₦airaland Forum

socialmediaman:
[s]Media want to defeat Obaseki even before the electio[/s]n.

So media na the name of the Councillor's of Obaseki ward?

socialmediaman:
Media want to defeat Obaseki even before the election.

So media na the name of the Councillor of Obaseki's ward?

kolafolabi:
Not good for Obaseki, not good at all. I strongly hope he wins and put to shame the issue of godfatherism.

Godfather what?
So who are those that obagone has been going to all these days, spending Edo hard-earned money? Satanfathers?

ijustdey:
https://dailytimes.ng/5-reasons-buhari-may-have-omitted-obasanjos-name-in-the-train-station-honour-role/

Nonsense!
Why this hullabaloo?
Why Obasanjo, and not ibb, gowon, shonekan etc?

aremuforlife:
You always have erection erectile failure whenever you hear or see Tinubu's name, why attacking him? He is not the only person on the list.

Fixed

BREYZ:
Just like your useless father who produced a slowpoke as a son.

September is almost here and you the offsprings of gorillas, who lack rational logic, from baby factories will be shamed.
Bookmark this!

BREYZ:
Obaseki should fight on. He will win whether commissioners resign or not.

I like your authoritative stupidity!

Righteousness89:
Isaiah 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

This is only one quotation in your lifetime to refer to what the Bible says.

Lame duck and poorest Katsina got about one-quarter (25%) of the palliatives shared by FG.

Internal Revenue: Lagos generated more than 20 states combined in 2019 – Report
By Tayo Aderinola -July 26, 2020

Internal Revenue: Lagos generated more than 20 states combined in 2019 – Report

The Economic Confidential has r[b]eleased the Annual States Viability Index (ASVI) which shows that seven (7) States are insolvent as their Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) in 2019 were far below 10 per cent of their receipts from the Federation Account Allocations (FAA) in the same year.



The index showed that without the monthly disbursement from the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), many states remain unviable, and cannot survive without the federally collected revenue, mostly from the oil sector.

The IGR are generated by states through Pay-As-You-Earn Tax (PAYE), Direct Assessment, Road Taxes and revenues from Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA)s.

The IGR of the 36 states of the federation totalled N1.3 trillion in 2019 as compared to N1.1 trillion in 2018, an increase of about N200 billion. The report by the Economic Confidential, an intelligence magazine further indicates that the IGR of Lagos State of N398 billion is higher than that of 20 other states put together [/b]whose Internally Generated Revenues are extremely low, and poor compared to their allocations from the Federation Account.

Meanwhile, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja which is not a state but the nation’s capital generated N74 billion IGR against N30 billion from the Federation Account in the same period.

[b]Lagos State remained steadfast in its number one position in IGR with a total revenue generation of N398 billion compared to FAA of N270 billion which translates to 147 per cent in the twelve months of 2019. It is followed by Ogun State which generated IGR of N70.92 billion compared to FAA of N92 billion representing 77 per cent; Rivers with N140 billion compared to FAA of N219 billion representing 64 per cent and Kwara State with a low receipt from the Federation Account has maintained its impressive IGR by generating N30 billion compared to FAA of N80 billion representing 38 per cent.

Others with impressive IGR include Kaduna with IGR of N44 billion compared to FAA of N129 billion representing 35 per cent; Enugu generated N31 billion compared to FAA of N103 billion representing 29 per cent; Ondo with IGR of N30 billion compared to FAA of N103 billion representing 29 per cent; Edo with IGR of N29 billion compared to FAA of N108 billion representing 27 per cent; Anambra with IGR of N26 billion compared to FAA of N98 billion representing 27 per cent while Cross River State earned N22 billion IGR against FAA of N99 billion representing 25 per cent.

The ten states with impressive IGR generated N894 billion in total, while the remaining 26 states merely generated a total of N440bn in 2019.

The report provides an amazing discovery, as most states have improved their IGR compared to previous years. In 2019 only seven states generated less than 10 per cent IGR compared to 17 states in 2018.

