₦airaland Forum

Rossikk:
Folks keep asking why the army and police are more brutal with IPOB than perpetrators of violence further up north, such as in southern Kaduna, and among Fulani herdsmen. I think the reason is simple. And it goes beyond ethnic favouritism.

IPOB are essentially fighting to DESTROY Nigeria. They are seeking to seize Nigeria's oil and gas resources which provide 90% of the FG's revenue.

Thus the FG is literally fighting for its life by confronting IPOB.

An analogy would be if an assailant pointed a dagger at your legs, and tried to stab you there, you would react to stop him, but not as viciously as you would if his dagger was aiming for your neck, in which case you will try to seize that dagger and cut off his head instead.

One more thing. The FG would not be so alarmed if IPOB were to secede with their landlocked homeland alone. Their attempt to rope in the delta region in their agenda even against the will of the latter, amounts to subtle theft of the nation's resources, which again, the FG will not permit in any circumstances. Thank you.







While I agree with your general thesis please note that oil and gas accounts for about 50% of FG revenue not 90%. This is a very common misconception that has thrived over the past few years even though the reality has changed.

Sammy07:
See them ranting on facebook

NGpatriot:
Ogun state wasn't ready for the overflow from Lagos, it's very hard for them to keep up, but they must as a matter of urgency, they need to drive up their infrastructure to accommodate human and industrial growth.

The issue with Ogun state is not limited to Ogun state, even Oyo state is facing the same challenges with Oluyole industrial estate. I think the SW collectively should fund a superhighway from Lagos all the way to Ondo state, even if they have to borrow and toll it.

I agree with you 100% about Osun state, imagine Aregbesola in Ogun instead of Amosun.

NGpatriot:
For serious and credible investors, the SW is the safest and the most logical destination for so many reasons from societal stability and conducive environment to safety and security of investment, access to large markets and consumers with disposable income, educated manpower and solid retune on investment, these are attributes the other regions lack,

When Fashola was lobbying and chasing Dangote with inducements, land, and everything under the sun to move his refinery to Lagos, these loudmouths were abusing him, they called it white elephant and Tinubu connection land giveaway, but luckily for Lagosians, they have smart, intelligent and forward-looking leaders.

We are talking about not only a $15 billion investment, the largest private investment in the history of Nigeria, but also the hundreds of thousands of direct and indirect jobs to be created, this is the kind of investment governments all over the world kill to direct to their country.

This is why I still rate Fashola as the best Lagos state governor ever.

NGpatriot:
The game-changer for Lagos state is the Dangote refinery complex.

Imagine this..


The largest single-train refinery in the world in Lagos, SW

The biggest fertilizer plant in the world in Lagos, SW

The biggest petrochemical plant in Africa in Lagos, SW.

The largest gas processing plant in Africa in Lagos, SW


This is the real game-changer for Lagos and the SW, even the new IGR figure is small change considering the potential massive tax base and manufacturing opportunities from the petrochemical plant alone, imagine the explosion of petro plastic products, rubbers, resins, synthetic fibers, adhesives, dyes, detergents, pesticides, and petroleum-derived paints and coatings. Making film, Food packaging Shopping bags Cling film Milk carton lining, Injection molding, Dustbins Crates, Buckets Bowls Blow mouldingDetergent bottles Drums, Squeezable bottles, Extrusion Water pipes, Flexible water pipes Cable jacketing.

This petrochemical plant alone is set to open up many industrial applications for high-end exportable goods like industrial products, automotive parts products and so on, now imagine Lagos state sitting on this massive tax base and business opportunities.


And the biggest fertilizer plant in the world and the huge taxable refined products from the massive refinery too.

OMG, Lagos state and the SW don jam lottery, I see Lagos state rapidly moving from the 3rd largest economy in Africa moving to 2nd or even the first if possible.

NGpatriot:
Their governors are still preoccupied with wheelbarrow, borehole and roadside kerosene sharing.

SE is unproductive, there's nothing in that region to attract any meaningful investment and you'll never see brands like KFC, Dominos, Stone cold creamery anywhere in the SE, but they are all over the SW.

The SE is poor, the purchasing power is little or nothing, the business environment is too unfriendly, too hostile and not even enough educated manpoer to sustain meaningful business activities.

NGpatriot:
Add Ogun state too..

Ogun state deep seaport project is still alive and well.

