₦airaland Forum

Amberon11:
Clown!

Keep quiet or else, I will flatten your head.

Lol, on the contrary I don't hate Yorubas. If anything they're much better than the igbos who brag about owning the entire country.

What does gazette mean

shukuokukobambi:
Actually Amberon isn't yeeboe. He's an aggrieved Niger deltan who dislikes Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa/Fulani for the sake of their oyel and he has a right to I guess.

Pls don't mistake him for the ultimate parasites that can't even survive in their homeland.




Area, you sef gats gazette abeg

jonnytad:
Sorry bro, I won't jst do that. ... read back

then u don't have a point... so stop claiming u accommodate Igbo's in ur land, every single pieces of land owned by them is legally paid for , no body forced ur hungry ancestors to sold ur lands, u are free to acquire land in Enugu owerri and Anambra if you can afford the price tag

Amberon11:
Lol, on the contrary I don't hate Yorubas. If anything they're much better than the igbos who brag about owning the entire country.

What does gazette mean

good to know you don't hate Yoruba. I lived with ND folks and I know the bitterness and hate abundant in the erosion ravaged enclave is absent in them.

I assumed you be wafi guy? I have one Urhobo friend that'll tell me to 'gazette' if I begin para. He means I should chill

Fifthcolumnist:
The problem I have with most people on Nairaland is they talk like they don't know the country they are in.
Oga you talk like you don't know Nigeria! Atiku invested Billions in Onne. And he's making his money back through intels and basically controlling all coys in Onne Industrial zone.

The bill for devolution of powers how did it go? You dey talk like say na Germany u dey! "let your senators blablabla......, negotiate terms with blablabla" You really think they haven't thought of that?

The only thing that can happen in this case is if another port is built by more patient private individuals or a state gvt like in the case of Akwa Ibom and the Ibaka seaport. And getting funds or loans from private investors to build a port in the Niger Delta is difficult cos it's not as commercialised as Lagos. LASG can easily get funds externally to fund projects of nearly any size cos lots of people will be willing to invest in an already made economy.

You see, this is where I get fed up with your people. They know how to complain, they know how to whine, and they know how to create & circulate propaganda. But do they know how to go through the proper channels and tweak the system to get what they want? No!

You are here online blasting Atiku, yet your Senators and House of Assembly members have failed to do their jobs, by bringing the perpetrators of such unfavourable policies at Onne to book and debating their actions, in order to cause them to review such actions for your benefit.

You just asked: "You really think they haven't thought of that?" And my answer to you is where is the proof that they thought of it? Why didn't they take action if they thought about it?

Wasn't it in this Nigeria, specifically Lagos where the whole Lekki-Epe expressway was concessioned to one company, and 3 toll-gates were meant to be built on it? They built the 1st one, and people protested. A lawyer named Ebun Adegboruwa rose up and took the state govt to court. He was witch-hunted by the same state govt, and the CofO for his personal house was almost revoked. At the end of the day, the plan to build 3 toll-gates was shelved in favour of just 1 toll-gate. In fact, the 2nd toll-gate they built, could not be used till date.

Were you not in this country, when MKO Abiola was killed, without him realising his mandate? What happened? People from his ethnic group and others from different tribes, formed a coalition, lobbied, demonstrated and worked assidously behind the scenes, to get another man from Abiola's ethnic group into the Presidency. And the power brokers had to bring Obasanjo from prison to become president in a space of several months. Did Abiola's kinsmen just wring their hands and complain online, without taking concrete steps? No!

So why do your people prefer to wave the banner of propaganda instead of taking practical, logical steps? If your Senators & co, summon Atiku & his company Intels to the National Assembly, to accuse them of working against non-oil importers, and also compel them to provide ways of ensuring that non-oil importers are not disenfranchised from using Onne port because of high charges, don't you think the press and other arms of the media would have a field day, in exposing Intels tactics, and whipping up public opinion in favour of your importers? Don't you think out of shame and a desire to avoid damage to their reputation, such a company would backtrack? Make una check am, nah!

