abc115:
God Bless Gov Sanwo-Olu
God Bless Incoming President Bola Tinubu
God Bless President Buhari
God Bless Lagos State
God Bless Federal Republic of Nigeria

God bless Ambode who initiated and almost completed the project.

Ttalk:


Some posts don't deserve a response but I'll reply thus to clear up your ignorance. How do you own a multinational company without establishing one? You have to register your company for it to gain local and international acceptance. The day LAMATA was created was the beginning of the transformation of the transportation system in Lagos state. Not only that but other agencies like LIRS, LASTMA, LAWMA, etc.

Stop being ignorant, governance is a continuum and we are only appreciating Tinubu for his visionary leadership and exemplary courage in birthing that institution,

You stop being ignorant and stop deceiving the younger ones that don't know the truth.

Ttalk:
When you tell them about the role played by Tinubu, they will downplay it and say it doesn't matter.

They said raising IGR is nothing but hogwash, to them, IGR means nothing and should not be used as a yardstick to measure the performance of a governor.

This makes me wonder why everyman including Tinubus critics strives to grow their income. Every worker wants a pay rise, and a businessman wants a higher profit, but Tinubus critics say IGR doesn't reflect in the standard or the people.

How do you raise your standard of living if you can't generate enough income to meet your needs?

They are so delusional and fancies the feeding bottle arrangement where every state depends on the FG to meet its needs. No wonder their forefathers were the ones that truncated regional autonomy while the children keep maintaining it.

How do you rationalize people that are against the state's collection of VAT?

Now we are seeing the wonders that a high IGR can do for a state. Today, Lagos is setting another record in sub-Saharan Africa by modernizing its transport system.

Let other states increase their IGR so they can embark on transformation projects, I'm sick and tired of people defending mediocre when they should be talking, a state like Anambra should be on the course if the foundation laid by Chris Ngige to generate income for the state have been kept by the subsequent governors, today, Anambra has dropped on that ladder and it would take the state 7years budget to do what Lagos will do in a year with its budget of 1.7 trillion.

Let's all charge our state governors to perform and stop celebrating mediocrity.

If Tinubu has done it in Lagos, he will do it again at the federal level.

Vote Bola Ahmed Tinubu,

This rail project is Fasholas ,he started it,took loans and the present governor completed it.

oyebanji44:



God bless you too bro,

You can never see this in any other region apart from south west..

Because Lagos was the capital for a long time.If Rivers State was the capital for that long,it would have been richer and better than Lagos state.

Tchay!!! Sad!!! May their souls rest in peace.

Islie:


https://www.sunnewsonline.com/air-force-plane-suffers-tyre-burst-overshoots-runway/

Does this look like an airforce trainer?This is a much bigger plane.

Chopcy29:


So project that started since 2013 na buhari run am?

Don't mind them.Pmb did not contribute anything.

God bless Gej for this.

Moh247:




Buhari is super excellent when it comes to infrastructure

Fashola and Ameachi gave us back to back non stop without making noise


.

This is Gejs project.He paid the counterpart fund of $325m ,the Chinese raised the rest .Pmb did not contribute anything.

Massiveglory:
Podatti and atikuokowa will drag delta state for the presidential election but I see podatti taking it.
Emilokan should do thanksgiving if he sees 5%.
The governorship election is between this sheriff guy and the mace snatcher deputy senate president.

who is podatti?

God bless Wike,it is overtime to call off the bluff of the North.

The Nimc and inec voters data gives us an estimate. They are backed with data. The latest nimc figures confirm figures. Bayelsa is still the least populated state

veggieman2be:

Yes Padma F1 and Platinum F1 (I planted it last year during dry season the yield is amazing imagine having like 80 - 120 fruit on a stand) from East West are high yielding variety but I don't know much about Gahmar from Thai Agro that their marketer have told me about.
It was Platinum F1 I used to open this thread.
I will post the pix if I have the time

what was your fertilizer program like? Did you use fertigation?

As if he did all these with his personal money

moscobabs:
Lagos is a country on its own .

Eko the heritage of the Yorubas

Thanks to the fact that it was the capital for a long time and the oil money of the south south. that laid a solid foundation

Why can't they stop illegal bunkering and stealing of our crude oil? It shows there is security officials conspiracy.

