₦airaland Forum

joyandfaith:
I think yoruba nation will favour us more. We are going to make more money by taxing foreigners who are doing businesses or owning properties.
I wish Awo had fought for independence of yoruba nation. I wish he had supported Biafra course.

OPUBO7:
� a sea port at anambra were will the boat pass won't it pay tax before Crossing

LegendHero:
Lol see me see wahala. This should be another round of Aki and Popo comedy.

You can’t give what you don’t have Shinedu. Your states are poor and that’s a fact!! Soon Kano IGR will be more than the whole SE states and as usual you will all come online to still chestbeat and call them leeches.

Only God know why the blue chip abi na red chip companies are not making your states IGR bigger if your Ojuku statistics kept them at 50%.

Accept that your zone is a dead zone. Stay at home on Monday is now on course and soon war ravaged Borno IGR will be bigger than the tiny landlocked IPOB infested region where the sun don’t shine.

joyandfaith:
I keep wondering myself .
We missed opportunity of correcting mistake of 1960 in 1967.

BusinessDream:
Na, it is not lies. Let's take oil company HQ for instance that left South South because of insecurity and went to Lagos. If they relocate back to South-South, hope you know what that will do to Lago IGR? Now if another Seaport, the size of Lagos port is created in South-South, hope you know what that will do to Lagos IGR?

A lot of people are in Lagos because of the number of companies there and Lagos is the major booster of South West IGR. If any of those big companies move out, IGR will drop. All Nigerian banks have their HQ in Lagos, nowhere else. All Oil Companies have their HQ in Lagos.

My point is a lot of opportunities are concentrated in Lagos and not evenly distributed...

YorubarLord:
I wonder what you have to say about oyo and ogun state, even ondo is higher than Enugu . With all these dumb bragging your region is still the poorest in the region. Building mansions in village with fvcked up roads to stroke your weak egos don't generate IGR. No reasonable person would want to go invest in your region seeing how you people go about destroying people's business cos they refuse to follow you IPOB order. I can't wait for Nigeria to be divided so you can carry your businesses back to biafuro. Yoruba land needs to breath.

Grupo:
Lol. You are naive.

Without one Nigeria, most of the companies that are in Lagos boosting Lagos IGR will not be there.

IOCs will not have their headquarters in Lagos. Their headquarters will be in Biafra.

Most multinationals will not have their headquarters in Lagos.

Most importantly, Lagos seaport wouldn't have been the only one in the country.

Foreigna2:
Not just seaports, you need enabling infrastructure. That is how you lot were shouting for international airport in the East. They gave you, why are you still running to Lagos?
There is a port in Onne, use it.

proeast:
The more you try to make sense, the more your limited IQ keeps making a mess of you. You keep talking bla bla bla without any iota of sense, Ogun state today has a high IGR which is hundred percent due to its proximity to Lagos, otherwise it wouldn't have been any different from your other states.

Since you have formula for high IGR, why is Ekiti still dragging last with Northern states? Ebonyi State that was created same time with Ekiti has left it in the dust already yet you're making noise.

Ndi Ara!!!

ajl:


See this kind people. We are talking about VAT, and now people like you with narrow mindset is talking about Igbo businesses being responsible for large portion of VAT in Lagos. They can as well move the businesses to their state if they have a need to show off that.

EndBuhariNow:
he wanted yellowbar nation and he starved 2 million children to death because of promises his fulani masters made to him.. continue

AlabiJ:
You igbos are pathetic. You never accept responsibility for your shortcomings and failures. Always blaming external factors. If it's not lack of seaports, it'll be marginalization, or other crap. There are states that don't have Onitsha and Aba-type markets in Nigeria that are doing better than your states in both IGR and VAT generation and collection. Yet you people still try to claim the sweat of the states that are proactive in their internal revenue generation efforts. Una dey ment.

The seaports excuse has long been proven over and over to be a blatant lie. There are functional seaports in Rivers State that you people can use but you choose not to use them, yet you blame others for your economic underperformance.

Look inwards and ask yourself whether your governors are the ones eating/stealing your IGR and VAT taxes and failing to declare them transparently, or whether your traders just don't like paying taxes, instead of always looking to blame outsiders for your own underperformance. Y'all make me sick.

BusinessDream:
Na, it is not lies. Let's take oil company HQ for instance that left South South because of insecurity and went to Lagos. If they relocate back to South-South, hope you know what that will do to Lago IGR? Now if another Seaport, the size of Lagos port is created in South-South, hope you know what that will do to Lagos IGR?

A lot of people are in Lagos because of the number of companies there and Lagos is the major booster of South West IGR. If any of those big companies move out, IGR will drop. All Nigerian banks have their HQ in Lagos, nowhere else. All Oil Companies have their HQ in Lagos.

My point is a lot of opportunities are concentrated in Lagos and not evenly distributed...

Uchek:
"I wish Awo had fought for independence of yoruba nation. I wish he had supported Biafra course"

You absolutely right that Yoruba nation would have favored Yoruba ethnic nationality. But the one billion dollar question is why he did not support the Biafran cause or take a neutral stance and allow Biafra and Northern Nigeria to settle their political fight in the war.Instead he joined his enemies to fight against the long-term interest of Yoruba.