Anikulhapo:
Kemi Adeosun, minister for finance, says more than half of Nigeria’s value added tax (VAT) comes from Lagos state alone.

Speaking at the parley between the federal government and progressive governors forum (PGF) in Abuja on Tuesday, Adeosun said the 87 percent of Nigeria’s VAT is derived from four states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

In other words, only 13 percent of Nigeria’s VAT comes from 32 other states in the federation.

According to her no country in the world with high tax compliance rate is poor, and no rich country has a low tax compliance rate.

“There is no poor country that has a high tax compliance rate, and no rich country that has a low one,” Adeosun said.


Quoting current VAT collection data across Nigeria, the minister said “55% of Nigeria’s VAT is collected in Lagos State. 20% in FCT, 6% in Rivers, 5% in Kano, 1% in Kaduna”.

“I’m hoping that one day Finance Commissioners will stop needing to come to Abuja monthly to share FAAC, because IGR (internally generated revenue) will be sufficient.”

The minister had earlier complained about the country’s abysmal tax-to-GDP ratio, which she said was at six percent, further stating it to be one of the lowest in the world.

Speaking on the topic “The Funding Nigeria Needs,” the minister says the states must do more to generate revenue from with and not solely depend on the federal government for federal allocation.


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

This is the reason I have always maintained that economic gateway Lagos and Abuja represented in Nigeria must be replicated in the defunct eastern and midwestern regions respectively. If this simple task cannot be accomplished, secession is admirable.

Adogleta:
You no dey even shame
Between Yorubas and Ibos , who is literally hosting who in Nigeria? lol
What do Igbos have that Yorubas want? NOTHING. You yourself, think about it deeply and you will see it.

He has a right to support or oppose the Idea of Oduduwa Republic, and it has nothing to do with being a parasite or whatever.
Some Yorubas declared an Oduduwa Republic a few days ago, because they believe in it as well.

the case of the Igbo however is one of a mistletoe that doesn't even know that it doesn't have a root of its own.

Spot on!!!

I have never seen an urhobo or any other ND who has inherent hatred for yorubas. Its these igbos who always spread propaganda making it seem like we hate yorubas but its not true.

Lol, I grew up in PH so I don't know most of those Wafi slangs, plus I'm a girl too

shukuokukobambi:
good to know you don't hate Yoruba. I lived with ND folks and I know the bitterness and hate abundant in the erosion ravaged enclave is absent in them.

I assumed you be wafi guy? I have one Urhobo friend that'll tell me to 'gazette' if I begin para. He means I should chill

For your information, the economic and commercial space in Lagos which produces the said VAT is controlled by the SE so invariably there will be a decline if they should stop and take it else where.

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.

laudate:
You see, this is where I get fed up with your people. They know how to complain, they know how to whine, and they know how to create & circulate propaganda. But do they know how to go through the proper channels and tweak the system to get what they want? No!

You are here online blasting Atiku, yet your Senators and House of Assembly members have failed to do their jobs, by bringing the perpetrators of such unfavourable policies at Onne to book and debating their actions, in order to cause them to review such actions for your benefit.

You just asked: "You really think they haven't thought of that?" And my answer to you is where is the proof that they thought of it? Why didn't they take action if they thought about it? Wasn't it in this Nigeria, specifically Lagos where the whole Lekki-Epe expressway was concessioned to one company, and 3 toll-gates were meant to be built on it? They built the 1st one, and people protested. A lawyer named Ebun Adegboruwa rose up and took the state govt to court. He was witch-hunted by the same state govt, and the CofO for his personal house was almost revoked. At the end of the day, the plan to build 3 toll-gates was shelved in favour of just 1 toll-gate. In fact, the 2nd toll-gate they built, could not be used till date.

Were you not in this country, when MKO Abiola was killed, without him realising his mandate? What happened? People from his ethnic group and others from different tribes, formed a coalition, lobbied, demonstrated and worked assidously behind the scenes, to get another man from their own ethnic group into the Presidency. And the power brokers had to bring Obasanjo from prison to become president in a space of several months. Did Abiola's kinsmen just wring their hands and complain online, without taking concrete steps? No!

