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PoliticsRe: I Was Moved To Tears Last Time Saraki, Ekweremadu Went To Court – Wabara by Samtob90(m): 4:11pm On Jul 20, 2016
kikake:
Who forged what? National Assembly changed from open to closed ballot system to elect its officers. How does that amount to forgery?

INEC changed its formula and introduced Card Readers and other alterations to the election process, and thrice rejected Buhari profited from the INEC alterations.

Who will charge Jega and INEC officials for forgery?
Thank you for bring these facts to nail yourself.

Change from open to close by who and where? Read the guideline of changing rule in the assembly.

For Jega, he did not write it in his house, it was taken to the floor of that chamber, debated on and ratified, so where did your crook brothers effect the change?
PoliticsRe: I Was Moved To Tears Last Time Saraki, Ekweremadu Went To Court – Wabara by Samtob90(m): 4:06pm On Jul 20, 2016
neocortex:
A rational mind would know that it is the courts that
determine cases not individuals.
Has d case not been taken to court? Why crying foul when the case is already in court?
PoliticsRe: Lagos State Insists It Has Oil, Releases Pictures by Samtob90(m): 12:31pm On Jul 20, 2016
tempest01:
There is no oil in almost every state, stop saying what you don't know.

Petroleum forms from a source rock with favourable conditions and migrates till it reaches a reservoir, then collects at the reservoir.

And it doesn't dry! Instead of drying, if the temperature is too much over millions of years, gas is formed.


Don't make facts on subject matters you know nothing of.
Professor, don't teach us nonsense, the first oil well in oloibiri has dried and had been abandoned. Is it only niger delta region that has oil?
Research, oil has been discovered in nigeria side of river basin in commercial qty and other parts of south that you hate hearing
PoliticsRe: I Was Moved To Tears Last Time Saraki, Ekweremadu Went To Court – Wabara by Samtob90(m): 12:25pm On Jul 20, 2016
My challenge with you is that you have failed to address the issue of whether the forgery was committed and whether it is legal to forge and call it internal affairs.
You need to let us understand whether forgery is no longer criminal.
PoliticsRe: Yorubas Do You Regret Voting For Buhari?? by Samtob90(m): 7:52am On Jul 18, 2016
Elchappo:
They will certainly say NO but ask any of them to Borrow u 10k and see what they will say about the economy..
Who will borrow you corrupt element money?
PoliticsRe: What Borno Man Saw In Remi Tinubu Four Days Ago By Isa Gusau by Samtob90(m): 6:52pm On Jul 16, 2016
mazichika:
Pure damage control effort.

Why did she call a man dog and thug?
That's the question we want an answer for.

Op, she might be doing that because of the kind of dignitaries that came to her house. simple.
When you see a "doglike"man, you call him so and he proof it by saying he will sleep with someone on the floor
PoliticsRe: What Borno Man Saw In Remi Tinubu Four Days Ago By Isa Gusau by Samtob90(m): 6:49pm On Jul 16, 2016
OZAOEKPE:
How this one take stop DINO MELAYE(ROLE MODEL OF THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS) from raping herhuh?
Why is people with bad characters always your role model! Something is wrong with you people. FFK said she had romantic with Bianca, you make hin your role model, Dino Melaye said he will impregnate Sen Remi Tinubu on the floor of senate but said he prefer Stella Odua, you make him role model, Fayose sent thug to beat judge, Metu said he collected money but won't return it, you make them your role model.

I am very sure the area has moral problem
PoliticsRe: Usani Uguru Reveals Sponsors Of Niger Delta Avengers by Samtob90(m): 11:23pm On Jul 15, 2016
What an objective analysis!! History will remember you for saying the truth.
PoliticsRe: Edo APC Is Offering #5000 Each Against Tomorrow Campaign Rally In Benin by Samtob90(m): 8:04pm On Jul 15, 2016
Source. You people have started hate campaign like you did under GEJ
PoliticsRe: Interesting Write Up By Reuben Abati Over Melaye’s Assault by Samtob90(m): 8:01pm On Jul 15, 2016
Good write up and the true picture of nigeria situation. Don't dinomelayeing my wife pls
PoliticsRe: CNN: "Nigeria Will Look Like This In 2050" - Nigerians React by Samtob90(m): 3:33pm On Jul 15, 2016
Olu20090:
You are right...they are the problem of Nigeria. Causing trouble left and right, up and down. In fact they live online; gossiping from morning to night...not surprised as 70% of these younger yoruba men are fatherless; raised by mothers only, and usually exhibit similar feminine traits because they have no father figures in their lives. Like the one that attacked Abacha's daughter the other day, then turnaround and apologized...sick indeed. I told my friend before I open that thread that the guy that attacked Abacha's daughter must be a yoruba, he said no way...how do I know? I said open the thread and see. He was shocked that I was right. I told him; that's how they behave.
Frustrated region, so shall you remain for life. Our next plan is how to enslave you all
PoliticsRe: CNN: "Nigeria Will Look Like This In 2050" - Nigerians React by Samtob90(m): 3:29pm On Jul 15, 2016
saiNDAvengers:
Yorubas and their lousy swear words

