₦airaland Forum

Goodnewsforlife:
but hope we won't hear Nigeria is finished when wike starts winning

In a sane clime this would never happen. What exactly does he want to win? Has Wike and people like yourself been able to let us know the crime of Fubara? Let's start from there.

Jorussia:
I have heard you and lets wait for that time.

I can see that you are all for illegality. Was there an internal problem in the pdp before the 27 wike lapdogs defected?

Jorussia:
I hope when the Judiciary rule that Pro wike lawmakers are the authentic house of assembly in rivers state u won't say the Judiciary has been bought over by Wike?

In a sane clime such ruling can never happen.

Wike and his goons will continue to fail.

exposition:
ethnic politics

This is sad!

Dem don com wit anoda lamba.

Lance008:
How can he avoid it when he actually have no helper
Life hard without helper

You don't need a helper to avoid every trigger of sickle cell crisis.

exposition:
The same thing is happening in cross river state.

Tell us what's going on in Cross River...

I understand you and I know that this is very distressing to live with. All you can do is to avoid things that will cause crisis and live your life the best possible way you can.

Justiceleague1:
During that evil buhari,there was a time almost the entire federal govt petroleum and maritime agencies, NNPC ptdf DPR PPPMC PPPRA NPA NIMASA were all headed by northerners!!!! It meant that whenever they were together,they as well be communicating in Hausa!


Banzas abbokis

Atleast it was northerners. Buhari focused on everyone from the north, both NE, NW and NC. Here we have a president from Southern Nigeria and he's focusing all his key employment on one section of Southern Nigeria.

nairalanda1:
12th time this year.

Until we do what Ivory coast did, we are going to keep having grid collapse.

We better wake up.


Goo goo exist

What did Ivory Coast do?

Hopebringer:
Rivers state is the stupidest state in Nigeria. A state where the people have allowed evil become the norm

I just don't know what wrong with iboz

And you remain the stup*d*est person on nairaland.

Righthussle:
If they were in the Rivers state House of assembly, by now the governor would have declared their seats vacant and stopped their salaries. The laws in Rivers state are different from the laws in Abuja

M*m*. Na your type dey open mouth wahhh. Ignorance is not an excuse before the court of law. LP has a problem in the party, so these ones have a reason to move and it's backed by law.

Softmirror:
So you don't even know what oil producing states get? lol.

Is that what they are supposed to get in a sane clime?

Softmirror:
We not talking about Arabs lol. Have you ever been to Bayelsa? Does the state reflect the derivation they have been getting? That is the point. It's a mind set issue.

How is the derivation of Bayelsa? Most times some of us go just open mouth wahhh.

Kukutente23:
Like I told you, the latest value I got was from 2021 and it shows Bayelsa generated 12bn and got 17bn. In fact, of the figure, only Lagos, Oyo and Rivers got less than they generated throughout the Federation except FCT that did not get anything from the VAT they generated. What this means in essence is that only 3 states got far below the VAT the generated. The rest got far above it.

If you have a more recent statistics that back up your claim, I'll be glad to see it

That is wrong. Bayelsa has always received less than what they generated from VAT. States that enjoy this are mainly in the SE and North.

skywalker240:
I am still reading it, and the few points have come across seems to be in favour of the mass and small scale business owners

Am from Delta State, so I'll be glad if what is coming from my State VAT, at least a 60% chunk remains in my State instead of 100% going to Abuja and a meagre 30% come back to my State.

Please Sir, I'll urge you to read it

You get the point!

Kukutente23:
So how much was allocated to Bayelsa. It's not only about generation but also allocation. Bayelsa from 2021 data I see online got more than it generated.

Meanwhile, like I said, if Bayelsa with the least population is generating more VAT than a state like Kano or Kaduna, that shows that something is wrong with either the collection or the computation of VAT

What is currently allocated to Bayelsa from VAT is far below what Bayelsa generates. With this bill Bayelsa will receive more from it's generated VAT. So it's a win for Bayelsa.