NaijaRoyalty:
Over 7 million people registered for PVC in Lagos

2.1 million are Igbos living in Lagos

1.2million are Hausa and Fulani living in Lagos

1.1 million are Edo, Calabar, Akwa ibom and Benue People living in Lagos

And they will all vote for Peter Obi

Large percentage of Yoruba Lagos indigines will also vote for Labour Party Peter Obi and it's a wrap

Nigeria will be great again, Insha Allah

obviously an Igbo person posted this

blueAgent:


You dey mind the fools, dumb stupid Apc supporters.

honestly

Cognitivereason:


put your proof and figure here in USD and the amount OBJ earned in USD

statisence did the conversion. If I can lay hold on it, will post it.

Cognitivereason:
The report failed to include the fact that..OBJ, yar Adua and GEJ combined never withnessed a global pandemic that distruped global economies, Russia Ukraine war that sent diesel prices to quadruple also...the rapid Oil shock in 2014 moving into 2016...and it rapid gain in 2022..which means that subsidies had to almost double..including shortages as well..

they also didnt include the sharp oil production decline has ordered by OPEC when oiled dropped in 2014 as well as the ones stolen by theives..

many of these incident are well beyond the control of any president...The country had to feel the impact..ghana that was praised for having a better economy is literally on it knees as it inflation is above 30%..imagine transport cost over there especially when they dont pay oil subsidies..the harsh and current economic crises has literally destroyed a few country's economy..Sri Lanka is an example..


mention one country today that had a stable economy not moved by anything after facing the 2014 oil slumps, the woos of covid 19 plus lockdowns, russia ukriane war, gas prices sky rocketing etc

I am not saying the reports are fake..but let the reportings in balanced

according statisence on Twitter, as at December last year PMB's government had earned more than what Obj earned in 8 years,minus the $26b borrowed in external debts, ₦19Tb(almost $50b) from CBN and other local loans, bonds, pension funds etc.

tony0806:

*MODIFIED*

2,000,000 monthly

As at 2019, Nigeria had about 11,877 professors (though this include both those on private and public higher institutions).

That means; monthly, the government will pay 2,000,000 x 11,877 = 23,754,000,000. That's over twenty three billion naira monthly.

As at today, Nigeria produces about 1.2m BPD of crude oil (Our main source of income, excluding mineral resources from the north which I don't know why they don't mention it. Only God knows where that money is going to). Using the official exchange rate of about 414 naira/dollar,
If 1 barrel is about 93 dollars, this becomes 1,200,000 x 93$ = 111,600,000 per day



that's a total income of 111,600,000 x 414 = 46,202,400,000 (Nigeria's income from crude oil).

THEN; 46,202,400,000 x 30 days = 1,386,072,000,000. This is over 1.3 Trillion naira monthly.

Boy o boy, This country is making money.

SUMMARILY, THE GOVERNMENT CAN PAY ASUU COMFORTABLY.

You are very wrong. Oil companies take at least 40% of the revenue as their part. With what is left the FG takes 52%.Do the calculation, don't forget the government has debts to pay and other government workers to pay.

Nothing like rapture, no Christian going anywhere.

EmmanuelEvicted:
Northern states are nothing but leeches

But they are doing better than Eastern states and seem to be more viable.I pity those hoping for Biafra.

NGpatriot:



lmao....Listen to this joker..


Okonjo wiped out our debt, but she got us in so much debt that they had no money left that she was borrowing to pay salary.

Do you people even read your silly lies and ignorant rubbish before posting?

My friend I am talking about foreign debts,not local debts.How much has Buhari borrowed?how much has he printed?. When 95% of our revenue is going for paying debts,how is the government funding recurrent expenditure?Not to talk of capital expenditure.Under GEJ,we never spent more than 60% of revenue settling debts.

LordviccoDaGuru:
Gbam!!!

I have said this before and am still saying it... It's the damages PDP put Nigeria �� through that's bringing about loan. Buhari is not responsible for any loan he has been borrowing, if I am Buhari I will keep borrowing after all it was the past govt that caused it.

If we can't borrow then how can we stabilizer the economy after 16 locust useless years of the PDP?

