subsidywise18:


Because the people in the UK pay council tax and income tax, meaning the local council can afford to keep the cities clean.

Nigeria....we don't pay those type of taxes. Our budget for a year is what the UK spends policing its people in one year.

So, if you want UK level in Nigeria, pay UK level taxes. But Nigerians will start with 'we are poor'

Annual council tax in band A areas cleethorpes is about 1387 pounds...that's over 700000 naira per annum. If government for this country started charging that...especially in that Benin you live, would you guys be happy?

my council tax was 100 pounds a month. I had a house. 4 rooms. Really big house. Pls come on.

Even the pension people pay. Do govt not steal ur ? Nigerians will pay tax. If they trust the govt. but na ole tinubu buhari. Amechi they power. So Nigerians will celebrate mediocrity. Build mansion right in front of refuse dump site. Tueh

Don't be fooled. I am into real estate in Abuja. Most of the rich guys hardly live in these houses. If you're talking about the rich guys, are you talking about the politicians? If they're the one, majority of them don't live in Nigeria. They live in Dubai, US, London, Monaco and some offshore islands. It's only when they're coming for plenary at the National Assembly or their state to collect money they come to inspect these properties. Majority don't live there. They live outside Nigeria.

Ppl still get jabbings for this 9ja so?....na person pikin,person fada,person uncle,person crush even person role model wake up one morning and decided to zuzu around abuja....no qualms...iberibe na choice Sha...

This looks like a 3 world country suburb

Ppl still get jabbings for this 9ja so?....na person pikin,person fada,person uncle,person crush even person role model wake up one morning and decided to zuzu around abuja....no qualms...iberibe na choice Sha..

victorv12:
Don't be fooled. I am into real estate in Abuja. Most of the rich guys hardly live in these houses. If you're talking about the rich guys, are you talking about the politicians? If they're the one, majority of them don't live in Nigeria. They live in Dubai, US, London, Monaco and some offshore islands. It's only when they're coming for plenary at the National Assembly or their state to collect money they come to inspect these properties. Majority don't live there. They live outside Nigeria.

Lot of empty estates in Abuja

Still cheaper than banana island.

the problem with the north is, there is only rich and poor class

Baawaa:
The gaps between the rich and the is too wide and the rich don't want the gaps to be close

dnt be surprise that NO SINGLE soul is living there.if nah lie,come to Ikoyi,vI,lekki,Ajah.Empty,Abandoned palatial Manson full there

orion7:
my council tax was 100 pounds a month. I had a house. 4 rooms. Really big house. Pls come on.

Even the pension people pay. Do govt not steal ur ? Nigerians will pay tax. If they trust the govt. but na ole tinubu buhari. Amechi they power. So Nigerians will celebrate mediocrity. Build mansion right in front of refuse dump site. Tueh

Well, we don't have council taxes in Nigeria because you Nigerians don't want to pay it.

Let's be honest. If we all paid taxes like council tax, we would have a big eye on what government does well well, and put more pressure on them to do the right thing...and thus they would not steal. Because it is directly affecting us.

I'm not blind. Corruption exists in Nigeria. (It's why I cannot in good cosncience vote for PDP or APC since 2003 when I first voted). BUT.....the fact is, there isn't enough money to pay for what we need to keep our cities looking good as well. The corruption and mismanagement makes things worse.

Plus when Tinubu, Buhari, and company were not in power, Nigerians were not paying enough in tax EITHER. Even when you have leaders you like...like most of us Southerners like GEJ....we no go gree.

We rely on oil money for everything in this country...and we live under the delusion that it is enough. It is enough for a country of ten million people or less, not 210 or 100 million people like Nigeria. That's where the payment of taxes comes in. But since most of us don't pay taxes because we are poor, government services are bad (and then the stealing too makes things worse.)

You get what you pay for. No council tax in Benin, Lagos, Owerri, Kano, Abuja, etc....no money for better municipal servicies. And our budget, need I remind you, is not up to one quarter of what the UK spends on healthcare.

Our tax to gdp ratio is 8.1%, in the UK it is 34%. See the problem

P.S

Pension thieves got caught. Some of them have gone to jail self.


