₦airaland Forum

ogododo:
https://dailytrust.com/lagos-got-more-slots-than-northern-states-combined-kano-assembly-rejects-customs-recruitment/?noamp=available

gare:
will this not increase the price on imported fuel, because i dont think Dangote is able to meet the daily consumption on fuel.

BlackViper:
https://x.com/Globalstats11/status/1983580810122031280?t=U8raZZ-8AmdGpeWvzwZKfA&s=19[/quote]This list deosnt make sense. How is Morocco here and far worse African countries are not - like Cameroon, Sierra leone, Liberia etc

EdonhappenTv:
The pictures of the house.

Kemetian:
THE DAYS OF AJAOKUTA BEING MORIBUND ARE DRAWING TO AN END.

Nigeria may partner China to revive Ajaokuta Steel Company – Minister




https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/828122-nigeria-may-partner-china-to-revive-ajaokuta-steel-company-minister.html

ThroneNGamez:
https://x.com/instablog9ja/status/1978835735869346080?t=PSt1QyWZBOSPwZPWA93rPA&s=08[/quote]I actualy agree with him. Too many folks on X and other channels just spew religious and tribal hate messages all day long.

Any account linked to Nigeria via phone number, location etc must have the users NIN as part of his or her profile information (though not visible to the public).

So after that, let anyone who comes to post on social media do so with his full chest. No one is saying you shouldn't criticise. But criticise is different from insult.

No one is saying you shouldn't agitate for your community, clan or tribe, but that is not the same as propagating tribal hate.

Anonymity should be no excuse to come and circulate absolute falsehood.

seunmsg:
What is the best caption for this picture?

Lanruze:
This new investment is a birth of the PIA initiated by President Muhammed Buhari.

The credit goes to late PMB and not PBAT.

The unbundling of roles, responsibilities and tasks of the Upstream (Exploration), Midstream (Refining) and Downstream (Distribution) has made investments more attractive in the Upstream sector.

Shell had announced this investment since last year with a total of $5B but has just concluded the first tranche of the $2B. This investment has been captured as an FDI inflow since last year.

Them go whine you (Propagandist) but please no panic.

SeeWahala:
But . . . It is actually a crappy song naw or abi my ear dey hear wetin no dey play? 🤔

RandDigital:
The jacarandas are out, and honestly, it’s one of the highlights for anyone who drives the cities’ canopied streets. They add a touch of magic here that can’t be found anywhere else in SA, or at least not in the numbers that we have them in Gauteng province.

But do you know the story behind these blooming jacarandas? They’re actually not indigenous to South Africa.

They came from Brazil more than 100 years ago, Durban got the first ones in the early 1800s, and Pretoria followed in the 1880s. Two of the oldest trees still stand in Sunnyside (Pretoria) today.

When the Union Buildings (President's office, see last picture) were being built in the early 1900s, the city was also modernising its infrastructure. Old trees had to be removed to make way for new sewerage systems. Instead of leaving streets bare, the Pretoria Council handed out jacaranda saplings for free to residents. People planted them in their gardens and along pavements, and before long, entire streets bursted with purple.

That’s how Pretoria earned its nickname, Jacaranda City (picture 3)

Today there are about 65,000 mature jacaranda trees across the city. They all flower at once on bare branches, which is why the bloom always seems to come out of nowhere like a surprise. And while we might think of them as Pretoria’s pride, Johannesburg actually has even more (picture 2)

There are even rare white-flowering jacarandas near Jan Cilliers Park and Wonderboom if you know where to look.

The University of Pretoria (UP) alone is home to over 200 trees, some of which were transplanted during the Bus Rapid Transit project and are still thriving.

Jason Sampson, who heads the botanical gardens at UP, says jacarandas are some of the toughest.

Pests aren’t really partial to them, and so they’ve stood the test of time as an invasive species. They’re actually one of the few invasive species given an exclusion clause, meaning they can still be planted in urban areas. That’s why they’ve remained such an iconic part of Pretoria.

Good day to everyone, wherever you may be watching from. I am Alhaji Mustapha Adekunle, popularly known as Sego, Chairman of the NURTW in Lagos State.

