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DLondonboiy ,

So many questions, don't even know which to ask but in one word, (you can be coy) what does the "future" portend? Thank you..

DLondonboiy ,

So many questions, don't even know which to ask but in one word, what does the "future" look like?

smellingmenses:
How do you know the size of sheriffs balls? This woman

I was only parroting Pryce ,when the going was good, he claimed Sheriff is da bomb diggity now song don dey change (no pun intended)

Cc Pryce, did you not say Shekau's cojones had iron & blue diamonds?

TonyeBarcanista:
Your point is?

It is unethical & criminal to take someone's money and not deliver what the person paid for.... whatever grouse you have take it to aspiring VPs Fayose,Wike, Ekweremadu and Akpabio they will help you, you are only preaching to the choir here..


No one on NL can help you!! Go to Wadata & fight your battle.

PRYCE:
ofcourse you are here!

SAS own na small case... We go UnCloth am soon!

Pryce, you are my flend, I won't do you like that our other friend who change mouth about the guy matter... but don't forget shekau Sheriff has "Zeus sized BALLs" so take caution...



@bettercreature,

I plead the fifth, before Tonye say he is being winched & "sadisized" (not oyinbo, coined am )

bettercreature:
If you can not convince them! CONFUSE THEM

Wetin a do? , me that I'm just minding my business jejely...

People can not say this, ride person private jet & chop hin money and say dem no again...

PDP is like an Ebina babe with a dozen friends that took advantage of a poor guy by "chopping the money" & when time come to deliver the goods, wan play fast one, sorry kolewerk, Lai Lai kolewerk.

We Passers-by will oversee the molestation sef!!

pimplucious:
The first couple of people to coment on this post has nothing to say other than "the post is too long" this goes to buttress the saying that "Nigerians don't read"

The post is so Brilliant I had to read it twice btw.

If you really want to know how brilliant he is, follow him on twitter @doubleeph & his blog as well .. aguntasolo.com! I read it even before it made it to NL, I didn't want to post it because of the "too long" / "summary" crew..

*sidebar*.. Feyi is no fan of Dangote, he gave him the Alhaji Putin appellation.

tee10:
This will not FIX all the problems with the economy

We still have deep structural problems, power, transports road etc and a system of govt than will lead to failure even with d best of intentions


After a year of experiments, using Nigerians as lab rats, hundreds have lost there jobs Buhari is finally listening

Like feyi said in ds article PMB is back in office a second time to LEARN economics

Hope he will EAR now when sound advice is given

Which one of the highlighted is novel?? Which one of them did this administration cause?

Did we not have same problem even when oil was trading at $100+ & sympathisers of the past regime used the free flow of proceeds of corruption to insist the economy was at a 100?

My point isn't about turning Nigeria into a fully industrialized nation in a few months but at least the "hardship" & "poverty" will reduce a bit!!

obailala:
Strong deliverance would be required

Conducted on mount everest sef by the whole CAN contigent with help from the Vatican.

It's make or break time, if this doesn't revive the economy then deliverance is the next line of action.

anonimi:
The same way that many foolishly said that Nigerians don't do suicide bombs as we love life too much. Then Boko Haram terrorists showed us how WRONG we were. Not so
Keep hiding behind politics instead of calling out Aregbe NOW before it is too late.

Everything that should make sense inside of you has already either been sacrificed on the altar of inane photography or to pick crumbs of your political paymasters table.... so I know better than to expect civility/logic from you.. where did you see me supporting mixing religion with education? If not that bias has taken you hostage, you'd have seen I totally am against making religion focal point in schools..

If my opinion isn't enough for you, why don't you organise your fellow political thugs to Osun state govt house to beat him up!! Abeg swerve with your useless election loss bad belle, off points & poster colour! Iranu.. Mtcheew..

Fayose!! Uhmmm

Akwa Ibom is the next port of call? Issokay.

Hope Akpabio won't open his Igba aiye mouth to claim they are SW mercenaries...

olaitoro:
religious was in SW, interesting.

watching muslim passingshot verses christian mo in 4D.

then christian Ambode will take on muslim Amuson.

Sorry, Yorubas don't do religious war, whatever you see going on will eventually be resolved.... Baba Babatope is a politician, his stance is suspect.....unseen hands are pulling strings in this brouhaha.

On Topic, I don't subscribe to religion being made focal point in schools, it's a distraction..