So why do your people prefer to wave the banner of propaganda instead of taking practical, logical steps? If your Senators & co, summon Atiku & his company Intels to the National Assembly, to accuse them of working against non-oil importers, and also compel them to provide ways of ensuring that non-oil importers are not disenfranchised from using Onne port because of high charges, don't you think the press and other arms of the media would have a field day, in exposing Intels tactics, and whipping up public opinion in favour of your importers? Don't you think out of shame and a desire to avoid damage to their reputation, such a company would backtrack? Make una check am, nah!

I didnt bother to read up the rubbish you wrote there more than once cos I know u won't make a well informed argument. Honestly, if you've not read about the Onne port concessioning and complains by governors and importers about high charges there, then I don't have anything really to tell you.

Atiku isn't cheating anyone. That was the agreement they had during the concession. Many governors business men have talked and taken actions to protest in the past but then it's a Private business and that's the only way he can make the money he invested in the project. Now don't get the impression that the port isn't working to full capacity , it is. A lot of Industries are sited in the one Onne as a result of Seaport there, but these companies are oil and gas related cos they can convienently meet the charges there, and don't forget this port was even built for them in the First place. I can't really remember but the agreement is something like 50:50 blw the coy and the government till the end of the deal. Attempting to cast aside this agreement will only chase away future investors from that Industry.

on the other hand the Apapa port is a govt port and and due to reasons known by the government (or sheer ineptitude) the other three ports were closed ( warri, PH ports( not Onne) , Calabar ports) to reduce the influx of imported goods into the country ( so I heard) , and in all honesty every economic activity in Nigeria depends on importation for survival. The surge of Industries in Lagos and Ogun isn't cos those are only possible states to site them but cos of

1. proximity to seaport ( to bring heavy machinery and equipment: they won't import heavy machinery and transport them via road 500km inland. No investor does that)
2. Access to air. (MMA).

My bro, you have a problem with us; we whine and talk propaganda... Perhaps the problem is with you. You sit in your part of the country and barely aware of anything outside Lagos and Ibadan ( and maybe Abuja ) and claim to know everything about the rest of Nigeria. Truth is you know nothing!!! Do you listen to Radio stations in the Niger Delta? No!. Do you listen to Radio stations in the South East? No. Do you even read news Paper content from the areas? No! Have u even spent a year outside your part of Nigeria? No!
Yet somehow you think we haven't explored the right channels to check these imbalances. That's why I popped the intial question, "You think we haven't thought of them?"

It's easy to claim strength when your strength hasn't been tested. Do have a good day.

kevindayo:
For your information, the economic and commercial space in Lagos which produces the said VAT is controlled by the SE so invariably there will be a decline if they should stop and take it else where.

Lmao

..We then wondered why the whole of SE that constitutes over 70% of Igbos adds little or nothing to offer OBODO nigeria in VAT.

What delusion, I am sure you know you sound funny, right?

sunnyb0b0:
Oh I missed the part in bold. Well, here's a few from my state, Anambra alone;

Nnamdi Azikiwe (1st Nigerian Governor-general and first president of Nigeria and historically, the only man whose name appeared in the Constitution of his country (Nigeria's Republican Constitution of 1963))

Nwafor Orizu (1st senate president of the Federal republic of Nigeria and first Acting presidentof the federation)

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (1st African multi millionaire)

Chike Obi (1st Nigerian professor of Mathematics)

Kenneth Dike (1st Nigerian VC of a university UI)

Eugene Akosa Keazor (Former Nigerian police officer in the colonial years who held the most senior police rank ever held by an African in the British colony)

Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (1st graduate to enlist in the Nigerian army and leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra)

Chinua Achebe (1st African writer whose books are standard curricula in schools and universities across the world)

Emeka Anyaoku (1st black secretary-general of the commonwealth )

Alex Ekwueme (1st executive vice president of the Federal Republic Of Nigeria)