The good president Buhari has done for Nigeria �� in future time to come we will still be enjoying it... I advise Buhari to come back again in 2023 he alone knows the key. Buhari till 2031 after 2031 Buhari will hand over to Yusuf Buhari.

With due respect,you are very ignorant.You are listening to politicians,go to the DMO website and see the facts.The area we are having problems is with our external debt.We know Obj wiped out almost everything.Yaradua left $2b when he died.Gej borrowed $5b and left a total of $7b.Now our existing debts are about $30b,though the DMO has refused to update since March for obvious reasons.This region has printed more money than any government through ways and means.Out of ₦15T printed by previous and present admins,this regime printed ₦13.5b,google it.Serap has made many requests for details to no avail.The PMB has been the most reckless when it comes to borrowing.The printing of naira is the reason naira is losing value.

aminulive:
POLITICSNIGERIA.COM



https://politicsnigeria.com/northerners-are-not-parasites-we-discovered-oil-ncm-leader-aliyu/

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Saturday, August 5, 2017
Ango Abdullahi, Northern Nigerian Colonial Economy and Niger Delta Oil
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
Twitter: @farooqkperogi

In my May 6, 2017 column titled “Top 8 Popular National Lies that Won’t Die in Nigeria,” I called attention to out-and-out historical lies that vast swathes of Nigerians treasure and reproduce intergenerationally, and that are, I said, almost “impossible to uproot.”

One of such lies, I pointed out, is the idea, popular among northern Nigerians, that the Northern Region’s resources financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta. I wrote: “Professor Ango Abdullahi actually repeated this lie recently. He said this, ironically, while exhorting Emir Sanusi II to ‘go and read history.’ The truth is that not a dime of northern Nigeria’s money contributed to oil exploration in the Niger Delta.


“When oil was discovered in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956, Shell bore the financial burden for the exploration. Other Euro-American oil companies later joined in oil exploration. It wasn’t until 1973 that the Nigerian federal government acquired 30 percent shares in oil companies. By 1973, Northern Nigeria had ceased to exist….

“In any case, colonial records show that the biggest motivation for amalgamating northern and southern Nigeria was because northern Nigeria wasn’t financially self-sustaining and the British Imperial Government said it would never subsidize colonial administration anywhere in Africa. So Lord Lugard amalgamated the two regions and used the surplus from the south to sustain the north. It’s illogical to say that a region that wasn’t financially self-sustaining financed oil exploration in the Niger Delta.”

Of the eight historical lies I pointed out, this was the stickiest among historically challenged northerners. I use the term “historically challenged” advisedly because several northern Nigerian professional historians called or emailed me to confirm that what I wrote was a basic fact that every beginning undergraduate in Nigerian economic history knows. They wondered why someone of the stature of Professor Ango Abdullahi would ridicule himself by repeating discredited and falsifiable lies. I told one of them to write a guest column to educate our people on the economic history of the region. “I am not as brave as you are,” he said. But when did educating people with the facts become bravery?

I am a northerner with as much stake in the region as anybody else, but I am also a truth-seeking academic who isn’t held back from telling the truth by maudlin sentimentality or fear of emotive pushback from the vulgar herd. I go where the truth leads me, even if it is to facts that cause me personal discomfort. That’s how my dad raised me, and no amount of emotional blackmail will stop that.

Several of the readers who continue to angrily react to my column say I didn’t provide any proof for my assertions. So, here we go. In an 89-page report for the British Parliament titled, “Amalgamation of Northern and Southern Nigeria, and Administration, 1912-1919,” Frederick D. Lugard clearly said two reasons informed his proposal to amalgamate the North and the South: finance and railways. On finance, he wrote:

“In 1906 a further step in amalgamation was effected in the South. Southern Nigeria and Lagos became one Administration under the title of the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria. From this date the material prosperity of the South increase with astonishing rapidity. The liquor duties—increased from 3s. in 1901 to 3s. 6d. in 1905—stood at 5s. 6d. a gallon in 1912, and afforded an ever-increasing revenue, without any diminution in the quantity imported. They yielded a sum of £1,138,000 in 1913.

