₦airaland Forum

Focusmind:
It seems that Hope Uzodimma has an office at the villa.

He is permanently at the villa - the same way he was permanently at the villa during Buhari's time

The man seems to have some magic he is using - he seems so "dear" to the past and the present president, that even Buhari visited Imo state multiple times.

He lives in Abuja. He is hardly in imo state

Does this include repentant and rehabilitated terrorist

Raise up your hands if you have ever heard of kalamu before. A most wanted and dreaded kingpin that we have never heard of till today was killed. Abeg army should contact idf for tutorials

You started implementing 2025 budget in December 2025 and you are talking about 2026 budget. Na wa

nairalanda1:
Nigeria has been bombing bandits and boko with tucano jets, and other air borne machinery including drones.

A big reason why the government can't bomb them all the time, is because they use human shields.

As an example, some 100 or more people were kidnapped in Kaduna state. Under Buhari. They were located by the NAF...but NAF could not fire on them because human shield things. Confirmed by one of the kidnapped people

Left to me, they should use harsh measures on the bandits regardless...but when innocents die, people won't blame the bandits.

Really where was the airforce when iswap and boko were over running super camps in borno.

Lanretoye:
If we export their population of citizens in Nigeria back to them,they will know that we are catering for half of their population

Try it and see how the north will react. By the way how do you differentiate a northerner from someone from Niger and chad

DomPerignon:
Their opposition to the tax reform was purely because it would end their welfare state and dependence on FG handouts as the Tinubu tax reform was to empower states to collect and keep half of the tax generated within their states.

I saw through their deciet and called them out on it.

You don't want to develop your own state by paying taxes and also attract investments by ensuring conducive environment for such but still want FG and other States to come and be funding your states.

Once again you are telling your usual lies
It's was northern politicians who opposed tinubu sharing formula for vat because agricultural products were exempt from vat and companies have no way of determining where their products finally end up. As a result if mtn hq based in lagos pays 1 billion as vat, do we say that mtn only sells its products in lagos so lagos should keep half of the vat

Ttalk:
It is a northerner that should be making that case and not a SEner.

It is generally noted just as mentioned above that if agricultural raw product are VATable, then the SE will be in the distance bottom.

You should know this because SE is not a net producer of agricultural products, they depend largely on the north and SW for supply of these agricultural products

This will even increase the contribution of the income generated from the VAT by SW and the North.

There's no how you spins it, SE poor VAT revenue is a reflection of the region overall economic outlook

You are very unstable. You said VAT is evidence of productivity. Validate just corrected you that the food produced in Nigeria is not tax aka vat. Now the same you is saying the north should be the one complaining. Who told you that it's only farm products in the north that is exempted from vat

Validated:
Another learner ... Go and verify from all manufacturers. Input VATs are mostly higher than output VAT. Let me educate you. Your inputs include materials, overheads (utilities - generation of electricity, water, sewage, etc), which forms about 70% of total cost to make. These carry INPUT VATS. when they sell, they generate output VAT, which might be additional 30% of valu. Now, this operation is continuing and so the manufacturers has inventory for 3 months production. Hence INPUT VATs are generally higher than OUTPUT VAT. Meaning, they submit ZERO VAT RETURNS.
When you buy the goods, you pay the VAT on 100% of the VALUE.

Oga tell them. Dumb people will be forming smart

DomPerignon:
Collecting VAT from POS has its logistical nightmares owing to retail outlets not being properly regulated , lax in LG VAT and tax drive and the fact that most retail outlets operate within the grey sector.

By collecting VAT from local production and import points (Port taxes), the FG is able to plug the loophole.

VAT generated by Delta and Rivers state from oil export alone is from locally produced oil from the state. If Rivers and Delta were to keep half of that VAT and given the high volume being exported, do you think your SE region will be receiving 270% of what was generated and contributed to the VAT base?

The current system is meant to encourage states from attracting investors so as to increase production base and provide employment.

SE has continuously been at the bottom when it comes to attracting both local and foreign direct investment.

A combination of hostility towards foreign investment , high crime rate and very aggressive and high corporate tax rates and multiple taxation has made SE a no go area for investors plus the fact that the region has a net negative migration seeing to low purchasing power.

