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Culture › Re: A French Documentation Talking About Benin Yam Festival 1837 by budaatum: 10:37am On Aug 12, 2021
gregyboy:
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Dont get you...

You want to patronize them they are very expensive... Sha... They mostly used for swearing i guess they will be able to do the magnetic jazz

Goodluck
I wonder if it's really worth it. I mean, now that I am not planting yam my people have nothing to steal. And what I do plant is unstealable since its so valuable that I can afford to plant it inside a room and hire security for it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 10:29am On Aug 12, 2021
benalvino3:
Anyways, I am just saying because some people think with the vaccine they are untouchable. In short, I am saying stay safe
How can anyone be untouchable when some cretins are not being vaccinated and are refusing to wear mask and even claim covid doesn't exist while going about infecting others? Did you miss numerous people saying here how they are vaccinated and still wear mask?

Have you been vaccinated Ben? Are you staying safe?
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 10:21am On Aug 12, 2021
Collinsanele:
They live by taxes, yes!
But tell me how their standard of living and their economy is.
Tell me how their employment stats is.
Can you compare their social amenities with ours.
Can you compare their life expectancy with ours.
I don't mean to sound abrasive but please think.
You may not be affected but many are dying due to economic hardship.
Ideas not money liberate a nation - Philip Emagwali
All these ideas you mention, including a reduction in dying, were bought with tax!

Read below how a certain country taxed the windows in homes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window_tax#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DWindow_tax_was_a_property%2Cof_windows_in_a_house.%26text%3DTo_avoid_the_tax%2C_some%2C155_years_later%2C_in_1851.?wprov=sfla1
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 10:15am On Aug 12, 2021
benalvino3:
lol. that's just a badge from the internet but if you say so. I recommend you take it and since you have Kudos. but don't live like someone who has taken any vaxx. just protect yourself and be cautious
Are you well at all? You think I lie like you do?

https://www.nairaland.com/6462422/just-took-astrazeneca-covid19-vaccine/1#100021907

https://www.nairaland.com/6462422/just-took-astrazeneca-covid19-vaccine/1#102026444

And by the way I'm still on lock down in my house since I am vulnerable due to health.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:52am On Aug 12, 2021
benalvino3:
Also, Budaatum, have you taken the vaccine?

Christianity Etc › Re: Caution Bishop Oyedepo, His Utterances Promote Sexual, Gender-based Violence by budaatum: 2:28am On Aug 12, 2021
Oh you very lowly poor second creations who are of the stupid ignorant Adam type and not even that of use her senses Eves not to talk of the images of God that thou were equally created, both male and female, to Be fruitful, and increase in number; to fill the earth and subdue it, to rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.

Unfortunately that is far too much for you who settle to be slaves in the Garden of Eden tending the fruit of a tree that is forbidden to you.

The day will come, I well assure you, when you will indeed eat of the fruit you are forbidden, and you will surely not die on the eay that you eat just as Adam and Eve did not die on the day that they ate, but your eyes will open and you will be endowed with the wisdom that would enable you to fulfil your mission on earth instead of squabbling over which of you is the greater slave in a poxy tiny garden!

In the name of Jesus Christ the opener of eyes and the Messiah of all humankind do I, buda, pray.

Christianity Etc › Re: Caution Bishop Oyedepo, His Utterances Promote Sexual, Gender-based Violence by budaatum: 2:09am On Aug 12, 2021
nonhuman:
You can't be a feminist and still want to get married to a man, and call him husband
Yes you indeed very can. One just need find a real decent proper respectful man and avoid all the pigs.

Agriculture › Re: This The Most Expensive Insect Costs 34 Million Naira: Photo by budaatum: 12:28am On Aug 12, 2021
Fahdiga:
How much will you pay for 50 of it and I will deliver it within the next few days
Aba! Why will I buy from you what I have in abundance roaming around on my own farm already?
Christianity Etc › Re: Obvious Fact That Oyedepo of Winners Chapel Is A Sadist And A Predator: by budaatum: 12:26am On Aug 12, 2021
khia:
You haven't illustrated anything just given your own personal opinions, now stop your trolling and calling me into these topics I have no interest in. Your whole argument was off topic anyway.
Everyone only gives their own personal opinion, khia, even, nay, moreso those who claim to speak for the Gods, and fools are they who believe them. So make sure you use your own eyes to see and your own mind to reason instead of stupidly believing what you are told by others, for they are no more holy than thou art.