P.S 2

UK budget for 2021...one trillion pounds. for 60 million people. Nigerian budget: 28 billion pounds for 200 million people. Expecting UK level service on that low a budget is magical thinking really.

drLammy:


Where I stay in Abuja, bike is not allowed in. If you're a mason you will need to take cab or walk down even if where you're going is far.
Sometimes when I have someone over to work at my place and he tells me he's at the main gate I drive down to pick them or drop.them off.because deep within me I know it's farr

Some estates allow bikes while some don't. This one could be allowing bikes.

Athemisia:

Posh!? To who!?
You never even enter lekki and banana Island

Define what richness is?

I'm not in a dick measuring contest with you.

I know that neighbourhood in particular, I can tell you no poor man can own or rent an apartment there.

If you like keep comparing like say na you get lekki or banana island.

isaiah4life:
Lekki is still the bomb. Eko.

Aje...


oil dey your head

orion7:
It still looks like shit. I use to live in cleepthorpes. Very low budget area in uk. Not even a city. It’s cleaner and finer than maitama.


I live in Benin now. Na desame eye I take dey look the whole Nigeria. Stop celebrating mediocrity

Balderdash. Inferiority complex is real. Your "cleopathra village" hood how much is the rent in USD compared to the rates the OP posted.
Charity begins at home no matter how you feel.

A place for thieving politicians and their allies...

hedonister:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKZ3-WrP7Nw

I'm sure you guys have heard of Asokoro, Maitama, Wuse and the likes but one place some people may not have heard is the new abode of the super rich in Nigeria's capital of Abuja.

Welcome to KATAMPE EXTENSION, a place where the rich and powerful live and it's just a few minutes outside the city center.

A 5 bedroom duplex here can go for as much as 400 million Naira while to rent a 3 bedroom flat can go for as much as 3 million Yearly.

I took a short drive around this neigbourhood to show you guys

Asokoro 3 bedroom 3m… where pls?

Baawaa:
The gaps between the rich and the is too wide and the rich don't want the gaps to be close

Even thebpoor dont want that gap to be bridged . In niggeria there is this belief that everyone will get there and that if you worship the rich and let them walk all over you, they will help you get there.

Zidane199:
U said it's where super rich people lives and okada dey enter there. U must be a clown ���

Aje...


Help me tell am.... i can name street in lekki where okada is not allow not to talk of estate....

OtemAtum:
If the poor plumber, poor painter or poor barber wants to go and perform his service in there, do you expect him to go in there in a Lamborghini or on bike?

Bike

Not sure op has been to vgc before, where room and parlour self-contain behind main building goes for as much as #2.5 and that was 2015.

Mhykel217:


Lekki de play.

Aje...



Lekki dey play or watin you talk....e be like say you never enter lekki before

Baawaa:
The gaps between the rich and the is too wide and the rich don't want the gaps to be close

we go close am by God's grace o.

I don't know why, I hate gigantic buildings. I don't want anything more than 3 bedroom flats

Baawaa:
The gaps between the rich and the is too wide and the rich don't want the gaps to be close

It can never be closed. Due to these factors, Rich people are risk takers, they think ahead and they are not comfortable with Little.

cocolacec:

It is not the duty of the rich to close the gap between poor and rich,it is govt responsibility.Govt and religious centres must create a welfarist society not the rich.

The rich only got opportunity or better ideas to make money than the rest of the populace.They owe nobody any duty but are encouraged to do charity.

Don't be silly you know most of the rich in Nigeria got it from oil.

BigDawsNet:
Shey House still remain..??

I'm buying one soon for myself and one member here

I dey here ooo u can buy 4 me

ledaman:
It can never be closed. Due to these factors, Rich people are risk takers, they think ahead and they are not comfortable with Little.

Rich people have the opportunity to take risks because the effect of failure is minimal.

A poor man with great ideas won't spend his only money to fund it because he might never see that amount again.

Come to agege Estate you will see more beautiful housing than this

iCauseTrouble:
I guess this OP is trying to advertise this area because Katampe no even reach top 10 places where rich people live in Abuja

You don’t know KATAMPE EXTENSION. Wtf

iCauseTrouble:
I guess this OP is trying to advertise this area because Katampe no even reach top 10 places where rich people live in Abuja

You clearly don’t know KATAMPE EXTENSION Wtf

goodconsience77:
I dey here ooo u can buy 4 me

It depends if you hav good conscience??

zicoraads:
You should be talking about Guzape, not Katampe.

Guzape Hills is where the new Abuja rich rich are building.

For me Katampe is finer than Guzape