What a load of bunkum. If rivers and all oil producing states were to keep their revenue where would the remaining states see revenue to share. You talk like other states don't collect oil revenue.

Namaster:
OP is NOT a very smart person!

It's LITERALLY in the name—VALUE ADDED TAX.

How clearer can it be?!

Furthermore, this is how VAT is addressed in Section 145 of the NTA 2025:

VAT shall be paid on all taxable supplies in Nigeria.

For those like OP who have a hard time understanding simple English, supplies means a Supplier or business entity is engaged in productive economic activity is selling.

The Law was specifically worded to target SUPPLIER.

It is SUPPLIERS who collect VATs on behalf of the tax authorities. In fact, suppliers who FAIL to collect VAT would be in serious LEGAL trouble.

OP's arguments that the VAT reflects just consumption is absolute MADNESS.

If there is an EXTREMELY productive state in Nigeria, their VATs would reflect it.
Because the people who are doing the production would be the people who are collecting the VATs.
And the VATs would reflect in the collections of that state.

VAT is a very NICE picture of the productivity of states in Nigeria.

If OP doesn't like the picture, that SUCKS for him.
But that is NOT an excuse to spread FAKE information.

Based on your analysis you are not smart yet you are telling op he is not smart. If the supplier collect vat on behalf of the govt, do they differentiate which state buys what. If I go to nestle as distributor and buy goods, how will nestle know where I am selling my goods. I can decide to supply different wholesalers and retailers across states. So therefore the vat paid by nestle in ogun doesn't mean that all his products are consumed in ogun. Vat should be paid by consumer not producer.

Lithiumite:
Stop all your despicable attempt at propaganda,it's infantile at best and only palatable to deadheads who can't tell their left from the other........Burkina Faso and those sahel rookies can't do zilch in open confrontation with Nigeria,they know this,their govts are so unstable that they look for anything just to look effective......you wouldn't want your biggest and richest neighbor to align with your conquerors, France!!

Lagos state gov alone can sponsor a coup to overthrow that Putin wanna be let alone the fg.....if they know they are serious,let them hold those men and the aircraft beyond 48 hrs.

Lagos can sponsor a coup to overthrow taore, ...is that so. Unbelievable. Abeg what will Russia fsb be doing when they are sponsoring this coup. Let me guess....eating noodles

Op is 100% right. Vat is a consumption tax. In UK once you pay for a product and you get a receipt you can see the vat rate. But in Nigeria it'd not so because companies can't separate vat payments by states so they pay at one point. Therefore lagos is a collection point for vat. Example a distributor goes to buy goods from nestle on ogun to onitsha. When he sells goods in onitsha, consumers should pay vat at point of payment but that doesn't happen so nestle has to pay the vat and include it in their cost. The same applies in all 36 states.

Imagine if all interstate travels stop in Nigeria. Is that not the end of Nigeria economy

Adaisback:
it is not fake news. Infact Nawfia is just three minutes drive to the capital city. I have confirmed this news and it's true. Before Nnamdi kanu, nothing of such used to happen, now we are all in danger because of one mentally disturbed man

How did you contact the killers to know that Kanu sent them

Ipob did not open fire on market when op was in prison but as soon as he is released they just enter market and open fire for no reason

WizardOfNG:
Lol. No surprise you lynch mob mentality people, always deflecting blame towards others for problems you cause yourselves, now want to continue targeting and hounding OyigboUpdate simply because you have no capacity for confronting your own wrongdoing and making amends for such.

Are you people never tired of being irresponsible and "men who are not like men" as Bianca Ojukwu labelled you?

You all did this rubbish against OyigboUpdate years ago labelling him, one man alone, as being behind the murderous atrocities armies of young Igbos were committing, after brainwashing by Kanu etal, in ala Igbo simply because he was passionate about saving his people and dedicated enough to try and show you all to reject hate preachers so as to avoid the destruction of Igbo land and Igbo people.

Well, make your bed and lay in it. The problem of Igbos is that you have always blindly obeyed your worst leaders who 'herd' and encourage you in hate for others rather than reasonable Igbos like OyigboUpdate who risk life and limb to show you that Igbos must stop following extremists like Kanu and Ekpa pretending to be saviours.

