₦airaland Forum

anonimi:
Excellent gesture by the governor.

Igbo people should do more to project and protect their history, especially the genocide during the civil war.

SixSeven:
Repost. I used riot too 🙈👇

Reposted from the thread:
No Tax If You Are Earning Below ₦800k Annually
https://www.nairaland.com/8591409/no-tax-earning-below-800k/3#137990000

I just need to break this down here because what you don't understand you will keep being misled.

A tax is money the government collects from people, businesses, or things you buy, to pay for public services like roads, schools, hospitals, and electricity.

Many Nigerians think only people with salaries pay tax because income tax (PAYE) is very visible, it comes straight off your paycheck. But in reality, everyone pays indirect taxes whenever they buy goods, fuel, food, use electricity, phone, or travel. The “hypocrisy” comes from the fact that government talks about income tax more because it’s easy to track, while indirect taxes are hidden in prices, so it feels like the poor or informal workers aren’t paying anything when they actually are.

What annoys me is the japa people that go abroad and yap about taxes. They want Nigeria to have the same western style. If you play with taxes abroad, you'll be shown the way out in the next election and you should also understand the white man and why he does things in a way. When you understand their history, you'll know why we are not the same.

Some countries really do not charge personal income tax at all meaning residents don’t file annual income tax returns like in the UK/US and don’t pay tax on their salaries. Examples include United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Monaco, Brunei and Vanuatu, among others. These countries still get money for government services through oil, trade, fees, or other taxes, not by taxing individual salaries. Do the maths and tell me one thing in common Nigeria has that some of these countries have. These countries fund government spending through other sources such as oil and gas revenues, corporate taxes, import duties, fees, tourism income or VAT/sales taxes, instead of taxing people’s income directly.

You need to get off this obsession with the west and trying to be like who you are not. This is the miseducation of the average African. Don't forget that in Aba and Ogun State, Women fought the imposition of taxes by the British. Many Nigerians don't even study their history. You should go and read why they didn't want the colonial government collecting taxes from them.


Historically, Western heavy taxation grew partly from scarcity and because they needed money to fund armies, wars, infrastructure, and administrative systems. Land and resources were limited, populations were growing, and scarcity of money made taxes necessary. Scarcity also came from their harsh climates, poor harvests, and limited technology, so the state had to extract more from people to survive and provide basic service, sunlike in some African systems, where wealth was shared communally rather than extracted as formal taxes. When you look at it today, the concept of Black Tax is because in Africa, we share the resources with the rest of us Ubuntu style. Learn why things are the way they are. Today, I see people teaching financial wealth and I laugh when they want us to copy westerners and their form of selfish indiduvual finance.

The Aba Women’s Riot of 1929 happened mainly because of unfair taxes and the extension of colonial authority over women. The British tried to impose direct taxes and give warrant chiefs more control, but market women in Aba protested since they had no voice in government decisions. Tens of thousands of women joined strikes and demonstrations, even attacking colonial offices, to resist being taxed and controlled unfairly. The revolt forced the British to rethink taxation and local administration, making it a turning point in Nigeria’s colonial history and showing the strength of women’s collective action.
Femi Kehinde, author of A Short Stroll Along History Avenue, brings history to life as he revisits the fearless activism of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a woman who redefined resistance in colonial Nigeria. In this interview, he recounts how Funmilayo mobilised the women of Abeokuta to rise against unjust taxation and challenge the colonial power structure. The revolt, a powerful act of defiance, ultimately led to the exile of the Alake of Egbaland.
Through Kehinde’s narration, we see how one woman’s courage reshaped the course of Nigerian history.

The Abeokuta Women’s Revolt: When Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Rewrote Nigerian History


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyvTtYrZTAk?


History tends to repeat itself when the people don't learn from their past.

The day Nigerians wake up to know their rights and why the government cannot just squander their money, they will wake up.

