₦airaland Forum

The power of our creator is the power of the populace, humans voice is the voice of God.

Pretending is the major problem of Igbos if not what is the meaning of marginalisation? I think the feelings of iniquity of sharing things that belongs to group peoples which Easterners are suffering from.

genuine unity within Igbos is the first solution to their problems before truelly unified with other peoples of Nigeria because a ship without marine compass can't reach its destination.

anything goodabout Nigeria, Lagos will be mentioned.. O it still rewarding the brighter future.

Eko oni baje o
Itesiwaju Eko lojewalogun.

PDP looking for always to gain ground, may be they're planning to use this occultists to replace IPOB.

@freeze001, call a spade, a spade and don't let bias obscuring your sense of saying truth by calling black white color.

humiliation of IPOB still shocking the wailers.. bunch of conspirators.

Either your claimed is truth or not, it's has become an event that N.Army rendered free medical assistance to the populace in Ebonyi State.

Never rely on politicians statement because their actions and utterances different to when they're still a campaigners and when they're in charge of political office,

believe them at your own disappointed....

It is advisable for girl child to be more mature before engaging in relationships, most of secondary school boys and girls friend ended in favor of boys that enjoyed their girlfriends as sex machines, in spite of the fact that segments of one body can be use as she/he feel but not fantastic for regretting what you did wrong in the past because had I know is the most painful self judgement.

The relationship of instinct is different with relationship of reality and only exposure, counseling and maturity can guide young lady to relationship of reality.

Is it senate declare Boko Haram terrorists? is it not US that declared her terror group? Saraki utterances is only for futuristic political campaign, in Egypt it was the army that declared Muslims Brotherhood terrorists due to their consistent protest against the government not to mention those calling themselves IPOB - that's organising chaos in eastern Nigeria.

what of the 3 Hausa men killed by ipob mask men with their new strategy of gorilla warfare at the market in Delta state yesterday, and making publicity on one Igbo guy killed by military under provoking pressure while retaliation has been taken by IPOB for it... why shouting again after 3 soul of northerners lost for 1 igbo guy...

tell your brothers and sisters to agitate for self determination maturely like Catalonia in Spain, Kurdish in Turkey, syria, Iraq, Scotland in UK and so on, the war you can't finish don't drum for it because war is not worse than natural disasters.

When Tinubu, Fayami, Soyinka and other NADECO members agitating for democracy and mandate of MKO non of them challenge the govt of IBB and Abacha with arms or establishment of security forces which N. Kanu did to challenge FG, so therefore is dancing to the music he played.

Either Atiku or not only God knows who'll rule Nigeria from the 2019 to 2023 because most of our presidents emerged unexpectedly since second republic, I pray for a leader.

I doubt this claim as the cause of his death simply because resignation is allow... still may his soul RIP.

Igbo will continue to shout marginalisation until when this planet is ended... let them continue the politics of hatred... may be when APGA or PDP win the FG in future they'll quit complaining for awhile .

It's unfortunate incident but for non-Muslims to be making inhuman statement as if what happened gave them gladness due to police was killed by the mob that were disheartened and transfer their anger on him that caused his death, two wrongs can't make right though...


RIP to them.

no doubt they has more facilities than Africans' countries but had it been it's mudslide that happened in Sierra Leone that occur in Texas, no how they'll not have casualties over there... thank God for not earth quake, land slide or mudslide.

Though shopping mall too create employments but can't be compare with the employments manufacturing companies will create... on more industries I stand not more big shopping malls that threatens small Nigerian retailers.

Stand up for the champions...

Calling Muhammad all names you like doesn't stop the blessing of almighty Allah on him while it doesn't reduce his popularity on this planet, you called him paedophile simply because Islamic religion allowed early marriage for the lady while in Spain that allows girls to marry from age of 13 year since immemorial period until when it halt in 2013, nothing wrong on that because it's an European Christian's country, if you've been brainwashed with what programmed on your system, continue to display your ignorance.

Even when FIFA instituting favour for Messi still I believe in him CR7, no doubt he's simply the best footballer on this planet.

PUNCH EDITORIAL :

Many states get money simply for contributing practically nothing! According to the Finance Minister, Kemi Adeosun, Lagos State alone generates 55 per cent of the VAT collected in the country, followed distantly by the Federal Capital Territory, which chips in 20 per cent. This means the contribution from the remaining 35 states of the federation is just 25 per cent. Adeosun, at a meeting of the Progressive Governors’ Forum in Birnin Kebbi in Kebbi State, put the VAT returns from Rivers and Kano states at six per cent and five per cent respectively. And when Rivers’ and Kano’s total of 11 per cent is added to that of Lagos and Abuja, making it 86 per cent, it means the remaining 33 states jointly make a paltry contribution of just 14 per cent.

In fact, Lagos has so much potential that the state government is realistically setting a target of making it the third largest economy in Africa. This is a state that accounts for 70 per cent of maritime trade in the country and hosts 60 per cent of industries that help generate the VAT that is shared among all the states. Aside from accounting for 86.2 per cent of Companies Income Tax in 2008, according to the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Lagos is also the manufacturing hub of Nigeria. The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, recently noted that all the 214 people who paid up to N20 million each as tax per annum were resident in Lagos. He went on to add that, of the 914 who paid between N10 million and N20 million tax, only two were resident outside Lagos. Those two are domiciled in Ogun State. Figures from the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria also indicate that the Ikeja Industrial Zone alone – not even the entire Lagos – accounted for 55 per cent of goods manufactured in the country in 2016. This also means sustenance of jobs for Nigerians from all parts of the country.

