₦airaland Forum

nwirinedu:
The tax reforms will further impoverish people, PAYE will be on the high side for employees, overheads will increase for organizations, daily household incomes will deplete because of the increased costs in utilities due to the 10% VAT starting this year.

The gainers are those who are exempted from the tax law.

A lot of people are even ignorant of the content of the tax bill, they only think the bill is something to trigger the north due to sharing formular proposed. The main thing that affects them which is what you listed, they are not paying attention to it.
How can the government be planning to increase vat to 15% in an economy where purchasing power of the citizens is almost eroded?

Lithiumite:
Then you must be unintelligent enough to know that currency devaluation and lack of capacity to produce enough is what's driving up food prices.....the same govt that was in power when rice was 12k....go and check how much that govt met the price of same rice.

Who is responsible for the currency devaluation and lack of capacity you alluded zombie?
A government met dollar at 500 and now it's 1600, so whether it's directly of indirectly the government is still responsible and totally accountable. I hope you can see, you are the unintelligent and daft one here and not the person you quoted.

MT:
The state government owns the land, what are they doing with it.

Hold your Governors responsible for some actions.
The Governors collect monthly allocations and own the lands. Stop focusing on the FG skins to solve all your problems.

You must be very daft to be quoting things out of context just to divert blame from your God Tilumbu. When the minister appointed by Tilumbu was making the promise, he didn't know that state government owned the land then abi?
If your attempt is to shift the blame to state government, what then is his function as minister of agriculture? It means he should not even have any office in the first place if we are to go by your logic since you are absolving the federal government of any blame. Mumu zombified human being.

emkz:
They could not unite to defeat the candidate they assumed they could defeat, but they can unite in solidarity.

That tells you why they lost.

As for Atiku's defence of Mahdi Shehu, where was Atiku when Mahdi Shehu shared an old video from 2013 to spread a propaganda that Nigeria had allowed French to set up a military base in Nigeria?

Dear Atiku, Peter Obi claimed his family and himself were threatened. Did you even bother to ask him what kind of threats were issued?

You are a statesman. Act like one and call for calm, not make fiery comments for political expediency.

My worry is not even about what you posted but about the ronuists/agbado posts always getting the same amount of likes.
I think Seun should be wary of various parody accounts and BOTs used in generating this likes to make ronuists feel good with themselves.

Kdon2:
Obi is not any different. A pot calling the kettle black. Instead of fixing Anambra economy to stabilize obi was investing their money through proxies in Dubai. Have you read the global consortium news report tagged Pandora. Obi was one of the prominent figures identified in various tax scam.

I don't give a Bleep about Obi or any politician, my response is on the message and not on the messenger. Besides the last time I checked Obi is not the president neither is he holding any political posts so he can afford to go to anywhere he likes to get his treatment. My interest as a Nigerian and who I will hold accountable is the president so he should practice what he preaches.
Obi can go to hell as far as I'm concerned, Obi does not owe you any obligation, who you should hold accountable is the one leading you.

Kdon2:
Obi is the dullest presidential candidate in Nigeria history ☹️

In what way please explain? What he said actually makes a lot of sense, how do you understand the problems if you don't use the facilities here in Nigeria. You budgeted Billions for state house hospital but when you have just a toothache you rush to France and later come back to tell Nigerians to patronise local product to help the naira.
Is that not the height of hypocrisy from a government to it's people?

MightySparrow:
Are you for real? Refineries that have not worked for decades! Thank God Tinubu is receiving them now. No matter how harsh, we are now eating our rice, rice produced in Nigeria. Since Obasanjo who tried to reposition the economy, no other person has done much. The criminalities we have today is because, people are jobless and there are plenty jobs in Nigeria that are crippled by bad leaders.

