PhiliptheArab:


And in response the reason why most of those absues happen is because we don't pay enough tax

I told someone here that our income comes from sales of raw materials, not from taxes. Taxes account for a minute amount of our income...so as a result corrupt governemtn leaders have no incentive towork for the people...hence the mess you outlined.

Abroad, not only do they have a higher tax rate, but their budgets are funnded by taxes...so government is incentivsed to function welll, and people are incentivsed to hold government to account.

We don't have light and water for much the same reasons...no matter how badly NEPA and state water bords prfomrd in the past, their money would still come in from Lagos and Abuja.

Hmmn but by which methods may higher tax-paying disenfranchised and oppressed citizens in Nigeria be incentivized to hold their deliberately deaf Govt more accountable.

They've gone through SERAP, BUDGIT, TRACKA.NG on Twitter. They've shouted on TV/Radio after seeing public service holders loading monies into Agbada on live video, nothing came of it.
Even taking to the streets and dying by the droves to protest basic freedoms like right to safety yet the Govt chose to lie and gaslight.
How do they hold such a Govt up to being transparent, accountable and fiscally responsible while leaking more funds to tax which will most likely get dissipated on politicians' lusts?

SocialJustice:
Look at them, always looking malnourished and confused.

Government has failed its people and keeps failing without shame.

If Buhari was the CEO of a publicly traded company, he would be sacked, arrested and facing prosecution for gross mismanagement by now.

They insist on calling them bandits to make them faceless but zoom into the pics a bit.

Aren't they Fulani Herdsmen? Brothers to Boko Haram? And Buhari's very own kin?!

Atlas9:


It's a religious arrangement. We all know it. They allowed a few camp followers like Amaechi, Keyamo, Onyeama (Abba Kyari's buddy) to tag along. But we all know it was a push to Islamise the country. Like MKO like Tinubu.
Sorry if anyone is annoyed, but it is clear that Tinubu and co didn't expect it to turn out this way.
Tinubu expected to be highly influential but his nominees were either rejected or humiliated out of office subsequently. Then he was the one tasked with distributing cash from 2 whole bullion vans on election eve.
So he is the one being called corrupt, whereas some commissioners in the north may be as rich as him.
Lai Mohammed is probably not happy with the insults he is gaining for lying about everything, but that was his assignment. Whereas the minister for disaster has been disappearing hundreds of billions of naira to feed school children on holidays and supporting the poorest families.
Amaechi was minister for transportation but minister of state (Aviation) was launching logo for Air Nigeria in Bahrain for 200 million dollars. If truth be told, the southern supporters of this horror government are getting a raw deal. They are forced to collect the crumbs in indignity.
Suffering never kills anyone. We shall survive. We shall thrive. God helping us.

They're mad. Anyone hyping any dysfunctional Naija Govt whether past or present must be very mad. Especially the ones here in diaspora.

PhiliptheArab:


So when you get into politics would you be willing to charge heavy taxes to pay for the good roads you want?

Our budget for thos year is 26 billion dollars. South africa spent 23 billion dollars on education alone last year.

London's budget is 2 billion dollars this year.Lagos budget is 3 milllion dollars. ( for the state not the town) ( figures not correct. Error regretted )

Our oil revenue is not enough to feed everyone for a month self.

How do you raise the money.?

Your one-pill obsession with tax overlooks the fact that Nigerian construction contracts are not only over-invoiced (leading to unforgivably gross waste) but also higher percentage losses of generated revenue to endemic corruption in government and public service.

What about the lack of maintenance culture? OR deliberate misuse of political will against continuity of governance where you see the new governor deliberate sabotaging public projects leaving them to go moribund just because, the initiator, his predecessor was from an opposing camp/party OR merely because he simply lazily desires to foolishly make a name for himself too by starting a needless duplication of an abandoned old project?

Executive, government and fiscal waste still remains at all-time high? Have you considered stemming that?!

From where or how do you think Nigerian poor ekk out their lowest of the low basic living that you're so gleefully intent on taxing while ignoring the ruling class with all their luxury items?!

