owobokiri:


This is the most dubious logic I have come across in a long time. The way you lot defend your own no matter how dirty his dealings is unparalleled. So because Tinubus company helped increase Lagos state IGR, the petty robber should be glorified for trying to siphon every thing in sight? You guys are pathetic.

It is not dubious logic. it is a strategy that is clearly working and should be adopted by other states. The only thing is that there should be transparency in what is being paid to these consultants! Calling him a robber on this basis shows you lack understanding.

This happens in the US. ABC collects less than 10%. My only request is LASG should come out and give details of the contract.

In September 2006, the IRS started to outsource the collection of taxpayers debts to private debt collection agencies. Opponents to this change note that the IRS will be handing over personal information to these debt collection agencies, who are being paid between 29% and 39% of the amount collected. Opponents are also worried about the agencies' being paid on percent collected, because it will encourage the collectors to use pressure tactics to collect the maximum amount. IRS spokesman Terry Lemons responds to these critics saying the new system "is a sound, balanced program that respects taxpayers' rights and taxpayer privacy." Other state and local agencies also use private collection agencies.[39]

owobokiri:



Lagos is not the only state that can survive without federal allocations. If you allow rivers state to control and tax every reveneu made from that state, it will be bouyant enough to fund herself. Ditto Delta , bayelsa etc. The oil money that is shared and allcated to every state belongs to these states. They should be the ones "dashing" you a little, not the other way round.

If Lagos had oil, it won't have been part of its IGR. IGR does not include company tax! The oil companies pay its taxes (PAYE) to Rivers state and Rivers is still not self sustaining.

If Jonathan is committed to seeing INEC succeed, they should declare one day public holiday on a Friday with the sole aim of encouraging people to pick their voter's card.

pendy79:
The stupidity of those who brought the yeye news to AIT is glaring, Lagos makes 40billion monthly? From where?

For argument sake let assume it is true, is it wrong if a company works and then charge fees for the work it does?

Alphabeta helped lagos to move it IGR from 8-9 billion monthly to about N26billion and highest of N29billion I think in June 2013 don't know where AIT got it fugure of N40billion IGR when the state has a budget of N489billion this year, does it mean the state didn't include its Federal Allocation to its Budgetary plans.

When you lie without commonsense, your lies won't add up. If anybody is bitter about the job Alphabeta is doing in Lagos, sorry we indigenes of Lagos aren't, it is earning an agreed % for the marvelous job it is doing and it marvelous in our eye. Anyone not happy with Alphabeta collecting his tax can pack his bag and baggage and return to his or her village,.there is no rope tying anybody's yansh to Lagos.

It didn't even move from 8 billion monthly, it moved from 600 million monthly pre-1999 to 18 - 21 billion monthly which is 2900% increase in the space of 12 - 16 years. Now, compare that to how Nigeria at the centre has performed - we do not even know the actual revenue generated by the Federal government monthly. A house of reps member recently put that figure at 20 trillion naira and we know that this is not factual. If Alpha Beta revolutionized tax administration in Lagos, shouldn't they be praised? 2900% increase isn't a small feat. Did anyone ask the Federal Government how much they paid consultants like PwC to come up with the number plates and drivers license which they used to milk Nigerians?

This government isn't serious yet about making the hard choices. Where are the cuts? If every MDA is mandated to provide a budget with 40% cut, it would become evident how the revenue during the oil price boom was frittered away with needless expenditures.

And GEJ had the effrontery to accuse the opposition of spewing venom and bitterness. I guess this is what they call sweet talk and lacking poison in his zoology textbook.

The clueless one talked about the proliferation of small arms and light weapons in a way that made it seem like it's not part of the responsibility of the FG to prevent its spread. He complains of bitterness when his campaign has been the most bitter and negative ever run in Nigeria - a campaign that seeks to divide Nigeria along ethnic and religious lines. He should be ashamed of himself.

stevecantrell:
If CBN have officially devalued the naira, they should re-value it Now !!!

I know that's wishful thinking...

It's not in the common man's interest that the oil price should rebound. Our naira has been seriously devalued. A rebound in oil prices will lead to significantly high prices at the pumps and no salary increases. The naira won't go back to early 2014 levels and government is committed to removing fuel subsidy.

ikennaoma:
Same here in ph. In their meter is written 87 but its being sold at 105

Mine was 110 in PH too

Got it for 110 yesterday. Won't have bought it as I wasn't informed prior to dispensing.

jdilight:


We don't vote for vice, we vote for President. Sambo is always with goodluck. Its a team unlike, buhari and osibanjo who are playing free style.

