₦airaland Forum

vaxx:
religious and tribal lines play important role in Nigeria politics. Check out the Federal character system.

The current vice president was a key pastor in winners chapel of God ministry .

vaxx:
but scholars keep repeating it as the unifying force that can keep Nigeria together. The region must go by each philosophy.

vankelvin:
But we don't seem to have this religious demarcations here OR?

vaxx:
that is the basis of federalism. Each region should have some self of independence.

vaxx:
actually , it is part of the challenges. That is why the country is clamouring for restructuring. So that the old regional system can be practiced . If that be , the philosophy of Awolowo in south west can be implemented . The free education , emphasis on cash crop product etc which has been the benchmark of development in Yoruba region . Each region want to be self autonomous. The north may continue with their Islamic system.

vaxx:
He wasn't Nigeria first man anyway , it was even the northerner who never want Nigeria to be independent. In the name of tafawa balewa and in terms of national contribution, anthony enahoro has done what Awolowo was just doing way back . He first moved the motion for Nigeria independence. And again Awolowo was more popular in south west governance than the national helm.

I even try by mentioning fela, fela is more popular than his mother thru his music as a political language.


Azikwe has no weight in comparable to Awolowo in south or balewa in the north. He is only popular in the east . Infact the latter biafra war leader ""ojukwu"" is more popular than him

simple, Nigeria does not have a central hero. Nigeria can only be proud of patriotic citizens not vilian.

Shma2020:
I get. Skyscrapers are not the only indicators for measuring development but it's among the indicators.

Roan77:
Bro, I didn't see that, although this should not be an argument, but if you have the link of it, you should post it.

vankelvin:
Let me end with this.
The official population of Ghana.
Small but mighty.

Now Greater Accra Region have taken the lead from Ashanti Region.

Roan77:
Are you serious? Many sources are giving different population number, some are saying 2.2 million, and others 3.4 million, but I didn't see 5.4 million though.

P.S My bad,Abuja population as of 2021 is 3.4 million people, not 5-6 million I early stated.

Roan77:
Are you actually crazy? How can a city of 5-6 million people be empty?
Accra is a city of 4.5 million people, are you also going to call it empty?

SUFFERInSMILIIN:
I have a question to ask you so when is Ghana going to actually teach in Nigeria how to get out of its economic problems. Ghana is the economic power house of west Africa. Does Ghana have any plans to help their west African neighbours like Nigeria

rvp2018:
Usual diarhoea

rvp2018:
You do not have any tax base to talk about. Your country is one sea of informal business.

rvp2018:
If there is little profit - chinese would not be busy mining your forests.

rvp2018:
China is largest gold trader - and yet they have no gold mine. All from Ghana and such Africa countries. Dubai alone receives 15B dollars of gold every year from Africa that is not reflected in official documents. China does even more.

rvp2018:
They must pay in peanuts and grass cutter their taxes. If you remove oil and etc....it's about Rwanda level -5B dollars.

rvp2018:
Chinese are bringing Ghana gold to invest in Kenya. See this 1B dollar investment they just gave us for nothing.

Just those two investment from China worth 1B dollars plus.

This is free - your gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUCIb3g11Q4

This too is free - your gold

rvp2018:
Tell me how many tax returns are filled by poor Ghanians.

rvp2018:
Kenyatta is retiring in less than one year. We are one Africa longest democracy. You have more military history than democracy.

When you send Shaolin gang back to China - I will start to give you a tweenie little respect.

rvp2018:
Your total tax returns I doubt even reach one million.

Kenya total tax returns 5.5m - total 6.1m

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has reported that more than 5.5 million taxpayers filed their tax returns by the midnight June 30 deadline, reflecting a 19 per cent growth from last year.

Some 4.4 million filed returns in 2020. Taxpayers file returns for the previous year, with the filing period running from January 1 to June 30.

The number of taxpayers using iTax has been growing over the past few years, rising from 3.6 million in 2019 to 4.4 million in 2020 and 2021's 5.5 million.

But KRA still reports that some 600,000 of the 6.1 million taxpayers registered on iTax failed to file, even as it added the number of last-minute filers was down this year.

rvp2018:
You have produced gold since 13th century - if you're hoping for miracle it wont happen. Countries that are somewhere in Africa - Mauritus, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, few island like Seycheles and of course Magreb.

1st miracle is to send Chinese gang away.

rvp2018:
There are two types of registration
1) Business license for informal business - you pay maybe 10-100 dollars a year to operate - you do not file tax returns.
2) Proper business or company - with all the whistles and bells- you need to file taxes, articles of associaiton, legal fees.

You dont come near kenya in either. The first is informal sector. The 2nd is private sector.

rvp2018:
When China stop smuggling 8B - more than official 7B - worth of Gold - come and talk. If you managed Gold - you'd be like South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. Clearly you're not. You cannot use population as an excuse.

rvp2018:
Number of registered business - in an informal zoo like Ghana - like seriously.

Maybe number of registered small time informal business.

Definitely when it come to companies - you aint go nothing

rvp2018:
Manage GOLD first before you can rise above BONOBO level.

vankelvin:
His brain cells are so dead.
Arguing with this dude is a whole exercise on its own. He will just quote any report regardless of the year it was published.

rvp2018:
What are 5 million Nigerians doing in Ghana - if not informal retail, transport and such. These Ghanians have to be most lazy un-enterpising people to see such a big influx. Their very LOW IQ is self-manifested in this forum. All they do is engaged in echo chamber of liking each other dense post - like it counts for anything. Deadly mix - at least Somalis though un-educated are very enterprising. These onces are almost bonobos for real.

vaxx:
if you are a rat, automatically, you will be a malnourished one due to food shortage in kenya. Kenya will be too poor to have a better one .

rvp2018:
Once again - for umpteenth time - respond with link - of some empirical data - not your written diarhohea.

rvp2018:
Countries that really manufacture drugs in Africa - are few - Ghana first learn to dispense drugs - before you can make drugs - and then syringes like Nigeria - Kenya was doing all that maybe 40yrs ago.

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/september-2020/how-africa-can-manufacture-meet-its-own-pharmaceutical-needs

Although pharmaceutical products are currently manufactured in countries such as South Africa, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt, as a whole Africa currently imports more than 80 per cent of its pharmaceutical and medical consumables. It is unsustainable.


Another study

In 2005, a World Bank study revealed that South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe had demonstrated the
industrial capacity for producing medicine for export or domestic consumption in the face of the diminishing supply
of generic medicine from the major producers.

rvp2018:
We import petrol and related oil product - until we get Turkana Oil to production - we will continue.
We import medicine - we have very good medicine manufacturing for generics - outside South Africa and Egypt.
We import lots of palm/cooking oil - this is a problem and we need to grow sunflower to replace palm oil - but we re-export a lot of this regionally
We import lots of cars - this will continue for quite a while
We imports lots of machinery and capital goods - this will continue.

We do not import a lot of finished manufactured goods - we actually export lots of such goods regional - and outside - leading AGOA in apparel.

If you go to any supermarket in kenya - nearly everything on the shelf is made in kenya.