₦airaland Forum

BreconHills:
Sorry, I worked in tax for many years and I do not believe you. I continue to have close connections with the industry. As I said earlier, the revenue model is frictional on the payor not on the state. The state does not lose money. States that use such mechanism show increased yy-yy IGR. The effective charge on the IGR is what you are referring to as siphoning. You need to make a better argument re attributive performance or otherwise for you to make a case. As it is criminalizing alphabeta is simply giving a dog a bad name in order to hang it.

I therefore beg to differ.

From my experience, the use of tax consultants by state governments is merely an avenue to shortchange the state of its IGR.
Lagos state has an a tax agency called lirs, what is their job. Are you telling me that they can't do what Alpha Beta is doing. What is that special thing Alpha Beta is using that cannot be put into use at lirs

Ogakaycce:
Sylvia will beat Diri.

APC candidate is from Brass while his runningmate is from Southern Ijaw.

Last governorship election the both LGA produce over 140k votes for David Lyon of APC.

Those two remaining LGA are APC stronghold

So APC is winning this election

What is the margin of lead between Diri and Sylvia

StreetFight:
Did Tinubu also capture your state of origin? or how come you all ran away from your cursed states to come and slave in Lagos?

Where do you reside

BreconHills:
You do know that Alpha Beta also works in Abia, Imo, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Sokoto, Kano, Plateau and Nasarawa states as well Ghana and Sierra Leone and you do know that its revenue model is based on billing for excess revenue made?

Lagos was not in fact the first state to use tax consultants. I first encountered one ( not alphabeta) in Rivers state in 1996 while working for Andersen - we hated them but truth is our job was to minimise tax theirs was to maximize it. Neither if us was doing anything illegal then or today.

I don't know about other states but Alpha Beta is not in Imo, Abia and Akwa Ibom states. Please get your facts right and Don't believe what ever is posted on their website.

The truth is that Tinubu is using Alpha Beta as a conduit pipe to milk the common wealth of Lagosians

OndoNews:
“Currently, there is no escape for you, Adeleke, and your allies,” Lawal said. “My party, the APC, will use all constitutional means to dislodge you from office in the 2026 governorship elections.”

I think what Tajudeen lawal meant here is that his party, the APC will use all unconstitutional means to dislodge Adeleke from office in the 2026 governorship election

Tinubu, the APC and upholding the Nigerian constitution are two parallel lines. They can never meet

Coolsixtwo:
you have spoken well

Thank you

Everyone knows the truth but some chose to spread propaganda

helinues:
Yeah. Peace lover

I am sure you are so sad about this news as anything to cripple Lagos State is a bae to your likes.

Una better change una ways

I am not sad about the news

Lagos state was already crippled since Tinubu criminally captured it by building a conduit pipe from the coffers of Lagos state Treasury to his personal company Alpha Beta milking the common wealth of Lagosians

Tinubu crippled lagos state and you know it

helinues:


Proactive measure

Like minds

Peter Obi

Continue your good works

You remain our president

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has said his refinery has secured a licence to refine more than 300,000 barrels of Nigerian crude per day and will begin to process gasoline soon.

“We don’t want to start our refinery with foreign goods, we want to start with the Nigerian crude,” Dangote said in an interview in Riyadh on the sidelines of the Saudi-Nigeria business roundtable, according to Bloomberg.

“We’re more than ready and you will see our gasoline products soon,” he added.

The refinery was supposed to start production in August but missed that target in addition to several other over the years. But Dangote insists that his refinery will start producing “very very soon.”


The refinery’s first priority is to supply gasoline to Nigeria before exporting to elsewhere, including the West African region, he said.

The PUNCH reported that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery was importing crude oil and expected its first cargo in about two weeks, according to the Executive Director, Dangote Group, Devakumar Edwin.

The report stated that though the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited trades crude oil on behalf of Nigeria, in an interview with S&P Global Commodity Insights at the time, Edwin revealed that the NNPCL had committed its crude to other entities.

Promoting non-oil export amid forex scarcity
The Dangote refinery boss did not disclose the other entities receiving the oil company’s crude, but the NNPCL had earlier disclosed in August that it had entered into a $3bn crude oil-for-loan deal with African Export-Import Bank.

The 650,000 barrel-a-day facility, which is expected to produce 27 million litres of diesel, 11 million litres of kerosene and nine million litres of jet fuel, will receive crude from other producers in Nigeria, as well as the country’s state oil company, said Dangote, whose fortune estimated at $16.2bn by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Nigeria increased its oil output by 60,000 barrels per day last month, reaching 1.49 million barrels per day — the highest in almost two years.

The West African nation has launched a new grade of crude called Nembe through a joint venture, as the nation ramps up its oil output.

