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Mynd44:
And they will still have to use ECOWAS ports, fly through Ecowas countries, depend on ecowas for every aspect of their economy including electricity and education.

Must be nice to live in such grand delusion

Lol...they are already negotiating with Morocco and Mauritania(Mauritania is not an Ecowas member) to use their ports. Mind you those guys has Russia and China backing, these nations can pull resources and build ambitious projects(like trans Sahara highways and railways) for movement of people and goods.

Wetin politicians go share during primaries, campaigns and general elections. It's against them not the masses, so it won't fly.

CockPit:
Good roads, Security, to maintain military and I can list a lot more if you want.

Be honest to yourself are we really enjoying those things you listed?

CAC says content creators must register, pay taxes

The Corporate Affairs Commission has urged social media content creators, Instagram users, and TikTok users with large followers to register their businesses with the commission in accordance with the Company and Allied Matters Act 2020.

This is coming amidst alleged plans by the Federal Inland Revenue Services to onboard media content and influencers into its tax system.

The Registrar General, CAC, Hussaini Magaji, made the call on Tuesday, when he was paid a courtesy visit by the Managing Director, Opay, Dauda Gotring, and his team in Abuja.

The visit from the Opay team was to ensure the regularisation of 300,000 agents and merchants with the commission.

This will expand the tax net, encourage businesses, and create more jobs for Nigerians.

Last week, the commission began the registration of two million small businesses in partnership with Moniepoint, a fintech company.

The CAC boss stated that social media and content creators are generating a lot of money without paying any form of tax to the Federal Government.

Magaji said, “Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. It is stated in the Company and Allied Matters 2020 that for any business to take place in Nigeria, whether you are doing business with your name or another name, you must surrender your business for registration.

” If you are a content creator on the internet and you have a large followership and you are gaining or making money from it, you must register and that’s the provision of the law.
“And we are all out to enforce the provision of the law with its penalties.”

He added that the commission will soon begin compliance checks to ensure these businesses start paying their  taxes to the government.

He added, “This cannot go on, these groups of people are under mandate to register as a business considering the amount they make from the content creation. The government is all out to ensure every business in Nigeria, no matter what or how, is registered with the CAC.

“The commission is registering another batch of 300,000 business names from Opay.”

The CAC boss said the initiative is part of his target to register 20 million businesses in 2024 and 50 million jobs target for Nigerian youths.

On his part, the Opay MD noted that the idea behind Opay operations is to deliver banking services to the unbanked persons in the country.

“Opay is ready to partner with CAC to ensure these groups of people have their businesses registered, with their consent though,” he said.

Gotring said the Opay organisation is working to ensure that all companies no matter how little, as long as you operate as a business you should be registered with the CAC.

He added that since Opay handles, “these accounts they are working on sensitising the owners of the accounts so they can be registered with CAC.”


https://punchng.com/cac-says-content-creators-must-register-pay-taxes/

At this rate.... Severe malnutrition is going to hit Nigerian very soon

Respite For Businesses As ‘Sit-At-Home’ In S/East Fades

The impact of the ‘sit-at-home’ order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, which has caused serious havoc to its…

The impact of the ‘sit-at-home’ order given by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South East, which has caused serious havoc to its economy and crippled many businesses in the zone, appears to be waning down, given that some major cities are no longer abiding strictly to the order. Daily Trust Saturday report.

 
Daily Trust Saturday observed that some markets and businesses across the zone have started opening on Mondays.

Majority of people in the zone are traders and self employed, who rely on their daily income to feed their families. The sit-at-home had seriously affected traders in Onitsha main market and other markets across the South East because buyers hardly come to buy on Mondays. Those who come horriedly do their transactions or stop in neighbouring states.

Many traders, children and people in some parts of the South East states do not go to work  and school on Mondays or any day declared sit-at-home by the IPOB. The same applies to big shopping malls like Roban Stores, Spar, ShopRite and some other big markets like Ogbete main market, Onitsha main market, Nnewi Automobile market and many markets in Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo and Abia states. Most of them do not open for business until at about 3 or 4pm on Mondays or any day declared sit-at-home in the region.

called on the government to sustain the operation.

Okey Chukwuemeka, an indigene of Awka, said the sit-at-home is gradually dying and prayed that it does not resurface again in the city.

