₦airaland Forum

erniok:
Government has spending limits and can't address every issue raised in the society. When you wake up to smell the coffee, you'll realise this else US would have solved its housing issues decades ago and no, it's not about Nigeria but a global problem.

Government does not have spending limits when it comes to buying luxury SUVs for themselves but suddenly have spending limits when it comes to providing agro-facilities for farmers...

you need to wake up and smell the coffee not me..

stop trying to deflect using the US... this is about Nigeria and not U.S..

stop trying to be clever because you are showing signs that you are not clever...

SmartyPants:
Ignoring the rest of your ignorance driven ranting, let me ask, so until police patrol every inch of every road to catch people like him citizens cannot uphold basic principles of good conduct for their own good? Lmao. I just wonder why I'm wasting my precious time with you.

that's why CCTV and facial recognition infrastructure on every street is important...

police do not have to patrol every inch of every road once there is CCTV and facial recognition everywhere.. the man would be detected and his house address will be visited by the police and he will be arrested or they would see the man on CCTV and send police to arrest him..

some people do not uphold principles of good conduct and that is why government uses police to enforce the laws and prosecute criminals..

I am the one wasting time educating you..

erniok:
Government has a limit that the provision it makes for it citizens and that's why corporate org sees those opportunities and seize them. Even in US, you have the homeless so why haven't their government ensured that has stopped.

the government has zero limits on that provisions that it makes for its citizens..

corporate org are not meant to seize opportunities because that means citizens will not get jobs if a foreign corporate org seizes opportunities and only hires foreigners...

this is about Nigeria and not the US...

SmartyPants:
The government has no such duty. The funds of the government belong to all of us, thus a government that makes a policy of providing for some and not all citizens will soon find itself facing demands it cannot meet. This is common sense. However, if you are you unable to agree then at least accept that "duties" are a function of laws and no law says the government must provide you with tools for your business. Finally at least be reasonable enough to understand that the point is not what the government owes or doesn't owe but rather that you have no right to abuse a road that belongs to all of us.

that's why there are government ministries... so that the funds allocated to the Agriculture ministry can be used to build agro-facilities for farmers across the country..

a government makes policies so that it can improve both the government and people.. that is the real common sense..

citizens elect who should be the president and the president and other politicians answer to the people.. it is a government of the people, by the people and for the people..

you should be reasonable to know that the government is supposed to regulate its state and fine or arrest this man drying cassava on the road....

nairalanda1:
Not quite true. Tax forms a major part of government revenues. IN Germany it forms nearly half of government revenues.

You have a very flawed idea of government revenues.

As for your point , this is the response



As you can see, your solution won't work.




ON NITEL and NNPC, government ran the companies into the ground by forcing them to offer subsidised services, which hindered their ability to improve service.

The problem was that the things needed to provide good enough refineries and phone services...are made abroad. And Nigeria does not control their prices. So, subsidies meant that these companies could not make enough money to pay for improvements, because they just did not have the resources.

Meanwhile, Obasanjo let GSM companies like MTN and Airtel charge whatever prices they want....and the result was that they made enough profits to provide services for the poor, something that NITEL could never do.

We already own cocoa, anyways...it's our fifth largest revenue generator.



And taxes, and revenue. Even if the FG invested in ownership, it has to allow the facilites operate at a profit, not subsidised prices, to get their monies worth, and even then, the revenue won't be enough for a nation of our size.

tax is a part of revenue and not major revenue..

major revenue comes from ownership..

you are making it that you have never owned or started a business in your life..

read the example below and gain knowledge:

If you own business A

and your business A makes ₦80b annually in profits

Govt takes 30% of ₦80b in taxes that business A makes which is ₦24b.

Your business A ₦80b - ₦24b that govt takes is ₦56b.

Your net profit is ₦56b.

Between your business A ₦56b and govt taxes of ₦24b who still has more money between you and the government?.

so from the example above, it means that if government focuses on taxes alone then private companies in the country can be richer than the government.

it also means that relying on taxes means the government is not using their brains and have abdicated their responsibilities to the people.

which means the government is now an extortion cartel and no longer a government..

nairalanda1:
But of course.