Let me remind you that municipal water supply still wasn't working in Nigeria as at the last time I was there (I can't speak for now). Power supply to meaningfully run SME operations for half a day is largely unavailable. Affordable housing is off the table also as well as Govt. Assisted mass housing.

And we must be mindful of the fact that the present poverty of the Nigerian masses is a creation of both past and current factors. They are already an over-leeched polity deliberately made so by their corrupt leadership, infrastructural deficits, policy misapplications, political instability and environmental insecurity.

I'd suggest further explorations along the line of your last point... Rebuilding the Nigerian economy and State!

If you were to do an honest general review of the recent national loans of the present and immediate past adminstration, would you say the funds were properly used?

Consider the South/South's underdevelopment, the exhaustive votes of funds, contracts etc from the oil companies as well the NDDC, would you say taxing the poor riverine ijaws more would be the answer to getting more projects delivered?

We're yet to speak of boosting production along lines of each State's comparative advantage. OR political restructuring to unyoke the States from the ineptitude and tyranny of the centre. Otherwise, how do you explain Zamfara having full access to its own gold but the South/South's oil is for all? OR Kano State deriving allocations from tax funds from Nigerian Breweries but still running its Islamic State Religious "Hisbah police" to destroy alcoholic drinks joints, depots and business States-wide? Those were tax-payers too, mind you?!

We've not spoken of various funds leaks including Ghost workers in the public and civil service to whom billions are lost monthly yet the poor tax-paying private school nursery teacher has to pay more tax f to compensate for sins at the federal level? I think not!!

Why are we not considering political regime changes of credible, competent and creative minds who have track records to show to take the country in New directions? Why not system-wide ICT upgrades to bolster and secure all aspects of government's dealings from revenue collection, to crime fighting, to municipal administration etc so as to limit waste, fraud and crime?

Nigeria's problems are presently a one-pill solution hence we must reach deep and refrain committing the age-old fallacy of mono-causalism that often bedevils those who feel they know!

You seem passionate, I hope you'd add been broadminded to that. Who knows? You might have a future in governance in Naija. Just give those tips a thought and don't blindly overtax the pple, Cheers.

TGM2015:
And APC?

Wike : Tax Collectors
Dino : Greedy people
POI to Obaseki : After election loss, please come back to APC, you will regret it, I am a living witness.

Seems APC is a lesser evil when compared to PDP.

Sharing formula is better there.

Especially the instant forgiveness of all old court cases, debts and sins once you can bath in the River APC and new hit on the head 3 times with their magical broom.

Dino is possibly getting ready to port.

crackhaus:
When will the Nigerian Army order this weapon to fight Boko Haram, or are they only ever interested in purchasing weapons that were used during WW2?

You'd be shocked when they take it to Nigeria, it'd be for use on civilian protesters.

Karlifate:
Now, they've turn to vultures & hyenas.



Scavengers indeed.

You can see the unbelievable craziness of the insipid nincompoops in power and the abject hopelessness of their followers.

I thought they said it's fake news.



If you can use it for photo optics, claim it. If the thing is your power or you've fumbled it OR even sef you don't even know wtf you're talking about, just deny and say fake news.

Naija authorities with their self-contradictions.

Congrats to the rescued though and kudos to the troops for a job well done.

FG deworming children. What's the job of State Primary Healthcare Boards who would've drawn budgets for this at State level with funds even coming in from WHO, UN's and other donor agencies?

Bubu the legendary thief

Prodigal son 2.0

He will realise the impact of lost opportunities on unfilled potentials now.

He'll be regretting all over the place now but it's too late. Even if the girl gets picked up, the money can't be recovered.

One should waste little effort on the antics of the intentionally-silly, let the friend be careful too.

The kind of watered-down cosmopolitan stuff that's the arbiter of powerless Christian living today, pfft.

And see the coinage specifically addressing the "Heavenly Minded Christian"

Nothing about eschewing worldliness, vain glory and ephemeral pursuits of this present world as 1John forewarns.