“The North, largely dependent on the annual grant from the Imperial Government, was barely able to balance its budget with the most parsimonious economy, and was starved of the necessary staff, and unable to find funds to house its officers properly. Its energies were concentrated upon the development of the Native Administration and the revenue resulting from direct taxation. Its distance from the coast (250 miles) rendered the expansion of trade difficult. Thus the anomaly was presented of a country with an aggregate revenue practically equal to its needs, but divided into two by an arbitrary line of latitude. One portion was dependent on a grant paid by the British taxpayer, which in the year before Amalgamation stood at £136,000, and had averaged £314,500 for the 11 years ending March, 1912” (p. 7; view the PDF of the entire report here).

Again, a 1935 report by colonial government statistician S.M. Jacob, titled The Taxation and Economics of Nigeria, gives a vivid account of the immense disparities in the revenues between the North and the South. It shows, for instance, that one of the reasons the North was financially disadvantaged was that agricultural produce from the region had less economic value in the international market than agricultural produce from the South.

There is also a 202-page record of the correspondence between colonial administrators in Nigeria and their home government in Britain on the necessity of amalgamating the North and the South. Copious references were made to the North’s economic disadvantage and to the economic lifeline the region needed from the South to survive. The record of the correspondence, which took place between May 15, 1913 and January 27, 1914, is held in the British National Archives, and can be accessed with the following reference number: CO 879/113/3.

But two things need to be made clear. First, the North’s economic disadvantage relative to the South wasn’t a consequence of the South’s superior work ethic—or the North’s laziness. It was because, being close to the coast, the South had (still has) ports, which brought foreign goods that attracted hefty tax revenue. It was, in fact, Lagos that almost singlehandedly gave the South its economic advantage. Lagos still accounts for more than half of Nigeria’s IGR.

Second, it also so happened that the cash crops that the colonialists introduced to the South—cocoa, palm oil, kernels, rubber—had more economic value in the international market than Northern Nigeria’s cash crops such as groundnuts and cotton. In terms of quantity, the North produced substantially more agricultural produce than the South but, by a twist of circumstances, the North’s crops didn’t have as much economic value as the South’s.

This isn’t something to be proud or ashamed of. We are talking here of naked colonial exploitation of our people for the benefit of Britain. It means, in effect, that the colonial conquerors exploited the South more thoroughly than they did the North. That’s neither a cause for pride nor a reason to be ashamed. In my undergraduate days, I recall getting a kick out of Lord Salisbury’s angry description of my part of northern Nigeria, that is, Borgu, as "a malarious African desert…not worth a war." As a starry-eyed Marxist then, I took delight in the knowledge that imperialists didn’t find my place worthy of economic exploitation.

Anyway, if the North wasn’t economically self-sustaining, how could it possibly finance oil exploration in the Niger Delta? That’s a wild leap of logic. Plus, it’s a well-known fact that it was Shell, not the Nigerian government, that bore full financial responsibility for oil exploration in the Niger Delta.

As George G. Frynas points out in his Oil in Nigeria: Conflict and Litigation between Oil Companies and Village Communities, Shell spent more than 6 million pounds of its own money between 1937 and 1953 before striking oil in Akata, near Eket, in non-commercial quantities. After spending some more millions, it found oil in commercial quantities in Oloibiri in 1956. Neither the Nigerian government nor the northern Nigerian government made any financial contribution to Shell’s exploration activities.


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Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D..

It was obvious all along.

aspabay:


If you are deaf, at least you cannot be blind

It is not insult matter,please name completed projects by this government,not ongoing.The Abuja-Kaduna railway was GeJs,the airports terminal buildings were GEJs own.He only one near completion is Lagos-Ibadan railway.Probably the ongoing ones will be commissioned by the next government which will take the glory.

aspabay:


Gej award this gej awards that. Aren't you guy ashamed? How many did he complete from Obasanjo and Yar'adua.
It only take a man with vision to initiate and complete projects. Not that Utuoke drunkard.

So which one has your bokoharist done?

aspabay:
Sincerely President Buhari is doing well in building infrastructures and completing all abandoned projects.

God Bless President Buhari
God bless Nigeria

Nigeria shall prevail

GEJ awarded this contract,not PMB,it is a Chinese loan,GEJ paid 10% counterpart funding.Leave PMB out of it.It is the same with all the airports renovated and the Abuja-Kaduna railway.

40 days,will be following