₦airaland Forum

nairalanda1:
I always hear this, that governor X should build world class hospital in his or her state, yet no one talks about how the hospital would be funded and maintained, or even who would be employed to work in the world class hospital, after it is finished

There is the Akwa Ibom world class hospital built by Akpabio. Today it is wasting away. Ditto the International cancer center, built by Mrs Yaradua, today it is just there.

Before that Obasanjo upgraded several hospitals with the aid of a reputable foreign company. Today...everything has gone back to status quo before the renovaiton, if not worse

States that have healthcare budgets that before corruption comes in are already scanty, and you want them to build a replica of a world class hospital. That most of you would be insisiting you pay N100 consultation fee, and do cs for less than N50000. Tell me, how would the world class hospital make profits to run well? Or na state wey dey get scanty budget before corruption wey go pay?

The world class hospital abroad that our leaders run to work because their patients pay heavily. Like the one our Bubuhari died in.the very expensive London clinic....it is a hospital where the clients pay high fees. That money is used by the hospital to maintain itself. If we built a hospital like it in Katsina, would the average Katsina man or woman or child be able to pay the type of fees needed for its upkeep?

You Nigerians, you resemble the man that spent all his lifesavings on rolls royce only to find he had no money when the car broke down. When he could have bought corrola for less than one twentieth the amount, and if car breaks down, spare parts dey.

If you want a world class hospital in your state, be prepared to pay world class fees. Not N20000 for appendicectomy..lol.

nairalanda1:
We could, if our government did what saner climes did and focused on getting our economy free of corruption, free of all subsides so that we can attract more investment, and most importantly, made our economy dependent on manufactured goods and services

You know, like china, japan and so on did.

But your tinubu dey take loan, and dey do palliative.

nairalanda1:
Okay, so we speak, and we remove all the corrupt people, and all the corruption. I fully agree with you by the way.

But that leaves us with a scanty healthcare budget of 2 billion dollars for 230 million people. How do we fix that? It is the solutions you people don't like to discuss.

nairalanda1:
IN 2016, Pwc stated about 16% of taxable nigerians pay tax to federal and state government

That went up to 30% in 2019 according to the world bank

Tax to gdp? 10%

Your list makes sense when put into context.

You have more than 2 NL accounts

I have told you many times to stop comparing foreign currency and the naira...

naira can never have the strength of this foreign currencies because naira is a black country's currency...

the hospital CCP went to was under-staffed and that is the fault of the hospital and Lagos state not Nigeria, because Lagos state should have its own state laws regarding the number of doctors, lab scientists, nurses e.t.c. that a hospital has...

another thing maybe there is an epidemic of typhoid on the island and the hospital doctors were attending to other people...

nairalandadeux:
Want a better health care system?

You have too agree that we can't have a good healthcare system. Not on this Budget

Many of you want UK levels of healthcare. UK spends 176 bn pounds on health. Our budget for this year is 14 billion pounds

We got to fight corruption, tax the 70 % of Nigerians that don't pay tax and also diversify the economy so that we can attract trillions of naira in the hundreds of trillions so that we can have budgets that make sense

Or we increase hospital fees

nairalandadeux:
We can't geta working health system on a budget of 2-3 billion dollars or 1 billion dollars for 230 million people

You can mock me and call me taxman and even call me government man, but it does not change the fact.

I also work in healthcare so believe me i know how bad it is

they have ban your nairalanda1 moniker



Nigerians already pay =

property taxes ( especially in Lagos ),
property insurance fees ( in lagos ),
VAT,
ATM taxes e.g ATM fees,
electricity taxes,
phone data taxes,
fuel taxes since subsidy was removed,
bank taxes for using banking codes,
bank monthly charges,
bank ATM card maintainance taxes or fees,
import duties taxes that phone importers and other foreign goods imposed on Nigerians..
e.t.c...

In Nigeria, everyone already pays multiple taxes...

Truths9ja:
either they tax or not, people who will pay tax will pay, people won't pay tax will never pay tax. Still Nigerians will survive the tax regime.

nope..

Nigerians already pay =

property taxes ( especially in Lagos ),
property insurance fees ( in lagos ),
VAT,
ATM taxes e.g ATM fees,
electricity taxes,
phone data taxes,
fuel taxes since subsidy was removed,
bank taxes for using banking codes,
bank monthly charges,
bank ATM card maintainance taxes or fees,
import duties taxes that phone importers and other foreign goods imposed on Nigerians..
e.t.c...

In Nigeria, everyone already pays multiple taxes...

they just want to rob people legally of their money...

