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These are children for God's sake! Just like the almajiri, how can you arrest and prosecute children? ICC. must hear about this. In saner climes, how can Tinubu government, sorry, Enugu government arrest and prosecute children? We must share this for the whole world to know! Oh! I forgot, this happened in the East and not the North.

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Emmabyte:
Who is talking about party with this one, We are talking about peter obi and they are talking about party

Anywhere Peter obi goes today we will follow him .


Simple and Short

What if he moves to the 'devilish Amala Party' APC?

Penguin2:
You are bringing technicalities into the discourse?

Levies or taxes these are just semantics. Both of them all go into the govt coffers.

And who told you that state governments have no control or share of levies collected from markets?

You mean the state governments that couldn’t leave even Federal Government allocations to LGs will leave them to be collecting and keeping levies from those large markets to themselves alone?

And besides, why do you think those tickets are usually more than one?

In most cases, they are 3. One for state government, one for LG, and one for Market Association. And this is a daily obligation.

You are basing your arguments on assumptions without concrete knowledge of what you are talking about. I reiterate, levies are for the LGAs. The one (with exception of road taxes) paid daily are for local authorities. State's tax for entrepreneur (if you like call it levy) is paid once a year. Note that the entrepreneur is required to pay PAYE monthly and consumption tax monthly or quarterly (depending on the jurisdiction) to State on behalf of their employees. The BIG question is Do they usually comply?

Taxes at both federal and state's levels are complex but the information provided above focuses on the usual or normal circumstances.

Iceberg3:
Thank you very much, that's exactly what tax is all about. Little but multiple.

Multiple does not usually translate to more aggregate. If you multiply N1 paid by 200 million people, it does surpass 1 billion Naira paid by a single corporate entity. If you talk about risk of sustainability of the collection of the taxes and promotion of tax culture, I will agree that multiple is better but not in terms of total in monetary terms.

In fact, the cost of collecting from the multiple na die while the single entity 'walks in' with the cheaque.

Penguin2:
You extended Dangote’s tax payments to Federal Government, but our area of focus is Lagos State.

What percentage of his tax obligation goes to Lagos State every month?

And talking about the tax obligation of markets like Alaba, Ladipo, Computer Village, etc, do I need to remind you that these people do not wait till end of the month or year to file their tax returns, but are charged taxes every day through tickets and other daily payments?

Now, do you think what Dangote pays as tax in a year or what his staff pay as Personal Income Tax monthly, can compare to the summation of daily payments from Alaba, Ladipo, Computer Village, etc, for a year?

Apart from. The CIT, all the aforementioned taxes are paid to the State Government via the residency rule. Daily tickets are local government levies. They are technically not called taxes.

Penguin2:
You extended Dangote’s tax payments to Federal Government, but our area of focus is Lagos State.

What percentage of his tax obligation goes to Lagos State every month?

And talking about the tax obligation of markets like Alaba, Ladipo, Computer Village, etc, do I need to remind you that these people do not wait till end of the month or year to file their tax returns, but are charged taxes every day through tickets and other daily payments?

Now, do you think what Dangote pays as tax in a year or what his staff pay as Personal Income Tax monthly, can compare to the summation of daily payments from Alaba, Ladipo, Computer Village, etc, for a year?

State government do not tax per day or months except for road taxes. Market taxes fall within the jurisdiction of LGAs. If we decide to focus on the State tax and not extend it to other tiers of government just like you have said, then those Alaba boys pay tax once in a year via Direct Assessment (DA) or minimum tax because of lack of proper record keeping or keeping proper records away from the authorities. Apart from HNIs (High Net worth Individuals), most of them pay less than N200, 000 as PIT once per year or less than N10, 000 per month (if what is usually paid is divided by 12). There are however, very few HNI among them that usually pay up to N5M per annum (those that earn in billions) Indirect Insider knowledge . Vast majority pay less than N100k as PIT per annum. Giants like Dangote pay multimillions on monthly basis to Lagos State Governments. Lagos earns billions monthly from corporate giants in Lagos on monthly basis.

It appears there is a coordinated attempt to bring this government down via media propaganda just like they did to Goodluck Jonathan at the point of making important decisions that could have liberated the people. People are falling for it already just like they did during the Jonathan era.
.Any random private billionaire citizen or foreign interest could have hired a yatch, put Nigeria flag on it, record the video and promote it on social media for people who have the culture of not asking the right questions to swallow and fall over. This government definitely has made many bad and good decisions but must we allow our emotions to always cloud our sense of judgment? In fact, Nigeria is not on a time bomb because of the rampaging poverty in the land but because of her many educated illiterates!