PHAYOL81:
Thanks for the info. Just don't know whether they think at all before citing samples. Imagine him call USA into Lagos situation as if the White House authorizes the place a business must be stationed in the country; as if if any business comes into USA today and plan to station its base in the New York, the White House would stop them. Is it Lagos fault that it provide magnetic business environment for investors much more than any other state? Would they have had a situation where investment rather opt for another country because the FG's poking nose in their place of choice? Or do they think big investment would suddenly go for an untrusted environment because the FG directed them to? That's why I cited the Airline example... they would rather have another country and not any other state other than the one they trust.
Those guys are big time clowns, I beg. So, Lagos would suddenly allow FG to tell them where the business they courted should be situated; Lagos wouldn't even allow it go to Abuja let alone Potor Republic. If they want development, it's time they started earning it not sitting down to be fed. No, it's not happening!

mystery22:
Ogun state boy,better go back to Ogun state ooo,the same Lagos deport you clowns regularly,be here claiming lagosian...I wonder who owns Lagos,dangote refinery/fed govt are already buying lands continuously,another afonja loading in Lagos state,with a new emir in town..better go and work and stop skull mining your father pass down to you from his father,tribal parasite

PHAYOL81:
The same bullshit all over again? Since Abuja had been the federal capital which would equate the years lagos had as one (30 years) around next year, what happens to the Airport at least, if having no chance of a seaport can be excused? Why hasn't the Airport overtaking MMIA as the busiest? Even when officials messed up landing equipments a while ago at the Lagos MMIA, the airlines coming in would rather opt for Ghana instead of any in Nigeria... Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, none else? To them it was either Lagos or nothing. Is that another political jargons from the FG?
How many times do we have to show you guys this Lagos was already doing fine long before the amalgamation of all the regions? Was that a help from FG too?
Fine, you site samples from the USA. But you fail to provide evidence where the USA mandated or forced companies to site their business in any other place other than their place(s) of choice. Point blank, even in the USA, New York is what it is today because of the presence of assortment of companies trusting and establishing in the state. Check your stat, the New York has the most concentration of commercial activities of all the states (mark this, BY FAR) in the USA and the much I know (and I stand to be corrected if you've got prove), the Tesla in San Fransisco, Ford in Ohio, Microsoft in Chicago, amidst others that stationed their headquarters away from the New York did so by choice and not by the authority of the White House. Remember these are private companies and they have their plans and aims.
And how many companies had come out to say the FG mandated them to rather site their business in Lagos or beat it? Is it google that just came in? Is it Netflix? Are they the oil companies that left the Niger-Delta where they once had headquarters before relocating to Lagos owing to the incessant trouble from the clans? Or are they the new start-ups that sprung up taking the opportunities the state has to offer? Or did Innoson told you the FG pressured him to rather site his plant in Lagos and not in the East? Or did BUA make the same claim over the sugar plant he's sited in Kwara state? If no, then, why is the bulls.hit of FG not decentralising Lagos? Ondo has port that the state government is courting investors to dredge, Ogun is building a mini-port at Itoikin by a private investor but the Easterns would rather put pressure on the FG to do this for their SS neighbour as if the Lagos seaport was not entirely functional before Nigeria or that the international Airports that they have functioning now is performing better than the MMIA despite having clamoured for it for years prior to having it.
If you want a decongested Lagos, Onne port is there for you and is operational, so either go use it or shut the h.ell up whenever Lagos is mentioned. Enemy of Progress!

mystery22:
typical Ogun state boy every thing is violence, next thing you start looking for skull to mine,dirty Benin republic will be better than afonja republic if all Igbo's leave,no wonder your fathers died to keep us in Nigeria,cos skull mining could have also become an occupation in Yoruba land,try and reclaim your lost kwara state...useless parasites

Oshigun:
When some of us insist it is a fact Igbos are saboteurs who add little to Lagos IGR, because of tax evasion, Igbos will argue blindly.

Below is the list of the 10 states in Nigeria with the highest tax remittance in six month of 2019 accounting for 72% of total tax collection in our nation in that period. Not a single Igbo State.

Now, does it make sense that a very clannish and tribalistic people who avoid paying tax in their in their own States of origin will be substantial contributors to the tax component of Lagos IGR or that of any other SW State?


https://nairametrics.com/2019/10/14/top-10-states-in-nigeria-with-highest-tax-revenue-generated-in-2019/

mystery22:
afonja,ibadan-express way,always bringing stats from the head of there victims in Ogun skull mining headquarter,afonja republic will become another dirty Benin republic where you brothers live...

golddust6000:
you be really ode. Singapore I visit is a city, on it own. I am not talking about Singapore as a country.
Check how many flight land in Kano compared to Enugu? If what you said is true why is it difficult for restructuring? You be really ewu

omonnakoda:
The difference in cost is not due to federal taxes.

STOP LYING
STOP PLAYING VICTIM

TAXES ARE A PERCENTAGE LIKE V.A.T.

