₦airaland Forum

EmekaMD:
I mentioned these as my reasons why I objected the plea for IMF to cancel our national debts.

Why should they cancel our debts when our president and his daughters fly on 10 different private jets while the leaders of the western world fly on commercial planes.

They want to spend 25b on a national assembly building that is as good as new. When our hospitals lack the basic facilities.

This is why I will never be convinced to pay taxes on my free volition.
If they catch me they should collect it by force otherwise no show for them.
I'm not interested in funding their expensive lifestyles.

It hurts really badly seeing a substantial chunk of my salary going into taxes that end up being frittered away while my personal business gets almost a 10% shortfall in the name of WHT and VAT deducted right from source during clients' payments.

The urge to evade tax has never been this intense in me.
Can you offer tips on how to get around this criminal WHT and VAT taken from businesses?

There you have it.
A serious, prudent, focused and visionary leader truly committed to a people-centric government.

What do we have in Nigeria? One "Mr. Integrity" budgeting billions of naira for his globetrotting and feeding, his Minister of Disaster feeding phantom "school children" with almost N1billion daily and a whopping N37billion earmarked for his rubber-stamp legislature for doing his bidding, while hiding under the guise of some non-existing renovation works.

Shameless thieves!

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ZooOga:
who used the derogatory word regime instead of administration? the loser or the journalist?

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Stale.
This government has proven to be the most corrupt, most wasteful and the most incompetent in the history of Nigeria!

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vedaxcool:
Sorry use your advice and help save your ailing companies that keep sacking workers. PMB has not sack a single Federal Worker despite the challenges. This foolish advice should have been reserved for yourself pre elections when you squandered your resources in the hope that you can sell NNPC and reinvigorate your purse.

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Abeg hear this one o!
Is your PMB responsible for paying FG workers' salary, that you are comparing him with Atiku who runs his own private businesses?

Do Atiku's private companies receive any allocation or subvention from crude oil sales?

Na wa o!

NEIGHBOUR:
@BREYZ, Goodluck Jonathan is just too weak to continue as the President. By now, they would not have anything to steal!!!

"Too weak" but we had $1 = N200, a bag of rice = N7,500, 1liter of Petrol = N87, our total debt at just N7.2 trillion (as against a staggering N33 trillion today).

Nigeria had the biggest economy and the highest FDI in Africa, was the 3rd-fastest-growing economy in the world, and belonged to the MINT-class economies.

He established and built 12 universities, revived our railway sector, introduced the TSA, BVN, we had free, fair, credible and bloodless elections, etc...I can go on and on!

Yet you were fooled into voting in an unprepared, divisive and utterly incompetent APC, a congregation of strange bed fellows with no single plan for the country other than the quest to remove Jonathan and return power to the north. They have eroded every single legacy left behind by the Jonathan government.

You had better woken up Ogbeni, and quit chanting "Jonathan was weak" upandan. This is 2020!

Kudos to the brave Judges.
We await another "sting operation" from Buhari and his lawless DSS wherein there will "discover" $1 trillion in the Judges abode.


Yeye people trampling on people's rights with reckless abandon as if they'll be in power forever.

dyfaze:
Buhari doesn't steal.. still kinda honest. . Na those useless Covid 19 Task force, NCDC, and that woman who claimed they have started doing cash transfer to poor Nigerians..

Are you kidding me with the bolded part?
Who told you that?

My mum is definitely still a virgin then.

One wonders just how much of Lagosians' money these guys have cornered for themselves.

Na wa o!

tatatar:
The hypocrisy
Were this to be buhari doing this the people praising wike right now would have screamed blue murder.I'm certain every one here has flouted one lockdown rule or another.
He's action still is illegal,and he will clearly loose out when he gets sued.At the end of the day it's with Rivers State money the hotel will be rebuilt with.There are other ways of appropriately meting out a punishment.

Just like Buhari, Wike can as well disobey court orders should he be sued and loses.

State security supersedes the Rule of Law nah.

No biggie!

Oloun:
because you ain't in the city to know what people is passing through, that man is just being unnecessary wicked, how can you lock down everyone without making provisions for them? No where to buy anything even street shops all closed. Is that how to fight the virus? When people are about to be starved to death.

Falana, do you live in PHC?

Staphylococcus:
Beautiful throw back!

His Excellence, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) in the making

President in Cuckooland!

@ TMKsouth:

Your title is wrong.

That's not a Virtual Office but a physical office where the president holds Virtual Sessions/Meetings.

lrdval:
Really want to use this platform to hear from others and probably someone might get it right. Rivers state has joined TOTAL LOCKDOWN yesterday, and this lockdown only affects some local Governments in the state.
People has been wondering why the Governor will only lock down some parts of the state and leave the others open. Does that mean that those areas that where open are immune to the virus or not really part of the state that matters, or is there any ULTERIOR MOTIVES behind this total lockdown from Him.
Please this is 21 century and social media has helped a lot in exposing so many deals and plots by the government through one or two persons who outthink them.