Kindly do not endeavour to tell buda what buda may or may not do, as you are in no way the God of buda who gets to command buda. For even buda's God is wise enough to not dare be so daring as to assume command of buda!

As for your interests, I would trust you to determine what they are, just as I trust myself to determine mine.
Culture › Re: A French Documentation Talking About Benin Yam Festival 1837 by budaatum: 11:26pm On Aug 11, 2021
gregyboy:
Lol the ayelala men the men with cross

If na benin dem nor go dare try am...
Im de do trial run, or my money back if e no work?
Agriculture › Re: This The Most Expensive Insect Costs 34 Million Naira: Photo by budaatum: 10:45pm On Aug 11, 2021
Fahdiga:
Something wey full my village
Maybe no be this same one plenty for village because even on google shopping e no reach that amount, though the price wey I see fit make me start stag beetle farm!

Culture › Re: A French Documentation Talking About Benin Yam Festival 1837 by budaatum: 10:36pm On Aug 11, 2021
gregyboy:
I trust my benin country men you go gum for the farm... If dem use ayelala.. Your full family will go in for it both eyewitnesses who saw and didn't voice it out....
I tell you, even cocoa we no de plant anymore. All my people are migrating to Edo State because Edoans apparently don't steal like we do! And then somebody will be telling me to be angry at Fulani when its my own family people stealing my yam.

Abeg, send me some Benin ayelala, our own no too de work anymore!
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 10:17pm On Aug 11, 2021
benalvino3:
You support every communist crap from the left I have posted here so far
Well, I'm very certain you don't expect me to support the lack of understanding that makes you infer that a book about maths instructors being racist means math is racist, or do you?

If I support such an ignorant inference, I think I'd have to pay back all my past schoolfees, and believe me, it would be quite a lot to have to pay back to deignorantise myself, if that would be at all possible!
Health › Re: COVID-19: Nurse Suspected Of Injecting Thousands With Saline Solution Instead Of by budaatum: 10:11pm On Aug 11, 2021
The motive of the nurse, who has not been not named, was not clear - but she had aired sceptical views about vaccines in social media posts, police investigators said.
Before opening this I prayed, God please do not let it be in Nigeria, thank God.

You'd think they were charging this evil nurse for everyone's vaccine!
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 10:08pm On Aug 11, 2021
History555:
U don't need to leave in a forest to use firewood, firewood is sold everywhere, open ur eyes when travelling u will see firewood and charcoal sellers everywhere. If gas sells for 10k, kerosene will be cheaper because u can't spend 10k on kerosene in a month.
I live in a village surrounded by firewood, and not only is it not cheap, its very inefficient too, and I don't think gas will hit 10k anytime soon.

But hey, you go cook with firewood and charcoal. Me, I like my shiny stainless steel pots to remain shiny.
Culture › Re: A French Documentation Talking About Benin Yam Festival 1837 by budaatum: 10:04pm On Aug 11, 2021
Reminds me when we too in the Orolu Kingdom used to celebrate yam festival. People will dig up 3 year old yam so big that you'd be proud to pay for a wife in yam.

These days no one plants yam anymore because as soon as it is 9 months old, some thief will come and harvest it for you, or rather for themselves, in the middle of the night whilst you slept and you'd end up eating worthless gari!
Investment › Re: Why Isreal As A Nation Is Very Wealthy by budaatum: 9:59pm On Aug 11, 2021
They ate the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and have learnt how to “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground", and we can not now exactly argue that God has not blessed them.