There are seven states that may not survive [/b]without the Federation Account due to their extremely poor internal revenue generation of less than 10 per cent compared to their federal allocations. [b]Top on the list is Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari generated the poorest and lowest IGR compared to its federal allocation in 2019. It realized a meagre N8 billion compared to a total of N136 billion ‘free money’ received from the Federation Account Allocation (FAA) in 2019 representing 6 per cent. It is followed by Kebbi with IGR of N7.3 billion compared to FAA of N100 billion representing 7 per cent; Borno N8 billion compared to FAA of N121 billion representing 7 per cent and Taraba with IGR of N6.5 billion compared to N86 billion of FAA representing 8 per cent.

Others include Bayelsa, the home state of former President Goodluck Jonathan with IGR of N16 billion compared to N176 billion of FAA representing 9 per cent; Yobe with IGR of N8.4 billion compared to N88 billion of FAA representing 9 per cent and Gombe with IGR of N6.8 compared to N75bn of FAA representing 75% within the period under review.

The poor states with lower IGR may not stay afloat outside the monthly allocations from Federation Account due to lack of initiatives for revenue generation drive coupled with arm-chair governance. Some of the states cannot attract investors due to socio-political and economic crises including insurgency, kidnapping, armed-banditry and herdsmen-farmers clashes.

The Economic Confidential ASVI further showed that only three states in the entire Northern region have IGR above 20 per cent in comparison to their respective allocations from the Federation Account. They are Kwara, Kaduna and Kano States in that order.

Meanwhile, ten states in the South recorded over 20 per cent IGR in 2019. They are Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Enugu, Ondo, Edo, Delta, Anambra, Cross River and Delta States.

Only Bayelsa is a state with the poorest Internally Generated Revenue of less than 10 per cent compared to their FAA in the South in 2019. The other poorest IGR states are in North-East Yobe, Gombe, Borno and Taraba State and two states from North-West, namely Katsina and Kebbi.

Meanwhile, the IGR of the respective states can improve through aggressive diversification of the economy to productive sectors rather than relying on the monthly Federation Account revenues that largely come from the oil sector.

The Economic Confidential is a sister publication of PRNigeria.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/405161-internal-revenue-lagos-generated-more-than-20-states-combined-in-2019-report.html

Nksleek:
Selected members of the Youth Emancipation Movement of Africa, YEM AFRICA led by the Delta State Coordinator, Comrade Akporuno Alex on Sunday 26th, July 2020 graced the dedication of Baby Dikaji Authority to God at the God’s Grace Ministry, Oteri-Ughelli.

Authority is born to two teenagers- Godsown (Father) whose mother was a COVID-19 brand ambassador for YEM Africa and Charity (Mother), her first fruit.

Speaking after the church service at the reception held in their apartment, Comrade Alex assured the teenage parents of God’s mercy and help from above to nurture the newborn son to maturity.

See more of the photos below;

Source: https://focusnaija.com.ng/2020/07/26/meet-teenagers-that-dedicated-their-newborn-son-in-delta-church/

Congratulations to the new parents

So the middle guy in the last picture also went to church. Mad people now attend churches.

When did the teenagers wed abi na the result of fornication the whole church dey celebrate so?

mrvitalis:
Is your state better at managing resources ?

I think you are irredeemable.
I thought I was with a reasonable fellow.
Continue with useless "Is your state better.."
Lately Kano and some northern States have been delivering and showcasing amazing infrastructures while those managing your destinies keep looting to nurture and keep their political careers. I didn't see even rivers indegenes to daze us with counter infrastructures, neither productive (agricultural processing) factories.
Please continue!

mrvitalis:
So your state don't deserve their allocation because your state politicians are corrupt ? Is that what we are saying ?

No real brain ever say that but to defend those who Satan has designated to Loot your destiny just because they are from your side is sickening.
Imagine spending over .6 billion naira for training of drivers during the lockdown!

Solsix:
I think the question should be, how much have changed in the lives of common man in Niger Delta region with the little they have gotten??

You dey mind the person wey dem don Loot im future.

Budgetary Allocation to NDDC, (in billions of Naira)

2004: 14.00
2005: 28.80
2006: 26.13
2007: 24.00
2008: 40.57
2009: 27.13
2010: 46.49
2011: 55.08
2012: 48.67
2013: 61.35
2014: 61.94
2015: 46.72
2016: 41.05
2017: 64.02
2018: 81.88
2019: 100.19
2020: 80.88

N769 billion up till 2019

(Ministry of Finance)

13% Derivation Fund since 1999 (In billions of Naira)


1999: 2.4
2000: 61.3
01: 91.2
02: 92.1
03: 138.3
04: 262.5
05: 347.7
06: 424.4
07: 437.4
08: 637.8
09: 455.3
10: 548.5
11: 765.3
12: 774.3
13: 844.3
14: 694.2
15: 410.3
16: 294.7
17: 417.1
2018: 640.1
2019: 320.4

Total: N8.66 Trillion

(Office of the Accountant General of the Federation).