Ngorbungor:
Do they think it's only Yoruba's that are responsible for the 51% VAT Lagos recorded?

They are not serious, I really like how the VAT thing is going, it will really help other state to sit tight and think outside the box, do you know that the number of banks inside Onitsha main market alone is more than the total number of banks in state capital like Lokoja, Ado-Ekiti,, markudi etc.

No,not only Yorubas but mostly Yorubas.
Yorubas have the highest number of indigenous companies in Nigeria and they import most because of their industries.Lagos mostly gets its tax from PAYE not from petty traders like the Igbos.

So the problem is tax collection, because the revenue is there and going into wrong pockets

Uchek:
Which of your property did they destroy? See your pedestrian level of thinking Why don't we restructure Nigeria so that we can test your hypothesis: no reasonable person would want to go invest in your region

EndBuhariNow:
he wanted yellowbar nation and he starved 2 million children to death because of promises his fulani masters made to him.. continue

Ngorbungor:
Please mention your state and let's compare with any state with economic activities.

Simply put, South East doing tax their people.

Obamaofusa:
Was Awo the one cooking food for those 2 million?
We should not be daft when making decisions that nvolve lives.
You dont fight war and expect the people you are killing to feed you,do you know that?
All is fair in war..

Uchek:
At the end, Fulani humiliated him and denied him the ultimate prize

EndBuhariNow:
oh you agreed selfishness push him into fighting against a noble course... so how was life for him after helping his masters to serve 2 million children merely because they said they don't want to be part of ur fraudulent unity , how was his life that that �

AlabiJ:
It's like you want to be unfortunate on this street. Why should I remove Lagos from the SW?? You must be mad. Na my fault say your region dey landlocked? Is it yoruba people's fault that Lagos was situated in their region and that they are benefiting from its God-given endowments? Why not blame God instead, for endowing Lagos with the strategic location amongst other advantages. It's like saying without Oil money all SS states can't survive. If I am to remove Lagos from the SW, then Nigeria should also be ready to remove Oil from the SS, abi na SS people put the oil inside their ground? Only lazy and foolish people think and talk like you do, guy. You igbos are fond of blaming others for your problems. Go and fight God, if e pain you reach. Ediot.

For all the noises you igbos make about being so super and better than everyone else, una still no fit siddon for una region and make it habitable for yourselves. It's so bad that for an average igbo person to make it in life, he needs to leave his region to seek better opportunities. Shey na yoruba people swear for una? Shey na our fault say una must emigrate to other parts of Nigeria to survive as a people? Upon all, you still have the nerve to insult your hosts that created an enabling environment for you to thrive in their midst. Na Devil go punish all of una. E be like dem don microwave your brain dis evening, na hin make you dey talk crap to me. Better get off my mention and go make yourself useful.

Obamaofusa:
I think he lived a fulfilled life more than most SEsterner leaders.He became a legend that is remembered positively more than any Nigerian political leader dead or alive.
He was not infallible.Not perfect but did his best.

Obamaofusa:
I think he lived a fulfilled life more than most SEsterner leaders.He became a legend that is remembered positively more than any Nigerian political leader dead or alive.
He was not infallible.Not perfect but did his best.

Akinyele2000:
Not all Nigerian banks have their head quarters in Lagos.
But this kinds of fight dey unnecessary na.
Make una rest biko.
Igbo will do well,
Yoruba will also do well coz both are educated set of people.
The leaders , the electoral process and the Constitution need changing kind of

Uchek:
Oil companies did not relocate to Lagos because of insecurity. Oil companies had already relocated to Lagos before insecurity in Niger Delta. The localization of oil company in Lagos was a product of the post-Biafra centralization of the commanding heights of Nigeria's economy is Lagos - the capital which disproportionately benefited Yorubaland.

OfoIgbo:
If it was about dredging a river, I would have mentioned Onitsha. It's obvious you lack knowledge of the Igbo maritime prospects. Justice Mamman Nasir failed to add Oseakwa to Rivers state and Obuaku to Akwaibom state. So these two areas will even make more ideal seaports than most Nigerian seaports as they are protected from the temperaments of the open ocean.
I know this must be very painful for you. God has a way of shielding Igbos.

If Nigeria breaks up, fyi Igboland has more than 90% of Nigeria's gas reserves and more than 50% of inland oil reserves, so Igbos will be sitting pretty economically.
Igboland can be evacuating it's inland oil and gas resources for export through our Ubani/Bonny oil terminal.

I so want Soludo to take over in Anambra state, as I believe he has the economic foresight to help put some of these critical economic assets in place

Besk:
You are as dumb as dumb! Keep deceiving yourself. The VAT revelations are just a tip of the iceberg. I pray that the wishes of your landlocked region is granted so you can smell the coffee.

Thank God I have sane Igbo friends who have more sense than hereditary “aggressiveness with no brains”. Those sane ones continue to let you know you are digging your grave. May your wishes to dig your graves be granted.

OfoIgbo:
Your very good and sane Igbo friends and the ones that tell you that Igboland is doomed. Those are the sort of Igbo friends you keep of course.

Unfortunately for you, we have Oseakwa, Obuaku, Jaja's estate of Opobo and Ubani to ensure we are not landlocked. You can go and hang yourself now.