He hopes that the government and people of Anambra State will continue to partner with security operatives to end the matter.

In Imo State, the sit-at-home is still enforced in towns like Okigwe, Orsu, Orlu and others towns bordering Anambra State.

However, the combined security force is liberating some communities, while those in the supposedly freed areas are sometimes harassed for coming out on Mondays.

The Governors Forum

Governors of the South-East Zone had earlier met in Enugu and resolved to set up a joint 24-hour patrol team in all the major highways in the region.

They also insisted that a political solution was desirable in solving the issue of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kalu, stressing that they were monitoring developments over court rulings in his trial.

However, Governor Soludo of Anambra State had, as part of efforts to end the sit-at-home, offered amnesty to all those in the forests around in the state, urging them to drop their guns.

He  also declared an end to the sit-at-home exercise in the state.

He said also constituted a Peace and Reconciliation Committee that will look into issues surrounding the sit-at-home exercise.

According to Soludo, the committee will also interface with the Federal Government on how to end the menace.

Soludo said the release of Nnamdi Kanu would facilitate the quick ending of sit-at-home. He also promised to reintegrate them into the society for a better and meaningful engagement.

An Owerri-based lawyer, Mr Charles Ude, said that the issue is very dicey because if you support the agitation, you are seen as anti Nigeria and if you oppose, you will be seen as a betrayer.

“I think the only thing that will save the situation is good governance and if the country is properly managed. There should be a leadership that cares for the people,” he said.

The convener of Recover Nigeria Project, Comrade Osita Obi, said “The sit-at-home order is not dying and it is not increasing. It is still the way it has been over the years. The reason is that people do not have confidence in the government. The non actors are taking over the sit-at-home because they have instilled fear in the minds of the people and government is not doing anything to build confidence among the people. We can resolve this problem if the governors can come down from their Olympian height to listen to the advice of the people. Our governors are too elitists and they do not care about the happening in the communities,” he said.

He said that every community knows the criminals in their areas, noting that if the government empowers traditional rulers and town union organisation, security can improve.

He said there is no way criminals from other community will operate in any community without the help of insiders

https://dailytrust.com/respite-for-businesses-as-sit-at-home-in-s-east-fades/

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Decry Inability To Reach President, Advise Him On State-of-nation
• Express Fear New Govt May Lose Credibility If Economic Crunch Persists
• ‘Osoba, Akande Now Treated Like Outsiders’
• It’s Too Early To Criticise Govt – President’s Loyalist

Barely 154 days after taking office, there is growing discontent in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s camp, especially among his close allies and party elders, with his style of governance and some of his policy decisions.

According to findings by our correspondent, the situation has become more precarious with the alleged inability of his allies and party elders unable to have access to the President, advise him on their observations or even register their displeasures with some of his actions and inactions.

This development has led to insinuations that President Tinubu might be going through a similar scenario as his predecessor, former President Muhammadu Buhari, whose government was allegedly hijacked by a cabal, which controlled access to him.

The long list of disenchanted stakeholders include, All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders, especially from the Southwest and Northwest, Muslim stakeholders and Yoruba stakeholders, including elders and young professionals, as well as traditional rulers.

A series of policies introduced by President Tinubu since assuming office have left Nigerians facing varying degrees of economic hardships. Recall that only few days ago, the apex Yoruba socio-cultural body, Afenifere, called government’s attention to the state of insecurity across the country, urging that something be done to stem the ugly development.

Feelers from the President’s allies have it that they believe there is a compelling need for him to cautiously begin to look inward with a view to engaging with the people and assuaging their pains.

Within the political circle, especially among members of the ruling APC and regional stakeholders, there are deep-seated grievances that President Tinubu’s appointments have been lopsided and largely in favour of the Southwest geo-political zone.

Leaders of the party, especially from Southwest and Northwest, are said to be currently unhappy that their political interests have not been taken into consideration in all the appointments made so far by him, such that some of them have decided to remain silent and keep their distance from the presidency.

One of the political blocs said to be discontented with Tinubu’s style of appointment is the Southwest and Northwest Muslim stakeholders in the ruling party.