You will say you are just eating your own Nigerian rice and don't generalize,Nigerian rice has been available since the days of Abakaliki stony rice for over 40 years or more now and it was far cheaper than the foreign ones.
If your reference is to the non stony Nigerian rice then it still did not start from Tinubus government , it was started by Jonathan's rice revolution, continued by Buhati and not Tinubu at all, I recall Ambode and Kebbi state govt in Jonathan's time coming up with Lake rice and the price was then far cheaper than the imported ones, it's only in Tinubu govt that we have Nigerian rice that is now at same price wit foreign rice and it's not something to be proud of at all.
It's the same way you are attributing refineries that Buhari paid fully for it's rehabilitation to Tinubu, the funny thing is while Tinubu himself is praising Buhari for fixing the refineries, his zombies like Reno and the ones here on nairaland are praising him for the refineries.You zombies should stop clinging at any straw to praise your master and attributing things he has no clue of to him.

kayperry:
Sometimes when you listen to them speak, even if our present LU is full of dropout dont they consult and ask experts

How can any graduate be proposing incessant minimum wage increase as a messure to catch up with inflation

A serious country's inflation index should not be more than a digit, Nigeria is on 35 trying to catch up with that is like using thunder sound to cover bomb noise ...exactly

what we need are sincere efforts to wind down inflation @top priority, ensure naira stability and value ... Nigerians can enjoy a 20k minimum wage even beta naa currency value be koko

I prefer the days 30k can buy a bag of rice and workers still have enough to go to work than a 150k minimum wage at these time

You have made an excellent point which is only applicable in theory but not practical. Do you think a bag of rice will ever come down to 30k again , or petrol reduce to 500/litre ever again? That's the main problem here which you and I know the prices will never get reduced again .
Now if we all admit that the prices of basic items will never go back to the way it was, then why will you expect the workers wages to remain the same, take for instance I fuel my car 50k weekly to work now and that's 300k monthly on fuel alone but my salary remains what it was in january.
If my fuelling cost and other things have increased and there's no hope of it reducing again, why will you expect my salary not to increase to match the attendant inflation that has ruined my salary?
Mind you,the government herself pegged the 2025 budget at an exchange rate 1500 to a dollar so don't expect the price of anything to reduce from what it is now cos it can only go up further.

GeneralPula:
Floating the naira is the best for naira. It’s even one of the best way to manage inflation. Atm, it’s supply & demand that’s determining the worth of naira. If Nigeria can start exporting more, inflation would get tamed!

And I believe that with time, Nigeria will find it fit into exporting more rather than importing anything & everything..

It's like putting the cart before the horse , when you know you are unproductive, why don't you get productive and start the exportation first before the floating.
Currency devaluation is good for an export economy not Nigeria, take South Korea and china for example. Now purchasing power is eroded in Nigeria and companies are making losses and closing down due to the hyperinflation in the economy.

Bluntemperor:
So, increasing More Salaries is the Solutions to Inflation,abi,as far as NLC is concerned?
Anyway,he de play,as Nigerians,have seen now,that Labour Leaders are clueless!
We de wait their Cruise!

So what exactly is your own proposed solution then? Workers should accept things the way it is when it's obvious the present salary cannot take them home? Do you know I spent 50k on fuelling my car alone? In a month thats 300k on fuel alone, what happens to feeding, taking care of my family, paying house rent etc.
Salary should be increased , when inflation increases, salary increases again and the cycle should continue.
The government cannot be feeding fat while we the workers suffer.

yoruboid:
Stepper ni… and handover to who? Obi? The man who isn’t fit to lead an LCDA in Lagos where LCDA chairmen are building housing estates, schools and roads that are better than anything he ever did in Anambra

Tinubu has legacies other governors have built on in Lagos. He developed the road map for rail, Eko Atlantic, the Lekki FTZ which we can all see manifesting today

It takes a bold leader to do a quarter of the things PBAT has done

Anyone with an understanding of Economics can see that the reforms are yielding results

Jagaban will fix Nigeria

Even Obi and Atiku have had little to say about the economy any longer except times they just want to appear relevant


Make yourself available for the consumer credit scheme for purchase of made in Nigeria cars when it becomes available this quarter if that’s what you want

There are several opportunities under this administration

This should be the biggest joke I have read in 2025 and yet it's just the first day of the year. So you are saying this economy that you are seeing with your own korokoro eye that you are not been told is doing fine and very well that Obi and Atiku are also praising it. An economy that has 35% inflation rate that has eroded all purchasing power of the citizens, an economy that the currency performed as the 3rd worst currency in the world losing over 200% of it's value within a year, an economy that saw energy costs which is the primary factor for production increased by over 400% in less than a year is the one you delusional APC zombie is praising like this.
To say you people have made me give up on Nigeria because of your psychophancy is an understatement I swear.