CaptainFM1:
SMHFU!

just wait and see...

if the house is owned by a company she works for then she cannot be taxed...

CaptainFM1:
People will disclose little now that tax law enforcement is getting nearer. I can't wait to see the government taxing Dino heavily with the way he flaunt his mansions and cars on social media.

Truths9ja:
alot of people living flamboyant lifestyles will be taxed

you people don't know how tax works....

tax is meant to ensure that black people are homeless..

the tax bill planned for next year is meant to render majority of people living in Lagos to become homeless and then the lands will be bought at cheap prices by wyte people...

Salowise:
No one talked about colonizing anybody. We always made mention of saner climes when something goes wrong, but in saner climes, as a citizen of that country, if you live in a particular state for three years, you are automatically a resident and eligible to receive what others are receiving. Kemi Badenoch, a Yoruba, is a political heavyweight in the UK. I don't think such can be possible in Nigeria if a white Nigerian contests for a political position. Also here, even if your grandfather was born in a particular place, your dad same place, and you are in the same place, you are still viewed as a stranger. This is not only a Yoruba thing, but Nigeria, but at this moment, the Yoruba are the most tribalistic in Nigeria. We are intolerable and very divided; in fact, we were never meant to be together.

Kemi badenoch is powerless and must serve the interests of wyte people that put her in that position.

While in Nigeria, a non-indigene politician is powerful and does not serve the interests of the indigenes that voted for him/her.

Salowise:
Exactly, but this may not sound nice , Yorubas hardly build as well but they can live in better environment, do big businesses and still living in rented building(just few build). They are more peaceful but i wonder why they behave crazy online. Igbos and Edo's are tribes that can build anywhere. This is clearly my personal observation.

Yorubas do not go to a place to try and colonize that place...

Salowise:
Northerners don't develop place an i really hate that, they can be in a place for 30yrs and the only difference will be they increase in population while living in a dirty environment, they hardly rent house if they do na one run and dem go full inside.

the people you call "hausa" in Lagos and some other southern states are from Niger republic...

they are not Nigerians... and are meant to be deported by immigration officers.

ukaface:
Wo aunty tacha when you see the truth you say it.

Lagos state is dirty, not coming from a place of tribalism but they need to keep those northerners/ Hausas in check. They use every nook and cranny as a place of abode, shitting and pissing, using it as a spot for packing plastics… True, fashola demolished that nonsense but come to fagba now the rail na all of them full there, fill up the whole rail with their dirtiness and beg beg. Da fvck…Wetin Sanwo Olu Dey do sef?

I will speak of Lagos because na there I know.

Aunty tacha, should talk true. Lagos is dirty and yes Smelling.

the people you call "hausa" in Lagos and some other southern states are from Niger republic...

they are not Nigerians... and are meant to be deported by immigration officers.

RemoveKebab:
If Nigeria have been Fair to them will the rise of succession be prominent there?

Let's not deceive ourselves they need more federal presence there.

We know they can be difficult but I won't blame them because if other regions are being treated that way they have a reason to be that way.
Let's stop hanging on to the past if we all want to this nation to really have a future.

zeebows are not marginalized.

the way Nigeria is structured, ethnic nations that control a state can never ever be relegated, zeebos control at least 6 to 7 states in Nigeria, the states means indigenous government officials ( zeebows officials ) will always receive funds.

if zeebows were marginalized then that means since 1970 they have not received any allocation from the FG and they have never held any Federal Government political appointments, and never been governors, senators, local government chairmen in their own states. It means they would not have federal universities, federal polytechnics, federal secondary schools, Federal primary schools, federal hospitals, federal customs immigration offices, federal airports, other federal agencies, federal roads e.t.c

zeebows are pros at emotional blackmailing other people to manipulate them to do what zeebows want.

zeebows have never ever been marginalised... they only cry marginalisation in states they are not indigenous to so that they can get government positions in those states that is also one of the reasons they are the only ones that want "State of Origin" removed from the constitution.

Ishilove:
Did you notice the article said 'Nigerian' and didn't mention any ethnic groups? Outside Nigeria, nobody gives a fvck about your ethnic group. You're a Nigerian first, before any ethnicity and you'll be treated as such. Condemn the crime, not the ethnic group.

Don't Nigerianize it.. we know the ethnic nation they belong to.

Outside Nigeria, most foreigners do not have the intelligence and are not smart enough to differentiate between Nigerian ethnic nations.. especially due to the fact that they like grouping every black person together...

You don't hear of Nigerians who are british citizens, U:S citizens, German citizens e.t.c. been arrested for smuggling drugs but if you use guugle you will see wyte british citizens who have been arrested for smuggling drugs..

it is up to this particular "ethnic nation" to create economic opportunities in their ethnic region for their people so that they do not become drug smugglers...