We can all see how the North is gone today because they decided to follow the brainwashing 'victim' message of the likes of Gumi they should have rejected.

You guys are towing the same path as the North. The only laughable thing is how you continue touting yourselves as more intelligent than all others yet you have the judgement of toddlers.

Another rubbish essay from the stable of cho cho minds. You go explain tire, no body ask you question

WizardOfNG:
Yet you responded to "epistle"? Joker.

I responded I did not read the trash you typed. Dumbo

Herders kill farmers, govt wants to reconcile both parties. Imagine why won't the herders kill another farmer since the punishment for murder is reconciliation

Buhari did not
Tinubu follow his footstep
Don't expect future president to talk to Nigeria
Before you know it, governors and ministers will stop talking to Nigeria

callmeDDD:
Very old video of drone footages inserted into that narrative and that was not Ogun state, it was in the north east, I think sambisa or something.

Which old video. Video of last week where the bandits were shooting at the drones.

Biodun556:
Nigerian Air Force conducts Multiple Precision airstrikes on fleeing coup plotters in Benin Republic

By: Zagazola Makama



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Lamba of the highest order. How can Nigeria conduct precision strikes when it doesn't have precision or satellite guided missiles

Wow so fast. Why don't govt respond these fast when villages are under attack in Nigeria

WizardOfNG:
Lol. Check out upside down logic. Of course "IPOB performances" reduced when OyigboUpdate was incarcerated because, as has now been 100% validated, he is the only Igbo here to insist , with proof, IPOB, UGM, Kanu, Ekpa etal are evil and a curse to ala Igbo with their atrocities.

The rest of you , as an ethnic group and region, simply endorsed and made excuses for the terrorism of IPOB,Kanu, Ekpa etal without realising you are no different to Fulanis at all level, especially characters like Gumi, making exuses fro the monsters they created to then be supporting and abetting banditry , terrorism, kidnapping etc.

He bravely put himself in danger to gather and reveal information of IPOB atrocities everywhere online while all of you, as you weep over the jailing of "innocent" Kanu today, kept insisting back then it was "outsider" and "Fulani DSS" committing killings in Igbo land to make Igbos look bad.

You all even insisted years ago, as you insinuate here, OyigboUpdate was the one committing atrocities to frame Igbos.

Yet what is the reality of Igbo land today and what do you people believe could have been if you all listened to him to exorcise, at infancy, the cancer Kanu and co inflicted on the SE?

Same way many Fulanis, leaders and followers, believed they were fighting enemies and infidels by blindly and dogmatically supporting their killer terrorist and bandit "brothers". What is the reality of the North today?

A near desolate and [b]universally despised region of Africa with IDP camps, deaths and misery everywhere. [/b]The joke is on you guys trying to make out OyigboUpdate is the enemy and not your many murderous hate-preachers starting from Kanu.

Shebi the world saw "Fulani" Gentle De Yahoo prove your theory that Fulani are behind all killings in the SE ba? Nonsense.

I have told u stop typing this long boring meaniless epistles. No one has the time to read this your garbage

Op is a joker. So ribadu and the 11 govt officials that went to America to see a congressman was play acting. Even ribadu went to see hegeseth. Then us officials monitored reps sitting plus they are conducting surveillance in Nigeria airspace. Op thinks Nigeria has air defense

I talk am say na lie and propaganda to fool trump by apc laptop rats

Ttalk:
At least he has hope because he belong to the camp that give not the one wey no dey give shishi

Hielanus belonging to the camp that gives. Boy u funny pass basketmouth

All hands on deck to prove that there is also Muslim genocide

All coups are happening in former French colonies. It can't be coincidence

OyigboUpdate:
Nobody have their time, but I have their time that is the difference

Akuko Mike ejegah. So ipob suddenly stopped working while you were in prison and resumed work when you got out.

When you were in prison we were not seeing all these ipob performances, immediately they released you we started seeing ipob performances with you always at the scene

Wonderful so Nigeria has fighter jets yet boko haram have been overrunning super camps in borno.

Fighter jets dey yet bandits will be moving in motor cycles without intervention