Should APC win, who will steer the ship; Nigeria?

The few times he opened his mouth, it's being one nonsense after another. Check out one


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_jON3G7Ym4

There has been reports of scarcity of fuel in different states. Today in PH, a lot of filling stations were closed. I ended up buying fuel at a filling station with queues for 110 Naira a litre. Should we expect a post election or pre election fuel price increase considering the devaluation of the naira and increase in fuel subsidy?

Someone should go interview them... not sure they know why they are protesting. They have that clueless look

You can watch the video of the massive protest here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAtLpywjtA

helpee:
Abeg show us your own picture too so we will know you were not paid to do this. How can you do this for free? You believed those guys can't protest unless they are paid and you want us to believe you are doing this for free. So you want us to believe that you can do this for free but others must be paid before they can their own. This holier than attitude is what is killing APC....show us your own pix so we can know your are not struggling in uk.

If your broke rent-seeking ass that's waiting for the next paycheck from FFK to buy additional data to stream the 4 minutes video actually watched it to the end, you would see the face of the person asking questions.

xwolverine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDAtLpywjtA

Great work.

Hilarious though

Watch Fani Kayode campaigning for the APC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zzYbtGCyn4

ikennaoma:

Brother it won't work here in ph. I prefer timariv and traffic warderns 2 traffic light. When it was here nko hw many of us obayed d traffic light. We need 2 change b4 accusing our leaders

It didn't start to work all of a sudden in Lagos. There was enforcement. However, from what I perceive, TIMARIV/Police refrain from arresting the consistent culprits which are the commercial transport operators and focus on private individuals. Also, those who blow sirens or go around with escorts flout the rules. If there is enforcement across board, the traffic light would work.

Obama mistakenly calls daughter Maya:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6-tiig_cKI

Everyone make mistakes.

Abagworo:


Amaechi did not fail in traffic management please. Lets be honest. Today in Port Harcourt you are sure of getting to where you are going but in the past one might spend all day driving from Oil Mill to Trans Amadi. The reason for the success is TIMARIV and establishment of parking laws and enforcement by the corps. The Amaechi/Jonathan feud led to Police swooping on TIMARIV corps and banning them from federal roads thereby reducing their earlier success. Touts loyal to GDI are allowed to cause traffic dis order and backed by Police.

I wasn't here Pre-Amaechi though and based on what I learnt, it was worse previously. However, it could be better. Saying Amaechi failed may have been a wrong choice of words but he could do better than what we have now.

Abagworo:


It is simply practical. Turn it on for a day and the entire city is locked down.

You have a point here but implementing the traffic lights require a holistic approach, not just switching them on because they exist. Have traffic demands been analysed? How's indiscriminate stopping by commercial vehicles at key junctions been handled? How is the use of appropriately designed bus stops being handled?
If you turn them on today, like you said, the city will be locked down. If appropriately implemented, it would go a long way in alleviating the madness in PH roads.

rodbel:


You cant remember the last time the Governor stepped foot in the Brick house How would you know that Uncle? + You're right about Traffic lights working when Odili was there but were the roads as good as they were now? I'll choose a better road and traffic warden any day over a bad road with traffic lights. #myopinion. Nonetheless the state govt should kindly look into this as a matter of urgency.

I agree. Traffic lights never work with bad roads. However, there is so much impunity displayed by drivers of cabs and tricycles which even traffic lights cannot handle. Traffic lights in itself won't solve this issue. A hard stance on traffic violations should be taken. The incoming government should clearly have a plan to tackle traffic management as I believe Amaechi has failed in that regards.

It's a shame though that there is no working traffic light in Rivers. Traffic management is a mess here.

After 16 years of PDP, Okonjo has no good thing to say about the fight against corruption


AFTER investing billions of Naira in fighting corruption, the verdict of the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, is that corruption persists in Nigeria because we do not have institutions, systems and processes to prevent corruption. She should know.

"The cause of the disease is that we do not have in place the institutions, the systems and the processes to block and prevent it in the first place. That is the only difference between us and the people abroad," Okonjo-Iweala said at the Catholic Caritas Foundation Forum in Abuja. People, she said, would shun corruption if the appropriate systems were in place.