They allege being short-changed in spite of their votes giving Tinubu victory in the presidential poll.Specifically, there are concerns within the APC that President Tinubu might have abandoned some of the party elders, who are known to be his allies since 1999, and other party adherents who went to the trenches with him during the presidential primary election and campaigns.

Making further allusions to a new cabal in Aso Villa, which determines who gets what and who sees the President, party sources close to the Presidency told The Guardian that this situation might be more devastating to governance than what operated under the immediate past administration.
  
Besides, The Guardian also reliably gathered that the excruciating high cost of living occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal, the exchange rate and other indices that are making life unbearable for Nigerians, is seriously unsettling some of Tinubu’s allies, who believe that things could be done differently to bring succour to the masses.
They expressed fears that should the economic crunch continue, aside from the incumbent administration losing credibility, the situation would rubbish the long-term integrity of the Southwest zone in terms of governance.

WITHIN the APC, the discussion in some quarters is the current disposition of the likes of former Governors of Osun and Ogun states, Chief Bisi Akande and Aremo Segun Osoba, other elder statesmen and Yoruba sons and daughters, who served in the immediate past government, to President Tinubu’s administration.

While our correspondent observed that some of them have deliberately kept a distance from the government, sources close to the party said Chief Akande and Osoba and others who were considered as Tinubu’s Man Friday, are today more or less treated like outsiders under the incumbent administration.

Chief Akande, perceived as one of the closest allies to the President, is alleged to have lamented to party stalwarts on how difficult it has been for him to assess the Villa, let alone, having opportunity to discuss issues of importance or convey the feelings of Nigerians to Tinubu in recent times.
  
While it is not clear whether Akande is currently in the country, part of the octogenarian’s lamentation to close friends is that he has not even been consulted on some far reaching decisions of the administration.
  
For instance, a party source claimed that Akande was not carried along about Tinubu’s decision to use former Governor of Kano State, Umar Ganduje, as APC’s national chairman just as the former Osun State governor was said to have feigned ignorance of the selection of Ajibola Basiru, a senator, as the national secretary of APC.

Even the former governor of Ogun State, who happens to be one of the first elders to commend President Tinubu for having the boldness to remove fuel subsidy, may have also withdrawn.

Although the former managing director of Daily Times commendation on subsidy removal was seen as an honest anticipation the decision was well thought out and would break the monopoly and greed of oil barons, he is said to be finding it difficult to fathom how the economic situation is turning out today.

On another hand, members of the Lagos State APC Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) are also reeling in pain, not just over appointments, but the way the country is running. One of them lamented how his children asked him, “Is this all that your Tinubu has to offer?”

Another party stalwart told The Guardian that instead of the expected enthusiasm that federal power has eventually shifted to the Southwest and is particularly in the hands of Tinubu, members of the ruling party in the region are unhappy.

For instance, the Oyo State chapter of APC is not pretending over how it has been short-changed in terms of ministerial appointments.A party member, who didn’t want his name in print, said, “What belonged to the chapter in terms of ministerial appointment was ceded to a member of another party, who in turn picked his aides even outside the party. There is no sign that such people are even making plans to return to the party to rebuild or organise it?”

It is the same feeling within the Ekiti, Ondo and Ogun state chapters of the APC.  However, some party men are convinced President Tinubu will soon turn the table around, said whatever any of the Yoruba elders are experiencing under Tinubu now, serves them right.

According to one of the party faithful, because the majority of the elders have benefited unduly, “they cannot face the President to tell him the truth.”
  
Another member of APC, however, called for more time for President Tinubu, saying, “it is too early to criticise his government based on ethnic sentiments or economic performance.” He said though it may be true that several members of APC were disillusioned about Tinubu’s appointments, which according to him favoured more Christians than Muslims, “they are not enough reasons to fault or condemn Mr. President.”

 He added: “The issue is that Tinubu is only trying to run away from the Muslim-Muslim ticket blackmail. But if you do a critical observation, the Southwest and Northwest Muslims, whose votes made Tinubu president, are really not benefitting unlike the South South and Southeast Christians, who contributed less to Tinubu’s victory. It is unimaginable that Tinubu offered the Ministry of Works and FERMA to Southeast despite the kind of antagonism he faced from that region.”
  
He also faulted the northerners, who are claiming that Tinubu is trying to Yorubanise governance. “If you take a critical look at Buhari’s government, the critical positions were given to Katsina State. Under Jonathan, the South South people also dominated the entire place. But that’s not the case under Tinubu.”

