₦airaland Forum

CorperKola:
Yes , I am sure Biden is having sleepless nights over your so called capital flight

Wetin concern Biden with Canada?

Niklaus398:
Nigeria has invested in Lagos so u can't remove Lagos from it. If Nigeria was wiser in their early days should've spread development just like the SA people did.
In South Africa, govt branches and investments wasn't stationed in one city. But spread.. some govt branch like the judicary capital is in another city. The legislature is in another... That's how to spread development.
But nigeria instead of doing that, in those early days put everything in Lagos till it finally moved some of them to Abuja but the mistake had already been done. The other cities still remain underdeveloped.

Go to the east, try look for any fg Presence u will see none. Go to the west and north and see them plenty yet u guys blame the east?

You do not understand. If all state governments were like Lagos state government then Nigeria would at least be as good as South Africa. Do you now understand why Lagos should be removed?.

IamAtikulate:
I don't have time for illiterates.

Go through the comment you quoted again. Then read slowly to understand.

I talked about businesses and you are here mentioning wages and shifts.

😂😂😂

You left your village with a nylon bag and joined the night lorry to come hustle in Lagos, and you're here abusing the word capital flight.
If I may ask, what business/investment did you import from your enclave to Lagos? And you're shouting capital flight on top of buying and selling petty trading.

NimrodEndOfDays:
stale!!

Na now u just got money for data?

plaindealer:
Ogun state alone generated more IGR than the top 3 states in the SE combined.

WOW!!!!

Still the poorest in infrastructure, and the highest in poverty rate per person.
The worst in crime rate in SW

lawani:
You do not understand. If all state governments were like Lagos state government then Nigeria would at least be as good as South Africa. Do you now understand why Lagos should be removed?.

and yet Lagos ain't even half as good as south Africa. The only thing they. Boast of is IGR bit it is still a dirty pigsty
Even Abuja though doesn't have the IGR of Lagos is still cleaner and look like a proper city.
Lagos is a pig sty.
See I'm from Akwa ibom state and everyday I'll pray my state should never be like Lagos. If my state ever be like Lagos then the govt of my state has failed.

Let my state be like Rwanda, boswana etc.

No state should pray to be like Lagos. A dirty pigsty

Niklaus398:
and yet Lagos ain't even half as good as south Africa. The only thing they. Boast of is IGR bit it is still a dirty pigsty
Even Abuja though doesn't have the IGR of Lagos is still cleaner and look like a proper city.
Lagos is a pig sty.
See I'm from Akwa ibom state and everyday I'll pray my state should never be like Lagos. If my state ever be like Lagos then the govt of my state has failed.

Let my state be like Rwanda, boswana etc.

No state should pray to be like Lagos. A dirty pigsty

In Africa, very few governments are as powerful as the Lagos government. If you are Lagos governor you are at par with the Nigerian President going by the number of workers you lead. Lagos has 500,000 people on the payroll and increasing while Abuja has around 720,000. Lagos salary is more or less the highest in the country and at least at par with the richest oil states if not higher than some So Lagos is doing something if only workers' salary but they also have huge projects. No state has the equivalent of LAGBUS or LASTMA. If you are the head of any of them, it is the position of a big CEO. LAGBUS is probably the mist viable transport company in Nigeria. Don't doubt that there is a benefit in organizing your state via taxation. It has huge benefits

lawani:
In Africa, very few governments are as powerful as the Lagos government. If you are Lagos governor you are at par with the Nigerian President going by the number of workers you lead. Lagos has 500,000 people on the payroll and increasing while Abuja has around 720,000. Lagos salary is more or less the highest in the country and at least at par with the richest oil states if not higher than some So Lagos is doing something if only workers' salary but they also have huge projects. No state has the equivalent of LAGBUS or LASTMA. If you are the head of any of them, it is the position of a big CEO. LAGBUS is probably the mist viable transport company in Nigeria. Don't doubt that there is a benefit in organizing your state via taxation. It has huge benefits

all you keep emphasizing on is money. Lagos has nothing than that to show for all the billions. Rwanda doesn't even have a fraction of that money yet Kigali is everything Lagos will Dream of being

IamAtikulate:
Wetin concern Biden with Canada?

