₦airaland Forum

Brendaniel:
Once I see that line, you guys don't fail to repeat it when there is no evidence to your claim...

You said you know something and you can't prove that what you know exists, then you want me to find the proof for you, are you really normal?

owobokiri:
Revisionists are back in full force..
APC and their vile propaganda

Brendaniel:
And you can't still show me where in the tax law to back up your claim...

mrvitalis:
Am I ironsi? Lmao this primitive thinking

Brendaniel:
Where in the tax law is it written that the tax will be accrued to where the consumption of goods and services are consumed and not based on the head quarters?

Brendaniel:
Because of 2 major reasons

1. The Method - it has to do with only VAT, Lagos enjoys VAT's from all the 36 states of the federation including FCT based on head quarters of most companies, imagine all the MTN cards in Nigeria bought and all the VAT's goes to Lagos, so Lagos now gets 55 % of all that VAT.

2. It is selective - Imagine because Lagos has that advantage of having most head quarters, Tinubu decides to make a different sharing formula, while oil producing states are still using the old formula, even you add the 13% derivative, it is no where near 55%


Does this look fair? Why not do the same for states with their natural resources to take 55% ?

mrvitalis:
I didn't create it, I and people like me complain because the present system is not working

And those in power should strive to change the system

nedu666:
Ya brother is president let him change the law. Moreover the sharing formula you posted relates only to vat. Not other revenues.

mrvitalis:
Your brother is president rewrite the mistake of an Igbo man

Godfullsam:
This is very good step in the right direction if true. I have not taken time to grow through this new tax law stuff.

This will keep all governors on their toes and greatly reduce corruption at the center. Why are people criticising it

mrvitalis:
A federation where money come from the center is strange

Following several heated debates and controversies surrounding revenue sharing between the Federal Government and the federating units.

On Nov 23, 1979, President Shehu Shagari set up the presidential commission on revenue allocation headed by Dr Pius Okigbo, an economist and educator from Ojoto, Anambra.

The FG, 19 states and LGs submitted their memo to the Commission on how revenues should be allocated.

FG wanted 70% for itself, 20% for states and 10% for LGs whereas the states wanted FG to have between 28% - 50% and the rest for themselves.

In June 1980, the commission submitted its report to the Government recommending,
53% to FG,
30% to states,
10% to LGs and
7% for special fund.

The commission hinged its recommendation on the following principles:
1. Derivation - states which generate resources within their borders receive more money.

2. Population, Land mass - states with more population and bigger land mass receive more money. It's believed that the more the population, the higher the demands for goods and services.

3. Equality - A portion is equally shared among all the states.

A revised sharing formula followed in 1999 soon as President Obasanjo assumed power. Since then, successive Governments have retained the sharing formula.

Obasanjo gave FG - 52.68%,
States - 26.72%
LGs - 20.60%,
Special fund - 1%,
while implementing the 13% derivation to oil producing states to help cushion the effects of oil exploration and support development in the host communities ( constitutionally should go directly to the LGs of the affected communities but unfortunately the Governors have hijacked the funds)

aswani:
I believe her ancestry is same as Bianca, part Ndigbo part Lebanese

aswani:
Ah ah, oga that is too much nau, haba.

See wetin Obidients cause now, poor boy us bring dragged into it all.

Irony is Ṣeyi's wife is Ndigbo so Lagos state might have an Ndigbo first lady if he does contest and win.

Also if his son or daughter contests and sins, Lagos state will have a governor with an Ndigbo mum, hope Chinedu Gbadebo is alive to witness it.

Great family pictures by the way.

anonimi:
You must be too young to even read for you to vomit this propaganda garbage.

Regional resource control ended in 1966 with Ironsi’s Unification Decree 34.

The Allocation of Revenue (Federation Account, etc.) Act, was enacted in 1982 a year before UPN progressive governments were replaced with military dictators led by Buhari.

Lagos State portion of the shared 27% among 36 states, was never seized. Only the LGA allocation, which is 20% shared among 774 local governments that was seized because Tinubu and his AG Osinbajo laboured in vain to smuggle new LGAs into the 1999 constitution.

Do you even have a container to receive sense

Nigeria’s challenge to FIFA over the eligibility of several Democratic Republic of Congo players in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers is “very tight” and firmly grounded in the rules of the game, according to National Sports Commission (NSC) chairman Shehu Dikko.

Speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Friday, Dikko addressed growing public debate surrounding FIFA’s scrutiny of DR Congo following allegations that the Central African nation fielded players who were not fully eligible during the recent playoff matches against Nigeria.