  
On the economy, a former General Secretary of Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), Dr. Kunle Olajide, said the crisis of economy is a global challenge and Nigeria is not exempted.
  
He advised APC members to do away with sentiments over appointments and, instead, put the country above all other considerations. He assured that the incumbent administration would turn Nigeria around for good over time.
  
The President of Yoruba Ronu Leadership Forum, Akin Malaolu, is of the opinion that the economy today has exposed Tinubu administration’s inability to handle the mess.
  
He said, “we have studied his economic policies, his grandstanding and we have been proven right after critical assessments done, that both President Tinubu and his advisers are ignorant of the processes they are driving.
  
“The first error President Tinubu made was to completely ignore the areas of comparative advantage before liberalisation of the energy sector and our currency. He destroyed first what he should have secured, which were energy security with subsidy and national currency, the Naira. Primarily, he should have focused on productivity, particularly, in the area of energy security, domestic production of energy sources, increasing agricultural activities and securing the export platforms, and fighting insecurity in a decent order.”
   
Yoruba Ronu added that the main focus of productivity is industrialisation, putting money into the private sector, creating foundries and starting machine tools factories to assist industrialisation and employment. “This area of comparative advantage will assist the economy, increase the activities of small and medium scale industries and earn foreign exchange through exports,” it added.

https://guardian.ng/politics/tinubus-allies-allege-alienation-emergence-of-new-cabal-in-aso-rock/

These figures speaks volumes, especially with respect to South Western States hiding under the shadow of Lagos. Remove 71% from 100% you have 29 left share it to the remaining 5 state. Each South Western State has average of 5% IGR (excluding Lagos).

Same applies to other indices of development not just IGR.

South West wake up oh...Ronu ooo

Lagos is South West...

The greatest Yoruba man

creativehubb:
I can't help but feel embarrassed for you, very dumb head.

Iti like you.

My comment pained you wella...

Go hug transformer

creativehubb:
You sound like a 10 year old kid.

Responding to your brainless comment is dignifying you.

You are senseless....

Next time ... ignore my comment.

You think Igbos are new to this...Igbos saw more than this. I only pity the Southwest wey never see war. Core north has also tasted small via Boko and iswap

wis3:
Obi's zombies were actually hoping this whole CSU you saga would have an effect on PBAT. Now all their hopes are dashed😅

Iberiberism is when you leave person wey beat you and running after person wey no beat you. Atiku beat u na silly, you dey cry for Obi...Dem swear for u na.

georgeakins:
I don't have problems with your knacking.
I'm even happy your koboko dey work.

Na Ibos dey envy Yorubas
Na so Achebe envy Soyinka till he died.

Azikwe envied Awolowo's leadership styles
Your ancestors envied the leadership of the South West and the North in the 1966 and when they could not catch up, they killed all their leaders.

Today, every Ibo is exuding envy, bitterness and anger against Jagaban because he is the greatest politician in the history of Nigeria.

Keep shifting the goal post ode...

You should be more concerned about the present generation of Yorubas that are 💯 into drugs,Agbor and cultism.

georgeakins:
Which abroad hungry person like you dey send your pikin?

Which wonder dey your land.
Nothing in Ibo land, that is why only Ibos live there

Come let me take care of you and your generation. You think nairaland is a leveler abi? I am not poor and hungry like you.

MEGAWATCH:
Why should we leave South West since you are against us having our own country.

We will drag your village with you if you don't know get that into your thick skull now.

Una never see anything.

The earlier they know this the better for them oh

georgeakins:
Little intelligence is required for doing ordinary buying and selling.
I don't have anything against selling in the shops, but that is not the only thing that brings money.

Alaye boys full Ibo land too.
They are even more brutal and crude than Lagos Alaye boys.
I lived in Obosi and Owerri. I visited many villages and knacked most of your girls.
So, don't fabricate stories about Ibo land. Ndi Agbero and Ndi Alaye boys full Ibo land.

Those guys make more money than those in the shops , just that they don't spend it well.

Onitsha is the headquarters of Alaye boys in Nigeria.

Knacking na your achievement...