It gives me hope for Nigeria, that when we too realise that we will not surely die on the day that we decide to eat the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, but instead we shall gain wisdom, and our eyes will open and we too will become richly blessed like Israel.
Christianity Etc › Re: Obvious Fact That Oyedepo of Winners Chapel Is A Sadist And A Predator: by budaatum: 9:43pm On Aug 11, 2021
Image123:
cheesy cheesy cheesy i've been laughing nonstop for about 10mins. They say when two madmen meet, one must give way. cheesy cheesy Buda buda, your theology na world class grin grin
I swear, that khia will make me burn in hell for getting furiously angry! I must consider fast and pray for her.

Imagine someone telling me they will almanjerise their own child because they love said child and expect me not to use them as an example! Don't we have enough almanjeris for parents not to be adding to the pool of the ignorants?
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 9:35pm On Aug 11, 2021
Nauttyprof:
They are not owners but Government gave them license which is for a period of time. In all of this, government is still a decider why do you think there is a government parastatal called PPRA?

Government owns all. Make findings rather than take sides with the government.

Have you also heard of NLNG?
I guess you are not recognising that we are a democracy now. You must have heard it means "government for the people by the people", after all, its not as if the current government just arrived from outerspace and imposed itself on us. In fact did Buhari not beg us 3 times to let him lead us before we agreed on his third beg?

Atiku is going to beg us to let him lead us at the next election, him or Mr Bullion van, and if we are unfortunate we will agree to let one of them rule us knowing one will sell NNPC to - well, let me let you tell me who - while the other, bullion vans I guess. Then, might we understand that we are the one's in charge of our government and we are responsible for our wailing, because I am sufficiently informed that we are not yet ready to take the responsibility that our democracy has placed in our hands!

Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 9:23pm On Aug 11, 2021
nedugroup:
True, u r correct in every sense. However Should we continue to shed our blood to justify the labour of our heroes past and also that posterity will sing our songs in the history of time to the future generations.

At some point, we've got to look at the cards and read them as they are.
I say this categorically: Nobody is willing to die for true futuristic ideology or vision in Nigeria.
Futuristic, lol.

Go about on Nairaland and see us presently wailing all over the place. Now ask why I would ask anyone to fight for futuristic when we have quite a lot to fight for today!

We must fight not for posterity or for some future generation. We must fight for ourselves and for today!

As to your question about leaders, I'd beg us to not see ourselves as followers who require leaders, because the days of Moses playing our messiah has long gone, as you have pointed out in our 'leaders' lacking legacies.

We must now consider picking up our own crosses and leading ourselves if not others, because I'm certain you are not willing to die for anyone. I sure as hell ain't!
Christianity Etc › Re: Obvious Fact That Oyedepo of Winners Chapel Is A Sadist And A Predator: by budaatum: 9:13pm On Aug 11, 2021
khia:
Leave my name out of your crap.
No can do Khia. Especially not when I can use your name to illustrate my so called crap.
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 7:50pm On Aug 11, 2021
Minjim:
Some of us have already paid the taxes. I pay tax monthly and also pay VAT.
Now, what have they done with those taxes?
You have to show us what you've done if you want us to pay more
Unfortunately, you don't make them show you what they do with the tax you already pay, and when they tax you more you'd very likely just pay it.

Trust me. They love the fact that you don't make them show you what they do with the tax you pay monthly.

Hopefully, it will be a consideration of yours and many of us at the next election where we make the tax we pay monthly and also VAT more of an issue than the ethnicity or tribe or religion of those who ask us to elect them.
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 7:43pm On Aug 11, 2021
Nauttyprof:
Not the government who will solve local gas? Did you just type this?

Maybe I should ask you who own all Natural gas found within the country. Citizens? It seems to me that you probably want to be on the side of the government deliberately.

Natural gas, mineral resources and crude oil are all owned by the government.

So, tell me again if the government isn't the problem.
Owned by government, perhaps, but you'd find government does not mine these mineral resources out of the ground.

I'd even argue that government does not exactly own those mineral resources at all since those mineral resources are lying untapped in the ground until someone is given a concession to mine it out of the ground. I mean, have you not heard of the numerous Nigerians becoming billionaire owners of oil fields? Oil, is a mineral resourse, right?
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 7:24pm On Aug 11, 2021
LagbajaTheBEREAN:
This is a country that has over 600TCF of gas. We have proven reserves of 206TCF,” Mr Auwalu pointed out. “If you allow LPG to be imported without any restriction, it means you are not giving opportunity for upstream investors that will drill and get this gas.”