Always disgracing the rest of Nigerians.
Imagine taking their NL psyche to the international media like CNN
Are you okay? Go to school, you prefer running to buses in the traffic
PoliticsRe: Buhari Deploys 1000 Soldiers Againts Cattle Rustlers by Samtob90(m): 7:59pm On Jul 14, 2016
ConqueredWest:
A typical AFONJA. So it is right to deploy soldiers against cattle rustlers after the minister for interior said soldiers won't be deployed against armed herdsmen.

Your Afonjaism is without redemption
He said soldiers are only deployed when the power of police can no longer withstand the crises . Stop spreading half information.
PoliticsRe: Profiles Of Corruption Scandals In Buhari’s New Government by Samtob90(m): 7:54pm On Jul 14, 2016
I pray to God to deliver this frustrated regions from all these nightmare
PoliticsRe: 7 Important Things President Buhari Said Yesterday At Army Day Celebration by Samtob90(m): 12:28pm On Jul 14, 2016
IamPatriotic:
He could visit Zamfara, Daura,Kano, Kaduna or Maiduguri, and appointment only people from the aforementioned places to his cabinet, but he couldn't visit Lagos or River or any part of the southern part of the country and you call the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, heshould continue setting bad precedents, I just hope Osibanjo is keeping records of the atrocities, because Huasa/Fulani shall be paid back in their coin when the pendulum swings.
Do you have a special interest in his visit? How many times have you visited aso rock? You have the right to visit him tooo
PoliticsRe: Why Do Ibos Hate Tinubu by Samtob90(m): 12:17pm On Jul 14, 2016
Go through the statistic of men that battered or killed their wives, they constitute 80%. So it is their culture.
Don't quote me until you get the statistics.
Also, since Tinubu was behind how their god/mesiah was sent from aso rock, their have never known peace and as such hate the man
EducationThe Truth Behind The Crises In OAU by Samtob90(op): 10:59am On Jul 14, 2016
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, is in deep crisis. Right now the University has no Governing Council, no Vice Chancellor – substantive or acting – and, at least, no active Deputy Vice – Chancellor. Only the registrar still retains his position but he, too, dare not come near his office. This is because members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) have laid siege on the University administrative building. They have been doing so since June 7, the day after the Governing Council, following a meeting held at a secret location in Abuja, announced Professor Ayobami Salami as Vice Chancellor elect for the University. On Thursday June 23, and in an apparent attempt at averting tragic confrontations, the registrar announced the closure of the University, asking students to immediately vacate their halls of residence. He never indicated any date when they could return to resume their studies.
The crisis has its roots in the process of appointment of a new Vice Chancellor for the University. Advertisement for the position which was to become vacant on June 23 was put out in two national tabloids in December, 2015. Applications soon began to come in, and, by January 26, 2016 being the deadline set for submission of formal expression of interets, eleven (11) candidates had formally applied for the job. The search team subsequently constituted to seek out other suitable individuals who, for one reason or the other, failed to send in applications returned on March 8 to report that out of thirty eight (38) people searched, only three indicated interest but that none of them applied for the job in the end.
The day the Governing Council took the report of the search team was March 8, and it was that same day that it decided to shortlist the applications. It was during that exercise that the body took its first wrong steps: against worldwide practice where the shortlisting process is considered as a preliminary procedure where all candidates who make the list look forward to the day of the interview with equal hopes, the Governing Council took the opportunity of the exercise to give rankings to the candidates, with one of them scoring, in fact 100%. By carrying out detailed assessment of the dossier of the candidates, the Governing Council usurped the role of the Joint Council and Senate Selection Board which section 3.3 of the “Universities Miscellaneous Provisions Amendment Act, 2009” vested with the power of considering “the candidates and persons on the shortlist drawn up under subsection (2) of this section through an examination of their curriculum vitae and interaction with them…” (emphasis mine). Furthermore, out of the eleven candidates, only six made the shortlist. Four of them were from Obafemi Awolowo University while the other two were from the Federal University of Technology, Akure. The five candidates who did not make the shortlist were all from Ife. What makes this particularly curious is the fact that two of the candidates whose applications were considered to be fit only for the trash bin made the final list in the 2011 exercise which produced the outgoing Vice Chancellor. Since the criteria contained in the advertisement for