₦airaland Forum

Ojuntana:
The guy is very correct. The election should have gone to a runoff between the 1st and 2nd position

What is presently happening is rule of the minority over the majority

franchasofficia:
If this conclusion makes you happy then so be it since you dont want to learn


But let me educate you small so you can learn from a professional.


In Southeast, most businesses are run by individuals, enterprises, etc who are mostly informal sector, they don't take VAT collection serious. The Ankara seller, the Aba tailor sewing millions of clothes being exported to even neighboring countries dont care about collecting VAT from his customers to remit to government. He collects only his profit.


But in Lagos for instance, it's a different ball game, my small company has been pushed into collecting VAT for the criminal Nigerian government, which we remit back to them. Southeast government don't bother Eastern businesses about that.


So most businesses in Southeast dont care about collecting VAT as much as Lagos LIRS care about taxing Lagosians to death to enrich Bola Tinubu, his family and political goons.


Hope you got a hint of how it works now?

You young boys on Nairaland should try and be calming down and learn from your experienced elders like us, everything is not about attacking and castigating Igbos. Igbos understand economy more than any other Nigerian tribe. Make Peter Obi President today and watch things turn around positively for Nigeria economically no jokes

franchasofficia:
Lol


VAT and tax are not a measure of national or societal development/progress young man.


The Igbo man operate a different business and economic model. We are capitalists, we believe in money being in the hands of individuals than in the hands of corrupt, unreliable government officials who collect tax from people and loot it back for their personal entertainment and enrichment.


There was a thread on the front page of Nairaland yesterday that explained this and also made comparison with foreign nations that collect huge tax from their citizens and those that made their nation a tax haven.



We Igbos honestly don't believe in taxing ourselves to poverty to enrich the corrupt ruling class. The money is better in people's hands and in businesses circulating and raising more financially free entrepreneurs than being in the hands of irresponsible government

franchasofficia:
You are not entirely correct. You are being intentionally bias and callous in your opinion.


After the civil war ended in 1970, Northern Nigeria and Southwest entered into a secret political alliance/agreement never to allow Igbos near power; be it Presidency, military, Police, Judiciary, etc as a way of keeping them away from making another attempt of seceding from Nigeria. That was why they never appointed an Igbo man CJN or COAS or IGP, except the Igbos from Niger Delta who saw the handwriting on the wall and started to deny and distance themselves from Southeast Igbos so as not to limit themselves politically and in civil service in Nigeria after the civil war.



From there, Northern Military guys held sway in Nigeria unchallenged because it was Igbos that kept them at bay, with Igbos now defeated after the civil war, they had no challenger or threat again, Yorubas are good in pretentious worship and followership to get what they want, so they followed the North judiciously as these Northern Military guys used the opportunity to balkanize Old Eastern Nigeria and only the super corrupt Igbo politicians who damned the consequences and joined them in holding Igbos down were exalted to federal political limelight, making it seem like Igbos lacked quality politicians.


Infrastructures in Southeast were neglected, crude oil sites in Southeast were ceded to neighboring Southsouth states like Rivers, Akwa Ibom just to make sure Southeast remained economically defeated.


Every tangible federal government agency, bodies, infrastructure were being concentrated in Lagos, Abuja and few in Portharcourt to spite Igbos as they made sure they created an identity crises and enmity between Niger Delta Igbos and Southeast Igbos.



All these and more made Southeast a forgotten region despite Igbo peoples resilience. It was mostly on self development and community development headed by Igbo sons who managed to breakthrough abroad and outside Southeast via trade, business and industry that Southeast region and communities started witnessing progress in road construction, community healthcare, markets, townhall, etc.


This is the beginning of Igbo peoples problem and why Southeast does not have much developmental prospect compared to Southwest, North and Southsouth.


Nigeria is not a manufacturing nation, we are mostly a consuming and import dependent nation, and the most viable seaports were in Southwest and Southsouth which the Northern Military guys made sure they destroyed the Southsouth seaports viability to sabotage Igbos and gradually Lagos ports became the all in all, making it compulsory for every serious business person in Nigeria to site his business in Lagos as those critical government infrastructures, agencies and embassies concentrated in Lagos, so you need to site your business close to the market and where there is population to patronize you.