Sadly, this the true situation of things made in Nigeria products are jettison for foreign goods and the so called government that should think and break that jinx keep up with the shameless circle.
Thank you sir. People fail to understand that by importing you export employment too, so there'll be fewer local jobs, and then my fellow Nigerians will wail that they can't find employment without realising we are the one's misdoing ourselves!
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 7:20pm On Aug 11, 2021
proclinician:
Lol hail Mary. So do Nigerians pay tax now or not?

Nigerian yoots
I'm sure you'd note I said we do not pay enough, which is why we fail to hold those who spend it accountable.

Go check how much tax paid for our last budget and you might understand how much more we'd have to pay if all the budget expenditure was from taxation.

When oil dries up, I assure you you'd understand.

budaatum:
Is value added tax the only tax payable? Do some countries not pay 20% vat after their income has been subjected to up to 40% tax?

Yes, I think you better explain tax, in general, to me. Explaining might help you understand better.
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 7:12pm On Aug 11, 2021
Nauttyprof:
Why didn't the government solve the problem of local production first? We have gas in excess but they lack the knowledge on how this can be readily available for the citizens.

You should have asked the question on why there are imported LPG when we have it in abundance? Would you have coal in abundance and readily available here and still go to the neighbouring west African country to look for this?

Gas is now more expensive that it used to be thanks to the government whose aim is to inflict hardship on the masses.
It is not government that will solve the problem of local production for you! Government will not grow rice for you, nor will government pump gas for you!

All government can do is provide an environment for you to want to do those things for yourself by banning imports, for instance, so I can charge you more for my local rice which will incentivise me to plant more to sell to you and earn more. Same with vat on imported gas which will make imported more expensive and make you buy my cheaper local gas.

I mean, you don't expect me to labour on my farm or pump my gas because of my love for you, right, but because of the profit I intend to make.

Prof, do you expect me to labour in charity on your behalf so that you do not starve? If so, wake up please because there is absolutely no reason for me to love you that much!

As for why imported is more expensive, the reason is because we are too lazy to grow our own and import instead. If I grow my local own, it may seem more expensive for you the buyer, but the economy benefits because I'd be paying wages to those who help me produce which increases gdp and benefits society in general since my employees will spend locally, and I'd be paying local taxes which would benefit schools and hospitals and roads etc.

Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 6:57pm On Aug 11, 2021
proclinician:
Let me make one thing clear to you in as much as I'm having a very difficult time knowing where to start from because you arguments are so flawed that I wonder your level of education and exposure. Let me assume you are a degree holder and you have managed to get a job with some company where they give u some appointment letter. If you manage to go through ur appointment letter you will see a breakdown of what constitutes your annual salary. First there's a basic salary followed by allowance and TAX out of which when you deduct the tax value from the gross you have your Net salary. This TAX is your own share of the tax paid by the company to the govt provided it us a registered company and your income from the registered company qualifies as a taxable income unless otherwise stated by law.

I work on fiverr as a freelance using verified a U.S seller account and I pay tax to the u.s government. Fiverr is a registered company based in the u.s which pays tax to the u.s govt. This amount is then shared among all sellers in fiverr to a certain degree which we all pay since fiverr operates on a gig economy and our income on the platform qualifies as taxable.

That said, your next argument fit be eeehh but not all Nigerians work in a registered company. Some Nigerians are jobless, just managing to survive hence do not pay tax. Others have business that are not registered hence do not pay tax.

Irrespective of how lame this line of thought sounds, I will also need to remind you that this is how it is all over the world. If you have no taxable income, you're not taxed. Person way de tax u where he want make u bring the money from? Provided you have a taxable income which is what u earn from a registered company, you pay.

Next time u get a job take time to read ur appointment letter.
See that bold? It's where you show your lack of knowledge and throw away your responsibility!