F. C. Nwokedi (1st Nigerian Permanent Secretary)

Chimamanda Adichie (famous writer who won the Orange Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008))

Cardinal Arinze (Cardinal at the vatican who was in contest to succeed the late Pope John Paul II)

Philip Emeagwali (winner of the Gordon Bell prize in super computing)

Dora Akunyili (Former NAFDAC Boss who rid the Nation of fake and counterfeit drugs)

Chinyelu Onwura (Labour Party MP, UK)

Chuka Umunna (Labour party MP, UK)

Charles Soludo (Renowned professor of Economics and former CBN governor)

Oby Ezekwesili (World Bank Vice president)


Ben Enweonwu (Renowned professor of Fine Arts)

Pius Okigbo (renowned economist, was 1st Nigerian economic adviser to the Federal Government of Nigeria. He released the Okigbo report indicting IBB of the mismanagement of $12.4b oil windfall)

Chuba Okadigbo (most eloquent senate president Nigeria has ever had)

Jerome Udoji (Former president of the NSE and MAN)

Cyprian Ekwensi (renowned novelist)

Samuel Okoye (black Africa's first PhD in Radio Astronomy who along with Anthony Hewish of the University of Cambridge discovered the radio source of Crab Nebula neutron star)

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Ray (1st black artist to officially paint the portrait of the Queen)

Amobi Okoye (Youngest American football player to play in the NFL)

Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna (1st black African to win a gold medal in an international games competition; winning gold in high jump at the 1954 Commonwealth games)

Chukwuemeka Ezeife (Harvard trained economist, former Economic adviser to the president of Uganda and former governor of Anambra state)

Sir Louis Mbanefo (Legal luminary Justice at the World court; ICJ)

Lieutenant-General Chikadibia Isaac Obiakor (appointed in 2008 by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon as Military Advisor on UN Peacekeeping Operations)

MCK Ajuluchukwu ( a nationalist, anti-colonial fighter and first republic law-maker)

Edwin Ume Ezeoke (former speaker of the Federal house of representative)

Well done !

[quote author=kozmicity post=59087114]Didn't you??
You see me write anythin like "East"...stop looking for loops in my write Ups with ur anus[/quot

Was there any place I mentioned port Harcourt been part of the South East, guy Focus!!!!

ELKHALIFAISIS:
then u don't have a point... so stop claiming u accommodate Igbo's in ur land, every single pieces of land owned by them is legally paid for , no body forced ur hungry ancestors to sold ur lands, u are free to acquire land in Enugu owerri and Anambra if you can afford the price tag

You are bitting more than you can chew.... Its better you jst keep quiet.

jonnytad:
You are bitting more than you can chew.... Its better you jst keep quiet.

I'm not biting anything, just go and exhume ur forefathers and ask them why they put u in this perpetual regret... I challenge u to come to Igbo land and buy a plot of land

ELKHALIFAISIS:
I'm not biting anything, just go and exhume ur forefathers and ask them why they put u in this perpetual regret... I challenge u to come to Igbo land and buy a plot of land

Hmmmmmm. .... I'll rather develop my land than going to another man's land. Am not as foolish as your kindred that has turned lagos to their own.

ELKHALIFAISIS:
I'm not biting anything, just go and exhume ur forefathers and ask them why they put u in this perpetual regret... I challenge u to come to Igbo land and buy a plot of land

Lolol Which kain badluck be this? Back to sender. Tufiakwa. Buy iboland for what? It's not even an investment. What is the profit? It's not even viable for agriculture.

kn23h:
Lolol Which kain badluck be this? Back to sender. Tufiakwa. Buy iboland for what? It's not even an investment. What is the profit? It's not even viable for agriculture.

then go back to ur undeveloped hinterland village and start ur farming Lagos is not meant for every tout

ELKHALIFAISIS:
then go back to ur undeveloped hinterland village and start ur farming Lagos is not meant for every tout

Which land are you talking about? I never left my land. I am content with my land. I can travel between Ibadan, Ogun, Lagos and still be successful.