From the overpopulation happening in Lagos, it began to trickle down to Ogun state the neighboring state, down to Oyo naturally. This was how Southwest became the epicenter of trade and commerce in Nigeria till date and now it's not going to be easy to dismantle unless Nigeria completely disintegrates and that is why Yorubas abhor the idea of Nigeria dividing even though some of them dont like Fulani people and their violent ways and political dominance, but they prefer a united Nigeria where they still use cunning and treacherous politics of gangup to outshine the Southeast than have their own independent nation which they fear of its future.




Now saying Southeast have never had good Governors is not true. We have had wonderful Governors but not consistently, all thanks to the corrupt Nigerian electoral and judiciary system controlled by the corrupt Northern leaders and some Yorubas that never wished Igbos well. You saw what happened in Imo state.


I can name some wonderful Governors that once ruled Southeast states.


Ogbonnaya Onu
Onunaka Mbakwe
Peter Obi
Alex Otti is doing well currently
Peter Mbah of Enugu is trying
Sullivan Chime was not too bad
Dave Umahi tried until he became too foolish in his desperate move to become President after he got deceived by Buhari that he was going to hand over to him.


How then can Southeast develop like Southwest and North when North and Yorubas have used politics to destroy Southeast economic viability, reduced the crude oil sites using wicked boundary adjustments, no critical federal infrastructures to attract businesses and investments, always using federal might to elevate the worst of Igbos as Igbo leaders to sabotage Igbos, how and where will the revenue to develop Southeast come from if not through self help by successful Igbo sons and daughters like us going home to build good houses, pave community roads, build markets, healthcare centers, townhalls, etc. Or what else did you expect from us? The current insecurity in Southeast was brought upon Southeast by Buhari's evil regime and sustained by APC under Tinubu, we are helpless but help will come, yes tears may endure for the night but joy must come in the morning. God is not sleeping, He will shock you haters of Igbos hating Igbos unjustly.


I can go on and on, but let me stop here for now

Ihengwu:
Why is the giver not using the money well, but the receiver is? That isthe bigger irony.

mrvitalis:
Lmaooo he can write results but to get legitimate votes of igbos? Nah we don't vote failures

Dreal1247:
Tinubu has taken Nigeria back to the stone age.

G0Oodharddick:
Kemi is apparently the most sensible Yoruba alive right now.

The rest of Nigerians are behind her.

Typing:
E pain am

Typing:
Na lie. You are a Yoruba Man and a Tinubu online pains Agent.

Bede2u:
show me

Frigga13:
North never accused Jonathan … never

It was the Yoruba tribe …

Don’t change narrative..

North only needed power to complete yar Adua tenure

Yoruba did the insulting and accusing

Bede2u:
most major cities in East and across nigeria look like the photo you put of ibadan up there. And all of them, including ibadan look better than lagos mainland. Compare lagos mainland photos with photos of ibadan or Aba or Kaduna or enugu, they will all trash it. Facts are cold

Bede2u:
which part is a lie? That new York ghetto looks better than Marina and cms
Or that enugu city looks better than most areas of mainland?

Bede2u:
stale trash

Bede2u:
To the person asking why we are obsessed about lagos, it was Nigeria's capital for over 100 years and still holds several national offices and institutions, which means one thing must bring an upward mobile Nigerian to lagos one dey.
Every time I come into nigeria, I have to come through lagos or pay double to land directly in enugu, so we all have stake in Lagos, it's not a Yoruba state, even though you guys want to pocket it.

The guy naming what my state doesn't have, my state doesn't have skyscrapers but it has places that look as beautiful as the most beautiful parts of lagos and it has infrastructure that it needs. European cities dont have skyscrapers but still look better than most cities.
Our airport wasn't built by federal government but by us, unlike lagos. Why would enugu need metro? We are functioning well and doing so with far less money than lagos.