Discussing heavenly mindedness without considering the true nature of sin, righteousness, saving grace of Christ's redemption, growing in grace, dying to the flesh/sin, sanctification, brokenness, yieldedness and being made fit for the Master's use

May it not be another "motivational" lifestyle adjustment programme where probably 70-90% of the effort is expended on rat-race related "making-it" kinda topics and quotes from Ziglar, Covey, Maxwell, Kiyosaki etc dominate the discourse.

Those abound and are not bad. But when talking about conferences for heavenly minded Christians, the ambience projected leaves one in doubt.

BERNIMOORE:
So he will dump all these oyinbo girls

Perhaps the infantile dolt is still sowing his wild oats, who knows?

They're both chasing something, that's certain.

But some thing here seems fishy, time will tell though.

alfredo1:
I doubt the authenticity of this news. Should be in Kano not Kaduna.

Whether Kano or Kaduna, should they be spending VAT derived also from Southern breweries and doing this?

Religious blindness has killed Nigeria

AlphaAlex:
indeed notice how the north is borrowing and looting at the same time they’re gathering funds for better development of their region

And study how they never seem to achieve their aims without the help of gullible southern useful-idiots and bastards online and elsewhere blindly arguing the indefensible on their behalf?

Only God knows who cursed most Southerners, an epicly directionless lot.

Right from before the days of the military despots ibb, Abacha and co, before many of the phools arguing fucknots here were born, we'd been hearing and seeing various facets of a Northern Agenda being prosecuted at the expense of a United, Free, Equitable and Prosperous Nigeria but what do Southerners do about it? Have y'all even formulated a Southern agenda yet?

If you're still less than 35-37, get out of that shitty arrangement called Nigeria. If you're older, I don't know what to say to you.

Ademola47:
I had similar experience last month.

About 4 Hausa guys mistakenly called my number that day.

You mean abokis still do that? Hilarious lot they are

Unknownartiste:
those blabbing on how bad ITEL is should know that iPhone is where it is now cuz people elevated its worth that why it is how it is now


if you do the same for this ITEL I think it will be a kind of an encouragement to produce better phones

The ITEL I know...today never tot they will get this extent but take a look

GREAT WORK KEEP UP!!!

NO ONE WAS BORN AN ADULT

And you really believe all you just wrote up there is for real, right?

Awol1:
I wanted to write long comment but I realized Tinubu will NEVER be Nigerian President.

So no need.

Imagine they found this about Peter Obi

The dead meat seller would probably throw a fit and choke.

Prechgold1180:
they are mad

Seems Seun is either still too "pissing-in-his-pants" scared of them or he's low-key a closet Mullah whilst forming "Mr. secularised atheist" out here for the gullible.

Yet, how fair... How matured, sensible or corporately responsible is that...? With all the Christians on his platform, with all the Jesus shaming he sustains and the pastor-bashing going on here? It's clear there're are biases being sustained...

That's the inbred kinda kindergarten sh!t you'd never see on Reddit, 4Chan, Quora etc. So, despite whatever he tells himself to make him sleep better, he still needs to take a long hard look at the mirror...

Guyman02:
The Chairman mentioned that the landlords were compensated with plots of land.
I was in that situation at one time, my house was demolished and we were giving plot of land somewhere at the boundary between Abuja, Niger and Kaduna state after Bwari, no road, no electricity, no water, no nothing was provided and we were giving building plan spec to build in that bush. It was a way of driving the low income earners out of Abuja to another state, they don't want to see you if you are poor.

The Chairman of that Task Force Ikharo Attah used to be an advocate for the ordinary citizens as a reporter for ITV Abuja, since the minister appointed him as Covid19 Task Force Chairman he started by invading churches to implement lockdown and harrassing Pastors with Bible verses and filming it and making it viral, then the minister added sanitation to his portfolio because of his gragra.
Give a man power and it's then you will know his true colours, what we have in Nigeria are mostly Fake Activists

Now that they've ramped up activities on the CAMA Act 2020 to assign regulatory powers over the church to a govt
functionary, it's best Christians speak up rather than their usual culture of divisiveness.

chrisxxx:
How I wished we could do a roll call of people who voted this government in especially ITK Christians!