Well, for decades our budget deficit has been very large because oil money alone , which is our main source of income, is not enough to fund it.

This year's budget was funded by loans because last year, government expected, for revenue purposes, oil to be above 74 dollars for the year. LOL...it no happen. So, borrowing commenced. Leading to the budget deficit

Now that's not abnormal in itself, all countries have that. but sane countries fund the budget by raising taxes. Nigeria has a very low tax to gdp ratio, which is lower than many African countries even.

That means that our borrowing will go up unless we get more of the gdp taxed.

If you think the way you think, you are indirectly supporting tinubu's borrowing. Thus, you got no right to complain about it.


I don't recall abusing you, my good sir.




Well, if we want to reduce our budget deficit, taxes would be the way forward. Selling raw materials is not the way because we do not set their prices.

Also, our budget, even if the money was not spent on frivolities like yatcht and suv and so forth, and if excess spending on government things was cut, is not enough for a nation of 237 million people. LIke now, we need something like 33 trillion out of our budget of 55 trillion to guarantee quality healthcare. Just to give you an example.

countries fund their budget through PPP and ownership.. Taxes is just bonus and extortion for the government no matter the country..

Nobody said the FG should not have ownership of companies that can make billions of $$$$..

if FG runs NITEL well and has its own network it can make over $10billion dollars annually.

if FG runs NNPC well and has operational refineries then it can make over $40 billion annually

if FG runs Cocoa export and has processing facilities it can make over $30 billion annually
e.t.c.

the FG just needs to invest in ownership and processing facilities and it will make more than enough money for development and stealing...

mukthar2000:
And so what?

Mr Man can't you mind ur own business?

Drying of cassava on that road was in existence for decades to enable their own business, so becos government just rehabilitate the road someone parents business should stop abii,


Go Nothern side to witness how their are using their high way road side to dry most food u consumed in ur regions.

Guys stop posting any unmindful post here jareee

adexmuhyi:
There is actually nothing bad here, this does not stop motorist from plying the road, it doesn't disturb anything and even can not in anyway spoil the road, so what's the fuss all about. Is this overzealousness or idleness, there are serious crimes being committed out there but you're here reporting an innocent person sundrying cassava

MurderX:
These roads run through villages and farms of the local people. These are their community corridors and as far as the roads are not in use, you cannot stop the villagers from using it for their insignificant local needs. How does a local farmer drying cassava on the road affect the road's integrity in any way? and once the roads are put in service, the villagers will stop the practice. This is a very irrelevant and trivial observation.

MurderX:
These roads run through villages and farms of the local people. These are their community corridors and as far as the roads are not in use, you cannot stop the villagers from using it for their insignificant local needs. How does a local farmer drying cassava on the road affect the road's integrity in any way? and once the roads are put in service, the villagers will stop the practice. This is a very irrelevant and trivial observation.

it can lead to diseases like lassa fever, typhoid e.t.c in the rural areas like the person below said...

ibtommy:
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The issue is not really about the road being new, it's about why we still dry edible stuff on the road. This is one of the reasons I hate yam and cassava flour bought in the open market. There are deadly diseases claiming lives because of this dirty practice. You go soak garri like this come see animal poo inside....na lassa fever we dey play with.
They should arrest him.
Thank you.

nairalanda1:
Yes, it is, but the fact is, in the sane developed countries, government accomplishes this with taxation, sometimes at high rates, higher if you are rich.

Not like Nigeria where a minority pay income tax to federal and state governments, and where as much as 99% of the rich and most of the informal sector workforce do not pay income tax in appreciable amount to the federal government, forcing us to rely on oil money that on a good day is not enough for 20 million people.

Also, Nigeria relies on oil, most sane countries that are developed rely on productivity.