the position were exactly the same as those of the immediately preceding one, people naturally started asking questions on how the Governing Council arrived at the shortlist. Not a few people felt that by shortlisting less than fifty percent (50%) of the applicants who applied from OAU, the Governing Council seemed to be putting a big question mark on the quality of professors produced by the institution. This is especially more so since it shortlisted the two candidates who applied from FUTA, making it hundred percent (100%) for that institution. Finally, since one of the criteria set down in the advertisement insisted that candidates applying for the position must “enjoy excellent physical and mental health”, people find it difficult to understand while Council decided to include in the final list the name of one of the two candidates from FUTA who clearly has health challenges, having just been stricken with stroke.
But members of two non-teaching staff unions on campus, namely the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff union of Universities did more than just raise questions. They simply headed for the court. While, however, their counsels were still struggling to perfect their papers in Federal High Court, Akure, the Joint Council and Senate Selection Board sent notices to the shortlisted candidates, informing them that the interaction would hold on April 7. In reaction. members of the two unions took a decision to literally blockade the entrances to the venue of the interaction, thus preventing the candidates from getting in, and members of the interaction panel from getting out. It in fact took the intervention of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi before the unions could agree to relax the blockade. By this time, they had already succeeded in serving the University with the court processes. Having received the papers, the University responded by filing a notice of preliminary objections, in which it declared that the court had no jurisdiction to entertain the matter. The court fixed Tuesday June 7 for the hearing of the preliminary issues. This having been done, the belief of the members of the community was that the Governing Council would suspend the selection process until the court case had been dispensed with. Not so, surprisingly.
On Wednesday June 1, the Registrar and Secretary to Council, in flagrant display of an attitude of utter contempt for the court of law, sent sms messages to the shortlisted candidates informing them that the interaction which had earlier on been suspended would soon be re-visited. They were told to get themselves ready for it. Two days later, and precisely on Friday June 5, the candidates were sent letters by the same officer, informing them that the interaction would now take place on Monday June 6 in Abuja, FCT. The venue and time of the interview were not indicated in the letter. Rather, the candidates were simply asked to report at the liason office of the Obafemi Awolowo University in Abuja on the evening of the preceding day, where they would be informed of the time and venue of the interaction. On receiving the letters, three of the four internal candidates on the shortlist immediately wrote back to the Selection Board, informing it that due to the subsisting court case, they would not be able to present themselves for the interview. They also gave as added reason the fact that the invitation issued to them contained no information as regards the venue and time of the interview,
The Joint Council and Senate Selection Board simply brushed aside the letters and went ahead with the interaction. The three internal candidates who had earlier written back to the Board boycotted it. Only Professor Ayobami Salami, the candidate who had earlier been awarded the maximum marks of 100% presented himself for the interaction. One of the other two candidates from FUTA was also physically present. The second who as I said earlier was down with stroke was interacted with on phone. At the end of the interaction, Salami was ranked as number one, predictably, while the two candidates from FUTA were placed in the second and third positions respectively. In other words, even the man who currently suffers from a debilitating stroke was recommended as appointable. The Board had to do this, apparently, in order to make sure it meets the demand of the provision of section four of the Universities Miscellaneous (Amendment) Act which insists that three names must be recommended to the Governing Council out of which it will then select and appoint one as Vice Chancellor. It was on the same day – Monday, June 6 – that the Selection Board interacted with the three candidates that they wrote their report and submitted it to the Governing Council; and it was on this same day that Council met to consider the report. It was, finally, on the same day that it announced Salami as the new Vice-Chancellor. All this from an undisclosed location in Abuja,