AlphaTaikun:
The real name of the protest in 1929 is Ikot Abasi Women's protest. The Ibibio women of Ikot Abasi now in Akwa Ibom State led by the former Minister Udoma's grandmother (who eventually was shot dead alongside other women) started the protest against high taxations. However the Ikot Abasi Women have been immortalized due to the FACT that the ORIGINAL protests in that part of Nigeria started from Ibibioland NOT Aba as wrongly claimed by some propaganda history books.

The FALSE use of "Aba women riot" was meant to cover up the murder of those gallant Ibibio women and because Aba is closer to Enugu, the seat of the Colonial Eastern Nigeria Government so the media originally thought the Aba women started the protests.

aieromon:
The Aba women riot is a false narrative.

https://www.thecable.ng/history-101-dont-say-aba-it-was-ikot-abasi-women-riot/



https://discoverakwaibom.com/heritage-sites/1929-women-war-memorial/

1929: Women War - Feature film based on the historical event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1vVQxf3uA?si=D5D7c1UwuSftXtK0

AlphaTaikun:
The real name of the protest in 1929 is Ikot Abasi Women's protest. The Ibibio women of Ikot Abasi now in Akwa Ibom State led by the former Minister Udoma's grandmother (who eventually was shot dead alongside other women) started the protest against high taxations. However the Ikot Abasi Women have been immortalized due to the FACT that the ORIGINAL protests in that part of Nigeria started from Ibibioland NOT Aba as wrongly claimed by some propaganda history books.

The FALSE use of "Aba women riot" was meant to cover up the murder of those gallant Ibibio women and because Aba is closer to Enugu, the seat of the Colonial Eastern Nigeria Government so the media originally thought the Aba women started the protests.

OnyeObowo1:
Otti our most priority now is to remove tinibu from power..

The demons must leave..

bewisemasses:
Great idea. The man is thinking while other govs are busy playing politics. But with all d defections, I still think Tinubu is still far from winning the 2027 elections as the northerners are giving Tinubu a little finger, and he has played into the trap of the NORTH.

He didn't see beyond arresting El Rufai. He knows that Elrufai is very smart but the ogogoro man decieved him that nothing will happen.

When El Rufai was making those statements on national TV, they are unaware of the game. Today the HATE has spread ALL OVER THE NORTH to level that no one can organise a support procession for Tinubu in the core North.

Now, El Rufai lost his mother while in detention which has made the HATE in the north to spread more. The narrative is that the woman died over shock of his son’s imprisonment.

Ofcourse, all Northerners even in his government including the NSA and VP extended condolences, displaying secret solidarity 🤣 to El Rufai.

They have already accomplished the mission, while he will be granted bail by the court soon. The is literally beating him in his own game.

Party already have plan B and C long ago.

Muslim-Muslim ticket is chocking him to the extent that he doesn’t know whether to drop Shettima or not esp as America is on his neck for the genocide ongoing.

The governors they compelled into APC will still watch them lose 🤣. I was listening to Umahi shouting that all leaders should start telling people the good work of Tinubu 🤣. That you can’t be claiming to be supporting Tinubu and you’re not trying to convince people with his good work🤣. He’s already seeing that the sabotage is unavoidable.

Tinubu will play politics and know say no be only him sabi.

SixSeven:
It should be called a protest, not riot. And Nigerians need to learn from this history, especially as it was due to taxes imposed by the British

Now, women should pick their lessons from their mothers. These women were independents women who did not need to be EQUAL to men to hold their own. Many of you think they were oppressed but these women knew the role of a man and the role of a woman. They didn't fight some misguided fight. In fact, women had money than men because they were their own bosses. The British knew this and wanted to steal from their pie.

Now, look at modern women today. They go work for an unknown stranger, climbing the career ladder in a company that your father has no shares in 🤡

Women wake up. They deceived you. Empowermemt scam.

jamafa:
Otti dey with Tinubu 💯

obrien30:
If you no be Yoruba make I know why ... Always trying to rewrite things