Fiscus105:
The aspects you don't know are far far far, more than the one you know. It would take a whole year of explanations for you to get to latest happenings in Nigeria governance, provided you ready to learn.


* Many of those crude oil you mentioned are already, sold out as a debt during Buhari, and it's a must for Tinubu to obey agreement.

*If Govt sells everything in Naira, where would Nigeria gets enough dollars to fund his projects that need dollars to fund.

You are only addressing the symptoms and not treating the root cause. The main problem I see here is low production, our crude oil output should be ramped up to about 2.5m bpd to meet local demands and external obligations, that way we won't be in this mess. How Nigeria an oil producing nation will not be able to meet 450k barrels allocated for local production is very embarrassing despite all the billions of dollars nnpc has pumped into oil exploration in the north and bonga field.

NLCreator:
https://dailytrust.com/reject-corruption-this-year-efcc-tells-nigerians/

Has this message been sent to the 3rd most corrupt leader in world ?

TheNiceGuy:
Very articulate

Man of the Year

Dey play, is it the same man that has just been voted as the 3rd most corrupt leader in the world or another man?
You APC zombies will never fail to amuse yourselves.

meobizy:
I get all my advice from Reddit. This place is for typing rubbish.

You are so on point, this place is just for the drama of Tilumbu zombies Vs Obidients cursing themselves and amusing me in the process and nothing more.
If you are looking for a place to add to your IQ then nairaland is the wrongest of place.
It was so bad that one APC zombie argued with me that naira will come back to the way it was without any reason but just banking on hope that will never come.

JagabanBorgu:
With each reply, you keep showing that u are a duIIard who dóñ't even understand the discussion going on but still want to partake in it.
DuIIards should stick to their level of understanding, this particular one is clearly above what ur brain can handle.
You given two replies that are not even in line with the discussion on ground.

How is my response to your position irrelevant ,stop being a cowardly yorubaman always embarrassing our tribe and stand by your word. Below is what you posted less than 24 hours ago.
"The average South African will accept an improved life right now in place of a huge stock exchange"
You clearly insinuated that Nigerians enjoy better life than south African with this post but when you have been called out with verifiable statistics that showed you were stupid for posting it, instead of apologizing for your dumbness and move on you are quickly trying to twist the narrative like a typical double mouthed Yoruba coward will always do.
Go and sit down with your fellow urchins and zombies my boy.

JagabanBorgu:
1. When you are so dàft to understand a discussion and why certain statements are made, don't jump into the discussion.
2. I don't need google to understand what I see and know.

What do you see or know, you know nothing other than to keep being a zombie and an APC ignoramus. You should be ashamed of yourself to spew a position that is unverifiable on the internet. Let me help you with further statistics to show how stupid you are for saying what you said in the first place. GDP: Nigeria USD199.72Bn,South Africa USD403.05. Inflation rate: Nigeria 34.6%, South Africa 4.7% .
I hope you noticed Nigeria is only ahead of South Africa in anything negative like inflation, exchange rate etc. Stop coming online to display your stupidity moving forward.

JagabanBorgu:
I asked that question because I don't understand how stock exchange made it into this discussion.
We don't really care about Stock Exchange, what we care about now is improving life not chasing stock exchange.
The average South African will accept an improved life right now in place of a huge stock exchange.

Are you in any way insinuating that the average Nigerian enjoys better quality of life than a south African with this stupid comment you just posted ?
Google is your friend and you may take a quick check before spewing your ignorant comment to show how shallow you are. Life expectancy - Nigeria 59.93 , South Africa 61.73; minimum wage Nigeria - 70000/month, South Africa- 27.58rand/hour(equivalent of NGN2266 or NGN1.65M/month), electricity Nigeria- 7000MW, South Africa - 59,700MW.
Yet a delusional APC zombie, who as usual only spew rubbish to masturbate with his fellow zombies is comparing quality of life in Nigeria to South Africa when there's definitely no basis for comparison at all.
You should at least hide your ignorance instead of coming online to show how dumb you are.

Biodun556:
In ikorodu, a company dug borehole and all the boreholes of the houses in the area dried up

Govt knows what we don't know

The ronuists are here again,they support anything at the cost of their own lives. This one has created an imaginary company that dug borehole that stopped water from running in his house to hold on to his Stockholm syndrome.
Supporting APC is a curse that you cannot purge yourself from even when you have the truth staring at you like a mirror, his fellow urchins carefully avoided this thread but him sha wan show him stupidity.