I had same experience as alphaoscar in secondary school & I attended a regular one... both religions co existed in peace...

Since Emefiele did with no repercussion, Fowler grow liver do hin own, we expect Kachikwu to do same soon..... They are all above the law.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

jaybee3:
Me i just know we must generate revenue one way or the other and our over reliance on Oyel or the plan being put forward to exploit other mineral resources ain't a short term solution

VAT is at least a flexible way to add monetary value to the treasury

We won't argue, I just asked, what is that Value government is providing for the citizens to necessitate collection of goods & sevices tax?.... Bear in mind that most hotels & businesses that collect VAT from guests & contractors end up pocketing the proceeds most times.

In this people generate their light, dig boreholes for their use, contribute to grade the roads in their neighbourhoods and you want to tax, what are they going to tax?

People are broke, down & out and all we can think of is to add more tax burdens? By the way, how do you intend to task my aunty who deals in plastic in my home town?

If successive government haven't killed the country's production capacity, we wouldn't be where we are today, do you have an idea of how many jobs are lost to China factories & foreign refineries? That is not even about exploration of other mineral resources & how many truly developed countries rely totally on what God buried deep into the ground?

Nigeria needs restructuring, we can continue to kid ourselves till the center eventually gives way!!! I hope it doesn't consume more people than necessary!

jaybee3:
VAT

What value are they going to add the Tax to?

Everybody just throwing taxation upandan, make dem kuku lead the poor citizens to slaughter slab & remove their heads!!!

diegwu01:
I understand, Deji Adeyanju is in Markafi's PDP while Obanikoro is in Modu Sheriff's PDP. Lately, they dont see Eye to Eye.

If it's true that his father is the Adeyanju (PDP National Auditor) in Ali Modu's camp then that means there is fire on the mountain....

This is one person PDP will be praying EFCC detains & trowey key..

PassingShot:
Firstly, I don't know where you got your stat about 75% unemployed/underemployed from. And that we're not currently getting enough tax from people and orgs that should be paying tax shouldn't mean we cannot improve in that regards. Lagos state is a typical example of how tax money can relied upon for infrastructural development. Compare the IGR of Lagos btw 1999 and 2003 to what it is now.

Bros, I don't need stats, I listen to the streets, N-power website went live & in 24hrs, are you implying that the graduates that have are into recharge cards business or fixing phones in computer village are exploiting their full potential? Issokay

Apart from Lagos & few other states with heavy financial/economic activities, kindly design a template of how the shop assistant in oturkpo can be made to contribute to the IGR of Benue or the Bartender in Osogbo can be compelled to pay 6k of his 25k salary to Aregbesola of Osun?

I don't agree there is secrecy in what each state gets from the center. Maybe in the past but not any longer as each state allocation is now made available at the end of every month. And that citizens have chosen not to care about what they should normally show interest in does not absolve them of culpability.

There is secrecy, it may not be overt but government expenditure is mostly covert,only people in the know can say for sure what and what is that we get reports of allocations does not mean we get accurate account of disbursements.... some care but what will happen when there is "immunity"?

I have read extensively on fiscal federalism as it's practised in the US and I have not seen how ours deviates so much from theirs.

It then makes me wonder what exactly is missing in our to make some of you call it unitary federalism.

I insist our problem is not the system but the people (the leaders and the led).

As for the US, let's stop comparing our bastardised federalism with theirs, counties & states don't wait for Washington before fixing their roads, providing primary health care and basic education.... They don't wait for allocation, that's the difference.

Reading about it & actually seeing how things work are two separate things... The US does not run a mono product economy that supports itself with only one commodity & doles out handout to the states.....

In the US, you can't live in Oshodi & send your kid to a public school (basic education) in Gbagada, unless you do a bit of manipulation and you can't pick your phone, dial 911 in an emergency & insist you want to be taken to an hospital in Mushin because that's where you are "registered".... The system has been designed to take you to the nearest facility!!

In the US, states can make laws as they deem fit, there is no fear of federal breathing heavy down their necks like OBJ did to Lagos way back when, if Lagos had been a state like Nassarawa, sorry would have been their case.. a system that also makes it easy for governors to impose on another tier (LG funds) of government without any due consideration can't be compared to the US.

Bros, let's stop comparing apples and oranges......

*in your spare time, read about US' WIC program & state of Illinois Allkids & we can have a more robust debate*

PassingShot:
You've brought in another interesting point of TAX and I agree with you 100%.