TheSuperNerd:
3 options...

1. Put Benjamin Frederick there at RB for now (he has excelled there at Dender). Ogbu can come take up that CB role vacated by this change. Or ofcos... Skipper Ekong continues as CB.

2. I will bring in that new Slavia kid. Keeping Frederick at CB

3. Switch to a back 3 and play Osayi as RWB with specific instructions to the CDM and the RCB to cover for Osayi's frailties.

the player in slavia is too old, the defense needs fast defenders that are under 26 years old..

a transition to younger players must start as soon as possible or the SE is deceiving themselves.

nairalanda1:
Yes, a combination of Tenofovir, lamivudine and dolutegravir in one tablet helps manage HIV

Recently, a new drug has been developed that can be given once every 3 months.

RetroviralS:
That used to be true back in the day, but its no longer that way. With ARVs, people living with HIV have started living long, normal lives. I have seen it myself. While avoiding it is very important. The real problem now is stigma, not the virus.

Puss360:
With one pill a day, you can live a healthy life...
Infact, it's easy to prevent HIV than to prevent Diabetes...
Diabetes is a silent killer... Although there's no treatment for it just like HIV, there's a pill-a-day for HIV while diabetes has combinations of drugs to take just to regulate your Sugar levels...
Diabetes and BP is more life-threatening than HIV currently...

Notwithstanding, always monitor your overall health..
We plan, but God is the master planner...
People die everyday... And there's more than a thousand ways to die...
When our time reach, good health or money can't save us...

Nigerians do not have the funds to finance and manage HIV and make the pharmaceutical companies...

Seun this should not be on front page because it promotes a negative lifestyle that will destroy Nigerians.

olawonder:
Why should a protest against the entire government of Nigeria be instigated in Lagos? Why not start the process in Anambra or Ebonyi first… why the wish that this happens in Lagos?

because they believe Lagos is too rich and they do not like the ethnic nation that controls Lagos.

jaxxy:
elections are not won by any ethic nation voting buy based on party, political and economic interests and pedigree of candidates.

Ethnic nation voting is a code name for tribal bigots.

South east and North have voted for Obasanjo and Yaradua So where is ur tribal bigots voting?

In the US they have white and blacks, Hispanics and other ethnic groups nobody talks the nonsense ure talking as excuses.

you're the one that sees it as nonsense because you are not Nigerian..

"ETHNIC NATION A" candidate will never ever get hundreds of thousands of votes from "ETHNIC NATION F" people.

jaxxy:
First off there is nothing like ethnic nation in our constitution so I don't know what u are talking about.

The reality of the average Nigerian is the reality on ground. That is how it is done in Japan or in Russia.

no, those countries are not multi-ethnic like Nigeria..

there is nothing like ethnic nation in the constitution but elections are won based on ethnic nations voting pattern..

the reality of the average "ETHNIC NATION A" is different from the reality of the average "ETHNIC NATION F "...

Cromagnon:
have you improved your productivity to match dollar or you're waiting for Tinubu to come and spoon feed you join

you don't have to improve productivity to match dollar because your country's is not the dollar...

you just have to improve productivity..

jaxxy:
Everybody's reality can never be thesame but the reality of the majority and masses is the average reality and the truth on ground. This is basic statistics and economics.

U cannot sat the economy is good only because party members or sycophants say so. What is the general public saying and what are the data on paper and on ground physically saying?

Like I said if buhari did exactly what tinubu is doing word for word, appointments for appointments and actions for action u will be the 1st to swear for him.

u are only biased cos its tinubu.

no, the reality of the majority is not the average reality and truth on ground especially in a country like Nigeria that has over 200 ethnic nations...

the reality in one ethnic nation is different from the reality in another ethnic nation but because every ethnic nation in Nigeria has easy access to each other means "ETHNIC NATION A" can go and protest in "ETHNIC NATION F" territory and cause unrest even though "ETHNIC NATION F" is not angry at its own politicians.

DukeofLAGOS:
U will further explain to peaceful or riotous protesters whether it's their region they have been paying their lawful taxes to...
Protest is a legitimate act and citiznery right

the people that pay taxes in Nigeria are people with that are employed and these employed people will not protest because the protests can lead to burning down the companies they work for...

the only way they can protest is if they are feel they are been over-taxed, so wait until January 2026 when the tax law is implemented to see how people will react because that is the only thing that can lead to the type of protests happening in Nepal.