Tooreda:
The guys are just paid idiots. There is one useless guy among them that will usually have 22 likes. Funny buffoons

I noticed this too and Seun is allowing it to happen, it seems one of the ronu supporter has like 22 different accounts. Immediately he posts or comment on anything supporting the government, he will use his 22 different accounts to like it to deceive himself that they have supporters.
I keep saying it that this government still has supporters only on faceless forums like nairaland. The reality out there is that hunger has aligned everybody together against this government, whether I go to a bar to drink, or we are discussing politics in my office or anywhere at all. I am yet to find a single person still supporting APC or Tinubu, it's always curses and abuses that people on the streets use to follow the government and I stay in Lagos which is more of a Yoruba state . So you can imagine how nobody cares about tribe or anything again because of hunger and hardship in the land, it's only here on nairaland that I still find Tinubu supporters who probably are paid 30k monthly to do the dirty job and create multiple accounts on nairaland.
Even the ones here cannot say the nonsense they say here publicly for fear of losing their teeths and eyes by angry and hungry Nigerians out there.

jazzman7711:
https://businessday.ng/news/article/nigeria-renews-n3-28trn-currency-swap-with-china/#google_vignette

I always laugh when I see agreements signed on paper without any implementation plans or execution strategy. What became of the one Buhari signed before that did not yeild anything.
As a foreign trade expert, this would have been a fantastic move if there's a clearing house and settlement bank created for this purpose. The CBN will go to sleep after signing agreements on paper without any clearcut implementation strategy and create further confusion like the one Buhari signed.

ChizzyBuna:
So my parents are in village for christmas.
Coming from lagos to visit for xmas
I decided to visit our house in town where our family lives. Before going to meet them in village

What i found in my fathers room shocked me


Condom packets that were not prpperly thrown away.

Ky gel found open on the table
For those that don't know Ky gel is lubricant for sex.

This is enough proof this man is cheating.
Should i repirt him to my mum??

To think that it's a man that posted this is so nauseating.What happened to the bro code? I remembered the famous saying my dad always quote before his demise when my mum turned all her sons against him because he had side chicks, he will always say " e nu eh le wa ye" in Yoruba. Today I'm a man with kids and family and I realised my dad did nothing wrong but just being a man. Why is cos I'm doing much worse than what my dad did, it's just African in men to have side gigs and not anything new. It's unfortunate we have men these days that don't even have anything going but being effeminate.

KnowAll:
Do u seriously want a strong currency when u are not producing anything. So that when u have a headache u jump on plane to go to londofor check up.

The present president is the master of what you have just described, he jumps on a plane to France even when he has just a toothache in his brown teeth at the masses expense, yet the naira is even very weak now. So what exactly is the foolish foolish point you are making?

treesun:
https://reubenabati.com.ng/featur/weak-naira-is-good-many-people-can-t-travel-again-tinubu-s-aide/

Once you support APC or this useless government just know your brain is out of your skull. How can somebody's father wake up in the morning and say this rubbish and the children will not be ashamed of him. Weak naira is good because people are not travelling,since when does people not able to travel become a performance indicator pls?

Max24:
Yes, complacency all over the place. Like the complacency of the students loans which is the first of its kind in Nigerian history. Like the unprecedented Faac revenue States and LG are sharing, like the roads constructions that are ongoing everywhere, like investments coming in every month. Are u an illiterate? Do you know the meaning of complacency? I doubt.

You must be very foolish to come to my mention with this rubbish you just posted. You think I am as dumb as you are and easily deceived with propaganda?
The useless government you are supporting with audio non existent achievements that only exists in your imagination has failed in all ramification and it's staring at you in the face.
Unemployment is high, inflation is over 35% which is the first in the history of this country, exchange rate is over 1500, cost of living is through the roof infact people cannot feed and they dying in stampedes while begging for food yet this useless entity has the guts to come to my mention and insult me with non existent road and all kinds of gibberish to launder propaganda everywhere .
I keep saying APC and this useless government supporters only exist on faceless forums like nairaland, whether in pubs, lounges or even in my office I have not seen one person openly come out to still support this useless government cos they know they will receive beating black and blue due to the anger and hunger in the land.

ogolemati:
it's a stupid take to a stupid person,how will you want to replace Tinubu with Atiku at the level this country is at right now

Any alliance to get APC out of government is welcome at this point. I don't mind Atiku at this point just to get APC out, it's obvious an alliance is needed to get them out. They have failed Nigerians and remain boastful and non challant about it, that's why we have complacency at all levels of government.

lapintoz:
You are the ones with your brains in your anus.

