₦airaland Forum

Sanchez01:
HOW MANY STATES IN THE UNITED STATES BOASTS OF RESOURCES AS TEXAS?

In place of resources, tax and charges work, which is what the states in the United States do. Would it kill you to read a bit before coming back to defend this?

Pray, tell the 'many more' ways states in the United States generate revenue besides oil in the United States. How many states are tourist attractions to begin with?

How would you advise a state like Enugu to generate money when over 50% of its residents are civil servants?

How do you make a state like Ebonyi economically viable when it is nothing but a rural area with good road networks?

What means would you adopt, given the chance, to make a state such as Abia state self sufficient?

I was thinking you'd proffer a more strategic solution but I thought wrong...

Meanwhile, it wouldn't hurt to research how states in the United States generate revenues to become self sufficient.

While you're at it, note that states with active resources in Nigeria are the only ones that can survive resource control. The states I mentioned above, despite receiving free oil money monthly haven't been able to get it right, let alone when they are charged to look inward and generate their own revenues.

Necessity they say is the mother of invention. Try this and see how these States will survive.

comodo:
Necessity they say is the mother of invention. Try this and see how these States will survive.

True... But not with Nigerian politicians. They are too lazy to think out of the box. The mere thought of resource control would have state governors without a pin in their soil wail and accuse the world of genocide.

jahsharon:
Goatluck Jonathan announced and commissioned the 2nd Niger Bridge on the drawing board and you Igbos sewed Aso-Ebi and threw a big party with millions of naira. Several years after, you are still begging your enemy Buhari for the same bridge.

I hope you know the person you are quoting wasn’t referring to any individual in particular?
S/He said “government” but your hate filled self had to drag someone and an entire region to your idiocy.

Sanchez01:
True... But not with Nigerian politicians. They are too lazy to think out of the box. The mere thought of resource control would have state governors without a pin in their soil wail and accuse the world of genocide.

Are you supporting laziness?
My state doesn’t have much either but I believe *if* resource control is granted to states, everybody will sit-up

cenaboy:
FG should rather turn Gold mining in Zamfara and other northern state to produce for the nation .

let them leave our resources to us

Even this one,na dangote,na him dem go still give , to help his monopoly

Salatavor:
Are they adding to it. What sort of headline is this?

Talk about adding salt to injury!

tiwiex:
I partly agree with you but something is wrong with this system we running. So Ebonyi has salt but can't do anything about it until FG says so? Same with many states with natural resources. The structure we dey use na chancing my broda. It makes no sense Ebonyi and it's people couldn't decide to gather the resources for this and tap into it independently.

We need to review our economic system. This ostrich we are playing will not help us in the long run.

Spot on! Post of the day!

You're even being gentle and diplomatic about the whole issue! Nigeria as presently constituted is nothing but a bloody scam and its present structure and political-economy will not be changed anytime soon b'cos some are comfortable with things as they are since they can use it to benefit from other peoples resources and equally hold them down!

Sanchez01:
But you don't have an issue with your state collecting the sweats and blood of the South South? Slow poke.

Have you asked him his position on true fiscal federalism or dissolution of the entity called Nigeria before accusing him of eyeing south-south oyel? Besides, how are you sure he's not from a hydrocarbon-rich area himself?

Salatavor:
Are they adding to it. What sort of headline is this?

You took the words right out of my keyboard.

Is this not something the state government can do for igr. Or d state govt can license a private firm for it. That way they are above 50% in control of the state resource?

Salatavor:
Are they adding to it. What sort of headline is this?

thank u ooo. was wondering if anyone was wondering same.

[quote author=NwekeUG post=84505718]IgbereTV reports that the Federal Government has concluded plans to develop and turn the large salt deposits in Ebonyi State into commercial quantity.

This news was shared by the Personal Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on New Media, Bashir Ahmad.

Bashir Ahmad wrote on Twitter:

The Federal Government has concluded plans to develop and turn the large salt deposits in Ebonyi State into commercial quantity, the minsiter of state, mines and steel development, Dr Uchechukwu Ogah discloses the plan in Abakaliki.

https://twitter.com/BashirAhmaad/status/1200820093070053376?s=19


http://igberetvnews.com/1172590/fg-turn-large-deposit-salt-ebonyi-state-commercial-quantity/[/quote

Stories all the time

[quote author=ukeaobiri post=84526712][/quote]Stories

Oh

rexwalters:
Hate will send you to an early grave, Mumu Wailer, instead of seeking on how to take advantage, you choose to nag?

1960 - 2019. Don't kill your self believing in Nigerian govt.

Sanchez01:
HOW MANY STATES IN THE UNITED STATES BOASTS OF RESOURCES AS TEXAS?

In place of resources, tax and charges work, which is what the states in the United States do. Would it kill you to read a bit before coming back to defend this?

Pray, tell the 'many more' ways states in the United States generate revenue besides oil in the United States. How many states are tourist attractions to begin with?

How would you advise a state like Enugu to generate money when over 50% of its residents are civil servants?

How do you make a state like Ebonyi economically viable when it is nothing but a rural area with good road networks?

What means would you adopt, given the chance, to make a state such as Abia state self sufficient?

I was thinking you'd proffer a more strategic solution but I thought wrong...

Meanwhile, it wouldn't hurt to research how states in the United States generate revenues to become self sufficient.

While you're at it, note that states with active resources in Nigeria are the only ones that can survive resource control. The states I mentioned above, despite receiving free oil money monthly haven't been able to get it right, let alone when they are charged to look inward and generate their own revenues.

So they should be MERGED.

ibietela2:
So they should be MERGED.

Almost every state broke out from another. In the event that some are not self sufficient, the possibility of returning 'back to the origin' might just play out. But then, the idea of a merger is just as difficult as the call for resource control in itself because it would mean one governor might be knocked off to allow one continue.

Plus, do a little Google search and find out the people, governors and ethnic groups that have been calling for resource control over time. They are those with sizeable amount of natural deposits in their land.

Sanchez01:
Almost every state broke out from another. In the event that some are not self sufficient, the possibility of returning 'back to the origin' might just play out. But then, the idea of a merger is just as difficult as the call for resource control in itself because it would mean one governor might be knocked off to allow one continue.

Plus, do a little Google search and find out the people, governors and ethnic groups that have been calling for resource control over time. They are those with sizeable amount of natural deposits in their land.

Then they should look for a way to generate revenue for themselves.

Almost every state is blessed with resources or man power, you are only focused on NATURAL RESOURCES of each state.

Mr Googler