Maina80:
This is just a wake up call to the north, it's tym to rise and shine,look inwards my people, you guys have what it takes to to stand on your own, rather than feeding fat on the federal government largesse... that's why you have refused to harness your potential, with this development, you have no choice

Correct talk. Nigeria is in tatters today because we abandoned everything else once we found oil. We never learn in Nigeria and we epitomize everything negative about mankind.

Meaningless points....... work on the population you have to a higher tax returns....., start open alcohol sales and bring down breweries to establish there and rake taxes like New York

udemzeus:




What did BAT do,was he the one who built third mainland bridge??


You must be crazy, I love in Lagos too bro, Tinubu didn't do anything, development started from Fashola

Lol. Clearly all you do is "love" in Lagos. That is why you were blind to all Tinubu did when he was Governor.

Good Masari. Useless Almajari born at the road side by destitute parents. Ordinary WAEC, e no write, just like his mentor the lifeless terrorist hiding inside the Rock.

Crowwejihadist:
See nonsense this terrorist is saying

if you read what he said, he was smartly hiding behind "other states" he as a reason for kicking against vat

I really don't get what this man feels is the contributions of Katsina people to the Economic development of Rivers and Lagos State. Na the Kolanuts and shoe shinning them dey use develop Rivers and Lagos State? Real Estate, Trading, Manufacturing, and other major businesses are mostly owned by Southerners (Igbos, Yorubas etc).
In a bid to garner support, he is trying to make it look like Lagos and Rivers state are against all other states. He should speak for himself and his state and anyone who feels otherwise should also speak for themselves and their states.
Two men own hotels in a Local Government Area and while one invested in making his hotel comfortable, secured and luxurious enough to attract more high paying customers and increase revenues, the other was busy receiving money for free from the LGA Chairman.
Most Head Offices in Lagos and Rivers state belong to private organizations. Nobody forced them to go there. They decided they wanted to be there because of the leadership of those states ability to make the environment conducive, secured and comfortable for businesses. Others should invest in their state too so that they can attract more investors.
To show you how hypocritical these people are, this man is mentioning Ports up and down. Meanwhile, they have been several calls over the years to open more ports in the SS and SE but the powers that be have refused. Today, Governor Masari is using the Ports as a weapon to fight Lagos State as if it is the Lagos State government's fault that more Ports have not been opened in other states and regions.
You hear ridiculous news from the North like using state funds to conduct mass marriages, buying exotic camels and horses for Emirs and chiefs, building of religious centers across the region, destroying Southern businesses, encouraging banditry and terrorism by treating them with kid's gloves etc.
They can comfortably do this because they know that at the end of the month, they will be well fed from the feeding bottle system.
Any small thing, they will begin shouting that it Was The groundnut of the North that was used to develope the South. They forget that Cocoa and Palm Oil were also producer in the South amongst many other commodities. Come to think of it, even if this was true, is there any written contract that the South would continue to pay? Was the money loans? Have they not benefitted from the Oil in the South? Before the Amalgamation of the North and South, the South was thriving and doing well.
Fiscal Federalism is here to stay. Next is Power Federalism. Akwa Ibom state for example would generate electricity and send to national grid before a small amount would be distributed back. If there was Power Federalism, the North Would utilize the Solar and Wind to generate electricity majorly and other minor sources like water while the South would focus on Water as a Major source of electricity generation.
But laziness wan finish them because of Feeding Bottle Federalism. See as sun dey waste for North.

The only way for the North and South to truly and rapidly develop is through true Federalism.
The Northeners are being cheated by their leaders. This generation of Northerners that have access to education should wake up and demand true development from their leaders.

If that's the case they should use their VAT to develop their state Lagos and rivers don't need it again

ThankUJesus:

Oga, you forgot that 99% of what they consume in America are produce in America, 60% VAT are from import, Lagos think their fast, they want to harvest without plant.

lol u people with statistics wey u no know...

Buy something from USA apart from food if u no see made in China or anoda country..

You people should stop looking for a way to defend Stupidity...

Enugupikin:
There is some sense in what he is saying ,Lagos can't stand alone without the rest of Nigeria. Those corporate headquarters too and the ports and all that stems from the Nigerian people

What of the Southerners living in the North?
Why did he skipped the Hisbah Police of them destroying Alcohol and yet the North benefits from it VAT?

And so w**

Foolish people, you are arguing about Edo, Ogbomosho and all that trash while the fulanis are busy cheating you people. Who cares about all that rubbish. Join hands together and defeat your common enemies the fulani aliens who migrated from the desert with their cows and while pretending to preach a religion of peace unleashed war on unsuspecting and hospitable people. Now they have moved to the final stage of their mission to own the land. All service chiefs and head of Paramilitary establishments are headed by them even federal parastatals. They contribute nothing to the commonwealth yet get the lion share. You people are busy fighting yourselves while your common enemy is gaining grounds with the help of some greedy traitors amongst you. Wake up fools.