If you vote a government that does what you want them to do, the debt would grow to 500 trillion naira in four years. Because what you want is not possible without massive borrowing. Fighting corruption which has to be done won't increase the income, it would just prevent leakages.

the government can forgo buying SUVs for 5 years and instead use the funds to build agro-facilities in all states over the same 5 years.

they do not need taxes and taxation to build anything.. they only need to stop spending on liabilities and materialism and spend on productivity..

stop defending rubbish and use your brain well...

everything is not about taxes...

nairalanda1:
Yeah, but the problem is, and I am going to be harsh here, most Nigerians do not want to fight poverty by increased production, taxation and removal of subsides for investment to flow in.

Most NIgerians want the government to subsidise everything and to provide everything for them on top of an oil revenue that at best can do that for a nation of less than 10 million people. And trying to do that, along with massive corruption, is why we are in debt and why we cannot take advantage of the new oil boom, because debts must be paid, and why we actually lost fuel subsidy, because we were at the pointof no return by August 2022.

And saying the above means that I am a government supporter apparently, becasuse the same poverty mentailty makes many NIgerians think in terms of their daily bread, not in terms of the long term, and for their mind anyone who is thinking long term has a full belly, and thus time to think in terms of such things.

And that pisses me off. I do not support this government or any other past government, and even look at the oppostion with a lot of cynicism

ALl in all, poverty does not excuse drying stuff on the road. If the farmer cannot form a pressure group and ask for solutions from his LGA, or if state indigienes with the appropriate training cannot fabricate solutions, then we are a lazy people who deserve the tinubu and whatever bad governance we get. An orange tree cannot produce figs.

it is government responsibility on all levels to create infrastructure for its citizens..

the same govt spends billions buying SUVs and other luxury items for themselves instead of providing for its citizens..

the price of the SUVs alone and build an agro-facility in each state in Nigeria..

that you are a supporter of this renewed poverty regime does not mean you can not condemn them..

SmartyPants:
Can you apply that reasoning at scale? Okay, the government should provide every farmer with agro processing equipment. From our collective Commonwealth right? Then should it not provide everyone of us with the tools we need for our work as well? And since the government has not provided all of us with the tools we need, why don't we all proceed to vandalise every available public utility for our convenience? Perhaps the dry cleaner too can make use of the road to dry his clothes since the government has not provided him driers.

The black man is truly unlike any other race in thinking patterns.

erniok:
So it's the government responsibility to provide him with agro processing equipments right?

Nigerians with their entitlement.

badoh:
Let them keep supporting him. See somebody asking if govt provides agro-processing equipment for him. So na govt go deh provide everything for them? Some of you just like defending nonsense, later they will be comparing Nigeria with UK, can this type of nonsense happen in the UK? Fact is most Nigerians behave anyhow and believe anything goes.

it is the government both federal, state and local governments duty to provide for its people

TheGoodJoe:
Yes it is. It is not entitlement. There is a video of a Nigerian girl in Germany, where the government spent 22,000 Euros, to train her in driving and maintaining modern vans, and still bought a van for her?

It is not entitlement. It is the duty of the government.

Mrexcell:
I really find this very hard to believe how can a multi millionaire find it very difficult to pay few thousands for the upkeep of his own child? That's insane.

because it is not about the upkeep of the child..

it is about the upkeep of the baby mama e.g new eye lashes monthly, luxury car, luxury apartment, luxury hand bags, luxury shoes, luxury clothes, luxury nails, luxury hair and wigs, luxury spa visits, luxury restaurant visits, luxury tv, new iphone every year, luxury lipstick, luxury make-up, luxury watches, luxury bracelets, luxury boxes, luxury pants, luxury g-string, luxury perfumes e.t.c...

Samantha125:
Not the same, you can't be comparing deliberately infecting someone with an incurable disease with deliberately having a child with someone... He had a choice to use condoms whenever he was intimate with her, but he didn't, meaning he was also in on it.