Penguin2:
Don’t underestimate the power of fools in large numbers.

The above is a classic maxim that sounds like a cliché but it’s ever potent, and will remain potent forever.

The reason a character like Reno Omokri blocks people with the intellectual and rational capacity to question the trashes he consistently posts on X, is so he would be left with large flock of brainless followers who would swallow every bunkum he throws at them as true.

In keeping with the above, yesterday, he claimed that Dangote controls 21% of Lagos economy but yet he’s so humble but Igbos will always claim they built Lagos and are pompous.

I was not surprised to go through the comment section to see intellectual deficient minions praising what he wrote without questioning his submission to ascertain the truth value of that assertion.

Well, that’s what I’m here to do.

Let’s question what Reno Omokri said about Dangote controlling 21% of Lagos economy.

And the first question is, does Dangote control 21% of Lagos economy?

What drives the economy of a state or country? Is it large corporations or MSMEs?

Lagos is a city with a population of nearly 22million people. What percentage of this population does Dangote employ?

How much does Dangote pay in taxes to Lagos Government, and how much does Lagos Govt generate from markets like Alaba, ASPAMDA, Computer Village, etc?

If Dangote controls 21% of Lagos economy, what percentage of California’s economy does Apple and Google control since the two companies are both headquartered in California and they are both more valuable than Dangote by far?

What percentage of Texas’ econcompanys Tesla control since Tesla is headquartered in Texas and is equally more valuable than Dangote by far?

So, you see, a lot of foolishness sound like wisdom/knowledge to an unthinking mind but don’t let it deceive you.

What Reno Omokri said is absolute foolishness, falsThe Lagos outright distortion of facts.

Lagos is not Lagos because of Dangote company or because of the large corporations headquartered therein.

If there’s any group that forms the engine room of Lagos economy, it’s the Medium, Micro and Small Scale Businesses. This category employs the highest number of Lagosians, and this category generates the most money for Lagos.

Large corporations do not build economies.

Infrastructure, as much as it adds to ease of doing business, does not build economy like some people claimed under Buhari.

So, next time, before you celebrate any trash from Reno Omokri, subject it through logical and rational dissection to know if the statement is truly reasonable.

Penguin is a bird of reason.

You want to compare the taxes paid by a corporate giant like Dangote to those paid by thousands of small to medium scale enterprises in this our own Obodo Nigeria? You must be joking. Let me educate you a little bit. I have worked as a supportive tax officer and privacy to tax paid by corporate entity like Dangote and small and medium scale enterprises.
Dangote plc pays various taxes including Company Income Tax (CIT) to the federal government , personal Income Tax (PiT) on behalf of Its numerous employees, expatrates earning fat salaries. The company directors pay heavy taxes on their fat salaries to the State Government. The company also pays consumption tax, humongous withholding tax (WHT) on behalf of its numerous contractors. You can't even compare. Let me give you an example, while Dangote cement in Ibeshe, Ogun State pays between 100-200 million in tax in just a local govt to the Ogun State govt in one month, the entire taxes from other sources (DA, PAYE, Consumption tax, WHT, road taxes etc) for that LGA is not up to N10m per month. The Lagos own na die!

It's like comparing heaven and Earth. Don't even go there. If you want to know those that really pay taxes, start from asking about their books of account. Many of those Alaba people and small to medium scale businesses in Nigeria do not have proper records. Those that have never present them for tax assessment. Some of them fight tax collectors who bill them a minimum tax like five to fifty thousand naira per annum while they rake in multimillion naira annually.

It also showed that the Yoruba ethnic group accounted for 53 per cent of tests, followed by Igbo (31.3 per cent), with Hausa at only 1.20 per cent.

It states that 53% of those that took the tests were Yorubas. It does not mean that 53% of those who failed the test were Yorubas. So where is the insinuation that Yoruba women were promiscuous coming from?
In Yoruba land, do you expect more of the people of other tribes to take the test given the population distribution in Yoruba land?

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Badguy77:
In all my life I never hear say State pay pass federal before.. But it's happening now, if Edo state is already paying 70k why will the federal still be glamouring for 62k are these people normal at all?

