₦airaland Forum

WorkTheTalk:
You don't know what you are talking about. Operational bases are different from administrative offices. Lagos state, being the administrative headquarters of Nigeria then made it attractive for all the the big companies in Nigeria to locate their head offices there. As we speak all the banks in Nigeria have their head offices in Lagos state. Does it mean that all the states in Nigeria are hostile to host banks head offices except Lagos state?

It makes no sense for any major commercial bank to have their hq outside Lagos and it equally makes no sense for oil companies to have their HQ outside the niger delta....the major reason that isn't the case for the latter is majorly due to insecurity and hostility of the communities in that region,dangote refinery being the most recent..... construction companies also bears the brunt as it cost more to work in the niger delta not majorly because of the terrain in some cases but the hostile attitude and demands by the commuinities.

legitnow1:
TINUBU YORUBA PRESIDENCY DON ENETR UNIZIK.


WEN U CANNOT GO NEAR THE FULANI OR HAUSA MAN OFFICES, AND U RUN OUT OF OFFICES TO SHARE IN SW, U WILL INEVITABLY ENTER SE.



LET HIM APPOINT THE YORUBA HE WANT TO APPOINT THERE, WE ARE ALL OBSERVING KEENLY HIS NEXT MOVE.

He has made a new appointment already,I advise you to go check the name before you continue to embarrass yourself and entire family here......to read and comprehend is rocket science to you guys but to make noise and empty chest beating is your stock in trade.

FourQu:
This is exactly why we want Biafra 💯 we are struggling for the best for our kids.

So that out children will later know that we have everything we need at home 🏡 🙂 and thank their parents for their sacrifice 🙏

You should wish them well

Why not get everything you need at home first.... building mansions in the midst of poverty isn't development......you can't even go back home and sleep with your 2 eyes closed.

The basic economic indices of your sub nationals is appalling considering how you guys boast about your wealth.....lowest revenue in the south,lowest internet usage, insecurity etc.

The east still has a lot to do to harness it's full potential and trust me it will be a thing if joy if the east can truly look itself in the mirror and look critically at their problems and stop playing the victim card.

nesphil:
Lagos was built by the FGN with Oil monies.

And with the kind of foundation that the FMG of Nigeria laid for Lagos, Lagos should have been where top cities in RSA, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, etc. are.

Only those who never been to Lagos nor lived there dey hype that concrete jungle.

Lagos is one of the worst places to live in Nigeria.
Lagos roads and infrastructure dey fine for pictures and screens, the real Lagos is an eyesore, so calm your nerves.

in your next life you can make your region hospitable and cosmopolitan so people can also invest in your region.....@ bolded because you already lost it in this life.

nesphil:
Na mumu u be, where is Lagos today

Can you compare Lagos to cities in RSA, Morocco, Algeria, etc.

The truth is that it was the FGM that laid the foundation for the development of Lagos and also built it.

Without FGM Lagos no for get Airport, Seaports, CBD, industrial estates as they have today.

Truth is always bitter.

So nah awkward for get all those ABI Owerri....you people won't stop amusing us with your idiotic inferences.......do you even know the year the FG left Lagos and in what state did they leave it.

There are far more roads in Lagos than the entire south east combined,more schools,more hospitals,did the FG build those too.

Ojiofor:
Majority of SEners live outside their region that is the problem.
If you do census on SEners on this forum you will find out probably up to 70-80% lives outside SE.

Why aren't they living in their region like others,it's really so pathetic .....the Jews are known to dominate every top echelon of world economy but they are very well domiciled in their land,the chinese are everywhere but her very strongly domiciled in their home country same with Indians,the arabs wouldn't evn leave their countries,and average northerner would rather stay in his state than go abroad.....why is that if the igbos so different that they don't stay back home.

helinues:
Lagos Ibadan express statistics

That's in some people's voice

But if it was something negative about Nigeria,you would have been foaming in the mouth and singing statisense's praises.....there is no one more hypocrite than you people,thats why the other tribes see you guys as supremacist ideologues.

jmoore:
The stats didn't tell us which tribe is topping. It only said states.

Lagos is metropolitan, while SE is homogenous.

Where does all the vat from what they spend on internet go? Is it Anambra or imo where they aren't living or Lagos and fct that is accomodating them.

LegendHero:
You mean the telecom people also do propaganda coz the data is sourced from them.

What I think you should think about is “Why is the SE having least subscribers compared to a NE?”

—Could it be that the Ibos are not truly a majority tribe?

—Could it be that most well to do Ibos live outside their region?

—Could it be that the population of Ibos living in the SE has dwindled coz of insecurity?

—Could it be that the Telecom industry dislike Ibos such that they purposely underreport them?

In all, what is wrong with the South East region?

No wonder they are always shouting hunger wants to kill them and always cursing tinubu like it's tinubu's fault they can't afford internet.

Ndi developers,keep developing other regions while yours wallows in misery.