Hell was let loose on campus when the news came through the following day. As leaders of SSANU and NASU headed for the Federal High Court in Osogbo to report what the Governing Council had done, other members trooped out in protest and eventually converged in front of the administrative building. They resolved to lay siege on the building from then onwards, vowing never to allow Salami to step into the office of the Vice Chancellor. Fortunately, Tale Omole, then the incumbent Vice Chancellor had not yet arrived in the office as at that time. Having received briefing on the situation, he wisely decided to stay away. Until his tenure expired on June 23, Professor Omole never tried to come near the office of the Vice-Chancellor again. Actually on that Thursday June 23, SSANU and NASU members brought a mock coffin to the campus. The “coffin” had “RIP TALE OMOLE” boldly inscribed on it. First, they marched round the campus with the “coffin,” before finally taking it to the University gate where they set it on fire. Afterwards, they returned to the front of the administrative building, fried akara balls and shared them out among themselves. As far as they were concerned, they had carried out the funerals of the former Vice Chancellor.
Salami did not try to come to the office the following day, June 24, when his tenure was supposed commence. What he did, instead, was to send a message to the University community, announcing himself as the new Vice Chancellor, expressing willingness to negotiate for peace. But members of the two unions simply ignored him. They carried on with their action, daring the man to try to come near the office of the Vice Chancellor. On Thursday June 30, ASUU branch of the Obafemi Awolowo University finally held a congress. Earlier, and precisely on June 13, and without calling a congress, its chairman had issued a statement which he described as the “Official Position (of ASUU) on the Appointment of a Vice Chancellor” to the press. The statement had absolved the Governing Council of any wrong doing, stating clearly that the body had observed due process in the course of the appointment. Among other such issues, the statement maintained complete silence on the fact that the Governing Council had acted in contempt of court in the final stage of the process. It refused to raise questions on how it happened that some of those who made the shortlist in 2011 failed to do so in the latest exercise, even when the advertised criteria remained the same. It refused to see anything wrong in scoring candidates at the level of shortlisting. And it saw nothing wrong in including somebody who has serious health challenges on the final list, much against one of the conditions included in the advertisement. ASUU congress of June 30 was tense. There, members of the union made it clear that the statement sent out by the chairman does not represent their position on the appointment process and insisted that it should be repudiated. That same evening, the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu came on air to announce the dissolution of the Governing Council of the University, along with that of the University of Port Harcourt. The Minister also ordered the suspension of the process of appointment of a substantive Vice Chancellor for the University until after the case in court must have been decided.
The announcement was greeted with wild jubilation on campus. SSANU and NASU members who had spent several days at the barricade felt vindicated and they went round the campus dancing in jubilation. ASUU members who, just a few hours before the announcement, had forced their chairman to retract a statement which he claimed to have issued on their behalf also rejoiced. The next thing was to wait for the next announcement from government, which was expected to provide direction on how the leadership of the University would be reconstituted.
Today, close to two weeks after the Minister had made the announcement on the dissolution of the Governing Council and the suspension of the selection process, the University has continued to exist in limbo. No new Council has been put in place. There is nobody functioning in the capacity of a Vice Chancellor. Senate cannot sit because there is nobody that has the power to call the meeting or act as chairman. Because there is no Senate to take the decision, students cannot be called back to campus to resume their studies. June salaries have not been paid because there is nobody to instruct the bursar to do so. Everything, in short, is at a standstill.
But just why should a simple process of selecting a new Vice Chancellor precipitate so much crisis and give birth to the kind of rancor that we are currently witnessing in Obafemi Awolowo University? Going by its conduct in this exercise, it seems to me that the Governing Council has, along the line, compromised itself. This being so, it has found it impossible to handle the whole process with an attitude of impartiality and objectivity it required. Consequently, the men and women in that body have ended up letting themselves and the entire community down. The lesson to take away from this lies, as I see it, in the need to maintain an attitude of honesty and retain a sense of history whenever we find ourselves in positions of responsibility. Any attempt to circumvent this can only result in chaos and anarchy as is currently being witnessed in Obafemi Awolowo University