The photo is the sanity in enugu that people in Lagos can only dream of.

Bede2u:
i live in Enugu and Enugu is more beautiful than at least 60% of lagos neighbourhoods. Why would i live in Lagos when I'm not an employee of a company based in Lagos? Even if I'm an importer, I will still import and sell in the east just to avoid lagos.
New York slums are more beautiful than CMS area of lagos which you see as highbrow

MadamVanessa:




I have no problem with destruction of People's properties by Lagos state government, but what I have problem is them destroying people's properties without any prior notice. You just wake up one morning and your house is level aground without any form of compensation. The same modus operandi the emperor of Obio Akpor is using in Abuja. If I say what is on my mind now , I am going to be labeled a tribalist, So let me just keep shut.

However ,if actually this is how the land were everyone is a PhD holder is operating primitively and sadistically, I am sorry for the land that no one has common first school leaving certificate.

gammarays:
There's a reason these APC goons are referred to as witches and wizards. They know the truth but prefer lies and falsehood.

Even the blind knows Obi as the most prudent politician to have served in Nigeria.
Anambra is still the least indebted state in Nigeria despite the nonsense borrowing done by Obiano bros after all these lies .
He submitted ssce as his highest qualification
?









Liar....obi failed woefully

They wind your fans...

Everything he did in the health, education and economic sector in Anambra is still yielding fruits till today.
The only politician who dared everyone to check and prove his records!

There's a reason these witches are fighting him on every side. He's a light that shines through their darkness

discusant:
Anambra State University Teaching Hospital is there for Bashir Ahmad to go and see. That is one among the too many good legacies left by Peter Obi as governor of Anambra State.

Johnpiss:
See this one. What did your gworo-chewing principal do for Nigeria and Nigerians?
Buhari your boss, the dullard, old senile Fulani man will go down history as the worst president to have ever presided over Nigeria.

FYI, His Excellency Sir PETER GREGORY OBI left so many legacies in Anambra state that Buhari can never match in his entire existence

NybenSBF101:
This tax reform only benefits one State and that's Lagos State. If passed every major institution will be forced covertly to relocate to Lagos.
Tinubu na real thief, he knows what he is doing. 2027 is not sure for him and Seyi Tinubu will likely replace Sanwo Olu, connect the dots

Typing:
Why he he begging Northerners since all the governor's are behind him?

Propaganda Government

Believeintruth:
It is too early in the year to be highly dense.

Ngwamankilyou2:
One Yoruba Muslim idiot spotted. Did your drug lord recognize....let American president invite him like they do to others. Animal.

Ngwamankilyou2:
Foolish clown the hand writing is becoming clear and he want to take side... it's already late as our new Nigeria is becoming POssible day by day.

Come 2027, Jonathan will happen to thurfnibu, flying from sokoto, Lagos to Enugu won't save him.

Nigerians have lost interest even on sex..no longer sex topics as many penis refused to rise due to economic crunch..even the die hard thurfnibu supporters are either Lunatics on the street or numb.

God bless south east

God bless northern Obedients

God bless Yoruba christians

God bless south south.

May God bless Nigeria.

Igahbarr:
It is not all about inviting Obassanjo to confirm the functionality of the refinery. Let the price of litre drop to N500 or below to prove that the refineries are working. The reason they gave to justify the hike in the pump price was landing cost/the exchange rate. The price for a liter should drop significantly now that the fuel are no longer been imported.

GardenOfGod:
This man have nothing to offer. No plans, no blueprint... Absolutely nothing.
Someone mention any of his policies that have so far impacted the loves of ordinary Nigerian.

ihavesense:
Please how do you know that this fella is an Igbo man? What if he’s not even a southerner? I don’t want to believe that you people are really afraid of these Islamist up north hence your kins are so eager to deflect and attack the Igbos at any slightest opportunity but can’t face the core north.
Unless you can prove beyond reasonable doubt that that fella is actually an Igbo man, then you are just a mere coward.