No sane woman would want to continue having a relationship with someone who'd have infected her with HIV.

are you minding dzzzz

a person that puts a laughing emoji on a person intentionally infecting another person with STD is not a normal person and in his right senses...

if he removed the STD part his comment would have been better..

lightwind:
SW Governors both former and present are all uzlles.

you are proving my point.. you don't have the balls to call out your SE politicians..

lightwind:
Still not making sense

I know you will have nothing to say because you do not have the balls to call out your own SE and SS politicians..

it is not a crime for you to keep deceiving yourself.

maestroferddi:
Ign*ramus who has not heard that the control of certain natural resources are outside the purvey of the states or regions where they are found....

By your jejune logic, the South East and South South should stop feeding you by taking the petroleum resources which originate from the regions off the control of the Federal Government....

Thinking people who saw this post ruminated on it but you, in typical tribal fashion, jumped in without thinking critically.

As long as Nigeria remain one, Nigerians from other regions will continue to live and thrive in Lagos and there is zilch you ethnic vuvuzelas can do about it...

excuses is the only thing you guys know in SE...

why are the petroleum resources not outside the purvey of Dangote

why can't the SE and SS pull funds together and build up just one state in the region to surpass Lagos

why can't the oil producing states outperform Lagos that is not producing any oil

people will always be able to travel around the world but they should not complain about other black people improving themselves while they give excuses upon excuses...

IndexMode:
Let them keep trying. They will actually win 1 day.

You people forget how petty yoruba elders are. Some will one day say the other major candidate did not respect them and throw their support to the outsider.

I believe some of the ancient internal strife in this tribe might have been caused by scenarios related to - he did not somersault and prostrate well when he saw me.

A political candidates might take advantage of that one day

Those elders are transitioning to glory and will not exist anymore in a few years so young yorubas need to have a different mindset from those elders.

maestroferddi:
You cannot have your cake and eat it...

Almost all of Nigeria's wealth is concentrated in Lagos.

Remove the collective input of other Nigerians aside the Yorubas from Lagos and it devolves to an Akure Pro Max...

You will tell me about the South East but I dare the Nigerian system to invest in the South East...

We shall welcome people from every shade and creed because the Igboman's worldview is "Ojemba Enweghi Iro" translating to welcome to all.

I went home a few months ago and the roasted corn I bought was sold to me by a Yoruba woman right in my village....The Yorubas mix with the natives that unless someone tells you, there is no how you would know...

Let the lazy and igonorant ones who cannot travel to save their lives keep claiming Lagos while their circumspect and hardworking kins keep taking bold steps to explore cultures and experience of other lands.

lagos is the commercial center of the Yorubas not of Nigeria and it is as a result of Yorubas concentrating their wealth there.

nobody forced non-SW people to invest in lagos and make the SW pot big while their own pot remained small..

There's a seaport in Rivers state called "port harcourt".
There are also:
Calabar port
Onne port
Warri port..

so that access to the Atlantic ocean excuse is ignorance..

Eastern Nigeria has crude oil, one of the largest gas deposits in Africa, one of the largest coal deposits in Africa

while Yoruba people don't have the level of crude oil the SE have, the SW does not have gas deposits, does not have coal deposits.

when it comes to natural resources wealth Eastern Nigeria is extremely richer and wealthier than the SW and the rest of Nigeria and they should not be allowed to participate in politics outside the eastern Nigeria.

SW is significantly poorer than the Eastern Nigeria...

lawani:
OP, I have advised you once that you are not fighting the right battle. The right battle is that states are not equal and if Bayelsa or Ekiti should have 3 senators then your Delta state should have like 7. That is the right fight. Every citizen should be able to contest elections anywhere they want.
Another right fight is I don't need even one senator to qualify for a state. I can share

portacabin:
Does he live in East or does he have followers in the East

that's the right question...

he is from the east so his nature and empathy will align with people from the east so he will naturally empower more easterners over Yorubas if he wins and he will fund the migration of more easterners into isolo and do everything in his power to undermine the Yorubas there...

this is the strategy APC uses to stay in power in the SW.. they get a non-Yoruba person as opposition knowing fully well the Yorubas will not accept the person.

lightwind:
No be una say we be ONE NIGERIA

But a Yoruba man or a woman can be counselor in the UK, US or Ireland shebi ?