Posted by on July 14, 2016, 9:21 am. Filed under Body Conf
PoliticsRe: Era Of Free, Easy Money Is Gone For Good – Buhari by Samtob90(m): 7:26am On Jul 14, 2016
blueto:
But it has been about 13+ months since you have been elected president and why should you keep blaming the past govt for your present and foreseen failures?

The past govt was already diversifying the economy when the gullible zombies voted you in and you came and obliteratd the good efforts by the previous govt.

through the comprehensive Agricultural Transformation Agenda program of the previous govt, they recorded many landmark achievements. Through agriculture they created thousands of jobs across the country. The provision of inputs in 10 Northern states enabled dry season farming; and profitably engaged over 250,000 farmers and youths even during the dry season.

Through the comprehensive Agricultural Transformation Agenda program, inflation fell to 7.8% in October 2013, its lowest since 2008, as a result of higher domestic food production.

they launched the Growth Enhancement Scheme to provide targeted support for seeds and fertilizers to 5 million farmersper year or 20 million farmers within fouryears. Through the scheme, they were providing subsidized inputs to farmers via an e-Wallet program. In fiscal year 2013, an estimated 4.2 million farmers received subsidized inputs. As a result, in 2013, they produced 1.1 million metric tonnes of dry season rice across 10 Northern states; and over 250,000 farmers and youths in these states are now profitably engaged in farming even during the dry season.

they launched Staple Crop Processing Zones to support investments in the entire agricultural value chain. there are significant private investment commitments from agribusiness ventures such as: Flour Mills of Nigeria, the Dangote Group, Syngenta, Indorama, AGCO, and Belstar Capital.

In 2012, 2.2 million metric tonnes of cassava chips were exported, exceedingthe Agricultural Transformation Agenda’s target by over 100%, while the 40% substitution of cassava for wheat has been achieved through research and collaboration with the IITA and Federal Institute for Industrial Research.Similarly, there has been a decline in wheat imports to Nigeria from an all-time high of 4,051,000 MT in 2010 to 3,700,000 MT in 2012.

About 200 women in Benue State were trained on how to make compost for farming and 360 farmers in the same state, were trained on climate change adaptability in agriculture. The environment and farming in Benue state got a boost from about 600 men and women in Benue state who participated in training on how to be environmentally better farmers.

they established community woodlots of 10 hectares each in Plateau and Kogi (10ha) states. they restored 10 hectares of degraded forest in Achareni Forest Reserves in Kogi state and rehabilitated 10 hectares degraded forest reserves in Niger state. the administration also launched Presidential Initiative on Coastal and River Bank protection on flood in Asa River (Kwara State). they established two skill acquisition centresto train people on the fabrication of solar -powered grinding machines in Kaiama and Baruten in Kwara State. and so on!

What policies has Buhari projected to diversify the economy? he is rather depriving private stakeholders of economic policy making participation and turning Nigeria into a Socialist economy instead of a Mixed economy. Are we in a communist state?.
If all this your long essay is correct, why are there no food when importation of some goods were stopped. You like deceiving yourself.
PoliticsRe: Militants’ Attacks: Yoruba, Ijaw Leaders Meet by Samtob90(m): 7:14am On Jul 14, 2016
Foolish southerners, they cried foul when Fulani allegedly attacked Falae and Nembe, they shouted secession but now that the niger delta terrorists attacked them, they are holding meeting, why not break from south.
PoliticsRe: What If The Senate Decide To Impeach President Buhari...... by Samtob90(m): 7:08am On Jul 14, 2016
chiefolododo:
Which masses, the ones that are hungry??
Are you hungry, kindly beg those who have in excess to share with you. FFO
PoliticsRe: Why We Charged Saraki, Ekweremadu, Others To Court Over Forgery – AGF by Samtob90(m): 7:58pm On Jul 13, 2016
Biggson:
Aboki i wish to remind u very quickly that u were screened with the same standing rules that u claimed was tampered with or manipulated by d senate leadership.

So be rest assured that if at d end of d day these two guys are convicted everybody including u must resign!!!.
Corrupt southerners, did the accused say the. Standing rule was not forged? The minister was screened using the constitution of the FRN not senate rule. The forged rule was used to elect your brothers.
Can you imagine your statement! Did they deny it? Southerners! Una no de shame
PoliticsRe: Buhari Vs. Aisha: War In Aso Rock As The First Lady Gets A Much Younger Rival by Samtob90(m): 2:31pm On Jul 13, 2016
Will people sacrifice their life and energy reporting news about Buhari alone?
PoliticsRe: Beat My Wife And See What I’ll Do – Tinubu by Samtob90(m): 12:10pm On Jul 13, 2016
SeverusSnape:
If Dino Melaye really said that to Remi, Then he was wrong to have done that, He needs to apologise to her, not to this okpolo eyes man.

