₦airaland Forum

Lifestone:
We Nigerians are quick to appreciate good projects but yet kills such initiative in our country!
1. Buhari in 1984 shut down the Metroline that the government of Lateef Jakande proposed for Lagos.
2. Some Nigerians are today criticizing the Coaster Road and the Lagos, Sokoto Road.
We need to support transformative project irrespective if whether we like the government in power or not. It's our resources, it out life time

SeverusSnape:
Who's bashing Nigeria?. I'm just stating the obvious. It's a fact, Not an opinion. Is the tourism industry in this country not almost dead as a result of insecurity?. Is Nigeria not the Fourth most terrorised country in the world??

fergie001:
Who is Dino wrt the seat of the Presidency?
He is not Dino's lawyer per se.
They are from the same village, Aiyetoro-Gbede.

Just like saying Onyechi Ikpeazu is Obi's lawyer because he handled some of his cases and they are from the same state.

michlins:
It's said that petrol has been deregulated so it's the seller and buyer's deal. Why is the government interested in what happens at the border since it's paying no subsidy and people are currently paying full price for petrol and can decide what to do with it.

Before you tell me that it's cheaper in Nigeria, kindly note that it's one of the benefits of lower exchange rates. It makes export cheaper and should attract capital inflows. I don't really understand how Nigeria works honestly.

I can have issues with this if we're still under subsidy regime but since it's the reverse, I see no reason government should have a problem with it provided it has no security implications

dahmie2013:
Thanks to Buhari & Team. They held ASUU by the blokos. I don't think they have been fully settled from the last strike. It was so bad that they were begging to be paid half of their salaries.

mecuries:
where was he working?

hotwax:
china do it, and they are the best...powerful china, the next superpower, they are trustworthy.

is that not it?

Rupertek:
With the volume of profit the Gencos are declaring, is the FG paying for shortage in cost or the big appetite of the Gencos and discos?
At the end all these are covered with corruption, massive corruption. The money from Tarrif is actually enough

Ojuntana:
Who is owing who

You don start again

You claimed power companies can't make a profit because of tariffs too low

Now your see profit with dividend sharing you're diverting to debts

Why are you like this?

Is it for agbado, garri, beans or dodo

Nuzo1:
Keep quiet there!

Na oyibo be your problem for everything wrong with you.

Can you as an average Nigerian comfortably travel to the states Australia mentioned for tourism or business? Worst still as an expatriate who has high ransom value?

Didn’t the Nigerian government also retaliate with a travel warning against Australia? Why won’t it have any effect since that’s all it takes to underdevelop a country?

Your major concern should be how to tackle the insecurity in the states mentioned so people can freely travel there for business and tourism. But you are here looking for who to blame for our shortcomings.

Black man must wake up. It’s getting late.

regenerateman:
This govt is killing us with taxes. When you paid somebody for professional services, he is supposed to pay personal income. Withholding tax is paid on income receive from interest on money invested on any venture. For example, If I give somebody N100k and he is to pay interest of 10% every month which 10k, the government charges 10% on the 10k as withholding tax. Incase of the senior lawyers above, may be the government did not pay the legal fees on time and it attracted interest and that is they are being charged withholding tax on the interest received.

Jorussia:
People were paid for services rendered,i don't see how this should be a news worthy material, except Sahara reporters wants to be mischievous as usual.

EXPRESSSMAN:
There is nothing to enlighten about. It is the usual rehtorics and propaganda.
You said if subsidy is removed , the government will have enough money to turn Nigeria to Dubai within a year. Today, subsidy has been removed and we all know how far.
For more destruction , you people came up with an ambiguous tax bill with the usual talk of how every household in the country will be transformed to Dangote.
Well, once beaten twice shy. We refuse to accept all those grammars this time.

Believeintruth:
And you think it is right influencing judiciary that is suppose to be independent. This is the corruption we are talking of.

EXPRESSSMAN:
The people supporting this bill doesn't understand the implications.
1. If you make derivation the major basis for distribution of VAT proceed, then companies like MTN will be made to pay VAT in all States where their products are consumed. Just like other companies. This will amount to confusion that will affect businesses.
2. If you exempt people earning one million and below from paying income tax, then apart from Lagos, Rivers and other oil states, how many workers in those other states earn over a million.
3. It is the same thing with companies, how many of them in those other states earn a turnover of 50 million and above.
These are what the Northern states are saying. You want to suffocate them and you don't want them to complain.
4. Taxes, including custom duties that are collected by 62 bodies, you want it to be collected by one body so that it will be easy to introduce consultants to the process. How will all these work and benefits the people and other levels of government.
5. The Economic council and other bodies advised for more time and consultations to sort out these issues, you said no.
And some people are here supporting it thinking that it is a Northern problem.

casualobserver:
Some of this states don’t seem to understand that they don’t have a choice. If for any reason this bill doesn’t pass. Lagos and Rivers will just continue their court case and keep 100% of their VAT.

Elliotwaveforec:
So it's normal to pass a bill into law after 20 years? Zulum, I'm highly disappointed in you!