People dat are being paid with vat generated from alcoholic drinks being produced in the south are busy destroying the same drink in the the name of religion and nobody is saying anything about it

Blackfire:
First of all lagos is no man's land
By tradition and historical facts it belongs to the Benin ogiso dynasty ,not yorubas


Secondly, lagos is made up of all Nigerians including all that is inside


Thirdly all this noise about state collecting Vat is a ploy to a southern sinister...well let me tell you the status quo remain


Incase you don't know ...North2023

Una don start rubbish talk .......you said Lagos is no man's land......stop sleeping on a moving bicycle,you might crash.

Why do we have Oba of Lagos?

The day an Igbo or Hausa Man becomes Lagos State Governor,I would believe it's no man's land and when we have "Obi of Lagos" with "Emir of Lagos"
Una no go rest for this kind hot afternoon.

Iamgrey5:
Your argument even as half-witted as it sounds defeats the logic behind the argument.

So can the native americans now claim America from the Europeans that once were settlers as you claim?

Can the Blacks now claim they own Egypt without the Arabs throwing them out?

So what makes you think the original "Edo owners" can chase the "Yoruba from Ogbomoso" away from Lagos today?

Having said that, idumota is not the only place in Lagos

What about Abule Egba, Ikoyi, Epe, ikorodu, Ajegule etc..

What is the Edo names of those places?

You even get time to reply his ignorance.

Enugupikin:
There is some sense in what he is saying ,Lagos can't stand alone without the rest of Nigeria. Those corporate headquarters too and the ports and all that stems from the Nigerian people

Anybody that agrees to what he is said is not smart.

Cutting off the VAT is a good step towards restructuring and every southern state should support it.

This will lead to serious competition among states for "people", you will see states wooing companies like their life really depends on it.

For insance, once this is effected, you Niger Delta states will demand for those big oil company HQs to move to their region, this will affect Lagos Tax Revenues for sure.

State government will be forced to establish favourable policies that will lure companies/investors to their states and create jobs because that is the best way to increase tax in their place.

So stop this "there is some sense in what he said"... That man knows he would be badly hit should it be allowed....

If what he says has sense, he should demand for his Northern brothers to return to the I secured region so that they can be taxed.

What he said is rubbish and deceptive.

OneTemplate:



Lol. I can tell you for free that the first sign of a loser is that he remains fixated on dubious past glory perhaps because he is nothing in the present and knows he will remain nothing. Hence the need to create fantasies about the past.

Even indulging your idiotic revisionism, why is an Edo not Governor of Lagos today and why no single Lagos State Senator or Rep who is Edo?

How many local Government chairman in Lagos of Edo origin? Why is Lagos State legislative house not full of Edos? Loser.

Guy you looking foolish by responding to the guy.

Look at his response and the topic, is there any correlation?

Please we need a united south in moving forward, don't let these divisive elements drive any wedge between southerners.

After all we all the argument back and forth and you ever seen tribal fight physically between southerners in lagos?

So guy forget all these planted idaats that wanna cause confusion amongst us in the south..... A united south is very strong and that's what these northern oligarch fear

Darevofpeace:


Una don start rubbish talk .......you said Lagos is no man's land......stop sleeping on a moving bicycle,you might crash.

Why do we have Oba of Lagos?

The day an Igbo or Hausa Man becomes Lagos State Governor,I would believe it's no man's land and when we have "Obi of Lagos" with "Emir of Lagos"
Una no go rest for this kind hot afternoon.

bros, no waste your time for this kind rubbish talk.

It's a plan to divide the South.

Their population is only applicable to election and not on vat!!! Just imagine the same number of voters coming out from the northern states during election paying vat? But no, they want to take and take from others without contributing.

austinvsb:
If you think you really have the population that sustains Lagos, when States starts VAT collection, use that population to your advantage and generate taxes from them.

Bunch of leeches

austinvsb:
If you think you really have the population that sustains Lagos, when States starts VAT collection, use that population to your advantage and generate taxes from them.

Bunch of leeches

gbam...

God punish ur mouth wetin una contribute for Lagos and Rivers wey you come dey talk.

Enugupikin:
There is some sense in what he is saying ,Lagos can't stand alone without the rest of Nigeria. Those corporate headquarters too and the ports and all that stems from the Nigerian people

The port at lagos is the property and part of the territory of logos. Lagos can stand alone without the rest of Nigeria. Small Gambia here with population of about 1million, with a territory a quarter that of logos is standing alone , not to talk of lagos

Enugupikin:

It can't QED

you are just daft and looking for attention.