By the way, What will Tinubu do?. Tinubu should know that his power and sphere of influence does not extend beyond the south West. This same Dino outsmarted Tinubu and his goons in the Senate to install his preferred candidate Saraki as SP, Tinubu was also outsmarted in the HOR by Dogara and co. Tinubu didn't succeed to get his man Faleke to Kogi government house; Tinubu should shut up and stop whining and squalling like a ditched woman. The next thing he'll do now is use his media to fight Dino. See his brown teeth...

www.nairaland.com/attachments/3964571_1614168tinubu_jpeg_jpeg745c15214b7c3dac252ec7879f919787
Your brother who asked him as a president then knew what he did to him, ask Dokpesi when he was airing the nonsense, he begged to settle out of court.
As powerful the then president was, he could not dare him
PoliticsRe: AGF, Malami Appears Before Senate This Morning by Samtob90(m): 12:06pm On Jul 13, 2016
OP, kindly edit your topic, it is Attorney general and not accountant general
PoliticsRe: We’ve No Information To Provide On Aisha Buhari Being Wanted In US –US by Samtob90(m): 2:35am On Jul 13, 2016
Hope this clears the doubt in the mind of those who want to burry Aisha alive
PoliticsRe: Joe Igbokwe: Igbo Ethnic Bigotry And Hate Campaign Worry Me by Samtob90(m): 7:28pm On Jul 12, 2016
TANTUMERGO007:
I HATE THIS JOE WITH PASSION
Son of "hatred" truth can never be redefined.
PoliticsRe: Yoruba Population In Easthern Nigeria Is More Than Easterners Living In Yoruba L by Samtob90(m): 5:00pm On Jul 10, 2016
At first, it seems you don't know the states that make up south east.
Is PH, Bayelsa south east? I have been to Aba, I have been to Enugu and have spent a year in Abia state, except Youth corps (nysc) may be 5 in a town are yorubas. I wonder what an educated Yoruba would be looking for in that your south east.
PoliticsRe: What Is The Major Thing The SOUTH WEST Contribute To Nigeria's Economy? by Samtob90(m): 2:56pm On Jul 09, 2016
totit:
I don't want to embarrass you hence I will take it easy with you :


[b]The GDP of the entire nation of Nigeria, the largest economy by far in Africa, currently is about N130 trillion naira(about $594 billion US dollars)(Wikipedia, list of African countries by GDP(nominal)). The Southwest, one of the six geopolitical regions of Nigeria, has an estimated GDP of about N67 trillion naira( about $305 billion US dollars), more than half of the GDP of the nation.

By my estimates, the Southwest region was the third largest economy in the continent of Africa n 2014! This must be a shock or a pleasant surprise to many people!

But the governors in the region have not adopted a robust revenue generating strategy to tap into the resource base of the region. Taxation of the poor and lower middle-class people is a bad strategy which does not reflect a global best practice. The poor have a greater propensity to spend than the rich, so a taxation of the poor is counter-productive as it eliminates the boost to the economy that their spending provides.

Taxation of the rich, middle-class, and upper middle-class, but not the poor, is a global best strategy to raise revenues for the operation of government, the provisioning of infrastructures, robust security apparatus, and social security services that benefit everyone: the rich, the poor, and the disadvantaged in society. Fortunately, there are millions of rich people living in the Southwest: naira millionaires, multi-millionaires, billionaires, and trillionaires available to be taxed.

If the governors of the Southwest had adopted a comprehensive income taxation for revenue as their strategy in 2014, they could have raised N13 trillion naira from a progressive income tax range of 0% for the poor, to up to 30% for the rich: ten times more than the N1.3 trillion naira raised last year!

The combined budget-to-GDP ratio of the states in the Southwest in 2014 was abysmally low, about 2% compared to about 40% in many advanced nations of the world. For the sake of argument, a budget that is 40% of the GDP of the Southwest is approximately N25 trillion naira. This is about twice the budget realizable from using a progressive tax bracket of 0% to 30%.

If the enhanced income-tax-based revenues are spent appropriately, the Southwest will become a prosperous region with robust infrastructures, full employment, improved security, and a world-class social security service.

It is widely accepted (on nairaland) that many governors of the Southwest have reasonably performed well. If they had tapped the hidden resources of the region, their performance would have been elevated to outstanding and transformational! We wonder why policies that would have made a difference in the lives of the majority of the people, such as progressive income taxation, had not been vigorously pursued and implemented. Income taxation will also diminish godfatherism and empower the people while swelling the coffers of governments in the region.