Let’s share our views. What do you think might be the governors ulterior motives towards this lockdown. Let’s think outside the box.
For me. I think he doesn't want any oil company from his state to function properly. So that he can shake offs some cash from FG.
Suggest yours. Let’s reason together.

This thread is needless.

Ondo, Kwara, Delta, Edo and a host of other States were locked down previously by their governors without any public backlash. Why so much noise about that of Rivers State?

You want the governor to wait till people start dropping dead in droves before taking proactive steps so you can turn around and blame him for inaction?

Wike hasn't asked the FG for any kobo. He only exposed the fact that Lagos received financial support while other States were left out.

I recall he also rejected the food palliatives offered by the FG on the ground that they were insufficient for distribution and unsafe for consumption.

There's is no ulterior motive other than a quest to keep his domain safe, especially given that we have an incompetent/indifferent government at the center.

Taich:
The story of Rivers State is open if you have a neutral mind. The two LGA under lockdown are where u may consider to be called Portharcourt, over 95% of the companies in Rivers State and their workers live in this place, all the cases of Covid 19 were recorded there. So it makes sense to isolate this places properly not like what was observed in some parts of Lagos and Ogun were people were moving about during lockdown. Lockdown if done properly, we can beat this virus by simply quarantining and isolating those that are infected.

There is no motive here, all I see is a gateman (Wike) working hard to keep his home safe.

God bless you.

I don't understand the baseless theories flying around as if Rivers is the first State to be locked down.

Should the man wait till things degenerate to the Kano level before taking this step?

brightdestiny96:
Definitely. There is a book that forbids looking over your brother's shoulder to discover his faults. Buhari read it, and declared Abacha a saint.
The same book is the reason why Dariye, Kalu and Nyame, all imprisoned former governors, are from the stock of those who don't read it.

Sage words!

DriggityDre:
Hehehehe .
Zoom getting hacked since 1945.
The last time I had a Zoom meeting, we were hacked as well. The hackers were laughing and speaking some sort of language.
I later discovered it was Japanese they were speaking . We ended the meeting shapaly. Very funny memory.

Now, I've migrated to Microsoft TeamViewer.

A lot of people have complained of this, worldwide.
Zoom needs to tighten their security .

Microsoft Teams. It's different from TeamViewer.

platido:
This is so barbaric and wickedness wicked....all this these because the FG refuses to give him the 10 Billion he requested to used use and fight COVID-19 pandemic..[s]he thinks doing this to Human that he will get it?...he has taminated his future political career in nearest future[/s]

Oga, I think your English is already "taminated"

By the way, Wike never requested for any funds from the FG.

platido:
This is so barbaric and wickedness....all this because the FG refuses to give him the 10 Billion he requested to used and fight COVID-19 pandemic..he thinks doing this to Human that he will get it?...he has taminated his future political career in nearest future

When did Wike request any funds from the FG?
Why so much hate for a man trying to keep his domain safe?

onomefm:
No movement in PH

Which of the Port Harcourts is this?

Enough of the ceaseless mockery of that beautiful city please.

I have been to/lived in quite a number of Nigerian cities and PH happens to be one of the few cities in Nigeria where you can drive round town "safely" without coming across slums as filthy as those places you posted.

By the way, I suspect you're the same guy behind all previous PH-denigrating threads created all in a bid to settle scores with some other guys who made mockery of your state.

Shizzyguy:
To begin with, consultations should have been made with key stakeholders. Winke approach is that of a person just doling out commands and orders, threatening everyone including companies, establishments and traditional rulers. He has not tried to engage anyone and because people don't trust him, I doubt anyone will offer such suggestions because it is not likely he will at least listen to them.

Who told you there were no consultations?

Gideon110:
Port Harcourt is not beautiful and neat as I thought it would be...

How did you arrive at that position?
Ever been to PH?

contigiency:
The problem with people like you is that you build perception against others based on how people especially politicians want you to feel about them. Because, those names you singled out, if i ask you to state your personal experience or how they have wronged you, you will not have any single evidence. In case you don't know, I listed those names based on their performance in public service. Forget about sentiments, do a proper historical analysis of those names in public service, then tell me who among their peers that outperformed them. All of them will certainly be among top three.

I find the bolded part insulting!
Do I sound like a zombie to you?

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PassingShot:
We are even lucky it's Buhari that's the president during this pandemic. Had it been it was one of them (the looting gang), a piece of tomato could have been N1,000.