Kukutente23:
How does Dickson know the bill will favour Bayelsa? What is the consumption of Bayelsa like? Does he have the numbers? Bayelsa is the least populated state in Nigeria so he has to be sure what he's supporting is really in his state's interest. That's why I don't understand why the north are against the bill especially VAT derivation. I suspect they believe they are walking into a trap because of the lack of transparency in the derivation model. The present model favours states like Lagos. If the proposed model will run on consumption, it should favour Lagos and other highly populated northern states more since ordinarily, population should fuel consumption. So I still think what they want to see is the present consumption figures as tabulated by FIRS. I think that's what even Dickson should request for except if he already has the figures and it favours his state.

Bayelsa with the least population generated more VAT than over 30 other states. Only Lagos: N249.77bn.
Rivers: N70.54bn.
Oyo: N20.11bn.
FCT: N18.17bn. and
Delta: N13.09bn generate more VAT than Bayelsa. This tells you that Bayelsa has been milked for too long.


To answer your question is, if the bill is passed it will favour Bayelsa as things stands today.

Kukutente23:
I'm a southerner and I'm against the bill. Don't make it about south vs north. The big problem with Nigeria is how we quickly tribalise issues without listening to the other side to know if their concerns are genuine or not.
The north have issues with VAT derivation. At least that seems to be the main thing they are fighting against. A lot of southern govs are also against the bill. So we should listen to all sides and be properly informed by asking the right questions instead of taking a position based on geographical location that does not add anything to you or the conversation.

Only some South Easterners are against the bill. The majority of those in the SS and SW are for the bill.

Floky215:
Good..

Some of the givernors simply added N40,000 to everyone instead of running an increament of 110% across board..

Criminals..!!

I'm hearing that's Bayelsa.

Civil servants are jubilating all over Rivers State since 2 days ago. SIM has truly left a legacy that will be remembered for a long time.

Quelme:
Nigerians and Indians. Deport all of them.

Funny enough the majority of the labourers working in American farms are from Latin American countries with the majority being Mexicans.

True talk.. Rivers State must move forward.

Lithiumite:
If those regions were conduceive for those oil companies to stay,they surely will,I bet you were to young or wasn't even born when shell was head quartered in warri,delta and mobil was in eket,akwa ibom before hostilities from the locals drove them out..... dangote refinery was also initially billed to be sited in the niger delta before he ran away with his capital to Lagos.

Shut up. Mobil has never been headquartered in Akwa Ibom. Yes Shell West was headquartered in Warri, Delta State, before leaving. They didn't leave to Lagos, rather they closed their Warri office and moved their workers to Shell East which is headquartered in Port Harcourt.

olaolaking:
Ebonyi is the smallest and the youngest state in the east. However, it had proven to be above all when you check things "relatively". I want to assume it because they generally are not proud as many other eastern state

Smallest in what sense? Because by landmass, Ebonyi is bigger than Anambra and Imo.

higgs:
You completely miss the point. A huge percentage of the vat paid in Lagos and Rivers state is still paid by the people You hate,the Igbos.A single importer pays more than 4m as vat on a 40 ft container

Why can't our brothers pay this VAT in the SE?

chigo32:
Make a research, igbo tribe are the people paying VAT in dose states remiting big VAT. Without igbo men in those states, nothing will be working in the said states. Take it or leave it, igbo man developed 50 percent of all the states in Nigeria.

Yet can't remit in Igboland... Mmmmmn

maasoap:
Those three can't have heavy weight electoral votes (Abuja! Enugu? ). Besides, Tinubu performed well in both Lagos and Kano states,

Do you know how they pick/allocate electoral votes? Population. So tell me why Rivers can't have heavy weight electoral vote?

So tell me how a state with the 6 largest population in the country not have a heavy electoral vote?

FutureFocus:
I used to go to the port Harcourt tourist beach then, I really love PH, But Lagos is the only place you see real beach in Nigeria, beach in PH are like normal rivers, just tributes of river Niger, no real Atlantic waves


For example, here in Lagos, the wave 🌊 can go and come 5 times in 5mins but in PH, you can be at the beach 🏖️ all day without seeing the wave, the wave only come twice a day and you will only notice by the increase in the water level and not actually the water real wave, whenever we want to see anything wave, we have to pay speed boat 🚤 to take us far close to the Atlantic

Qua qua qua. All the states with boundary to the Atlantic have beaches. Na you never go visit them.

BlueStripper:
International fowl, who told you I haven't been to Rivers State?

Local go*t, if indeed you have been to Rivers you won't comment and display your ignorance just like many in this comment section.