This afternoon, I was invited by the DSS over false allegations, claiming that I insulted some groups while addressing our… pic.twitter.com/PxxBeV3c5P

— 36kinniun media👑 🦁 🕊 (@fattylincorn_01) October 2, 2025

givedemwotowoto:
So many explanations to take the focus away from fighting corruption. Like a man who is well paid but wastes his money on gambling, alcohol and women, explaining to his wife why he can’t feed his family

Hermaphrodite2:
I came across the school fees for freshly admitted students in UNILORIN. Is this not getting out of hand? I can remember vividly, this sum isn't upto what students pay for their whole study in the university. In addition, Acceptance fees of 40k has to be paid

BlackViper:
The problem of incompetence in tax collection is already raring its head again.

We have been told that the new tax regime will go into effect on the 1st of January 2026 and before then, everyone will be expected to already have a Tax Identification Number (TIN), but even as of now approaching the end of September, there is no single registration centre anywhere where one can get a T.I.N.

Are they now going to introduce registration centres at the 11th hour so people will be queueing for their T.I.N during the Christmas break because they want to beat the deadline of 1st January 2026?

To add insult to injury, they will still penalise you if you fail to acquire a T.I.N before the deadline.

Nigerians are watching and waiting.

Btruth:
Ogun State again? What a blessing for the state all the time. But yet, the state government doesn't have the clue.

iwaeda:
https://punchng.com/just-in-tinubu-orders-fec-committee-to-crash-food-prices/

Olaide1295:
Nigeria exempts churches (and mosques) from paying taxes.
So this man may end up paying nothing.

Warmaterial:
I think you have not been to PH before, don't be quick to comment without understanding exactly what you're talking about.

Svoboda:
The same way he transformed rivers that multinationals are now abandoning Lagos for rivers. To exhibit his tunnel vision approach to social and infrastructural development, he abandoned the monorail project in PH because of sentimentality. Presently, resident doctors are on a warning strike in the fct. The NUT strike is yet to be fully resolved. Abuja residents won't have to cut off asphalted roads to treat the sick or teach kids that have been off school for months.

jaxxy:
I repeat the problem for Nigerians isn't paying Taxes but paying taxes only for it to be mismaged and looted by corrupt politicians who don't think they owe the citizens any accountability will be diabolical and create new consequences of shocking proportions.

Nigerians cannot pay taxes and INEC who is paid from our taxes riggs elections against same taxes paying Nigerians to favour criminal politicians.

Local government councils can't take tax payers monies and go on shopping sprees and buying houses for girlfriends.

There has to be a equivalent responsibility and consequences of mismanagement of taxes by government to taxpayers.

happney65:
Looks like the handiwork of Craneburg. Looks like their style. Them dey deliver well.

omowolewa:
Two things can solve rhe effectively

1. Use of Technology, drones and communication. They have precision, they lost no blood, they don't need to understand the terrain, they don't have emotions.

2. Use of Foreign Mercenaries whose work and MoU is to fight rhe war. They don't need pensions, they are not growing career, they are not taking orders from a long chain. They have time and targets

franchasng:
I doubt you truly live in a developed country if you are not aware that UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Bahamas, Singapore, Malta, Switzerland, etc are all tax-free countries that don't tax citizens and residents income tax.


Even in America, the below states are tax free:

Alaska, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming do not levy income taxes. Washington does not tax income but does tax capital gains of certain high earners.


States with no income tax may still charge other taxes, such as sales and property taxes.



Nigeria is an oil producing country with many other natural resources that the government have been exploring and wasting without accountability to the citizens. Despite our huge crude oil resources, we are still struggling to provide the most basic necessities like national security, healthcare and water supply.


Now tell me how forcing Nigerians to pay huge tax will make any difference?


Imagine you have been earning fat salary as a worker and you have been wasting it on drinking, clubbing, call girls and gambling and your company decides that promoting you with another increase in salary will make you more financially responsible, how is that possible? It will only make you engage in more financial wastes like increase in the amount you use to gamble with before, increase in the amount of alcohol you consumed previously and increase in the number and class of call girls you engaged with in the past, it's as simple as that.


Widening and tightening the tax net and enforcing strict compliance is not what Nigeria need now to come out of the woods that Tinubu pushed Nigerians into, unless you lack common sense and wisdom.



This Tax master ought to be forced out of Aso Rock before he wrecks Nigeria beyond repair honestly

lexy2014:
Who are the "you guys" you are referring to?

What are "you" supposed to pay that they didn't pay?