Edo State does not pay 70k minimum wage across board. The one being paid by Edo State benefits workers who were earning below the N70k. So, the benefit is for the lower-level workers. It is different from what the labour is clamouring for. What the labour is clamoring for will have multiplier effect on the salary of all workers. People don't really understand the difference between the labour demand and what Edo State is paying.

ablejesus26:
What?? Are We talking about same June 12 or another one??

Myself and 5 others left very early in a friend's car to Benin so I wasn't directly attacked.
Yes solidarity for the protest by leaves was seen but does that change the fact that people's shops and livelihood were raided by hoodlums and criminals??

My roommate who had a shop in Yaba then was a victim. Although it was not politically or tribally motivated just criminals taking advantage of the situatio.

Riots lead to looting of shops but were the shops looted because they belonged to the Igbos? Big companies like Nichemtex and PZ were looted until curview was declared. Did those companies belong to Igbos? Every riot, touts usually take advantage to loot. The bone of contention is that were they looted because they belonged to any tribe? Hell No! Many shops were looted before the curview was declared irrespective of the tribes or religions of the owners.

ablejesus26:
June 12 was not just a Igbo thing,I had a very good Calabar friend We gather move out from SW. Infact our landlord then a man from Kogi run join sef, even some Yorubas from other States outside Lagos follow run too.

Although to disprove what ogafactcheck said.
The Igbos were majorly targeted by hoodlums and criminals for looting.

Let's start disproving from you. Were you attacked while leaving the South-West? I mean attack within the South-West region? Be sincere with your answer. Even Northerners having the same tribe with the person that annulled the election were not attacked. What you needed to pass the mob during the crisis was to show Solidarity with protesters by displaying leaves on your cars. No one was hunted or attacked on the basis of their tribes. By no one, I am talking in general sense.

Brendaniel:
But how would you say Igbos were attacked in the east by who and for what reason?

And why would a conflict that wasn't their concern have made them scared of running and leaving Lagos?

By armed group who took advantage of the mass exodus to Rob people (their fellow Igbos) in the East.

God1blessBiafra:
Yoruba Opc attacked and killed Igbos, destroying their business,force Many to return to East.



Not today they started evil against Igbos.



In next 50 years your children will be asking to mention Igbo man attack during Tinubu presidential election.


Stop lying

OPC was not in existence then. It was formed in 1994. How could association not yet formed attack Igbo?

God1blessBiafra:
You're lying.


Igbos were attacked by armed group like Opc,many Igbos were killed and their business destroyed.
Our people that were affected told us first experience.


See what you people did to Igbos in your during last presidential election, imagine what una miscreants did because a yoruba man was denied to be president.

How did OPC formed in August 1994, attack Igbo group in 1993?

Brendaniel:
But how would you say Igbos were attacked in the east by who and for what reason?

And why would a conflict that wasn't their concern have made them scared of running and leaving Lagos?

Read this piece, you will understand why Igno left the West enmass

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2023/04/why-igbo-should-not-go-home-for-census/
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This is a quote from that piece:

I was here, in 1993-4, when the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, presumably won by Chief MKO Abiola, threatened to tear Nigeria apart. I was a witness to the mass exodus of millions of apprehensive but misguided Igbo people who assumed that Yoruba secession, followed by armed conflict, was inevitable. Off they went; those with their own vehicles, as well as those going with public transport. Anything that could move was boarded at shylock fares in the desperate bid to leave the South-West and get home

gidgiddy:
How time flies, its been 31 years since June 12th 1993, the day Bashir Tofa of NRC, and MKO Abiola of SDP, squared up to battle for the Presidency. The elections were later annulled, the fall out would claim MKO's life

However, June 12 is not something that is celebrated amongst us Igbos in the East, for two main reasons.

1. Igbos bore the brunt of the violence that followed June 12th annulment. Various armed Yoruba militias such as OPC sprang up, and wrecked violence all over the West, particularly Lagos. Igbo businesses were looted, burnt or destroyed. Overnight, thousands of Igbos had to jump into vehicles and run back to the East as the violence grew worse, in a phenomenon known as "oso Abiola"(The Abiola run). Some Igbos never returned with their lives.