Dalohad:
Your own na to find people wey dey contest for positions within Nigeria, outside their native land, even though they were born in those lands. But if we check, na you shout 'One Nigeria' pass.

Why you no carry gun begin kill dem, if you truly serious. This your lamentations nor too much?

this is the strategy APC uses to stay in power in the SW.. they get a non-Yoruba person as opposition knowing fully well the Yorubas will not accept the person then they let a Yoruba person be the one contesting in APC then the Yoruba person wins and power stays with APC.

Only reason there's poverty in the SE in 2026 is because in 1966 certain SE soldiers and leaders who were not intelligent and also who had zero knowledge of economics could not forecast the gas boom and oil boom that awaited the SE region and due to their superiority complex and mindset to always dominate non-SE people they ignorantly chose to destroy the regionalism that would have made every eastern Nigerian filthy rich and start a civil war..

SE people should focus on developing the SE...

MissOpe:
Na so companies easy to chase

Career sef no easy to chase talk more of company, i put it to you that most conpanies you see around have foundation based on fraud (but we are not ready for that discussion),

Look at the scenario of the pregnant working woman coming from work you gave earlier..

So you mean a woman will go to work, take the risk to birth and care for a child and when bad situations happen, you expect her to dump her children to your gender's family cos na them get the children

Think again man, think❗

if they do not have well to do parents and if they do not have a high paying job of at least ₦500,000 ₦800,000 per month salary then yes they should leave the child with the father's family.

in Nigeria there are no government created safety nets for anyone so let the father or if the father has passed away like this case, keep the children and take care of them..

most companies you see around have foundation are NOT based on fraud..

MissOpe:
I don't think the widow would that for the sake of her husband's former juju except she's under a spellll...

No right thinking woman would do such thing to her children....
At least I wont do that...

But this is an eye opener for women.....
They should chase careers and find their feet because of situations like this ..
stop trying to stay home, be an house wife all in thr name of caring for children that husband's family will say you have no input to the family when the chips are down ....

you are not the woman.

the woman already had her ex-husband's father arrested and the rest of the family won't take it well with her on that note..

women need to chase ownership of companies and collaborations with each other not just careers because majority of careers won't make them naira millionaires..

walking around Lagos and seeing pregnant women coming from work without cars tells me that most women in Lagos are not prepared for financial independence and Lagos is a commercial center so that means the situation of women in other states is much worse...

the ex-husband's family should take care of the children and the woman should not try to use the children against the family...

both the ex-husband's family and woman are most likely struggling in this bad economy. they have to sort themselves out before it consumes them...

MissOpe:
Great....
I hope same measure is applied for your mother when your father dies.......

Shalom

we are all adults in my family..

so when my father dies whatever he owns will go to his children automatically since we are adults there won't be extended family interference.. and our mum is almost 70 years old..

in the widow's case, the children are young and she is 28 years old which means she can re-marry and she and her new husband can claim the property and sell the property..

shalom..

MissOpe:
I see...

So the reason you decided to have children....for investments purposes..

A selfish reason I must say..

Goodluck

children are to continue legacy..

they have to be guided, nurtured and trained consistently so that they become productive and financially independent adults that can hold their own anywhere they are....

the widow can not hold her own anywhere she is and that is a product of bad parenting...

her in-laws duties are to the children of the man and not to the widow but they can out of empathy for the widow and to let the children grow up with their mother let her stay in the man's house.

MissOpe:
The man didn't ask to be born by his parents..

His parents (man and woman) sat down and decided to have a child (the man) that will continue their legacy, children are not assets and investments.....

Now same man decided with his widow to have children, anyone who decides to have children must be responsible for them regardless of their status....

