₦airaland Forum

rosebowl01:
Yes, Enugu.

ayenitre:
What has seaports got to do with VATs? VAT is a consumption tax, which is highly correlated with purchasing power, no? Tax experts, your inputs will be appreciated here.

Off the top of my head, I'll mention cities that have no significant body of navigable water, yet they're economic powerhouse in their own right: In US-Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, Las Vegas; In Europe: London, Madrid, Warsaw. In south/central america: Sao Paolo, Mexico City, In China: Beijing. You should envision more than seaports for your region if you want your region to be competitive in the 21st century. Seaports drive commerce, true; but technology is roaring engine of growth.

You undermine the achievement of Lagos if you reduced it's success story to mere seaports, and Lagos can do even better than it already has.

ERockson:
The whole SE can not boast of 2% of the total VAT. I wonder which area they actually contribute to national growth in that region.

scholes0:
It definitely wasn't generated by Gala, FanYogo and Lacasera hawkers in Lagos traffic.
Evans the only one Ibo "businessman" that was actually paying some tax in Lagos, turned out to be Just another Notorious IPOB Criminal.

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scholes0:
And Yet, the same Ogun and Oyo states both generate more IGR Real Organic state Revenue than all the states in the South East put together..

Hhahaha the only thing Igbos have is MOUTH and constant online Rambling.
Awon Online warriors. Unfortunately for you lot, no be shouting and cursing on NL and Facebook dey generate money.

Anikulhapo:
https://www.thecable.ng/adeosun-half-nigerias-vat-comes-lagos

ERockson:
The whole SE can not boast of 2% of the total VAT. I wonder which area they actually contribute to national growth in that region.

jonnytad:
See how watery your reasoning is? OUR LAGOS..... and you can say it. Why can't you say our Anambra cuz U left kanu to develop it for you? Abi bcuz ur people sell gala nd panasonic in alaba, you think your ancestors control lagos?#Wakeup bro.

Mphumalanga:
What is this one saying?
I am trying to make sense of this gibberish, lol. IPOB brain.

scholes0:
You Flattiess keep using this same line thinking everyone on NL are stupid and ignorant enough to keep swallowing your lies and propaganda.

These are pictures from the port at PH/Onne. There is nothing stopping Igbos from using it if they wanted to. The success of Lagos and the West is much more deeper than having just a seaport. What many of you don't even know is that the port in Lagos is MUCH SMALLER than what Nigeria actually needs, and less than half of foreign products in the country come through Lagos. Most come from the Cotonou, Lome and Tema ports in Benin, Togo and Ghana, YET Lagos is thriving just fine.

Use PH/Onne port Ndigbo. It is working and functioning just fine. No be by force to come Ragos!
Yorubas have told you to go, una no dey hear word. Lool

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Those who are using this port in Onne are using it very fine! Dangote even uses it part time.
Go and develop your Villages and stop shouting Shuku Okuko Alabiabia and "Afonjas are holding us down" Up and down the dusty streets of Nnewi.

scholes0:
You Flattiess keep using this same line thinking everyone on NL are stupid and ignorant enough to keep swallowing your lies and propaganda.

These are pictures from the port at PH/Onne. There is nothing stopping Igbos from using it if they wanted to. The success of Lagos and the West is much more deeper than having just a seaport. What many of you don't even know is that the port in Lagos is MUCH SMALLER than what Nigeria actually needs, and less than half of foreign products in the country come through Lagos. Most come from the Cotonou, Lome and Tema ports in Benin, Togo and Ghana, YET Lagos is thriving just fine.

Use PH/Onne port Ndigbo. It is working and functioning just fine. No be by force to come Ragos!
Yorubas have told you to go, una no dey hear word. Lool

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4313/36152899482_455e9cba06_b.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4313/36321417335_c4a7d94a39_b.jpg

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Those who are using this port in Onne are using it very fine! Dangote even uses it part time.
Go and develop your Villages and stop shouting Shuku Okuko Alabiabia and "Afonjas are holding us down" Up and down the dusty streets of Nnewi.

laudate:
Onne port is not dead at all. It is still very much alive. It receives oil & gas cargoes on a regular basis. The only problem is that the importers from the SE refuse to use it for non-oil imports. They are attached to Lagos ports...

bigpicture001:
...will all humility,i strongly disagree with the finance minister. 1st. what is VAT?..ans..its is the name given to taxes on goods and services produced in a country and expecially consumed within the country.. now, let's analyse. does she mean to say that lagos state now consume more goods than p.h delta and say edo put 2geda?...does sh min that lagos consumes more than the entire south east? or even more than kano and kaunas put 2geda?......it is evidently clear that the one gathering the data on the economy are mistakenly double counting...what I mean is that in thier calculations,they attribute VAT of good produced in lagos to lagos mindless of the fact that most of these goods are consumed else where...if for example mtn recharge card of 100billion is produced in lag and a worth of 81billion of recharge card is distributed to the entire nation,where do you think the generated VAT should be attributed to?...lagos?...I guess that s where our honourable minister might be mistaken...the numbers doesn't match.if lagos contains a population of about 14million of nigrria's 180 million how then does it consume more than an entire region which isn't knw of for high poverty rate

ERockson:
The whole SE can not boast of 2% of the total VAT. I wonder which area they actually contribute to national growth in that region.

papascode:
Who own the most industries and small scale businesses? If not Igbos. Fool. In every local government in the south east, there 10 self made billionaires scatter all over the world.