Even on this thread, from their responses you should know them already.

saaphiere:

When did Oluwatoba and Olawole become Southern names?


Modified:

Oluwatoba and Olawole are western (yoruba) names not southern.

What are they? Middle Earth or Asgardian names?

Stay off drugs son; get a grip.

Tyriq:

Middle belt bro

Gets sad when Southerners and Middle Belters keep refering to themselves by the appellations and nomenclatures of the same 6 region geopolitical farce that's being used to disenfranchise, subdue, sabotage and cheat them.

Where does "North Central" qualify folks South of the Niger even if it's the confluence State? This present arrangement arrogates power in northern hands and congregates too much resources in empty Northern constituencies.

Keep reminding them. They're fast becoming beasts of no nation, a lost generation.

Dedetwo:


The above regulations are antihuman and specifically anti-immigrants. The regulations are simply draconian. These freaking Ghanaians cannot survive a day if other Africans state stood up such laws against Ghana as a country. Where are the doctrines of ECOWA? These retrogressive policy and Ghanaian government should be hold accountable for this inhumanity against fellow Africans. What a shame.

As long as Nigerians keep electing thieving dunces or hailing underserving criminal elements as they rig themselves into office, Nigeria will never stop being global laughingstock.

Nigeria's leaders are always bending over backwards for other African nations playing a stupid unsolicited Father Christmas role. Under them, Nigeria's never asserted its dominance on the continent, lesser countries move against it, at will, undeterred and unrevenged while its reactionary leaders always have nothing but media platitudes to offer.
Apart from the failings of its citizens, Nigerian leaders are often to blame for setting the tone for the country's present doldrums.

jojofola:
Lmao

FG has started again.

They want to distract us again.

They know how bored we can get.

They have our balls in their hands.

In the midst of everything happening right now with Nigeria, this is the next step?

Oh Please!!!

Take your balls back pls. The best place for your nuts is them dangling between your legs, ok?

I don by have any other gospel, in the few posts I've made here in recent times, and it's simple... Come out of the +234, ditch Naija fast because sooner or later Naija jonzes everyone in it somehow. ;D8)

Queenlovely:
when an old woman has nothing to do, she reminisce on the past or gist.

I want to mingle with millennials to see how they think

Hope you won't be disappointed with the ones Nigeria has to offer. Coming here from time to time, I have been far from being impressed.

Just look at the shallow off-point responses they're giving to this Post. Meaning they can't comprehend the enormity of such a Bill and the fact that it it scales through even their compound well, borehole etc made by their parents for personal family use will still end up coming under government regulation, taxation and possible takeover when deemed fit.

Some were even whining for someone to summarise the Post for them. Does that show a set of people ready to harness intellectual resources and combine motivation to take back and revolutionize Nigeria?

May God sort everybody out eventually sha.

The confused bizarre product of liberalist media mind conditioning... Every mind woke-mad and triggered over non-issues twisted out of context.

And this is mostly what globalist media's pushing out on gullible world societies for their social engineering which interestingly enough is being swallowed unchecked by Naija Twitter woke id1ots.

Anyway, hope they're happy now, a kid can't even eat a fruit in peace.

NNAMDIII:
Nairaland is gradually dying a slow and painful death, I miss the good old days

You'll be shocked it'll be around for long because the sales strategy is to keep going low to fit the cerebral capacity of lesser reasoning users who are increasing more in the Nigerian online space.

Otherwise, how the rampant unchecked culture of hate went on unpoliced is beyond me. A hotbed of tribal & ethnic jingoism, it's a surprise the DSS didn't get the place flagged for sanitisation, huh? Mediocre posts everywhere reflecting a lack of internal blogging support, nairaland's being left to coast with mods just posting anything to FP just for the fun of it.