Even Ibadan is more developed than Enugu

jonnytad:
Hmmmmmm. .... I'll rather develop my land than going to another man's land. Am not as foolish as your kindred that has turned lagos to their own.

and I challenge u again, apart from Lagos which we know it come about which other state in ur region u can use to compare the like of Enugu Anambra IMO in terms of development and standard of living... u don't have to blame the Igbo's, even if u take away what ever they have now, 10yrs is enuf for them to legally reacquire it back, just blame ur poor ancestors for putting u in this mess , and what is holding u in developing ur land do u have to wait for the Igbo's to leave their legal acquired properties so u can taste good life of living comfort... even in ur villages I knw how it looks very pitiable

kn23h:
Which land are you talking about? I never left my land. I am content with my land. I can travel between Ibadan, Ogun, Lagos and still be successful.

Even Ibadan is more developed than Enugu

do you mean this

Amberon11:
I have never seen an urhobo or any other ND who has inherent hatred for yorubas. Its these igbos who always spread propaganda making it seem like we hate yorubas but its not true.

Lol, I grew up in PH so I don't know most of those Wafi slangs, plus I'm a girl too

Thanks for confirming what I'd always known and said @ the bold.

What??!!! So you're a babe and a PH one for that matter? I could never have guessed. Cheers babe

ELKHALIFAISIS:
do you mean this

I meant this


Ibadanis more developed than Enugu.



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ELKHALIFAISIS:
and I challenge u again, apart from Lagos which we know it come about which other state in ur region u can use to compare the like of Enugu Anambra IMO in terms of development and standard of living... u don't have to blame the Igbo's, even if u take away what ever they have now, 10yrs is enuf for them to legally reacquire it back, just blame ur poor ancestors for putting u in this mess , and what is holding u in developing ur land do u have to wait for the Igbo's to leave their legal acquired properties so u can taste good life of living comfort... even in ur villages I knw how it looks very pitiable

Iboland is not fertile or viable for business or investors.

Why should I, a Yoruba businessman, move my business to the SE?

Ibadan is more developed than the SE. Trust me, I'm a developer


www.nairaland.com/attachments/5413699_image_jpeg_jpeg6f95b5e7a24ad4fc0808d6698fd37362

Ibadan Urban Planning


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kn23h:
I meant this


Ibadanis more developed than Enugu.



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https://i1.wp.com/nigeriana.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Ibad.jpg?w=1242

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and here is what

ELKHALIFAISIS:
and here is what

Tell me, which Ibo city competes with Ibadan. Give stats and facts. If it makes sense, I'll relocate my business to your red mud region

Ibadan city

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5703413_img20170516083834319_jpegcdacaf636e95c43681e6f29984e2f876

kn23h:
Tell me, which Ibo city competes with Ibadan. Give stats and facts. If it makes sense, I'll relocate my business to your red mud region

Ibadan city

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5703413_img20170516083834319_jpegcdacaf636e95c43681e6f29984e2f876

are those place not part of Ibadan... just answer my question and stop uploading random edited pictures

ELKHALIFAISIS:
are those place not part of Ibadan... just answer my question and stop uploading random edited pictures

Show me a part of Enugu that's as developed as Ibadan.

Ibadan looking sexy

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we are know every governor will like to beautify it capital city so it will look attractive, I can tell u none of the capital city in Nigeria look pitiable , I just want to see other local governments in Oyo, from there we can ascertain how beautiful and developed your towns are... stop posting randoy picture, apart from the few well secluded nice buildings which I knw is government complex or hotel plus nice roads , the rest is just brown roofs... can we just zoom closer to end this argument just upload where u live let's see how beautiful it looks

kn23h:
Iboland is not fertile or viable for business or investors.

Why should I, a Yoruba businessman, move my business to the SE?

because you are afraid to compete with the best , what makes u a successful man is the ability to go to unknown area and conquered as we do in Lagos and even in ur Ibadan , in ur town u must have some leverage, if that leverage is stripped from u as Awo did to Igbo's omo ppl in Somali will be sending relief materials to u