The reality is international flights to London are generally cheaper than flights to Manchester or Birmingham

Demand and supply
There is more competition on some routes simple.

The FG has mostly been Northern why haven't they favoured Kano or other Northern airports why haven't they put a seaport in Daura?

Singapore is a country that means it has TOTAL RESOURCE CONTROL


Lagos does not

You are a spiteful little bug

golddust6000:
You are not even a lagosian to begin with, dangote didn’t built the road leading to airport.
See Nigerian travellers account for 65 % of Lagos international airport, if federal government gives Enugu and ph free hand for international career to land on these airports you will see changes.
Ethiopian airline going to China from Enugu cost over 190k per fair ticket while Lagos cost 145k simply be cause federal government tax these airlines heavy to land in the east.
Lagos is a huge market right from colonial era still it can’t post of basic infrastructure. Singapore and Lagos start together but Lagos can’t compare with Singapore in 500 years to come.
In 21century Lagos is still building roads with interlocking and open sewage system, no water, not landscaping, dirt environments with dust everywhere . Lagos is just a dining table where people eat and leave the left over to rotten.

golddust6000:
are you a Nigerian? I doubt.

mystery22:
e pain am,no be only dot na line, you people plan of making Ogun state an extension of Lagos state will fail,take a look at Benin republic your Yoruba brothers and see how afonja republic will look like..you guys are just nuisance,robbing peter to pay Paul,build int'l seaport and airport in every region and watch Lagos become another Ogun state,the truth is you people are not creative and united,no wonder your fathers died to keep us in Nigeria

mystery22:
Anambra is bigger than Lagos state by landmass bro,remember Anambra is the smallest state in south east oo,build seaport in IMO river(azumini,abia state)and int'l airport in Enugu and see Lagos go down the drain..

mystery22:
Build seaports and int'l airport to standard in every region and allow foreign companies land on any state they want without playing politics and watch Lagos go down the drain,an average Yoruba is a not a hustler omonile,asking gor settlement for a living...Imillion boys,awawa boys are typical Yoruba people,but very soon a dangerous revolution will happen,robbing peter to pay Paul...

Openbusiness:
Southwest Governors are still jonsing themselves but with one solid move, Zoohari and his cabal effectively has crippled their ambition for presidency in 2023. I believe it was intentional that they kept the border window open long enough for the virus to enter the Southwest, knowing fully well that Lagos is the major gateway to this country. And from Lagos the thing will penetrate the south but thank God governors in the SE and SS were quick to shut their doors. Only a quick cure from America can save the Southwest now. Because there's no way the region can mobilize it's resources and manpower to fight Covid-19 and fight for presidency at the same time. Buhari played a fast one on them. One month already and see how much billions in critical revenue Lagos has lost because of the Coronavirus. And that commissioner and health minister were just giving Governor Sanwo fake hope that they were prepared and can handle it. 1000 patients same people that were boasting the virus is nothing, they are prepared, they can handle it, yen yen yen, they are already crying they are struggling for bed space. Thank God Lagos Governor is waking up now. May God give you the wisdom and grace to navigate Lagos from this problem but next time just knkow that the North FG is not your friend. Dem b enemies in disguise.

purplecoco:
Well she’s your Gurlfriend and if you don’t take of her who will? I mean I’m not saying she should solely depend on you, but if you could help her out,then you should than making a big deal out of her asking for money. I mean this Lockdown is affecting everyone so try to help any one you can moreover your girlfriend. Lol

blowjohn:
See ehn our leaders are not visionary at all.
Imagine aba kyari moving from Abuja to lagos becos lagos it's the only place they can get a reasonable hospital to use.
Our hospitals are under extreme stress.
I met a mechanic that was turned back from 3 hospitals in one night in abuja because of availability of bed space and he child who was sickly ended up dying.
Just imagine humans planning on how to be transporting ventilators from one city to the other as if its Olympic torch.
What stops them from buying let's say 5 each for each state in the country?
What the heck is wrong with these people?
Do they smoke weed before coming out to talk or what?

Nairalandmonika:
Nigeria is one very useless country like that. It's on record that Nigeria has the highest gas reserve in the world, yet we still have shortage of gas.
Make the country just evaporate commot earth abeg am tired.

Yenefer:
But how can they say he died of covid-19 when he was actually undergoing dialysis, has a complications from diabetes and high blood pressure? When he was tested positive his BP when up the roof. Fake news
I know him personally for those of u insulting me

ifeanyija:
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oluwaseyi000:
Xup man, what's your experience with mba forex, I want to invest not sure if it still worth it