UyaiIncomparabl:
Knowing that everyone won't be raptured on the Last Day that Christ will come to take his loyal servants, so, if at all you are left behind on the Rapture day, what would you do? Would you bear the pains, anguish and neglect and suffer for Jesus' namesake for the last chance he will offer or go-ahead to follow the Beast's family by accepting the 666 mark?

Also knowing well that without accepting the mark, you can't purchase nor sell. Would you lose all your guards and accept the Mark of the Beast?

What do you think? Would you accept it?

Can someone, who lacks capacity to endure being ready for the Rapture, got balls to endure that satanic mayhem that would be unleashed on him to take Mark of the Beast (666)?

Meet another Glory of y Kafayat Sanni,The World Nigeria’s First Female Fighter Pilot...

Kafayat sanni made history on Tuesday, October 15, 2019, when she became the first female fighter pilot in the 55-year-old history of the Nigerian Air Force..

After emerging as the overall best pilot @the NAF 401 Flying Training School, Kaduna State, in 2017, she was sent to the United States of America to train at the US Aviation Leadership Programm..

She is the first that went through regular combat training at the Nigerian Defence Academy to be winged for a fixed wing fighter aircraft..

Upon the completion of the programme, Sanni back and was decorated alongside 12 new fighter pilots at the NAF Headquarters, Abuja, on Tuesday October in 2019..

she grabbed the first female trophy in flying ✈️ Alpha Jets and others, her colleague, Late Tolulope Arotile, also trained at the Starlite International Training Academy, South Africa for 14 months, to become the first female combat helicopter pilot..

After losing Nigeria’s rice market, Thai exporters cut 2020 export forecast by 5m tonnes

AUTHOR:
Mary Ugbodaga
JULY 23, 2020 3:50 PM

Thailand Rice Exporters Association has slashed rice export forecasts for 2020 by five million tonnes.

It is now projected that the country will now export 6.5 million tonnes of rice in 2020, the lowest export projections in two decades which is also lower than the previous expectation of a seven-year low of 7.5 million tonnes.

Reuters quotes Chookiat Ophaswongse, honorary president of the association, as saying the previous record was in 2000 when the country exported 6.15 million tonnes of rice.

The association said that its decision to slash the forecast is due to the coronavirus pandemic, drought and a strong baht.

The country has also lost its market share in Nigeria.

Nigeria was ranked Thailand’s fifth-largest market as of 2014, importing 1.23 million metric tonnes of rice.

However, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) restricted forex for rice importation after the 2016 recession to encourage local production.

“Thailand’s rice exports are hampered by a host of negative factors, be it the coronavirus crisis that weakened global demand, a strong baht that makes Thai rice more expensive, or continued drought cutting into production,” Ophaswongse said.

The association said that Thai rice prices are US$30-80 a tonne higher than those of competitors because of the strong baht, while the widespread drought has cut the domestic rice supply by 20 percent or five million tonnes of paddy rice this year.

Thailand was reported to have exported 3.14 million tonnes of rice between January and June, about a third less than the same period in 2019.

Charoen Laothammatas, the association’s president, said Thailand is expected to see a continuous drop in exports as the country’s current rice policy lacks continuity or a long-term development plan.

“Thailand’s production costs are relatively higher than those of competitors, while higher logistics costs and the strong baht have made Thai rice prices become more expensive than the grains of competitors,” Laothammatas said.

In the first half of 2020, India and Vietnam exported 4.53 million tonnes and 4.04 million tonnes respectively with Thailand been the third-largest exporter.

The top five rice importers from Thailand during the period were the US (338,769 tonnes), South Africa (231,412 tonnes), Angola (195,438 tonnes), China (120,207 tonnes) and Japan (116,338 tonnes).