I mean when a man and woman are divorced or separated, the man pays child support and is responsible for the upkeep of the children, shey na when he come die he go abandon his duties to the woman especially when he has assets to take care of them.....?

Rubbish and ingredients

the woman did not ask to be born by her parents.

Her parents (man and woman) sat down and decided to have a child (the woman) that will continue their legacy..

you are wrong, children are definitely assets and investments.

anyone who decides to have children must be responsible for them regardless of their status which means the widow's parents should take care of the widow and let the care of the children go to both the widow's parents and the dead husband's parents and the widow herself.

this is not a divorce..

if the widow can not afford to pay rent in another property do you think she can afford to take care of the children, feed them, pay their school fees, pay Land Use Charge annually on the house, hospital bills e.t.c..

if her own parents cannot support her financially now that she is in need, do you think her own parents will support her children financially...

MissOpe:
Because na her inlaws born them??

You do well....

the widow was not the person that bought baby food when the man was a baby.

the widow was not the person that bought diapers when the man was a baby.

the widow was not the person that bought baby clothes when the man was a baby.

the widow was not the person that cleaned and wipe the man's nyash when the man was a baby.

the widow was not the person that paid the school fees of the man from day care to secondary school.

the widow was not the person that sent the man to university.

the widow was not the person that paid hospital bills when the man was a baby till he became an adult.

MissOpe:
So even if he ends the marriage, na him father go take care of his children abi.....

No be the property him live go use care for the children by the way if we find out now, the woman also contributed her quote to the properties they solely claimed to be their sons'

the wife did not contribute anything to the man's life..

the wife should return to her father's house and leave the children with her in-laws..

meobizy:
Likely someone who lives nearby wearing what she felt comfortable in. Nobody will wear that outside for long periods. No different from street guys and constructions workers who wear singlets and boxers to buy from cornershops.

Thats due to lack of enforcement from the state govt.

Street guys and construction workers should never dress that way.

Wickedfacts:
For once, Bianca was correct and the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs is a national traitor.

As for Tinubu, he's a traitor and disgrace to black Africa.

if it was the SA president then it won't be a bad visit..

Black South Africans need to make their country work for their unborn generations..

other Africans should go and fix their countries...

FSBoperator:
Go collect your fresh supply of bitterness from Giringori

I don't support any politician..

I definitely will never support a politician that is not the same ethnicity as me because I live in my ethnic territory and rarely go out of my ethnic territory therefore I am only concern about developments in my territory and currently yoruba politicians are f**king up so I will vote against them because they want zerror:ists to kill and kidnap yoruba people..

FSBoperator:
Bad belle

I hope the "renewed hope summer bonus" has been credited to your account..

don't become a roadside akara seller after all this dedication ..

FSBoperator:
I don't want to sound boastful but I must commend Tinubu for four major policies which I can tell you I have had thought of long before Tinubu became President,.

These are:

1. Coastal road.

2. State Police

3. Expanding military formations

4. And this gas pipeline.

It's almost as if some one in govt is tapping into my brain.

AlphaTaikun:
Indeed, they are good projects and initiatives for long-term sustainability, BUT more has to be done by the Nigerian President 'Bola Tinubu and his team to urgently unbundle Nigeria through the implementation of the Constitutional Review from all the political, social and economic inefficiencies created by the British Colonialists and their cronies (largely of Fula stock with foreign North African Berber ancestral origins) who they elevated above others and used to subjugate others for their indirect rule (and for collecting taxes from other ethnicities in the North). Tinubu has to urgently start the full unbundling of Nigeria before the elections and NOT in his second term as alleged so that he can win more undecided voters in Nigeria to his side with ONLY 5 months left to the next Presidential elections in January 2027.

the project is good and bad but it is bad because the one going through the desert would have meant that they stop sponsoring zerro:rists to attack and destabilize the sahel and coastal countries..

now with this coastal project it means that the zerrorism and destabilization will continue.

you APC keyboard warriors are back again trying to earn your 70k..

liars...

eastern region attacked other region and the only response to such is to also attack the eastern region..