OyigboUpdate: This is the link to the Facebook page. As usual they'll deny. Maybe I created the 100s Facebook account and created the 8000 account to like just for this nairaland post that might not exceed 2-3 thousand views.
APCHaram: This VAT thing is not limited to collecting VAT on Alcohol.
When you recharge your phone, you pay VAT for that service.
Ask yourself, between Ab0ki north and the South who buys more airtime?
The VAT from sales of airtime will go to the states where the purchase is made.
Electricity Bills
There is a huge disparity between what DISCOs in the south charge and what goes on in the north. Enugu DISCO and Port-Harcourt DISCO are by far the most expensive. Whenever you buy electric units, you get charged the VAT cost. In the north, their rates are extremely low and most do not use pre-paid meters and the estimated billings they get is nothing compared to the crazy bills in the south. With this current VAT arrangement and sharing formula the north benefits more even though they are underbilled.
Govt Services The FG charges VAT on all paid services such as issuance of driver's license, passports, Clearing duties and what not. In Kano and virtually every where in the north, drivers' license and road permit compliance is next to zero but the useless Road Safety and VIO are not interested in ensuring the north comply but in the south, they are at every corner waiting to impound your car for any slight breach.
Oil and Gas
With this law in place, all oil vessels loading oil in the south will pay VAT taxes for every barrel of oil they lift. Wike should impose 25% VAT, plus Environmental tax of 15% on any oil tanker that lifts oil in Rivers. Shey una think say una smart with 3% PIB?
There are so many other ways this law can be applied in any legal transaction being carried out within a State, the VAT issue will apply.
So this is why the north is behaving like an earthworm that is covered in salt.
if you didn't post this nobody will know you're stupid and a simpleton , you'll always seize every opportunity to attack northerners, no wonder your region isnt growing due to corruption and illegal dealings.
Bolaji26: I am happy to report coordinated military operation against bandits in Zamfara and Kaduna forests. Tremendous success being recorded. Bandits begging government officials in Zamfara and Katsina for mercy and negotiation. But the time for that is gone. Government told them they can't be trusted.
atheistandproud: This article first appeared on inquisitive universe
This is one topic that has divided gamers for some time. Does Scripting in video games exist or not? A lot of people still do not believe that it exists while some others swear that it does. What is scripting in video games? Does it actually exist?
What is Scripting in video games?
Scripting can be defined as when the outcome of a game is predetermined and cannot be changed, no matter what the players do. If one is playing a game that is scripted, and the game has billed the person to win, no matter how badly the person plays, they are going to win. If the game has billed the individual to lose, no matter how well they play, they are going to lose.
Whether you agree or not, scripting in video games is a thing now. It is real. Companies may not admit it but they actually need scripting. The question now is “why”?
First off, they need to ATTRACT and KEEP NEW PLAYERS. If the skill gap between new and old players is too wide, the new players might lose a lot of games. Losing multiple games does have a bad effect on a player’s psyche and could cause new players to dump the game entirely. In order to avoid this, these companies write scripts into the game to help new players “win” and form a psychological attachment to the game.
Secondly, they need to KEEP OLDER PLAYERS HAPPY. If older players hit a rough patch of form and start losing a lot of games, such players may get angry and call it quits. To avoid this, the script intervenes and helps these players win and halt such bad form. This would lift the spirits of the players and encourage them to keep playing.
Thirdly, it is to keep the game from being too easy. The human psyche is always looking for a challenge and tends to get bored or lose interest if the endeavour/game is too easy. One of the reasons why I quit Dream League in 2019 was that it was just too easy. I was beating the AI 12-0 every game. To avoid this, if a player gets a very good run of form, winning a lot of games along the way, the script will intervene and cause him/her to lose a few games. This would cause the player to want to try harder and get more interested in the game.
Scripting wants to make the game more “equal” in a way.
How does Scripting work in football games (PES/FIFA)
One of the ways that scripting works is that it increases an opponent abilities regardless of the types of players they are using, while it weakens your own players or vice versa. This would cause one side to coast through the game easily whilst the other side is struggling.
This lopsided handicapping can last the entire game but this is not alway true. Sometimes the script could favour player one in the first half and then favour player two in the second half. There is also something known as a kickoff boost, when the player kicking off is presented with easy scoring opportunities.
There is also the momentum system or Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment where the game gets progressively harder as you keep winning. The more you win, the harder it gets. This would continue till the game forces the player to lose. The system only resets after the player loses and picks up again.
Why is Scripting in Video games bad? Video games, especially when competitive or sporting, is supposed to be fair. Scripting is not fair competition.