The tax you pay has nothing to do with the tax the company pays, and you don't pay a share of any companies tax!

The tax you pay is the amount deducted by the company as legislated by government. It's your money, as in money that you earned but which the company has deducted from your pay to remit as your income tax to the government, and when you realise this, that it is not your share of the tax the companies pays, you might start asking the government to be more accountable to you as to how your tax money is spent!

Do know that after the company deducts tax from your gross income on behalf of government, you also get to pay vat out of your net. It would help you work out how much of your income government takes from you, and perhaps awaken you to how accountable you ought to make government be to you too.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum:
PrideofLincoln1:
My brethren and i went to catholic schools in Chicago and it worked well for my two sisters and my brother and i and i told myself that if i ever have any child or children, i will do my best with the assistance of my wife to send them to catholic schools and that's exactly what i did. It's a very good educational programs and two of my girls are reaping the benefits massively now.
Like I said, you don't sound like a person who waits for the state to give you equity like ben would. You seek superiority for your child just as you sought it for yourself and are now reaping the rewards while ben is settling for communal equity but thinks I am the communist. But that's to be expected of him since he himself seems to have settled for equity for himself without realising it, lol. Its why some things are far too compkex for his comprehension.
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 6:40pm On Aug 11, 2021
oranget:
Shebi all of you think it's MNK and Sunday Ignition that should speak out, until 1kg of LPG hit 1,000 naira, so many people will not know something is wrong with Nigeria.
They want MNK and Sunday Ignition lol, to be the messiah who dies for them instead of us bearing our own cross.

I bid us good luck with that. We will open our eyes when it gets much harder than it currently is, I'm sure.
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 6:37pm On Aug 11, 2021
nedugroup:
With the way, they want to gag us. Ban twitter, gag freedom of speech, threaten you when you plan a protest and kill you if you insist, loot with reckless abandon, lie with no honour and smite you at any given opportunity. Load up loans upon us. My dear, has any past leader or government office holder been jailed for 9 months on the basis of corruption in this country before.
How would u hold them accountable when the laws of the country don't hold them accountable as along as they are in the ruling party.

We are still day dreaming and waking up is far from us.
The evidences are glaring.
I do not expect to earn my rights to a better living without it costing me I'm afraid. History has taught me that I earn my rights with the shedding of my blood and sometimes even my life so others may have those rights. It's how we got democracy, you will find. Some people shed blood and even died so that I get to vote today, which is why it is my duty to be extremely diligent in electing my leaders, so that the labours of my heroes past is not in vain.

Pity, later generations, us, have not quite been as diligent as we should have been, hence our wailing now and the need to give more of our blood and lives so our own children do not wail like we are.

May our children find it in them to forgive us if we refuse to make the necessary sacrifice so they don't wail like we are wailing, because they would see how we wailed on NL but refused to sacrifice so they don't have to, and I doubt they'd respect us for it.
Politics › Re: Cooking Gas Tax: Nigerians To Pay N10,000 - NALPGAM by budaatum: 6:25pm On Aug 11, 2021
Ogbeniomo:
Since they ban the importation of rice, chicken, tomato, to encourage local production, how are Nigerians are enjoying it now?
Very much indeed in fact. You should see how much Nigerian me now profits from my farm, though I feel very much for you who must now buy from me because you can not grow your own. My staff love you though because they now earn more.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 6:18pm On Aug 11, 2021
PrideofLincoln1:
Very solid points Bhudhaman, all my four children went to parochial schools not because my wife and i are millionaires in $$$ but because we want the best education we can afford for them hence the private Jesuit schools they attended and i live in a City with very good Public Schools. Fathers and Mothers sacrifice for their children and that's what most parents will do if they can afford to.
Even if you couldn't have afford to pay for better education for your children, I bet you'd have sacrificed some of your time to educate them too instead of leaving their education to the equity of the state like ben seemingly irresponsibly will.

P.s. by parochial, I feel you don't mean "having a limited or narrow outlook or scope", lol, but a superior one church school. And public schools here mea n non-state funded, as in superior fee paying schools. Lol.

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