Enugupikin:
There is some sense in what he is saying ,Lagos can't stand alone without the rest of Nigeria. Those corporate headquarters too and the ports and all that stems from the Nigerian people

No one is saying lagos or rivers can stand alone......lagos is a cosmopolitan state ....with huge potential.....but the sharing formula is totally unreasonable......lagos, rivers, ogun, Kaduna , delta and kano need to get the larger chunk of the money......cuz most other states are sleeping reaping from where they didn't sow.....eg kebbi, nasarawa, sokoto ,kogi , niger etc

Be concerned about the state Tax collected in your own state of origin, and how it is used to sustain the state. Leave Lagos and other states to have their authority over collection of domestic Taxes in their own states.
When Lagos needs revenue to develop and rehabilitate infrastructures and sustain the state, they do not go like nosy thieves to ask the Northern region for money or ideas.
My God! What type of shameless leaders do we have in this country? Imagine what this quack governor is saying!

Enugupikin:
There is some sense in what he is saying ,Lagos can't stand alone without the rest of Nigeria. Those corporate headquarters too and the ports and all that stems from the Nigerian people

ThinkSmarter:
He is saying the truth, Lagos and Rivers have ports, but the people that pays the necesarry tax like custom duty, import duty, export, environmental,etc are mostly Igbos and Hausas from the hinterlands who are mostly into importation, exportation, manufacturing and trade that are mostly from Kano, Anambra, Borno, Abia, Kaduna, Imo, etc

so in other words you're saying out of at least 30 million Yoruba people, no Yoruba person is into importation, exportation, manufacturing and trade......

the weed you're smoking is very strong..

PDPdestroyer:

Bro you'll be making a grave mistake thinking the Blackfire monicker is that of a Northerner. I can tell you authoritatively, the guy is a confirmed Ibo man masquerading as a Northerner. His lines of arguments gave him out because Igbos are the only ones who hold that line of argument and obsession (out of envy) about Lagos. No northerner gives a fvck about the history or ownership of Lagos, only Igbos from time immemorial, hold this line of argument of Lagos being a no-man's-land and other inuendos just of jealousy. Don't ever mistake this guy for a Northerner!

this very topic and the words of the governor proves you wrong... both f:ulanis, ha:usas, ig:bos and some other ethnic nations are very jealous of Yorubas and Lagos...

From Masari to Ipobians, everyone is laying cliams to have developed Lagos. Southwesterns are really taking nonsense from other Nigerians. You think indigenous lagosian are fools?

OneTemplate:



What truth? Lagos was left for dead before Tinubu took over in 1999. I am a Lagosian.

The FG abandonded Lagos and left the State to her fate in the rush to move everything to the North, via Abuja, same way Nigeria myopically abandoned cocoa etal once oil was discovered.

It was the administrative brilliance of Tinubu that rescued Lagos and made her what she is today.

That is why Western administrators, the true arbiters of African leadedship, always visit and spend time with Tinubu while shunning other leaders in Nigeria.

They respect him massively for what he has achieved even if we enjoy lying to ourselves in Nigeria and fail to give credit where due because of ethno-religious bias against others.

Even before they arrive Lagos they have already read one of the many case studies in their home nation about the exemplary transformation of Lagos under BAT.

You people should fear God when you tell these lies about Lagos thriving because she is a former capital.

Same Lagos that was filth and crime-ridden before BAT took over? Same Lagos that had no sanity and was a glorified jungle pre-1999?

The worst lies are those we tell ourselves.

With everything in government headquartered in Lagos?

All the bridges?
All the air ports?
All the sea ports?
All the estates?
All the agencies?
All the embassies?

You are joking

NiceMen:
you are just daft and looking for attention.

Mumu boi

Lightorder:
truth ————- 25%
Lies——————75%

They said Edo no be Lagos ....now Edo people don't want to leave Lagos alone .....They all around my neighborhood claiming a false sense of superiority
Yorubas are gentle with strangers honestly and harsh on themselves..
Why are they not laying claim to kano, port Harcourt, ( they said ikwerre people came from Benin) or even warri ( urhobo and isoko) are also Benin origin
.Do you know why ? This places have no place for forgiveness they can't hear 'warri belong to benin" and the whole street of warri won't be on fire against Benin people in warri.
So is with kano and port
....But would want to lay claim Lagos they hate.....Thinking Yorubas are easy to be bullied they quickly talk boldly about owning what's not theirs....

....

Ijscarface:
This singular thought pattern is why we are where we are today and as long as our leaders reason this way we will never progress

There are advantages that lagos has (populations,ports) etc that it can use to its advantage. So also Katsina has some advantages (arable and vast Land for agriculture).

Every state must learn to use what it has in abundance to facilitate trade and business.

Therein lies the unity in diversity that we profess

katsina and a lot of northern states are suffering the effects of desertification so there are no arable lands in most northern states...

don't be deceived by propaganda...

in rivers state I stay how many of the northern are paying house rant or buy something fro supermarkets to pay vat