ELKHALIFAISIS:
see vexation Oooo are you blaming me just go and exhume ur poor miserable forefathers , and ask them why they sold Lagos to Igbo's, I guess it's hunger and starvation that caused it , meanwhile apart from Lagos which we took from you, tell me any other state in ur region u can use to compare with Anambra ,Abia,IMO and Enugu in terms of infrastructure and human development, even Ebonyi of yesterday u scarcely see brown roof there as it littered everywhere in west

Oga080666419419:
do you think it was generated with lazy yoouths crowding all betting centers in Oyo and Ogun States.

Lagos is a no man's land.

papascode:
Who own the most industries and small scale businesses? If not Igbos. Fool. In every local government in the south east, there 10 self made billionaires scatter all over the world.

Efewestern:
what you see in Lagos is not what Yoruba contribute alone, igbo and other tribe made Lagos a huge success.

FG knows what they are doing, they should create port in Warri and PH and see how Lagos becomes broke. instead of mocking SE why not think of way to improve the academic activities of the region I. e by suggesting a port that will be close to the region and see how fast they develop.

sunnyb0b0:
That's where you get it wrong. How much is generated in Lagos as a result of the ports in Lagos and who do the bulk of importation there? Retailing serves the local populace and retailers are small players in thebscheme of things. Lagos is the trading hub for West Africa and when I tell you Igbo commerce contributes a lot to Lagos I don't include those retailers in my calculation. Igbos are the major importers of goods in Lagos and most if the imported goods leave Lagos via wholesale distribution channels.

It's people like you that were asking how those unknown Igbos people were able to afford $1M as ransom to Evans. I just laughed on seeing those comments. There are 100s of thousands of Igbos traders who can conveniently part with that in Lagos and I know plenty personally.

Let's look at the pharmaceutical industry/market in Lagos; the Igbos run this multi billion dollar industry almost as a monopoly. Some if them are;

Emzor
Greenlife
Orange Drugs
Elbe
M & B
Neimeth
Embassy
Vixa
Richy Gold
Neros
Clarion Medicals
Geneith global
Beta Drugs
Jopan
Maydon (one of Evans victims)
Jubilee
Award Global
Agary
E-Chuks
Etc. These are all big time players in the industry so please when I talk of commerce, I make no reference to retailers.

Sunnyja:
I did the supervision of the job you are currently seeing . why the port suddenly went dead is what I have not been able to understand till date.

gare:
Open up the seaports in Rivers, Delta, Cross River state and see if the VAT will not increase, the Lagos we see is because of the see ports and the airport, there's nothing special about Lagos, all the. Coastal states had same value both they neglected them and focused only on Lagos, but if the Govt should open up all the ports in the Niger Delta, you would experience a lot of growth.

jomonic:
Nigerians are very quick to celebrate the issues and problems of the Igbo. I think it is as a result of inborn psychological feeling of inferiority complex.

Ballmer:
Victim cry. Was this post about Igbo ? But Igbo will not allow anyone rest because the news does not favour them. Igbo brought this on themselves with the several calms they make daily on NL.

ayenitre:
What has seaports got to do with VATs? VAT is a consumption tax, which is highly correlated with purchasing power, no? Tax experts, your inputs will be appreciated here.

Off the top of my head, I'll mention cities that have no significant body of navigable water, yet they're economic powerhouse in their own right: In US-Phoenix, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, Las Vegas; In Europe: London, Madrid, Warsaw. In south/central america: Sao Paolo, Mexico City, In China: Beijing. You should envision more than seaports for your region if you want your region to be competitive in the 21st century. Seaports drive commerce, true; but technology is roaring engine of growth.

You undermine the achievement of Lagos if you reduced it's success story to mere seaports, and Lagos can do even better than it already has.

400billionman:
I do not really know what is wring with the FG..

This report is useless because it is the FG that empowered only Lagos to function like that.

Is it only Lagos that has waterways in Nigeria.. ?

And what is the Percentage Contribution of the VAT to total national income viz a viz Crude oil ?

kn23h:
Lmaoooo Jesus Ibos are diabolical liars.

allrightsir:
Like i said to the previous guy stupidity clerly does not know tribe.


What is IGR? Nobody shares IGR so I dont understand what relevance east or North's IGR has to SW.



VAT is not IGR! You keep all your IGR you send VAT to the center. So because some states in the North have a higher IGR than some states in the south does not mean they are contributing....states keep ALL their IGR!!!!



Let me explain something to you. The reason why VAT is highest in Lagos and Abuja is because vat is paid by registered companies and most companies have their head offices in Lagos or Abuja even when their major operations are elsewhere...it's a simple as that. When did you buy spare parts from Emeka in isolo and saw VAT on your receipt, do you pay VAt when Jelili your mechanic brings bill for work on your car do you see vat, does he even give you receipt?

kn23h:
Lmaoooo Jesus Ibos are diabolical liars.