As am typing here I just finished knacking Wura. She is even pregnant for me. I have already placed her as my baby mama. You know how many Yoruba girls I knack for Oyo Alafin,Ibadan, Ilaje,Owo, Iseyin, Ijebu etc. But I see them as no achievement.

You be Iti...na envy be your problem.

georgeakins:
So everyone must be illiterates selling things in the shops.

Ibos are largely illiterates with little or no skills.

Don't compare Ibos to Yoruba.

You be confirmed olodo...travel and see the wonders Igbos boys are doing at Aba and Nnewi. In terms of skills, una no get anything at all. For schools, you guys have destroyed our education with bad leadership, We prefer sending our kids abroad for quality education. In Russia, China and USA, Igbo Children came tops google it olodo.

georgeakins:
I shall organise my boys to flog any Ibo that refuse to leave after the completion of the port.

My own go pass Simon Ekpa's flogging.

Noise maker...do you know how many yourubas I have on my street alone here in the east.

Travel you no gree


Find another work and leave Agboro work

CYBERSOLDIERSre:
Yoruba's and envy....

Yorubas are the reason Akwaibom seaport can't work, but you know you can't stop Igbo's.

I only wish Those Feom south south will be able to realize that Yoruba's will never allow anything work in those areas....

The envy is just too much...

Their reactions so far on this thread clearly shows that they are not happy with development in Abia.

Due to the fact that they don't travel they now think every Igbo state be like Ekiti, Oyo, Osun, Ogun etc. Travel Dem no gree.


Same Abia is the best in terms of primary healthcare oh.

georgeakins:
That thief must be a biaflan.

It is Ibos that teach our children crimes.

Go to any prison in the South West, majority of the inmates are Ibos.

They have exported crimes like kidnapping, drugs, prostitution to neighbouring African countries, especially Ghana, Togo, etc.

This one has been brainwashed by Yoruba Mu.slims.

What envy cannot do does not exist. Come e be like say an man run you out of competition for business..

For that your same Lagos.

Go to following places early in the morning and see young Igbo boys and girls (apprentices) treking to these markets as early
as 5 to 6 am

Go to Ladipo
Go to Computer Village
Go to Alaba Int'l Market
Go to Lagos Island
Etc

These guys are disciplined to make money ...stop envying them

georgeakins:
We must force them to leave after the completion of their port.
I'm tired of seeing them constituting nuisance in South West

Na for Igbo you de show power...

Collect Ilorin and Offa first from Fulani then I will take you serious.

You are a known noisemaker filled with envy and intimated by Igbos success.


Does South West end in Lagos( a former Capital of Nigeria) why not focus on making other Yoruba cites better.

That previlage Northern folks enjoyed in determining who rules Nigeria was removed from them the day INEC "declared" Tinubu the "winner". They wanted to teach Igbos and Christians a lesson. He will continue to determine who rules this country henceforth and will also pass it to his south west boys when he grows old.
He will continue to divide their ranks,keeping them permanently divided.

When will they arrest Adelabu?

We have Enough Coal in Enugu(resources from Enugu coal was used in building Port Harcourt, Calabar and other East states)

We have Limestone in Ebonyi in large quantity.

We have enough natural gas and untapped Crude oil in Abia,Imo and Anambra.

We have cash crops such as cocoa and oil plam in Abia and Imo( these can fetch enough forex)

We have Artisans of repute in Aba and Nnewi, while Onitsha remains the center of commerce in West Africa.

We have enough water resources and Arable Land across South East.

We also have good brains and human resources.

Above all, we are not lazy people.

We are glad that your "brothers" decided to overlook these resources and keep them untapped, it is fine by us.
We are not complaining.

Why are they afraid of arresting Malami...the point man.

Blackdeewhy:
If this happens in a SANE country, EVERYBODY should be on the street now protesting against this in human!
Nigeria is an OIL producing STATE!!
But because we're not so NORMAL here in Nigeria, we will all pretend and smile.

Lass las, we go dey alright.
As that guy will say, this new PUMP PRICE WILL FAVOR ME AND MY FAMILY IN JESUS NAME.

Will religion and tribe allow Nigerian masses to use their head...hell noooo.

successmatters:
This is still genesis, by the time you reach malachi, can you cope with your evil choices?

We shall all get sense in this country las las.