Your flat head is deviod of any sane capacity.

What is the GDP of yoruba people that makes you think your gully erosion region is the only eldorado on earth.

Do you know how many yorubas are out side the shores of this country sending billions of dollars back home. The economy of the SW is thriving. You cannot get hotel rooms in most part of lagos. December is dirty! And they are hungry. Oponu.

You lost election and you are still crying into the 2nd year. Is this how you will cry till 2037. That's your kettle of fish.

Same hatred that took your ancestors to the grave has consumed you. I can only wish you Goodluck. 👍

Ronuists response is always predictable and devoid of any atom of sense, to them anyone not supporting their failed government is a Igbo or ipobist. This idiot did not know I'm even more Yoruba than him, I am a son of the soil of Lagos that's also born and bred in Lagos. He probably migrated from Ogbomosho or tewure and today feels he should be telling a son of the soil what is happening in his own state while his native Ogbomosho remains in tatters.
We indeginous lagosians have rejected Tinubu and his brand of politics from day one, his politics is formed on thugerry and does not have any meaningful impact on the people .This is why his economic policies have turned Nigerians to beggars dying in various stampedes.
His zombies like this one here can keep wallowing in their sorrow till they die of poverty inflicted by Tinubu on them.
Alainironu oloshi.

Lanretoye:
most of them don’t even have any significance in their family but if you read them online here you will think they even have what it takes to excel in their endeavors.if you look at their profile you will observe that 90% of them are from one part of the country and they have not gotten over the post election loss trauma

Actually Yoruba ronuists and APC urchins are the worst sets of people. They look tattered a d poverty stricken in real life , some of them go to bed hungry and beg for food everywhere but what's amazing is they still chose to worship the government that places them under the same sorrow.
That thing is always amazing to me.

etrouble:
And some bitter vagabonds still say it’s not Tinubu that developed Lagos. Shey na Nnamdi Azikiwe abi na Tafawa Balewa?

Are you saying it's Tinubu that removed molue from Lagos? Molue that was all over Lagos all through Tinubus tenure, it was fashola that started taking molue away in 2015, infact traces of molue was still all over Lagos until Ambode came and I still saw one as late as last year.
That's how you Tinubu ended up giving Tinubu credit for what all his predecessors did in your desperate attempt to paint him good and we are here seeing the result. Tinubu built Lagos my foot, I still maintain Tinubu is one of the worst governors of Lagos. All he achieved was excessive taxation and massive refuse dumps in all Lagos but stops while empowering touts and fighting political enemies like OBj,Funsho Williams (whose death is still being pointed to him), Ganiyu Dawodu and his deputies like Femi Pedro and the other woman, Fashola came in and cleared a lot of his mess and brought some sanity.
How he convinced APC zombies that he built Lagos is what baffles me till today. I was very matured and in the university when Tinubu was governor so I witnessed his term first hand.

Treasure17:
99.9% of the people in that picture are no more. Meaning you are not going to be here forever.

Says who, molue that I still saw last year. Infact molue is still operating in some parts of Lagos like Sango.

God1000:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gwzgvpe04o?

Is that not APC I'm seeing there? So APC sef dey Ghana with same logo sef.
Ghanians do not make the biggest mistake of your life by voting for APC, in Nigeria that irreversible mistake we made in 2015 is what has killed millions today and kept several millions in abject poverty.

This one is really working very hard to be noticed, too many of them are waiting on the queue to be noticed and settled. Onokpasa, Fani Kayode, Reno and this new fool.
They all want to settled with appointments as they don't have any substance without government money. Mumu people. My only pity is to the APC zombies online like helineus,madridguy,Freestuff etc, at least these ones can be noticed one day but the zombies online can never be noticed and will go to bed hungry once the 5kg of rice they shared to them finishes.