However, the setting becomes very provocative when it comes to the sharing formula. For the month of February, for instance, while Lagos got N6.14 billion, reports have it that Kaduna State, whose contribution was put at mere one per cent, got N4.23 billion, just as Kano and Rivers got N1.66 billion and N1.33 billion respectively. The question then arises, how did the state with one per cent contribution end up getting more than the bigger contributors? Where is justice in such a system?


VAT, a tax levied on goods and services consumed, is shared among the three tiers of government, with the Federal Government taking 15 per cent, while the state and local governments share 50 per cent and 35 per cent respectively. With the present LG structure in the country, the Northern section of the country is placed at an unduly advantageous position because it has by far the greater number of LGAs. These are LGAs created based more on land mass than on human population.

The country was deliberately structured that way during the military rule to give that part of the country an undue advantage when it comes to revenue distribution, not generation. An often cited example is that of Lagos and Kano states, which started off with the same number of LGAs at the 1967 state creation, only for Lagos to still remain at 20 LGAs while Kano, despite Jigawa State having been carved out of it, now has 44 LGAs. Even Jigawa, the sister state, boasts 27 LGAs, while efforts by Lagos State, which is indisputably the most populous in the country, to increase its number of LGAs have been met with deliberate frustration.

Besides, when a bill came up at the Senate last year, highlighting the special status of Lagos, it was promptly thrown out without senators batting an eyelid. Oluremi Tinubu, the sponsor of the bill, had sought the setting aside of one per cent of accruals to the Federal Government from the Consolidated Federation Account for the funding of the peculiar challenges of the state as a former capital of Nigeria. Those who threw out the bill conveniently forgot that an investment in Lagos is also an investment for Nigeria because Lagos, the economic capital of the country, has become a home to many Nigerians, regardless of their state of origin. Interestingly, when a bill for the creation of a North-East Development Commission came up at the same Senate that rejected the Lagos bill, it was overwhelmingly passed. The commission, ironically, will draw its funding for the next 10 years from VAT, the burden of which is borne chiefly by Lagos. The same attitude of contempt was displayed when the lawmakers slashed the budget proposal for the repair of the dilapidated Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

Added to this brazen injustice is the inclusion of the 12 Sharia practising Northern states in the sharing of VAT on alcoholic beverages. Hisbah, the Sharia law enforcement agencies in these states, regularly confiscate and destroy alcoholic drinks. In 2001, a group that called itself the Independent Sharia Implementation Committee destroyed more than 600 crates of assorted beer. On November 27, 2013, the Hisbah destroyed over 240,000 bottles of beer in Kano. In January 2015, the Kano State Hisbah Board said it destroyed 326,151 bottles of beer. This is outrageous.

It is wrong and unjust for states to have an entitlement to a share of other people’s efforts rather than a reward for their own efforts. The reality of the present is that Lagos, as a former capital of the country and the economic livewire, deserves special treatment to continue to drive the economy. Many federal institutions and roads exist in the state which should not be abandoned. It is the treatment such as Lagos and the oil producing states of the country are facing today that is fuelling the ongoing campaign for the restructuring of the country. Wealth is not sitting there waiting to be shared; it must be constantly created. There is no way a country mounted on a tripod of injustice can stand; it will surely collapse unless urgent steps are taken to address these obviously dangerous contradictions. As the great American president, Abraham Lincoln, once said, there is no greater injustice than to wring your profits from the sweat of another man. only restructuring can sincerely solve Nigeria problem which will enhance collective benefits for us and our in coming generation.

Cownu is a fool!

The Igbo Christians will be sad due to Buhari's arrival while FFK who's just trying to tell the Easterners what they like to hear because they're easy to deceived, FFK was a minister during PDP era did he talk anything relating to restructuring? now he always assigned himself to be opening mouth for unreasonable utterances in order to gain Yanmurins' votes for PDP in 2019.

He Okwu Cownu deceiving the most easiest people to deceive on earth I. e. Igbos.

This issue is individualistic because some intending to marry because of love and fear of God while some deciding to marry because of having children and such person can't take the risk of marriage without achieving his paramount interest as such person is not a devoted Christian or Muslim due to both religion against the idea of being pregnant before marriage.

Igbo and killing of their parents... why? it seem it's generation to generation by recompensing themselves because it's a curse on Igbo flat head yanmurin peoples of Biafra that Nnamdi Cownu... what a pity.

Igbos of Biafra just spoiling Yorubaland with kidnapping syndrome, yanmunrin and crimes they're like bread and butter.

Though, there's freedom of expression but not all is eligible to be writing unpleasant things on internet when subject matter is about company, group or political party while one source of living coming from there, it's very dangerous because your post on internet can be use against such person either presently or in future by conspirators. even very wise business man won't try it against authority of the state.

Why some just like abusing, a young lady came to appreciate our artist and instead of reciprocating that, her stature is their problems, she's Arab not African which there's different on both nature of growing... let's quit this barbaric attitude, or is it because of likes' click?

Igbos like deception so much that's why Nnamdi Cownu is reigning over there, some just fabricated history that they are from Jews prior to the fact that they're not proud of identifying themselves as igbos again because they've dirty it with many atrocities, Jews indeed, redeem your image and be proud of Igbo origins of Africa and not Jews that all originated from Middle East.

replying ESDKING who tell you that religion can cause problem in Yoruba land, so stop playing religion card of separation on Yoruba race, the most mature tribe Nigeria, Osinbajo was right to say that and FFK replied due to he had such attitude, that was how he's criticizing G.Jonathan and after he engaged him with one position he quickly quits criticism against GEJ and began to praise former president.