Their party, the Poverty Development Party looted the country blind, brainwashed their supporters in believing that looting is a career. And now that things are being done the way they should be, they're crying all over the place.

The scammer they tried to sell to Nigerians in the last election has been sacking his employees, left right and center. People who couldn't manage abundant resources want to mange scarce ones!

Awon werey!


See someone who celebrates total failure of Jonathan and PDP' sixteen wasted years talking about mediocrity!

If I ask you to list PDP's achievements in sixteen years, you will start talking of GSM which only required the licensing of operators to achieve.

Awon audio achievers.

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contigiency:
Oga, they are not the same. PDP has no quintessential politicians like; Buhari, Tinubu, Ogbonnaya Onu, Oshomole, Osibanjo, El Rufai, Nwajiuba, Ngige, Pat Utomi, Prof Zulum etc.

What they have are the likes of FFK, Fayose, Theordo Orji, Okezie Ikpeazu, Mbadinuju, Ortom, Makinde, Akala, Igbinedo, Tony Anini, Asari Dokubo, Ibori etc.

Another difference is that, PDP ruled for 16 years and deprived the country basic infrastructure through corruption. But in about 5 years of APC, the government is building railways, Airports, Federal roads that cut across 36 States of the federation, Second Niger Bridge, Ogoni oil spill clean up, Agriculture is now taking a good shape, fertilizer plants are now fully working. And so many areas you can't compare or simply say they are the same.

Buhari, Tinubu, El-Rufai quintessential?
I've never read anything more ridiculous!

You definitely must be either an APC stakeholder, a media agent or one benefiting one way or the other from this disaster of a government.

Why don't you converge tax-paying, hardship-facing Nigerians and repeat your comment here before them and let's see if you'll return home with your teeth intact.

May God forgive you lots.

They will loot (or have already looted) the billions received in donations while shamelessly going to beg Elon Musk et al for free equipment.

Golan007:
Why should he set up business?

There is such a thing as a career administrator and should actually be encouraged.

Only in this part of the world we expect civil servants to also be businessmen. Of course, they cannot serve God and Mammon at the same time.

Bro, there's no compulsion in establishing businesses.
My problem is with the fake toga of poverty Buhari adorns to deceive gullible Nigerians. It's insulting!

Imagine even telling his zombies in 2015 he could not afford the cost of his party's Nomination Form.
The man is just a looter like every other leader Nigeria has been cursed with since independence.

festacman:
You are a supporter of looters who pushed Nigeria down on its knees. But I have a news for you: Nigeria will bounce back again.

I'd rather support looters who employ thousands of Nigerians than a holier-than-forming criminal hoodwinking his gullible followers with his phantom integrity.

There's no clean politician anywhere in the world.
Politics and integrity don't go together. Wake up!

Modified:

Amen though to your prayer.

festacman:
We are our own problem. You are hailing somebody who looted the national treasury to set up his private businesses and you are berating somebody who didn't. We are carried away by useless tokenism by our insincere smooth-talking looting oppressors. Then turn around and call someone who is not smooth-talking but sincere in making hard decisions as the oppressor.

The bolded portion is one of the most ridiculous phrases I've ever read!

There's no point engaging you any further.

By the way, the fact that Buhari, a one-time Petroleum Commissioner, a one-time Military Administrator, a former Head of States, a former PTF Chairman and a 2-term President, who has all his life been earning fat salaries has not been able to legitimately set aside enough resources from his earnings to establish a single business speaks volume of his intellectual deficiency. He definitely cannot survive outside government circles.

Little wonder he superintends over the most direction-less government ever in the history of Nigeria!

festacman:
Atiku means Jobs!

Nigeria dodged a bullet.

Kudos at least to Atiku for providing jobs for thousands of Nigerians.

How many Nigerians are under Buhari's employ?

Buhari massively-rigging his way to another term in 2019 despite his woeful performance in his first term remains the biggest misfortune to have befallen hapless Nigerians this decade.

Corporate2020:
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
Lagos-Abeokuta-Ibadan Railway
Kaduna-Abuja Railway
Ajaokta-Itakpe-Warri Railway
Apapa-Oshodi-Iyana_Oworo Expressway
Oyo-Ogbomoso Expressway
Remodelling of several international airports

Oga, are these the projects that got us indebted to the tune of N33trillion!

Make una fear God nah, haba!

Stalwert:
mis-characterizing his statement as usual by the dishonest media


President Muhammadu Buhari has urged international financial institutions to assist member states in cushioning the negative impact of the pandemic in the spirit of solidarity.


To all the inbreeding underachieving morons, PMB moves on.

President Buhari said the assistance includes extending concessional loans, technical support, lowering of tariff on medical equipment and consumables, sharing of expertise in case management, adopting open trade policies, as well as outright debt cancellation.

You may need to read the piece again.