On the positive side, agribusiness, technology, properties, investments and computer sections are healthier and still profitable to hang around once you can filter out the scammers, jobbers and outright rogues from your engagements.

NL had become a gross reflection of Naija as a nation. Both the country and majority of the minds within it need upgrades.

godkiller:
The husband had his reasons though not justifiable.

Maybe she threatened to go do juju, sell his property, leave with the daughter etc.

Let's hope he's not recently discovered the daughter wasn't his or maybe it wasn't only him hitting that his pretty wife's southern regions.

That being said, his own tieing her to that pole makes her the hero now.

Many men that life's jungle-hard travails weren't able to swayed are now being cracked mentally, financially and psychologically by silly relationship issues; heaven help us.

post=92189129:

He should let the Muslims and other religion practice their religion in peace after renouncing Islam 6 years ago (before going to a psychiatric facility) and personally believe in whatever he chooses to believe in without castigating other religions.
Why the criticism of other religions by Bala?
He doesn't want to respect other religions,
But he wants to force his atheism on others.
Anyways,
May whatever he and his fellow atheists believe in......save him!

We Rise!

Before you rise, ehn your lordship, remember that the scientific society many of which's inventions power your life of comfort today, thrived on critical thinking, logic, analysis and submission of all observable and non-observable phenomena to empiricism, right?

In the dark ages, peeps got burnt my Christian clerics for as little as saying the world was flat but they persisted, the Western world evolved and today even you can't live without their products.

Why has the other religion chosen to remain in the dark ages in Nigeria? And has become an aide to retrogression in certain cases e.g. Boko Haram didn't get
indoctrinated with Bible verses, did they?

What Bala has done is what too many Islamic clerics do in their lectures and no Christian challenges them neither does any Govt arrests them. I wouldn't know of now but years back when I lived in Lagos with its unchecked noise pollution in the early morning hours by both religions, I observed that while the Christian broadcasts hammered on salvation, end times trends, preached against sinful living etc the Islamic ones seemed to do same but felt very free throwing jabs and openly deriding their Christian counterparts.

You all need to accept the fact that you're society is a work in progress on diversity and stop making excuses for Northern Nigeria excesses.

NB
Your wrote an epistle, that's why I replied you via one also, peace!

Just look at the massive sums Beth mentioned eaten by these underserving political f00ls of Nigeria

China, Venezuela, US, UK, the public space is always open for mass protests and outcry against bad governance but Naija the major cry remains online wailing by prepaid data, Bluetooth or whatever else means because nobody wan die cheap at the hands of untrained Police mofos.

Without revolution, these thieves won't budge, and this is the same revolution they won't let you have.

If you're still under 40, get out of that place. If not, may God help you because Naija don cast.

ghettokid1:

some people just dey see demselves as god, how can 1 person have 92 aides+

His brain is out on loan. He himself does nothing.

It's obvious every speech, every report, every analysis, all assessments etc upon which he bases and administers his constitutional duties is facilitated these guys.


He himself sees nothing except through the glaucomatous lenses of these opportunistic leeches; no wonder Naija is so screwed.

Prince Edward Island, here in Canada, the Minister For Health of our Province does not work with more than 5 aides.

What is happening to Nigeria? You're simply not rich enough for such executive wastes. It will tell on the economic progress and people's welfare later.

Ipromote:
Na wa. This same Ministry of Humanitarian affairs that shared Npower slots to senators and reps members...

How can such a ministry be so frantically corrupt?



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Let's ask the Hoelosho Hajia heading the place. Buhari claims to be a saint but keeps giving birth to demons, what a holy sinner.

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If they like, let them put Android 100 on it, Tecno/Infinix phones will still suck na

They need to rethink their software architecture. Their mods of the Android OS for their various brands really need reworking. I might be wrong but I used them years back and the experience wasn't pretty, didn't even suspect they still shipped them in my dear country.

tolexy007:





well He just won the first round, let's see what China will up to in 2nd round..

lalasticlala

Hopefully not some new disgusting virus though

They must all be smoking something strong.

It's not down here in PEI, Canada anyway.