I no even see d canada
Ok.
Trudeau is having sleepless nights and calling emergency meetings because of it.
Point is it is not a negative and it is not material
You dimwit

Niklaus398:
all you keep emphasizing on is money. Lagos has nothing than that to show for all the billions. Rwanda doesn't even have a fraction of that money yet Kigali is everything Lagos will Dream of being

So to have 500,000 people collecting salaries is nothing? Even if that is the only thing?

lawani:
So to have 500,000 people collecting salaries is nothing? Even if that is the only thing?

In India they pay more and you don't see them shouting do you? Yet there are still doing much more.
There is a little indian city that pays more than 5 million people salaries and yet still doing their duties and the city is actually better than Lagos.
Rwanda is everything Lagos will Dream of being... Forget money.

You pay more people but you forgot you get tax from that more people meaning much money. Kigali doesn't have that

Niklaus398:
In India they pay more and you don't see them shouting do you? Yet there are still doing much more.
There is a little indian city that pays more than 5 million people salaries and yet still doing their duties and the city is actually better than Lagos.
Rwanda is everything Lagos will Dream of being... Forget money.

You pay more people but you forgot you get tax from that more people meaning much money. Kigali doesn't have that

There is no little city in India paying salaries to five million people because it will mean at least fifty million people are working in the city because non government workers will be there too and they will be ninety percent. If fifty million people are workers then at least 150 million people are residents. Which Indian city has 150 million residents?. The largest city in Earth is Tokyo at 20 million people

You will explain tired.

IamAtikulate:
IGR = Taxes

Anambra is a tax haven, in case you don't.

Again, SE leaders are more economically sound than their SW counterpart.

For instance, Alex Otti recently said that "Taxes are government share of the prosperity it creates."

Do you really understand what that means?

Have you wondered why SE Governors, especially Abia and Anambra keep lowering taxes?

You won't understand because you guys suck at economics.

Keep celebrating IGR which is not an economic indicator while your debts keep mounting.

You claim to generate the highest IGR in the country yet SW has the highest debt ratio.

It doesn't make sense.

If Anambra State government is tax-obsessed like Ogun and SW Governors, only Onitsha Main Market will generate the whole if whatever IGR Ogun gets.

You are making noise because of 120 billion.

FYI, 12 million daily transaction happens at Onitsha Main Market. The market annual transactions sits at around $3 billion, with 40% of this circulating as unbanked transaction.

You can verify these claims with a simple Google search.

If Anambra government taxes just 1% of these transaction, it'll generate $30 million annually, which is approximately 21 billion naira.

If government taxes 5%, it'll generate 105 billion from the market alone.

But Anambra has 48 markets.

So, trade and commerce in Anambra can generate more than Ogun IGR.

If you are underrating trade, then look at the evidence below.

Trade is the third largest component of Nigerian GDP, far ahead of manufacturing. See the evidence in the attached image.

Quick Fact:

Taxes are a government share of the economic activities that go on in a state.

A state can decide whatever it wants as its share.

It doesn't make those that charge a higher rate more developed than those that takes lesser. Have you guys ever wondered why despite Ogun state having bigger IGR than the whole SE, yet Anambra reports larger GDP, GDP growth rate and lower debt than Ogun state?

Because Anambra is far more economically developed than Ogun.

Again, IGR is not a measure of economic prosperity, like our illiterate SW brothers are pandering about. It measures NOTHING. If you think otherwise, then tell me what IGR measures and I'll show you a better economic indicator.

Anyways, here are key economic indicators:

- GDP (total economic activities)

- GDP per capita (economic prosperity)

- Real GDP per capita or GNI (standard of living)

- GDP growth rate (economic growth)

- Gini Coefficient (Income inequality)

- Debt to GDP ratio (financial leverage)

The funniest thing is Anambra beats all SW states, except Lagos in all these indicators.

keep celebrating IGR instead of GDP, GDP per capita, GDP growth rate, Gini Coefficient and financial leverage. Anambra is beating una front and back in all these indicators.

Una go wake up one day las las.

lawani:
There is no little city in India paying salaries to five million people because it will mean at least fifty million people are working in the city because non government workers will be there too and they will be ninety percent. If fifty million people are workers then at least 150 million people are residents. Which Indian city has 150 million residents?. The largest city in Earth is Tokyo at 20 million people

india is 1.2 billion people and you believe a City there doesn't have more than 5 million people working for the govt?.

Their Govt Rail station employ more than a 3 million people