2. June 12th also exposed to Igbos a certain hypocrisy they see in Yoruba's. It was Northerners that annulled June 12th, it was under the custody of a Northerner that MKO died. On the contrary, Igbo men like Professor Humphrey Nwosu, who conducted June 12th elections, nearly lost his life trying to defend MKO's results. But the Yorubas rarely ever call out the Northerners over June 12th and the death of Abiola

Had it been Igbos that annulled June 12th, had it been under the custody of an Igbo man that MKO died, heavens would have fallen.

June 12th holds no place in the hearts of us Igbos, we are still counting our loses.

The above is a lie and a revisionist narrative!

During the June 12 crises, I was old enough and had reached puberty. I witnessed what happened. The majority of Igbo actually left the West not because they, or their businesses were attacked. They left because they feared escalation of conflicts between the West and the North. Those returning to the East were actually attacked in the East leading to many of them loosing the property being taken home. Why the lies?

MKO Abiola actually lost the majority of States in the East to his rival Tofa. The East had four States then. Abiola only won in Anambra out of the four States. So, he was not popular in the East even before election. So, it wasn't any attack on Igbo businesses that made them to 'hold no good memories for Igbo', he wasn't that popular among them before and during the election.

My first ever girlfriend was a beautiful Igbo girl. She was selling Okrika for her parents then. She left for the East during this period which was very painful. No attack directed at Igbo or their businesses during the period. It was fear of the unknown and bandwagon effect that informed the mass exodus.

jesusjnr2020:
Is It True The Forbidden Fruit In The Garden Was Sex?

You may have also heard the claims being made by some so-called Christians that the forbidden fruit in the garden was sex, and that Eve had sex with the serpent, also that Cain was the seed of the serpent.

As weird and irritating as that idea sounds, could they be right?

The best way to find out is to go back to the beginning to see what the Bible says about that.

Genesis 2:9 (KJV)

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

So first of all, it was made perfectly clear that the trees God planted in the garden were not in the figurative but literal sense just as we see them up to this very day.

Trees that produce edible fruits which could serve as food to man.

God planted different kinds of such trees which produce edible fruits in the garden, among which was the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:15-17 (KJV)

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

So it was after God had planted those trees which produce fruits that could serve as food to man in the garden, that He gave man the right to eat of the fruits of every one of them, except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

That's actually where the term "forbidden fruit" stemmed from.

It was because God had forbidden man from eating of the edible fruit produced by that particular tree out of all the trees He had planted in that garden.

So where could they have possibly gotten the idea that the forbidden fruit was sex?

According to the Bible so far, we can all see it definitely wasn't from God.

God bless.

Does the tree of life and tree of knowledge of good and evil still exist till this day? If yes, where can they be found? At least, there is no where on Earth that man have not or cannot explored. Could it be that the tree of life and it's counterpart were also figurative or outrightly fabricated? If serpent as mentioned in the story is snake as it's often referred. why haven't we seen snake that can communicate with human to the extent of deceiving human?

People don't really get what she was trying to say. Her orientation is importation. She was was thinking about importation and not buying locally. She is right if the goal of the dollar hoarders is to import.

This is really disturbing coming from the people who pose as messiah that can move the country from 'consumption to production'. How does she intend to contribute to move from consumption to production if she does not think first about buying loclle?

socialmediaman:
This was from nairametrics: Nigeria's FX reserves dip by $1.02 billion in 18 days on CBN's naira defence. I didn't make that up: https://nairametrics.com/2024/04/07/nigerias-fx-reserves-dip-by-1-02-billion-in-18-days-on-cbns-naira-defence/

Good job. However, do you know that within that period, the government stated that they paid backlogs of the foreign currency owed to the country's debtors? Have you factored that into your analysis? Actually, I like people that are level-headed and not emotional in argument like you. Can you please, address the question above?

socialmediaman:
We were told that fuel subsidy was gone. What is the result today?

Many people suspect that flaoting the naira failed and the CBN is back to defending the naira. Where is the monthly economic report published by the CBN? The last one was published November last year. Transparency that was established since 2013 by the GEJ government just disappeared.

Where is it? The CBN should publish it and lay this matter to rest. https://www.cbn.gov.ng/documents/monthlyecoreports.asp

Yes, the monthly economic report is good. However, does the lack of it now means that the government is defending the Naira with reserve? He who comes to equity must come with clean hands. If you allege that the government is defending the Naira with reserve, you should defend your claim with data before you request for data from those that oppose your claim. Don't you think so Sir/Ma?

If you have states that you suspected, that is all true but making factual statement with a plausible evidence is a no no.