll sit up by then.

Yes, using population to give federal money is one of the main causes.

tevinsolt:
it's high time we start exporting some of the populace to colonize other parts of the world
Besides Biafrans are leaving soon. it is a welcome development

But Biafra leaving will not make a serious dent on the population of the North, where the main overpopulation problem is stemming from.

We cannot do much about the different land masses in different Nigerian zones because they are fixed, but we can do something about the population increase because it is unfixed. The first step is to ask in which parts of Nigeria is the rate of population increase higher? That is, who is giving birth to 10 children (high rate) versus who is giving birth to 3 (low rate), irrespective of the land mass? By continuing to give birth to less number of kids, states currently with high population density (due to less land mass) will see lower population densities in the next few years.

asha80:
the national population man talks about overpopulating the country vis a vis resources not individual
states

And we know those who take a larger share of the resources. They are not Igbos. Thank you for helping that olodo

anulaxad:
You see, you are just embarrassing yourself, what is the meaning of Ignorance? When you lack knowledge. What is the meaning of illiterate? when you cannot read and write. I have clearly shown that I am knowledgeable and that I can articulate myself with proper reasoning and evidence.

Stating the obvious such as that population density is less in Kano as the have bigger land mass is unbelievable, speaking like a kid will in no way make you you sound any smarter.

Those states: Anambra and Imo are under massive pressure due to there overpopulation, is Kano or Oyo?

Kano and Oyo can overpopulate themselves to the extent that they can become as densely populated and as crowded as Anambra and Imo but as of right now they are not. So stop arguing foolishly. You are saying the Hausas and Yorubas should stop overpopulating yet there states are as of right now ( listen this is coming from a Geography expert) are not under pressure in terms of resources or infrastructure due to overpopulation but those other states (Anambra and Imo) are.

I am informing you of information that may be hard for you to comprehend but I have explained in the most easiest of terms possible.

You are talking incoherent crap here. Please tell me, what is the population of SE versus that of SW, NW, NC and NE? Let's even exclude tribal populations since we do not have one now. Why does the SE have less total population than the other regions? Simple answer: (1) reduction in number of kids and to a lesser extent (2) emigration (travel) of the population. I have mentioned both in my opening post. Now go to bed.

victorels:
For your Information, South East has more population Density than the North and the West because they have a very small land mass.

QED. Thank you

mikolo80:
Chinese men can't get wives cos they aborted all the girls

American population aging about to crash

Japan is bribing men and women to get pregnant

this mumu is talking nonsense

how did he rise to such a position of authority

1. At present, women are not critically lacking in China, where males account for 51.27% of the 1.34 billion people, while females make up 48.73%. If anything, there is no law that prevents Chinese men from marrying foreigners to make up the small (2.54%) shortfall. So you are raising a false alarm here.

2. Again, another false alarm. The American population is not about to crash. They have immigrants pumping in steadily; they just need to sift through and admit only the best and brightest immigrants. That is what some of the Green Card-based Visas (e.g., EB, NIW, etc) do.

3. I agree that Japan seems to have overdone their own population control.

anulaxad:
I am an expert at Geography so I clearly know what the difference between population density and and population size. You can argue all you like, those states after Lagos are the most crowed, why because population control was not an issue at hand according to citizens living in those states.
Kano or Oyo is not as crowded as the states mentioned earlier. The whole point of population control is to watch out for space management and to avoid a denser population area per Km-sq.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language

Population of those who speak each language. There isn't a huge gap in terms of population size between both our languages.

What's more interesting is that there are millions of other speakers of Hausa across west Africa including Niger, and so of Yoruba in Benin and Togo, but Igbo is mainly or only spoken In Nigeria. So Stop your ethnic slurs.

Dude, you are so, so ignorant, nearly an illiterate. For your education, when you have a small land mass (e.g., Anambra and Imo) and a mid sizable population (again e.g., Anambra and Imo), you have a high population density. The population of Imo and Anambra are smaller by far than those of Lagos and Kano and Oyo, but whereas Lagos also has a small land mass (hence high population density), Oyo and Kano have large land masses, hence lower population densities. Do you understand now? Olodo

asha80:
and you coup not see where he said Igbo fore fathers used to give birth to 6to 10 before?meaning that there was population explosion was back then ?

That is not even the right answer for him. Please read my last response (before this one)

anulaxad:
Why must you bring ethnicity into this?

I'm adding your name to my thread immediately.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population#/media/File:Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png

What world I'm I living in, other than Lagos the two most densely populated states are Imo and Anambra. Honestly why are you so ignorant.