The Nembe crude stream is expected to be managed and marketed by a joint venture between state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and oil firm Aiteo Eastern E&P Co. Ltd.

https://punchng.com/dangote-refinery-secures-licence-to-refine-300000bpd-crude/?amp

TemplarLandry:
Another sinister speculation for Hellu Pee scavengers to rejoice over.

Stay here shouting Hellu Pee while you can't afford to feed yourself

StreetFight:
Na same BAT team retired these ones also.

Mimiko betrayed Emilokan Tinubu and he became history. Check Tinubu's boys, they are everywhere, Mimiko too would have served as Minister under Buhari and still are still running this government like Fashola was Minister in Buhari's administration, and is Senior Adviser now.

But Asiwaju Tinubu helped Mimiko to snatch power from Agagu using Lagos resources, but Mimiko turned around to bite the fingers that fed him, now he is history

BAT will also become history

MICHEALADEX:
Yes

You can't respond on his behalf, he should do that by himself

Svoboda:
That the oppodition didnt win subsequent polls after 2015 doesn't mean they were not transparent enough. The 2023 presidential election was transparent.

Is because the APC who are the beneficiary said so

KingKO22:
Hope is the man of the people
I wish him or Humahi or Soludo to become president of Nigeria in future.

I really love Hope, Humahi and Soludo from SE they play politics with open-minded and they are pro-nigeria

You wish Hope Uzodinma to become president of Nigeria in the future.

Wonderful!

Naijanascam:
Yes, but with the help of some privileged ndi IMO and they are celebrating as if there is no tomorrow

You mean the privileged ndi IMO benefiting from him. Of course they will celebrate

But the larger Imo citizens aren't celebrating.

bjtinz:
So?

This is a state with about 2.2 million PVCs collected. Yet just about 30% came out to vote.

Are you aware that he is the most hated governor in the history of Imo state

Naijanascam:
That's...Omuma magic according to Ikenga Imo ugochinyere .......... congratulations to ndi IMO for renewing their impoverishment

Ndi IMO didn't renew, INEC did

The most hated governor in the history of Imo state suddenly got more votes than all the presidential candidates in the 2023 election

Svoboda:
Electoral process has been more transparent under apc.

Not true, the 2015 elections seems to be only transparent election so far and it was conducted under the PDP

I can understand his frustration

Especially when the current president Forged certificates and was discovered to be a guinea pig student of government college lagos used to test run the school four years before it was founded

MICHEALADEX:
1,000 so does he not deserve to know how his monies was shared among the party criminals?

Are you responding on his behalf

Svoboda:
Which election was fairer? Pdp didnt conduct any fair or free election until jega came.

Has the APC conducted any free and fair election

Mynd44:
It isn't about chickening out. It is a matter of quoting people to what they actually said.

Mynd44, he chickened out after being threatened by Tinubu

Below are his words, now tell me how he was quoted out of context

“Despite my support for subsidy removal, there will come a time when I will ask Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu), on behalf of the Nigerian people, about the savings from the removal of subsidy. We have been signing for these savings since the Buhari administration, and they have totaled 1, 6, and 10 trillion naira. What will the Nigerian people see physically done with these monies?

“I swear that there will come a time when we will hold the Nigerian government accountable for its actions. We will ask them what they did with these monies.

“If fuel subsidy is removed, the poor should see the results in the form of renovated roads, new schools, new hospitals, and the establishment of new companies. This will create jobs for Nigerians so that they will not have to rely on the government for handouts.”

seanfer:
He won the house of reps seat under PDP because there was no opposition like we have today.
Remember that he was suspended indefinitely mid way into his four year term.
In 2015 he won the Senate seat with the Chnage/Buhari tsunami. Ever since then Dino have lost 3 elections.

There was opposition and also the election was fairer then compare to what is obtainable now

It's an election, you win some, lose some

He has chickened out

yarimo:
jubilations all over imo state as INEC declare hope UZODIMMA as governor elect

You are in your hut in one of the remote villages in ogbomosho shouting jubilations all over Imo state

Ok

funmijoyb:
Where I'm from Peter Obi is known to be as corrupt as Atiku.

What is Tinubu known for in the whole wide world

Naija2023:
When Aisha Yesufu was asked to present financial account statements of their campaign, she refused and later said it will be published after supreme court decision.

Supreme Court Decision is several weeks ago. She is not even talking about it anymore. But she is on twitter wishing evil on Nigeria in d name of Nigeria politicians are corrupt.

A hypocrite. She is actually even as bad as the politicians in power. Her anger is not that politicians are corrupt.

Her anger is that she is not the one benefitting from the corruption herself by being in power to steal

Did you donate to Peter Obi campaign if yes, How much?