Is government innocent of ripping off?

lagostrendboy:
“One Was a Gaudy Carnival, the Other an Exhibition of Class” – Patrick Doyle on Two High-Profile Nigerian Weddings

Veteran media personality Patrick Doyle has shared his candid thoughts on the contrast between two recently held high-profile Nigerian weddings that took place in the United States and Europe. Eyes Of Lagos reports,

Taking to social media, Doyle described how the two ceremonies showcased very different sides of Nigerian society.
Patrick Doyle’s Observations

In his words:



https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1B5GTrkwrF/


Social Media Buzz

His post has since generated discussions online, with many Nigerians debating which weddings he was referring to, while others applauded his boldness in pointing out the duality of Nigerian culture—loud and flamboyant yet stylish and sophisticated.

https://eyesoflagos.com/patrick-doyle-throws-shade-at-davidos-wedding-hails-another/

Ofunaofu:
https://dailypost.ng/2025/09/07/nigerians-poorer-now-than-1960-el-rufai-tells-tinubu-govt-how-to-end-poverty/

nairalanda1:
LOL

The truth is, NIgerians do not want to pay what needs to be paid to get light 24/7.

Nigerians want cheap power. Or free power. They will now quote me and tell me that discos are not giving value for money...when 20% of disco customers are band A , and are thus paying cost reflective tarrifs...the rest are subsidised. Yes, 1trillion naira profit was made...when experts say we need 10 trillion naira yearly to fix power. 1 trillion cannot cover what 10 trillion can cover...no matter how much we pretend it can, or how many times we shout 'corruption'. To think that way is basically engaging in magical thinking.

GEJ knew...which is why he left subsides, because if he did the right thing and told Nigerians the cold hard truth that power was expensive, and they have to pay cost reflective tarrifs back in 2013, they would have rioted. Buhari same thing. Tinubu...wanted to also carry on the pretence, but funding forced him to at least bring in band A

Forget party, forget agbado, forget all that crap. If you like, call me tinubu supporter, taxman, insensitive, evil, etc. But until we accept that we have to pay cost reflective tarrif for power, just as we accepted we would for gsm, and see what happened there....we are never going to have the investment, funding, and so on needed to get light 24/7.

Like I said, I also think tinubu must go in 2027. I never have ever voted for the man in my life. He is just as bad as buhari. But the power situation is not about who is in office, it is about what we are ready to pay into it....and what measures we put in place to enable investors make a profit too...and see return on investment. Subsides and cheap power don't help. That is what I learned when I was trying to understand why GEJ was trying to privatise power in 2013. And why I hold the views I hold today.

We can face facts, or lie to ourselves.

adenigga:
Source: https://newtelegraphng.com/nass-to-scrap-band-abcd-electricity-tariff-categories

seunoyeleyep:
If not that some Nigerians are docile, why should anyone even accept such idea. I see the jobless youths here almost every time claiming they enjoy 24hr uninterrupted power supply.

In my place, you are not even guaranteed of any fixed units. Today, you see 20 units for a thousand, tomorrow it has reduced to 17. In fact, at a time, it was 4 units to a thousand. Guess what, I don't even know the band. Today, the tell us we are in band A and tomorrow they say it is band C. Same house, same country.

We never had it this bad in the days of our darling PDP which these corrupt elements said wasn't good enough for the country.


Now that it affects the so called rich, they are even scrapping the whole arrangement. Shockingly, the miscreants here will quickly change tune. There is enough reason to heap curses on every APC elements for sure.

Ofunaofu:
How much will truly be sustainable under this wicked and draconian regime of a díctatór parading as a democrat?

When fuel jumps from under N200 to over N1,000 per liter, everything else collapses with it, transportation becomes a luxury, food becomes a gamble, jobs disappear, and even hope begins to feel like a myth.

Let’s not deceive ourselves, even a N1 million minimum wage will be meaningless in an economy where a bag of rice costs almost a N100,000 and above. What use is high pay when the value of the naira is in freefall, and inflation eats your salary before you even touch it?

This is not governance.This is state-sponsored suffering wrapped in propaganda and defended by the blind loyalty of Agbadoos, sycophants. Nigeria has never seen such a dangerous mix of arrogance, incompetence, and tribal-fueled leadership. And history will not forget.

Sirleo05:
This government is not giving Nigerians a breathing space. I mean, back to back one increase to another. I thought government is supposed to be for the people?, why is ours against us?

amaridigital:
Abi o. Billionaires and popular musicians, footballers always go to jail for tax evation. Nobody likes taxes and no Go fails to collect taxes except Nigeria. We were growing up we use to see tax men roaming the streets asking for evidence of tax payment but not anymore because politicians prefer sharing oil money and never care about real development. Nigeria's oil money is not enough for 4m people talkless of 250m people.