Kukutente23:
Our tax to GDP figure is not correct i can boldly say. There's a bigger taxation that occurs in the informal sector and of course there's a huge amount of indirect tax in the system that's not captured.

Agric based states should be allowed to tax agric products if we want just taxes. If not, agric derivatives should be taxed and shared with agric inputting states. That's what I think so be fair and just

I absolutely concur

FourQu:
Igbos have too much money. We build empty mansions in our villages so that whenever nigeria collapses we will live like kings at home just as we are living like kings away from home right now

We don't mind, you shouldn't too

Where many of you have since died and living those mansions desolate,we know many of your children who always say they would rather live and die in Lagos than go to the east because they have lived all there lives in the city and can't imagine living in those savage,dead beat villages.

FourQu:
It's okay. We buy their lands and become their landlords there

They pay us rent, and we pay 1% of it as tax

Everybody (especially the igbo man home and away) is happy 😊

Most of the land you claim you bought only have 99 years leases on them and your children are still coming back to re buy those lands when your current leases end.

You are paying tenement on those buildings,vat on the materials you used in building them,employment for the indigenes of that state who would work on your site,more development to those places you develop and more taxes that are still coming while your region is replete with countless mansions that adds no value to your citizenry at home.

Kukutente23:
States should rather be allowed to determine what to tax. Even if agric processing plants are built, the output will still go to other states. For example, a state in the core north that wants to import machinery will do so through the southern ports. But their agric output which is resource based will not yield any tax for them.

Oil is not dwindling. Our oil resources have been and is actively being mismanaged. Trump is even more pro-oil than Biden. While taxes are important, our tax profile has seen an uptick since APC came in but how many of it can be accounted for? Even today, more of our income comes from non-oil sources like tax, agric export, duties etc

You are quite apt with your inference,however, we still have one of the lowest tax to GDP ratios on the continent.....a state is free to choose what it taxes as that as always been the case,if a state is comfortable with it's paltry allocation from faac,no problem.

It's a states ability to develop and retain human capital that would determine it's economic development and sustainability...... states in the north are earning nothing from direct taxes while a state like Lagos is benefiting enormously from it's location and commercial hub of the country.

GetSenseNow:
Any state can suck their citizens dry in the name of collecting VAT and revenue, but the important factor is what that VAT is being used for. What's the essence of posting huge VAT while your GDP and GDP/capita is very poor.



And for those gallivanting on this thread, VAT and IGR have never been statistics for measuring development. GDP and GDP per capita are, so stop disgracing yourselves

Those states at the lower base of that chart,are you saying they are better advanced than those at the top.

South east for instance with those paltry figures compared to the potential inherent in that region says a lot is wrong that means Lagos ,fct,rivers for instance earns more money from taxing the Igbos in their domains than their states of origin would.

WorkTheTalk:
Lagos: N249.77bn

What did you expect when all the important companies in Nigeria have their head offices in Lagos, and pay VAT there, instead of their production and consumption bases?

Just imagine oil companies exploring, drilling and doing oil transactions in Akwa Ibom State, but go to Lagos state to pay VAT just because their head offices are in Lagos. It has always being a lopsided arrangement to cheat the minority.

At the end, you would hear some illiterates telling people from other regions to leave Lagos, and go back to their states not knowing that majority of the development in Lagos came from those states.

If those regions were conduceive for those oil companies to stay,they surely will,I bet you were to young or wasn't even born when shell was head quartered in warri,delta and mobil was in eket,akwa ibom before hostilities from the locals drove them out..... dangote refinery was also initially billed to be sited in the niger delta before he ran away with his capital to Lagos.

FourQu:
I love as south east is taking last in anything that has to do with tax or revenue

We can't be paying from our sweat then share over half of it with the remaining states and then these government thieves in power will be looting the remaining

But also remember that according to your supremacist ideologues, South easterners are the most dispersed people in Nigeria and you should know that other states are benefitting from their sweat to the detriment of their region....that means Lagos or Abuja for instance earns more revenue on every Igbo in their domain as against Anambra or imo.

That doesn't benefit the south east in anyway if I must say.

Kukutente23:
VAT is a consumption tax. How Kano which has almost same population with Lagos will have consumption tax of about one-tenth that of Lagos is a mystery. What is obvious is that VAT collection is a formal system and the less informal the system of a state is, the less VAT that is collected therein.
Another issue is if you say VAT should be zero on agricultural products but should be paid on processed foods, then states that have massive agric output will be shortchanged while those who produce using agric inputs will have higher VAT. This idea coming from a govt that has removed subsidy from fertilisers and has been the poorest at offering support to farmers both crops and animals since 1999 is tardy.

Those states with high agricultural output would do well to attract investors for agric processing for both local consumption and and export.....the north has very huge agricultural potentials.

Oil is dwindling and the revenue generated is also under threat in the coming years,no country can survive without taxes considering our abysmal GDP to population ratio....those countries we all like to run to for greener pastures all depend on taxes from their citizens,that's why things are working there.