She did not say what her idea of the appropriate measures to prevent corruption would be or what she thought of the two anti-corruption agencies - Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, ICPC. What about the police and other security agencies? What systems and processes does the Minister expect to prevent corruption?


http://allafrica.com/stories/201502200152.html

Ballot Papers

In another deal, the nation's equivalent of the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing took out a $21-million loan at a staggering 22% interest rate to buy equipment supposedly to print ballots for next month's election. Emefiele is also chairman of the bureau, and the loan came from the bank he used to run. The bureau did not have the contract to print the ballots. An Emefiele spokesman has denied any hanky-panky

According to numerous civil servants I've interviewed, public procurement invoices are often grossly inflated. “When it comes to a job that attracts money,” a defense ministry IT worker told me last year, “only the director and the deputy director have knowledge of the real terms of the deal.... If it's 10 million, the director says, ‘Make it 12 million.” Procurement will say, ‘Make it 15 million.' And the permanent secretary says, ‘Make it 25.'”
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chayes-nigeria-corruption-election-20150201-story.html

Ekiti Gate





The audio recordings depict the meeting as being attended by the eventual “winner” of the election, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti; Senator Iyiola Omisore; a man identified as Honorable Abdulkareem; the Minister for Police Affairs Caleb Olubolade; and Senator Musiliu Obanikoro who was at the time the Minister of State for Defence. Mr. Chris Uba came to Ekiti with huge stash cash and soldiers from the East to carry out the assignment.

The 37-minute recording details the conversation between these men as they bribed Brigadier General Momoh with a promotion for his assistance in carrying out election fraud in Ekiti. In it, Obanikoro is clearly heard informing the group of men, “[I] am not here for a tea party, am on special assignment by the President.”

SaharaReporters further received credible intelligence that President Goodluck Jonathan had instructed the Chief of Defense Staff, Alex Badeh, to use the army in arresting and intimidating opposition politicians before and during the election. The audio recording provides exact details of the plot, with the collaborators almost degenerating into physical combat.
http://saharareporters.com/2015/02/05/how-obanikoro-fayose-chris-uba-and-brig-general-momoh-rigged-ekiti-governorship-election

Buhari was a better alternative in 2011 and is still a better alternative today! Leadership is seriously lacking in Nigeria. The way the president's lackeys utter nonsense in public without restraint is an evidence of an ineffective leader. Also, what improvements have we felt between 2011 and 2015? The light situation is still bad despite 16 years of investment by PDP, we have a very poor intelligence service, hardship has increased coupled with a very weak naira and so on. What has this government achieved? People are confidently corrupt now. There is so much division along tribal and religious lines and the government has exploited this further. Terrorism has flourished and rather than fight when it reared it's ugly head, Jonathan resigned to fate saying it's our turn to experience terrorism. Now, when chances of his reelection are dim, he wants to fight. Buhari is a far better alternative. He has the character and demeanor of someone who's serious about taking the hard decisions.

sunnyflakes:
SHOW US HIS PICTURES ADDRESSING CHANTAM HOUSE PLEASE.

Fool, wait till the 26th!

theoctopus:
This is it! Stop fooling yourself @op

You are the one fooling yourself. What you are presenting is blatantly false as there were no CPI scores prior to 1995.

OKDnigeria:

that link says nothing about comparing GEJ's administration and others.
see the true assessment of Nigeria in 2014
http://www.transparency.org/country/#NGA_DataResearch_SurveysIndices
http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=95396

compare it to OBJ yrs
we used to no. 1 or 2 most corrupt country in the world, now we are no. 39. So how did GEJ reverse anti-corruption gain?

That is why I listed all the years from 1999 to 2014. You can see it from the data I presented sourced from TI. The inference I made was based on this data! And if you choose to be objective, comparing from 1999 to 2014, you will draw the same conclusion. You can look at the data sourced from TI again above.

0700Jesse:
in agriculture, Jonathan introduced e-wallet system, which hindered the illegal sharing of fertilizer money among corrupt distributors., Jonathan uses technology to handle problems but buhari na stone-age man

MIT Study: http://economics.mit.edu/files/7589 (Corrupt officials respond to the threat of punishment)

Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in micro-empirical research on corruption in
developing countries. A string of papers have shown how basic economic concepts can be
applied to corruption. Corrupt officials respond to incentives and the threat of punishment, even
in corrupt environments. Strategic interactions between corrupt officials affect the level of
corruption – bidding down bribes if they compete against one another, and increasing bribes if
multiple bribes are required and officials can’t coordinate with one another. Recent work has
also shown that corrupt officials are resilient: over time, they adapt to changes in their
environments, in some cases offsetting anti-corruption policies with new avenues for seeking out
rents.

OKDnigeria:
OP, u need help! I opened ur link. nothing like what u posted is there.

You can start by looking at the CPI index year on year.

http://www.transparency.org/cpi2013/results