With abundant revenues through income taxation, the Southwest will be in a position to stop accepting monthly oil revenue distributions from the center, but be able to partner with Abuja and other state governors in joint projects of mutual benefit that will drive the economic growth of the nation.

The question that must be asked of the governors of the Southwest is this, are they aware that the great book says, for whom much is given much is required?

So much has been given to the region by the grace of God. So much then is required of the Southwest governments. The governors in the Southwest have an obligation not only to take care of the welfare of their residents but to also drive the socio-economic growth of the nation.

In conclusion, to the people of the Southwest, the third largest economy in Africa, ask not what Abuja can do for you, but ask your governors to:

1. Tax the peoples' incomes, a global best practice, using a progressive tax rate from 0% to 30%.

2. Use the revenues from the income tax to fund government operations, build, monitor, and maintain physical, security, health, education, and research infrastructures, and to provide services and social security to the people. As he who pays the piper dictates the tune, politicians will be compelled by the income tax payers to shift their allegiance from godfathers to the people. This will end godfatherism as the dominant factor in politics in the Southwest.

3. Promote exports and the tourism industry.
4. Work cooperatively with the private industry, research and development centers, and the tertiary institutions in the region.

5. Promote regional integration through intra-regional partnerships and engage in mutually beneficial ventures with Abuja and other governors in other regions.

6. Stop accepting the monthly oil distributions from Abuja from 2016, as this is the root of corruption in Nigeria. To curb corruption in the Southwest and elsewhere in Nigeria requires pulling up the root of corruption in Nigeria by ending the shameful exploitation of the minorities in the oil producing states.[/b]

http://m.thenigerianvoice.com/news/172621/1/to-the-people-of-the-southwest-the-third-largest-e.html
Many thanks for not insulting the poor boy from that frustrated region but teaching him the history he ran away from.

@ OP, can't you just stay off south west? Every attempt you have made get you embarrassed. You end up disappointing yourself and your region.
PoliticsRe: Who Is Ambode!!! Hawkers Seen Hawking In Lagos by Samtob90(m): 3:14am On Jul 09, 2016
Blackberrybabes:
The Lagos State Governor, after the gruesome murder of a street hawker on a Lagos Highway, made a rule forbidding any street hawker to trade on Lagos roads and henceforth made a criminal offence if any one is caught in the act.

The rule or law ought to have been in place by now but it seems the hawkers are defying that orders and still ply their trade along the ever busy Lagos roads. This is as seen in some parts of the state today.

Yes it could be okay for a Governor to make such orders, but what plans have been put in place to absorb these guys into the society. They fail to understand that we are in a 3rd world and these sorts of things cannot be abolished over night. This is the source of living of these guys and these means are even what most companies utilize to sell their products fast.

The government should wake up from their slumber and make good policies and not stupid ones as seen mostly with the this new APC Government.

http://www.blackberrybabes.com/2016/07/who-is-ambode-hawkers-seen-hawking-in.html

lalasticlala
You started your article on the good note but ended it with a nasty statement.
A good writer will not allow politics of hatred or tribal sentiment to divert his/her professionalism lest he/she becomes irrelevant
PoliticsRe: EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria, Indian Firm Reach Agreement On Ajaokuta Steel Company by Samtob90(m): 3:08am On Jul 09, 2016
kuuljay:
Why not allow the Russians that built it to work on it since they have declared interests. Any way nice move I hope and pray it works,God will take us there
They wanted to settle the court case with the company before taking the decision on whether to give it back to the company.
PoliticsRe: EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria, Indian Firm Reach Agreement On Ajaokuta Steel Company by Samtob90(m): 3:06am On Jul 09, 2016
diegwu01:
this is a terrible News,
grossly disappointed with Fayemi,
the Same Global steel that failed to revive DSC Warri, is hand over this mega complex
The story is a long one, the concession was done many years back and when the government wanted to back out it led to court case, so what they wanted to do since last year was to settle the case so that Nigeria govt can take over fully, however the other sister company may be left in their hand.
Probably part of the ground for settlement
PoliticsRe: EXCLUSIVE: Nigeria, Indian Firm Reach Agreement On Ajaokuta Steel Company by Samtob90(m): 3:02am On Jul 09, 2016
Ejanla07:
of course its scam. like

currency swap with China school feeding Ogoni clean up corruption fight. abi extortion racketeering budget padding dasuki trillions Boko Haram elimination
Enemy of progress. I rebuke you

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