You do realize that you are the ignorant party here, right? Do you know what density means? Do you know the difference between population density and actual population? What is the size of Anambra and Imo states' land masses, as against their respective populations? Compare those to the size of Kano, Oyo etc, as against their populations.

omowolewa:
God will provide (I the voice of our gatekeeper who has 3 wives and 14 children)

And your gate keeper is from where?

BTW, if you have a large and PRODUCTIVE population (like the US; but mostly immigrants from Latina America, Africa and elsewhere are the ones causing the US population increase) then it is understandable. But when you have a large and UNPRODUCTIVE population (like Nigeria), then it is a time bomb waiting to explode.

China used to have a less productive population, hence they initiated their population control program. Even now that they have become productive, they would not be changing that program any time soon.

At the risk of sounding tribal, I would say that while it seems that Igbos, whether in the SE or based outside of the SE, have been able to devise a means to control their population, the other majority ethnic groups have not yet figured out how to do so. Religion and culture have been tools deployed to increase population in the North and South West, and with that have come continued or increasing poverty, especially in the North.

I understand that in Nigeria population determines how much money you get from the national purse, but such money have never been used to take care of the corresponding population of the receiving state or region; they have mostly been embezzled.

The Chinese, Japanese, Europeans and white America that have taken steps to reduce their population growth are not foolish. Igbos have learned from them, such that whereas our parents had 6 to 10 children a few decades ago, we the young ones, aged 40 years and below, now have an average of 3 kids per family. We may lose in the population-based sharing of the wealth in Nigeria, but with the continued dwindling of oil money we are going to be better off, being able to manage (educate and give a good living standard) our small families with the resources at our disposal.

I will not be surprised that if a clean and unbiased tribal-based census is conducted today, the Igbo population would be far lower than that of the Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba. This is because the Hausa-Fulani (90% muslim) and Yoruba (50%-60% muslim) societies still permit the marrying of multiple wives and, hence, giving birth to multiple children, and are less well travelled (traveling also contributes to reducing the population of an area) than their Igbo compatriots.

This is the best news ever.

Now Igbos (the most populous Nigerians in diaspora) can flex their political muscles a little bit more. Kudos to PMB if this comes to fruition. It would be the biggest democratic (non-physical) achievement of any Nigerian govt, in my opinion, of course.

Does Father Mbaka (obviously from SE) include the 5% that PMB will treat like second-class citizens? I am confused; so can anyone explain this to me. Thanks.

I do not come here often, but I am persuaded to ask this question based on this thread:

Re: Buhari Hails Father Mbaka On 20-year Priesthood

https://www.nairaland.com/2488029/buhari-hails-father-mbaka-20-year

Does Father Mbaka include the 5% that PMB will treat like second class citizens? I am confused

This letter sounds too dumb for a former senate president to have written.

[quote][quote author=EbolaParasite post=35677161]Anyway, back to d mata. If you hold a PHD and you don't earn 6 figures in this yankee, please pack your bags and go home. [/quote

You know the drill. That sums it up. Thanks

BTW, the East coast is not universally cheap. Try DC area, New York City, or parts of New Jersey.

Goldenboy007:
Stop lying to people youngman, you are a student somewhere ..probably a graduate assistant ...this is the first time I would see a PhD holder in chemical science with 6 figure salary who should probably be a specialist consultant in reknowned multinational Company in Utah, doing times on Facebook and having a nice time cursing people on Nairaland. He pays 25% of his annual 6 figures as mortgage, he has 2 cars, wife and kids ...then sends almost 3k to Nigeria every month, which excludes 700 dollars he just doled out. The American dream !!!

Your belief. Whatever suits you is fine by you.

Shame how some of you folks have no meaningful contribution to make here but instead turn this thread into a fighting arena.

Goldenboy007:
Ahan youngman, your stories keep getting a newer twist, which industrial employee gets paid 6 figures? You must be the director of research in a ground breaking space lab. Bros we are all in this yankee together o, we know what's up ! You can only hoodwink people wey nefa reach airport before o! And you have been sending 3k every month? You see why you shouldn't come to a public forum to tell fibs?

You apparently are clueless. A 6 figure pay (100K and above) per annum is not a big deal. As an academic researcher until lately, I was already at the top rung of the 5 figure pay before my move to the industry. Why do you think I would leave the typically more secure academic job (just after tenure,) to the usually less secure industry job? Answer, irresistibly higher pay.

NobleG1:
By the way, is the 6-figure pay monthly or annually?

What do you think?