Free money has made us to be lazy and fail to demand accountability from our leaders.

I'm still patiently waiting for how it will be possible to "heavily" tax a nation where 75% of its people are either unemployed or underemployed? An undocumented society at that.

Putting the cart before the horse bah?

As for the free money angle, I disagree, it is the secrecy inherent in Nigeria's system of governance, the divide and conquer attitude of the United in briggandage elites & the distance between the people and the authority body...

I don't know facts and figures of allocation to my state, neither do I have records of how my senator/rep receive constituency allowance, so how do I hold them accountable?

Bros, this system of unitary federalism will never in a million years move this nation forward, it's only enriching a few at the expense of the majority & God willing, we will rid ourselves of it!! Abuja is too powerful & too far away to adequately address the problems and NEEDS of the nation....


The leaders may be a problem, but the system is what has provided the loophole.

Fedayeen02:
fiscal federalism

Who is politicising? & of what use is this unproductive system?

See this OP oo

1. It's used to settle bank loans (sometimes godfathers' funds) taken by aspirants to "settle" party delegates before tickets to run were given to them.

http://www.financialwatchngr.com/2016/06/06/lawmakers-trapped-bank-debt-used-2015-elections/

https://www.naij.com/851033-banks-harass-lawmakers-funds-borrowed-2015-elections.html


2. It's also used to keep the party stalwarts happy so they don't snatch their seat and offer to the next highest bidder...

Nigeria I hail thee.

Fedayeen02:
Always remember that fiscal federalism is the common ground we always agree on.



It should not be politicised

?? What is being Politicised?

Na wah for this June 2016 ooo!! Uhnn!!

Gozzzy:
CAN is rapidly becoming a joke... Sorry, is already a joke!!!!

& a very tasteless and boring one at that......

bejeiodus:
It is puerile to blame the ruling party for the leadership impasse that the PDP currently finds itself when members themselves made cracks in the wall for lizards to gain entry. It is time to call a truce and stop baying for more blood. The founding fathers of the party must break their silence and call these hotheads to order. The need to keep the PDP alive keeps staring at us with the passing of each day.

You ought to be non partisan, you are non rabid & too objective.. just be a sympathizer by the sideline....

As per the highlighted, when some of us here pointed the obvious pitfalls that making someone so encumbered the chairman of a party that needed more than anything to grovel & put their best foot forward before Nigerians, some who feel they are NL political pundit of life embarked on a massive PR/ embellishment programme in order to convince the fence sitters.........

The long & short of it is GREED, blind ambition & total disregard for due process bred this impasse....

This drama is so interesting & there is no denouement in sight.

Now this is some funny ish!!!! ..Trading blames bah?


So Fayose, Wike & Ekweremadu are now working with the presidency to destablize PDP? PDP will never ever get it right...

Were we not inundated with claims of how Shekau Sheriff was going to turn water to wine, feed 180m with 2 loaves of bread & also walk on water on their behalf in 2019..... Song don Change? (pun intended)

He who sows wind will definitely reap whirlwind....

PDP wanted to eat their cake and have it... Shekau unfortunately didn't get that memo...

Ridiculousness!!!

Fayose, Wike & Ekweremadu!! Una well done!

KINGinVAHALA2:
Hi modath, good morning!

Thanks for your support and I appreciate the effort taking to have refiner on your signature.

Would love to discuss something that just came up with you, do you mind we chat on bbm or I should send you a mail? @modath

Good morning, Go ahead.....

Passingshot,

First thing first, this contraption of unitary federalism isn't working for us, the feeding bottle unproductive system isn't working!! It allows for loopholes for laggards to run and hide under.


I have arrived at a point where i realised that the major problem beseiging these mismanaged states extend beyond the lack of foresight and greed of these administrators; A system of partisan political structure that turns state governors to party activities financiers and state HOA to rubber stamps does not allow for progress, accountability and fairness...

I also don't think federalism will solve the cluster bleep of problems we have, a regional government with smaller self governing components is the way forward.. Superstates in the region will take care of the less endowned parts in the same region, we can't have states in the new arrangement, rather local governments will be totally empowered like it's global best practices..


The little i know (experienced) about the west is that LGs are the bedrock of developments, that's why we can see LAPD (Los Angeles) , SFPD (San Francisco) etc in the state of California as against Washington sending officers to manage states policing.....


*I don't want to write disjointed epistle but the system is the cause of so much "thievery" *