Bestmanfornow:
Yoruba government you guys keep throwing it out we know what you guys are known for Oluwale, na only propaganda nothing more soon you guys will be out, Propaganda no infrastructure that's what your leaders uses in brainwashing you guys, once the throw it out gullible minds start jubilating

Do you know how many business decisions that can be made based on these data alone......that same ekiti gov now wouldn't have any excuse to be complaining about paucity of funds,his people can easily hold him accountable but if you are contented about the low revenue generation drive if your govs,that's your problem.

Seefinish:
is like if don't compare IGR generated by southeast with that of southwest, you don't have peace with your poverty.
Tell me the impact of IGR generated by Ekiti on Ekiti state.

Only if you know how much your govs needs those revenues .....you complain no schools,no hospitals,no good road network,no security.....where do you expect the govs to get money from.

It's a good thing this data are being publicised so people can better hold their govs accountable.....the tide is changing and states will soon have to be seeking revenues to take care of themselves.

Ppogbae:
Every single state should be doing these on a massive scale. We have such an infrastructural deficit in this nation, considering our massive population

That's what we keep telling those dim wits who can't see beyond their noses......tinubu is the one that should do everything.....the govs have played a very detrimental role in keeping this country underdeveloped.....now if Lagos is working,they would say Lagos is only developed because it was a former capital but the empty heads don't know what state the FG left Lagos for Abuja and how much over population that state is battling,same is happening to Abuja now......if the previous govts in Lagos where as inefficient has the other govs,do you think Lagos would be where it is today.

Bobodee09:
Once it is in there region they will praise it to the heavens but if is in another region they will tag it waste of money or white elephant project.


Shior.

Very pathetic lot!! Come see them criticising the one Edo gov flagged of today.

God1000:
All I can say is that Obasanjo was right about everything he said.

The insults from the presidency is totally unacceptable, Under Obasanjo, Nigerians were buying cars and building houses everyday, but now Nigerians are selling everything they have just to feed, this government is the worst in the history of Nigeria.

INEC chairman should not be appointed by the president

Because you aren't buying cars or building houses doesn't mean people aren't.

Samunique:
Tinubu high headedness and mis governance will soon be his undoing.

You mean to say you don't see anything good in the presentation by the firs boss?

unitysheart:
As much as this is fine, northern states shouldn't benefit that much from VAT raised through alcohol beverages and similar substances.

You people should stop over flogging this alcohol issue with the north,how much is total vat from alcohol,is alcohol the only vat earner in Nigeria....there are far more goods that would equally earn the north a lot more money.....

SmartPolician:
There's no modification made to the tax bills that won't see Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt getting the most vat because they are the core consumers in Nigeria.

Even Ogun State, which has many industries, cannot stand a chance because most goods produced in Ogun State are consumed in Lagos and across Nigeria.

Just as the middle class is quickly varnishing, there's no conscious effort to distribute the wealth of Nigeria. We are still living with the "grab as much as you can" disease.

Your analogy isn't quite correct,what it means is that govs would now strive to develop their states economies by providing basic infrastructure, education,health care and most important of all, security.......a state like Ogun or oyo can attract people who feel overburdened with taxes and living in Lagos by guaranteeing those things listed above....many people are already migrating to Ogun from Lagos and this is a plus for the economy of ogun state and all the govt needs is to ensure their are good road infrastructure,health care and security.

hisexcellency34:
But states banning and destroying beers can have VAT

It the tinubu reform goes through,there wouldn't be any question about this,you only get vat on what's consumed in your state.....if alcohol isn't consumed in your state,u get no vat.

Tinubu should actually be praised for this because his Lagos would be getting less than they are already getting if the reform goes through,that is genuine statesmanship if I must say.

Fiscus105:
As if, only you have nuclear weapons

As if, you and your fellow Russians, are immune to nuclear weapons

As if, others can trigger their nuclear weapons, wherever they are being kept.


Continuing doing gragra dey go!

It's a deterrence tactic that has worked since the beginning of the cold war,that is what as checked the world from sliding into unnecessary world wars.....it's a clear message to the west to reconsider their support for Ukraine with long range missiles to attack russian territory......you can now see why voting out the Dems was a good thing.

gbaskiboy:
We still have great artists whose music span decades and they are still in the industry and they are happily married.

How many....even davido don dey feel am!! Person wey jus mari yesterday o.

highchiefpee:
How are men more vulnerable in domestic violence?

It's easier for a woman to kill a man than vice versa ....except you aren't sleeping with her or eating her food anymore.

Fear women!!

richiemcgold:
Whenever I come across situations like this, one question I always ask myself: "can I ever lay my hands on a woman?"

This is the only point I would support a divorce.....a woman should be able to endure any other thing but violence shouldn't be tolerated at all.....her family should go rescue her before they kill each other ....funny thing is men are even more vulnerable in domestic violence issues.

Salewa97:
Kwankwaso don dey act like a bitter Ex.

Watch him become the prima Dona of those obidients .... watch as they start calling him the best leader in Africa after Nkrumah!!

Very pathetic lot.