Gerrard59:
I agree with the population angle. Nonetheless, the port activities attract companies and more people. So, it is a cycle > more people attract more companies which further attracts more people.

Anyway, I don't blame Lagos' elites, but those in Rivers and surrounding states. If they were smart enough, they would collaborate much better. To date, Rivers State does not have a sitting governor. So, it is not Lagos' fault. However, the country needs a diversified economy for growth to happen and for the unemployment rate to drop. The reality is that not every ambitious Nigerian can live in Lagos. Nigeria's economy ought to be more like the US, where at least three geographically diverse states are major economic drivers.

Gerrard59:
VDM has a sinister motive with his video, but it is widely known that it is expensive to clear goods from Onne port compared to Lagos ports. Onne to me only makes sense if it is for export, rather than for imports. That said, the two major reasons Lagos ports get patronage are:
- Population.
- Two of Nigeria's major non-oil exports cocoa and cashews are mostly grown in the south west. So both imports and exports will have to go through Lagos ports. Non-oil products from the north west will as well go through Lagos ports. If ports in the Eastern region (including a proposed Gelelege Port in Edo) are to thrive, political elites from the region, north central and north east have to ensure success.

Nigeria needs functioning ports to thrive across the country for the nation's economy to be diversified.

A country's economy has different participants or players but the major ones are:

Public sector ( also known as Federal government, state government, local government and other government agencies ).

Private Sector ( the sector where private individuals, private companies and other private agencies are )

Non-governmental organizations ( NGO ) which are organisations not part of the government but can get funding from either public sector or private sector..

A country's economy is also the same thing as a Tribe's economy.

Lagos elites also includes Yoruba elites from other Yoruba states and outside both the Yoruba region and Nigeria.

It is Yoruba elites and Yoruba people that will diversify the economy of the Yoruba region and not the federal government so it is the duty of Tribes to diversify their own Tribes economy either through partnership within themselves or other Tribes or state government or FG or foreigners..

You said it yourself "Two of Nigeria's major non-oil exports cocoa and cashews are mostly grown in the south west" which means Yoruba people have already created an economy that sustains them.

That said, the two major reasons Lagos and the Yoruba region is progressive and gets patronage are:

1. the huge Yoruba population have the finances that other tribes don't have due to Cashew and Cocoa exportation from Yoruba region..

2. the huge Yoruba population outside Nigeria that sends finances back to the Yorubas in Nigeria also helps boosts purchasing power of Yorubas in Lagos state.

e.t.c.

It is not Lagos fault that the rest of Nigeria is not developing and Lagos is not holding any state back....

it is those states that don't have the skillset and mindset to boost the finances and wellbeing of their Tribes.

123jamessmith:
If benjamin Francis can play like this he just newly started playing in Belgium, he has been in Brentford b team.
So there's a possibility thier are some Nigeria players in Team B in different clubs around, that can even do well when give the opportunity to play for the National team.
Francis is not a big defender I was afraid the South Africans will bullied him in today's game.
Football is not how big or strong you are , is just a gift.

they will tell you that their time will come that those players are too young to play for the SE.

Openair:
It seems as though there're a list of players given to Nigerian coaches that must play...I don't understand how every coach in recent years keep coming up with same thing that doesn't work

this is likely the truth..

the team has not changed for over 5 years now.

Bassey needs to stop sagging his shorts. It is slowing him down.

Sugarboyy:
Fredrick and Ogbu will easily replace Ekong and Ejuke on the wing will do far better than Simon. You can't face Ejuke 3 times as a defender and he won't dribble pass you atleast once, same thing Simon has failed to do

Ejuke is getting old...

I have been shouting Ejuke's name for over 4 years to be included in starting 11...

Simon on left then Ejuke on the right ( because he last played on the right for SE )..

Another thing is the NFF sees Simon the same way they see Osimhen...

they will continue to invite Simon even though he is not performing...

Enoughpull:
Aren't we saying the same thing? Same way in Afcon with their long balls and our centre backs couldn't match up

SE centre backs can't match up because younger players are not been called up..

COOL10:
That midfield is dead.

SE has not had midfield for over 5 years now..

SE midfield has always been DEAD...

Sugarboyy:
They told Chelle to bench Ekong, he said NO. He rather bench Uche, Onyedika and Tolu.
Moses Simon is another washed up player.
Thank God, I'm very sure after this disastrous qualifiers, it may likely be the end of Ekong and Simon in the SE

who are their replacements

Enoughpull:
Pace.. Always been their trumpcard. We can't match their pace and Hugo Broos knows and he exploits it all the time

it has nothing to do with pace...

A younger player than Ekong won't have a problem with pace and running back and clearing properly..