Scripting makes a nonsense of the skill gap. Imagine practicing and playing a game just to be good at it only to be beaten unfairly by a novice? You attack an opponent from the start of the game to the end but their silver ball goalkeeper is Prime Oliver Kahn or worse, Lev Yashin. They get one corner and your keeper throws it into your own net and he wins.
Your players misplace every single pass. The strikers fall over when presented with an open goal, play shots straight at the keeper or just inexplicably miss. Your players are so damn slow and refuse to tackle and your keeper might as well not have even bothered to turn up.
Sometimes you just go into games hoping that the odds are in your favour.
Scripting also makes the player system worthless. What is the point of spending millions of in-game currency, buying players like Mbappe, Messi, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Rashford, Neymar etc. only to lose against a silver ball team?
This system of scripting tends to confuse players as players no longer know their true levels of performance or ability. Sometimes, there are matches that you ought to win based on the skill gap or your match performance. Yet you would lose those matches and then win the ones that you have no right to win. There are games where I have come away with a bad feeling that I did not deserve to lose or could not celebrate victories that felt hollow because I did not deserve to win.
Is Scripting ever going away? The answer to this question is no. Why?
The companies love it. This way they can attract new players and keep them happy without losing their older players. This helps them to increase their fan/player base and thus increase their potential revenue.
Players also love scripting too without knowing it. The gaming community is ultra-competitive and most players think that they are very good. The truth is everyone has been favoured by the script at one point or the other. But for a lot of people, to admit that there is scripting, means an admission that some of them are not as good as they think they are. This is especially true for new gamers. This is why many will fight the idea that they were probably given a leg up by the system.
If the gaming community cannot stand together and call for an end to scripting, it is going to be here for a very long time.
Just yesterday at Abiak-okpo Nkap, disaster was averted as village heads from NtoEdino ward4 almost came in collusion against each other as a result of another promise to build
If there is one political mistake that the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, HE, Senator (Dr) Godswil Akpabio has made that has taken the people of Akwa Ibom North Senatorial District backward, it is the mistake of decamping to the All Progressive Congress (APC) without adequate consultation and the awareness that would have carried his teaming supporters along. That singular mistake not only cost the former governor his seat at the Red Chamber, it also turned back the hand of the clock, eroded every progress recorded over the years, and brought back to the people the lack of development experience of the past from former deputy Governor, and the Senator representing Ikot Ekpene Senatorial district, HE, Engr. (Dr) Chris Ekpeyong, who has been the leading political figure in the region.
Senator Ekpeyong, also known as (Ukarakpa) has a reputation for cheating his people and denying them development. The people of Obot Akara LGA, his ward, Nto-Edino Ward4, and the entire senatorial district has suffered a lack of development for over four decades that this man has held sway as the leading political figure which the people had thought was over and gone for good. But the failure of Akpabio to retain his representation, which the people loved and accepted, gave way to this man to return with the same old story of cheating, denial, and lack of development.
There are fresh tales among people of forceful confiscating and criminal conversion of people’s land in the name of citing one developmental project or the other, substandard and shady execution of road constructions, and other projects, and lots more. Fresh in our minds that we can readily pinpoint are the Mbot Ekpa Enang road construction, the promised building of Aditagha market, the confiscating of people’s land with the deceitful promise to established rice farm/mill, which has been converted to personal ownership, Old firing road, etc.
Just yesterday at Abiak-okpo Nkap, disaster was averted, as village heads from NtoEdino ward4 almost came in collusion against each other as a result of another promised to build the same Aditagha market, which once upon a time, the Senator, when he was the deputy Governor had made women from the surrounding communities to parked and carried sands for months, with the hope that the promised to build the market was real, only for some relations of the Senator to cart away the blocks to built their houses with it. There is also the Apostolic Church at the Senator’s hometown junction of Ikot Ukana that was demolished at the order of the Senator over two years ago when the Senator promised to give the worshipers a befitting edifice, as he made plans to bury his late wife. On till today, worshipers have no place to worship, talk less the promised befitted edifice. The tales of imposing people from the Councilorship level, to the Chairmanship, and other political positions are all the trademarks of his operational mantra that has denied his people effective representation and development.
With all these atrocities against a people in this era of information and social justice, one wonders whether some political office holders in Nigeria have a conscience and emotional intelligence at all!
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how come you didn't blame buhari in these writings??
Tomahawk99: I'm crying for a slow potential herdsmen victim like you whose brain is too small to unserstand he is also a potential victim of the insecurity in the country.
Tomahawk99: Now tell us how Buhari broke the jinx of security in Nigeria by turning the country to one of the most dangerous in the world. Banza femi adesina.
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