Although Nigeria’s rice importation from Thailand dropped to 5,161MT between January and September 2018, imports to its neighbouring countries increased; lending credence to suspicions of rice smuggling through land borders from neighbouring West African countries.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thecable.ng/after-losing-nigerias-rice-market-thai-exporters-cut-2020-export-forecast-by-5m-tonnes/amp

Benbellamor:
How can number 22 be referred to as powerful over 1-10

It seems you guys can't sleep since Obaseki order ordinary ward chairman to sack Almighty oshiomole and humble him

Anyway Edo no be Lagos

Please go back to primary 3 for English comprehension lesson.
POWERFUL here clearly refers to the COUNCIL and never an individual.

Guess who is number 22 on PDP's all powerful Edo Campaign Council.

Aye le o, ibosi ooo!

Rhesusmonkey:
Ok, but I am interested in knowing if she is still single and searching, asking for my neighbor.

But on a side note, the gods must be confused, how will they allow a human who stoops to urinate become a traditional ruler.

Your unstooped traditional ruler can never be considered to stay at the entrance of the Palace of another "stoop to urinate" Queen- Elizabeth of England.

2023: No amount of efforts can stop Tinubu as next president ― Arewa Youths

ON JULY 23, 20204:17 PMIN POLITICS
By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja
The Arewa Youths for Peace and Security, AYPS, has stated that no amount of efforts put in by anyone can stop the emergence of All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s next President “if it destined by God because only him gives power”.


The group also condemned what they see as unfair attack on the former Lagos State governor by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige when the latter appeared before a House of Representatives adhoc committee earlier in the week.

Ngige, a former governor of Anambra state had while fielding questions from the committee on alleged breach of Presidential directive in his suspension of the management of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, argued with Hon. James Faleke, reminding the latter that he was at the same level with his mentor and former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu.


Reacting to the development, however, President of the association, Alhaji Salisu Magaji chided Ngige for his outing saying “the clownish and uncivilized attitudes of some top government officials of the Buhari administration that obviously exhibit unpreparedness for the nitty-gritty and challenges of governance,” is becoming worrisome.

The group, therefore, urged the minister to immediately apologize to the former Lagos state governor without further delay.

Magaji accused the minister of condescending too low “by appearing at the hallowed chambers of the National Assembly only to exhibit traits comparable to those coming from a disoriented class.”


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The Arewa youths in the statement quoted copiously Ngige’s words before the committee as saying in his argument with Faleke, a member representing Ikeja Federal Constituency: “I am a Lagos boy. You are just a small boy in Lagos. Look at this boy. Mushin boy is talking to VI (Victoria Island) boy. I live in Victoria Island. Look at Mushin boy from Kogi o. You are Ogbologbo. Just go. I no get time for you. Kilonshe e? (Meaning what is wrong with you in Yoruba).


They further quoted Ngige as saying “Faleke they say is up to 60. I don’t know if you are near my age but I am at least seven years older than you. I’m sure. I am at the same age with your mentor in Lagos, Asiwaju, and I was governor with him at the same time. He was a Senator. I was a Senator. I am a two time Minister. He is not a (two time) Minister.”

Magaji condemned the tendency by officials of “the present government” to often attack Tinubu since his purported presidential aspiration became public knowledge despite his denial of such ambition.


“The body language of this government is that it detest Tinubu becoming the next President of Nigeria and are ready to stop him and the question is what are they afraid of?” the statement continued.

They further advised those working against the purported aspiration to talk about issues instead of resorting to attack personalities who risked their lives fighting for the survival of democracy in the country.

Vanguard News Nigeria.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2020/07/2023-no-amount-of-efforts-can-stop-tinubu-as-next-president-%25E2%2580%2595-arewa-youths/amp/

Comman collect it!
Minister of disaster,
NDDC
NCDC,
NEDC
Malami
Etc are eating mindlessly without anything. So you wan make dem chop more?
Comman collect it!

Dotherightthing:
21. [s]Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and [/s]punctuation.

Very irrelevant!

Werey!

noleflendum:
Who will Ibo support now

Ibos don't follow any rationale, just bigotry.
Immediately the first lady gather some to break Kola and shepe, they will just follow

slimfit1:
Why don't you get your information ready first before posting it? If the Lagos metro line is not completed this term get that governor out of Lagos.

BTW, what is the relevance of this vituperation on the thread at hand?