His comments come at a sensitive moment for Nigerian football, with the Super Eagles having already suffered playoff elimination and now facing the prospect of missing consecutive FIFA World Cups for the first time since 1990.

Nigeria’s case and the roots of suspicion

Dikko was emphatic that Nigeria’s decision to approach FIFA was not driven by bitterness over defeat to DR Congo , but by concerns that predated the playoff loss.

According to him, Nigerian football authorities began monitoring DR Congo’s squad well before the November qualifiers after irregularities were noticed when the Congolese announced their playoff squad on November 1, nearly two weeks before the decisive fixtures on November 13.

Dikko explained, “So, when we saw the squad that was put in place for the playoffs, the squad was named on November 1 and the playoffs were on November 13, we looked at the squad of our opponents. We found out from the beginning that even the Congolese had already named players of other nationalities who had not been cleared by FIFA in their squad. That was an alarm, so everybody started monitoring, even though the players were not being played.

“This issue did not start because we lost the playoffs. We had been watching what they were doing, and then we found out a day before the qualifiers that they were getting clearances so that the players were qualified to play.”

Dikko questioned how players who were not cleared at the time of squad announcement could legally become eligible just a day before competitive fixtures.

“But if you look back, what gave them the confidence to name a player of another nationality in their squad to play a match two weeks later, when he wasn’t qualified to play for them until the day before the match they received permission? That raised alarm for us after the qualifiers,” he said.



Legal review, FIFA complaint and ‘not being sore losers

The NSC chairman revealed that following the playoff defeat, Nigeria sought the opinion of legal and international law experts, whose findings raised concerns about how the clearances were obtained.

Drawing parallels with a previous FIFA ruling that saw South Africa docked three points for fielding an ineligible player, Dikko stressed that FIFA’s regulations on nationality and eligibility are uncompromising.

“It is the responsibility of a federation to ensure passports are issued in line with the law. You cannot just issue a passport to someone and change his nationality. If the passport is not issued according to the law of that country, it affects everything,” Dikko said.

Nigeria has since lodged a formal complaint with FIFA, and the matter is now under review.

While acknowledging the disappointment of defeat, Dikko dismissed claims that Nigeria is attempting to overturn results through sentiment rather than law.

“Yes, we lost. Unfortunately, everybody was angry about it. We are not sore losers, but it’s part of the rules. We bring in our legal team, we bring in our international lawyers. We look at the legal opinion, we look at the laws, and we found out there is some suspicion that some things have not been done right according to the laws of the game.

“There are probably, from what we found out, misrepresentations to FIFA to obtain those clearances,” he added.

Having already missed the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, the Super Eagles now face the grim prospect of failing to qualify for back-to-back tournaments.

SEGLIZ:
I never new the Nigerian Army has become a business venture!? Kudos to them at the least if they can't curb crime and insurgency they are profitable in business.

you mean it is one of there duties to produce bottle water, bottle water turned amenities. government is meant to provide all these amenities and the soldiers concentrate on combat duties.

I doubt the top echelon in the advanced countries you mentioned will have time to produce bottle or go building houses as area of concentration.

The Army Chief said the expansion of the scheme to Ibadan, Benin, Jos, Akwa Ibom, and other locations was informed by the successes of the pilot phase in Idu, Abuja, which, he said, delivered over 400 housing units.

anonimi:
Why should God bless an evil person who raised IGR and budget 100 times from increasing tax burden on Lagosians without building low cost housing for them, like Jakande did in just four years before Buhari jailed him for corruption

What government services, utilities, facilities maintenance etc in the past 26 years of Tinubu TAX monster plan can match what progressive UPN govern did without squeezing out IGR from the public?


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SEGLIZ:
I never new the Nigerian Army has become a business venture!? Kudos to them at the least if they can't curb crime and insurgency they are profitable in business.

mightyhazel:
See as seyi wife and kids fine and fair

Tinubu just dey admire the kids..this lady epp their gene pool sha

tosyne2much:
I didn't watch the match but why are people saying the match was probably scripted?

Jakumo:
Few spectacles are more pleasing to watch than arrogant, overconfident people discovering that reality is far different from their imaginary world in which they are undisputed king of the universe.

Jake Paul can now humble himself, and learn how to speak again with his broken jaw. He can go back to the profession for which he is truly qualified, which is that of a YouTube content creator and slapstick comedian.

Good job done with alacrity by Tony Joshua. Very amusing to see that Jake Paul thought he was King Kong because he defeated Iron Mike Tyson on points at a time when Iron Mike had long retired from boxing and is in his late fifties.

CSTRR:
If you can prove that obi is corrupt, please jail him.

Unfortunately for you, even the apc cannot prove it, let alone you.